GRITtv » christiane amanpour http://grittv.org Cultivating a Better Conversation Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:17:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nawal El Saadawi: Keeping the Momentum in Egypt http://grittv.org/2011/03/08/nawal-el-saadawi-keeping-the-momentum-in-egypt/ http://grittv.org/2011/03/08/nawal-el-saadawi-keeping-the-momentum-in-egypt/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:00:46 +0000 admin http://grittv.org/?p=13753 "The working class and poor people are coming out, the middle and upper classes don't like that, they want to stop the revolution of the poor people. They accept the revolution of the middle class," says Nawal El Saadawi, pioneering Egyptian feminist thinker, author and professor. Meanwhile, she notes that the same old factors are moving to make sure that the revolution in Egypt doesn't rock the boat too much.

Dr. Saadawi appeared on This Week with Christiane Amanpour this weekend, but she joins Laura in the GRITtv studio to tell us what she said that ABC wouldn't air.

]]> http://grittv.org/2011/03/08/nawal-el-saadawi-keeping-the-momentum-in-egypt/feed/ 0 Dave Lindorff, Nawal El Saadawi, and Michael Moore in Madison http://grittv.org/2011/03/07/dave-lindorff-nawal-el-saadawi-and-michael-moore-in-madison/ http://grittv.org/2011/03/07/dave-lindorff-nawal-el-saadawi-and-michael-moore-in-madison/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:00:55 +0000 admin http://grittv.org/?p=13772

"The mystery of American Raymond A. Davis, currently imprisoned in the custody of local police in Lahore, Pakistan and charged with the Jan. 27 murder of two young men, whom he allegedly shot eight times with pinpoint accuracy through his car windshield, is growing increasingly murky."

So wrote Dave Lindorff, who has been following the story of Davis's arrest and the subsequent controversy for CounterPunch. Is Davis a CIA agent? A security contractor? A diplomat? What's the deal with the numbers in his cell phone for some shady characters? Dave joins us via Skype to fill us in on the latest.

"The working class and poor people are coming out, the middle and upper classes don't like that, they want to stop the revolution of the poor people. They accept the revolution of the middle class," says Nawal El Saadawi, pioneering Egyptian feminist thinker, author and professor. Meanwhile, she notes that the same old factors are moving to make sure that the revolution in Egypt doesn't rock the boat too much.

Dr. Saadawi appeared on This Week with Christiane Amanpour this weekend, but she joins Laura in the GRITtv studio to tell us what she said that ABC wouldn't air.

Last week Michael Moore appeared on our show and talked about the economy as he sees it--and Fox News called in billionaire Donald Trump to comment. Fair and balanced -- a billionaire to comment on a critique of this Country's skewed accumulation of wealth?  Well, Michael Moore had the last word on Saturday in front of the Wisconsin state capitol.

]]> http://grittv.org/2011/03/07/dave-lindorff-nawal-el-saadawi-and-michael-moore-in-madison/feed/ 0 Jane Spencer: Women in the World http://grittv.org/2010/03/17/jane-spencer-women-in-the-world/ http://grittv.org/2010/03/17/jane-spencer-women-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.grittv.org/?p=5353 This past weekend, the Daily Beast, Tina Brown's news and pop culture website, hosted a conference attended by some big names. The Women in the World conference played host to Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Valerie Jarrett, and activists from all over the world, as well as director Julie Taymor and actresses including the legendary Meryl Streep.

So why wasn't this bigger news? Is the media STILL sexist?  Jane Spencer, managing editor of the Daily Beast, joins us to discuss.

]]> http://grittv.org/2010/03/17/jane-spencer-women-in-the-world/feed/ 1 Women in the World, Frances Moore Lappé, and Homelessness http://grittv.org/2010/03/16/women-in-the-world-frances-moore-lappe-and-homelessness/ http://grittv.org/2010/03/16/women-in-the-world-frances-moore-lappe-and-homelessness/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:00:19 +0000 admin http://www.grittv.org/?p=5370 This past weekend, the Daily Beast, Tina Brown's news and pop culture website, hosted a conference attended by some big names. The Women in the World conference played host to Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Valerie Jarrett, and activists from all over the world, as well as director Julie Taymor and actresses including the legendary Meryl Streep.

So why wasn't this bigger news? Is the media STILL sexist?  Jane Spencer, managing editor of the Daily Beast, joins us to discuss.

As part of our new format here at GRITtv, we plan to bring you more field reports. To kick that off, our own Sam Alcoff went to Lakewood, New Jersey, between New York and Philadelphia, to visit a homeless encampment in the woods.

Last year, the National Alliance to End Homelessness warned that one and a half million people would be added to the nation's already sizable homeless population by the end of 2010. These are just a few of their stories.

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of the revolutionary book Diet for a Small Planet, the co-founder of three national organizations focused on democracy, hunger, poverty and environmental issues, and a frequent Twitterer, too.

Her newest book, Getting a Grip 2, came out of a realization, she says, that we already know what the solutions to our problems are. So why don't we already have them under control? She joins Laura in studio to discuss.

]]> http://grittv.org/2010/03/16/women-in-the-world-frances-moore-lappe-and-homelessness/feed/ 1