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Redefining Human Rights:
The Case for Food, Health Care & Housing

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Are food, housing, and health care human rights? A round table discussion about the right to healthy food, the right to housing, and the right to healthcare. Do Americans have these, and if not, what’s standing in the way?


Redefining Black Power in the Age of Obama

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Does a black president equal black power? Three African-American community leaders discuss how Obama’s election, and presidency, has changed their perspective on what black power is…and what it isn’t.


Live From Main Street in Denver: So You Say You Want Change?

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Laura Flanders hit the streets of Denver at the Democratic National Convention to find out what real, sustainable change looks like.


Live From Main Street: Getting Heard this Election Season

post thumbnail Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Live from Main Street takes us to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota where we explore what it takes to get heard this election year in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties.


Conventional Dissent: Free Speech in the Streets

post thumbnail Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

On this edition, in a collaboration with Abby Scher of Public Eye Magazine, we talk with New Yorkers who exposed the police abuses, and lawyers in the cities where the Democratic and Republican conventions will be held this summer, as they fight to prevent similar tactics.


Investing in Insecurity Along U.S. Borders

post thumbnail Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Independent producer Joseph Richey visits Project 28 – Boeing’s security site, a 28-mile strip along the U.S.-Mexico border. Then we talk to “No One is Illegal” organizer, Harjap Grewal, about migration and international trade.


On New Ground: Liberating Gender & Sexuality

post thumbnail Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

How do we challenge and overcome gender and sexual oppression? Three speakers at the Atlanta U.S. Social Forum have some answers.


Mothers, Migrants and Maids of Honor (encore edition)

post thumbnail Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

They’re mothers, their migrants and they’re caregivers to our children and our
elders. Domestic workers are the backbone of many American families, their own families and their communities.


Beyond Bars: Community Resistance to Prison Expansion

post thumbnail Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

In the U.S., more than more than 2 million people live behind prison bars. Dr. Ruth Gilmore, a professor of geography at the University of Southern California and a long-time prison activist, extracts lessons from more than two decades of on-the-ground community organizing against what’s been termed the “biggest prison building project in the history of the world.”


Human Rights and the African American Experience (encore edition)

post thumbnail Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

On this edition we’ll hear about a deep discrepancy at the heart of America’s struggle for civil rights and human rights.



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