Programs with the subject 'Politics'

• A Conversation: Howard Zinn and Woodly Harrelson
  Famed people's historian Howard Zinn died at the end of January 2010. A rigorous scholar, tireless advocate for economic and social justice, and a man of great good humor and generosity, he will be greatly missed. This delightful and engaging conversation with actor Woody Harrelson reveals Howard's rigorous scholarship and profound, gentle wisdom.
• Allen Ginsberg
  One of the major American voices of the twentieth century reads and sings his poems accompanied by bass player Donald Was and ruminates about the power of poetry and its ability to effect social change.
• American Roots
  Victor Cruz grew up in Manhattan's lower East Side; Joy Harjo, a member of the Creek Indian Nation, was raised on a reservation in the Southwest; Philip Levine grew up in a working-class Jewish neighborhood in Detroit.
• Be A Diva
  Profiles ACT UP - the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, the effective and inventive national AIDS activist organization.
• Biting The Hand That Leads Us
  This video explores the way humor is used in social activism. It includes perfromances from a variety of comedy groups,including the Bread and Puppet Theatre, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Atomic Comics, Ladies Against Women and Teatro Campesino.
• 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.
• Breaking the Bank
  Thousands converged on Washington D.C. to challenge the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at their meeting in April 2000.
• Czeslaw Milosz
  Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz reflects on his life and career as an emigre, diplomat and internationally acclaimed writer, talking about the role of poets in the politics of our time.
• Expansion, Intervention and Migration
  Operation Bootstrap: a 1950s precursor of NAFTA forced on Puerto Rico as an "industrialization" program. And a look at an evangelical crusade in Latin America
• Fallujah
  In November 2004 the United States aerial and artillery bombing destroyed Fallujah, the Iraqi City of Mosques. In 1968 the U.S. destroyed the Vietnamese city of Ben Tre. A U.S. major told CNN reporter Peter Arnett: "It became necessary to destroy the city in order to save it."
• Free Trade
  Apparel industry imports have had a devastating effect on US communities. Free Trade" explores the destructive economic realities of domestic plant closures, not just on the thousands of unemployed workers and their families, but on the entire community they support.
• Garbage
  From Staten Island -- home of the world's largest landfill -- comes an in depth examination that explores the roots of an ever-increasing problem and looks at solutions beyond recycling.
• Global Dissent
  Reactions to the first Gulf War from across the globe.
• Inauguration 2001: Raining on the Parade
  Hosted by Laura Flanders.
• Nicaragua
  An analysis of mainstream media coverage of the recent national elections in Nicaragua.
• 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.
• Political Nineties Too. A Spanish Point of View
  This 2-part program, produced by a Spanish video activist collective, gives us the views of progressive and radical Spanish thinkers.
• Prisoners of War: Political Prisoners in the US
  Week Five Hour 1 Still No Justice: Leonard Peltier: update on the Native Activist Geronimo Pratt: An overview of the case of jailed Black Panther leader A Conversation on Death Row: Christof Arnold interviews Mumbia Abu Jamal Week Five Hour 2 UNICOR demo Bobby Castillo, former control unit prisoner Maurice Bickham Freedom Party at WBAI kNOw inJUSTICE Rally, SF Looking Back at Attica, from Lock Down USA New York Three Jean Stewart on Disabled Prisoners Dominos Marcos
• Puro Party: Celebrating a Genocide
  Every year San Antonio, TX, stages "Fiesta," a 10 day celebration to honor Texas' defeat of Mexico in the battle of San Jacinto --the Alamo, remember?
• 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.
• State of the Art: Art of the State
  The implications of and justifications for government censorship of the arts.
• The Border: Where Do you Draw the Line?
  This video describes the violence and harrassment experienced in many locations around the world: Northern Ireland, Panama, Mexico and the South Bronx, illustrating the arbitraty nature of "where the line is drawn".
• 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.