Sam Graham-Felsen

Sam Graham-Felsen has written for The Nation about youth and student politics and also helped to create VideoNation, magazine's online video feature. Since March 2007, he has been on leave as a journalist and is currently working on Barack Obama's campaign for president.

Currently

  • Pakistan: The Intersection

    April 5, 2007

    VideoNation travels to Pakistan to assess the nation's future through the eyes of students at the progressive National College of Arts and the extremist-dominated Punjab University.

  • Antiwar Students Rising

    March 21, 2007

    As the student peace movement grows stronger and more sophisticated, can it ignite the silent antiwar majority on campus?

  • GOP 'Catch the Immigrant' Game Catches Flak

    February 23, 2007

    College Republicans staged a tasteless game at NYU and hundreds of students showed up to oppose them.

  • Obama's Impressive Youthroots

    February 15, 2007

    Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.

2006

  • Morality of the Minimum

    December 16, 2006

    Let Justice Roll deserves credit for mobilizing values voters around minimum wage initiatives.

  • The 'Burbs Go Blue

    November 15, 2006

  • What Election?

    November 14, 2006

    Young people voted in larger numbers in the midterm election than they have in 20 years, but most remain disengaged. Sam Graham-Felsen and Ari Berman talk to the no-shows.

  • SNAP!

    October 19, 2006

    A unique student-run organization is making real strides mobilizing progressive voters for victory in the long haul.

  • Something to Believe In

    June 15, 2006

    What does it take to motivate young people to meaningful political action? This VideoNation report looks at how three protests drew three very different constituencies.

  • Bold Ballot Initiatives

    June 8, 2006 Subscribe

    Progressive organizations are learning to use ballot propositions to promote bold, innovative policy on the minimum wage, renewable energy, stem cell research and voting reform.

  • A Green Salute

    April 27, 2006 Subscribe

    In celebration of Earth Day, The Nation salutes those who took part in the top five environmental victories of the year.

  • Divestment and Sudan

    April 20, 2006

    The growing campus campaign to force universities to divest from corporations doing business with the Sudanese government is having real impact.

  • The New Campus Left-Style

    March 30, 2006

  • Giving Americans a Raise

    March 23, 2006 Subscribe

    The massive number of Americans who support raising the minimum wage should spur Congress to action.

  • The New Face of the Campus Left

    January 26, 2006

    Since the 1970s Republican conservatives have been the dominant political force on American campuses. But groups like Campus Progress, better groomed and better organized than their predecessors, are pushing back.

2005

  • A Year of Sweet Victories

    December 15, 2005 Subscribe

    Among the sweetest victories of 2005: Social Security reform has been blocked, pressure to withdraw from Iraq is growing and progressive activists are making progress on local, state and national issues.

  • Five Questions for Robert Greenwald

    November 8, 2005

    What motivated director Robert Greenwald to spend a year on a documentary detailing Wal-Mart's impact on American life, culture and commerce?

  • Generation Next

    July 19, 2005

    A day at the Campus Progress National Student Conference.

  • Harvard Divests

    April 28, 2005

    Students succeed in making the university pull out of a Chinese oil company funding slaughter in Sudan.

2004

  • Are Students Red or Blue?

    December 22, 2004

    The war rages on to win hearts and minds on colleges campuses.

  • Eminem Aims at Bush

    October 26, 2004

    "Mosh" could be one of the most overtly political pop music videos ever produced.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/1/08
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)

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