As Obama and McCain are busy courting the female vote, GRITtv asks what a feminist campaign would really look like. With Rebecca Traister, staff writer at Salon, Mia Herndon, Director of Programs at Third Wave, and Lisa Witter, COO of Fenton Communications and co-author of The She Spot.
Playwright and actor Wally Shawn discusses the perverse pleasure of power and the subject of a recent speech he gave at the Academy of Arts and Letters: The Unobtrusives. Shawn touches on everything from his own childhood, traveling to India at the age of 21, putting pressure on Barack Obama, and why the Democratic Party is part of the imperial system.
Finally, the American News Project spends a week with Brian Duss as he takes the Food Stamp Challenge, living off a dollar per meal for seven days. Find out how he fares. And Amiri Baraka and Leonard Cohen in a clip from the “United States of Poetry,” a Washington Square film directed by Mark Pellington and Produced by Joshua Blum and the Bowery Poetry Club’s Bob Holman.
All that and more on GRITtv.
Love the still showing in the video. Very nice.
By Ian Welsh on July 1st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
We’re pretty darn cool at GRITtv but who can top Leonard Cohen?
By Laura Flanders on July 1st, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Still Digging for the Lake:>)
By nahant on July 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Best way to do food challenges is to make stews/stir fries/pasta/potato dishes/soups, in general.
Didn’t learn that from doing food challenges. Learned that from living on less than $20/week, because that’s all I had.
By Ian Welsh on July 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’ But only slightly less well known is this: ‘Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!’ Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha h-…” *thud*
By Albatross on July 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
fdl late nite is up
By egregious on July 1st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Great show. The Wallace Shawn line at the end about the Democratic party is of course, vintage Shawn, not to mention right on the money.
Since I can’t move to NYC, I’ll just have to hope you do a show out of DC at some point.
By AltHippo on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
Darned cool show. Leonard or no.
Safe, affordable, funded, indeed, Rebecca.
We did used to fight for child care and health
care and comparable worth and and and. Abortion
still gets its own fight in my mind, its a different
legal structure that can’t be overcome by providing
free childcare. But if everybody is hip to working
for childcare and health care and comparable worth
and accessible higher ed plans again, fantastic.
Let’s go. But don’t be asking for Daschle for DHHS
Secretary and lordy please not the faith based scam
again.
By Nettle on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 am
The opposite of a system based on “superiority” (hierarchy) is a system based on equality or utopia. (a classless society) You might ask yourself why you believe utopia is impossible.
By ekunin on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 am