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GRITtv: Militants and Predator Drones: Who is the Real Terrorist?
Pakistani militant extremism and American drones, which are the real terrorists? Is it one, the other, or an ironic joint effort of the two? Between suicide bombings and collateral damage from drones, thousands of militants and civilians alike have been killed by both. The Real News Network reports from Islamabad, Pakistan that while many students from tribal areas report that their communities oddly support the drone attacks, the majority of the country sees the predator drones as an encroachment on national sovereignty fostering bitter anti-American sentiment.
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What's up with all these arguments over feminism these days, anyway? The Daily Show and Gawker blog Jezebel have an argument over its representation of women; meanwhile, Sarah Palin is a feminist! Except when she's not! And the Atlantic has declared The End of Men. What's it all about? Who better to discuss all this than blogger and author Amanda Marcotte who joins us in studio to talk about The Daily Show's hiring Olivia Munn, Sarah Palin's fundraising skills (or lack thereof), the latest battle over reproductive choice, as well as her new book Get Opinionated: A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action). In 2011, Arizona is set to host Major League Baseball's All-Star game, but as the stop-on-suspicion anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, goes into effect soon, artists, musicians, and people from all over the country are joining in a boycott of the state. What about baseball? GRITtv's staff checked out a protest this past week in Manhattan, calling on Commissioner Bud Selig to move the All-Star game out of Arizona. You can find out more about the movement--several players have pledged not to play in Arizona--at MoveTheGame.org. Thanks to our interns Isabel Braverman and Rebecca Coffman from Ithaca college for assistance with this piece. REFRAKA, a Creole acronym for Women’s Community Radio Network, was founded in Haiti in 2001 as a way to make women’s voices heard around the country. On January 12, it took on a new meaning as, like many other organizations in Haiti, it suffered from the earthquake. Nevertheless, REFRAKA has continued to not only restructure Haiti’s patriarchal society, but now integrates rural women’s opinions on this historical tragedy as well as the reconstruction process into the media.Pakistani militant extremism and American drones, which are the real terrorists? Is it one, the other, or an ironic joint effort of the two? Between suicide bombings and collateral damage from drones, thousands of militants and civilians alike have been killed by both. The Real News Network reports from Islamabad, Pakistan that many communities oddly support the drone attacks, the majority of the country sees the predator drones as an encroachment on national sovereignty fostering bitter anti-American sentiment. Finally, six current and former New Orleans police officers were charged this week in two shootings of unarmed men in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A Justice Department investigation into the force was the cause. What about some Justice Department reform in other cities' police departments?
GRITtv: Jeff Sharlet: Inside the Value Voters Summit
Jeff Sharlet, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," reports on the Value Voters Summit in Washington D.C. Sharlet says the conservative Christian movement in the U.S. is far more complicated, diverse and powerful than most coverage of events like the 9/12 Tea Party protests suggests. The left ignores the power and reach of the movement at its own peril.
GRITtv: Kathryn Joyce: The Quiverfull Movement
We may be living in what Kathryn Joyce calls a "pop cultural moment of preoccupation with large families." We have the Duggars, a family of 18 children who quote Psalm 127:3 on their website, "Children are a heritage of the Lord…," and the Gosselins of John and Kate Plus Eight, who seem to be just about everywhere right now. You can bet that there are probably plans for new shows and new series. But what about the ideology, philosophy, and teachings that shape the lives of families like the Duggars? It has received far less attention. After Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets Joyce, writing in RH Reality Check had this to say about the obsession with Suleman’s experience: "In terms of reproductive matters of national concern, one woman's idiosyncratic and likely tragic choices seem to pale beside a movement that insists on similarly large and labor-intensive broods of children for women and raises daughters to see this as the only blueprint for their lives. It says something about where we are as a country that the former isolated case attracts more concern than the existence of the latter as a growing movement." Joyce, the author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, discusses the men and women behind the movement, its ideological foundations, and its cultural and political significance. She has written for Slate’s Double X, The Nation Magazine, Salon, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. You can see more of her work at Kathrynjoyce.com.
