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Showing videos filed under: siege
Got Docs: Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza
June 7, 2010This week saw an attack on the Freedom Flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza, bringing the ongoing humanitarian crisis there to the attention of even the mainstream media. This week on GRITtv we look at a documentary that takes you on a journey inside a Gaza under siege but still struggling to live. Directed by by Nicolas Wadimoff, in collaboration with Béatrice Guelpa, Aisheen: Still Alive in Gaza shows you what the activists on the ships were fighting for.Coal Free Future, Still Alive in Gaza, and Jim Shultz
June 5, 2010Frequent GRITtv guest Jeff Biggers has created the Coal Free Future Project, along with Stephanie Pistello, as a creative and artistic component to the growing climate justice movement, pushing for clean energy and human rights. As part of their project, they are presenting their multimedia theater project, "4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire" at New York's Gene Frankel Theatre from June 4th to the 13th.Checkpoints and More
March 16, 2010Nahr al-Bared ("Cold River") refugee camp in Lebanon is home to 20,000 displaced Palestinians, struggling to rebuild their home after its destruction in 2007. The camp has been around for some 60 years, and in this excerpt from "Checkpoints and More" by A Films,residents of the camp tell their stories.Max Blumenthal, Remaking Geithner and Checkpoints
March 15, 2010Welcome to GRITtv's new format! We're coming to you from our new studio in SoHo, shooting higher resolution video. We'll be bringing you 30 minutes of content 5 days a week from now on, featuring more of our friends from around the country, more field reporting, and some other new surprises as well. Hope you enjoy!Infrastructure, Kathleen Hanna, and Jay Smooth
February 16, 2010After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems.An Inside Look at Gaza
January 11, 2010Last week on GRITtv, Ali Abunimah noted that it was harder to get into Gaza than to get into a maximum security prison. Journalists are no exception--most of them have been kept out for three years. So the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem handed video cameras to 18 young Gazans and asked them to document what's going on -- for sharing with Israelis and the rest of the world. Thanks so much to B'Tselem for sharing the videos with us.Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza
January 11, 2010Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently--Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor--but even David Letterman couldn't resist making a crack at Simpson's expense.Marching for Freedom for Gaza
January 8, 2010Ali Abunimah, cofounder of Electronic Intifada, and Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, took part in the Gaza freedom march. They join us to discuss the march, and we also speak to Electronic Intifada contributor Rami Almeghari, who is living and working in the Gaza strip.Media Narratives, Gaza and Uncle Bob
January 7, 2010No matter what the news is, which country has tensions, who's making threats, the response from TV news seems to be the same: quote Dick Cheney. We saw plenty of that this week, along with pronouncements that Democrats are doomed in 2010, complaints about progressives who've criticized the health care bill, and of course Tiger Woods.
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