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Showing videos filed under: Immigration Reform
Markos Moulitsas: Conservatives, Corporations and Congress
October 1, 2010"Ann Coulter hasn't beheaded anybody, I'm glad that's the new marker for extremism" says Markos Moulitsas of criticism of his new book, American Taliban. To the argument that comparing the American Right to the Taliban is unfair and hyperbolic, Markos notes that you don't have to go too far back in U.S. history to find lynchings and other forms of violence used in service of repressive ideas.Markos Moulitsas, Race to Nowhere, John Nichols and Stephen MacDonogh
October 1, 2010"Ann Coulter hasn't beheaded anybody, I'm glad that's the new marker for extremism" says Markos Moulitsas of criticism of his new book, American Taliban. To the argument that comparing the American Right to the Taliban is unfair and hyperbolic, Markos notes that you don't have to go too far back in U.S. history to find lynchings and other forms of violence used in service of repressive ideas.Sarahi Uribe: Is Arizona to Blame?
July 29, 2010In recent months, many have blamed, boycotted, and blasphemed Arizona for SB 1070. However, it is not all state law that is to blame. A few years ago, the United States Justice Department passed 287 G, a statute that puts immigration control in the hands of local police. Would SB 1070 be possible without these deeper, more established roots?Sarahi Uribe, Felons & Jobs, and War Funding
July 28, 2010In recent months, many have blamed, boycotted, and blasphemed Arizona for SB 1070. However, it is not all state law that is to blame. A few years ago, the United States Justice Department passed 287 G, a statute that puts immigration control in the hands of local police. Would SB 1070 be possible without these deeper, more established roots?Faces of Immigration
March 3, 2010Victoria Marquez, a member of the Service Employees International Union, tells her story--of struggling for fair treatment in the workplace, and why the U.S. needs comprehensive immigration reform now.Google and Italy, Wage Theft and Karl Grossman
March 2, 2010Google has gone from being a search engine to being a world power: it has been pitted against governments and, as Clay Shirky notes, has its own foreign policy. In Italy, on February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant.The Prison Crisis, Obama's "Civil Detention System," and a Tribute to James Baldwin
August 10, 2009Can the prison industrial complex be curbed? David Fathi of Human Rights Watch and others on prison reform in the United States. Aarti Shahani on the Obama administrations proposed "civil detention system." Orwellian or earnest? And GRITtv footage from a recent tribute to novelist James Baldwin.Is Immigration Reform Dead, Radical Harlem, and The Uptake on Al Franken
July 1, 2009What are the possibilities for immigration reform under Obama? Roberto Lovato, Mallika Dutt and others on the state of the movement. The life of Hubert Harrison, voice of Harlem radicalism. And The Uptake's Jason Barnett on Minnesota Supreme Court's rejection of Norm Coleman's argument.GRITtv Live at Noon: Is Immigration Reform Dead?
July 1, 2009Immigration reform is hardly the front page issue it was one year ago even though thousands of immigrants end up in detention facilities every year. The facts on the ground haven't changed, so where does the movement stand? And is there a real possibility for reform under Obama?ANP: Anti-Immigration Movement Pressures McCain
September 30, 2008John McCain was an early supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, but in this presidential campaign McCain has changed his position to come down harder on the issue. Many political analysts say he did so to appease anti-immigration activists in key swing states-Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Nevada. But at an anti-immigration rally in Washington talk-radio hosts and activists said they wanted more promises of border enforcement from McCain before they
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