VFTFL Archive, All Years

Katrina vanden Heuval, editor and founder of The Nation
magazine, discusses the role that progressive social movements can play in the
2012 elections.

CJ Minster, CODEPINK’s national organizer for the Bring Our War Dollars Home campaign.

Ash-Lee Henderson on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network on Canada’s Tar Sands strip mining

An 86-year Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz discusses why his own experience has led him to become a defender of the Palestinian people and carry the message of "Never Again for Anyone."

The editor of a new book, Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader, discusses the battles in Skid Row over criminalization of poverty and gentrification that sparked this unique collaboration between Skid Row activists, artists, and well-known scholars like Robin DG Kelley.

Leaders from the Restaurant Opportunities Center disuss a watershed new report exposing the working conditions inside LA's restaurant industry, the largest in the country.

An expert on Middle Eastern and Third World social movements breaks down the contending forces in the Egyptian uprising, with a variety of opposition forces and potential defectors inside Mubarak’s ruling clique jockeying for position. Will the mass movement in the streets succeed in achieving a political revolution?

The first of a new series "Dispatches from the Bolivarian Revolution" with award-winning journalist Eva Golinger

An organizer with UCLA Students for Democratic Society discusses the latest round of federal grand jury subpoenas attempting to criminalize the work of international solidarity activists -- and the organized movement response.

The founding director and one of the leading players in a Skid Row-based group Los Angeles Poverty Department discuss their new play State of Incareration.

An organizer with the Home Defenders' League and the Association of Californians for Community Empowerment discusses a growing campaign led by foreclosed and evicted homeowners in California to demand accountability from mega-banks like Chase who have profitted handsomely from the housing crisis.

An organizer with the Coalición de Derechos Humanos in Tucson discusses the latest round of attacks on immigrants in Arizona, including a proposal to deny birthright citizenship to US-born children from undocumented immigrant families and another proposal to exempt Arizona from compliance with any international laws.

The National Director of Jobs with Justice discusses state-level Right-wing attacks on public sector unions and the political power of organized labor in the wake of Tea Party-driven state-level Republican victories in the November elections.

The investigative war journalist discusses an explosive expose recently published by Al-Jazeera uncovering widespread sexual abuse of both male and female soldiers inside the US military.

A fellow at the Korea Policy Institute unpacks the latest tensions on the Korean peninsula following exchange of fire and US-South Korean military exercises.

The foreign affairs correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers and an anti-war movement leader with PeaceAction

Director of the Center for Constitution Rights on a shocking new report on racial profiling endemic to New York's "stop and frisk" law and efforts to hold NYPD accountable.  Warren also weighs in on broad "anti-terrorism" investigations and prosecutions. 

One of dozens of activists arrested this year in LA for nonviolent civil disobedience for immigrant and civil rights

A leading member of the newly-formed Committee to Stop FBI Repression details recent FBI raids and grand jury investigations of anti-war and international solidarity activists in Chicago.

Longtime organizer and expert on right-wing movemenets in the US in conversation with Eric Mann

Bus Riders Union Lead Organizer breaks down the flaws and false promises of Mayor Villaraigosa's 30/10 plan and his dream of building a Subway to the Sea

The Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research and international newspaper columnist discusses the election of Dilma Roussef, former guerilla fighter and political prisoner, as the first female president of Brazil and the successor to Lula da Silva.

An expert on South Asian politics and history discusses President Obama's trip to Asia and the political and economic tensions in the region.