Ali Abunimah discusses Obama’s presidency with “progressives”

From closing Guantanamo to lifting the gag rule Bush era policies are coming to an end. But is it a new era of progressive government?

Katrina vanden Heuvel editor and publisher of The Nation, Mark Green President of Air America Radio and the author of Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, Andrea Batista Schlesinger Executive Director of the Drum Major Institute, and Ali Abunimah Co-Founder of The Electronic Intifada and the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse discuss Obama’s first week in office and whether a new era of government has been inaugurated.

They spoke on the program GRITtv hosted by Laura Flanders.