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Showing videos filed under: flotilla
"Competitiveness", Mental Health in Arizona, and Palestine Papers
January 24, 2011"We have deified businessmen while denigrating government workers," says Erica Payne of the Agenda Project, and there's no better example of that than President Obama appointing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head a commission on jobs and competitiveness. Heading into the State of the Union speech, Heidi Shierholz stresses that businesses aren't hiring and creating jobs because there is not enough demand--because people are not buying goods or services.The F Word: Palestine Papers, Peace and Concessions
January 24, 2011The revelation of thousands of pages of confidential Palestinian diplomatic records has shocked the world -- all of it except the US, that is.Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The People's Record
August 20, 2010Less than four months ago, Israeli commandoes boarded the boats in the Freedom Flotilla headed for Gaza and killed nine peace activists. Investigations are underway into just what happened the night of May 31st, but just a few months after the attacks, a new anthology collects eyewitness testimony, analyses and thought pieces, and responses from artists and poets into a "people's record" of what happened that night--and how it just might be a turning point for the conflict between Israel and Palestine.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.Got Docs: Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza
June 7, 2010This week saw an attack on the Freedom Flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza, bringing the ongoing humanitarian crisis there to the attention of even the mainstream media. This week on GRITtv we look at a documentary that takes you on a journey inside a Gaza under siege but still struggling to live. Directed by by Nicolas Wadimoff, in collaboration with Béatrice Guelpa, Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza shows you what the activists on the ships were fighting for.Coal Free Future, Still Alive in Gaza, and Jim Shultz
June 5, 2010Frequent GRITtv guest Jeff Biggers has created the Coal Free Future Project, along with Stephanie Pistello, as a creative and artistic component to the growing climate justice movement, pushing for clean energy and human rights. As part of their project, they are presenting their multimedia theater project, "4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire" at New York's Gene Frankel Theatre from June 4th to the 13th.Jim Naureckas: Trusting the Wrong Sources
June 4, 2010Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again. Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil, coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico.Jim Naureckas, Health Care Costs, and Arizona Protests
June 3, 2010Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again. Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil, coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico.David Swanson, BP Oil Spill, and Christian Boltanski
June 2, 2010What do the attack by Israeli commandoes on the Freedom Flotilla, the BP oil disaster, aid to Haiti, Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, and war in Afghanistan have in common? If you ask David Swanson, he'll remind you to follow the money. The U.S. taxpayer money, of course, which funds Israel's military and pays for war that enriches oil companies. Meanwhile, aid for Haiti and Don't Ask Don't Tell are added to supplemental funding for war in Afghanistan to convince members of Congress to vote for escalation.David Swanson: What Could We Fund if We Don't Fund War?
June 2, 2010What do the attack by Israeli commandoes on the Freedom Flotilla, the BP oil disaster, aid to Haiti, Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, and war in Afghanistan have in common? If you ask David Swanson, he'll remind you to follow the money. The U.S. taxpayer money, of course, which funds Israel's military and pays for war that enriches oil companies. Meanwhile, aid for Haiti and Don't Ask Don't Tell are added to supplemental funding for war in Afghanistan to convince members of Congress to vote for escalation.
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