Grit TV G20 Episode
Last week, world leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit
and delivered - as usual - lots of talk but little promise for action.
There was definitely lots of action on the city's streets as security
forces clashed with protesters. Bill Quigley, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice is just back from Pittsburgh and breaks down the week's events for us.
Then, we talk to three queer cartoonists about what the medium
represents for them. Cartoons have always dealt with the subversive but
our guests today share with us how identity politics - questions of
gender, race, class, sexuality - find an arena for exploration and
expression through this medium. Jennifer Camper, who recently completed the second book in her Juicy Mother series joins Carlo Quispe, currently a teacher at the Hetrick-Martin Institute/Harvey Milk School in NYC. And on the line from the West Coast, Erika Lopez, author, artist, performer and self-described Welfare Queen who's bringing her show to the East Coast this coming Thursday at The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance here in New York City.
And Yes Magazine's Sarah
Van Gelder says we need new strategies to wake people up to the urgency
of climate change. We check in with her for some fresh ideas.
Finally, this week's documentary-in-the-making blazes through the
fog of war to reveal the scars underneath. Check out Topaz Adizes's Americana in this week's Got Docs?
Thanks to Sally Kohn of the Center for Community Change and Mobile Broadcast News for video in tonight's show.
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