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Labor organizer: American unions lack internal radical, political education
Labor organizer and author Jane McAlevey said Monday that unions’ experience in Wisconsin last year showed the need for political education. “I think the top lesson in our view is that there is not enough internal radical, political education taking place inside of America’s unions,” she told Laura Flanders. “If…
Chomsky: U.S. and Europe ‘committing suicide in different ways’
In an interview with GritTV’s Laura Flanders, author and MIT professor Noam Chomsky discussed the potentially bleak future facing both the United States and the European Union. Both, he said, are facing historic crises and are going about trying to resolve them in exactly the wrong ways. According to Chomsky,…
Flanders: Will the media now focus on what OWS is really about?
In the opinion of Gritt TV host Laura Flanders, the next step in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement needs to come not from the protesters but, instead, the media. Responding to a question posed by Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show Saturday morning, Flanders placed responsibility on her colleagues with…
Parody: Billionaires tell protesters to buy their own government
The 0.001 percent made their way down to the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration in lower Manhattan to let the protesters know that they had “bought this democracy fair and square.” One billionaire told Laura Flanders of GRITtv that if the protesters didn’t like it, they should buy their own…
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