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GRITtv: Got Docs: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
"At that time, a Bank of America was something that you burned down. You didn't want to be designing banks." Those are the words of Chip Lord of Ant Farm, a radical architects collective with a "South Park sensibility," whose work during the 1960s and 1970s redefined what architects do. Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is a new documentary by Laura Harrison and Beth Federici that looks back on the escapades of Ant Farm, including their most famous work, Cadillac Ranch.
Email this pageGRITtv: Chris Hedges: The Death of the Liberal Class
"We have a choice," says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. "You can either be complicit in your own enslavement or you can lead a life that has some kind of integrity and meaning."
GRITtv: Remembering Howard Zinn
"You can't be neutral on a moving train," Howard Zinn famously said. He didn't believe in staying closeted in the academy, though he was a brilliant historian whose book, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present changed the way many people view history. Recently, a documentary based on his work, The People Speak, brought to life the many Americans whose lives and activism would otherwise have been forgotten. Zinn died on Jan. 27 at age 87. He lived a long, full life and was an inspiration to all of us at GRITtv. He spoke to Laura in 2008. We wrote at the time: "With the financial crisis and the election of Barack Obama, allusions to the Great Depression, The New Deal and FDR have become commonplace. But what can the past teach us about the current historical moment? Are the parallels useful? Historian and author Howard Zinn is well known for his 'People's History of the United States.' And he says that it's still the people -- from workers demanding an eight hour day to African Americans and the struggle for civil rights -- who make change. Zinn says that the Chicago workers staging a sit-in are drawing on a rich and very powerful history.
GRITtv: Imagining Radical Change with David Harvey & Alexander Cockburn
The word "Change" has been used so much lately that it often seems almost meaningless. What's change really? Is it having Barack Obama in the White House, talking about withdrawing from Iraq, a stimulus bill that spends some federal dollars on infrastructure? David Harvey, author of "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," and Alexander Cockburn, author of "End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate," don't think small when it comes to change. They aren't afraid to think about significant, even radical changes to the social order we've grown so used to, whether it's requiring full employment, reimagining urban living or repudiating credit-card debt and abolishing Wall Street speculation. Cockburn and Harvey joined Laura for an event at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture & Politics, and we bring you part of that discussion today.
