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GRITtv: March 4, 2011
"Now we have the opportunity to open our books and write our history. Now we're baking the bread and we're going to make them eat it," says Maria Isa, hip-hop artist and activist. Maria and fellow Puerto Rican artist Lah Tere were in Puerto Rico when protests began last year--protests that have seen students and workers in the streets over budget cuts and tuition hikes, seen peaceful demonstrators teargassed by police. Protests as dramatic as anything in the UK, Egypt, Tunisia, or Wisconsin--yet almost never seen on US news despite taking place in the US. Maria and Lah Tere join Laura in studio for a conversation about Puerto Rico's uprising, the role of artists and musicians in keeping action alive, and ways to get involved right here in New York. Have you seen much news from Greece lately? As Brandon Jourdan reports, 300 migrants there, mostly from North Africa, are on hunger strike for their right to remain in the country. As of press time they were on their 37th day and at least 59 of them have been hospitalized --they have pledged to die for their cause if that's what it takes. Is water a human right? That's the question at the center of the new documentary Water On The Table, featuring former GRITtv guest Maude Barlow. Maude has devoted her life to fighting corporate interests to keep our water clean and available for everyone--future generations as well as the present one. Filmmaker Liz Marshall set out to bring an epic vision of Canada's water and the battle over it to the screen, and you can find out more about Maude (and watch her interview with Laura) and the movie through the links here. Seth Freed Wessler of the Applied Research Center and ColorLines has been in Arizona recently, investigating the spread of that state's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, around the country. He shares some of his findings. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: Seth Freed Wessler: Anti-Immigrant Laws Spread
Last week, an Arizona State Senate committee approved a set of bills that would bar undocumented immigrants from public schools and hospitals and revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. I spent most of February in Arizona, where I talked with communities about the daily struggle against a growing climate of fear as families are separated by deportation, undocumented immigrants are trapped with abusive partners because abusers threaten to call ICE and children are left alone when their parents disappear after traffic stops. Distributed by Tubemogul.
"Democracy Now!": Apr 5 2010
“Violence is the product of the polarized nature of our society,” says South African scholar Adam Habib on the killing of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche; a triple suicide bombing targets foreign embassies in Iraq; and US non-citizen war vets face deportation despite military promises of citizenship. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: Torn Apart: Deportation Destroys Families
From ColorLines, the national magazine on race and politics, we have a story of the unintended consequences of deportation. The U.S. citizen children of immigrant parents are often left stranded when those parents are deported, often for misdemeanor offenses. A 1996 law made deportation mandatory for those convicted of any number of offenses--after they've already served their terms. "Double punishment" is bad enough, but what about the children who are left without their primary means of support?
GRITtv: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
GRITtv: Aarti Shahani on Janet Napolitano's Law and Order Extremism
Aarti Shahani, founder of Families for Freedom, discusses a recent decision by the Office of Homeland Security and Janet Napolitano to recruit 11 additional localities into the federal program, known as ICE, that turns traffic cops and jail guards into deportation agents. Shahani says that Napolitano is in fact a law and order extremist and that the ruling wasn't a total surprise. But what does it mean for the Obama administration's immigration policy?
