GRITtv with Laura Flanders
GRITtv with Laura Flanders is a new, news discussion and take-action show, available in multiple formats, with interactivity, a real rel...Video Episodes:
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13:36:24 07/28/10
GRITtv: Maude Barlow: A Human Right to Water
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Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.Barlow is a longtime activist for water rights, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and a longtime fighter against globalization. She joins Laura in studio to explain how the water crisis happened, why it's getting worse, and why we must act now to ensure access to water before the resource wars get any worse.
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13:26:14 07/28/10
GRITtv: Stand Up New York: Fighting Fracking
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The story of the fight over hydraulic fracturing--hydrofracking or "fracking"--for natural gas in New York contains some familiar villains, it turns out. It was Dick Cheney's Halliburton that discovered the technique, and Cheney's pressure that got it approved by the EPA. And in case we needed to be reminded that it's no more safe than drilling for oil in the Gulf, our friends at Stand Up New York made this little video...
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13:21:16 07/28/10
GRITtv: Greg Palast: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
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Last week, Mike Papantonio told us that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. ; Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a few of his own.Palast has been investigating BP for years, and right now is working on The Amazon to Arctic Investigation (and could use your help). He's also got a bit of his own experience with Kenneth Feinberg, and he joins us in studio to lay out the history of cases like this, where the people hurt by corporate negligence end up getting doubly screwed when it comes time to get their benefits.
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22:29:36 07/27/10
GRITtv: July 27, 2010
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Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.Barlow is a longtime activist for water rights, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and a longtime fighter against globalization. She joins Laura in studio to explain how the water crisis happened, why it's getting worse, and why we must act now to ensure access to water before the resource wars get any worse.Speaking of water, the story of the fight over hydraulic fracturing--hydrofracking or "fracking"--for natural gas in New York contains some familiar villains, it turns out. It was Dick Cheney's Halliburton that discovered the technique, and Cheney's pressure that got it approved by the EPA.Last week, Mike Papantonio told us that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. ; Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a few of his own.Palast has been investigating BP for years, and right now is working on The Amazon to Arctic Investigation (and could use your help). He's also got a bit of his own experience with Kenneth Feinberg, and he joins us in studio to lay out the history of cases like this, where the people hurt by corporate negligence end up getting doubly screwed when it comes time to get their benefits. Finally, this week was the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Laura has some personal memories of how it could've helped her own life to have a law like this around.
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21:38:43 07/27/10
GRITtv The F Word Americans With Disabilities Did Impossible
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Events were held across the country Monday to mark the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. At a ceremony at the White House, disability rights activists made the point that passing the law was only the start. "Civil rights laws do not self-enforce, " said Marca Bristo, "They only come to life when enlightened citizens...push the envelope." Distributed by Tubemogul.
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01:38:21 07/27/10
GRITtv: Rethink Afghanistan: Pakistan
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With the release of the WikiLeaks "War Logs," more focus has been brought to the war in Afghanistan. But will anything change? ; Our friends at Brave New Films have been following the war there for years, urging Americans to learn more about the situation and what's being done in our names and with our tax dollars.The war in Afghanistan has been spilling over into Pakistan practically since the beginning, and we bring you this selection from Brave New Films to look into this little-reported aspect of the conflict.
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01:18:09 07/27/10
GRITtv: Lynn Harris & Dr. Elizabeth Miller: Reproductive Coercion
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Bristol Palin's infamous pregnancy has gone from being an example of conservative values hypocrisy to a reality TV show. Though we hear about many women who aren't educated on contraception or mysteriously "forget" to take their birth control, we rarely hear the other side: men who hoard birth control to deliberately impregnate their sexual partners.Typically, these men do not want to start a loving, young nuclear family. Instead, they want to assert their control from "leaving behind a legacy" to making sure they have as many "baby mamas" as possible to assert status within gangs. If a woman suggests birth control, she is subject to more traditional forms of domestic rage and violence.Reproductive coercion is not a new or uncommon form of abuse, it is an underreported one. Author and Nation contributor Lynn Harris and UC Davis professor, researcher, and clinician Elizabeth Miller join us to discuss how to identify and combat this form of abuse.
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23:11:41 07/26/10
GRITtv: July 26, 2010
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New documents released by the site WikiLeaks provide an increasingly clear--and chilling--picture of the war in Afghanistan. ; Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that the documents, released simultaneously by The Guardian, the New York Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel, as well as in full by WikiLeaks, are an example of "asymmetrical media," allowing the public to access the raw documents as well as the parts filtered by the traditional press.In addition to the WikiLeaks revelations, Katrina joins us in studio for The Nation on GRITtv to discuss the Netroots Nation conference, JournoList and Andrew Breitbart, Elizabeth Warren, tax cuts, and new ways to cut down on Wall Street's power.With the release of the WikiLeaks "War Logs," more focus has been brought to the war in Afghanistan. But will anything change?
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21:49:07 07/26/10
GRITtv: Katrina vanden Heuvel: WikiLeaks, JournoList & Media
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New documents released by the site WikiLeaks provide an increasingly clear--and chilling--picture of the war in Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that the documents, released simultaneously by The Guardian, the New York Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel, as well as in full by WikiLeaks, are an example of "asymmetrical media," allowing the public to access the raw documents as well as the parts filtered by the traditional press. In addition to the WikiLeaks revelations, Katrina joins us in studio for The Nation on GRITtv to discuss the Netroots Nation conference, JournoList and Andrew Breitbart, Elizabeth Warren, tax cuts, and new ways to cut down on Wall Street's power. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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21:59:32 07/23/10
GRITtv: Got Docs: The Heretics
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Our Got Docs? this week is "The Heretics" created by Joan Braderman of Women Make Movies. Braderman followed the now geographically dispersed New York feminist art collective from Venice, Italy to New Mexico, asking them what it was like to come together and challenge gender and power structures within the art world and how it shaped them as women and artists.
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21:56:45 07/23/10
GRITtv: Tamra Davis: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
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In the 80s, before she directed Hollywood comedies like Half Baked and Billy Madison, Tamra Davis shot hours of footage of her friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The young artist went on to international stardom before dying of a heroin overdose at age 27, and Davis went on to Hollywood.Years later, she has revisited that footage and put together a documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child about Basquiat, the world he lived in, and, she says, "how we treat our celebrities." Basquiat, of course, achieved stratospheric fame, and his life and tragic death, Davis notes, contain lessons for artists and celebrities today. She joins us in studio to discuss.
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21:32:01 07/23/10
GRITtv: July 23, 2010
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In the 80s, before she directed Hollywood comedies like Half Baked and Billy Madison, Tamra Davis shot hours of footage of her friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. ; The young artist went on to international stardom before dying of a heroin overdose at age 27, and Davis went on to Hollywood.
Years later, she has revisited that footage and put together a documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child about Basquiat, the world he lived in, and, she says, "how we treat our celebrities." Basquiat, of course, achieved stratospheric fame, and his life and tragic death, Davis notes, contain lessons for artists and celebrities today. She joins us in studio to discuss.
Our Got Docs? this week is "The Heretics" created by Joan Braderman of Women Make Movies. Braderman followed the now geographically dispersed New York feminist art collective from Venice, Italy to New Mexico, asking them what it was like to come together and challenge gender and power structures within the art world and how it shaped them as women and artists.
Lastly, Danny Schechter comments on how small steps on economic recovery are not enough to remedy an economic meltdown.
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20:19:28 07/23/10
GRITtv: Danny Schechter: Small Steps on Economy Not Enough
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When the extension of unemployment benefits squeaked through the Senate, there was a sigh of relief among those in need, and cheers from Democrats who have not been able to move the unemployment needle or restore confidence in the economy. Putting money in the hands of wannabe consumers will create some bounce, but it doesn’t deal with the deep structural and systemic problems that worry economists and governments worldwide. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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21:49:56 07/22/10
GRITtv: Mike Papantonio: Truth About BP Damage Fund
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"There is no $20 billion in any fund anywhere in the world," says Mike Papantonio of the supposed BP fund to compensate victims of the oil disaster in the Gulf. ; He notes that while BP says everything is OK, it is also meeting with bankruptcy lawyers--and in bankruptcy court, they won't owe anyone anything at all.Papantonio is representing Gulf residents in their lawsuit against the oil giant, and he joins us via Skype from the Gulf Coast to fill us in on the latest developments--and the appointment of Kenneth Feinberg to administer the relief money to Gulf residents. Will they get their fair share from the destruction of their homes and livelihoods?
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21:45:51 07/22/10
GRITtv: July 22, 2010
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GRITtv is off to Netroots Nation in Las Vegas, but before we headed out, we spoke to Sam Seder, who beat us there by a day or so. Former Air America host Seder will be on a panel with Laura and others on the demise of Air America, and we'll be conducting interviews all weekend.As the progressive netroots gather, of course, the big story this week was a falsified video broken by a right-wing blog, and Seder explained why an equivalent story would never happen on the left. The problem isn't the medium, blogs and bloggers, Seder notes, it's a lack of accountability for right-wing "journalists.""There is no $20 billion in any fund anywhere in the world," says Mike Papantonio of the supposed BP fund to compensate victims of the oil disaster in the Gulf. He notes that while BP says everything is OK, it is also meeting with bankruptcy lawyers--and in bankruptcy court, they won't owe anyone anything at all.Papantonio is representing Gulf residents in their lawsuit against the oil giant, and he joins us via Skype from the Gulf Coast to fill us in on the latest developments--and the appointment of Kenneth Feinberg to administer the relief money to Gulf residents. Will they get their fair share from the destruction of their homes and livelihoods?Finally, Shirley Sherrod may have an apology and a new job offer, but we're still waiting and hoping for that national conversation on race to happen. Laura has some thoughts.
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21:20:11 07/22/10
GRITtv: Sam Seder: Netroots Nation
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GRITtv is off to Netroots Nation in Las Vegas, but before we headed out, we spoke to Sam Seder, who beat us there by a day or so. Former Air America host Seder will be on a panel with Laura and others on the demise of Air America, and we'll be conducting interviews all weekend. As the progressive netroots gather, of course, the big story this week was a falsified video broken by a right-wing blog, and Seder explained why an equivalent story would never happen on the left. The problem isn't the medium, blogs and bloggers, Seder notes, it's a lack of accountability for right-wing "journalists." Distributed by Tubemogul.
07/16/10