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• The Laura Flanders Show...coming soon!

  February 19, 2012

  After three years in daily production, GRITtv is transforming into the Laura Flanders Show, for distribution online and on public TV later this year.

• How The 1% Exploits America

  February 16, 2012

  Even in an Occupy world, most Americans don’t know exactly how the 1% does what it does. The money media hasn’t explained it, and the 1% likes things that way. That’s why Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation created a new video series.

• SUPPORT YOUR MEDIA DAY

  February 13, 2012

  Show the power of all-for-one, one-for-all media during this 24 hour fundraiser -- and help bring the Laura Flanders Show one step closer.

  • Flanders
  • fundraiser
  • grittv
  • independent media
  • media consortium
  • the Laura Flanders Show

• Nobel Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee on Sex, War & Invisible Heroes

  December 31, 2011

  2011 Nobel Paace-Prize winner, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia talks to Laura Flanders of GRITtv about sex as an organizing tool, the prospects for women in Eqypt and where NGOs - and the US - go wrong when it comes to making peace after war.

  • Egypt
  • Flanders
  • Gbowee
  • liberia
  • NGOs
  • nobel peace prize
  • us

• Singing the Recall Carol in Wisconsin

  December 19, 2011

  Solidarity singers faced down a new set of state policies intended to regulate and put a price on assembly and free speech at the Wisconsin state capitol, Monday.

• What a Difference an Occupation Makes

  December 11, 2011

  Community groups worked to combat foreclosures for years before Occupy Wall St came along. Five hundred helpers makes a "world of difference" says anti-homelessness activist and GRITtv regular Rob Robinson.

  • east new york
  • eviction
  • Flanders
  • foreclosure
  • grittv
  • homelessness
  • occupy wall st
  • OWS
  • urban politics

• The Maldives Face Rising Waters and Despondancy at Durban Climate Conference

  December 2, 2011

  The lowest country on the planet the Maldives Islands face possible extinction caused by rising sea levels. The Vice President of the Republic talks to Laura Flanders about why action on climate change can't wait.

  • Climate Change
  • COP17
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Durban
  • Flanders
  • Maldives
  • mary robinson
  • Occupy COP17
  • Waheed Hassan

• Occupy the Church

  November 15, 2011

  Just hours after the forced eviction of the Occupy Wall St site at Zuccotti Park in New York, local faith leaders issued a call for places of faith everywhere to open their doors to the Occupy movement. Rev. Michael Ellick of the historic Judson Memorial Church talked to Laura Flanders of GRITtv.

  • church
  • faith
  • judson
  • occupy
  • occupywallstreet
  • OWS
  • zuccotti

• Anita Hill 20 Years Later

  October 18, 2011

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  • anita hill
  • clarence thomas
  • DSK
  • laura flanders
  • sexual harassment

• From Public Art to OWS: Living As Form. Flanders at the Creative Time Summit.

  October 17, 2011

  Just days after the start of OWS, Flanders delivered this keynote presentation on public space and public protest, to the Creative Time Summit in New York.