andrew cuomo
Gay USA: Mar. 15-21, 2011
Oour guest is Nikolai Alekseev, Russia's leading gay activist, who will join us a little more than halfway through the show to talk about the challenge of working for LGBT rights in Russia and his fight for holding LGBT pride marches in Moscow among other issues. You can learn more about his work on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/GayRussia/186774548004688?v=wall#!/profile.php?id=612060271. Maryland's House of Delegates did not have the votes to pass a marriage equality bill, so it was pulled until next year. A bill is introduced in Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. A new poll finds that Americans oppose the plans of Republican Congress Members to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, an Act the Obama Administration says is unconstitutional. New York's Governor Cuomo meets to discuss the campaign for a marriage equality bill. A transwoman is murdered in Arkansas and in New York, an 18-year old straight teen is gaybashed to death. The last original member of the 1950s Mattachine Society dies at 81. New York City is giving money to anti-gay groups that coordinate St. Patrick's Day Parades. There will be a demonstration in New York on Thursday, March 17 from 11 AM - 1 PM by Irish Queers at the anti-gay St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets on the west side of the avenue. A big decision on protecting the rights of people with HIV in Europe. Can a gay writer for Vanity Fair call the gay kids on "Glee" "fags"? GLAAD does not think so. Ann is headed for Rome and the Amalfi Coast and the Isle of Capri in May and welcomes your suggestions on nice but reasonable places to stay and eat as well as things to do there other than the standard tourist things. She is not interested in nightlife suggestion. Please e-mail your ideas to AnnNorth@earthlink.net. We review productions of "That Championship Season" on Broadway, "The Merchant of Venice" with F. Murray Abraham off-Broadway, and "Broadway's Next Hit Musical" off-off-Broadway. Next week, Andy will review the all-male "Comedy of Errors" at BAM from the Propeller Company and CSC's new production of "Double Falsehood."
Email this pageGRITtv: The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed
The snow is mostly melted after a near-record storm immobilized much of New York for nearly four days last week. But before non-New Yorkers gloat -- beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of a crop of problems that are likely to be coming your way. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: January 3, 2011
President Obama needs to go after Republicans as aggressively as they go after him, notes Mike Papantonio, "not just for his presidency but for democracy." ; The new Congress gets sworn in this week, and Darrell Issa is already announcing his investigations, but Papantonio notes that Democrats still control the Senate and that they can still push back against Republican attacks.Papantonio joins us via Skype to talk about the coming year in politics: conciliation from Democrats, attacks from the Right, and maybe more revelations from WikiLeaks, who just revealed that the U.S. State department has been doing the bidding of corporations--ones like Boeing, who outsource jobs by the thousands while dictating U.S. policy.The price of freedom from an overly harsh sentence in Mississippi? Apparently, one kidney. That's the promise Mississsippi governor Haley Barbour extracted from Gladys Scott--that she would donate a kidney to her sister Jamie in order for both of them to have their sentences commuted. The sisters had served nearly 17 years in prison for an armed robbery worth $11, and a prolonged grassroots effort finally paid off in achieving their freedom--though it may have more to do with Barbour's attempt at making up for his recent approving comments about the White Citizens' Councils.Joining us to discuss are Anthony Papa, author of 15 to Life
and manager of media relations at the Drug Policy Alliance, and from Mississippi, Jaribu Hill, executive director of the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights.Finally, the snow is mostly melted here in New York City, but the chilling effect is being felt around the country as conservatives attack public employees. Laura discusses.
GRITtv: Fighting Wage Theft in New York
The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. His crime? Not paying his employees for overtime, and paying some of them a flat rate of $340 a week for over 60 hours of work.
Carolina Ferreyra was one of those employees, and when she found a flyer for the Retail Action Project, she helped to launch a protest that led to her boss's arrest. She joins us in studio with Phil Andrews of the Retail Action Project and Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, to talk about wage theft, the problems workers face across the country, and what Obama's administration is doing to fight them.
GRITtv: Mar. 2 2010
On February 24, three Google employees were convicted--with suspended jail sentences--of violating Italy's privacy statutes in relation to a video posted on YouTube, owned by the Web giant. Clay Shirky rejoins us at GRITtv along with Juan Carlos de Martin, founder and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Italy's Polytechnic University to discuss the case, the implications for Google and YouTube, and how the Web continues to change and shape our understanding of the world.
Continuing our coverage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we bring you more footage from the Cine Institute, and Victoria Marquez, a member of the Service Employees International Union, tells her story of struggling for fair treatment in the workplace and why the U.S. needs comprehensive immigration reform now.
The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. His crime? Not paying his employees for overtime, and paying some of them a flat rate of $340 a week for over 60 hours of work. Carolina Ferreyra was one of those employees, and when she found a flyer for the Retail Action Project, she helped to launch a protest that led to her boss's arrest. She joins us in studio with Phil Andrews of the Retail Action Project and Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, to talk about wage theft, the problems workers face across the country, and what Obama's administration is doing to fight them.
Gentrification is a problem all over the world, not just in the urban areas of the U.S. In this video from visionOntv, a group of activists in Barcelona, Spain fight back against the pressure on their neighborhood.
Finally, if Warren Buffett is afraid of bankers, why can't regular people get some protection?
