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Showing videos filed under: South Africa
Nicolas Rossier: Talking with Jean-Bertrand Aristide
November 23, 2010It's not a year since the earthquake rocked Haiti and destroyed homes and cities, leaving people in desperate situations. And now as elections are approaching, Haitians face a cholera outbreak on top of everything. Nicolas Rossier, an award winning independent filmmaker and reporter whose latest films include American Radical and Aristide and the Endless Revolution, spoke to exiled former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide about the situation in his country and brought us an exclusive first look at his two-hour conversation.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nicolas Rossier and Jean-Bertrand Aristide
November 22, 2010"Average people must look at the screens and see the disconnect—it's not left vs. right, it's top-down. It's establishment vs. people." So says Katrina vanden Heuvel of the average TV news show. She joins us, of course, here on GRITtv for our weekly partnership with The Nation magazine to bring you a different kind of political TV show.S'bu Zikode: Organizing South Africa's Shack Dwellers
November 20, 2010"The power of the poor starts when we as the poor recognise our own humanity," wrote S'bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African Shackdwellers’ Movement. Years after the end of apartheid, poor South Africans still struggle under a system that has yet to fulfill the promises it made to the people: redistribution of land has stopped, and the attention of the world subsided as the World Cup ended.Yoruba Richen: Promised Land
July 3, 2010Yoruba Richen made the film, “Promised Land,” to explore the black, the white, and the shades of gray of post apartheid tensions. The film follows the Mekgareng, and impoverished tribe, removed from their land forty years ago as they try to reclaim their land from wealthy, white farmers and developers. The land issue becomes a “ticking time bomb,” posing an ever-present threat to volatile post-apartheid South Africa.Anyone But Me, South Africa's Promised Land, and Courtney Young
July 2, 2010Anyone But Me is a hit teen show, viewed over 4.5 million times in its first two seasons. That's pretty impressive for a show that is only available on the Web. The drama, which was financed for two seasons by a private investor, was created by Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward to do something different, and with few models for a successful Web TV show to follow, they have had to chart their own course.GlobalGirl Media: Shooting the World Cup
June 17, 2010The World Cup continues to hold the world's fascination, from vuvuzela jokes to headline-grabbing rivalries, and we continue to bring you reports from GlobalGirl Media, training young women to report from the scene of the games in South Africa.Ed Pilkington, Your Environmental Road Trip & the World Cup
June 16, 2010The BP oil disaster has wreaked havoc on the Gulf of Mexico, but it's also having repercussions across the Atlantic. BP is one of Britain's largest companies, and pension funds invested in BP stock are taking a hit. Ed Pilkington has been covering the story here in the U.S. for the U.K.'s Guardian and has visited the Gulf to look at the spill.GlobalGirl Media: World Cup Opening Day
June 15, 2010The Kick It Up project at GlobalGirl Media has trained high school girls from South Africa and Los Angeles as videographers and reporters at the World Cup of soccer in South Africa. We are proud to play the first of several clips from opening day at the Soweto Fanpark, where the girls speak to fans and supporters about what the World Cup means, to them and to their country.Year of the Woman, Jeremy Scahill, and the World Cup
June 14, 2010The victories of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in California, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina in last week's primaries are being hailed as a victory for women. Yet do conservative, anti-government women's candidacies spell gains for women nationwide? Or will the cuts they threaten to make to government programs hurt more women than their candidacies help?
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