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Democracy Now!: Mon. March 28, 2011
Former Afghan member of parliament, Malalai Joya, joins us for her first broadcast interview since arriving in the United States on Friday after officials initially denied her application for a travel visa. Her visa was approved Thursday following a protest campaign that included letters from the American Civil Liberties Union and nine members of Congress. U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan fear increasing opposition after photographs of U.S. troops posing over dead Afghan civilians were published last week by German news magazine Der Spiegel and broadcast by Democracy Now!. Rolling Stone magazine has just published 18 additional images. NATO air strikes have also recently led to more than 15 civilian deaths in the past month. We get reaction from former Afghan member of parliament, Malalai Joya. As many as 500,000 protesters marched in London on Saturday to protest Britain’s deepest cuts to public spending since World War II. We broadcast a video report from the streets of London and speak to British journalist Johann Hari and Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio in New York. Scores of protesters have been killed in Syria during 10 days of protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. In an attempt to appease protesters, Assad’s administration has reportedly vowed to lift the emergency law, which for nearly 50 years has allowed the government to detain people without charge. "For more than 40 years, people have been politically suppressed,” says Bassam Haddad, the director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University. “That suppression was coupled more recently in the past 20 some years with neo-liberal-like economic policies that have created huge gaps between different segments of Syrian society.” Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
Email this pageGRITtv: US Uncut: Making Corporations Pay
This Saturday, protests are planned in the UK, the US, and Canada against corporate tax avoiders and government austerity cuts. The UK Uncut movement has been going strong, occupying retail outlets as diverse as Vodafone and TopShop, and its solidarity movement in the US is just getting started. Using street theater and organizing largely on the web, the direct action movements aim to make tax dodging a whole lot less profitable for big banks like Bank of America and corporations like Verizon and FedEx. Allison Kilkenny has been covering the US Uncut movement for The Nation, and she joins us along with J.A. Myerson, a "tax avoidance consultant", to discuss the new resistance to paying for corporate welfare.
GRITtv: March 22, 2011
"It seems that when you flip the switch too late you actually promote the revolutions in your country. What would've happened if Egypt hadn't flipped the switch? If people are home blogging their discontent they're a lot more controllable, a lot less dangerous," says Doug Rushkoff, author of Program or Be Programmed, of the role of the Internet in the recent revolutions. Doug joins us via Skype to discuss corporate control over our communications, the fight for Net Neutrality, the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, the attempts to defund NPR, and more. Bradley Manning, the accused leaker of many of the documents posted on the website WikiLeaks, remains in jail under increasingly harsh conditions. This weekend, protesters, including regular GRITtv guest Col. Ann Wright and Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, were arrested at Quantico Marine Corps base, rallying in support and demanding better treatment for Manning. This Saturday, protests are planned in the UK, the US, and Canada against corporate tax avoiders and government austerity cuts. The UK Uncut movement has been going strong, occupying retail outlets as diverse as Vodafone and TopShop, and its solidarity movement in the US is just getting started. Using street theater and organizing largely on the web, the direct action movements aim to make tax dodging a whole lot less profitable for big banks like Bank of America and corporations like Verizon and FedEx. Allison Kilkenny has been covering the US Uncut movement for The Nation, and she joins us along with J.A. Myerson, a "tax avoidance consultant", to discuss the new resistance to paying for corporate welfare. Finally, Republicans have declared war on Elizabeth Warren. But what will it take to get Warren some real power, enough to really put some fear into banksters and their allies in Congress? Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Jamie Kilstein & Allison Kilkenny: Democrats Missing Something
Democrats are backing down over freedom of religion, Social Security privatization, and pretty much anything else we can think of these days in the name of winning midterm elections. Funny, we thought we were voting for people who believed in something. Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein of Citizen Radio join guest host John Fugelsang to dissect the flip-flops, backtracking, and all-around spinelessness of all too many Democrats, and more of the ridiculousness from this week's news.
GRITtv: Who's Aiming For Social Security?
Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny discuss the bipartisan commission aiming at Social Security and talk about better ways to reduce the deficit.
GRITtv: Aug. 18 2010: Islamophobia and Spine-less Democrats
What's happening as the manufactured controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" continues, Frank Schaeffer notes, is nothing less than a new form of antisemitism--one directed this time at Muslims and people of Arab descent. Schaeffer, a former member of the religious right, notes that if comments like the ones being made at the Muslim community were being made about American Jews, there would be outrage, but Islamophobia is socially acceptable now. Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God and Patience with God, joins guest host John Fugelsang via Skype to discuss the conservative arguments against the Cordoba House, and just what is and is not "sacred." Democrats are backing down over freedom of religion, Social Security privatization, and pretty much anything else we can think of these days in the name of winning midterm elections. Funny, we thought we were voting for people who believed in something. Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein of Citizen Radio join guest host John Fugelsang to dissect the flip-flops, backtracking, and all-around spinelessness of all too many Democrats, and more of the ridiculousness from this week's news. Finally, John has a few thoughts about a media issue coming up--the endless discussion of John Lennon's murder and his killer.
GRITtv: Jay Smooth: The Hyde Amendment
Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights and several of our favorite bloggers and activists to bring you this video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Think about it: if they don't want their tax dollars spent on abortion, what don't YOU want your tax dollars spent on?
GRITtv: Jan. 25, 2010
Is allowing more Haitian adoptions good policy? We ask David M. Smolin, professor of law at Samford University, Dawn Davenport and Phil Bertelsen, himself an transracial adoptee and award-winning filmmaker, and the director of Outside Looking In, a documentary about transracial adopton. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights to bring you a video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Brave New Films repeats its call for a clear exit strategy in this latest clip from the Rethink Afghanistan series. Melissa Harris-Lacewell offers clarification -- and consolation -- on the latest Supreme Ct. decision. Green for All is holding a month-long multimedia competition to showcase the best video, song and visual art of the movement for an inclusive green economy. Submit your entry to The Dream Reborn story contest -- and send it our way!
GRITtv: Media Failures = Comedy Gold
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have not only been reliably funny for a while now, they've become one of the most important checks on the media system, calling out the failures of the mainstream media as it continues its race to the bottom. Comedians have long made careers sharply criticizing society's powerful, and the corporate media are certainly an entrenched elite. Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny are co-hosts of Citizen Radio, a cheerfully foulmouthed political-comedy radio program. Allison is also a blogger/journalist, and Jamie is also a stand-up comic. They join Laura in studio to pick over the media's failures and debate the proper place of comedy in the news.
GRITtv: Jan. 4, 2010
The triumphant stories about how Twitter was going to save Iran may have died down a little, but the resistance in Iran is growing and swelling. Professor Hamid Dabashi discusses the ongoing turmoil; Matthew Hoh, Congressman Eric Massa and Soviet journalists and analysts discuss lessons learned too late by occupying Afghanistan; Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny are co-hosts of Citizen Radio, where journalism and comedy intersect; a video from Eugene Jarecki and the Huffington Post on It's a Wonderful Life as an inspiration to move your money into a community bank.
