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Rexanne Darnell: Mental Health Care Falling Apart in Arizona
January 25, 2011
Budget cuts in care for those with mental illness often go unnoticed, notes mental health nurse Rexanne Darnell, because there is no one to speak for the mentally ill who are affected. It is too often left to legislators and governors, like Jan Brewer in Arizona, are making cuts to programs that keep patients safe and protected--as well as protecting the medical professionals who care for them.
"Competitiveness", Mental Health in Arizona, and Palestine Papers
January 24, 2011
"We have deified businessmen while denigrating government workers," says Erica Payne of the Agenda Project, and there's no better example of that than President Obama appointing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head a commission on jobs and competitiveness. Heading into the State of the Union speech, Heidi Shierholz stresses that businesses aren't hiring and creating jobs because there is not enough demand--because people are not buying goods or services.
Move That Game: Boycotting Arizona in Major-League Baseball
July 15, 2010
In 2011 Arizona is set to host Major League Baseball's All-Star game, but as the stop-on-suspicion anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, goes into effect soon, artists, musicians, and people from all over the country are joining in a boycott of the state. What about baseball?
Beyond SB 1070: Immigration Bills and the States
July 8, 2010
The Obama administration set up a clash with Arizona over the state's immigration bill, SB 1070, this week when it filed suit in federal court claiming that the law is a breach of federal authority. The law goes into effect later this month and would allow law enforcement officials to stop anyone on suspicion of being undocumented.
Norman Finkelstein, Immigration, and Who Fights and Why?
July 7, 2010
Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Are We a Nation?
June 30, 2010
Acclaimed women's a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock were outraged at Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070, which basically legalized racial profiling in the state. They partnered with our friends at the Center for Community Change to bring you this song, available as a download that will support CCC's work against the bill in Arizona--and the copycat bills springing up around the country.
Danny Schechter, Obama and LGBT Rights, and Gun Control
June 29, 2010
The economic crisis needs to be investigated using RICO laws used against organized crime, says Danny Schechter, author and director of Plunder: The Crime of Our Time. Wall Street made billions off mortgage fraud, and all the busts of mortgage lenders in the world won't get the real culprits.
Melissa Harris Lacewell: Progressive Identity Politics
June 22, 2010
Melissa Harris Lacewell quotes South Pacific, a progressive musical of its time, saying, “You have to be taught to hate and fear, you have to be taught from year to year, it has to be drummed in your dear little ear.” Alarmingly, schools in Arizona and Texas have incorporated Rogers and Hammerstein’s ideas into their educational policies
Richard Kim, The Future of Labor and Melissa Harris-Lacewell
June 21, 2010
Republicans discuss their values as if they are defending small government and private property, but they’ve evolving much more towards being the defense line of corporate America in recent years. Despite the enormous growth under Andy Stern’s leadership, current president Mary Kay says that the SEIU is still fighting for paid sickdays. None of the laborers cleaning up the gulf coast are even under a union contract in the first place.
Thousands Protest SB 1070 in Arizona
June 4, 2010
While the world focused on the Freedom Flotilla and the BP oil still pouring into the Gulf, activists from around the U.S. converged in Arizona to protest the state's recent anti-immigrant legislation this past weekend. Recent GRITtv guest Marco Amador was there and sent us this report.

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