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Tim Wise: Dragging Racial Bias Into the Open
August 25, 2011“The bank of justice is bankrupt” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in DC 1963. Now, as a King Memorial is unveiled in DC., too little has changed. And the Obama team's race-neutral politics aren't helping, says racial justice scholar Tim Wise in this critical interview from September 2010.Michelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Jim Crow
July 30, 2011The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination that has brought Jim Crow with us into the age of Obama.Malalai Joya, Vermont Healthcare, and Hari Kondabolu
May 6, 2011Osama bin Laden was the reason given for invading Afghanistan in 2001--but he was found in 2011 in Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Afghan people have dealt with ten years of occupation, and Malalai Joya has been speaking out against it for that long.Hari Kondabolu: Speaking African
May 6, 2011Comic Hari Kondabolu has a few words for people who don't realize that "African" is not a language.Paris Hatcher: "Culture of Life" is a Lie
May 5, 2011"We're supposed to love life, right? And protect mothers and ban abortion because abortion is about ending babies lives, right? But then we see cuts to WIC, [Women, Infants & Children benefits], we know women are being chained to beds to give birth," Paris Hatcher of SPARK Reproductive Justice points out. The entire idea pushed by conservatives that we are concerned with a "culture of life" is proved false by the way our society treats mothers--certain mothers, anyway.Paris Hatcher, Walter Mosley, and Tornados in Alabama
May 4, 2011"We're supposed to love life, right? And protect mothers and ban abortion because abortion is about ending babies lives, right? But then we see cuts to WIC, [Women, Infants & Children benefits], we know women are being chained to beds to give birth," Paris Hatcher of SPARK Reproductive Justice points out. The entire idea pushed by conservatives that we are concerned with a "culture of life" is proved false by the way our society treats mothers--certain mothers, anyway.Andrew Bacevich; Sex, Hope & Rock'n'Roll, & Baratunde Thurston
April 28, 2011According to retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, Barack Obama "is a problem solver, he's surrounded himself with problem solvers at a time when maybe we need some creative thinking." This week saw the announcement that General David Petraeus would be taking Leon Panetta's spot as head of the CIA, while Panetta would be moving to replace Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.Baratunde Thurston: Trump and the Birth Certificate
April 28, 2011Baratunde Thurston is usually one of our favorite comedians, but even he couldn't bring himself to laugh at the ugly spectacle of a privileged white man like Donald Trump congratulating himself in front of news cameras for getting Barack Obama to produce a "long-form" birth certificate. Baratunde recorded his feelings about that statement, and what it says to millions of African-Americans.Walter Mosley: Beyond "Birthers," Trusting People
April 28, 2011"People actually want to believe in heroes, so they'll believe in Glenn Beck, they'll believe in Barack Obama, they choose individuals to believe in but won't believe in politics itself," says Walter Mosley, author and activist. Obama may have been pressured into releasing his "long form" birth certificate this week, but that won't heal the hurt in our politics, Mosley says, until Americans stop trusting heroes and experts and start trusting each other.Antonia Juhasz, Walter Mosley, and the Royal Wedding
April 27, 2011"What has translated into a change in price for oil and gas has simply been a result of the greed of the oil industry," says author and GRITtv oil correspondent, Antonia Juhasz of rising oil prices and pain at the pump. Antonia is the director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, and author of the newly released book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.
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