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Showing videos filed under: Klein
Year in Review: Why Can't We Fire the Boss?
December 28, 2009This year saw a lot of economic upheaval and at least in the beginning, some militant labor action that the U.S. has grown unused to. Back in May, Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis appeared on GRITtv along with labor activists from around the country to ask the all-important question: Why can't we fire the boss?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.Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis: Why Can't We Fire the Boss?
May 19, 2009Just last week Hartmarx, a Chicago company in the business of making business suits, including the one Barack Obama wore at his inauguration, filed for bankruptcy. Wells Fargo, its biggest creditor and a recipient of $25 billion in bailout funds, wants to liquidate the company. But Hartmarx workers have said no.Why Can't We Fire the Boss? The Hartmarx Campaign, and Andrew Ross
May 18, 2009Workers take direct action to save their jobs and rebuild the economy. Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis on worker run businesses. The Hartmarx campaign in Chicago. And Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work if You Can Get It on life and labor in precarious times.GOT DOCS? The Warning
November 21, 2008Hedges, Wolf, Klein, Conason, Kennedy: five American thinkers peer into the dark corners of American democracy, and the radical steps America has taken toward a new, wholly unconstitutional form of government.The Right To Organize, Accidental Americans, and The Warning
November 20, 2008While Barack Obama's website acknowledges that the US economy that depends on millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows, the issue of immigration reform has remained there - in the shadows, glaring only in its absence from the Presidential debates and campaign coverage. Nonethless as the economy plunges ever deeper into crisis, the question remains as to how attitudes toward 11.9 million undocumented immigrant workers will or or won't changeCapitalism in Crisis, Progressive Books, and KBR’s Malfeasance in Iraq
September 1, 2008Tonight on GRITtv, a roundtable on global capitalism and what the current crisis means with Naomi Klein, Jeff Madrick, and Bhairavi Desai. Ethan Canin talks about his new novel America America with David Rosen Editor in Chief of the Progressive Book Club. And videos from the American News Project and Pangea Day. Watch the full show here.Naomi Klein: China's Global Capitalism
August 11, 2008Naomi Klein talks with The Real News Network about China and the new global capitalism.Media Roundtable, Mahmoud Darwish, and Naomi Klein on China
August 11, 2008Our media roundtable keeps an eye on the press. A tribute to the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. And Naomi Klein on capitalism in China.Bomb It: Global Graffiti and the Battle for Public Space
August 5, 2008A new documentary on graffiti artists raises questions about the uses of public space.
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