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GRITtv: Remi Kanazi & Laila El-Haddad: What Revolution Means for Palestine
"It's a reimagining of the middle east, what is possible," says poet Remi Kanazi of the revolution in Egypt, and Laila El-Haddad notes the direct impact that the Mubarak regime had on Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza, which shares a border with Egypt. Laila and members of her family--including her small children--had been detained by the Mubarak regime. What does regime change mean for the Palestinian people? And what effect will the wave of civil rights protests and activism across Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, Iran and Libya have? Laila and Remi join us to discuss.
Email this pageGRITtv: Canada's Pro-Democracy Movement
In Canada, the controversy over troops in Afghanistan, prisoner abuse, and torture has come to a head: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shut down the Parliament in a move known as prorogation, and his opponents accuse him of doing so to avoid the torture inquiries. This video from the Real News Network takes a look at Harper's moves, and the growing popular movement against his power grab.
GRITtv: Iraq: Truth & Reconciliation?
In England, a committee is doing the kind of in-depth look at the runup to the Iraq war that we can only dream about here in the U.S. The Chilcot Inquiry is looking at the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the war itself, and the ongoing issues. To explain what's going on there--and discuss why we don't have a similar inquiry--we ask Reginald Keys, who lost his son in the Iraq war and who challenged Tony Blair for Parliament in 2005. He's in London for Blair's testimony before the inquiry. David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, and Esther Armah of WBAI's Off the Page and Wake Up Call, also join us to discuss the inquiry, the war, and the role of public protest.
GRITtv: Malalai Joya: Raise Your Voice
Malalai Joya, the youngest person elected to the Afghan parliament and a delegate to the Loya Jirga, the constitutional convention joined us to talk about her new book, "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice," and the future of her country. For more information, visit the Afghan Women's Mission.
