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Showing videos filed under: voting
Walter Mosley: Beyond "Birthers," Trusting People
April 28, 2011"People actually want to believe in heroes, so they'll believe in Glenn Beck, they'll believe in Barack Obama, they choose individuals to believe in but won't believe in politics itself," says Walter Mosley, author and activist. Obama may have been pressured into releasing his "long form" birth certificate this week, but that won't heal the hurt in our politics, Mosley says, until Americans stop trusting heroes and experts and start trusting each other.Antonia Juhasz, Walter Mosley, and the Royal Wedding
April 27, 2011"What has translated into a change in price for oil and gas has simply been a result of the greed of the oil industry," says author and GRITtv oil correspondent, Antonia Juhasz of rising oil prices and pain at the pump. Antonia is the director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, and author of the newly released book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.The F Word: Learning What Unions Have to Teach
March 23, 2011In a lot of the talk about attacks on labor, the focus has been on electoral politics and cash. Defunding unions will defund the Democratic party and progressive candidates who might fight for working folks.Laurie Penny: Politics Don't Do Young People
December 1, 2010"These kids can do the maths, they know that young people, poor people are clearly not the priority of this government anymore. Something else is," says Laurie Penny of the latest round of student protests in the UK. The protests may be leaderless, she notes, but they're anything but random--students have focused their ire on corporations such as TopShop, run by tax evaders who then turn around and advise the government where to cut.Laurie Penny, Joseph Dana, and the Federal Pay Freeze
November 30, 2010"These kids can do the maths, they know that young people, poor people are clearly not the priority of this government anymore. Something else is," says Laurie Penny of the latest round of student protests in the UK. The protests may be leaderless, she notes, but they're anything but random--students have focused their ire on corporations such as TopShop, run by tax evaders who then turn around and advise the government where to cut.Farai Chideya: Really Talking about Race
October 21, 2010It's nearly the homestretch for the 2010 midterm elections, and unsurprisingly, race remains a hot topic. From a new ad in Nevada urging Latinos not to vote to Sharron Angle's latest comments about Latino youth looking Asian, and ongoing concern that black voters will not turn out in numbers like they did in 2008, it's clear that no matter how much candidates deny it, race is this season's hot button.Farai Chideya, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Jane Hamsher & Nathan Newman
October 20, 2010It's nearly the homestretch for the 2010 midterm elections, and unsurprisingly, race remains a hot topic. From a new ad in Nevada urging Latinos not to vote to Sharron Angle's latest comments about Latino youth looking Asian, and ongoing concern that black voters will not turn out in numbers like they did in 2008, it's clear that no matter how much candidates deny it, race is this season's hot button.Billy Wimsatt: Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs
October 20, 2010Billy Wimsatt made a splash when he was 21 with the book Bomb the Suburbs--the "bomb" of the title meaning graffiti, not weaponry. Sixteen years later, he's back with a new book, and a new strategy, though with no less enthusiasm and fire for change. Instead, he says, it's time "to play the game in a more sophisticated way—to win."Micha Kurz, Billy Wimsatt, and Voting on CEO Pay
October 19, 2010Peace talks between Israel and Palestine are "a calming pill. Kind of a time game," according to Micha Kurz, co-director of Grassroots Jerusalem and a founder of Breaking the Silence, an organization of former IDF soldiers speaking out about their experiences in the Occupied Territories. While the talks stall, settlement building continues, and settlement building, Kurz notes, becomes a "fact" that makes the idea of a Palestinian state less viable.Greg Mitchell on Upton Sinclair and the Origins of Mass-Media Campaigning
October 12, 2010Greg Mitchell takes us back to the origins of media campaigning with Upton Sinclair's bid in California's 1934 gubernatorial race. If you thought the media frenzy, voter intimidation and character defamation that characterize today's elections is a hallmark of these modern times, think again. Mitchell is The Nation's Media Fix blogger and author of The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics.
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