nobel peace prize
Democracy Now! Fri. Dec. 10 2010
The jailed Chinese human rights activist and writer Liu Xiaobo has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Olso. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison last year after spearheading a petition calling for freedom of assembly, expression and religion in China. For the first time since the 1930s, a representative of the winner is not on hand to collect the award. We discuss China’s reaction to Xiaobo’s award and its role at the climate talks with Lucia Green-Weiskel of the Beijing-based Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation. Speaking at the UN climate change conference, Bolivian President Evo Morales warned against throwing out the Kyoto Protocol saying such a move could result in ecocide or genocide. We speak to John Vidal, the environment editor at the Guardian newspaper, in Cancun. Daniel Ellsberg, the famous whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971. "If I released the Pentagon Papers today, I would be called a terrorist," Ellsberg says. "Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are no more terrorists than I am, and I am not." Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.
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Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner talks about the foreclosure crisis and her state’s lawsuit against Ally Financial; as the White House reverses its rejection of Carter's solar panels, 350.org will hold a 10.10.10 day of action on global warming; Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu retires from public life. Democracy Now! is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: The F Word: Holiday News Jingle
It's holiday season. And besides I've been feeling too grumpy to take the news "straight." So I came up for a ditty for today. You're welcome to send us yours. Here's mine: The President asked the banks to meet, and the bankers said they might, but the weather was just too awful and the timing was too tight. The banks are still too big, it seems, and we've only watched them grow. Poverty's up, but what to do? Hell if Geithner knows. On the healthcare front, there's Lieberman, whose voter calls him Joe. Every health reform he once approved, well, now the answer's no. Fifty votes was once a lot, now Harry says that's few. So hey ho Joe. Way to go. Here's to health care just for you! In Cokenhagen, the climate's hot. Island nations are on the brink. If we don't act, and make a pact, that's it. Millions will sink. Obama knows, so, back from Oslo, climate's on his mind. There's just one hitch. Those corporate folks. They don't like pacts that bind. So happy holidays all. Obama's peace laureate for war. That's no mean feat. Some have hit the street. In '10 will we see more? -- Laura Flanders
GRITtv: Fighting Rape One Victim at a Time
Dr. Denis Mukwege was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize that Barack Obama won, and his work helping victims of rape in the Congo is inspirational. His Panzi Hospital treats an average of ten women a day, providing surgery and helping women heal from their traumas physical and mental. This video from V-Day celebrates Dr. Mukwege's struggle to defeat the horrors of sexual violence. For more information, check out Congo Week's Take Action page.
GRITtv: Does the Right Still Dominate the News Cycle?
Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, Joe Conason of The New York Observer, and Air America's Sam Seder are our media panel, discussing the best and worst of this week in journalism. From Arianna Huffington getting interrupted for dubious news to the snark overload on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, there was plenty of bad (and a little good) to debate. Obama's trip to New Orleans and the National Equality March were overshadowed heavily by Rush Limbaugh's aborted attempt to buy a football team and the White House statement on Fox News. Does the right still control which stories are covered, or is the mainstream media just lazy?
