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Showing videos filed under: UN
Phyllis Bennis: The Story Behind the Intervention in Libya
March 22, 2011"The only restriction says there shall be no foreign occupation force, but as we know from Iraq and Afghanistan, you can have an awful lot of troops on the ground fighting and not call it an occupation," says Phyllis Bennis, explaining the United Nations resolution that led a coalition of troops to start bombing Libya this weekend.Phyllis Bennis, James Carroll, and a Stay in Wisconsin
March 21, 2011"The only restriction says there shall be no foreign occupation force, but as we know from Iraq and Afghanistan, you can have an awful lot of troops on the ground fighting and not call it an occupation," says Phyllis Bennis, explaining the United Nations resolution that led a coalition of troops to start bombing Libya this weekend.Got Docs: Water on the Table
March 5, 2011Is water a human right? That's the question at the center of the new documentary Water On The Table, featuring former GRITtv guest Maude Barlow. Maude has devoted her life to fighting corporate interests to keep our water clean and available for everyone--future generations as well as the present one. Filmmaker Liz Marshall set out to bring an epic vision of Canada's water and the battle over it to the screen,and you can find out more about Maude and the movie through the links here.Maria Isa & Lah Tere, Water On The Table, & Immigration
March 4, 2011"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US.Voices from Cancun Climate Conference
December 9, 2010The sixteenth UN Climate Change Conference will wrap up this Friday. While many were frustrated at exclusions of civil society and indigenous groups from official negotiations, others used the occasion to marshal an international grassroots movement that is stronger than ever. Here are a few voices from Cancun this week, courtesy of Reuters and independent journalist Tamar Sharabi for Free Speech TV.Prosecuting WikiLeaks, Jamie Court and Cancun Climate Talks
December 8, 2010"It's the ruling class talking amongst itself," notes Alexander Cockburn of the information that WikiLeaks exposes and governments want to suppress. Meanwhile, Julian Assange is being held without bail, and online it's 4chan versus Mastercard, Xipwire versus PayPal in the fight to keep WikiLeaks open and funded as quickly as the government and corporate entities can shut it down.Tina Gerhardt: Reporting from Cancun
December 7, 2010Though there is little hope for a binding international agreement from the current round of climate talks held by the United Nations in Cancun this week, there is something different about the conversation. Tina Gerhardt reports that countries who are in attendance at the talks aren't talking about future consequences of global climate change, but instead talking about the crises they are suffering right now. From drought to floods, weather patterns are shifting and across the world, people are feeling the pain.Tina Gerhardt and Bill McKibben
December 6, 2010Though there is little hope for a binding international agreement from the current round of climate talks held by the United Nations in Cancun this week, there is something different about the conversation. Tina Gerhardt reports that countries who are in attendance at the talks aren't talking about future consequences of global climate change, but instead talking about the crises they are suffering right now. From drought to floods, weather patterns are shifting and across the world, people are feeling the pain.Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The People's Record
August 20, 2010Less than four months ago, Israeli commandoes boarded the boats in the Freedom Flotilla headed for Gaza and killed nine peace activists. Investigations are underway into just what happened the night of May 31st, but just a few months after the attacks, a new anthology collects eyewitness testimony, analyses and thought pieces, and responses from artists and poets into a "people's record" of what happened that night--and how it just might be a turning point for the conflict between Israel and Palestine.Marleine Bastien, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, and Green for Buffalo
August 19, 2010"Community organizer" was Sarah Palin's favorite slur on the campaign trail, but grassroots organizers have been fighting for the rights of marginalized people, often without recognition, for longer than Palin has been around. Marleine Bastien has been an organizer in the Haitian-American community in Miami for 30 years, and is now running for Congress.
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