Three weeks ago, we sat down with two workers and an organizer at Republic Windows and Doors workers and organizers who staged a sit down strike in December. Now it sounds like the workers may have brought their closed factory back to life.

Young organizers take action on climate change.

Can progressive blogs beat the Party elite? Well, in Illinois, where a crowded field is vying for Rahm Emanuel's vacant seat, labor lawyer and author Tom Geoghegan has drawn the attention of progressive blogs from Blue America and Progressive Democrats for America to The Nation and Blogpac.

One of the great casualties of the war in Iraq was the credibility of the mainstream media, whatever credibility it had left. The vacuum has been filled by independent reporters, the unembedded. Today on GRITtv we speak to three reporters and video journalists who have been on the front lines in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza--Rick Rowley, Kouross Esmaeli, and Ana Nogueira.

Writing on the Women'sENews site, Iranian commentator Soheila Vahdati has this to say about the media treatment of a Buffalo businessman's beheading of his wife: "The killing of a woman by her husband is hardly news. Sadly it is the ugly and familiar face of domestic violence," she writes. "That is, unless the man is a proud prominent Muslim who made countering Muslim stereotypes his business.'"

Joel Kovel, a long-time professor at Bard College and the author of Overcoming Zionism was recently terminated from his post as a part-time professor after 21 years of teaching. Kovel says that the University and its president, Leon Botstein, have fired him because of his views on Zionism and his outspoken criticism of the state of Israel.

An interview with filmmaker Josh Fox, the founder and Artistic Director of International WOW Company. In his new film, Memorial Day, Fox explores the disturbing connections between American culture, in its Girls Gone Wild manifestation, and the torture and abuse revealed at Abu Ghraib.

One of the great casualties of the war in Iraq was the credibility of the mainstream media, whatever credibility it had left. The vacuum has been filled by independent reporters, the unembedded. Today on GRITtv we speak to three reporters and video journalists who have been on the front lines in Iraq and Lebanon.

Last week student activists at NYU occupied the Kimmel Center for more than 40 hours demanding, in part, that the University send aid to help rebuild the University of Gaza and increase the number of scholarships for Palestinian students.

The Obama administration—currently reviewing the status of enemy combatants held at Guantanamo--has yet to determine whether it will do away with preventive detention for terrorist suspects.