Programs with the subject 'Globalization Studies'

• Barcelona General Strike Against Austerity 3/29/12
  On March 29, 2012 millions of people in Spain took the streets to oppose the government's draconian austerity measures. Global Uprisings documents the strike in Barcelona.
• 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.
• Caribbean Voices
  A 2-part program focusing on the perspectives and experiences of people of African descent and Latinos, from the Caribbean and Central America.
• 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.
• Conversations in Tehran
  A film by Persheng Vaziri Will the United States attack Iran? This film explores the views of diverse Iranians in Tehran.
• Cork Community TV Provides Voice to the Voiceless
  In the city of Cork, Ireland, Cork Community TV provides access to many community groups. This is an interview with Eddie Noonan and Emma Bowell.
• Culture and Identity
  Latino writers, musicians, painters and performers seize the TV screen and remind us to listen to Latino voices to hear our own conscience. With Maria Hinojosa.
• Empire and Oil
  Modern empires run on oil, and controlling these resources is key to the domination of potential rivals. This program examines the recent history of the Middle East and the Iraq War in relation to the desire of Western powers to control its petroleum resources, "the greatest strategic prize in history.”
• Fighting for Our Lives and The Wrath of Grapes
  This two part video foucuses 1) on the pesticides sprayed on the fruit we eat, and 2) the history of the united farm workers.
• Flying South
  In January 1991, a group consisting of two African-Americans and one African-Colombian traveled from Boston, Mass. to the Pacific Coast of Colombia, South America. This program depicts the cultural and socio/economic conditions of the natives of the region.
• 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.
• Globalization At Gunpoint
  The military occupation of Iraq has enabled the U.S. to enforce privatization of the Iraqi economy, in effect, selling off Iraq's assets to foreign investors. A look at the challenges to privatization.
• Guess Who's Coming to Public Access?
  Part of Spigot for Bigot series. This hour begins with a case study of the situation in Kansas City, Missouri; it includes interviews with activists, constitutional lawyers and access users and staff. This case is compared to the situation at access stations in other parts of the country, including Columbus, Ohio and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Haiti: Misunderstood Neighbor
  This program examines Haiti's history, sense of cultural expression, the current political situation, and hopes for the future.
• Horizontalism - Autonomism and a Different Concept of Power -Marina Sitrin
  Occupy Wall Street: What Began as a Moment Has Become a Movement - Marina Sitrin has been active in occupy movements worldwide. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina and author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina .
• Interview with Berta Rodriguez Santos
  Berta Rodriguez Santos discusses why it is important to have popular community radio in the Isthmus region of Mexico. This is a rough cut from one of the segments of a new Deep Dish series about community media around the world.This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.
• It's a Riot
  On February 27, 1987, the Venezuelan government arbitrarily announced austerity measures to make the nation eligible for more loans from the International Monetary Fund. Venezuelans took to the streets in protests that grew into massive uprisings.
• Korea: Until Daybreak
  This tape features south Korea's decade-long street insurrections from the point of view of students, farmers and workers who have stood in the front line of the reunification movement, against economic exploitation and-militarism.
• Latinos and Labor
  Dramatic and moving stories of seemingly powerless laborers, many of them immigrants, all of them working in low paying jobs, uniting to achieve remarkable contract victories in the face of corporate power and police brutality. "Si Se Puede = Yes We Can!"
• Latinos and Labor
  Two programs explore labor struggles in Puerto Rico. The first a look a Puerto Rican labor history through the eyes of retired workers. The second chronicles a victorious 1970 General Strike.
• Latinos and Labor
  The U.S.Mexican border: zone of hope, brutalization and exploitation. Does "free trade" free people or only capital? Two half hour programs explore U.S. Mexico relations on key issues.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Gregory Wilpert
  Gregory Wilpert, professor, author, and activist, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Michael Klare
  Michael Klare speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Neil Smith
  Neil Smith, CUNY Ph.D professor, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Left Forum 2012: Global Insurgencies Amidst the End of Empire with Phyllis Bennis
  Phyllis Bennis, writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues, speaks at a Left Forum 2012 session on how the Arab Spring, protests against austerity in Europe, and the global Occupy movements have challenged U.S. and European hegemony.
• Nicaragua
  An analysis of mainstream media coverage of the recent national elections in Nicaragua.
• Operation Storm the Media
  Paper Tiger Show: In the media coverage of the Persian Gulf War, even the pretense of a separation between the press and state was abandoned. This show explores the relationship between corporate sponsorship and media censorship via coverage of the "Challenge the Media" demonstration in NYC in January 1991.
• 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.
• Stirring Up the Myth of the Melting Pot
  Part 5 and 6 of the Spigot for Bigot series presents different perspectives on the notion that this is a multi-cultural and pluralistic society. segment of "Stirring up the Melting Pot" focuses on racism initated and fostered in the media.
• The Debt Game
  This program analyzes the crisis of external debt in Latin American countries from the point of view of the debtor nations.
• The Empire Strikes Out!
  Part 3 of the Spigot for Bigot series, The Empire Strikes Out!, focuses on the white hate organizations themselves, their history, their tactics and their ideology.
• The Empire Strikes Out!
  Part 4 of the Spigot for Bigot series, the second half of The Empire Strikes Out!, further explores white hate organizations.
• The Philippines: a Legacy of Violence
  Underground video was an important tool during the Marcos era and contributed to the Aquino revolution.Curated by Nick DeoCampo with the Philippines Educational Theater Association PETAJ; Maritou Abaya 's Public Forum and the Sic O'Clock News; Mike DeLeon and others. (Philippines)
• Una Historia/A History
  A bilingual board game where La Pinta, La Nina and Santa Maria take turns in the construction of Western history.
• 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.