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Showing videos filed under: live from main street
Looking Ahead with Obama, Looking Back To Women of the Civil Rights Movement, and Composer David Amram
November 6, 2008Tonight on GRITtv part four of our live election day special coverage with Danny Schechter, the author of Plunder: Investigating our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, Roberto Lovato, Associate Editor with New America Media, and Esther Armah, the co-host of “Wake Up Call” on WBAI. Then an interview with David Amram.LFMS Seattle: Beyond Hockey Moms and Palin Politics
October 26, 2008Live From Main Street Seattle: Beyond Hockey Moms and Palin Politics - Women on Real National Security streams live right here on Sunday, October 26 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CST/4 p.m. PT. Hosted by Laura Flanders, host of GRITtv and Air America's Radio Nation. Today's Panelists include:• Martha Burk, Author, Your Money and Your Life:Don’t Ignore the Constitution During Election Season
October 24, 2008This election season is an opportunity to think about what the Constitution has given us, as well as what we ourselves can do to make sure it survives—not just in letter, but in spirit. We can consider whether what’s been going on is consistent with the Constitution. We shouldn’t fall into the trap of “Well, it’s not me; it’s that awful other person who’s being tortured/spied upon/denied an attorney/discriminated against/harassed.” Any of us could be that person in the future.GRITtv Live at Noon: Early Voting in Ohio
October 2, 2008Steven Rosenfeld and Sam Husseini on early voting in Ohio, combating disenfranchisement, and not getting turned away at the polls. With voter registration deadlines looming GRITtv and Live From Main Street wrap our week of special programming. *Post your comments at GRITtv.org.High Tech Voting, the Veteran Mystique, Singer/Songwriter Dan Reed
October 1, 2008Live From Main Street and GRITtv continue our week of special programming. Today, technology, voting machines, and the future of democracy. In November, one quarter of the country will be voting on paperless electronic voting machines. This spring in a number of states, electronic voter lists were missing names - in some states affecting thousands of voters.The Voter Registration Battle
October 1, 2008Day two of Live From Main Street and GRITtv’s special programming on voting in the United States. Registration deadlines loom and there are many obstacles. From reading tests to ID challenges, felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls the U.S. is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.How New Voters are Changing the Game, Making a new New Deal, and the American News Project on Home Foreclosures
September 30, 2008Day two of Live From Main Street and GRITtv’s special programming on voting in the United States. Registration deadlines loom and there are many obstacles. From reading tests to ID challenges, felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls the US is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.Live From Main Street Ohio: Will Your Vote Count?
September 30, 2008As Ohio kicks off its “Golden Week,” where voters can both register to vote and put in their early votes all at once, Live From Main Street is launching a nationally broadcast investigation week and "virtual town hall" that will expose voter suppression tactics, feature voter protection organizing and connect citizens to voting experts.Confronting Wall Street, Will Your Vote Count, and the ANP on Anti-Immigration Activists
September 29, 2008As protesters chanted “bailout people not banks,” lawmakers reached a deal to move forward with the largest bailout in our nation’s history. Today on GRITtv our roundtable takes a look at the protest on Wall Street last week, why most Americans aren't buying the bailout, and who stands to benefit from the legislation.GRITtv Live at Noon: Who's Standing Up to Wall Street?
September 29, 2008Today on GRITtv, who's standing up to Wall Street? Our media roundtable looks at the protests on Wall Street and throughout the country last week. They didn't exactly get much attention in the press. Then Live From Main Street goes virtual. GRITtv will be broadcasting special programming all week from the battleground state of Ohio on the issue of voting rights.
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