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Showing videos filed under: El Salvador
Got Docs: Return to El Salvador
September 11, 2010Jamie Moffatt's Return to El Salvador, narrated by Martin Sheen, looks back at the harrowing wars of the 1980s in that country, and their ongoing legacy. Salvadorans have elected their first progressive leader in over a century, but the shadow of the 80s still looms large. Moffatt speaks with survivors, ex-guerillas, religious leaders, activists and veterans, as they tell their stories of what happened, and how they got to where they are now.Lawrence Wright, Return to El Salvador, and Nicholas Jahr
September 10, 2010"We're pressed, but we're not going to be destroyed by Al-Qaeda. Only we can do that," says Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The longtime journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and New Yorker staff writer has been combining his reporting with theater and film for some time now, and his most recent project, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, premieres on HBO September 11. This documentary, made with former GRITtv guest Alex Gibney, traces his journey in researching the terrorist group.Progressive Activists Face Danger in El Salvador
January 11, 2010El Salvador elected its first progressive president last year, Mauricio Funes, a member of the F.M.L.N. Yet the recent violent deaths of environmental activists within the country who have been pushing back against gold mining in the area have many asking if the old days of death squads are completely over.Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza
January 11, 2010Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently--Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor--but even David Letterman couldn't resist making a crack at Simpson's expense.Week in Review: Blowback: From Latin America to Afghanistan
November 29, 2009The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras.Blowback: From Latin America to Afghanistan
November 25, 2009The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras.Blowback, Jeremy Scahill, and Bissell Workers
November 24, 2009President Obama is expected to announce that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan next week. In the wake of that decision, discussion of the consequences of United States intervention around the world becomes even more important. It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world.Is Anyone Covering Iraq?, The Lonely Soldier, and Got Docs
March 19, 2009Has war coverage improved? We talk to Dahr Jamail, Amy Goodman, and Yifat Suskind. An interview with Helen Benedict, author of The Lonely Soldier.Documenting The Undocumented: Donna DeCesare and Jeff Solomon
July 3, 2008Photojournalist Donna DeCesare and playwright Jeff Solomon are two extraordinary chroniclers of our times. Each uses the power of their art and reporting to amplify the voices of people under seige. DeCesare covered the war in El Salvador in the 1980s and was moved by scenes of devastation and was deeply affected by the impact of trauma on children. In her recent exhibit, Sharing Secrets, she documents the painful lives of Central American kids raised during and in the aftermath of war. She also looks at the fate of Colombian children raised in violence.Making Healthcare Work, Documenting the Undocumented, and The Mortgage Meltdown
July 2, 2008For profit healthcare making you sick? Tonight on GRITtv we discuss the broken health care system and who's fixing it. Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall, Health Care Now’s Tom Knoche, and Art Richter, co-chairman of Citizens for Universal Health Care say the movement for single payer health care is picking up steam.
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