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Showing videos filed under: inauguration
The F Word: Goodbye For Now from GRITtv
May 13, 2011Three years ago today, on May 12, 2008, the first episode of GRITtv hit the air. Given life by Free Speech TV, the project we imagined was a daily forum for changemakers that would welcome new voices and celebrate diversity.Chris Hedges, Honeywell Workers, and a special message from Laura
May 12, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.Russ Baker: Military-Industrial-Financial-Intelligence-Oil Complex
January 19, 2011This week not only commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, but also is the 50th anniversary of Dwight Eisenhower's prescient warning about the military-industrial complex, the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, the 10th anniversary of the inauguration of George W. Bush--and the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.Vince Warren, Russ Baker, Afghanistan and U.S. Debt
January 18, 2011Accountability and transparency are two key elements to a responsible government, notes Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and WikiLeaks and other sites like it help fulfill the transparency side of things, at least. Accountability, though, at least from the U.S. government, seems to be slow in coming--and Vince notes that the Tunisian people, who removed their despot, could use our support as well.Katrina vanden Heuvel: Change Won't Come Easy
January 20, 2010The euphoria of a year ago is dissipating. The struggles of the first year of the Obama administration are generating increasing demoralization and anger. Many progressives thought we had taken back America with the election of 2008, but in reality the work had only just begun.Lessons From Massachusetts, Airport Security and Haiti
January 20, 2010Scott Brown, a Republican with tea party support, won the special election for the last two years of Ted Kennedy's Senate term last night over Democrat Martha Coakley. Predictably, the blame game has already started, with critiques leveled at everyone from Coakley herself to the President.The F Word: Lessons Not Learned
January 20, 2010A year ago I was freezing on Mall with a few million others, watching the inauguration of a new President. Today I'm sweltering in my unnaturally hot office, fearing the inauguration of a new movement.Hartmarx Workers Push Back
May 19, 2009Workers at the suit makers, Hart, Schaffner & Marx make fine suits including the suit that Barack Obama wore to his inauguration. But now they're facing layoffs. If Wells Fargo bank goes through with its plans to liquidate the business some 500 workers will be out of a job. And the workers are threatening to push back.Our Inaugural
February 10, 2009On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, GRITtv broadcast live from Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. The progressive movement for the last eight years has had to fight from the very edge of mainstream politics. Now that Barack Obama, a man who, John Nichols reminds us, has read Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and dined with Edward Said is in the White House the balance of power has shifted.Why They Came
January 26, 2009Americans came from all over the United States to see the inauguration of Barack Obama for many different reasons. In the days before Obama's inaugural address GRITtv caught up with some of them.
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