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GRITtv: Guantanamo at Home: The Case of Fahad Hashmi

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Fahad Hashmi is an American citizen being held in solitary confinement in Lower Manhattan, facing several years in prison for the crime of providing and conspiring to provide material support and making and conspiring to make a contribution of goods or services to Al Qaeda. The conditions under which he has been held, for two and a half years, are frightening: he is allowed only one visit every other week from one of his parents, and has been punished for shadowboxing alone in his cell.

SourceCode: Eco Dissent/Not Terrorism

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With the Patriot Act in effect engaging in activism or dissent, particularly pro environmental dissent, redefines you as a terrorist. Explore the criminalization of dissent. Hear from the Center for Constitutional Rights about how far the Feds can go once they label you a terrorist. Take a look at America's history of non violent dissent. Look back at one of the first actions of the radical environmental movement with Edward Abbey.

Keynote: David Ray Griffin: 9/11 and Nationalist Faith

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"People of faith" are often accused of allowing their faith to override evidence. This is sometimes the case. With regard to 9/11, the greatest obstacle to seeing the truth - that 9/11 could have been an inside job - is not the lack of evidence, but what can be called 'nationalist faith' - the belief that America is the "exceptional nation" whose leaders never deliberately do anything truly evil, at least to their own citizens.

Keynote: Arianna Huffington

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The goals are keeping McCain out of the White House and putting an end to the takeover of the country by the right. Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of the Huffington Post and an author of several books - the latest of which is "The Right is Wrong, How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution and Made Us All Less Safe."

SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age Part II

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In a time of illicit war, unchecked corporate greed, and a presidential regime that supports such indecencies, two sisters take the media into their own hands seeking change. Antonia writes a potential anti-Bush bestseller for a mainstream publisher and goes on a corporate book tour. Alex documents her sister's "scale-shift," following Antonia's ups and downs on the road. Divisions and connections between the sisters mirror those within the left itself, as the sisters experience the power of individual action, media attention, and grassroots movements for social justice.

SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age Part I

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In a time of illicit war, unchecked corporate greed, and a presidential regime that supports such indecencies, two sisters take the media into their own hands seeking change. Antonia writes a potential anti-Bush bestseller for a mainstream publisher and goes on a corporate book tour. Alex documents her sister's "scale-shift," following Antonia's ups and downs on the road. Divisions and connections between the sisters mirror those within the left itself, as the sisters experience the power of individual action, media attention, and grassroots movements for social justice.

Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos Part Two

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In "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos Part Two" Anna Baltzer, Jewish-American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, author of "Witness in Palestine" and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, continues sharing her discovery of Israel's human-rights violations in Palestine.

Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos Part Two

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In "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos Part One" Anna Baltzer, Jewish-American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, author of "Witness in Palestine" and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, shares her discovery of Israel's human-rights violations in Palestine.

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