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Showing videos filed under: Progressive Book Club
One Handshake Away From Food Supply
January 28, 2010Wendell Berry, author of Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food, has written extensively about farming, food, and our relation to it. In this video from the Progressive Book Club, Polly Armour of the Four Winds farm explains how Berry's ideas are put into action in true sustainable farming, leading to a new culture of food.State of the Union, Bernie Sanders and Honduras
January 27, 2010Obama's preparing for his first State of the Union speech, and we're wondering if once again he's going to try to be all things to all people. After all, on the campaign trail he dismissed talk of a spending freeze, only to adopt that language a year into his administration, and with the economic team he's still using, he's starting to remind us of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton--who may have slashed the deficit, but did so on the back of his "welfare reform."Year in Review: Howard Dean
December 31, 2009Many were surprised when Obama didn't tap Howard Dean for a place in his administration--Health and Human Services or even Surgeon General would've seemed a natural fit for the Vermont doctor. But being outside the administration has allowed Dean to be a loud, progressive voice for a better health care plan, and he spent plenty of time making the media rounds this year doing just that.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.Howard Dean's Prescription for Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Around the World and Got Docs?: Orgasm Inc.
August 27, 2009Dr. Howard Dean is on house call at GRITtv. He tells us why we need real healthcare reform now and we can get it. A look at healthcare in other countries confirms how far we are lagging behind. Then in this week's Got Docs? we show a clip from Liz Canner's Orgasm Inc. that takes a deeper look into the industry of female orgasm drugs.Howard Dean: "$1 Trillion is NOT new money"
July 17, 2009Threats to private healthcare insurers? Single payer leading to socialism? As the House and Senate move further in on their dissection of healthcare reform, we had our own house call from Dr. Howard Dean.Howard Dean on Healthcare, Dissecting 'Bruno', and Got Docs? Presents 'The Fire This Time'
July 16, 2009Threats to private healthcare insurers? Single payer leading to socialism? As the House and Senate move further in on their dissection of healthcare reform, GRITtv had our own house call from Dr. Howard Dean. Next, Richard Kim, Antoine B. Craigwell and Shawn Edwards discuss Sasha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno'. And this week in Got Docs, a look at Blair Doroshwalther's The Fire This Time, which examines the ongoing cases of the New Jersey Seven.How New Voters are Changing the Game, Making a new New Deal, and the American News Project on Home Foreclosures
September 30, 2008Day two of Live From Main Street and GRITtv’s special programming on voting in the United States. Registration deadlines loom and there are many obstacles. From reading tests to ID challenges, felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls the US is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.Confronting Wall Street, Will Your Vote Count, and the ANP on Anti-Immigration Activists
September 29, 2008As protesters chanted “bailout people not banks,” lawmakers reached a deal to move forward with the largest bailout in our nation’s history. Today on GRITtv our roundtable takes a look at the protest on Wall Street last week, why most Americans aren't buying the bailout, and who stands to benefit from the legislation.
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