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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. New York Times best selling author.
Columnist for TruthDig.com
Host for 'On Contact' with RT rt.com/usa/345205-chris-hedges-on-contact
- Excerpt from his bio at truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges#bio
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, New York Times best selling author, professor at Princeton University, activist and ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 11 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco.
He writes a weekly column for the web site Truthdig in Los Angeles, run by Robert Scheer, and hosts a show, On Contact, on RT America.
Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and studied classics, including ancient Greek and Latin, at Harvard University.
Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches a class through Princeton University at a state prison in New Jersey where half of the students are Princeton undergraduates and half are prisoners.
In 2012, Hedges successfully sued President Barack Obama over section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, which overturned the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the military from acting as a domestic police force. The decision was overturned on appeal by the Obama administration.
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Kshama Sawant spoke at "Inaugurate The Resistance!" in Washington, D.C. January 21, 2017 on day 1 of the new administration.
The speakers
Chris Hedges - Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Activist & Author, truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges#bio
Jill Stein - 2016 Presidential Candidate, The Green Party, jill2016.com/about
Tim Canova - Progress for All, ProgressForAll.org
Kshama Sawant - Seattle City Council Member, Socialist Alternative Party, SocialistAlternative.org
Chase Iron Eyes - Lead Attorney, Lakota People's Law Project, lakotalaw.org - LastRealIndians.com
Bryan Koulouris - National Organizer for Movement For The 99%, Movement99.org
"Inaugurate The Resistance!" was part of Occupy Inauguration’s weekend of resistance, sponsored by the Green Party, Socialist Alternative, Occupy Wall Street, Movement for the 99%, and the Stein/Baraka campaign.
Full Film - 1:53:07 - of all the speakers: youtu.be/RRgR8tYWikA
Links to start of each person's speech:
Chris Hedges 6:25 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=385s
Transcript of Chris Hedges talk - informationclearinghouse.info/46289.htm
Jill Stein 23:10 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=1390s
Tim Canova 44:25 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=2665s
Kshama Sawant 1:00:40 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=3640s
Chase Iron Eyes 1:18:00 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=4680s
Bryan Koulouris 1:38:0 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=5880s
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Tags: Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize, Author, Columnist, On Contact, Activist, Minister, TruthDig, Foreign Correspondent, Falkland War, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Middle East, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq,
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Published: February 20, 2017, ID: FJ120 IR03
Category: Education, 27:57
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. New York Times best selling author.
Columnist for TruthDig.com
Host for 'On Contact' with RT rt.com/usa/345205-chris-hedges-on-contact
- Excerpt from his bio at truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges#bio
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, New York Times best selling author, professor at Princeton University, activist and ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 11 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco.
He writes a weekly column for the web site Truthdig in Los Angeles, run by Robert Scheer, and hosts a show, On Contact, on RT America.
Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and studied classics, including ancient Greek and Latin, at Harvard University.
Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches a class through Princeton University at a state prison in New Jersey where half of the students are Princeton undergraduates and half are prisoners.
In 2012, Hedges successfully sued President Barack Obama over section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, which overturned the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the military from acting as a domestic police force. The decision was overturned on appeal by the Obama administration.
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Kshama Sawant spoke at "Inaugurate The Resistance!" in Washington, D.C. January 21, 2017 on day 1 of the new administration.
The speakers
Chris Hedges - Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Activist & Author, truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges#bio
Jill Stein - 2016 Presidential Candidate, The Green Party, jill2016.com/about
Tim Canova - Progress for All, ProgressForAll.org
Kshama Sawant - Seattle City Council Member, Socialist Alternative Party, SocialistAlternative.org
Chase Iron Eyes - Lead Attorney, Lakota People's Law Project, lakotalaw.org - LastRealIndians.com
Bryan Koulouris - National Organizer for Movement For The 99%, Movement99.org
"Inaugurate The Resistance!" was part of Occupy Inauguration’s weekend of resistance, sponsored by the Green Party, Socialist Alternative, Occupy Wall Street, Movement for the 99%, and the Stein/Baraka campaign.
Full Film - 1:53:07 - of all the speakers: youtu.be/RRgR8tYWikA
Links to start of each person's speech:
Chris Hedges 6:25 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=385s
Transcript of Chris Hedges talk - informationclearinghouse.info/46289.htm
Jill Stein 23:10 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=1390s
Tim Canova 44:25 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=2665s
Kshama Sawant 1:00:40 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=3640s
Chase Iron Eyes 1:18:00 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=4680s
Bryan Koulouris 1:38:0 - youtube.com/watch?v=RRgR8tYWikA&t=5880s
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Tags: Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize, Author, Columnist, On Contact, Activist, Minister, TruthDig, Foreign Correspondent, Falkland War, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Middle East, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq,
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Published: February 20, 2017, ID: FJ120 IR03
Category: Education, 27:57
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View On YouTube
youtu.be/BPm6z3nJpFA
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More On YouTube from Film For Justice
youtube.com/channel/UCP8nvJQH9zmZ-TD4hrm6IBA
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More On YouTube from the producer of the full film - Other Voices, Other Choices
youtube.com/OVOCVideos
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Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org .
This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast.
Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact us for instructions.
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This episode is on PEGMedia - for public access TV stations - in ready for TV broadcast format
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HD: pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/28353/detail
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Film Website
OtherVoicesOtherChoices.com
Other Voices, Other Choices promotes non-corporate political, economic, and environmental news and commentary. It is a blog, a YouTube channel, and an hour-long cable access TV (CATV) series.
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