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Naomi Klein: Building a Real Left
September 14, 2010"We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible." Who better to say such a thing than Naomi Klein, Nation columnist, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, and longtime rabblerouser?Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Naomi Klein, and Invisible People
September 13, 2010"We need to be covering the left as much as we cover, with anxiety, the right," notes Nation contributor and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell. The lack of coverage of progressive movements, protests, and actions in the face of a loud, angry and well-funded right wing can be disheartening, but we know they are out there, and in some cases fighting hard to keep a Tea Party backed Republican party from taking back seats in Congress during the midterms.Resistance and Cooperation at the G20 Summit
June 29, 2010Media coverage of this week's G20 summit focused on "violent" protests and police crackdowns, and reporters Brandon Jourdan and Beka Economopoulos certainly found themselves in the middle of the conflict--Jourdan, as well as Jesse Freeston of The Real News network, were attacked outside of the summit.Dean Baker, Walter Mosley, the G20, and Hikers in Iran
June 28, 2010What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates business. It seems that the government know how to do things like keep the unemployment rate down, but the talk at the G20 Summit and the results here at the United States is doing otherwise.Tony Benn: The Bailout and its Discontents
March 31, 2009As the world’s leading economic powers meet for the G20 summit in London, protesters take to the streets. More than 35,000 showed up in London on Saturday. Tony Benn, former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister, tells us what the protesters are demanding.Tony Benn on Protests in London, The Future of Public Transit, and Katrina vanden Heuvel
March 30, 2009The G20 summit in London draws massive protests. Tony Benn tells us what they want. Can public transportation weather the financial crisis? Gene Russianoff and others discuss the specter of fare hikes and service cuts. Finally, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel on why Elliot Spitzer should replace Geithner at Treasury.
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