The Nation
Jane McAlevey: Building the Labor Movement in Obama's Second Term
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- Jane McAlevey: Building the Labor Movement in Obama's Second Term
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- With a Democrat again in the White House for the next four years, the labor movement has won some much-needed breathing room, says organizer and author Jane McAlevey. Now's the time, McAlevey says, to get the best activists back in the field and push hard for expanded labor rights.
For more interviews, watch The Laura Flanders Show: http://www.blip.tv/file/6436923
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- Black Friday Mic Check at Maryland Walmart
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Radhika Balakrishnan: Austerity Is a Human Rights Violation
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The renowned feminist economist explains why cuts to healthcare, education and other social services are a threat to human dignity and a violation of human rights. Watch the full interview at http://www.blip.tv/file/6428740
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- Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- In 1981, the legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater, after a decade as South Carolina's most effective Republican operative, was working in Ronald Reagan's White House when he was interviewed by Alexander Lamis, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University.
In this audio, made public for the first time ever, Atwater lays out how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves. Listen to the full audio and read Rick Perlstein's analysis here: https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
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- Bill McKibben: Global Warming's Dystopian Future
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- 4:11
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Having just come out of one of the hottest summers on record, wrought with droughts and wildfires, it's a wonder that "climate change" doesn't seem to exist in either of our 2012 presidential candidates' vocabularies. Author and activist Bill McKibben notes that we can't stop global warming, as the earth's temperature has already risen, but "we can keep it from getting worse."
Video filmed and edited by Karen Rybold-Chin.
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- Weathering Super Storm Sandy in Chinatown
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Super storm Sandy hit lower Manhattan hard over the night of October 29-30. Floodwaters spilled over doorsteps in Alphabet City, cars floated through Battery Park, and power went out for almost all of the residents of the island below 39th street. Electricity remained off for those residents on Thursday, four days after the storm struck, and was expected to remain off for at least another day.
Municipal and federal aid to neighborhoods populated by low-income residents and people of color—such as Chinatown and the Lower East Side—has been largely absent. On Thursday The Nation spoke with staff members of the Chinatown-based organization CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities about the resource center they have set up at their offices to fill that void. Since Wednesday, CAAAV has provided a generator, food and water, and translation services for residents in need of both sustenance and up-to-date information on the storm's ongoing effects. CAAAV additionally continues to ...
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- Buddy Roemer: Banks Need to Put the Customer First
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 paved the way for big banks to gamble with customer money, and eventually trigger the biggest financial crisis in the US since the Great Depression, says former Louisiana governor and Republican presidential candidate Buddy Roemer. "I'm not against large," Roemer says about banking practices in the country, "What I'm against is dumb. What I'm against is greed. What I'm against is the banker first and the customer second. It ought to be reversed."
Video edited by Karen Rybold-Chin and filmed by Eric Allin and Greg David. For more videos visit TheNation.com
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- Stop Killing Our Youth: Protest Against Police Brutality
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- On September 7, 2012, Reynaldo Cuevas was shot and killed by a police officer as he was fleeing from robbers inside a bodega. The 20-year-old was unarmed. Sadly, Cuevas is one of hundreds of minorities killed by the police every year. On October 22, people gathered in New York City's Union Square for the 17th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.
The Nation spoke with Nicole Cuevas, Reynaldo's sister, who said she's protesting for justice. "We don't want them to say, 'It was an accident. I'm sorry,' and call it a day," Cuevas said, "You can't just take someone's life away and move on with your life."
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- Tammy Baldwin: Overturn 'Citizens United'
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The Citizens United decision in 2010 gave corporations unrestricted spending power in elections, ensuring that a few healthy elite hold the most influence in determining the United States government. Wisconsin senatorial candidate Tammy Baldwin says the Supreme Court needs to overturn its decision for "the American people to get their democracy back."
Video was edited by Karen Rybold-Chin and filmed by Eric Allin and Greg David.
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- Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Media Can Fight Back Against 'Citizens United'
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- 3:34
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The Supreme Court's 'Citizens United' decisions opened the floodgates for corporate money to be used in elections in previously unprecedented ways. That's why, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel argues, independent media must work harder than ever to expose the abuses of power that will inevitably follow when money and politics mix.
Watch all of the videos in this Citizens United series at http://www.blip.tv/file/6384071
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- Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein: Downsize the Military
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The US military budget has doubled since 2001, reaching nearly a trillion dollars. And Mitt Romney wants to add another 2 trillion on top. But Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says that for all the increased military spending, the US isn't any safer—in fact, it's less secure. Stein says expanding the military industrial complex and drone warfare has made the world view the US as an aggressor, rather than a "champion for justice, human rights and international law."
Video edited by Karen Rybold-Chin and filmed by Eric Allin and Greg David.
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- Patricia Williams: Paul Ryan's Libertarian America
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- After four years, many voters haven't quite seen the "change" they were hoping for from an Obama presidency. But a Republican takeover of the oval office would mean the reversal of every policy battle progressives have won—from the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell to the Affordable Care Act. Nation columnist Patricia Williams says Mitt Romney's choice of running mate, the Ayn Rand-inspired Paul Ryan, reveals the GOP candidate's "slow march to the right."
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- Katrina vanden Heuvel: Facing the Alternative to Obama
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- After four years, many voters haven't quite seen the "change" they were hoping for from an Obama presidency. But a Republican takeover of the oval office would mean the reversal of every policy battle progressives have won—from the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell to the Affordable Care Act. Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel lays out why voting to keep Obama in office doesn't mean compromising voter values, but rather preserving the opportunity to keep fighting.
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- The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy
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- 13:15
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- A secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city's young people of color in the NYPD's crosshairs. Read the full story at: http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video
Directed by Ross Tuttle
Produced by Ross Tuttle, Erin Schneider, Stephen Maing
Camera by Ross Tuttle, Stephen Maing
Editing by Stephen Maing, Carla Ruff
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- Pyotr Verzilov: Free Pussy Riot
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- On October 1, members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot will appeal their sentence of two years in prison on charges of "hooliganism." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were arrested in February, after a political performance at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow that called for the Virgin Mary to "rid us of Putin!" Tolokonnikova's husband Pyotr Verzilov traveled to the U.S. the week before the trial to accept the LennonOno Grant for Peace Award on the women's behalf and continue rallying support for their release. Versilov and his 4-year-old daughter Gara, who wore a t-shirt emblazoned "All Rights for All People", spoke with The Nation about the international response to Pussy Riot's imprisonment, and what it says about the anti-Putin movement in Russia.
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- Pam Brown: Occupy Debt
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- We as a society view our monetary debts as a moral issue: We took out the money, we should have to pay it back. The problem with this logic is that the money we are giving the banks, financial institutions and our government never existed before the interest we incurred piled up.
Pam Brown of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and Strike Debt says there's another way out of our predicament: If our numbers are large enough, we can collectively refuse to pay back the trillions that are being extorted from us. Watch the full conversation with Laura Flanders to learn more: http://www.blip.tv/file/6346091
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- #S17 2012: One Year of Occupy Wall Street
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- 4:09
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- One year ago on September 17, a few activists began a peaceful protest just outside Wall Street in New York's financial district. That action sparked a sweeping movement of public space "Occupations," in which citizens could air their grievances against corporate greed, protected interests and much more. Encampments sprang up across the world, from Oakland City Hall to St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Police cleared out the tents months ago, but the networks of activists, young and old, remain intact, as evidenced by this weekend's packed schedule of Occupy actions. Watch this video to see what activists, union workers and students in debt are planning for the second year of Occupy.
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- Cornel West and Tavis Smiley's Poverty Tour 2.0 Hits the Battleground States
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- 4:44
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West recently launched "Poverty Tour 2.0" to elevate poverty as a pressing national issue and push a substantive conversation about it into the presidential campaign. The tour is visiting four battleground states this week, including Virginia, where it arrived yesterday at TC Williams High School in Alexandria, just outside of the nation's capital.
The Nation's Greg Kaufmann attended the event—a town hall meeting that included not only Smiley and Dr. West, but inspiring interviews with iconic figures like Peter Edelman, Dolores Huerta, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, and other passionate antipoverty advocates and thinkers.
Watch the full video to hear from some of the high school students in attendance about their own experiences dealing with poverty, and visit TheNation.com for more videos.
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- Chris Hedges: The Absurdity of American Empire
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace? You get what Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, calls "sacrifice zones." From Appalachia to North Dakota to Camden, New Jersey, these zones, ravaged by the excesses of capitalism, prefigure our collective future.
This is an excerpt, watch the full interview with Chris Hedges and Laura Flanders at http://www.blip.tv/file/6331379
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- Voices from the DNC: Susana López Krulevitch and Sofia Krulevitch: Democratic Women
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When Susana López Krulevitch came down from New York for the DNC, she brought a special guest: Her daughter, Sofia Krulevitch. According to Susana, one of the major differences between the two parties is how integral women are to both the Democrats' base and the leadership, and the example that sets for her daughter. Watch the full video and visit TheNation.com for more from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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- Getting Out the Vote Aboard the 1911 United Super PAC Bus
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- 3:29
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When two historically black fraternities celebrated their 100th year anniversary, the members asked themselves what they could do to show their appreciation to the community that had supported them for a past century—and they decided they could help people re-elect Barack Obama. That's what Sinclair Skinner tells me as he leans back at the driver's seat on the massive 1911 United bus. Sinclair, the group's treasurer, says that because fraternities are limited by their 501C(7) status, members wanted to take advantage of the Citizens United ruling to get out the vote. So they formed a Super PAC.
The bus is making its rounds in predominantly black neighborhoods in the seven swing states of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Colorado. For Sinclair and the half-a-dozen people on the bus, the goal is to recruit 1,000 volunteers to get 100 people to register, and vote to re-elect Barack Obama. The Super PAC has a modest budget: some $90,000 have...
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- Howard Dean: The Case for Obama
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- 4:35
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and chair of the Democratic Party from 2005-2008, met with The Nation's Ari Berman on Wednesday in Charlotte for a conversation about Obama's chances, Paul Ryan's lies, the impact of unlimited Super PAC money and new voting restrictions on American democracy, and the status of the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party."
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- Voices from the DNC: Lillie Madali: Fighting to Keep Healthcare for Asian Americans
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- One in ten Asian Americans carry hepatitis B, and before the Affordable Care Act, those ten percent could be denied health insurance based on this pre-existing condition. Lillie Madali, visiting the DNC from Atlanta, Georgia, explains why Obamacare is so important to Asian American communities and to young people in general.
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- Voices from the DNC: Herbert Graves on Romney's Disconnect with Working America
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- At last week's Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney made a point of arguing that though he may have come from privilege, he could still relate to the average American. But Herbert Graves, a delegate to the DNC from Maryland, says that Romney's message is not connecting with working people.
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- Voices from the DNC: Monisha Harrell on Marriage Equality
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The Democrats' 2012 party platform is the first in American political history to overtly call for marriage equality regardless of sexual orientation. As Monisha Harrell, a delegate from Washington state explains, this is a big step forward toward a national politics of equality.
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- JoAnn Wypijewski: The GOP's Ron Paul Problem
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- 5:30
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The Republican party has a problem and his name is Ron Paul. The libertarian politician's supporters are some of the most earnest and zealous members of the GOP's current grassroots base, but at last week's convention in Tampa, the party did everything in its power to quiet some of their more radical small-government critiques. Watch the full video with JoAnn Wypijewski to learn more about how the politics of the Paul delegates could soon lead to a split within the Republican party.
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- Jane McAlevey: We Can't Labor Without Our Lives
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- More work, less pay, longer hours, slimmer chances for us or our children to advance; the message is coming up: We can't Labor without our Lives. As organizer and author Jane McAlevey explains in this video with Laura Flanders, the place of struggle is the workplace, but it's also everywhere else.
Watch the full conversation with McAlevey at http://www.blip.tv/file/6317013
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- Undocumented Immigrants Take On the DNC
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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Some 800 people gathered in Charlotte's Frazier Park and marched to Uptown, where the Democratic National Convention kicks off on Tuesday. Environmental justice, immigration, labor, education, anti-war, and Occupy activists spent nearly four hours in the streets despite an overwhelming amount of police and other security forces.
The march marked the first major protest for Undocubus riders. The bus made its way from Phoenix, Arizona, picking up riders along the way from various states in the South in the past month. The activists are calling for the immigration reform that President Obama promised when he first ran for office. Watch the full video to learn more about Undocubus and visit NoPapersNoFear.org to get involved.
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- Rick Perlstein: Mitt Romney's Acceptance Speech Failure
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- A presidential candidate's nomination acceptance speech traditionally serves as their introduction to the country. According to Rick Perlstein, Mitt Romney's speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa won't make a very positive impression on the American electorate.
Watch the full video for more, and visit TheNation.com for full coverage of both parties' conventions.
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- Ben Adler: Marco Rubio and the GOP's Latino Problem
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When Marco Rubio takes the stage Thursday night to introduce Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate for president, he will be fulfilling a highly important role: As a rising Latino star in the GOP, he'll be reaching out to a demographic with which his party is faring increasingly poor. But will it work?
Watch the full interview with Ben Adler for more and visit TheNation.com for more from the RNC.
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- George Zornick: The GOP's Voter ID Law Obsession
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- As Nikki Haley proved with her applause line about her state's voter identification law, the specter of voting fraud is as alive as ever in the Republican party. But activists who are working to expand the franchise are beginning to win major victories against its restriction.
Watch the full conversation with Zornick to learn about the pushback against voter suppression and visit TheNation.com for live updates from the Tampa Bay Times Forum and beyond all convention long.
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- Ben Adler: Mike Huckabee's Primetime Moment
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When Mike Huckabee addresses the crowd at the Republican National Convention Wednesday evening, he will be doing so to rally the religious right around a candidate that has so far left much to be desired in the way of hardcore conservative credentials. But he'll also be trying to put a pleasant face on some of the more extreme elements of the party's current platform, in a way only Huckabee can pull off.
Watch the full video to see Ben Adler explain Huckabee's role at the RNC, and visit TheNation.com for live updates from the Tampa Bay Times Forum and beyond all convention long.
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- John Nichols: Mitt Romney Versus the Tea Party
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When the Republican Party adopted their official platform at the Tampa Bay Times Forum Tuesday, it was constructed out of some of the most conservative planks in recent memory. Does that mean that a Mitt Romney presidency would be a Tea Party presidency? Not quite, argues The Nation's John Nichols.
As Nichols explains, while they were authorizing the ultra-right platform, the Romney team has been working to change the party's own internal rules to make Romney less vulnerable from a primary challenge from the right in 2016. Watch the full video for more, and visit TheNation.com for live updates from the Tampa Bay Times Forum and beyond all convention long.
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- The Nation at the Republican National Convention
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- 0:27
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Visit TheNation.com for live updates from the Tampa Bay Times Forum and beyond all week long.
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- Protesters Take On Bain Capital-owned Bloomin' Brands in Tampa
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- 3:25
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- On August 27, five miles from the Republican National Convention being held at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, more than 100 activists from around the country descended on the corporate headquarters of Bloomin' Brand. The company, which controls Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill and several other restaurant chains, was taken over by Mitt Romney-founded Bain in 2007 and has since been active in efforts to lower minimum wages for restaurant employees in Florida and Arizona.
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- Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy
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- 4:36
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people, and has displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since. That's why, as Nakagawa explains in this video with Laura Flanders, he believes that his liberation and the liberation of all people of color in the United States is tied to the liberation of African-Americans. For Nakagawa, anti-black racism is "the fulcrum of white supremacy."
Read more from Nakagawa at his blog, RaceFiles.wordpress.com, and watch the full conversation with Flanders at GRITtv: http://blip.tv/grittv/scot-nakagawa-dismantling-the-fulcrum-of-white-supremacy-6321788
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- Tom Engelhardt: How did the US President Become the Assassin-in-Chief?
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- Assassination has always been a tool of the American state, but before the "War on Terror" it was not something our leaders bragged about. As TomDispatch.com's Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse explain in their new book, Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050, President Obama has gone beyond his predecessors, even beyond George W. Bush, and consolidated his power to the point of becoming the Assassin-in-Chief. Whether the American people are in favor of this type of warfare has never been asked, leaving the decision of who lives and who dies squarely with the president.
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- Ari Berman: The GOP War Against Voters
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- You're more likely to be hit by lightning than you are to commit voter fraud at the polls. So why are Republicans so set on passing voter ID laws and other measures to stop this non-existent threat? According to Ari Berman, it's all part of the GOP's strategy to suppress the Democrat-leaning voter blocks of young people, people of color and immigrants.
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- Ari Berman: Can Obama Win in North Carolina, Again?
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- When Obama won North Carolina in 2008, it was the first time that the state had gone "blue" for a president in over 30 years. In the run up to the 2012 election, Obama has been trying to recreate the grassroots effort that won him the state, focusing on young and minority voters. With the state polling for Romney, can Obama once again pull an upset?
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- Omar Jadwat: Stopping Racial Profiling in Arizona
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- 3:47
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- How do you put a human face on an injustice that so often goes under the radar? Omar Jadwat, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, is tackling that question in his work on the racial profiling trials against Arizona's "Sheriff Joe" Arpaio, and in linking that case to the notorious SB1070.
Testimony ended last week at the trial against Arpaio, and now the district judge will decide the case. By "demonstrating in a very visceral way the human cost," of corruption within an agency charged with our protection, says Jadwat, the case has taken major steps towards ending Arizona's battering of civil liberties.
Sheriff Arpaio is accused, among other things, of ordering "immigration sweeps" and "patrols not based on reports of crime but rather letters from Arizonans who complained about people with dark skin congregating in an area or speaking Spanish."
For more videos, visit TheNation.com. Watch the full conversation with Jadw...
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- John Fullerton: How Can We Curb Financial Speculation?
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- If each of the financial trades Wall Street is carrying out to make their billions incurred a cost, how quickly do you think someone would rein in the robots? That's the logic behind creating a new financial transaction tax for US trading. When we spoke with John Fullerton, former JP Morgan director and hedge fund head, he cited market instability as his number one reason for endorsing for financial transaction, or "Robin Hood" taxes.
For more videos visit TheNation.com. Watch the full interview with John Fullerton at GRITtv.org: http://grittv.org/?p=17123
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- Robert Pollin: Full Employment Is Possible
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- 3:16
- Date posted
- 14 years ago
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- The latest book from Robert Pollin, economics professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the Political Economy Research Institute, is Back to Full Employment. If the title seems bold, the roadmap Pollin lays out behind it is hardly outlandish. In this conversation with Laura Flanders, Pollin explains how the Federal Reserve can grow employment tremendously, without the need for any legislation. "When you have unusued resources in the economy, you can pump money into the economy, and you'll create jobs right away," Pollin says.
Visit TheNation.com for more videos. Watch the full interview with Robert Pollin at GRITtv.org: http://grittv.org/2012/08/03/full-employment-is-possible-robert-pollin/
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- Dana Goldstein: Schools Are Not Businesses
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- There's a reason why business-minded education reformers like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates have been attracted to testing, says The Nation's Dana Goldstein. But education is a very different realm from the that of the boardroom, and, as she explains, "it can be really problematic to bring this more corporate way of thinking into schools."
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- Tom Engelhardt: The Costs of Defense
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Since 9/11, author Tom Engelhardt estimates, perhaps twenty-five to thirty people in the United States have been killed by terrorism—far less than the number of deaths by homicide, or smoking, or car accidents. In this video, Engelhardt, a fellow at the Nation Institute, explains how the fear of terrorism dominates the US national security complex, at a heavy cost.
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- John Fullerton: Can Financial Reform Fight Climate Change?
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- Former managing director at JP Morgan John Fullerton wants to see a complete re-imagining of the world of investments. If we don't, Fullerton argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, our grandchildren will ask us, "What were you thinking?"
For more videos visit TheNation.com. Watch the full conversation at GRITtv.org: http://grittv.org/2012/07/09/finance-is-lost-is-banking-redeemable-an-interview-with-john-fullerton-of-capital-institute/
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- Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Foreign Policy Deception
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- 3:13
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- On the campaign trail, Obama promised an end to torture, extraordinary rendition and secret prisons. But since taking office he has in fact doubled-down on some of the more insidious policies he inherited from the Bush administration. As Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains, Obama has surrounded himself with war hawks, relied on targeted killing and acted unilaterally to defend US interests. Instead of drawing down the two major ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has shifted combat to special operations units, prolonging US engagement and fighting a "dirty" war.
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- Gary Younge: Do Republican Voters Even Like Romney?
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Well, do they? Between lukewarm endorsements from prominent Republicans and under-performing with major voting groups, the question of GOP enthusiasm for Romney—and what the campaign can do about it—is a pressing one.
Nation columnist Gary Younge argues that if mustering enthusiasm from his base is not proving viable, where will Romney go from here?
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- Margaret Flowers: Obamacare Doesn't Go Far Enough
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- 4:09
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program sees one major flaw in President Obama's Affordable Care Act: It did not go far enough. The only solution, Flowers argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, is to push for universal healthcare by expanding medicare so that it covers all Americans.
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- Amber L. Hollibaugh: The LGBTQ Movement's Radical Vision
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- 4:44
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Amber Hollibaugh of Queers for Economic Justice argues that though there's plenty to be proud of after this year's Pride weekend, there's still a long way to go for the LGBTQ movement. For more on Amber and her work, visit QEJ's website at q4ej.org.
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- Laila Al-Arian: Free Speech Under Attack for Muslim Americans
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- 3:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Sami Al-Arian, a professor at the University of South Florida, and an activist on behalf of Palestinian human rights, was arrested over 9 years ago on terrorism charges. His daughter, journalist Laila Al-Arian, tells The Nation how the FBI built a case against her father that was based on intimidation, coercion and pervasive fear. She wrote about the case and the FBI's infilitratration of Muslim communities in The Nation's special issue on Islamophobia.
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