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The Thom Hartmann Program - Brunch With Bernie 10/14/11
Thom Hartmann and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do their weekly Friday afternoon session
Email this pageBrunch with Bernie and Thom: Sept. 2, 2011
Thom Hartmann hosts Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) every Friday to talk about important progressive issues of the day.
Brunch with Bernie and Thom Hartmann 8/26/11
Thom Hartmann hosts Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Today they talk about Sen. Sander's suggestions for funding Social Security.
GRITtv: Peg Lautenschlager: Legal Recourse in Madison
Former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager says that Republicans may have violated state law with their passage of the so-called budget repair bill. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Jim Hightower and Peg Lautenschlager
"This has been spontaneous combustion, what's happening here in Wisconsin," Jim Hightower says. "Ordinary folks have been knocked down: workers, farmers, consumers, environmentalists." Hightower and former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager spoke with Laura Flanders this weekend during protests that saw more than 120,000 people descend on Madison to demonstrate against Governor Scott Walker's bill that took collective bargaining rights away from public unions. Lautenschlager says that the process Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans circumvented Wisconsin state law and will face pending legal challenges, both to the process and the bill itself. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Harvey Wasserman, Jim Hightower, and Peg Lautenschlager
"This is beyond serious," Harvery Wassermn of NukeFree.org says of the situation surrounding Japan's damaged nuclear facilities. "If all four of those reactors go, the death toll will be in the millions." Japan has been left reeling by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that has killed thousands. To make matters worse, numerous nuclear energy facilities in damaged in Japan are in danger of releasing deadly radiation. Experts are already claiming the situation is worse that the nuclear emergency of Three Mile Island and may get worse. "This has been spontaneous combustion, what's happening here in Wisconsin," Jim Hightower says. "Ordinary folks have been knocked down: workers, farmers, consumers, environmentalists." Hightower and former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager spoke with Laura Flanders this weekend during protests that saw more than 120,000 people descend on Madison to demonstrate against Governor Scott Walker's bill that took collective bargaining rights away from public unions. Lautenschlager says that the process Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans circumvented Wisconsin state law and will face pending legal challenges, both to the process and the bill itself. Finally, President Barack Obama is firing up his behind-the-scenes campaign personnel and looking to draw from his base for support, but what about his support for the base? Laura has a few choice words of warning. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: 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."
Can America's Future Now Push Obama to the Left?
As progressive organizations meet in Washington for the America’s Future Nowconference GRITtv looks at the role of the left in American politics. Darcy Burner Executive Director of the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation, Isaiah Poole Executive Editor of TomPaine.com and OurFuture.org, Rick MacArthur president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine on what the left’s strategy should be vis a vis Barack Obama.
GRITtv: The Things They Carry
More than one million soldiers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years. Close to 4,500 have died in Iraq and nearly 20 percent of those who return have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Well over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. As Memorial Day approaches how will soldiers, families of soldiers, and the rest of our society reflect on the dead and those still living with the trauma of war? Today on GRITtv Darren Subarton a veteran who served in the Army?s 101st Air Borne Division, Joshua Kors who has written extensively on the experience of veterans returning from war, Dan Lohaus director of When I Came Home, and Nada Michael, a student in social work at Smith College, discuss the challenges veterans face, dealing with the VA, and what likely won't be discussed Memorial Day.
GRITtv: Health Insurers Aim to Kill Public Option
The nation's for profit health insurers are out to scuttle anything within the Obama health care plan that might be about anything public. One week after the insurance lobby pledged to President Obama to voluntarily constrain rising costs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is preparing a public message campaign aimed at killing the public non-profit part of Obama's reform plan. Anyone who's been watching has heard the data that have them so scared. A government-run plan, with no need for profits for Wall Street or bonuses to retain CEOs -- a public plan run only to deliver healthcare not profits -- would cut the cost of healthcare.
