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Showing videos filed under: Eve Ensler
Khaled Fahmy, Medea Benjamin, and City of Joy
February 9, 2011The revolution in Egypt at first was less about poverty and labor than it was about police brutality and the mistreatment of the people by a repressive regime. But now, Khaled Fahmy notes, the growing labor movement in Egypt is coming to the fore, following two years of concerted effort and protest by workers across the country.The F Word: City Of Joy is What Investing In Life Looks Like
February 9, 2011This weekend saw something revolutionary —not just in Egypt, but in Congo. The V-Day foundation, led by playwright and GRITtv guest Eve Ensler, opened its first City of Joy, a compound that will help Congolese women, many of them rape survivors, heal and learn, as V-Day puts it, to “turn their pain to power.”Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
November 27, 2009It's a heartwrenching story: more than five million dead and rape is used to terrorize the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where spillover from the Rwandan conflict has led to the ongoing violence of daily life despite an official ceasefire. And minerals like coltan, used in your laptop or cell phone as well as aerospace technologies, are funding the violence. We all use cell phones and computers, but what can we do to stop supporting the horrific abuse of women and children in the Congo?Turning Pain to Power: Change in the Congo, Melody Gardot & Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine
November 26, 2009A few weeks ago, we spoke with activists around the world who struggle for basic human rights. Everywhere you turn, the same corporate interests, the same apathetic or outright hostile governments--it's enough to drive social justice activists to despair. Instead of giving up, though, plenty of people figure out ways to keep going, to draw energy from the oppression and pain and to win victories against incredible odds. Sometimes their work seems overwhelming, but it's people like them who make us at GRITtv thankful this holiday season. We bring you that show and hope you enjoy another look at these inspiring people.Week in Review: Turning Pain to Power in the Congo
October 23, 2009On Wednesday, we were joined by Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, the organization behind a five-year campaign to stop the violence, Rose Mapendo, a survivor of the war was dubbed UN “humanitarian of the year” this summer for her work with refugees, and Kambale Musavuli, student coordinator for Friends of the Congo.Our Inaugural
February 10, 2009On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, GRITtv broadcast live from Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. The progressive movement for the last eight years has had to fight from the very edge of mainstream politics. Now that Barack Obama, a man who, John Nichols reminds us, has read Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and dined with Edward Said is in the White House the balance of power has shifted.The Congo and Humanitarian Intervention
November 12, 2008When should the United States intervene in foreign conflicts? And is humanitarian intervention a paradox? Today on GRITtv we review the worsening situation in the Congo and calls from Human Rights Watch to increase the number of UN peacekeepers already there. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced as fighting between the rebels and the Congolese army continues.The Congo and Humanitarian Intervention, Being Arab in America, and Child Soldiers in the D.R.C.
November 11, 2008When should the United States intervene in foreign conflicts? And is humanitarian intervention a paradox? Today on GRITtv we review the worsening situation in the Congo and calls from Human Rights Watch to increase the number of UN peacekeepers already there. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced as fighting between the rebels and the Congolese army continues.
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