MEDIA ROOTS — The 2012 GOP primary debates have given people many things to make fun of—and worry about. Bill Maher, along with other comics, has poked fun at GOP candidates’ risky remarks regarding foreign policy. Abby Martin, of Media Roots, joins RT in their DC studio to discuss what this means for the U.S. people. MR *** Abby Martin … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — In apparent small-scale warfare waged by Oakland police against First Amendment activity, hundreds of people were kettled, brutalised with batons, tear gas, flash-bang grenades, and arrested during Occupy Oakland (OO) demonstrations on Saturday, January 28, 2012, in the first major action by OO since the Oakland Port shutdown. Participants have charged they weren’t given clear dispersal orders … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Graffiti Philosophy is a video collage illustrating sociopolitical commentary in the renegade art form of graffiti. It traverses class warfare, suffering, consumerism and mass media indoctrination, industrial civilization’s oil addiction, exploitation by Empire, environmental consequences of fossil fuels, and the fate of humanity. “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” – Singer, poet and civil rights … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — On a recent KPFA radio broadcast, Project Censored discussed the ten-year mark of the U.S. Guantánamo Bay gulag and its implications for the Rule of Law. One of Project Censored’s featured guests, Dr. Almerindo Ojeda, delivered an Occupy UC Davis – Dissent Lecture on December 1, 2011 at the University of California at Davis. We present that … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — As the Occupy Movement coalesced globally, tents and bodies were brutalized by the state and press credentials were swept aside with sweeping arrests of journalists, we may have taken comfort in the thought that they couldn’t jail an idea—the idea of the 99% resisting the tyranny of the 1%. Yet, under Obama, powers that be are trying … Read More
