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GRITtv: Compromise On Women's Backs Again
Jill Filipovic, Frances Kissling, Diane Archer and Eesha Pandit talk about strategies for responding to the Stupak-Pitts amendment, and what activists, feminists, and allies can do to make Democrats understand that women are not bargaining chips.
Email this pageGRITtv: Nov. 10, 2009
Jill Filipovic, Frances Kissling, Diane Archer and Eesha Pandit talk about strategies for responding to Stupak, and what activists, feminists, and allies can do to make Democrats understand that women are not bargaining chips. Emily and Sarah grew up in the shadow attorney William Kunstler, and join us to talk about the documentary they have made about their father. We check in with the situation in Honduras, with video from The Real News. We learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it. And we have video from an Iraq veteran who put together a clip contrasting statements made before the war with the grim realities of combat. And 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian activists tore down a segment of the wall across the West Bank in protest of increasing Israeli settlements.
GRITtv: Media Myths and Misses on Health Care
Are the media complicit in the failings of health care reform? Allison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio, Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Diane Archer of the Campaign for America's Future, and Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com join us to discuss the coverage, good and bad, and what it means for the fate of the public option.
GRITtv: Oct. 29, 2009
The public option: is it dead? Is it alive? Who's going to kill it this week? These are the headlines nearly every day, but the rest of the story is rarely told.
