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Showing videos filed under: organizing for america
What Happened to the Grassroots Obama Movement?
January 7, 2010The Obama campaign was a massive grassroots mobilization, but a year later, has the organization that grew out of it failed to keep up the momentum? Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Forum says yes and furthermore that the campaign was never as grassroots as billed; Karoli of the blog Odd Time Signatures says no, Organizing for America is keeping up the good work. We’ll also be speaking to Geoff Berman, New York Deputy Field Director for OFA.LIVE AT NOON: What Happened to the Grassroots Obama Movement?
January 6, 2010The Obama campaign was a massive grassroots mobilization, but a year later, has the organization that grew out of it failed to keep up the momentum? Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Forum says yes and furthermore that the campaign was never as grassroots as billed; Karoli of the blog Odd Time Signatures says no, Organizing for America is keeping up the good work. We'll also be speaking to Geoff Berman, New York Deputy Field Director for OFA.Generation Obama: Where Are They Now?
November 4, 2009A year later, we round up a few of them and ask whether they're still involved. Lana Wilson, founder of Obamaerobics, Mike Jones, NYU sophomore and Obama 2008 campaign volunteer, and Ebonie Johnson Cooper, campaign organizer in Ohio and Pennsylvania join Elizabeth Mendez-Berry, who wrote about the Obama youth organizers and what they're up to now for an upcoming issue of The Nation, to talk about what they've done and how Obama changed their generation.Learning from Religion, Youth for Obama, and Bernie Sanders
November 3, 2009It's election day in the U.S. and with Democratic candidates facing tough races in several states, we take a look at what the left can learn from religious organizations, who manage to keep people coming back week after week. Does religion have a place in social justice movements, and does the right have a lock on religious motivation to act?Reorganizing for America?
September 2, 2009Where are all of Obama’s organizers and supporters? Can they reclaim the healthcare battle? GRITtv’s Sam Alcoff and Anna Gold of Left Palate recently attended a campaign meeting and rally in New York. Is it true that one does not need to be loud in order to be heard? Take a look.Reclaiming the Healthcare Battle
September 2, 2009August was a dark month, so to speak, for advocates of healthcare reform—public option or single payer. Where were the activists? And what’s the message? Marshall Ganz, a long time organizer and lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government,Maggie Mahar, the author of Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Healthcare Costs So Much, and Nina Agrawal, Director of Community Outreach for National Physicians Alliance in NY on what needs to be
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