Programs with the subject 'Political Science'

• 6th International Women's Video Festival
  March 8th --International Women's Day-- was inspired by a militant street demonstration in 1908, when women from sweatshops and tenements on New York's Lower East Side marched to Union Square with demands for higher wages, better working conditions, the right to vote and an end to child labor. This video, for the sixth consecutive year, documents this event.
• Breaking Conventions
  The San Diego and Los Angeles Alternative Media Networks go to the Republican Convention. Surfers and Bikers for Bush and Newt, border crossers and party crashers. A Clinton piñata gets smashed and Paul Krassner comments.
• Bring the Troops Home!
  Bring the Troops Home! looks at grassroots organizing and resistance. Includes Jesus Papoletto Melendez, Puerto Rican poet; Grace Paley, author; Joseph Lowery, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and many war resisters.
• Carolyn Forche and Larry Heineman
  The Ubiquitous Front-line Larry Heinemann, whose novel, "Paco's Story" won the National Book Award, and Carolyn Forche, whose searing poems about the war in El Salvador have won her wide critical acclaim, read excerpts from their work and speak forcefully about the consequences of imperialism on the peoples of the world.
• Ends And Means
  A lively compilation of clips from anti- communist propaganda films intercut with footage taken from an international conference at Harvard University in 1989.
• Facts on the Ground
  Personal stories of Palestinians and Israeli settlers frame this account of Israel's race to build permanent settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
• Glass Jaw and Unfinished Symphony
  Glass Jaw chronicles the filmmakers recovery from a pistol whipping and his ensuing brain surgery. The Unfinished Symphony is an experimental autobiographical documentary of a spinal fusion operation.
• Global Dissent
  Reactions to the first Gulf War from across the globe.
• Haiti: Misunderstood Neighbor
  This program examines Haiti's history, sense of cultural expression, the current political situation, and hopes for the future.
• Herb Schiller Reads The New York Times
  Communications expert Herb Schiller peels away the many layers of the Sunday Times.
• Just Say No!
  The Gulf War produced an historic level of military resistance in a very short time. Military reisister tell their stories.
• Lines in the Sand
  Gulf Crisis TV Project: made in collaboration with Paper Tiger. This program reviews the history of colonialism and intervention in the Middle East.
• Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez
  Two of America's most gifted poets read from their work and talk about their respective paths, from the big city ghetto life to esteemed university professor and the struggle to create and maintain a personal politic.
• Michael Harrington Looks At Democracy
  Why was the 1988 electorate at an all time low? Micheal Harrington, author of "The Other America", begins to de-mystify the American political process.
• Mutiny on the Corporate Sponsorship
  Issues of media access, coverage decisions and the corporate underwriting of the media industry.
• National Insecurities
  In the wake of 911 the U.S. government launched a 21st century pogrom against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S, inflaming racial and religious hatreds and fears.How have people responded.
• Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes
  Mexico City: home of the Nobel Prize winning poet Octavio Paz and Latin American essayist Carlos Fuentes. For both writers, Mexico City, the largest metropolitan city in the world, becomes a metaphor for all that is right and all that is wrong with contemporary society and culture.
• Off the Record
  Alternative coverage of the 1996 Democratic National Convention. Housing, racism and other issues that were being left out of the convention agenda.Demo with Safiya Bukari and Chicago housing activists,a Native Pipe Ceremony,demo by gays and lesbians for marriage rights, protest against repression of Jorge Guillen, Puerto Rican activist.
• Operation Dissidence
  Operation Dissidence is about how the first Gulf War was sold to the American people. Includes Laura Flanders, Undercurrents Radio, Noam Chomsky, Jeff Cohen, FAIR, Paul Zaloom, comic from Beekman's World.
• Racism on Main Street
  A hard look at racism and police brutality, surveying several U.S. cities and citing specific case studies.
• Resistencia y Solidaridad
  Resistencia y Solidaridad examines the U.S. role in Latin America, and the work that solidarity activists in the United States have played in challenging their own government's agenda, frequently using video and film as a tool for galvanizing public opposition to U.S. policies. Part Four of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 1: Seattle Prelude
  Seattle heats up as thousands pour into the city for week-long rallies and demonstrations in protest of WTO.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 2: People Unite, Police Riot
  Protests are met by Seattle poice and barrage of chemical weapons and rubber bullets.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 3: Occupied Seattle
  Segment includes Steelworkers' rally which is met with Police teargas, as well as examinations of legal issues posed by Police abuse, indigenous issue with the WTO, and a critical look at how the media has covered the protests.
• Showdown in Seattle Part 4: Unwilling Captives
  Segment on questionable legal processing dealing with Seattle protesters
• Showdown in Seattle Part 5: What Democracy Looks Like
  The WTO ends in failure and celebration.
• Stephen Dunifer at Radio Free Berkeley
  Stephen Dunifer discusses the opportunities for micro radio and television. This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.
• Transforming Palestine/Israel
  Panel Discussion and Q&A organized by the Committee for an Open Discussion of Zionism (CODZ.org). Examines the logic and necessary steps for a Single State Resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict
• Visions of Freedom
  Emotionally powerful performances as artists join with Critical Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex.Filmed at the first Critical Resistance conference in 1998.
• Voices of a People's History of the United States
  Author Howard Zinn is honored at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, where actors, activists and authors read excerpts from book with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
• Voices of Democracy: Living the First Amendment
  Is it really safe to watch the six o'clock news?
• War on the Homefront
  An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War.Gulf Crisis TV Project: made in collaboration with Paper Tiger Part 10 of the 10-part "Gulf Crisis TV Project" series. The billions of dollars spent on mass destruction in the war is paralleled to the decline of the US economy, budget cuts in labor, healthcare, housing and education. It examines the military treatment of public lands within the US, the ecological devastation that occurs in the production of weapons and the grassroots movements efforts to change this nation's priorities. An accelerated decline of the US economy, labor, housing and healthcare lie in the wake of the first Gulf War.
• War, Oil and Power
  Part 1 of the 10-Part "Gulf Crisis TV Project" Series. "War, Oil and Power" investigates the military and energy industries and explores the interlocking interests between the two. Features Alexandra Allen (Greenpeace), Joe Stork (Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch), Abbas Al-Nasravi (emeritus professor of economics at the University of Vermont), Dessima Williams (former Ambassador to Grenada), Catherine Tompa (Daughters of Mother Jones) and economist Jon Naar.
• World Tribunal On Iraq - The Final Session
  The WTI sessions were held in 16 countries around the world. Deep Dish TV traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in June 2005 to broadcast the final session live to the world. The resulting two one-hour programs form a beautifully edited account of the Tribunal held in the ancient Topkapi Palace of the Ottoman Empire to judge the war crimes of the U.S. Empire. This three-disc set also includes the New York session, and interviews of tribunal participants by David Barsamian.