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GRITtv: Alice Mizrachi: Artist's Responsibility
Alice Mizrachi isn't just an artist--she's a community organizer, too. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, Mizrachi's shown her work around the world, and yet her favorite canvas is New York's walls. Mizrachi's built a global network of women artists as co-director of the Younity Arts Collective, and now she's working with young people. This piece was produced by Rebecca McDonald, and special thanks to Noisemaker Media for the music. If you are in the New York area, please join Alice Mizrachi in a stencil making workshop in collaboration with Materials for the Arts on Thursday February 24, 2011 from 7-9pm. This event is free, and open to the public. More info here. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: Medea Benjamin: Learning from Cairo
"I had the feeling it might happen," says Medea Benjamin of CodePink of the ongoing revolution in Egypt. Recently back from Cairo, Medea has been traveling through Egypt to get to Gaza for a while, and she says that the feeling in that country was of too many people angry, frustrated, and willing to fight their government to go on another 30 years without fighting back.Medea joins Laura in studio to discuss her recent experience in Egypt, including nearly being arrested at gunpoint, and having had friends detained for hours by state security forces.
GRITtv: Asmaa Mahfouz: Hope in the Streets in Egypt
"As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope." Those are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, who took to the Internet to spread her message in the days leading up to the protests, which have spread across her country and led to President Mubarak announcing he will not run for reelection. As the protesters continue their fight to get Mubarak out sooner rather than later, we bring you Asmaa's words to remember how all of this got started. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Jesse Jackson: Take it to the Streets
Last weekend, Rev. Jesse Jackson came to New York to speak at the Left Forum. While he was there, he took some time to chat with Laura about the health care bill--now the health care reform law--and the forces fighting against it. The veteran of the civil rights movement told us "The way not to be marginalized is to be in the streets."
GRITtv: Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development
In this video from Street Films' new series, "Fixing the Great Mistake," Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White explains how New York's Park Avenue was changed to plan the city around cars, not people.
GRITtv: Biking To Work With Seattle Mayor McGinn
The elections at the end of 2009 were a mixed bag for progressives, but Seattle's new mayor, Mike McGinn, is interested in bringing progressive change to his city--and leading by example. In this video from Street Films, we take a bike ride to work with Mayor McGinn.
