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Friday Night Videos 1 We Are America: Immigrant Stories 2 ACORN May Get the Last Laugh 3 What If the Tea Party Was Black? 4 1000 Gather for Peace in Oakland After Mehserle Verdict 5 What Could the Government Do to Jumpstart Green Energy? ===== 11111 We Are America: Immigrant Stories We Are America raises the voice of immigrants in the dialogue around our country's broken immigration system. We provide a story bank of video, audio, photographic and text stories about real people and what they have at stake as new immigrants to the United States. http://www.weareamericastories.org/ ===== 22222 ACORN May Get the Last Laugh Rachel Maddow reports on a lawsuit filed by a former ACORN employee who was slandered by James O'Keefe and his Fox News cheerleaders. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#38215556 July 12, 2010 7:18 ===== 33333 What If the Tea Party Was Black? jasirix -- A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black " which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now, a Pittsburgh rapper is accepting his challenge in true Hip Hop form. Jasiri X has released a video called "What if the Tea Party was Black." The Hip Hop artist says that he got the idea when Paradise,a member of the pro-black rap group X-Clan, forwarded him a copy of Wise's article. "I saw the article and I liked the concept," says the rapper. So Jasiri hit the studio with producer Cynik Lethal while Paradise grabbed his video camera and they went on their mission to defeat the Right Wing propaganda machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtH7vH4yRcY July 14, 2010 3:22 ===== 44444 1000 Gather for Peace in Oakland After Mehserle Verdict This is what the nation did not see on the evening news: a peaceful gathering of nearly 1000 people in downtown Oakland on July 8, 2010, following the involuntary manslaughter verdict of BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in the shooting death of Oscar Grant. Executive Producer: Patrice O'Neill Producer: Adrienne Calo Camera: Anthony Lucero and Adam Christy Music courtesy: Turf Unity Music Project Special thanks to: Youth Radio reporter Pendarvis Harshaw. Learn more about Youth Radio at http://www.youthradio.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MNcWUX5oU4 July 9, 2010 3:29 ===== 55555 What Could the Government Do to Jumpstart Green Energy? If the United States government is the largest energy consumer in the world, asks Nation contributing editor Christian Parenti, why doesn't it use its massive buying power to support real green, clean energy technologies - instead of subsidizing the catastrophic failures of oil giants like BP? Parenti joins The Nation on Grit TV in studio to point out that if the US post office switched to electric cars, that subsidy alone would bring down the price of sustainable transportation and create infrastructure for the rest of the country. He also talks Bill Gates, more green technologies and the war in Afghanistan. http://www.thenation.com/video/37107/christian-parenti-bp-changing-energy-economy July 6, 2010 9:16 _____________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: [log in to unmask] Submit via the Web: portside.org/submit Frequently asked questions: portside.org/faq Subscribe: portside.org/subscribe Unsubscribe: portside.org/unsubscribe Account assistance: portside.org/contact Search the archives: portside.org/archive