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Jeremy Scahill: The War Against Whistleblowers

Title: Jeremy Scahill: The War Against Whistleblowers
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: At this year's Socialism Conference in Chicago, Jeremy Scahill spoke about the war against whistleblowers, what a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens and the difference between having principles and playing a partisan game.

Sherry Wolf: The Future of LGBTQ Liberation

Title: Sherry Wolf: The Future of LGBTQ Liberation
Runtime: 3:05
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, Sherry Wolf spoke at the Socialism 2013 conference about what's next in the LGBTQ movement's fight for equality: trans-inclusiveness, tackling the "youth, queer, homeless crisis" and continuing to expand rights for all, regardless of someone's relationship status, gender expression or sexuality.

#AskJessica: How Do You Get Men to Understand That Feminism Is Important?

Title: #AskJessica: How Do You Get Men to Understand That Feminism Is Important?
Runtime: 5:50
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: For this week's video I wanted to answer a question I've gotten a lot over the years, and it goes something like this: Do you ever try to talk to your brother, your father, or someone in your life about feminism, but you get the sneaking suspicion (or the clear-as-day realization) that they just don't get it? Read more at http://thenat.in/19I7Bal

Got a question for Jessica? Tweet your questions to @JessicaValenti using the hashtag #AskJessica, or submit your questions at http://www.thenation.com/askjessica

Walmart Workers Arrested at Yahoo! Headquarters

Title: Walmart Workers Arrested at Yahoo! Headquarters
Runtime: 5:14
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Five activists were arrested at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, June 24, 2013, in a protest over the firing of eleven Walmart employees who this month went on strike. The planned civil disobedience action followed an hour-long demonstration in the Yahoo! lobby; about thirty workers and supporters gathered to demand a meeting with Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who joined Walmart's board last year.

Walmart Workers Carry Out Civil Disobedience at Yahoo! Headquarters

Title: Walmart Workers Carry Out Civil Disobedience at Yahoo! Headquarters
Runtime: 8:08
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Five activists were arrested at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, June 24, 2013, in a protest over the firing of eleven Walmart employees who this month went on strike. The planned civil disobedience action followed an hour-long demonstration in the Yahoo! lobby; about thirty workers and supporters gathered to demand a meeting with Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who joined Walmart's board last year.

Union Activists Bring 'Don't Be Evil' Message to Google Headquarters

Title: Union Activists Bring 'Don't Be Evil' Message to Google Headquarters
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: SEIU activists deliver a petition to a Google representative, asking for an audience with company CEO Larry Page, at Google's headquarters in Mountainview, California, June 20, 2013. After being rebuffed, they left the staffer with a letter condemning the treatment of the campus' subcontracted security workers. The petition delivery was SEIU's latest effort by to hold Google to account for the working conditions of SIS security guards on Google's Silicon Valley campus.

For more, read Josh Eidelson's latest at http://thenat.in/14b4Pqm

#AskJessica: How Can I Respond to Street Harassment?

Title: #AskJessica: How Can I Respond to Street Harassment?
Runtime: 5:05
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: I'm super excited about the launch of our new video series, #AskJessica - here's the first, on street harassment. You can ask me a question on Twitter using the hashtag #AskJessica: twitter.com/jessicavalenti. I'll answer one question a week by video; so if there's anything you've ever wanted to ask me, now is the time! —Jessica Valenti

Got a question for Jessica? Tweet your questions to @JessicaValenti using the hashtag #AskJessica, or submit your questions at http://www.thenation.com/askjessica

John Nichols: Data Mining American Voters

Title: John Nichols: Data Mining American Voters
Runtime: 4:03
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the information that the NSA collects on average Americans, but, according to John Nichols, politicians and political campaigns have been date mining the electorate for years. In his new book, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, he and Robert W. McChesney analyze how date mining is used not only to manipulate voters but also to maximize fundraising and attract donors. Read more at http://thenat.in/18Dua2J

Which Side Are You On, Walmart? Protests in Bentonville, Arkansas

Title: Which Side Are You On, Walmart? Protests in Bentonville, Arkansas
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The scene in Bentonville, Arkansas, as protesters gather for the annual Walmart shareholders meeting this week. Read more at http://thenat.in/11nohOP

Chase Madar: Inside the Court-Martial of Bradley Manning

Title: Chase Madar: Inside the Court-Martial of Bradley Manning
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Chase Madar, civil rights attorney and author of the new book, "The Passion of Bradley Manning," explains what's at stake in the court-martial of Pfc. Manning.

Madar will be blogging from the court-martial starting June 3, follow his posts at http://www.thenation.com/blogs/chase-madar

Jane McAlevey: Make the Road's Grassroots Success Story

Title: Jane McAlevey: Make the Road's Grassroots Success Story
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Labor and community issues are interwoven, so Make the Road New York engages both. For more, read Jane McAlevey's piece, Love and Agitation: http://thenat.in/10pByG8

Bhaskar Sunkara: Beyond the Welfare State

Title: Bhaskar Sunkara: Beyond the Welfare State
Runtime: 2:22
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: What if the advances of austerity capitalism can't be rolled back with more of the same reformist liberalism? What if the welfare state as we once knew it is gone for good, and no amount of beltway policy negotations will bring it back? What if—as Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine, asks—creating a more just world requires a radical reimagining of our political and economic system?

What the video to hear Sunkara explain the ways American radicals can start to structurally empower the working class, and read his article in this week's issue on how socialist alternatives would differ from welfare liberalism: http://thenat.in/16PfM66

John Nichols: Chris Christie's Conservative Agenda

Title: John Nichols: Chris Christie's Conservative Agenda
Runtime: 3:53
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: When Chris Christie runs for reelection this year, he'll pivot towards the center and try to pass himself off as a moderate Republican. But when he runs for President in 2016, he'll be running on his staunchly conservative platform of austerity and corporate welfare. Read the full story by John Nichols on TheNation.com: http://thenat.in/12pfuwX

Noam Chomsky: Things Are Ugly—Do Something About It

Title: Noam Chomsky: Things Are Ugly—Do Something About It
Runtime: 3:41
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Post-9/11 repression pales in comparison to what Americans have had in the past, and we have more ways to make a change than people used to have. So why aren't we doing anything with them?

"I've never seen such fear and anger in the country before," Noam Chomsky says in this video. "On the other hand, the opportunities are greater than before. There's much more freedom."

James Hansen: We Are Only Beginning to Feel Climate Change's Impact

Title: James Hansen: We Are Only Beginning to Feel Climate Change's Impact
Runtime: 6:44
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Accepting the 2013 Ridenhour Courage Prize, James Hansen warns of the dire environmental impacts of our growing carbon emissions.

Title: The 2013 Ridenhour Prizes
Runtime: 1:21:00
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Ridenhour Prizes, given every year by the Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation, recognize acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society. Watch the full program from April 24th to see James Hansen, Nick Turse, Seth Rosenfeld, Jose Antonio Vargas and filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering accept their prizes.

Title: Trailer: Dirty Wars
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond. Read Scahill's article in The Nation, "Inside America's Dirty Wars" http://thenat.in/12CQhkP

Senator Chuck Schumer's Immigration Joke

Title: Senator Chuck Schumer's Immigration Joke
Runtime: 0:32
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat-NY, speaks with reporters about the Gang of Eight's immigration proposal at an event organized by the Christian Science Monitor, April 25, 2013.

Video courtesy: C-SPAN

Title: Jeremy Scahill: Killing Anwar al-Awlaki
Runtime: 3:45
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: When President Obama killed the Al Qaeda-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki by drone strike in September of 2011, he set a dangerous precedent: The president of the United States was now serving as judge, jury and executioner for American citizens. Read the full story by Jeremy Scahill, Inside America's Dirty Wars, at http://thenat.in/12CQhkP

Helen Clark: Setting the UN's Development Agenda

Title: Helen Clark: Setting the UN's Development Agenda
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Helen Clark, the Administrator of the United Nations' Development Program, has stated that her goal as administrator is nothing less than the elimination of extreme poverty around the world. An ambitious objective, but Clark appears undaunted by the task. Read the full interview with Clark at http://thenat.in/14JVMS8

Ginia Bellafante: Resurrecting Brownsville, New York

Title: Ginia Bellafante: Resurrecting Brownsville, New York
Runtime: 3:32
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In this video, Ginia Bellafante explains how one low-income Brooklyn neighborhood is proving the exception to gentrification. Read the full story at http://thenat.in/13jjC2r

Title: Doug Henwood: Planning New York City
Runtime: 3:19
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Downtown Brooklyn, a neighborhood known for decades for low-rise buildings of modest economic aspirations, has recently witnessed a rising forest of "luxury" high-rises. How did this reversal come about? Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZzPKej

Students United for Public Education at Occupy the DOE 2.0

Title: Students United for Public Education at Occupy the DOE 2.0
Runtime: 22:46
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: At Occupy the DOE 2.0, students from New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Chicago chart an alternative vision for education reform. (Video: James Cersonsky, TheNation.com)

How the Left Fought Back Against Thatcher

Title: How the Left Fought Back Against Thatcher
Runtime: 4:09
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In this video, an excerpt from Antonino D'Ambrosio's "Let Fury Have the Hour," artists and musicians weigh in on the twin legacies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, and the grim courses they set for their nations.

John Nichols: Democracy vs. Dollarocracy

Title: John Nichols: Democracy vs. Dollarocracy
Runtime: 2:52
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: So long as austerity-mongers have their way, "democracy" is just a buzzword. Read more at http://thenat.in/YkGu1s

Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn't Get Us, Climate Change Will

Title: Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn't Get Us, Climate Change Will
Runtime: 6:43
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The growing threats of nuclear war and environmental catastrophe make it hard to bet on the survival of our species.

Living and Breathing in the Shadow of Chevron

Title: Living and Breathing in the Shadow of Chevron
Runtime: 8:36
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: When California passed its Global Warming Solutions Act, Assembly Bill 32, in 2006, many environmental justice advocates hoped that the legislation, which regulates greenhouse gas emissions, would also combat health problems caused by big polluters, like refineries. A refinery emits carbon dioxide, which causes climate change, along with other kinds of pollution that are linked to respiratory disease and cancer. Some residents of the state believe that the regulation should force refineries to clean up their own operations, not allow them to trade permits to pollute through a policy called "cap and trade."

AB32 began regulating industrial greenhouse gas emissions this year. Residents of Richmond, a low-income city alongside Chevron's oil refinery in the San Francisco Bay, believe the regulation should require Chevron to clean up ongoing air pollution in their community.

Read the full story of California's cap-and-trade promises and drawbacks at http://thenat....

AUDIO: New York's Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas

Title: AUDIO: New York's Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas
Runtime: 5:08
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Audio obtained by The Nation confirms that New York City's police union cooperated with the NYPD in setting arrest quotas for the department's officers. According to some officers and critics of quotas, the practice has played a direct role in increasing the number of stop-and-frisk encounters since Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to office. Patrolmen who spoke to The Nation explained that the pressure from superiors to meet quota goals has caused some officers to seek out or even manufacture arrests to avoid department retaliation.

Voices in this video have been altered to protect the identities of the officers interviewed.

Read the full story at http://thenat.in/ZGDiv1

McDonalds Workers Mic Check New York City Franchise

Title: McDonalds Workers Mic Check New York City Franchise
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Striking guest workers mic check a Times Square franchise of McDonalds, March 14, 2013. Read the full story at http://thenat.in/WgPd4N

John Nichols: The 'Fix the Debt' Campaign's Astroturf Roots

Title: John Nichols: The 'Fix the Debt' Campaign's Astroturf Roots
Runtime: 2:19
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: How did debt reduction become Washington's number one priority? As a new special issue of The Nation explores, it has a lot to do with the 'Fix the Debt' campaign and its billionaire backers.

For more, read John Nichols on how Fix the Debt's austerity agenda is an electoral flop: http://thenat.in/120tuSg

Bill McKibben: Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline for Good

Title: Bill McKibben: Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline for Good
Runtime: 2:47
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: "I'm expecting that Sunday will be the biggest rally about climate change that there's ever been in this country," Bill McKibben says about this Sunday's #ForwardOnClimate rally in Washington, DC. What will it take to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the 350.org founder? "We're not going to outspend the fossil fuel industry," he explains. "We have to find other currencies to work in, and those are the currencies of movements." Read more at http://thenat.in/12hq3FK

Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside

Title: Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside
Runtime: 3:42
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Undocumented immigrant activists Marco Saavedra and Viridiana Martinez were picked up by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to Florida's Broward Transitional Center last summer. But their cases were special: They had both voluntarily gotten themselves locked up, in order to more effectively organize other detainees against the spike in deportations in the past few years. Marco's goal was "to make it such a PR nightmare for ICE to have someone in the facility that it's more convenient, or more amenable to them, to have you on the outside." Watch the full video to hear Saavedra describe his struggle on behalf of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA). Read more about the NIYA's work in the February 18, 2013, edition of the Nation: http://thenat.in/YlG2gW

Mike Papantonio: The Climate Change Point of No Return

Title: Mike Papantonio: The Climate Change Point of No Return
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Attorney Mike Papantonio, co-host of the national radio talk show Ring of Fire, repeats what scientists like Bill McKibben have been saying for years: as the planet's temperature rises, its climate is nearing a "no-return zone." Once the temperature increases by a further 2 degrees celsius, the earth will began to suffer extinction events. As of now, we're heading for a seven-celsius increase in temperature—and climate catastrophe.

Rather than get caught up in short-term concerns, we need to focus on the bigger issues affecting the sustainability of our planet, Papantonio argues. On February 17th, activists from around the country will be in DC with McKibben's 350.org, the Sierra Club and the Hip-Hop Caucus for the Forward on Climate rally, demanding that Obama take a principled stand to address the realities of climate change.

Glenn Harris: Race and Social Justice in Our Cities

Title: Glenn Harris: Race and Social Justice in Our Cities
Runtime: 4:23
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Glenn Harris, the Race and Social Justice Initiative Manager for the City of Seattle, explains how centering race in discussions about urban planning can make our cities better for all residents.

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We Are Undocumented America: Fighting for Immigration Reform in 2013

Title: We Are Undocumented America: Fighting for Immigration Reform in 2013
Runtime: 4:38
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Against the backdrop of record deportations, three members of the North Carolina DREAM Team outline what it would take to make immigration reform both comprehensive and meaningful in 2013. Read the full story at http://thenat.in/SC4WJN

Title: 1 15 13 NRF Mic check
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Billy Bragg: Cynicism Is Our Greatest Enemy

Title: Billy Bragg: Cynicism Is Our Greatest Enemy
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An excerpt from Let Fury Have the Hour, a film by Antonino D'Ambrosio. To Read Bragg's contribution to a special issue of The Nation, visit http://thenat.in/VNfqWS

Title: Eugene Hütz: Transcontinental Hustle
Runtime: 1:32
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An excerpt from Let Fury Have the Hour, a film by Antonino D'Ambrosio. To read a special forum issue of The Nation, visit http://thenat.in/SmfZb6

Shepard Fairey: Building the World We Want to Live In

Title: Shepard Fairey: Building the World We Want to Live In
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An excerpt from Let Fury Have the Hour, a film by Antonino D'Ambrosio. To read a special forum issue of The Nation, visit http://thenat.in/SmfZb6

Staceyann Chin: There Is Power in the Pen

Title: Staceyann Chin: There Is Power in the Pen
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An excerpt from Let Fury Have the Hour, a film by Antonino D'Ambrosio. To read Chin's contribution to a special issue of The Nation, visit http://thenat.in/WvjhnQ

DJ Spooky: Turning the World Upside Down

Title: DJ Spooky: Turning the World Upside Down
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An excerpt from Let Fury Have the Hour, a film by Antonino D'Ambrosio. For DJ Spooky's contribution for a special issue of The Nation, visit http://thenat.in/ZLByEc

Title: Hari Kunzru: Telling New Stories
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: An excerpt from Let Fury Have the Hour, a film by Antonino D'Ambrosio.

Dean Spade: Why the Law Is Not Enough [EXCERPT]

Title: Dean Spade: Why the Law Is Not Enough [EXCERPT]
Runtime: 2:28
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Dean Spade—founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and author of the new book, "Normal Life"—explains why we need to rethink the criminalization of large parts of the population. This is an excerpt of an exclusive two-part interview with Spade. To watch the full interview go to GritTV.org

Title: Block the Boat
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Introducing The Nation Builders

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Introducing The Nation Builders
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: For more information, visit nationbuilders.thenation.com

Mindy Fullilove: Building Stronger Communities After Super Storm Sandy

Title: Mindy Fullilove: Building Stronger Communities After Super Storm Sandy
Runtime: 2:09
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: With global climate change upon us, extreme weather events like Super Storm Sandy will become even more frequent. Research psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove explains that focusing on community cohesion can go a long way toward softening the psychic stresses of natural disasters. Watch the full interview at http://www.blip.tv/file/6455129

Eugene Jarecki: When Will the Drug War Finally End? [EXCERPT]

Title: Eugene Jarecki: When Will the Drug War Finally End? [EXCERPT]
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The drug war has been a colossal waste of money, resources and, most importantly, lives. For Eugene Jarecki, the director of The House I Live In, the time has never been better to end this destructive cycle. Watch the full interview here: http://www.blip.tv/file/6455268

Bill McKibben: Connecting the Dots on Climate Change

Title: Bill McKibben: Connecting the Dots on Climate Change
Runtime: 3:33
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: "We should not have called it Hurricane Sandy. We should have called it Hurricane Exxon," says climate activist Bill McKibben. In the aftermath of a superstorm, Americans are finally making the connection between the changing weather and our fossil fuel addiction. McKibben took a break from his "Do the Math" tour, which calls on universities and other organizations to divest from the fossil fuel industry, to discuss the pressing structural changes we need to slow our warming planet.

Yolanda Andrews: If I Lose My House I Will Lose Everything

Title: Yolanda Andrews: If I Lose My House I Will Lose Everything
Runtime: 3:15
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Yolanda Andrews is just one of thousands of homeowners across the country struggling to keep her house. After seeing too many neighbors face foreclosure, Andrews has joined the Home Defenders League to stand up against the predatory banks that pushed doomed mortgages in low-income communities of color. On December 6, the first anniversary of Occupy Our Homes, housing activists will protest outside New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's house to demand assistance for underwater homeowners. The action will be one of many taking place across the country, protesting big banks and reclaiming homes for the families that desperately need them.

Saket Soni: Fighting for a Better Future After Sandy

Title: Saket Soni: Fighting for a Better Future After Sandy
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Saket Soni hurried to the Gulf and started the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice. What he found in the days after the storm was that corporations and politicians were doing everything they could to reshape the damaged city in their favor. Now, after Super Storm Sandy wreaked havoc on the Northeast, Saket has some words of advice for New York, New Jersey and other affected areas: It's never too earlier to start rebuilding and reimagining the city we all want to live in. Watch more from The Laura Flanders Show at http://blip.tv/grittv

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