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Showing videos filed under: dissent
Hendrik Hertzberg, Debating the Mandate, and the Constitution
January 5, 2011But there’s one big obstacle—almost as big as the rest put together—that has no pluses whatsoever, and that we don’t have to be stuck with: the arsenal of senatorial death rays that goes by the quaint name of filibuster.The F Word: Constitutional Lessons For the New Congress
January 5, 2011Republican lawmakers who read the Constitution out loud as their very first act in the new Congress better bask in their Tea Party glow because they're certainly not going to be feeling the love from Constitutional scholars.Ann Wright: Worldwide Movement for Peace
January 13, 2010Retired U.S. Army colonel Ann Wright just returned from ten days in Egypt with the Gaza Freedom March. Having served both the army and the State Department overseas before stepping down in protest over the Iraq war, Wright knows the power and impact of political protest of a country's actions as well as she does the pressures of serving in an overtaxed military.Haiti, the Value of Regulation, and Ann Wright
January 13, 2010The hearings on the financial crisis are getting underway, but the real solutions will need to come out of Congress. Is it possible to create a conscious capitalism to take its place, or do we need to radically rethink our economic system? We ask Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and the new The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and of the book Meltdown, and Daniel Gross, Newsweek columnist.A Pre-emptive Crackdown in St. Paul
September 3, 2008The GOP wasted little time in showing its true colors at this year's Republican National Convention. Hundreds of protesters have been arrested, including a number of journalists and lawyers. The Democratic Convention wasn't a whole lot better. Protesters were kept far away, alloted their own space where "free" speech was permitted far from the eyes and ears of delegates. But as Gena Berglund, the Legal Observer Program Coordinator for the Minnesota ChapterANP: Peaceful Protest Pepper-Sprayed
August 26, 2008A calm political protest quickly turned chaotic as Denver police surrounded protesters peacefully marching toward the Democratic National Convention Center. After trapping the crowd between two buildings, hundreds of officers used CS gas, batons, and what appears to be some seriously unwarranted aggression. Producers from the American News Project found themselves in the middle of this action...Is America's Surveillance State Squishing Protest?
August 15, 2008There seems to be no limits to the hypocrisy of the Bush administration when it comes to telling the world how they need to address their human rights record. Who are they to talk? U.S. activists talk about the price of dissent.Policing Protest, the Iraqi Refugee Crisis, and Surviving MS
August 14, 2008Has the right to dissent - to critique and protest the actions of our government whether here or abroad - been meaningfully curtailed? Tonight's panel takes on protest in the surveillance era with Laurie Arbeiter of The Critical Voice, Dana Balicki, Codepink's Campaign Director, Aden Fine of the ACLU, and Heather Reddick, International Operations Director of Students for a Free Tibet.GRITtv Live at Noon: Policing Dissent
August 14, 2008Reps from the ACLU, The Critical Voice, CodePink, and Students For A Free Tibet on our streaming live noon panel. Catch the full show tonight at 8pm Eastern.
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