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Showing videos filed under: tax day
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Shifting Focus from Deficits
April 20, 2011"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Bob Herbert, and Missed Connections
April 19, 2011"We need to stay loudly and clearly that there is an alternative. The debate underway is suffocatingly narrow," says Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, of the way the conversation about jobs and the economy has become a conversation about spending and deficits. Meanwhile, she notes, outside of the Beltway, independent media and independent activists like US Uncut are fighting hard to change the conversation.Ellen Bravo, Antonia Juhasz & Tracie Washington, and Tax Day
April 19, 2011"What's at stake is whether assaults on working people will prevail," says Ellen Bravo, who fought with the Family Values @ Work Consortium to get paid sick leave for Milwaukee's workers only to see it banned in the state legislature--and the ban broadened to include the entire state. Meanwhile, to heighten the already tense situation in that state, Sarah Palin was there this weekend to speak to a Tea Party crowd.The F Word: Demonizing Taxes, Heightening Inequality
April 18, 2011Today is Tax Day in the US, and that's almost universally greeted with groans and complaints. That tax word's been so effectively demonized that it may be there's no coming back. Is it time for a new word?Farai Chideya: America's Racial Crisis
April 20, 2010Tea Party crowds held protests last week for tax day, but recent articles and polls have laid more blame for the anger at Obama at the feet of a deep-seated racial anxiety among certain sectors of Americans. "We have to embrace the fact that America is still going through a racial crisis," notes multimedia journalist and former NPR host Farai Chideya.Farai Chideya, Independent Voters, and Honduras
April 19, 2010Tea Party crowds held protests last week for tax day, but recent articles and polls have laid more blame for the anger at Obama at the feet of a deep-seated racial anxiety among certain sectors of Americans. "We have to embrace the fact that America is still going through a racial crisis," notes multimedia journalist and former NPR host Farai Chideya.The F Word: Taxes, Spending, or Race?
April 15, 2010The latest in a spate of polls about the Tea Partiers comes from the New York Times and CBS and it raises some questions about just what's fueling the protests: is it all about taxes or something else?Bruce Gagnon, John Bonifaz, and Education Inequality
April 14, 2010Barack Obama and 47 world leaders have agreed lower the amount of nuclear weapons on hand, and work in common to lower the threat of nuclear attack. Cause for celebration? Not quite yet, says Bruce Gagnon of Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.The F Word: Tax Grousing Tells Half The Story
April 14, 2010These days, there's a whole movement dedicated to grumbling about taxes full time -- I'm talking, of course, about the Right's latest incarnation -- tea partiers, who are gearing up for another round of protests.
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