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Showing videos filed under: mary bottari
Mary Bottari & Mark Pocan: National Implications in Wisconsin
February 22, 2011"People understand this is a national struggle," says Mary Bottari of the situation in Wisconsin right now, and Mark Pocan, Wisconsin State Assemblyman from the 78th District, says "This has to be the spot where we stop it nationally." If Scott Walker manages to take away the workers' right to collective bargaining, they point out, other states will do the same--Ohio and Indiana are already trying.GRITtv Special from Madison, Wisconsin
February 21, 2011Welcome to our first special one-hour episode from Madison, Wisconsin! Thanks to our friends at The Uptake, Free Speech TV, and WORT TV in Madison for making this collaboration happen. "Unions realize that this is a threat to their very existence," says Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, of Scott Walker's attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers. And some of the usual suspects are behind Walker's attack--from the Koch brothers to Republican ideologues. "These corporations want to get these people off the playing field," says John Nichols, of The Nation.Mary Bottari: Appoint Elizabeth Warren Now
September 17, 2010The announcement that came this week, that Elizabeth Warren would sort of maybe possibly be appointed to do something like help institute the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She will benamed an assistant to the president and special adviser to Treasury Secretary Geithner, and will oversee creation of the Bureau. Though this doesn't preclude her being named to head the agency, it's still not enough.Tariq Ali & Alexander Cockburn, and Mary Bottari
September 16, 2010We've had a lot of talk this week about the Left: where is it? Why does the media ignore it? What can we do to rebuild it? And whose fault is any of this? The mainstream media might ignore voices from the Left, but here on GRITtv those are just the voices that matter--and today, for a special feature, we welcome two you may have heard of: Tariq Ali and Alexander Cockburn.Mary Bottari: Audit the Fed a Progressive Win
May 14, 2010Finally, bipartisan agreement and a strike of progress in government regulation of the financial industry: In a unanimous vote of 96-0, the Senate passed an amendment to open the Federal Resere to a one -time audit of its lending between Decemeber 2007 to the present. Led by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson in the House and Bernie Sanders in the Senate and pushed by our friends at FireDogLake, the bill now heads to conference. Mary Bottari of BankstersUSA.org and the Center for Media and Democracy weighs in on a hard-fought victory for Main Street over Wall Street.Shepard Fairey, El General, and Audit the Fed
May 14, 2010May Day is observed in most countries outside of the U.S. as International Worker's Day or Labor Day. The word "mayday" is also a distress signal, a call for help and a call to action. Shepard Fairey, a longtime underground and street artist who came to be a household name with his "Hope" poster of Barack Obama, evoked both of these meanings at once with his "May Day" exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York City. Plutarco Elías Calles was both a military general and later one of the most controversial presidents of Mexico. He is known for his status as a revolutionary hero, but also for bringing these (sometimes brutal) military tactics into his political career. Finally, Mary Bottari of BankstersUSA.org and the Center for Media and Democracy weighs in on a hard-fought victory for Main Street over Wall Street.
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