Obama: One Year Later, What’s Changed?

Obama: One Year Later, What’s Changed?

Obama: One Year Later, What’s Changed?

Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and others discuss what’s changed, what’s stayed the same and what we still hope to see happen under Obama.

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In a special one-hour live stream, we bring back many of our guests from
last year’s election day show to discuss what’s changed, what’s stayed
the same, and what we still hope to see happen under Obama.

Elections around the country of course saw nowhere near the turnout of
the presidential race, yet the corporate media still insists on
considering races in Virginia and New Jersey referenda on Obama. What do
the results really mean? And what’s going on in the Obama
administration? We’ll talk to Katrina vanden Heuvel and Chris Hayes of
The Nation, Jehmu Greene of the Women’s Media Center, James
Rucker of Color Of Change, Danny Schechter of News Dissector, Jane
Hamsher of FireDogLake, Mark Green of Air America, Esther Armah of WBAI,
and special guests from the Maine Equality movement and elsewhere.

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

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Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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