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GRITtv: Students and Teachers Fight California University Cuts
Budget cuts are everywhere we look these days, but they often come right along with giveaways and moves to further enrich those at the top. In San Francisco, students and teachers came out to protest massive budget cuts in the California State University system, express outrage over the obscene salaries of the dean of students and voice their concern about their financially debt ridden future. This video comes courtesy of Davey D and OpenLine media. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: The F Word: Transgender Day of Remembrance
We spent some time this year talking about “It gets better.” The point of that campaign, of course, was to convince gay, lesbian, and transgender kids who might be experiencing bullying and threats, that life gets better and people will accept them. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Fighting the War, Ignored by the News
With all the news over health care reform's passage, the beginning of the eighth year of the war in Iraq seems to have slipped out of the headlines. But over the weekend, antiwar protesters took to the street across the U.S. Rod Laughridge sent us this video from one protest in San Francisco.
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GRITtv - Parking Day
This is the latest by Streetfilms.org to see how San Francisco re-purposed parking spots during Friday's Park(ing) Day. The first Park(ing) Day was launched by Rebar in 2005 in San Francisco. Just imagine if bike parking and expanded outdoor café seating took over our automobile-filled public spaces every day!
GRITtv: Health Care for All: Young People Speak
The health care bill might be in limbo in Congress, but YO! Youth Outlook took to the streets in San Francisco to remind all of us how many people still need coverage.
GRITtv: Beating Payday Loans at Their Own Game
Payday lenders are often predatory, and their victims are disproportionately people of color--and almost all poor. In this video from New America Media featuring San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, we take a look at an alternative program in San Francisco that offers low-cost short-term loans to keep people out of the clutches of the payday lenders.
GRITtv: David Solnit: Looking Forward to Copenhagen
"If we organize and assert our power, we can change things," says David Solnit, co-author with his sister, Rebecca, of "The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle" and organizer with Mobilization for Climate Justice. He is working on the next round of the global justice movement: the Copenhagen climate talks. He joins us from San Francisco to fill us in on where the movement is going now, and to connect the dots between the antiwar, economic justice, worker's rights movements and more.
GRITtv: My Community is my Downfall
According to New America Media, "Federal experts estimate that at least 1.6 million juveniles leave or are put out of their homes each year. Other research has found a 40 percent spike in the number of homeless youth over the past year." One young woman tells her story of being homeless in San Francisco, shuttling back and forth from her mother's and sister's houses. She feels drawn to her community but also realizes that she needs to get out, that she gets into trouble over and over again.
GRITtv: San Francisco Strike for Health Care
San Francisco is a popular tourist destination but an expensive city in which to live. Hotel workers at the Grand Hyatt, many of them Chinese immigrants, were recently told that their new contract would require them to pay for their own health insurance despite their full-time jobs doing physical labor. A couple of hundred dollars a month make a huge difference for the hotel workers, so they went on strike to protest the unfair labor practices. Thanks to New America Media for the video.
