2009: Looking Back on the Year and a Decade

2009: Looking Back on the Year and a Decade

2009: Looking Back on the Year and a Decade

The Nation‘s Katrina vanden Heuvel joins a panel discussion and takes a look back on the past decade, which some are calling “the worst ever.”

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The year is almost over, and it’s certainly been an eventful one.
We’ve seen a new president, some huge bank bailouts, a dramatic election
season and we’re closer than we’ve ever been to national health care
reform-whether that’s a good thing or not.

It’s also about to be 2010 and the end of a decade that Time magazine
suggested might’ve been the worst ever. Hyperbole? We’ll discuss the
year that was and the decade that was with a roundtable of our favorite
guests, including Katrina vanden Heuvel of <a
href=”/” target=”_blank”>The
Nation
, Mark Green of target=”_blank”>Air America, Danny Schechter of <a
href=”http://www.newsdissector.org/dissectorville/” target=”_blank”>News
Dissector, Max Blumenthal, author of <a
href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568583982?ie=UTF8&tag=
lauraflanders-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=
1568583982″>Republican Gomorrah, Maya Wiley of the <a
href=”http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/” target=”_blank”>Center
for Social Inclusion !important”
src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=lauraflanders-20&l=as2&o=1&a=
1568583982″ border=”0″ alt=”” width=”1″ height=”1″ />, Faye
Wattleton of the target=”_blank”>Center for the Advancement of Women, and <a
href=”http://www.nancygiles.com/” target=”_blank”>Nancy Giles of CBS
News Sunday Morning.

We’ll also have an interview with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films
on progressive organizing through media. We’ll be live right here for a
full hour, starting at 12:30 EST. Hope you’ll join us!

For more on the program and archives visit <a
href=”http://www.grittv.org”>grittv.org.

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