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Showing videos filed under: speech
Leo Gerard: Steelworkers Stand with Wisconsin
February 27, 2011United Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard speaks to workers gathered in Madison, Wisconsin protesting Governor Scott Walker's attacks on union rights.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: Fighting for Workers
January 17, 2011As everyone probably knows, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis in 1968 by an assassin's bullet, but it's often forgotten that he was in Memphis joining the sanitation workers' fight for fair wages and working conditions. King's support for labor, particularly low-wage public workers, was a theme of his work for most of his life, and to honor that legacy, we bring you a segment of the speech he gave to those workers the day before his death.John Nichols: Obama Strikes Right Note in Arizona
January 14, 2011"Candidates and politicians who are at their best do not touch our brain, they touch our hearts. It's in our heart that our attitudes are shifted," notes John Nichols of The Nation, and that's what Barack Obama did last night, with his speech on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Arizona last week. He also provided, Nichols notes, a striking contrast to Sarah Palin's response to the shooting, which made it all about her.John Nichols, Fighting for Public Workers, and Martin Luther King
January 13, 2011"Candidates and politicians who are at their best do not touch our brain, they touch our hearts. It's in our heart that our attitudes are shifted," notes John Nichols of The Nation, and that's what Barack Obama did last night, with his speech on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Arizona last week. He also provided, Nichols notes, a striking contrast to Sarah Palin's response to the shooting, which made it all about her.Afghanistan: Is a Benevolent Occupation Possible?
December 2, 2009In light of Obama's speech about Afghanistan last night and the coming escalation of troops, we bring you once again our debate on the occupation.Black Fathers
July 25, 2008Barack Obama's speech on father's day of this year created a stir. He said, "We know the statistics - that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.
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