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GRITtv: Imagining Radical Change with David Harvey & Alexander Cockburn
The word "Change" has been used so much lately that it often seems almost meaningless. What's change really? Is it having Barack Obama in the White House, talking about withdrawing from Iraq, a stimulus bill that spends some federal dollars on infrastructure? David Harvey, author of "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," and Alexander Cockburn, author of "End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate," don't think small when it comes to change. They aren't afraid to think about significant, even radical changes to the social order we've grown so used to, whether it's requiring full employment, reimagining urban living or repudiating credit-card debt and abolishing Wall Street speculation. Cockburn and Harvey joined Laura for an event at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture & Politics, and we bring you part of that discussion today.
Email this pageGRITtv: Nov. 18, 2009
Since last fall's financial collapse, we've heard more honest discussion about capitalism's failings than in years. Yet real change is still hard to find. David Harvey and Alexander Cockburn don't think small when it comes to change, as you'll see here during a discussion with Laura for an event at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture & Politics. Antonino D'Ambrosio, author of "A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears," dispells some myths about the Man in Black and connect him to the folk-protest tradition. Plus, in the studio, a new cover of a Cash protest song.
GRITtv: The US Withdrawal: Rebranding the Occupation or Changing the Game?
The US media have reported on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraqi cities. But 130,000 troops remain in Iraq and many argue that the occupation will continue only under a different guise. Have things really changed? Or has the occupation simply been rebranded? Jeremy Scahill, best selling author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Patrick Cockburn, journalist and author most recently of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, and Kristele Younes, an Advocate at Refugees International on what the US withdrawal means. You can find more information on Iraq?s refugees at Iraqirefugeestories.org.
