Showing videos filed under: Sanctions

• LIVE AT NOON: The Iranian Movement & Obama's New Strategy

  February 10, 2010

  Not long ago on GRITtv, Hamid Dabashi told us that the Iranian protests are turning into a civil rights movement with long-term potential for change. We'll talk to Hooman Majd, Hadi Ghaemi, and Kelly Golnoush Niknejad at noon about the protests, the regime, and what happens next.

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• Boycotting Israel, The Goldstone Report, and Bloody Lowndes

  January 18, 2010

  Recently on GRITtv we spoke with Hamid Dabashi on the movement in Iran. Dabashi called it a civil rights movement, and today as we celebrate the life and legacy of U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. we take a look back at another recent discussion of one of the biggest civil rights struggles of our time: the fight to liberate the Palestinian people.

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• Boycotting Israel

  January 15, 2010

  International pressure is mounting on Israel to end the occupation. More than 1,000 filmmakers, actors, and writers recently called for a protest of the Toronto Film Festival’s spotlight on Tel-Aviv. You can read the Toronto Declaration here. Meanwhile an international boycott is growing. Neve Gordon, in a recent editorial, explains why it is time to boycott Israel.

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• The Politics of Hunger, Kathy Kelly on Gaza, and the Return of Goldman Sachs

  January 27, 2009

  Some 36 million Americans do not have enough to eat. Globally world hunger is near a breaking point. And even as oil prices have come down the global food crisis continues to worsen. So what's driving the crisis at home and abroad? Joel Berg, the author of All You Can Eat:

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  • Max Fraad Wolff
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