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Showing videos filed under: freedom
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.The Week in News With Lizz Winstead and Danny Schechter
April 16, 2010Is the economy coming back--or is our debt going to sink us? Are people who don't pay taxes this year just freeloading? Did Virginia's governor really forget that slavery was a big part of the Civil war? Who's fact-checking the news, and what about that WikiLeaks tape, anyway?Eesha Pandit, The Week In News, and the Tea Party
April 15, 2010In the wake of health care reform, new attempts to restrict women's access to abortion services have surged. Nebraska has passed a new law that criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks of gestation on the basis of "fetal pain," and another that forces women to undergo mental health examination before obtaining an abortion at all.Trading Freedom for Security
March 19, 2010Public protest isn't dead, but those are only a few people in a huge population that suffers all sorts of indignities regularly. Our military budget is outlandish and our freedoms are regularly taken away. What have we traded these for, and why don't more people join the protests? We ask John Kampfner,author of Freedom for Sale, and Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.Christian Parenti, Trading Freedom for Security, and Dove
March 18, 2010Seven years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. We're still there, but attention in the media has largely shifted to Afghanistan, and even Pakistan. Millions of people hit the streets seven years ago, across the world, to protest the coming invasion of Iraq. Tea parties (and now coffee parties) seem to be popping up everywhere, and this weekend will see a large-scale march for immigration reform. Just Thursday, Lt. Dan Choi and others marched on the White House for a repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes
January 15, 2010Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a professor of history at Ohio State University and the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, on the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom. The roots of the civil rights movement are deep and Jeffries traces them back to the moment of emancipation.Marching for Freedom for Gaza
January 8, 2010Ali Abunimah, cofounder of Electronic Intifada, and Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, took part in the Gaza freedom march. They join us to discuss the march, and we also speak to Electronic Intifada contributor Rami Almeghari, who is living and working in the Gaza strip.Media Narratives, Gaza and Uncle Bob
January 7, 2010No matter what the news is, which country has tensions, who's making threats, the response from TV news seems to be the same: quote Dick Cheney. We saw plenty of that this week, along with pronouncements that Democrats are doomed in 2010, complaints about progressives who've criticized the health care bill, and of course Tiger Woods.March to Free Gaza
January 5, 2010One year ago, at the tail end of the George W. Bush administration, Israel began a 22-day assault on Gaza. This year over 1300 people from more than 43 countries are marching to the Israeli border in a call for Israel to lift the siege on Gaza. In this footage from the march, 85-year-old holocaust survivor Heddy Epstein has been on a hunger strike for justice and she calls on Israel to do the right thing.
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