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GRITtv: Checkpoints and More
Nahr al-Bared ("Cold River") refugee camp in Lebanon is home to 20,000 displaced Palestinians, struggling to rebuild their home after its destruction in 2007. The camp has been around for some 60 years, and in this excerpt from "Checkpoints and More" by A Films, residents of the camp tell their stories.
Email this pageGRITtv: Mar. 15 2010
Welcome to GRITtv's new format! We're coming to you from our new studio in SoHo, shooting higher resolution video. We'll be bringing you 30 minutes of content 5 days a week from now on, featuring more of our friends from around the country, more field reporting, and some other new surprises as well. Hope you enjoy! Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, joins Laura in studio to talk about recent news. A spate of profiles of Timothy Geithner hit the news recently, from Vogue to the Atlantic and several places in between. We ask a couple of experts what's really going on with the economy--and if Geithner deserves any of that praise. Robert Johnson is the director of economic policy at the Roosevelt Institute and the former chief economist for the Senate Banking Committee. Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America. They both have some words for the Democrats on what happens if don't wise up. Nahr al-Bared ("Cold River") refugee camp in Lebanon is home to 20,000 displaced Palestinians, struggling to rebuild their home after its destruction in 2007. The camp has been around for some 60 years, and in this excerpt from "Checkpoints and More" by A Films, residents of the camp tell their stories. Finally, Laura reminds us that while some profiles of Geithner may be cheering the former New York Fed chair, he's also implicated in the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
GRITtv: Rapping Against Post-War Misery
MC Tamarrod is a rapper living in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon. The camp was destroyed in the war in 2007, and MC Tamarrod is among 30.000 displaced Palestinians. In this video from a-films, he tells his story and performs one of his rhymes.
GRITtv: Dec. 21, 2009
The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Is this going to be the year of the woman in cinema, or is it just hype?; MC Tamarrod is a rapper living in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon who joins us to talk about his life and offer a rhyme; Alan Grayson calls for sanity in Congress; getting pennies for standing next to priceless works of art and the F Word with Laura Flanders on the Senate passage of the health-care bill.
