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Showing videos filed under: Free Speech
An Interview with NAACP's New Chair Roslyn Brock
February 26, 2010Free Speech TV's Herb Boyd sat down with Roslyn Brock, new chair of the NAACP's National Board of Directors to talk healthcare, the challenges facing Black communities in the United States today and what it means to be the 4th woman and the youngest person yet to hold her vital post.Media Panel, Jeff Biggers' Reckoning at Eagle Creek and Dean Baker on Healthcare
February 26, 2010As the Health Care Summit was getting under way in Washington DC, our esteemed media panel looks at what role our media has played in covering the never-ending health care debates since Obama assumed power. Then, with more staff cutbacks in major press rooms and talk of The National Enquirer receiving the Pulitzer Prize, what does the future of journalism look like? Finally, our three media dissectors tackle the increasingly disastrous war in Afghanistan - is the media's coverage (or lack thereof) leading to more death and destruction?Lisa Graves: Put Corporations in Their Place
February 10, 2010In the recent Citizens United case, the Supreme Court struck down critically important laws regulating corporate influence on elections and public policy. We oppose this radical decision by these five unelected men to rewrite the First Amendment and give corporations the inalienable free speech rights of human beings. Huge corporations like Goldman Sachs and AIG will be able to use their enormous wealth to run campaigns against any person who might oppose their agenda.Abolish the Senate, Joe Sacco and Lisa Graves
February 9, 2010With the election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Democrats in DC seemed to give up on getting any major legislation passed. 59 votes (well, 58 and Joe Lieberman) was just not good enough. The blame has been flying--it's Obama's fault, Rahm Emanuel's, Harry Reid's--but what if the problem simply is the Senate?Above the Clouds: An Interview with Dave Glasser
November 13, 2008Jazz saxophonist Dave Glasser says that sound is an extension of yourself, your life, your person. Glasser’s influences are many and he has performed with the Clark Terry Quintet, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All stars and others. His father, Ira Glasser, was head of the ACLU from 1978 to 2001 and Dave says that there is no better expression of freedom of speech than playing in a jazzPolicing 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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