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Showing videos filed under: Students for a free tibet
Meanwhile in Minneapolis...police confiscate laptops and video equipment
August 26, 2008Some disturbing news we received from I-Witness Video early this morning: "Our colleagues at the Glass Bead Collective, a group of video artists and documentarians, are in the Twin Cities to prepare for the Republican National Convention. They were swarmed by three police cars, detained and had all of their electronic gear, including laptop computers, videocameras and personal items were taken from them by Minneapolis police.Is America's Surveillance State Squishing Protest?
August 15, 2008There seems to be no limits to the hypocrisy of the Bush administration when it comes to telling the world how they need to address their human rights record. Who are they to talk? U.S. activists talk about the price of dissent.Policing Protest, the Iraqi Refugee Crisis, and Surviving MS
August 14, 2008Has the right to dissent - to critique and protest the actions of our government whether here or abroad - been meaningfully curtailed? Tonight's panel takes on protest in the surveillance era with Laurie Arbeiter of The Critical Voice, Dana Balicki, Codepink's Campaign Director, Aden Fine of the ACLU, and Heather Reddick, International Operations Director of Students for a Free Tibet.GRITtv Live at Noon: Policing Dissent
August 14, 2008Reps from the ACLU, The Critical Voice, CodePink, and Students For A Free Tibet on our streaming live noon panel. Catch the full show tonight at 8pm Eastern.Olympic Committee Puts The Arm on Students For a Free Tibet
August 11, 2008Students for a Free Tibet stage a protest at the Chinese Consulate in NY. The International Olympic Committee has filed a copyright infringement claim asserting that the group’s use of the Olympic rings is a violation.Big Brother, Little Brother, and The New China
August 8, 2008As the 2008 Summer Olympics begin, China expert John Pomfret, The Nation's Christian Parenti and Helen Zia of the Women's Media Center look at The New China.Let the Games Begin: Free Tibet
August 7, 2008The 2008 Summer Olympics are set to begin on Friday. In this video Ian Thom raises a banner outside of the Olympic stadium. Coming up later on GRITtv we discuss politics and human rights in China with Helen Zia, The Nation's Christian Parenti and John Pomfret author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China.
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