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LIVE Election Night Coverage with Laura and Amy Goodman!
November 1, 2010Burned out on corporate media election coverage? Frustrated by ABC's choice of Andrew Breitbart as a commentator? Watch the returns roll in with GRITtv and Free Speech TV instead. November 2nd, from 8PM to 2AM EST, right here on our site or on Free Speech TV on DISH Network and DIRECTv.Rev. Jesse Jackson: Learning to Live Together
October 5, 2010"Forty-seven years later, we are free but not equal," said Rev. Jesse Jackson, from the One Nation rally in Washington, D.C. this weekend. In 1963, of course, Jackson was with Martin Luther King, Jr. marching on Washington, and this year he came to D.C. from Detroit, where the continuing devastation of the economy and communities there.John Conyers: Jobs and Justice
October 5, 2010"The reason there are so many Detroiters here at this march is that we're trying to climb out of a continuing depression, that has yet to be addressed by the trillions of dollars we've spent to pull Wall Street out of its malaise," says Congressman John Conyers, chair of the judiciary committee and longtime representative from Michigan.Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson, John Conyers and John Nichols
October 4, 2010"We need a grassroots coalition that's comparable to the Tea Party movement in many respects. It needs to be fairly decentralized, easy for people to join, and it needs to be audacious," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the way forward after the success of this past weekend's One Nation rally in Washington, D.C. This rally, he notes, needs to not simply be a nice day out for progressives--it needs to be a turning of the tide, a reversal of course away from anger and toward solidarity.Obama's Campaign Promises, Gentrification, and a Crutchmaster
December 4, 2008The corporate media have spun the post election frame to argue that Obama should break his campaign promises. Plus a play on gentrification, and an amazing performance artist/break dancer on crutches.
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