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David Sirota: Mandate ’08: Reagan vs. FDR
November 2, 2008So it has all come down to this. After two years and a quarter billion dollars worth of ads, the pulverizing election has become a steel-cage match pitting rivals against each other – and not Christians versus Muslims, Americans versus Foreigners or Whites versus Blacks.No, John McCain and Barack Obama have made the race’s final weeks an ideological proxy war between two presidential icons who still loom larger than them:Sunday Afternoon with Change...
August 23, 2008Events at the Big Tent in Denver kick off with a live, town hall forum all about change. With Van Jones, Jim Hightower, Donna Edwards, Faye Wattleton, David Barsamian, David Sirota, and Polly Baca .. Wish you could be there? You can: The live stream was here, courtesy of The Media Consortium and GRITtv. Watch the edited version of the show here Monday night on GRITtv.Live Chat At Noon: What Change do you Want? Tell Us! Tell the DNC!
August 17, 2008We're entering final week of the veep-stakes. The political talkers are making their case for who's the right person to have a heartbeat away from the presidency. But our priority question for the Democrats (and the country) is not so much what person do we want in power these next few years -- but which policies? GRITtv's going to Denver and kicking off Convention week, we'll be convening another live, town-hall style meeting. With a week to go, now's your time to weigh in. So you say you want change? What change do you want? And what do you -- we -- need to change to get there?An Uprising Comes to Denver: Live From Main Street, August 24
July 30, 2008Before the big party convention in Denver, Live From Main Street will be in town to look at the kind of grassroots organizing that is reshaping the state of Colorado. Join us on August 24, with David Sirota, for a town hall forum on the populist uprising that may just be scaring Wall Street and Washington.Media Wasteland, an Interview with Martha Burk, and DJ Spooky in Antarctica
July 21, 2008Tonight on GRITtv our media roundtable takes stock of the best and worst of last week with Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, Lionel, the author of Everyone’s Crazy Except You and Me and host of the Lionel Show on Air America, and Michelle Chen a freelance writer in NY. Also an interview with Martha Burk, the author of Your Money and Your Life. A commentary from David Sirota and DJ Spooky in Antarctica.David Sirota: "Centrists" Running the Asylum
July 21, 2008In the asylum that is American politics, beware a candidate like Barack Obama when he is lauded for moving to "the center" - because usually that means he is drifting away from it.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.David Sirota: Anywhere Becomes Everywhere
July 14, 2008David Sirota, on tour for his new book The Uprising, says that homogenization has swallowed up not only our downtowns, restaurants, and radio stations but our understanding of democracy itself. In this commentary he looks at the changing political landscape and why what's happening in our city councils and state capitols is every bit as important as what's going on in Washington.How To Elect A Progressive
June 20, 2008While most political junkies and the rest of the America electorate are trained exclusively on the Presidential race, with recent polls indicating Obama pulling ahead of McCain, their hopes are vested in winning the White House. However, a growing posse of progressive elected officials and state leaders remain focused on building power at the state and local level.June 17, 2008: Marriage, Uprising & Contemporary Jazz
June 17, 2008Did you know that in Boston, legalizing same sex marriages invalidated domestic partnership? Meanwhile, in Ohio, "defending" heterosexual marriage has led to the gutting of common-law marriages? This isn't your typical gay-marriage debate.
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