Showing videos filed under: Institute for Southern Studies

• The F Word: Local Lessons in Democracy from the Gulf Coast

  June 8, 2009

  In 2007, Southern Studies published a widely-covered report that found only 30% of money spent on Katrina was focused on long-term rebuilding, and only half of that had been spent. Now the fight is for Citizen Participation -- and some experiments in real public involvement in decision-making are taking place.

  • Chris Kromm
  • f word
  • gulf coast
  • Institute for Southern Studies
  • katrina
  • New Orleans
  • travel

• A Vote of Fear or Hope?

  November 4, 2008

  With the campaign entering its final day, and despite Barack Obama's comfortable lead, the fear factor still looms large. Last week the New York Times ran an article about Black voters in North Carolina who assumed that their votes would not be counted. In addition, the climate of fear stoked by the McCain campaign and its surrogates has added a raw edge to the campaign's final day.

  • Air America
  • Chris Kromm
  • grittv
  • Institute for Southern Studies
  • laura flanders
  • Lionel
  • Movement Vision Lab
  • Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
  • Sally Kohn

• Fear vs. Hope, Tweet Your Vote, and How the Election Could be Stolen

  November 3, 2008

  With the campaign entering its final day, and despite Barack Obama's comfortable lead, the fear factor still looms large. A recent ad titled CRISIS released by a Republican 527 blends fears of another 9/11, the financial crisis, and images of Barack Obama and a van of terrorists. Obama has stayed closer to the reality-based world, releasing an ad that highlights Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain.

  • Chris Kromm
  • Deanna Zandt
  • Election Fraud
  • grittv
  • Institute for Southern Studies
  • laura flanders
  • Lionel
  • Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of De
  • Ludovic Blain
  • Mark Crispin Miller
  • Movement Vision Lab
  • Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
  • Sally Kohn
  • Stop Dog Whistle Racism