Getting to Know Laura Poitras
Meet the woman who helped Edward Snowden leak news of top-secret surveillance programmes.
Who is Laura Poitras? Hear about the crucial role this American film-maker played in helping Edward Snowden leak news of a top-secret mass surveillance programmes being operated by the US government. Plus, the tech-savvy Americans helping Vietnamese bloggers cover their tracks.
We investigate why some Americans are giving up their US citizenships and we find out about the 'November Project' - a growing fitness craze that is drawing huge early morning crowds in Boston and other cities across the US and Canada. And, Cuba gets its first English-language bookstore thanks to a New York City native.
(Image: Documentary film-maker Laura Poitras. Credit: Associated Press)
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The November Project
The November Project is a free, open-to-the-public exercise group founded inΒ Boston, Massachusetts, in 2011. The two co-founders areΒ Brogan Graham and Bojan Mandaric.
(Photo Credit: Bojan Mandaric)
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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.
