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GRITtv: Pushing Harder for Don't Ask Don't Tell
This week in front of the White House, uniformed members of the United States Armed Services were arrested for handcuffing themselves to the fence in a call for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Email this pageGRITtv: Demystifying the Media: Joel Silberman
Ever wonder how people manage to get their point across so well in a brief time on the TV? Why certain politicians become media darlings while others stumble and stammer? Most of them are very well coached. We peel back the curtain a bit with Joel Silberman, strategic communications consultant/trainer with the New Organizing Institute and an award-winning theatrical director and performer. Silberman gives us some quick tips for doing media that anyone can use should they find themselves on the receiving end of a camera.
GRITtv: Where's the Revolution? Populist Rage on the Left and Right
A lot of media attention has been paid to the 9/12, tea party and town hall protests featuring an angry horde of mostly white citizens shouting about socialism and comparing President Obama to the Nazis - often in the same sentence. Our question is, where's the left-wing populist anger? Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, Joel Silberman, fellow at the New Organizing Institute, and author and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich join us to talk about the rage in the country and figure out how the left can harness it for progressive change. They compare the grassroots attendance at the National Equality March on October 11, estimated at 250,000, with the 9/12 protests stoked by Glenn Beck, and note the need for mass movements to push the Democratic Party to enact the changes it keeps promising--for all Americans.
GRITtv: October 13, 2009
Daniel Gross asked earlier this week why there wasn't more outrage in the country over the state of the economy, saying that if we haven't seen a revolution yet, we probably wouldn't. Yet popular protests have been happening across the country this summer and fall and show no signs of stopping. A lot of media attention has been paid to the 9/12, tea party and town hall protests. Our question: Where's the left-wing populist anger? Plus all the day's news.
