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GRITtv: Sarah Posner: Civil Rights For Fetuses at CPAC
At last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, the tea party ruled. "Saving freedom" was the theme of the conference, and the tea party mojo -- screeds against imagined socialist policies and the supposed tyranny of liberalism -- effortlessly overran old school small government conservatism to solidify the tea party's position as the movement's reigning force. ... But there is one piece of the old conservative coalition that is still trying to find its way in the tea party upheaval: the anti-abortion movement ... The tea party movement claims to want complete freedom from government intervention. To hitch their wagon to the tea party express, anti-abortion activists are claiming that it?s fetuses, not women, who deserve that freedom. Listen to Sarah Posner's full comment.
Email this pageGRITtv: February 22, 2010
Seth Wessler joins us, along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Wanda Fossett with Community Voices Heard, and Carmen Cordero, welfare rights activist with the Hartford-based group Vecinos Unidos. They discuss food stamps, poverty, and why this might be the best opportunity we have to rebuild the social safety net. Dean Baker of the Center for Economic And Policy Research, Beat the Press, and author of a new book, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, has some words for Democrats and Republicans alike who want to focus on "fiscal responsibility" while millions of Americans still struggle for jobs: they're heading "180 degrees the wrong way." From our friends at Tactical Technology Collective, this second video in the series shows how ordinary citizens from around the world used basic video technology to record events and corrupt actions and effect change. Imran Malik has just returned from a trip to Haiti providing medical aid--he went to medical school in Pakistan and got his first experience with emergency relief during the earthquake there in 2005. He also plays drums in Pakistani-American punk band The Kominas, who were featured in Taqwacore, a documentary on Muslim punk bands. He joins Laura in studio to talk about punk rock, Haiti, Muslim identity, and the problems with the U.S. health care system.
