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Showing videos filed under: molly ivins
Vince Warren, Russ Feingold, and Jay Smooth
September 14, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.The F Word: Campaign Cash From Rate Hikes
September 14, 2010“Corporate interests are buying the elections? Oh no", Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, told the New York Times this week. “It’s much worse than that. We don’t know who’s buying the election.”Tea Parties and Workers, Public Housing, and the Prop 8 Trial
January 26, 2010Tea party protests and labor unions might not seem at first to have much in common, but both groups are angry about bailouts of massive banks and the struggles of working people to make ends meet while jobs disappear overseas. Is the dispute between the tea parties and the progressive left just one of the means to an end?Tea Parties and Workers, Public Housing, and the Prop 8 Trial
January 12, 2010Tea party protests and labor unions might not seem at first to have much in common, but both groups are angry about bailouts of massive banks and the struggles of working people to make ends meet while jobs disappear overseas. Is the dispute between the tea parties and the progressive left just one of the means to an end?Tea Parties and Workers, Public Housing, and the Prop 8 Trial
January 12, 2010Tea party protests and labor unions might not seem at first to have much in common, but both groups are angry about bailouts of massive banks and the struggles of working people to make ends meet while jobs disappear overseas. Is the dispute between the tea parties and the progressive left just one of the means to an end?The F Word: Willing to Reconsider
January 12, 2010OK, so I've been a feminist against marriage for as long as I can remember but I will if you will.Somewhere Molly Ivins is Smiling
December 15, 2009The red state-blue state line continues to break down--Houston, Texas elected its first openly gay mayor this weekend in a runoff election. Annise Parker, current City Controller, will run a huge city not known for its progressive politics--and the largest city so far to elect an openly gay chief executive. Here's an excerpt from her victory speech.Latin America, Copenhagen, and Annise Parker
December 14, 2009"The Obama administration now has both the continuing Honduran crisis and a divided hemisphere on its hands, with no solution in sight," reads a new article in The Nation today. The U.S. has decided to recognize the result of the recent elections in Honduras, despite ongoing reports that the elections were boycotted and that the people consider them an extension of the coup.Books with Grit: Responding to National Book Awards
November 20, 2009In honor of the National Book Awards, today on GRITtv we discuss other books we loved. From a biography of progressive icon Molly Ivins to Tracy Kidder's tale of a young medical student from Burundi, Jeannie Vanasco of Lapham's Quarterly, Julian Brookes of the Progressive Book Club and Sir Harold Evans, of The Week magazine and former president and publisher of Random House trade group, talk about the books that they think deserve more recognition.Books With Grit, Salvador Reza and Return to the Wild
November 19, 2009Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was recently stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests after repeated complaints that he abuses power and uses racial profiling to target Latinos in his community. Salvador Reza, U.S. Air Force veteran, community organizer and renowned immigrants rights activist, joins Laura for an exclusive interview on Arpaio's ongoing abuses.
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