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Jeremy Scahill: How US Foreign Policy Has Lurched Rightward

Title: Jeremy Scahill: How US Foreign Policy Has Lurched Rightward
Runtime: 2:41
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: When voters go to the booth next year, will foreign policy weigh heavily in their decisions? What options will they even have given the rightward shift in the US's dealings with the rest of the world?? In this video produced by Francis Reynolds, Jeremy Scahill explains some of the very real dangers of our current policy trajectory. A President Gingrich or Romney would bring disaster to US's relations with countries like Iran and China, Scahill argues. And what's even more frightening? President Obama isn't that much better.

Dr. Jill Stein: Fighting Back Against Student Debt

Title: Dr. Jill Stein: Fighting Back Against Student Debt
Runtime: 2:47
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The desperation of young people in the Middle East triggered the Arab Spring. Shouldering insurmountable student debt yet seeing fewer opportunities, young Americans share a similar feeling of frustration, which has exploded in the Occupy movement. In this video coproduced by VideoNation and On the Earth Productions, Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein talks about the momentum behind the Occupy movement, and why environmental sustainability and economic growth are two sides of the same coin.

Title: Jesse Jackson: Occupying America
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 15 years ago
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Greg Palast in Conversation with John Nichols

Title: Greg Palast in Conversation with John Nichols
Runtime: 6:01
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Investigative reporter Greg Palast is best known for uncovering the alleged fraud in Florida in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. His new book, Vultures' Picnic, takes on corporate power in the energy industry.

Reporting for BBC, he followed the footprints of corporations such as BP and Exxon all over the world and uncovered the intricate connections between power, energy and resources. In this video, he talks to The Nation's John Nichols about his book and how investigative reporting is suppressed by corporate media and conservative legislation.

Title: occupykstreet
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 15 years ago
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Title: Occupying Senator Scott Brown's Office
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A December 6, 2011 demonstration in Washington, DC

Title: Jackson Browne at Occupy DC
Runtime: 4:05
Date posted: 15 years ago
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Arrests at Occupy Wall Street, November 17

Title: Arrests at Occupy Wall Street, November 17
Runtime: 5:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of lower Manhattan this morning, two months to the day after Occupy Wall Street protesters set up camp in Zuccotti Park. At least 175 people were arrested during the morning in a concerted action to shut down New York's financial district. Watch this video produced by Francis Reynolds to see one large group of protesters arrested on the corner of Williams and Pine streets for civil disobedience.

Ai-jen Poo: Domestic Workers and the Roots of Exclusion

Title: Ai-jen Poo: Domestic Workers and the Roots of Exclusion
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Domestic workers, many of them women of color or undocumented immigrants, are one of the most vulnerable labor pools when it comes to workplace abuses and sexual violence. In this video produced by Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas, activist and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance Ai-jen Poo talks about some of the issues surrounding domestic workers. She points out that the exclusion of domestic workers—the dramatic undervaluing of their work, the lack of protection from sexual violence and discrimination—has its roots both in the legacy of slavery and in the devaluing of women's work. "We don't even recognize all that work that's happening inside of homes to make the economy run," Poo says, because it is women who are doing and who have done this work.

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Title: We Still Believe Anita Hill
Runtime: 7:00
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Sexual harassment in the workplace is an issue of power: As long as working women are silenced, alienated, shamed and blamed as victims of sexual harassment, we cannot claim that we are a society that has achieved gender equality. That is why Anita Hill's courageous account of her harassment by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas before a congressional hearing in October, 1991, remains so profound a moment in the history of women speaking truth to power.

Twenty years after Anita Hill boldly brought workplace sexual harassment to the American public consciousness, The Nation celebrates the progress we have made in the two decades since and reflects on the challenges we still face. In this video produced by Francis Reynolds and Emily Douglas, The Nation invites playwright Eve Ensler, the Domestic Workers Alliance's Ai-Jen Poo, former director of 9 to 5 Ellen Bravo, Hollaback!'s Emily May, The Nation's Katha Pollitt and the African American Policy Forum's Kimberlé Cre...

'Job Creators' - a poem by Rep. Gwen Moore

Title: 'Job Creators' - a poem by Rep. Gwen Moore
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Rep. Gwen Moore read her poem 'Job Creators' at a meeting with progressive reporters and bloggers on 10/27/11.

On The Ground: Voices From Liberty Square, Part Three

Title: On The Ground: Voices From Liberty Square, Part Three
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Occupy Wall Street is not just a movement for the young. Chris, 72, was motivated to protest by her concern for the economic future of her grandchildren—and her admiration for the Arab Spring.

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Runtime: 4:49
Date posted: 15 years ago
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On The Ground: Voices From Liberty Square, Part Two

Title: On The Ground: Voices From Liberty Square, Part Two
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Protesters at Occupy Wall Street describe the personal experiences that compelled them to take political action.

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On The Ground: Voices From Liberty Square, Part One

Title: On The Ground: Voices From Liberty Square, Part One
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Are the protesters at Occupy Wall Street crunchy? Yes. But they're also motivated by legitimate anxieties and systemic socioeconomic grievances.

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Twin Legacies: The World Trade Center and Manhattan's Development

Title: Twin Legacies: The World Trade Center and Manhattan's Development
Runtime: 6:50
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: "Now that the [9/11] memorial has opened to the public," Alyssa Katz writes in her article in this week's issue of The Nation, Proving Grounds, "the transformation of the zone from a spectacular but also stubbornly mundane place to do business into a shrine to Muslim-battling martyrs is complete." But we shouldn't forget the ambivalence that surrounded the buildings, she argues—or the controversial way in which they were brought into being. The World Trade Center and Battery Park were built in the nineteen-sixties over a patchwork of landfill, industrial docks and the ruins of Radio Row, a working class network of mom-and-pop businesses. The project went forward with the help of public funds and the dubious application of eminent domain to become a planned community catering to high finance.

In this video produced by The Nation's Francis Reynolds, Katz,editor of the New York World, an accountability journalism project based at Columbia Journalism School, provides some h...

'Medicaid Matters' Rally on Capitol Hill, 9.21.11

Title: 'Medicaid Matters' Rally on Capitol Hill, 9.21.11
Runtime: 2:31
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Senators Tom Harkin and Bernie Sanders address a rally to preserve Medicaid in the upcoming deficit and budget deals.

Title: Ralph Nader on 9/11
Runtime: 2:43
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Ralph Nader talks about 9/11 at Busboy & Poets in Washington, DC on Sept. 12. More at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/163333/ralph-nader-911-and-national-security-state

Fighting Bob Fest: Still Fighting After Ten Years

Title: Fighting Bob Fest: Still Fighting After Ten Years
Runtime: 12:03
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: It is that time of year again. On September 17th, Chautauqua, Wisconsin will host its annual Fighting Bob Fest, a progressive, populist forum named after Wisconsin progressive hero Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette. For ten years now, progressives from across the country have flocked to Wisconsin for the opportunity to meet progressive leaders and exchange ideas.

In this video by The Nation and On The Earth Productions, John Nichols sits down with Ed Garvey, veteran union activist, organizer and founder of Fighting Bob Fest about what makes this gathering different than other progressive events.

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Protesters to Obama: Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline

Title: Protesters to Obama: Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline
Runtime: 4:25
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Hundreds of people continue their nonviolent protest outside the White House, urging President Obama to not approve the potentially environmentally disastrous Keystone XL pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline, which if approved would run from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and carry some 900,000 barrels per day of crude oil refined from bitumen in the Canadian soil, has been denounced by environmentalist Bill McKibben and NASA scientist James Hansen and many other experts. But last week the State Department issued an assessment of the project that concluded that there would be "no significant impact" on natural resources near the pipeline route, while also downplaying the potential for increased greenhouse gas emissions.

The Nation's George Zornick captured the scene at the White House this week, and documented the arrests of protesters.

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Bill McKibben: Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline

Title: Bill McKibben: Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline
Runtime: 5:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil extracted from Canada's tar sands through the United States down to the Gulf of Mexico, has become a national concern after almost two weeks of the largest civil disobedience that the environmental movement has seen in decades. In addition to the hundreds who have been arrested in Washington, DC, solidarity protests and picket lines have begun outside of American and Canadian embassies in Egypt and South Africa. President Obama has the power to simply say no to the pipeline, and the many activists involved in the protests these past two weeks are hoping the new attention will make him do just that.

Bill McKibben, one of the organizers of the protests in DC who was arrested at its start last week, spoke with The Nation and On The Earth Productions via Skyp last night to give an update on the most recent actions and the international solidarity that has sprung up around it.

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Gar Alperovitz: The Environmental Movement's Civil Disobedience

Title: Gar Alperovitz: The Environmental Movement's Civil Disobedience
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Civil disobedience is a transformation of consciousness, a sudden revelation that something new must be done. It is the knowledge that there are two options: disrupt and change the system or remain silent in the face of injustice.

Right now, civil disobedience is emerging from the anti-war and environmental movements in significant ways, most notably around opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. In this video produced by The Nation and On The Earth Productions with historian and writer Gar Alperovitz at the 2011 Democracy Convention, he wonders when the leadership from these campaigns will inspire the shift in consciousness that will change our broken environmental and economic systems.

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Gar Alperovitz: America's Massive Wealth Disparity

Title: Gar Alperovitz: America's Massive Wealth Disparity
Runtime: 6:15
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: In the United States, the richest 400 people own more collective wealth than the bottom 150 million. As historian and writer Gar Alperovitz puts it, this is quite literally medieval.

America's distribution of wealth is controlled by corporations and the extremely wealthy—if there is to be real social change, this gaping inequality needs to be addressed and radically altered. The people need to take the pain of the laborers affected by politicians such as Governor Scott Walker and unite around this as something to replace with progressive reforms.

In this video by The Nation and On The Earth Productions from this year's Democracy Convention, Alperovitz explains just how urgent the need for a radical redistribution of wealth really is.

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Cheri Honkala: No American Should Be Poor

Title: Cheri Honkala: No American Should Be Poor
Runtime: 3:43
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: It's easy to subscribe to the belief that America doesn't have enough resources for everyone to enjoy a high standard of living. But Cheri Honkala, one of the leading figures in the movement against poverty, said at this year's Democracy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin that this is a false message. America is an extraordinarily weathy country, and each resident can live well—but according to Honkala, this will take a shift in people's attitudes towards wealth distribution and self-sacrifice.

"I see many people who I think have united with some of the ideas and this concept of sharing," Honkala says in this video produced by The Nation and On The Earth Productions, "but are having a harder time playing it out in their lives. They've still got to hang onto the two SUVs."

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Why We're Protesting: Tar Sands Pipeline Opponents In Their Own Words

Title: Why We're Protesting: Tar Sands Pipeline Opponents In Their Own Words
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: On Monday, more protesters gathered outside of the White House as part of a 15-day-long effort to halt the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline, which would cut through the middle of America, from the border with Canada all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico. Protesters spoke out against the pipeline, which has the potential to generate disastrous effects across large regions of the country, pleading with President Obama to not allow the plans for the pipeline to go through.

"We're asking President Obama to make the right decision, because he can decide yes or no," said Mike Tidwell, the founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, in this video from The Nation and On The Earth Productions. "He doesn't need Congress's involvement." Watch a video here from Saturday's protests.

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The Campaign to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

Title: The Campaign to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: On Saturday, more than 70 activists, including environmental advocate Bill McKibben, were arrested outside of the White House for protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. The hotly contested pipeline, which if approved by the Obama administration would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, would be disastrous for ecosystems from Canada all the way through America's heartland to the waters of the Gulf.

In this video by On The Earth Productions and The Nation, Bold Nebraska's Jane Kleeb explains the potentially devastating impact the pipeline could have if it is approved. For more on the pipeline and the campaign to make sure it is not approved, read George Zornick's post on this weekend's actions in front of the White House.

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Sal Rosselli: Empowering the Labor Movement

Title: Sal Rosselli: Empowering the Labor Movement
Runtime: 3:38
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A common saying among union organizers is, "Unions have no permanent political friends nor permanent political enemies. Unions only have permanent political issues."

In this video from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, says that the labor movement is at a crossroads. To achieve a progressive majority in Congress, it will require strong and empowered unions and allies. Without this faith in the power of the grassroots, it is impossible to form the coalition necessary to force Congress to pass progressive, pro-union legislation. Labor will never be able to compete with corporations to buy votes or influences, but it can empower working people to take control of their union, demanding a new shape for American politics.

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Title: Sherry Wolf: Revolution in the Air
Runtime: 5:51
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Tunisia's uprisings began in December, quickly leading to the fall of long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Shortly thereafter, Egypt successfully rose up against Hosni Mubarak. The same day as Mubarak's resignation, now infamous Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker declared his legislative war on unions, causing a wave of protest that may not have happened without Tunisians and Egyptians demonstrating what was possible.

Now, there is a unique global upheaval, borrowing certain protest tactics and creating others to be shared as revolutions around the world create progressive change. Writer and activist Sherry Wolf joins The Nation to describe how this year's Socialism Conference happened at a key historic moment.

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Title: Alan Lomax: A Life of Sound
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: During the 1930s and '40s, Alan Lomax and his father John Lomax traveled throughout the American South searching for the work songs, spirituals and folk tales that gave the region it's unique identity. They met with field hands, prisoners and former slaves, and heard the songs they had been singing for decades, unaware of the sudden craze for jazz and blues music. The rich archive of American music the Lomaxes recorded ultimately set the standard for folk authenticity that invigorated the folk revival of the 1960s.

In this musical montage of images taken on Alan Lomax's journeys through the South, we see the fading traditions of the region that Lomax sought to capture. For more on Lomax, read David Yaffe's article in this week's issue of The Nation.

Video produced by Frank Reynolds, with images and songs courtesy of the Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress.

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Dave Zirin: Debunking the Myth that Sports and Politics Don't Overlap

Title: Dave Zirin: Debunking the Myth that Sports and Politics Don't Overlap
Runtime: 8:26
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Sports has a rich tradition of resistance politics. Such sports luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Billie Jean King and Pat Tillman all have their political side, and their actions have been integral to this country's struggle for racial equality, gender equality and peace at home and abroad. Sports creates a safe language to discuss many otherwise difficult topics—topics that team owners hate because they break the apolitical rules of "jockocracy."

In this video, The Nation's Dave Zirin, guest editor of the recent Sports Issue, dissects the overlaps between sports and progressive culture, urging the next generation of both sports fans and progressives to heed these intersecting histories.

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Egypt's Activists: Democracy Is a Practical Process

Title: Egypt's Activists: Democracy Is a Practical Process
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: After thirty years under President Hosni Mubarak's iron grip on power, Cairo is alive with activism. In a roundtable earlier this month organized byPolicyMic.com and The Nation and moderated by author Stephen Glain, young Egyptian activists debated some of Egypt's most pressing issues, including the role and strength of the Muslim Brotherhood, the power of social media in sparking reform and the military's stranglehold over politics.

Participants agreed that social media may not play as pivotal a role in the electoral process as it did in the initial phases of the revolution; rather, grassroots, in-person campaigning will sustain the revolutionary momentum moving forward. As noted by prominent blogger Gigi Ibrahim, who rose to fame by tweeting during the revolution, change will come from support for popular committees, labor unions, student unions and all the institutions that "truly represent those that took part in this revolution."

Egypt's Activists: I Wouldn't Vote for the Islamists

Title: Egypt's Activists: I Wouldn't Vote for the Islamists
Runtime: 2:48
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: After thirty years under President Hosni Mubarak's iron grip on power, Cairo is alive with activism. In a roundtable earlier this month organized by PolicyMic.com and The Nation and moderated by author Stephen Glain, young Egyptian activists debated some of Egypt's most pressing issues, including the role and strength of the Muslim Brotherhood, the power of social media in sparking reform and the military's stranglehold over politics.

In this video, the activists explain that the Western media's focus on the importance of Islamist parties in the country's political landscape is dangerously misplaced. According to the activists, the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups doesn't hold much sway over the Egyptian public at large, and if anything, the wired and cosmopolitan protestors who led the effort to oust Mubarak shows that the Islamist's influence is on the wain. As Mohamed Abdelfattah explains, "I wouldn't vote for the Islamists."

Egypt's Activists: Where Will the Money Come From?

Title: Egypt's Activists: Where Will the Money Come From?
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: After thirty years under President Hosni Mubarak's iron grip on power, Cairo is alive with activism. In a roundtable earlier this month organized by PolicyMic.com and The Nation and moderated by author Stephen Glain, young Egyptian activists debated some of Egypt's most pressing issues, including the role and strength of the Muslim Brotherhood, the power of social media in sparking reform and the military's stranglehold over politics.

In this video, the activists express their concern about Egypt's ailing economy and the pace at which economic reforms are progressing. The same free-market policies that drained the country's finances and widened the gap between rich and poor over the past several years are now being proposed to reinvigorate the economy, a course of action many of the activists strongly object to. They argue that the biggest question in the elections set to be held in September will be: where will the money come from to keep Egypt's society moving?

Mike Elk: Labor Is Not One-Size-Fits-All

Title: Mike Elk: Labor Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
Runtime: 6:15
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: There is plenty of enthusiasm for labor unions in this country—the only problem is that only one in six organizing campaigns results in a contract and many cost the organizers their jobs. How are labor activists to negotiate organization when there are so many practical risks, and often so few tangible rewards associated with the process?

In this conversation with Kevin Gosztola at 2011's Socialism Conference in Chicago, labor activist and In These Times contributing editor Mike Elk comments on the need to invest confidence in the labor organizing movement. According to Elk, organizers need to acknowledge that there are many working solutions rather than one ultimate solution to strengthening the union movement.

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Egypt's Activists: Now I Tweet in Arabic

Title: Egypt's Activists: Now I Tweet in Arabic
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: After thirty years under President Hosni Mubarak's iron grip on power, Cairo is alive with activism. In a roundtable earlier this month organized by PolicyMic.com and The Nation and moderated by author Stephen Glain, young Egyptian activists debated some of Egypt's most pressing issues, including the role and strength of the Muslim Brotherhood, the power of social media in sparking reform and the military's stranglehold over politics.

The activists in these videos discuss their sense of accomplishment and newfound national pride in being Egyptian, but also express their collective fear that the revolution will run out of steam. With military tribunals still taking place, police oppression still widespread and the pace of reform at a standstill, change has not come quickly enough for Egypt's youth. Elections are set to be held in September, and youth groups are scrambling to form parties, raise money and compete for seats in parliament.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Why Is Tim DeChristopher Going to Jail While Massey Energy's CEO Walks Free?

Title: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Why Is Tim DeChristopher Going to Jail While Massey Energy's CEO Walks Free?
Runtime: 4:25
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher is going to jail, but Don Blankenship isn't—despite the fact that he illegally destroyed an entire mountain range. Why? Because he's the CEO of Massey Energy Company—and has completely bought off the judicial system in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.

In this conversation with The Nation and On the Earth Productions recorded at Chicago's Orrington Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that we are once again on the verge of losing our democracy to corporate power. Yet instead of surrendering the achievements of the New Deal and Progressive Era, activists need to fight for the middle class and prepare the way for social change.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Creating a New Deal for Today

Title: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Creating a New Deal for Today
Runtime: 3:59
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The American political process is threatened by corporate power on a scale we haven't seen since the Gilded Age—when big money became so powerful that we nearly lost our democracy. Yet a century ago progressives fought back and passed laws that empowered the middle class and restricted the influence of money in government.

In this conversation with The Nation and On the Earth Productions recorded at Chicago's Orrington Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says that activists must renew the old struggle against corporate tyranny—and fight to restore the democratic achievements of the Progressive Era and the New Deal.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How Corporations Threaten Our Environment and Democracy

Title: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How Corporations Threaten Our Environment and Democracy
Runtime: 5:29
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Mountaintop removal doesn't just destroy our environment—it completely subverts the democratic process. In their efforts to mine mountains for coal, large corporations deceive local communities, flagrantly break the law, silence journalists and buy out local governments.

In this conversation with The Nation and On the Earth Productions recorded at Chicago's Orrington Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains how corporations have illegally destroyed more than five hundred mountains and impoverished countless rural communities—and gotten away with it. Kennedy has long been active in the environmental justice movement, and his latest efforts to stop mountaintop removal mining are featured in the new documentary, The Last Mountain.

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Delta Ndou: Zimbabweans Want Their Land Back

Title: Delta Ndou: Zimbabweans Want Their Land Back
Runtime: 11:42
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: In 1980, when Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, 2,000 people owned seventy percent of the land, leaving 12 million Zimbabweans with only the desolate, non-arable parts of their country. The agreement was that ten years after independence a land redistribution program would take place. More than thirty years later this still has yet to happen.

In this video recorded at Netroots Nation 2011, Zimbabwean journalist and blogger Delta Ndou describes the perpetual institutionalized colonization that continues to characterize the country's plight.

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Nurses March on Wall Street for Fair Taxes

Title: Nurses March on Wall Street for Fair Taxes
Runtime: 2:50
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: More than any other profession, nurses see first-hand the tragic results of income inequality and America's failed market-based healthcare system. And in corporate-controlled hospitals they are often the only advocates for patients with life-threatening conditions who are unable to pay for proper treatment.

Frustrated by the plight of their patients and deep cuts to social services, nurses are organizing. On Wednesday, June 22, several hundred nurses and activists from across the country marched down Wall Street in New York. They called for a new tax on financial transactions to help repair the damage done to Main Street during the economic downturn—and to build a society that will provide decent wages and healthcare for the patients they serve everyday.

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Lieutenant Dan Choi: Upholding the Mandate of Service

Title: Lieutenant Dan Choi: Upholding the Mandate of Service
Runtime: 9:36
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Don't Ask, Don't Tell is more than a symbol of homophobia and discrimination; it's a dangerous handicap to the American military. Gay soldiers, afraid of being discharged if outed, remain silent when they see serious injustices occur within the military. Their forced silence further institutionalizes a fear of authority that stifles healthy dissent.

Lieutenant Dan Choi, a linguist and Iraq war veteran, was discharged from the army under Don't Ask, Don't Tell one year ago. He joins The Nation to discuss his recent arrest and how restricting protest is just another way to suppress freedom of speech.

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Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher: A Green Economy Will Be a More Fair Economy

Title: Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher: A Green Economy Will Be a More Fair Economy
Runtime: 8:58
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The transition to a renewable energy economy will mean more than just a change in energy policy—it will signal the emergence of a more equal economic system and the breakup of massive concentrations of wealth bound up in our reliance on fossil fuels. And it will require an activist movement that dares to challenge the country to choose between corporate plutocracy or a green, fair economy.

In this interview with Kevin Gosztola at Netroots Nation 2011, Peaceful Uprising's Tim DeChristopher explains how environmental activists are using civil disobedience techniques learned from earlier American social movements to take bold action to resist the anti-environment status quo. DeChristopher currently faces up to four and half years of jail time for disrupting a 2008 auction of public lands arranged by the Bush administration.

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Edward Glaeser: How Can Cities Reduce Our Carbon Emissions?

Title: Edward Glaeser: How Can Cities Reduce Our Carbon Emissions?
Runtime: 3:27
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Dense cities are a lot more energy efficient than decentrilized sprawl, argues Harvard professor and urban advocate Edward Glaeser in this interview recorded by On The Earth Productions at this year's Congress for New Urbanism in Madison, Wisconsin.

Continuing his previous commentary on the intersection of urban centers and social justice, Glaeser argues for cities as a unique and essential social phenomenon to share and exchange resources and ideas on both a political and personal level.

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Edward Glaeser: Have Cities Become America's Ugly Stepchildren?

Title: Edward Glaeser: Have Cities Become America's Ugly Stepchildren?
Runtime: 6:12
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Massive subsidization of highways, a fetish for home ownership and the decentralized American school system have turned our cities into "ugly stepchildren," Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser argues in this interview recorded by On The Earth Productions at this year's Congress for New Urbanism in Madison, Wisconsin.

Despite America's anti-urban policy bias, Glaeser says, cities play a unique role in promoting social justice. Importantly, many of the problems associated with poverty that often plague cities are not caused by the urban environment itself, but are instead signs that cities are succeeding: that they are attracting people with economic and educational opportunities that they could not find elsewhere. Instead of demonizing and neglecting urban areas, this country should promote policies that create a "level playing field" between our cities and the outlying suburban and rural areas.

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Why Is the Military Infiltrating Peace Activist Groups?

Title: Why Is the Military Infiltrating Peace Activist Groups?
Runtime: 7:42
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: When a group of Washington state peace activists discovered that one of their fellow organizers was in fact a military informant, they decided to take their case to the courts. The activists, part of the Port Militarization Resistance movement that attempted to stop military shipments from operating out of the state's public ports in Olympia and Tacoma, uncovered the informant after he had infiltrated their group for over two years. Many considered the informant to be a close friend.

One of the plaintiffs in the case currently underway, Brendan Maslauskas Dunn, tells The Nation about his experience with the military's surveillance of his peace group.

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Jillian C. York: Using 'National Security' Concerns to Hide Internet Censorship

Title: Jillian C. York: Using 'National Security' Concerns to Hide Internet Censorship
Runtime: 4:15
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: National security is being used as a "guise for censoring the Internet," Jillian C. York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation asserts. A speaker at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum Conference in New York City, York suggests that Amazon's ban of WikiLeaks opened the door for Internet censorship to happen to anyone. This type of censorship persists, York says, as Egyptian activists have their social networking accounts deactivated and Facebook removes political pages because unpopular speech is deemed "hate speech."

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Dan Sinker: How the Fake Rahm Emanuel Twitter Account Is Influencing the Next Generation of Satire

Title: Dan Sinker: How the Fake Rahm Emanuel Twitter Account Is Influencing the Next Generation of Satire
Runtime: 4:25
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: As Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former Chief of Staff, ran for mayor in Chicago earlier this year, a fake twitter account, @MayorEmanuel, began tweeting a foul-mouthed, "real-time novel of a Rahm Emanuel that was not from this dimension." At the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum in New York City, Dan Sinker, the man behind the account and a journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago, explained how his account gave Chicagoans an opportunity to laugh at the absurdity of their mayoral race, and also to confront the realities of a campaign that might have otherwise been hard to stomach.

Sinker argues that he was participating in a new generation of satire with his account. We have always come up with new ways to make fun of our situations, Sinker says, so it is not surprising to see people experimenting with satire on new media.

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The New Culture Wars: How the Right Stifles Free Speech Through Art Censorship

Title: The New Culture Wars: How the Right Stifles Free Speech Through Art Censorship
Runtime: 43:05
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: In late November, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery came under fire from some members of the newly elected Congress for hosting an exhibit that included a video by David Wojnarowicz showing ants crawling over a crucifix. Soon-to-be Speaker of the House John Boehner, and soon-to-be second-ranking member of House GOP leadership Eric Cantor, spearheaded the attack, threatening the museum to remove the video or lose federal funding. To discuss this assault on free speech, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel joined art critic Blake Gopnik; AA Bronson, one of the artists whose work was featured in the exhibit; former director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center during the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy Dennis Barrie and President of People For the American Way Michael Keegan.

Central to the issue of art censorship, vanden Heuvel says, is this "idea that American values were defined exclusively by the values of fundamentalist Christianity." This extremely limiting ...

Finding Your Beat: Female Journalists on the Issues They Cover

Title: Finding Your Beat: Female Journalists on the Issues They Cover
Runtime: 42:56
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The media can often be dominated by male voices, even when they're reporting on issues important to women. Without representation in the media, the national dialogue can become alien and even harmful to women. The solution: have more women reporting. At the 2011 Women, Action and the Media (WAM!) New York City conference, female journalists Bryce Covert, Dana Goldstein, Sarah Laskow and Michelle Chen came together to share their experiences reporting on topics such as the environment, education, finance, and social justice.

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US Uncut Brings Its Lesson to a Corporate Tax Dodger

Title: US Uncut Brings Its Lesson to a Corporate Tax Dodger
Runtime: 5:34
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: As severe budget cuts weaken the public education system, a group of US Uncut protesters have decided that it's time to move class out of the schools and bring their lessons to a different audience. On April 30, the protesters came to New York CIty to hold classes in lobbies of one of the biggest corporate tax dodgers in the US: Bank of America.

US Uncut's message is simple: At a time of huge budget cuts to social services, corporations should be paying their share of taxes. During the day's classes, University of London's David Graeber explained how tax loopholes work, and what corporate freeloading means for the rest of society.

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