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GRITtv: Right Wing Terrorism, Indigenous Rights, GM, and the NYT repents
Less than 2 weeks after Dr. Tiller's murder, a white supremacist carries out a fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Indigenous protests and human rights abuses also made the news this week with the events in Peru, Ecuador and the Nigerian case against Shell. And the New York Times is repenting for its misleading article on the infamous Pentagon report that claimed that 1 in 7 Guantanamo detainees returned to terrorist activity after their release. To chew out this week's news and those that covered it, we're joined by Andrew Tyndall, Editor-in-Chief of the Tyndall Report, investigative reporter Greg Palast, and Robin Andersen, Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, author of A Century of Media, a Century of War and judge at Project Censored.
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Less than 2 weeks after Dr. Tiller's murder, a white supremacist carries out a fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Indigenous protests and human rights abuses also made the news this week with the events in Peru, Ecuador and the Nigerian case against Shell. And the New York Times is repenting for its misleading article on the infamous Pentagon report that claimed that 1 in 7 Guantanamo detainees returned to terrorist activity after their release. To chew out this week's news and those that covered it, we're joined by Andrew Tyndall, Editor-in-Chief of the Tyndall Report, investigative reporter Greg Palast, and Robin Andersen, Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, author of A Century of Media, a Century of War and judge at Project Censored.Acclaimed journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast has a new DVD out that includes some of his best investigative reports. Here is a clip from Palast Investigates.Sonia Sotomayor's nomination gave media pundits another excuse to shout about the role of race in Obama's politics. The Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project of the African American Policy Forum has convened scholars, professors and students to have an intelligent, inclusive and just discussion on issues of racial and social equality around the world. Today on the show, Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw of UCLA and founder of the African American Policy Forum, Martin Macwan, founder of the Navsarjan Trust of Gujurat, India and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and Dr. Jurema Werneck, physician and black feminist activist from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and Founder of Criola.org.
