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Bhairavi Desai: Trickle Down Racism
May 20, 2010
Obama has passed ground breaking stimulus bills and health care reform in the past year and a half, but what is the perception of these compared to the reality? Executive Director of the Taxi Workers Alliance Bhairavi Desai joins us in studio to tell us how the economic atmosphere is for one of the most insecure fields in the private sector, the taxi business.
Bhairavi Desai, Organizing in Arizona, and Corruption in the Church
May 20, 2010
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Ed Ott: Where Does the Power Lie?
May 18, 2010
Even though today is the most important primary election day of the year, a slough labor protestors has invaded K Street to protest lobbying efforts against the banks as detracting attention from the actual state of the American people
Ed Ott, Developing Haiti?, and Car Bombings in Kabul
May 18, 2010
Labor correspondent and executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Ed Ott joins us in the studio to discuss why Americans are so angry, how the outcomes of the primaries could affect these issues, and ask where the power really lies. After abysmal coverage of the massive labor protests against the Washington Lobbyist stronghold on K Street one of the protestors tweeted, “maybe you have to serve tea to get noticed.
Doormen in New York Fight for Recognition
April 27, 2010
New York City braced last week for a strike by the doormen of the Service Employees International Union's local 32BJ. Late negotiations might have prevented the strike for now, but GRITtv was on the scene as the mobilization grew and we're happy to bring you this report on their struggle. A special thanks to Anna Gold and Zuhal Danyildiz for this report.
Rinku Sen, Economic Recovery, and New York's Doormen
April 26, 2010
Last Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the country's most repressive immigration bill, SB 1070, which criminalizes undocumented immigrants and gives police the authority to demand papers from anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Though Brewer, a Republican who took over from Janet Napolitano when she left to become Obama's Homeland Security secretary, claims that there are protections in the bill to prevent racial profiling, it's hard to imagine a way that officers will decide from whom to demand papers that won't involve the color of their skin or the language that they speak.
The F Word: Hard At Work Figuring Out Imbalance
April 26, 2010
For a little balance on the deal reached between New York City's residential building owners and their hard working janitors and doormen -- It's not as if the doormen and women are the only hard workers in the building.
Wall Street Recovery, Main Street Inequality
February 2, 2010
We've all seen the headlines about record bonuses on Wall Street just a year after record bailouts with taxpayer dollars. And we all know that the rest of the country is hardly feeling the recovery. But even right here in New York City, recovery hasn't yet trickled down, and inequality is just getting worse.
Urban Inequality, Rev. James Forbes, and Citizens United
February 1, 2010
We've all seen the headlines about record bonuses on Wall Street just a year after record bailouts with taxpayer dollars. And we all know that the rest of the country is hardly feeling the recovery. But even right here in New York City, recovery hasn't yet trickled down, and inequality is just getting worse.
Circus Amok: Taking it to the Streets
December 23, 2009
Most people think of theater as something that happens on a stage, with seated people clapping politely. But Circus Amok take their brand of avant-garde political theater to the streets of New York, even when it's freezing outside.

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