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Showing videos filed under: republican national convention
Looking Back at the Democratic Convention, Cracking Down in St. Paul, and TechGrrl Deanna Zandt on Social Media at the Conventions
September 2, 2008There were a lot of big stories that did not get the kind of coverage they should have at the Democratic National Convention. Tonight on GRITtv we look back at what the mainstream media missed with Denis Dison, Vice President of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Leadership Institute; Rebecca Traister staff writer for Salon; Roberto Lovato contributing editor at New America Media (NAM); and Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor ofRubber Bullets and Smoke Bombs at the RNC
September 2, 2008Minneapolis/St. Paul has fast become a police state. Glenn Greenwald, who’s been covering the crackdown for Salon, writes that on the eve of the Republican National Convention, “St. Paul was the most militarized I have ever seen an American city be, even more so than Manhattan in the week of 9/11—with troops of federal, state and local law enforcement agents marching around with riot gear, machine guns, and tear gas canisters.”Meanwhile in Minneapolis...an Update on The Crackdown
August 27, 2008Yesterday we reported that members of the Glass Bead Collective, a group of video artists and documentarians, were detained and interrogated in the Twin Cities. Their video equipment, cell phones, hard drive, and notes were seized. The police are now trying to secure a search warrant in order to examine the video and still cameras, what Bruce Nestor of the National Lawyers Guild calls, "absolutely outrageous behavior for a police departmentLive Video Stream: GRITtv Live From Main Street
June 8, 2008Your Streets, Your Stories; the National Election from the local point of view. Laura hosts with Al MacFarlane of Minneapolis's Insight News. Guests include AMY GOODMAN, COLEEN ROWLEY, MALKIA CYRIL and the Twin Cities's finest free-speech crusaders.3pm Today: GRITtv Will Be Live From Main Street
June 8, 2008What challenges are Minnesotans facing in the run up to the RNC? Find out on GRITtv 3 pm eastern online and repeated on Free Speech TV, (DISH Ch. 9415.) GRITtv.org will have a live video stream of the event on its front page at 3pm.
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