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Showing videos filed under: Moustafa Bayoumi
Heather McGhee, Diana Henriques, and Tom Morello
May 5, 2011"Saying when the economy is at its weakest we're going to put into law that we can't spend more to pick ourselves up...that's a depression-maker," says Heather McGhee of Demos. But despite warnings from economists from all over, the government in Washington, Democrats and Republicans both, remain obsessed with the deficit.The F Word: Tony Kushner Denied Honors Over Palestine
May 5, 2011This week, the news hit that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, perhaps best known for his Angels in America, was being blocked from receiving an honorary degree from the City University of New York because of his views on Israel.Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The People's Record
August 20, 2010Less than four months ago, Israeli commandoes boarded the boats in the Freedom Flotilla headed for Gaza and killed nine peace activists. Investigations are underway into just what happened the night of May 31st, but just a few months after the attacks, a new anthology collects eyewitness testimony, analyses and thought pieces, and responses from artists and poets into a "people's record" of what happened that night--and how it just might be a turning point for the conflict between Israel and Palestine.Marleine Bastien, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, and Green for Buffalo
August 19, 2010"Community organizer" was Sarah Palin's favorite slur on the campaign trail, but grassroots organizers have been fighting for the rights of marginalized people, often without recognition, for longer than Palin has been around. Marleine Bastien has been an organizer in the Haitian-American community in Miami for 30 years, and is now running for Congress.How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Young and Arab in America
November 13, 2008Another kind of peril. Being Muslim in America. The post 9/11 era has been a troubled one for American society and its treatment of Arab and Muslim Americans. They have been marginalized, maligned, and in some cases attacked. Even the presidential campaign was not immune from anti-Muslim bigotry. In fact it became one of the contest's recurring themes.The Congo and Humanitarian Intervention, Being Arab in America, and Child Soldiers in the D.R.C.
November 11, 2008When should the United States intervene in foreign conflicts? And is humanitarian intervention a paradox? Today on GRITtv we review the worsening situation in the Congo and calls from Human Rights Watch to increase the number of UN peacekeepers already there. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced as fighting between the rebels and the Congolese army continues.The F Word: A Profile of War
November 11, 2008What exactly is a profile? It’s as sketch in charcoal the simplified contours of a face. So writes today’s guest, Moustafa Bayoumi. By definition a profile draws an incomplete picture. It substitutes recognition for detail, Bayoumi writes . It’s what an outsider observes of the conflict in Congo, for example. We see the war-lord, the tribal leaders, the corruption, the poverty, the death.
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