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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.
Email this pageGRITtv: Feb. 18 2010
Guest host Esther Armah is joined by Rosalind McLymont and and Akiba Solomon to discuss Black History Month and Raina Kelley's Newsweek piece, The Nation's piece on the media-lobbying complex, and Ishmael Reed's New York Times op-ed about the film Precious. In the Kurdish region of Iraq, the people faced horrendous atrocities under Saddam Hussein, including in some villages the murder of nearly all men and boys. The Kurdish women, however, have been rebuilding and redefining their roles. A film by Mary Ann Smothers Bruni looks at three women who are working to strengthen their region and their nation. "No one could've seen this coming." We heard that line over and over again as the economy crumbled around our ears. Yet many people DID see it coming, and Dean Baker was one of them. Co-Director of the Center for Economic And Policy Research, blogger at Beat the Press, and author of a new book, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, Baker is in studio to explain the causes of the crisis, the reasons the stimulus wasn't big enough, and why Ben Bernanke should've been fired, not reconfirmed. Yesterday, we aired the first part of activist and author Herb Boyd's recent trip to Haiti. Here is part 2 of "Haiti's Cri de Coeur" or "Cry from the Heart." Thanks to Free Speech TV for the video. Finally, in a video from Street Films, we take a bike ride to work with Mayor Mike McGinn of Seattle.
B.I.K.E. Part Two
Two filmmakers infiltrate an underground bicycle club. Directors Jacob Sepitmus and Anthony Howard create a gritty, conceptually dichotomous and visually stylistic film with "B.I.K.E. Part Two," which completes the story of the Brooklyn chapter of the Black Label Bike Club (BLBC), a fringe network of tall bike jousters that combine and justify their medieval inspired competitions with environmentalist and anti-consumerist rhetoric and politically radical ideals.
B.I.K.E. Part One
Two filmmakers infiltrate an underground bicycle club. Directors Jacob Sepitmus and Anthony Howard create a gritty, conceptually dichotomous and visually stylistic film with "B.I.K.E. Part One," a depiction of the Brooklyn chapter of the Black Label Bike Club (BLBC), a fringe network of tall bike jousters that combine and justify their medieval inspired competitions with environmentalist and anti-consumerist rhetoric and politically radical ideals. Taking place in the context of the 2004 Republican National Convention, "B.I.K.E." is a riveting look into the ways in which identity is important for a collective of fiercely independent people.
