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Showing videos filed under: Detroit
Marcy Wheeler, Douglas Rushkoff, and GM Stock for Sale
November 18, 2010"You can't just have homeowners pay for the mess that the banks have made; not just of our finance system, it's becoming clear that they've made a mess of our private property system in this country," says Marcy Wheeler, who's been blogging the House and Senate hearings on the foreclosure crisis at her FireDogLake blog, and joins us via Skype to discuss the situation.The F Word: Profits, Pensions, and the Return of GM
November 18, 2010Today marked the return of automaker GM to public trading on the stock market. All hail the American automakers, returning to profitability in a little over a year after bankruptcy proceedings and billions of government dollars in bailouts, right?John Conyers: Jobs and Justice
October 5, 2010"The reason there are so many Detroiters here at this march is that we're trying to climb out of a continuing depression, that has yet to be addressed by the trillions of dollars we've spent to pull Wall Street out of its malaise," says Congressman John Conyers, chair of the judiciary committee and longtime representative from Michigan.Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson, John Conyers and John Nichols
October 4, 2010"We need a grassroots coalition that's comparable to the Tea Party movement in many respects. It needs to be fairly decentralized, easy for people to join, and it needs to be audacious," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the way forward after the success of this past weekend's One Nation rally in Washington, D.C. This rally, he notes, needs to not simply be a nice day out for progressives--it needs to be a turning of the tide, a reversal of course away from anger and toward solidarity.Rebirth and Rebuilding in America's Cities
September 21, 2010The divide in the U.S. right now often looks as much like a split between cities and rural areas as it does between "red" states and "blue" states, and cities continue to suffer under budget crunches as well as the ongoing decline of industry. So what would pioneering author and urban activist Jane Jacobs have said about it all? What about Robert Moses, credited with shaping the modern American city?Dean Baker, Rebuilding the City, and Anne Elizabeth Moore
September 20, 2010"Poverty is a one-day event, we get a report released and we're going to talk about poverty, but every day we hear what the stock market does," says Dean Baker, GRITtv economics correspondent. The problem with that kind of coverage, Baker notes, is that "many more people will experience poverty than will strike it rich in the stock market." Millions of Americans experience poverty not as a one-day affair, but as a constant, grinding force in their lives.Norman Finkelstein, Immigration, and Who Fights and Why?
July 7, 2010Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.ColorLines: Change at the US Social Forum
June 26, 2010The US Social Forum is still ongoing this week in Detroit, and activists young and old from across the country have gathered, each bringing his or her own causes to the mix. Our friends at ColorLines put together this segment, interviewing attendees about why they're in Detroit--and what they hope to accomplish.Oliver Stone & Tariq Ali, the US Social Forum, and Samhita Mukhopadhyay
June 25, 2010Latin America has seen rapid changes over recent years, most significantly with the rise of left-leaning leaders who are willing to fight massive corporations and even stand up to the massive presence of the US in their countries. Director Oliver Stone decided to go to Venezuela to meet Chavez for himself, but when he got there, Chavez pointed out that the story was much bigger than just him.Don Rojas: Making a New Media at the Social Forum
June 24, 2010The U.S. Social Forum kicked off this week in Detroit, with over 20,000 attendees from around the country determined to create solutions for the many problems the country faces. One of the ongoing struggles that fans of GRITtv will understand is the fight to create a thriving, independent media without corporate dollars--one that puts the concerns of real people ahead of profits.
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