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Title: Fighting Back Against Stop-and-Frisk
Runtime: 4:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Several thousand people marched down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on June 17 to demand an end to the New York Police department's controversial Stop-and-Frisk tactic. The silent march, organized by the NAACP and a coalition of nearly 300 other groups, sought to draw attention to the damage the massive spike in street interrogations is causing to communities of color.

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Title: Moustafa Bayoumi: Criminalizing Muslims
Runtime: 3:08
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: How the everyday activities of Muslim Americans have come to be seen as suspicious, dangerous and even criminal.

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Chris Hayes and Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Twilight of the Elites

Title: Chris Hayes and Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Twilight of the Elites
Runtime: 16:01
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Have the elite leaders of our meritocratic society failed us? Nation Editor-at-Large Chris Hayes speaks with Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel about the ways intelligence is used to detrimental ends, and how we can ensure it is used for good.

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Mariela Castro: Freedom for Alan Gross and the Cuban Five

Title: Mariela Castro: Freedom for Alan Gross and the Cuban Five
Runtime: 7:29
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: During a visit to The Nation's offices, Mariela Castro of the Cuban National Center for Sexual Education spoke about US foreign policy, arguing that "international relations can't be done by force." She also suggested that the United States and Cuba negotiate the release of Alan Gross and the Cuban Five "on the basis of reciprocity and respect."

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Mariela Castro: Should the UN Police Sexual Discrimination Around the Globe?

Title: Mariela Castro: Should the UN Police Sexual Discrimination Around the Globe?
Runtime: 5:41
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: During her visit to the United States, Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education, came to The Nation's office to speak about her work and LGBT rights in Cuba and around the globe. In this video clip, she questions the "humanitarianism" that serves as a shameless pretext for one country to intervene in the affairs of another. She points out that this phenomenon manifests itself at the United Nations, offering a thought-provoking and compelling call for change.

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Ai-jen Poo: Preparing for a Changing America

Title: Ai-jen Poo: Preparing for a Changing America
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: In the years ahead, the country's aging population will grow to become the largest in US history, says Caring Across Generations Co-Director Ai-Jen Poo. As that happens, the demand for long-term care will skyrocket. "Right now, if you're aging or if you have a disability, your choices are really limited," says Poo. "You can go and live in a nursing home or perhaps an assisted living facility, but we want to create more choices so that people can stay in their homes and in their communities, live independently in a context that they know, for as long as possible."

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Peter Edelman: How Did America Get So Poor?

Title: Peter Edelman: How Did America Get So Poor?
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Twenty million people in the United States make less than half of the poverty line, which is about $19,000 per year for a family of three. Another 103 million bring home incomes lower than twice the poverty line. Is this because poverty alleviation programs don't work, or because we have too many low-wage jobs?

Peter Edelman of Georgetown University Law Center joins Laura Flanders to explain how we became a nation that fails to help its most needy citizens and what can be done.

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Jeremy Scahill: A Short History of Drone Warfare

Title: Jeremy Scahill: A Short History of Drone Warfare
Runtime: 3:28
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The United States is on a new trajectory in warfare, says Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation. With its increase in drone strikes, the United States is turning away from the large-scale military interventions of the past decade and towards covert operations, beyond such known locations as Pakistan and Yemen. Check out this video to learn where else Scahill thinks these covert ops are headed.

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Title: Ai-jen Poo: Organizing Precarious Labor
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Unpredictable work, without benefits or stability: this is the sorry position that a growing number of Americans find themselves in as our economy comes to rely more and more on precarious workers. In this video, Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, speaks about the fight to secure more legal rights for all of these workers and how "this is just the beginning."

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Gary Younge: The Revolt Against Austerity

Title: Gary Younge: The Revolt Against Austerity
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Across Europe, people are vocally and actively rejecting austerity. But they're not doing so as Europeans, Nation columnist Gary Younge points out. Global and regional solidarity has been limited, Younge explains in this video, even as people fight similar battles against income inequality and other forms of injustice.

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Dana Goldstein: Why Is the Obama Administration Pushing Testing on Schools?

Title: Dana Goldstein: Why Is the Obama Administration Pushing Testing on Schools?
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The Obama administration is now tying states' access to federal education funds to the ways they hold teachers accountable for students' success. That all sounds good in theory, but The Nation's Dana Goldstein explains how this is causing most states to push test-heavy approaches to evaluating student achievement, and how such models can hurt student's engagement more than they can help.

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How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life

Title: How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life
Runtime: 5:31
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: In 1976, when Trina Garnett was 14 years old, she accidentally started a housefire that ended up killing two boys. Now, thirty-five years later, Trina is fifty years old and still in prison. Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life? The Nation's Liliana Segura explains.

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Ross Perlin: Who Are Precarious Workers?

Title: Ross Perlin: Who Are Precarious Workers?
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy, explains that while growing up, he was exposed to a "myth of work" that involved spending one's entire career in a single industry and working 9am to 5pm in office parks or factories. But in recent decades, he says, the idea of standard employment has "come apart at the seams," and now as much of a third of the labor force in developed countries—including the United States—consists of precarious workers such as freelancers, independent contractors, seasonal part-time workers and interns.

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Title: John Nichols: How to Build a Movement
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A real movement is not limited to a small party. A real movement touches everyone. In Wisconsin, a real movement did just that. In this video, John Nichols explains how the state came together—from the young to the old, from the private sector to the public—in a show of diversity that formed the basis for a broader struggle.

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Gayatri Spivak: The Long and Short of Capitalism's Demise

Title: Gayatri Spivak: The Long and Short of Capitalism's Demise
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The short-term work of strikes and sensational displays of worker power will not be enough to dislodge capitalism's grip on our lives, says Professor Gayatri Spivak of Columbia University. These short-term tactics must be paired with the longer-term efforts of education and organization. This educational work, Spivak insists in this video, is "not really the pedagogy of the oppressed, it is indeed the pedagogy of the liberated, because if you do not have training in the practice of freedom, when you win... it will not last."

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Title: May Day 2012, New York City
Runtime: 1:18
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: This May Day, activists agitating for immigrant rights, labor and Occupy Wall Street are joining together for protests in cities across the country. Watch footage in this video from the protests in New York City currently underway.

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Title: Reimagining the General Strike
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: When May 1 rolls around, the proposed general strike will probably not strictly resemble famed general strikes of history. But the tactic is no less significant now than it used to be. In fact, a lot rides on this upcoming May Day. This video, featuring archival footage and the words of Marina Sitrin, Francis Fox Piven and John Nichols, explains why the general strike matters so much, not just for Occupy and labor but for the legitimacy of democracy itself.

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Gayatri Spivak: The General Strike Is Not Reformist

Title: Gayatri Spivak: The General Strike Is Not Reformist
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The idea of the general strike is not reformist simply because it demands changes to laws and working conditions. Rather, as Professor Gayatri Spivak of Columbia University argues in this video, the general strike is one vital tool in the array of tactics that must be used to fundamentally alter the relations between the classes. What's more, revolution will not come about through a "catastrophic change" as was once imagined, and that concept should be given a decent burial.

David Stovall: What can Hip Hop Teach Us About the World?

Title: David Stovall: What can Hip Hop Teach Us About the World?
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: History, sex, politics, race. The versatility of hip hop knows no bounds, particularly when it comes to helping people deepen their understanding of the world in which they live. In this video, David Stovall, associate professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, explains how hip hop can teach listeners to understand contradictions—in government, society and beyond. Check out the video to learn more about the intellectual underpinnings of this unique genre.

David Stovall: The Facts and Failures of Educational Policy

Title: David Stovall: The Facts and Failures of Educational Policy
Runtime: 2:52
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Schools have morphed from extensions of a community into centers that more closely resemble factories and prisons, says David Stovall, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. What will it take to confront this reality, instead of distancing ourselves from it, as we are now?

Marina Sitrin: Imagining a New General Strike

Title: Marina Sitrin: Imagining a New General Strike
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The call for a general strike on May 1 should not be solely about work, argues Marina Sitrin, a postdoctoral fellow at CUNY specializing in global mass movements. Instead, it should reshape our ideas about how society is built, as Sitrin explains in this video, by asking hard questions about class, consumption, work and society.

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John Nichols: The Power of the General Strike

Title: John Nichols: The Power of the General Strike
Runtime: 2:50
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The idea of a general strike might seem a little outdated for today's global economy, but general strikes nevertheless demonstrate not just the power but also the necessity of coordinated action for social and economic justice. In this video, John Nichols, who grew up in a factory town, offers a brief overview of the history of unionization and the general strike and the impact of both on workers' rights.

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Tom Engelhardt: Making America Truly Safer

Title: Tom Engelhardt: Making America Truly Safer
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: If the United States wants to protect itself, building up the military is not the way to go, says author and writer Tom Engelhardt. In this episode of VideoNation, Engelhardt envisions the implications and benefits of a US military that is defensive rather than offensive.

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David Blume: Nature Is Smarter Than Pesticide

Title: David Blume: Nature Is Smarter Than Pesticide
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Agriculture in the United States has relied on the same unreliable methods and resources for decades, says David Blume, ecologist and expert on permaculture. In this clip from VideoNation and On The Earth Productions, Blume explains not only why these methods, such as the constant spraying of pesticides, are destructive but also what successful and sustainable alternatives exist.

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David Holmgren: The Reverse of Globalization

Title: David Holmgren: The Reverse of Globalization
Runtime: 5:29
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: In this video from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, ecologist David Holmgren traces the path of permaculture from its roots in the 1970s to its potential, in the future, to reshape how humans interact with the planet. He explains how its premise—working with nature rather than against it—will help us adapt to and survive in a resource-scarce world.

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Jeremy Scahill: Who Approves the Drones?

Title: Jeremy Scahill: Who Approves the Drones?
Runtime: 3:22
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Which is the scariest? Targeted assassinations, the fact that Congress can no longer prevent them, or the fact that Congress doesn't seem to care about the loss of oversight? In this episode from VideoNation, author and Nation writer Jeremy Scahill explains the steps taken by the Bush administration and extended by the Obama administration in order to circumvent Congress and carry out targeted killings.

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Title: John Nichols: The Power of Symbolism
Runtime: 2:36
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A defining moment came early on in Wisconsin's struggle against Governor Scott Walker's decision to eliminate the rights of public sector workers. Walker decided to exempt some workers, but not others, from the loss of pensions and collective bargaining rights, hoping to divide them. Instead, the opposite happened. Listen to John Nichols describe a stunning event where those whose rights remained intact stood up for those whose rights had not.

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Title: Ai-jen Poo: Caring Across Generations
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Given that one American turns 65 every eight seconds, it should come as no surprise that homecare is among the nation's fastest growing industries. However, says Caring Across Generations Co-Director Ai-jen Poo, we don't yet have a system in place to care for these people. Her organization aims to create two million homecare jobs and, in the process, "transform long-term care in a way that recognizes everyone's dignity."

In this week's issue of The Nation, Laura Flanders explains how the campaign has begun to make major progress.

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Tom Engelhardt: America's Soviet Decline

Title: Tom Engelhardt: America's Soviet Decline
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: As the Soviet Union neared its end, the government was pouring money into its military, waging a difficult war in Afghanistan, and sinking further into debt. Does that sound anything like the United States today? In this video, TomDispatch.com's Tom Engelhardt, a Nation Institute Fellow, expands on themes from his new book, The United States of Fear, to draw parallels between the fall of the Soviet Union and the present-day United States.

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Title: Elizabeth Warren's Massachusetts
Runtime: 5:54
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Will Elizabeth Warren—the dedicated consumer protection advocate-turned politician—be too progressive for Massachusetts voters? That's the fear as she ramps up her campaign to take on Scott Brown for the state's US Senate seat. In this video, E.J. Graff explains the hurdles Warren will have to overcome if she is to win over Massachusetts Democrats and undecideds by September.

For more on Elizabeth Warren's senate run, read Graff's article in this week's issue of The Nation. For more videos, visit TheNation.com

Title: The Nation: Power to the 99%
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Subscribe to The Nation magazine at www.GetTheNation.com.

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Title: John Nichols: The GOP's Wisconsin Envy
Runtime: 2:44
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: What if there were a Scott Walker in the Republican presidential race? Or a Paul Ryan? The political pundit class, says John Nichols, wishes that were the case. "They want a fire-breathing, anti-union, radical-change agent. Instead they got Mitt Romney, which is about as lousy a second choice as is humanly imaginable."

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Can Elizabeth Warren Win In Massachusetts?

Title: Can Elizabeth Warren Win In Massachusetts?
Runtime: 1:04
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Elizabeth Warren is playing smart politics in her run for a senate seat for Massachusetts. But will her progressive platform sway the state's crucial swing voter's? For more, read E.J. Graff's article in next week's issue of The Nation.

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The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later

Title: The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later
Runtime: 17:29
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The prisoners filling the cells of New York's Attica prison in 1971 faced inhumane conditions. They earned 56 cents per day for manual labor in searing workshops, were only allowed one bar of soap a month and could only shower once every two weeks. They were not allowed to read what they wanted to read and there was no due process in parole hearings. The prison population was largely black and Hispanic, controlled by an all-white guard staff. After years of agitation by civil rights activists and the black power movement, the authorities across America were beginning to push back.

When tempers reached a boiling point on September 9, the prisoners erupted in a full-fledged rebellion, taking over the prison and holding it for four days, along with several guards who had been taken hostage. But when the negotiations broke down over the point of amnesty for violence conducted during the take-over of the complex, the mood in and outside the prison soured. By the time state tro...

Tom Hayden: Reclaiming Participatory Democracy

Title: Tom Hayden: Reclaiming Participatory Democracy
Runtime: 2:31
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Tom Hayden, Nation writer and longtime activist, offers historical perspective on the rise of participatory democracy in America and its connection to the student movement of the 1960s. In this video, Hayden explains why participatory democracy can, should and will constitute "the only framework for the development of progressive movements and politics" in America.

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Title: The Nation Cruise: Seminars at Sea
Runtime: 2:25
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Fresh ideas. Discussion. Community. Humor. Passengers cite many different reasons for joining The Nation cruise, but one thing is certain: the trip brings together The Nation family in a way few other opportunities can.

To learn more and to book a cabin for this year's cruise, visit The Nation Cruise's website at NationCruise.com.

John Nichols: Fighting Back Against Austerity

Title: John Nichols: Fighting Back Against Austerity
Runtime: 2:41
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Despite Americans' belief that the United States is immune to the deprivations of austerity, the country is actually only a few bad elections away from a radical right-wing leadership, John Nichols declares, and its agenda could devastate many American lives through cuts to social programs and spending. Nichols elaborates on how and why Americans cannot be complacent and instead must fight to take back democracy, beginning, but not ending, with elections.

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Title: Alice Kaplan: Angela Davis's France
Runtime: 3:45
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: When Angela Davis arrived in France in the early 1960s, she quickly learned that the country was not the refuge from Jim Crow racism that the young college student imagined it would be. But France nevertheless had an important impact on her thinking and development, as the turbulant decolonization fights of the decade "nourished her sense of politics." Later, the country would play another important role in her life, as Alice Kaplan explains in her article in this week's issue of The Nation, "Dreaming in French."

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Title: The Occupy Spring: Marina Sitrin
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Will we see new forms of democracy emerge from the movements in Egypt, Spain, New York City and elsewhere?

In this video, Marina Sitrin, a postdoctoral fellow specializing in global mass movements, says that the very state of democracy has come into question across the globe: "People are saying we don't feel represented by these systems that allegedly represent us, so we're going to go out and take over parks and take over plazas and be together, [and] create a different form of democracy."

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Title: The Occupy Spring: Todd Gitlin
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Columbia University Professor Todd Gitlin argues that this country's moral crisis is not about contraception or abortion or same-sex marriage, but about grotesque wealth disparities and the criminal behavior that shook the world economy. "I think it's a shame," he says, "that the notion of moral crisis has been cornered by conservatives who associate 'moral crisis' with phenomena like contraception and abortion and same-sex marriage. I think that the langugae of morality, the language of value, traditionally ought to be, in any case, the language of the left."

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Title: The Occupy Spring: Ilyse Hogue
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Ilyse Hogue, former director of political advocacy and communications for MoveOn.org, explains how the Occupy movement has laid the groundwork for new political opportunities this spring.

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Title: The Occupy Spring: Frances Fox Piven
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: How can Americans harness the power of the Occupy movement to reign in the rampant inequality of recent years? In this video, Frances Fox Piven explains why inequality is the default mode of American politics, and nothing will change unless there is trouble from below.

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Title: The Occupy Spring: Jeremy Brecher
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Author and labor historian Jeremy Brecher elucidates the connections between the environmental movement and the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Title: Moriba Kamara
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A video from the article "Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison?" by Deepa Fernandes and Abdulai Bah in the The Nation magazine: http://www.thenation.com/article/165974/deported-and-forgotten

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Title: John Adolphos Woods
Runtime: 1:04
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A video from the article "Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison?" by Deepa Fernandes and Abdulai Bah in the The Nation magazine: http://www.thenation.com/article/165974/deported-and-forgotten

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Title: Eric Mullbah
Runtime: 1:57
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A video from the article "Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison?" by Deepa Fernandes and Abdulai Bah in the The Nation magazine: http://www.thenation.com/article/165974/deported-and-forgotten

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Title: Bill Passawe
Runtime: 0:35
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A video from the article "Why Did an Asylum Seeker to the US End Up in a Liberian Prison?" by Deepa Fernandes and Abdulai Bah in the The Nation magazine: http://www.thenation.com/article/165974/deported-and-forgotten

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Title: Jeremy Scahill: Obama the Hawk
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Despite President Obama's opposition to messy, large-scale military operations, the president is actually a "very careful hawk" when it comes to military action, The Nation's Jeremy Scahill argues. From the expansion of drone operations to the normalization of assassination as a part of US foreign policy, Obama is pushing forward into new and dangerous foreign policy territory.

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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fighting Back Against 'Citizens United'

Title: Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fighting Back Against 'Citizens United'
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Two years ago, in an "unprecedented assault on our democracy," the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited amounts on electoral campaigns. Today, 80 percent of Americans want to overturn the court's Citizens United vs. FEC decision. The Nation's editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel shares ways you can help take back government so it remains one by the people, for the people and of the people, and not for corporations and their money.

Tony Kushner: Puffin Prize Acceptance Speech

Title: Tony Kushner: Puffin Prize Acceptance Speech
Runtime: 20:22
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: On December 5 at its gala dinner, The Nation Institute awarded playwright and screenwriter (and Nation editorial board member) Tony Kushner its annual $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship "for a lifetime of artistic work giving voice to the marginalized, and his outspoken criticism of social injustice."

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