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Showing videos filed under: red state road trip
GRIT on the Gulf: Rebuilding New Orleans, Ned Sublette, and Red State Road Trip
August 19, 2008Our panel takes up the crisis in public housing, in New Orleans and beyond. Author and musician Ned Sublette remembers Southern life, history and culture, and gives us a song. Red State Road Trip, three years after Katrina.Red State Road Trip Episode 15: Katrina, Three Years Later
August 19, 2008The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast region may be one of the great coups in modern American history. Thousands of poor mostly black residents displaced and denied the right of return. Public housing has suffered. Thousands of buildings minimally damaged have been destroyed. Homelessness has doubled and new development is in the form of high-end hotels and condominiums.The Blue Collar Vote, John Bowe on Modern Slavery, and Bush's Last Holdout
August 13, 2008This year the blue collar worker has achieved iconic status. The subtext is race and there is something about being white, working class, and male that means being quintessentially American. Perhaps it marks a subconscious return to the days when only white male property owners were allowed to vote. Oddly, we haven’t heard much about the black working class or the Hispanic working class.Red State Road Trip Episode 16: The Last Holdout
August 13, 2008Red State Road Trip episode 16 heads to Texas. Bush still has some friends.Red State Road Trip Day 14: Obama's Fabricated Faith
August 5, 2008The age of information has quickly become one of misinformation and the myth that Obama’s a Muslim has taken hold in the heartland. And this collage of smears goes well beyond the veracity of a Wikipedia entry. There are many who believe that Obama is Muslim, that he's not patriotic, and that he may in fact be a "Muslim plant" in a conspiracy against America.Obama and the Left, Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism, and Tax Havens for the Rich
August 4, 2008Barack Obama has made few friends on the left since Hillary Clinton bowed out of the Democratic Primary in June. In the current issue of the Nation magazine an open letter to Obama urges him not to abandon his base and notes that since his victory, “there have been troubling sings that you are moving away from the core commitments shared by many who have supported your campaign, toward a moreSubprime 101, Stop Loss, and a Desert Blooms in Detroit
July 29, 2008Tonight on GRITtv we look at the great subprime swindle with Sarah Ludwig, Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development & Advocacy Project (NEDAP), Kai Wright author of a recent article in the Nation magazine, Lionel Ouellete the Executive Director of C.H.A.N.G.E.R., and John Flateau Chair of the Economic and Empowerment Committee of the NAACP in Brooklyn. And an interview with Kimberly Peirce, Chris Hume's Red State Road Trip, and Live From Main Street.The '08 Vote, Kos on the Electoral Landscape, and Kenyon Farrow
July 22, 2008Tonight on GRITtv we look at the ‘08 electoral map. Not just who’s running but who’s voting and what record turnout during the Democratic primary means. But the long shadow of 2000 and 2004 still looms. Will voting be fair and will everyone registered to vote be able to do so without standing on line for six hours or battling with poll workers?Red State Road Trip Day 11: The Nation's Capital
July 22, 2008D.C. has no representation in congress. Yet, its residents tend to vote overwhelmingly Democratic. In a special report from the nation’s capital, Chris Hume talks to Rep. Dennis Kucinich and tourists from throughout the United States. They seem less than enthusiastic about the current president who, as Kucinich says, will be held accountable either by the laws of this country or the laws of another country.The Politics of Fear, Art of the WPA, and In Debt We Trust
July 14, 2008On our weekly media roundtable we look at, well, the cover of the New Yorker with the magazine's senior editor Hendrik Hertzberg, Danny Schechter, and Logan Nakyanzi Pollard. What are the limits of political satire, if any, and has the New Yorker crossed the line. We also look at the housing crisis, Iran, and why nothing seems to stick to McCain. Also an interview with Ennis Carter, author of the forthcoming book, Posters for the People: Art of the WPA. And a new film from Danny Schechter, Chris Hume's Red State Road Trip, and a comment from David Sirota.
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