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Showing videos filed under: activism
Maude Barlow: Running out of Water
July 28, 2010Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.Maude Barlow, Greg Palast, and Americans with Disabilities
July 27, 2010Despite what you learned in science class in school, Maude Barlow says, it is in fact possible for the Earth to be running out of water. Pollution and population are on the rise, and corporations encroach on the water rights of people around the world, fencing off and bottling up a natural resource that should be available to all.Walter Mosley: Gesturing Towards Redemption
June 29, 2010“Redemption is looking at ourselves, asking what we can do better instead of blaming our leaders,” says Walter Mosely, an author and columnist for the Nation Magazine. “We can’t look to corporate media for our answers,” he continues, “we have to look to ourselves.”Dean Baker, Walter Mosley, the G20, and Hikers in Iran
June 28, 2010What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates business. It seems that the government know how to do things like keep the unemployment rate down, but the talk at the G20 Summit and the results here at the United States is doing otherwise.ColorLines: Change at the US Social Forum
June 26, 2010The US Social Forum is still ongoing this week in Detroit, and activists young and old from across the country have gathered, each bringing his or her own causes to the mix. Our friends at ColorLines put together this segment, interviewing attendees about why they're in Detroit--and what they hope to accomplish.Oliver Stone & Tariq Ali, the US Social Forum, and Samhita Mukhopadhyay
June 25, 2010Latin America has seen rapid changes over recent years, most significantly with the rise of left-leaning leaders who are willing to fight massive corporations and even stand up to the massive presence of the US in their countries. Director Oliver Stone decided to go to Venezuela to meet Chavez for himself, but when he got there, Chavez pointed out that the story was much bigger than just him.Don Rojas: Making a New Media at the Social Forum
June 24, 2010The U.S. Social Forum kicked off this week in Detroit, with over 20,000 attendees from around the country determined to create solutions for the many problems the country faces. One of the ongoing struggles that fans of GRITtv will understand is the fight to create a thriving, independent media without corporate dollars--one that puts the concerns of real people ahead of profits.Don Rojas, Prison Reform, and Obama v. McChrystal
June 24, 2010The U.S. Social Forum kicked off this week in Detroit, with over 20,000 attendees from around the country determined to create solutions for the many problems the country faces. One of the ongoing struggles that fans of GRITtv will understand is the fight to create a thriving, independent media without corporate dollars--one that puts the concerns of real people ahead of profits.Arun Gupta: Who's the Party of No?
May 26, 2010It's become common to hear that the Republicans are just "the party of No," with no ideas beyond obstructing the Democratic agenda. But Arun Gupta of the Indypendent has a new piece out at Truthout.org where he questions that view.Arun Gupta, Barry Eisler, and Deepwater Disaster Blues
May 25, 2010It's become common to hear that the Republicans are just "the party of No," with no ideas beyond obstructing the Democratic agenda. But Arun Gupta of the Indypendent has a new piece out at Truthout.org where he questions that view.