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Putting Meaning Back into the Phrase: "The Audacity of Hope:" US Boat to Gaza
July 2, 2011
GRITtv has friends on the Audacity of Hope ship bound for Gaza. They are taking on the wrath of the US and Israel to take letters to the blockaded people of Gaza.
Fadi Quran: Palestine is Part of the Arab Spring
June 3, 2011
On Sunday, June 5, Palestinians in the occupied territories and neighboring countries took part in peaceful protests to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1967 War.
Heather McGhee, Diana Henriques, and Tom Morello
May 5, 2011
"Saying when the economy is at its weakest we're going to put into law that we can't spend more to pick ourselves up...that's a depression-maker," says Heather McGhee of Demos. But despite warnings from economists from all over, the government in Washington, Democrats and Republicans both, remain obsessed with the deficit.
The F Word: Tony Kushner Denied Honors Over Palestine
May 5, 2011
This week, the news hit that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, perhaps best known for his Angels in America, was being blocked from receiving an honorary degree from the City University of New York because of his views on Israel.
Omar Barghouti & Sarah Schulman: Equal Rights for All in Palestine
April 12, 2011
“People have rights, when we say we want to end Israel's multitiered system of oppression...we must immediately say people have equal rights in every form," says Omar Barghouti, author of the new book Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. And author, activist and professor Sarah Schulman has been involved with the Palestinian queer movement, emphasizing that their struggle is deeply tied to the struggle to end the occupation.
Remi Kanazi: The Do's and Don'ts of Palestine
April 12, 2011
Poet Remi Kanazi shares some of the instructions given to activists for Palestinian causes.
Rep. Cory Mason, Sarah Schulman & Omar Barghouti, and CEO Pay
April 11, 2011
"If people don't have trust and confidence in their elections, it's really hard to have confidence in the democracy writ large," says Wisconsin State Representative Cory Mason, noting the "gross incompetence or malice" involved in the sudden appearance, a day and a half after the polls closed, of 7500 votes for the conservative candidate in his state's Supreme Court race.
Jen Marlowe & Sami Al Jundi: The Hour of Sunlight
April 5, 2011
As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King and his legacy of nonviolent resistance, we also remember former GRITtv guest, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Arab-Israeli actor, director and teacher who was gunned down in Jenin, the West Bank town where he ran the Freedom Theater of Jenin. In an increasingly violent climate, how do we sustain a message of nonviolence?
Jesse Jackson, The Hour of Sunlight, and Manning Marable
April 4, 2011
April 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in Memphis to support public sanitation workers, organizing with AFSCME. Today, public workers are under attack once again, but around the country workers and their allies are marching and rallying both to remember Dr. King's legacy and renew their commitment to his struggle.
James Carroll: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
March 22, 2011
"The notion that destruction is the way to salvation is like a Gulf Stream current running underneath the surface of Western civilization," says James Carroll, author most recently of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Carroll, a former Catholic priest, looks at the way the city of Jerusalem has been central to the Western imagination, conflict, and resolution to that conflict, and notes that he still has hope that we can find away around the violence that has been so central to our lives for millennia.

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