Tonight on GRIT TV a panel discussion on making art under occupation with Juliano Mer Khamis, General Director of The Freedom Theater in Jenin, Dr. Mervat Ayiash, the Chairperson of the Freedom Theater, and Alisa Solomon, Director, Arts & Culture at Columbia’s School of Journalism. Whither the third Intifada and what is Arna Mer Khamis’s remarkable legacy? Find out here.

Then a roundtable on domestic workers, an often overlooked and exploited segment of the workforce. They are coming out of the shadows and organizing for a labor bill of rights. Marisa Franco, Senior Organizer with Domestic Workers United, Marilyn Alcindore, an elder caregiver and nanny who now serves on the steering committee of Domestic Workers United, Deirdre Schifeling, co-director of The Center for Working Families, and Dara Silverman, director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice explore the surprising and sometimes complicated alliances that domestic workers have forged in their fight to win basic rights.

And finally Live From Main Street. Your streets. Your stories. Last Sunday we were in Minneapolis for the first part of a five part, five state series. Guests included Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, former FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, the National Lawyer’s Guild’s Bruce Nestor, and Marlina Gonzalez of the Unconvention.
See it here on GRIT TV (available on Dish Network Channel 9415).