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Showing videos filed under: Jane Hamsher
Jane Hamsher: Detained for Supporting Bradley Manning
January 26, 2011Monday night, NBC reported that Quantico Brig Commander James Averhart had improperly classified alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning as a “suicide risk” in order to punish him for refusing to follow orders. Already on Prevention of Injury watch, Manning's conditions were tightened further last week against the recommendations of psychiatrists. At the same time, officials admitted that they could find no connection between Manning and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Biko Baker, Jane Hamsher, Naomi Klein & State of the Union
January 25, 2011Barack Obama isn't the only one giving a talk tonight--the League of Young Voters will be bringing together some top thinkers, activists, and artists to have a live conversation streaming on the Web, as well as on Twitter and Facebook. "We have to keep going deeper," notes Biko Baker, the League's executive director, "We have to step up and be a lot stronger on jobs."Jane Hamsher & Nathan Newman: Taxes, Marijuana and More on the Ballot
October 21, 2010"People are looking to state ballot initiatives to have some form of control over governance when elected officials are abdicating," says Jane Hamsher of this year's crop of ballot initiatives around the country. Perhaps best known is California's Proposition 19, which would legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana, but there are also important tax initiatives on ballots around the country, as well as state environmental regulations.Farai Chideya, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Jane Hamsher & Nathan Newman
October 20, 2010It's nearly the homestretch for the 2010 midterm elections, and unsurprisingly, race remains a hot topic. From a new ad in Nevada urging Latinos not to vote to Sharron Angle's latest comments about Latino youth looking Asian, and ongoing concern that black voters will not turn out in numbers like they did in 2008, it's clear that no matter how much candidates deny it, race is this season's hot button.David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.The F Word: Where's the Party?
May 19, 2010The winners were challengers -- right and left - and those who organized on the ground.Jane Hamsher: Battles From the Right and Left
May 17, 2010Tuesday is the biggest primary day of the year! Activists from Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Oregon’s right and the left are fighting fierce and close battles that will be decided tomorrow. These campaigns include, but are not limited to the rivalry between corporate interest pandering Blanche Lincoln and the more progressive Bill Halter in Arkansas, Joe Sestak’s sudden, and competitive surge for the democratic senate seat in Pennsylvania.Jane Hamsher, Big Oil Politics, and Why Are Voters So Mad?
May 17, 2010Tuesday is the biggest primary day of the year! Activists from Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Oregon’s right and the left are fighting fierce and close battles that will be decided tomorrow. These campaigns include, but are not limited to the rivalry between corporate interest pandering Blanche Lincoln and the more progressive Bill Halter in Arkansas, Joe Sestak’s sudden, and competitive surge for the democratic senate seat in Pennsylvania. Many people have described the shrimpers and fisherpeople affected by the BP oil spill as unheard by the mass media. What many people don’t understand, is many of these people are literally unheard in the midsts of this crisis –a large proportion of the shrimper and fisherpeople demographic in the Gulf Coast are Vietnamese and do not speak English. As the infamous BP oil spill creates more environmental devastation in the Gulf Coast, we look towards politics, big oil, and regulations or lack thereof for reasons why this happened and how to prevent it in the future. However, Barack Obama continues to undermine the catastrophe as an anomaly and push for offshore drilling. In a system fraught with entangled political, economic, and environmental policy, how can we manage to procure safety rather than ignore it?Year In Review: What Does Hope Mean Now?
December 31, 2009Hope. It was the word for the Obama campaign, epitomized by the famous Shepard Fairey poster, with eyes uplifted, bright primary colors declaring that Americans believed in something good again.Year in Review: To Kill or Not To Kill The Bill
December 27, 2009The health care bill passed the Senate on Christmas Eve, and is heading for conference committee. While we still don't know what will come out of the committee and go to the President, it's worth watching this week's discussion again.
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