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Ai-jen Poo: Organizing During a Pandemic

Title: Ai-jen Poo: Organizing During a Pandemic
Runtime: 48:39
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, joins The Nation to talk about protecting workers and labor organizing during the pandemic.

Title: Running Outfits
Runtime: 0:16
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Covid-19 Edition

Artist: John Rego

Title: Change is Needed
Runtime: 0:25
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Normal was not working for most people.

Artist: Andrea Arroyo

Title: Elie Mystal: Justice and the Courts
Runtime: 52:19
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation, explains how we must be vigilant about protecting our rights during the corona emergency, how Republicans are taking advantage of this moment to target abortion access, and how critical the 2020 election is to taking back the courts. (He even threatens to address parenting without murdering your children or getting fired from your job!)

Robert Reich: Dismantling the Rigged Economic System

Title: Robert Reich: Dismantling the Rigged Economic System
Runtime: 56:11
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Robert Reich, former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton and UC Berkeley professor, joins The Nation to talk about our rigged economic and political system—who rigged it and how we can fix it.

Zephyr Teachout: Fighting For Our Democracy

Title: Zephyr Teachout: Fighting For Our Democracy
Runtime: 59:52
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Zephyr Teachout joined Nation editorial director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel in conversation on Wednesday, May 13, to talk about the toll Covid-19 has taken on our elections and the attempt by the New York State Board of Elections to cancel New York’s Democratic presidential primary.

To find out our next Conversation With the Nation, visit https://www.thenation.com/events/

Bill McKibben: Coronavirus and Climate Change

Title: Bill McKibben: Coronavirus and Climate Change
Runtime: 51:56
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Bill McKibben joins Nation editor D.D. Guttenplan to talk about climate change, and why now is the time to demand that investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.

Jamie Raskin: Protecting our Constitutional Democracy

Title: Jamie Raskin: Protecting our Constitutional Democracy
Runtime: 57:29
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Representative Jamie Raskin joins Nation editorial director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and national affairs correspondent John Nichols to discuss the state of our democracy during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II: The Fissures In Our Society

Title: The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II: The Fissures In Our Society
Runtime: 1:00:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The reverend spoke with Nation readers about the severe social, economic, and political fissures the pandemic has worsened.
Read more at https://www.thenation.com/article/society/conversations-virtual-event-reverend-barber/
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The Fight to Keep the Mediterranean Free of Oil Drilling

Title: The Fight to Keep the Mediterranean Free of Oil Drilling
Runtime: 12:54
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Activists are winning important fights against hydrocarbon exploration in the Mediterranean—but so much is still at stake.

Produced by Eurydice Bersi, edited by Savvas Karmaniolas, motion graphics by Alexia Barakou.

Title: Sanders or Warren: Time to Choose?
Runtime: 1:54:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Watch as Bhaskar Sunkara, Zephyr Teachout, Brad Lander, and Maurice Mitchell make the case for Sanders or Warren.

Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders? Plenty of progressives like both candidates, but it’s time to choose. Watch The Nation’s Sanders or Warren debate featuring Zephyr Teachout and Bhaskar Sunkara debating Brad Lander and Maurice Mitchell over which candidate can best defeat Donald Trump and deliver fundamental progressive change. Recorded Monday, February 24 at The New School in New York City, moderated by D.D. Guttenplan, Editor, The Nation.

We All Deserve An Income Floor: Why the Bold Policy of Guaranteed Income Works

Title: We All Deserve An Income Floor: Why the Bold Policy of Guaranteed Income Works
Runtime: 19:16
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: How would a universal basic income open up the potential of all people in this country? Subscribe to More Than Enough to learn more.

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Poverty Can Be Solved. Just Trust Poor People.

Title: Poverty Can Be Solved. Just Trust Poor People.
Runtime: 17:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Our current poverty alleviation programs just aren’t working the way they should. Is there a better way? Subscribe to More Than Enough to learn more.

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Do We Deserve To Live Without Fear of Crushing Poverty?

Title: Do We Deserve To Live Without Fear of Crushing Poverty?
Runtime: 24:11
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The first episode of our new podcast, More Than Enough, about guaranteed income, deservedness, and the country America can and should be, hosted by Mia Birdsong.

Subscribe to More Than Enough on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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More Than Enough was developed by Next River Productions. Created and hosted by Mia Birdsong. Audio engineering and music by Nino Moschella. Script development and production by Allison Cook. The content of this podcast was informed by the stories of hundreds of people across the country, only some of whom you heard from. Thank you to everyone who took the time to speak with me and share their story.

Support for the production of More Than Enough was provided by a few generous folks and the Economic Security Project, an organization advancing cash-based interventions in the United States and reigning in corporate monopolies.

More Than Enough is a pr...

Title: OppArt: Gross-Word Puzzle
Runtime: 0:16
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Trump is not worth a thousand words. By Andrea Arroyo.

A General Strike Is Possible, But We Have to Work For It

Title: A General Strike Is Possible, But We Have to Work For It
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: On May 9th, Nation strikes correspondent Jane McAlevey delivered the keynote address at the Winnipeg 1919 General Strike Centenary Conference, in Manitoba, Canada. The four day conference lifted up the history of Canada's largest general strike, and examined strategies for worker power. In her speech McAlevey lays out a plan to build towards a new round of general strikes, and weaves together the urgent need to address radical income and power inequality with the climate crisis. She discusses key aspects of the recent Los Angeles teachers strike as evidence that strikes where 100 percent of workers walk out, with deep community engagement, are crucial in this era of highly skewed politics.
Watch the full speech from the Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJDYHT-0vE

Alicia Garza: Setting Ourselves Up to Win and Win Big

Title: Alicia Garza: Setting Ourselves Up to Win and Win Big
Runtime: 8:25
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Alicia Garza delivered these remarks on June 4, 2019 at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn as part of a Night with The Nation.

Thanks so much for having me tonight.

As we sit here tonight, the country is at the apex of a crisis.

In the last month, there have been no fewer than 7 black trans women who have been murdered. Nearly all of the protections that were passed for transgender people over the last 8 years have been rolled back in the two short and long years that Trump has been president.

Just a few short weeks ago, restrictions on abortions were passed in several states throughout the Midwest and the South. The crisis of family separation has only increased, with babies and children turning up dead in detention camps, while fundraisers to extend the crisis through a border wall reach millions of dollars.

Meanwhile, this administration is not just ridiculous, they are not only murderous, they are hell bent on changing t...

Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote

Title: Inside the Decades-Long Republican Campaign to Suppress the Vote
Runtime: 9:48
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook, a new film from American Issues Initiative, reveals for the first time and in frightening detail the dark, partisan genius behind the decades-long strategy to disenfranchise non-white voters.

The dangerous toll this strategy is taking on the sacred principle of "one person/one vote” is not lost on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) who says, “I fear that young people will not have the kind of democracy that I experienced.”

Ironically, the film’s key jumping off point is Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, when 25% of his vote came from African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. It sent a clarion call to Republicans that unless they took drastic action, they faced exile in the political wilderness and possible extinction as a party. Demographics were not on their side.

Republicans had two choices: (1) Develop new policies to appeal to the rising majority of minority voters; or, in the words of former Re...

Why Don’t We Treat Health Care as a Human Right?

Title: Why Don’t We Treat Health Care as a Human Right?
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Why don’t we treat healthcare as a human right?

In 1965 we created Medicare and Medicaid to ensure healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Today, the government provides healthcare for over 100 million Americans—that's 38% of the country!

But these programs aren't good for health insurance and drug companies' profits. So they've fought against expanding public healthcare tooth and nail, leaving 41 million underinsured, and 27 million Americans without any insurance at all.

It gets worse: People without health insurance are 40% more likely to die than those who are covered, and healthcare costs remain the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US.

But now, we have a plan.

Medicare for All would expand public healthcare to all Americans. By taking the price-setting out of the hands of insurance companies, we can drastically reduce administrative overhead, and cut down on the cost of prescription drugs and hospital stays.�...

Jane McAlevey: The Only Way to Win Is to Strike

Title: Jane McAlevey: The Only Way to Win Is to Strike
Runtime: 1:57
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: From West Virginia to Oklahoma, Arizona to Kentucky, 2018 was the year of the strike—and we need to keep that going in 2019. Jane McAlevey, organizer and author of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, says that labor organizing is the only way we can win real change this year.

The Supreme Court has a new conservative majority. Gerrymandering has made it harder than ever to win progressive victories in elections. So that leaves the economic arena, the one area in which ordinary Americans can make a real impact. Watch this video to hear from McAlevey why labor strikes are the way we can take back power from the corporations that control way too much of our economy and our political system.

Title: OppArt: Trans Panic!
Runtime: 0:42
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Video by Chelsea Thompto. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: Can We Make College Free Again?
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Can we make college free again? Up until the 1970s, tuition at many of America's public colleges was free. But since then, right-wingers have been waging war on public universities. They pressured states to slash funding for higher education, pushing public college tuition through the roof, and helping banks rake in hundreds of billions off college loans. No wonder student debt just hit $1.5 trillion.

It gets worse: Women hold two-thirds of that debt, and black college grads are five times more likely to default than white grads.

This is not an accident: The free marketeers who made us a nation of debtors had a plan. But now, so do we.

The College for All Act would cover tuition at public community colleges for all Americans, and tuition at public four year universities for families making less than $125,000.

We could pay for it right now with a small “Robin Hood” tax on Wall Street speculation, or by repealing Trump’s corporate...

OppArt: Don’t Believe Everything You Think

Title: OppArt: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
Runtime: 4:30
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Alternative Facts, on screen and off screen.

Credit: Dee Hood

Title: OppArt: Wheel of Misfortune
Runtime: 0:22
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By Melanie Oliva.

Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: Touching Their Faces
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Dedicated to the Parkland school shooting victims. Video by Steve Brodner. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: Donald The Menace
Runtime: 5:59
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By Peter Kuper (formatted by Federico Mazzoleni/ Graphic News.com)

Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: Buzz Saws
Runtime: 0:09
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The orange machine cuts in all ways. Video by Richard Borge.

Title: OppArt: Looking For Level Ground
Runtime: 3:44
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Leveling the sloppy. Video by Dee Hood.

Title: OppArt: Dozer
Runtime: 0:11
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Beats everything on the road. By Richard Borge.

Title: No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA
Runtime: 0:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Crushing White Supremacy.

Video by Alessandra Mondolfi

OppArt: March for Our Lives, New York City, March 24, 2018

Title: OppArt: March for Our Lives, New York City, March 24, 2018
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Filmed by Steve Brodner.
Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: Democracy
Runtime: 0:26
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Somebody is getting a kick out of destroying American democracy.

Credit: Alessandra Mondolfi

Title: OppArt: Elegy Ending
Runtime: 2:13
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Justice League of America.
By Louisa Bertman.

Title: OppArt: Liberty and Justice
Runtime: 13:33
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A Cautionary Tale in the Land of the Free.
By Salley Mavor and Rob Goldsborough Music by Stellwagen Symphonette

These Tenants Are Leading the Largest Rent Strike in LA History

Title: These Tenants Are Leading the Largest Rent Strike in LA History
Runtime: 9:45
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Los Angeles’s housing market is in crisis. Low-income communities of color across the city are facing systematic displacement due to gentrification. Skyrocketing housing costs has created a homelessness epidemic that has left almost 60,000 people living on the streets. And now, the city is undergoing its largest rent strike in recent history.

In three buildings on South Burlington Avenue in the rapidly gentrifying Westlake neighborhood, an estimated 200 families in about 80 units are currently refusing to pay rent. After years of neglect, the buildings’ management company began rolling out exorbitant rent increases this February, hiking residents’ rents anywhere from 25-40 percent. For the buildings’ working-class tenants, these rent increases are just not affordable—so they’ve joined together and have been on a rent strike since March.

The tenants of the three Burlington Avenue buildings have been living in deplorable conditions for years. Back-fl...

Title: OppArt: Circus of the Mind
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Artist: Dee Hood, 2017
Video: Video Blocks, Prelinger Archives, Here Comes the Circus.
Audio: Freesound.Org, FreePD. 8Bit Circus, Bone 666138 Habana Compas Dance Group

Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl Whose Mother Was About to Be Deported

Title: Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl Whose Mother Was About to Be Deported
Runtime: 4:38
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Dulce Carvajal is a lot like most ten-year-olds. She likes reading and writing, drawing and horses, and playing with her younger siblings. She’s bright and shy and often soft-spoken. Too much attention embarrasses her. Candy makes her giddy. But unlike most other kids her age, she has spent the last six months of her young life living in a church alongside her mother and two younger siblings.

The family took refuge in Holyrood Church in Washington Heights last August, after Dulce’s mother, Amanda Morales, was told she was going to be deported to Guatemala. All three children—Dulce, Daniela, and David—are US citizens. But when faced with the prospect of being separated from her children while fighting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, Amanda decided to bring her children into sanctuary with her.

Dulce is an aspiring writer and storyteller. So, as she has grappled with her new and complex world, she has begun writing her own story. In the...

How a Working Class Movement Held Wall Street Accountable—Over 100 Years Ago

Title: How a Working Class Movement Held Wall Street Accountable—Over 100 Years Ago
Runtime: 3:14
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Thirty years after the Civil War, America had transformed itself into an economic powerhouse and was fast becoming the world’s leading producer of food, coal, oil and steel. But the transformation had created stark new divides in wealth, class and opportunity. By the end of the 19th century, the richest 4,000 families in the country — less than one percent of all Americans — possessed nearly as much wealth as the other 11.6 million families combined. The simultaneous growth of a lavish new elite and a struggling working class sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked today: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Should the government concern itself with economic growth or economic justice? Are we two nations — one for the rich and one for the poor — or one nation where everyone has a chance to succeed?

This exclusive excerpt from the new film, The Gilded Age, tells the story of the progressive People’s Party and Mar...

Ursula K. Le Guin: Listening to the Unheard Voices

Title: Ursula K. Le Guin: Listening to the Unheard Voices
Runtime: 10:50
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In this wide-ranging conversation from 2015, Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Zoë Carpenter about climate change, the definition of progress, and how "the future in science fiction is just a metaphor for now."

Title: OppArt: Trump Dreams
Runtime: 2:00
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Video by Ruth Lingford. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: No Sexism
Runtime: 0:16
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Video by Alessandra Mondolf. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: We Need To Build A Wall
Runtime: 0:10
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Video by Richard Borge. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: Not My President
Runtime: 0:33
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: By Alessandra Mondolfi. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

Title: OppArt: Trump Draws
Runtime: 0:09
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Video by Richard Borge. Check out all of the OppArt installments at thenation.com/oppart

We’re DACA Recipients, but We’re Fighting for All Undocumented Immigrants

Title: We’re DACA Recipients, but We’re Fighting for All Undocumented Immigrants
Runtime: 7:15
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: When Mariana Villafaña was just a child, her mother left the city of León in Guanajuato, Mexico to set out across the desert. With her brother and sister, Mariana was brought to this country long before she knew how important that journey would be for the trajectory of her life—the only memory she has of that fateful border crossing is being carried by a woman through waist-deep water in the middle of the night.

Mariana is an undocumented immigrant, one of an estimated 11 million in this country. But in 2012 she received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, providing her with some security in the only country she calls home. Through DACA, she, along with 800,000 other recipients, are no longer barred from getting a Social Security card, receiving a job with benefits like health care, applying for credit cards, and, in most states, getting a drivers license. Not to mention resting easy knowing that she is not at immediate risk of deportation.

But all of ...

Everything Equifax Did Wrong After Its Data Breach

Title: Everything Equifax Did Wrong After Its Data Breach
Runtime: 1:04
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Equifax’s blunder does more than any white paper to demonstrate the need for financial reform. Read more at https://www.thenation.com/article/the-financial-industry-is-its-own-best-enemy/

People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here’s Why.

Title: People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here’s Why.
Runtime: 6:37
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Last week, in Denmark, Malthe and Lærke Knudson had a baby girl they named Emma. That same day, the Robinsons—Dale and Beth—had a little baby in the United States. They called her Rachel.

Right now, they’re just two little babies keeping their parents awake at night. But Emma and Rachel were born in countries that have very different priorities, and that’s going to lead to pretty different futures.

It all boils down to this: Though Danes pay a lot more than Americans in taxes and government fees, they get a whole lot more back in social services: Almost three times as much!

As a result, Americans end up spending twice as much out-of-pocket for those social goods and services. Let’s see how that plays out over their two lives.

Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy

Title: Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
Runtime: 7:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.

This interview comes from Open Source with Christopher Lydon, a weekly program about arts, ideas and politics. Listen to rest of the conversation with Chomsky here: http://radioopensource.org/american-socrates-life-mind-noam-chomsky/

Title: Travel To Cuba With The Nation
Runtime: 1:11
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Hear from previous Nation travelers about their educational travel experience in Havana. Learn more at TheNation.com/Cuba

The Prisoner Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires

Title: The Prisoner Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires
Runtime: 5:33
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Amidst the firefighters and volunteers who battle California’s wildfires, you may be surprised to find an all-female crew. You may be even more surprised to find out they are all incarcerated as well.

In this clip, from “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” hear the story of one inmate sent to fight a raging blaze in Marin County.

From the film “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes” by Brett Story, courtesy of Independent Lens and PBS. Read more at https://www.thenation.com/article/the-prisoner-firefighters-battling-californias-wildfires

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