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Rev. Jesse Jackson on George Zimmerman's Arrest
April 12, 2012
"When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to go to the back of the bus if we had focused on the bus-driver and not on the states rights law, we would have missed the point... We must not just settle for Zimmerman, we must repeal the Stand Your Ground Law," Rev. Jesse Jackson told GRITtv.
Organizing 2010: Turnout, Demographics, Message
November 5, 2010
Elections come down to Get Out The Vote efforts--everyone knows that, right? Election 2010 was more a referendum on whose base was more energized than a massive shift in ideology. Registering, mobilizing, and educating voters are vital parts of the effort, just as much as television advertising--and those efforts need to keep up even when there isn't an election looming.
Jeff Sharlet, Organizing 2010, and Nancy Goldstein
November 4, 2010
In the wake of the Republican election victories Tuesday night, Christian conservatives like Ralph Reed have been quick to declare victory for the "Teavangelicals," evangelical Christian politicians who embraced the Tea Party movement and claim to speak for it. Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street, notes that Jim DeMint and others are actually Washington insiders, not representatives of an insurgent new movement.
Mike Papantonio: Florida's Election Generation Gap
October 27, 2010
“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.
Mike Papantonio, Kate Clinton, Money Media & Corruption
October 26, 2010
“It's not an election, it's an auction,” says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. Papantonio's home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor's races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure.
Islamophobia Back with a Vengeance, 9 Years Later
September 10, 2010
It's the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon this weekend, and while one war has ostensibly been wound up, another still rages--and inside the U.S., the culture wars have reached a fever pitch, with Islamophobic ugliness centering on the anniversary seemingly everywhere. From a pastor in Florida threatening to burn Qurans on Saturday (and terror alerts being issued because of his actions) to the ongoing media arguments over the Cordoba House community center, American Muslims feel threatened, and the outreach to the larger Islamic world is threatened.
Greg Grandin, Islamophobia and 9/11, and Pentagon PR
September 9, 2010
September 11 is not only an infamous date in the U.S.--in Chile, it marks the anniversary of the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. This year, 33 miners will spend that anniversary trapped underground, and Greg Grandin notes that Chile is seeing what amounts to the "Shock doctrine with a human face" under its current regime--deregulation leading to safety issues like that in the mine. Meanwhile, Mexico continues to see ever-escalating violence from drug cartels, and the U.S. State Department is now calling it an "insurgency."
Marleine Bastien: Community to Congress
August 20, 2010
"Community organizer" was Sarah Palin's favorite slur on the campaign trail, but grassroots organizers have been fighting for the rights of marginalized people, often without recognition, for longer than Palin has been around. Marlene Bastian has been an organizer in Miami for 30 years, and is now running for Congress.
Marleine Bastien, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, and Green for Buffalo
August 19, 2010
"Community organizer" was Sarah Palin's favorite slur on the campaign trail, but grassroots organizers have been fighting for the rights of marginalized people, often without recognition, for longer than Palin has been around. Marleine Bastien has been an organizer in the Haitian-American community in Miami for 30 years, and is now running for Congress.
Alexander Zaitchik & Rick Perlstein: Whither Glenn Beck?
August 14, 2010
Glenn Beck might not have a lot of advertisers left, but he's got a lot of viewers still. And the Obama administration recently showed off just how terrified they are of the FOX News host by pressuring Shirley Sherrod to leave her position because of the threat of a video appearing on Beck's show. But Beck didn't start off as a journalist (or a demagogue). He came from much humbler beginnings.

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