Activist and author Herb Boyd recently went down to Haiti after the earthquake to get a sense of what is it like on the ground. Here is Haiti's "Cri de coeur" or "Cry From The Heart." Thanks to Free Speech TV for the video.

Sierra Crane-Murdoch co-founded Power Past Coal and helped to create 300 actions against coal power in the first 100 days of President Obama's administration. For her work, she was honored with the Brower Youth Award from Earth Island Institute.

Many music clubs and performance venues are 21 and over, shutting young people out of creating and performing as well as enjoying the community created by music. The All Ages Movement aims to create a network of all-ages spaces for kids around the country to be able to perform and experience live music, and they could use your help to win a $50,000 grant. You can vote for them here.

From our friends at Tactical Technology Collective, this video explains how activists around the world can use video and new media to organize people in new and exciting ways.

A new bill is making its way through the New York state legislature that would give minors the ability to consent to vaccinations for sexually transmitted infections, like Gardasil, the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. But parents are unhappy with the bill because it would allow children as young as nine to receive the immunization.

Kathleen Hanna came into a music scene in the 90s that was angry, violent, and full of men. She and her bandmates in Bikini Kill, along with the rest of the riot grrrl movement, pushed back against that culture and helped usher in a new "wave" of feminism.

After our terrifying experience with a manhole explosion and fire at the office last Thursday, the pressing need for infrastructure investment was brought home to us here at GRITtv in a very real way. Years of budget cuts and tax cuts have led to public safety hazards around the country, and the stimulus bill isn't enough to fix all the electrical, structural, and other problems.

Even though, Jay Smooth notes, John Mayer's "White privilege is a wonderland," he swears he's not going to talk about Mayer's offensive comments in a recent interview. Why? Because the issues about race that matter aren't one pop star's big mouth: they're structural, systemic, and institutional.

This video from our friends at the Vancouver Media Co-Op explains why activists from around the world are organizing against the "Olympics industry," calling it out for colonialist practices, misuse of indigenous land, and overspending public money on the event--and policing--while cutting back on much-needed public spending.

While health care reform remains stalled in Congress, Brave New Films continues the fight. In this video, they take a look at the way Anthem Blue Cross's profits and premiums suspiciously seem to rise in tandem, while people who pay for its insurance continue to be denied coverage.