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Rep. Tammy Baldwin: The Bigger Fight Starts in Wisconsin
February 23, 2011
"People are very concerned about what will happen next if their right-wing governors and legislatures are emboldened by something in Wisconsin," says Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. She notes that while she was in Washington last week, colleagues told her that Wisconsin had to win its fight because if not, their state was next--and she got on the first plane she could to get home to her state and stand with the protesters.
GRITtv Special from Madison, Wisconsin: February 22
February 22, 2011
Welcome to the second day of our special coverage from the workers' protests in Madison, Wisconsin! Thanks again to our friends at The Uptake, Free Speech TV, and WORT FM in Madison for making this collaboration happen. The fight in Wisconsin has national implications, and national leaders have made the trip to Madison to express solidarity with the workers and join their struggle. Perhaps none more prominent than Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been speaking to rallies, and led a march of students back to school today after several days off supporting their teachers.
James Baldwin: Still So Much To Teach Us
February 20, 2011
"The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
James Baldwin, Queen of the Sun, and Alice Mizrachi
February 18, 2011
"The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." James Baldwin wrote that in 1963, but as we watch teachers and their students leading pro-labor protests in Wisconsin and around the country, it remains truer than ever. Baldwin died in 1987, but his novels and essays--and his activism--live on. This week at NYU, a conference examining Baldwin's work and influence in today's globalized world is meeting, and Laura sat down with two of the speakers, Hortense Spillers and Darryl Pinckney, to discuss why Baldwin's work still feels so vital, so important.
Cary Alan Johnson: David Kato's Fight for LGBT Uganda
February 2, 2011
"Violence is visited upon us when our lives are made to be valueless," says Cary Alan Johnson of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The murder of David Kato in Uganda last week after a tabloid had splashed his name and picture under the headline “100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos” and called for their murder. But homophobia in Uganda has US roots as well--evangelical leaders had promoted the country's notorious bill that advocated the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality."
Outwaiting Mubarak, Cary Alan Johnson, and Killing the Internet
February 1, 2011
"Does Mubarak want to leave quietly or is it going to be a messy exit?" That's the only question left in Egypt, according to Haroon Moghul of the Maydan Institute. The protests continue, and Mubarak has announced that though he won't be running for reelection, he doesn't plan on stepping down.
Urvashi Vaid: We Need Progressive, Multi-Issue Movements
December 22, 2010
"The national movement has shrunk its vision," says Urvashi Vaid, organizer, activist, and Visiting Scholar with the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Department of Sociology. The LGBT movement has become too focused on appeasing, and remains centered around the needs and wishes of white middle-class men--at the expense of women and people of color, and poor people around the country.
Avram Finkelstein: Silence = Death
December 22, 2010
"Institutionally, silence is about control. Personally, silence is about complicity," said Avram Finkelstein, one of the designers of the iconic Silence = Death poster in the age of AIDS. In this clip from our friends at Silence Opens Doors magazine, Finkelstein discusses the poster, the movement in the Reagan era, and why speaking out matters.
Michael Whitney, Urvashi Vaid, and States' Rights
December 21, 2010
PFC Bradley Manning remains in solitary confinement despite not having been tried or convicted of any crime. The accused leaker of much of the military information that WikiLeaks has so far published turned 23 on Friday and celebrated his birthday without family or friends, in a six foot by twelve foot cell without a pillow and in which he is not allowed to exercise.
The F Word: Banning Art, Forgetting the Artists
December 3, 2010
This Wednesday was World AIDS day, but instead of honoring the lives lost to the disease, Republicans are attacking art that reflects on it. They're targeting a show at the National Portrait Gallery called Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.

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