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Programs with the subject 'Community Media'

  • A Conversation: Howard Zinn and Woody 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.
  • A Savage War of Peace
    A powerful analysis of the escalating violence that followed the launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party in the early 1990's. This documentary reaches beyond the shocking images to identify forces and interests at work, and to present the views of residents and hostel-dwellers.
  • Access Denied
    Local cable access producers who have been censored
  • Access To Oxygen
    Access to Oxygen explores the root causes, initial efforts, and growth of the Environmental Justice Movement. Too often waste and power generation plants are stuck in poor minority communities, with dire results. This environmental racism has given rise to an increasingly vocal and vibrant Environmental Justice Movement, one that has frequently taken the camera into their own hands in order to tell their own stories. Part Two of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments.
  • Alternative Media in the Bay Area
    Pressures, and opportunities, for minority voices in alternative media.
  • Anchors Away!
    Pilot for a Deep Dish TV news show that skewers the broadcast media. Art Jones and Tom Poole of Not Channel Zero present a different way of making news. Ellen Spiro, a camcorder commando recruits newsmakers who care.
  • 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.
  • Brian Winston Reads TV News
    British Professor and Writer, Brian Winston surveys the dream logic of the nightly network news. Actress Melissa Leo provides non-verbal commentary.
  • Communication and Journalism: The Difference
    Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, the author of Making Waves, a resource book on community media, interviewed by Victoria Maldonado in the Deep Dish office. This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change
  • Community Visions
    The first half-hour "From Victim to Survivor” depicts with sensitivity the ability of survivors of sexual violence to heal. The second half-hour, "Peace at Home”, offers insights into the experiences of survivors of domestic violence and examples of how women can defend themselves.
  • 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.
  • Digital Connectors
    This project connects youth with computers and each other. This segment will be part of our new series in production Waves of Change
  • Dishwarmer
    Deep Dish TV Network promos and Public Service Announcements from around the country on health care.
  • Elvia: The Fight for Land and Liberty
    Portrait of Elvia Alvarado, a campesino leader in Honduras who dedicated her life to organizing. Produced by Laura Rodriguez and Rick Tejada Flores The video aired in 1988 on PBS as part of the VISTAS series and in 1993 as part of Deep Dish TV's Democracy in Communication Series.
  • Getting A Grip On Access
    Excerpts from community television around the U.S. Demonstrating the significance of community made media
  • Herb Schiller Reads The New York Times
    Communications expert Herb Schiller peels away the many layers of the Sunday Times.
  • Hong Kong: Only Something That Is About To Disappear Becomes An Image
    The tapes in this poignant collection make use of old black and white film from the city's historical archive. As Hong Kong readies for the inevitable change of governance in 1997, these young artists contemplate their shared history and present anxiety.
  • Idiot Box Savant
    Some of the most innovative uses of access from across the country. It will convince even the most cynical viewers that public access TV is worth watching (and making).
  • In Other Words: The Struggle Over Language
    Before censorship, there is the location of what is "normal" and "commonsense".
  • Inauguration 2001: Raining on the Parade
    Hosted by Laura Flanders.
  • 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.
  • Judith Mayne Dials Through Daytime Soap Opera
    This is a Paper Tiger Program featuring Ohio State Professor and feminist cultural critic, Judith Mayne gives a critical reading of soapopera mags and subculture to discover their unmistakable allure.
  • Kids Play Back
    Kids make their own TV.
  • Kids Playback
    Can making a little of their own media be a homeopathic remedy against the massive doses of corporate culture kids consume daily? Teachers and facilitators worked with children to produce television from a kids point of view.
  • 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.
  • La Voz de Guaicaipuro
    The Venezuelan government has opened the broadcast spectrum to many small community stations.This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.
  • Labor Produces: Access to Solidarity
    Alternative news, documentary, talk show and music video formats provide an insightful and creative examination of issues involving exploitation and livelihood seldom confronted by the mainstream media.
  • Mediums Well Done
    This show reassembles the debris of mass media in order to comment upon that culture.
  • NetRoots
    Paper Tiger TV returns to the issues surrounding the growth of new communication and information technologies.
  • Occupy Wall Street - The Movement Grows!
    Since Saturday, September 17, 2011, thousands have been gathering at Zucotti Park in downtown New York City, in the eye of the storm of capitalism, to protest the erosion of economic justice, social equality and democracy itself over the past 40 years, during which the living standards of 99% of Americans has declined, while the richest 1% have reaped the benefits. But this isn't your average U.S. protest - inspired by the Arab Spring and protests in Greece, Spain and elsehwere in Europe, OWS is dynamic yet leaderless, organized yet broad-based. The media, the general public and the very politicians are looking to established media narratives to make sense of this movement, but they will not find any help there. One thing is clear: it is time to end our deference to corporate, monied power, and time to hold the banksters accountable for the financial crimes committed against the people of the United States. And, most importantly, it is time to find an alternative to the currently-deteriorating system of capitalism. As economist Richard Wolff emplored a gathering of listeners on an early October evening, "You can do better than capitalism!"
  • 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.
  • Opening Graphics for Waves of Change
    This is the opening for a new Deep Dish series, Waves of Change, about community media around the world.
  • Paper Tiger Reads Columbus Media
    Ohio media activists detail conflicts of interest, biased reporting, and squelching of stories by the main media outlets in Columbus.
  • RASA FM : Perifery Voices
    Indymedia South Africa initiated a community radio project in Soweto which was eventually closed down by SABC. This is a segment from our new series in production Waves of Change
  • 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.
  • Schoolnet in Namibia
    How comic books are promoting open source free software in Southern Africa.
    This program is part of our series Waves of Change
  • Staking a Claim in Cyberspace: Information Policy for the People
    Hear from everyday media users, grassroots activists, public advocates, hackers and others about a real vision for future communications policy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Taiwan: Generation Under Martial Law
    This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes of sounds and scores and an effective editing style that belies the urgency under which it is being made. The video movement in Taiwan has made successful use of home cassette distribution, via both mail and street vendors. The Green Team collective has pioneered in this effort with over 100 titles in distribution, documenting the struggles of farmers, students, workers and environmentalists.
  • Teaching TV
    Teaching TV is a compilation of youth produced work from over 20 different projects from around the country.
  • The 9th International Women's Day Video Festival
    Women from across the United States and around the world celebrate International Women's Day through video.
  • 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 New Resistance
    500 years after Columbus, the multicultural communities of this nation's Southwest region are joining forces in the perpetual struggles against social, economic, environmental and cultural injustices.
  • 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)
  • Video Dialtone: Malling Our Free Speech
    Picture a television future where hundreds of channels come into your home through a single telephone line. Find out what's being planned for your communications future, and what you can do about it.
  • Voices of Democracy: Living the First Amendment
    Is it really safe to watch the six o'clock news?
  • 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.
  • Waves of Change
    Community Media Trust and Interviews with Deccan Women We are proud to present two new clips from the Waves of Change series by Deep Dish TV! The Waves of Change Project is a series that celebrates Local Media that: -Resist Commercial Culture -Defend Human Rights -Protect Tradition -Connect Communities Waves of Change features clips, interviews, debates and images looking at: -Ideas for sustainability -Interactions with Political Power -The Dangerous lives of media activists -Creative communications options -Structures for consensus -And much more!
  • Waves of Change Excerpts
    This is a short preview of the new series, Waves of Change. It features selections from the many interviews, clips and graphics which will make up the series.
  • Women of the First Nations
    This program celebrates the new generation of Native women active in film and video who are reclaiming the image, ability and power of Native women to define their own identities in the world.
  • Word! Your Voice is a Drum
    The National Federation of Local Cable Programmers' July 1992 convention focusing on oral traditions throughout history.
  • World AIDS Day: We Interrupt This Program...
    Combining confrontation, commentary, and personal narration in a call for AIDS action and awareness, We Interrupt This Program... creates a national forum that is both essential AIDS information and challenging art.

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Blogs

  • Uprooted - A Grassroots Examination of the Politics of Migration
    Uprooted is multiplatform (web, tv, dvd) media tool for activists and organizers advocating for migrant rights. It highlights the social, political and economic policies that drive migration. It encourages and enables migrant communities and their allies to document and distribute their narratives.
  • Waves of Change
    Waves of Change: The Many Voices of the Global Village is a multimedia project designed to survey community media around the world by compiling and archiving the creative use of participatory communication globally.

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Community Media

A Conversation: Howard Zinn and Woody Harrelson

Production Year: 2003
Runtime: 1:03:00
Producers: Brian Drolet, Marty Lucas, Elsa E'der
Subjects: American Studies, Economics, Labor Studies, Peace Studies, Politics, Iraq, Community Media, Environmental Justice
CatalogueNumber: 03512

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.

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A Savage War of Peace

Production Year: 1993
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Video News Services
Series: News You Can Use I
Subjects: Peace Studies, Africa, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03438

A powerful analysis of the escalating violence that followed the launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party in the early 1990's. This documentary reaches beyond the shocking images to identify forces and interests at work, and to present the views of residents and hostel-dwellers.

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Access Denied

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Sue Sende Cole
Series: Behind Censorship: The Assault on Civil Liberties
Subjects: Community Media, Censorship
CatalogueNumber: 03364

Local cable access producers who have been censored

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Access To Oxygen

Environmental Justice Hits the Small Screen

Production Year: 2008
Runtime: 4:00:00
Series: DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments
Locale: New York City
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Urban Studies, Health, Racism, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03402

Access to Oxygen explores the root causes, initial efforts, and growth of the Environmental Justice Movement. Too often waste and power generation plants are stuck in poor minority communities, with dire results. This environmental racism has given rise to an increasingly vocal and vibrant Environmental Justice Movement, one that has frequently taken the camera into their own hands in order to tell their own stories. Part Two of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments.

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Alternative Media in the Bay Area

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Paper Tiger TV West
Series: ROAR - Paper Tiger - A Mini Retrospective
Subjects: Media Studies, African American Studies, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03380

Pressures, and opportunities, for minority voices in alternative media.

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Anchors Away!

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Martha Wallner, May Ying Welsh
Series: Behind Censorship: The Assault on Civil Liberties
Locale: NYC
Subjects: Media Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Art and Literature, Education, Iraq, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03365

Pilot for a Deep Dish TV news show that skewers the broadcast media. Art Jones and Tom Poole of Not Channel Zero present a different way of making news. Ellen Spiro, a camcorder commando recruits newsmakers who care.

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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.

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Brian Winston Reads TV News

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Paper Tiger
Series: ROAR - Paper Tiger - A Mini Retrospective
Subjects: Media Studies, Theatre/Dance, Video Art, Paper Tiger, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03387

British Professor and Writer, Brian Winston surveys the dream logic of the nightly network news. Actress Melissa Leo provides non-verbal commentary.

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Communication and Journalism: The Difference

Interview with Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

Production Year: 2009
Runtime: 03:00
Producers: Victoria Maldonado
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Latin America, US
Subjects: Media Studies, Latin-American Studies, Youth Media, Human Rights, Community Media, Film Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03346

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, the author of Making Waves, a resource book on community media, interviewed by Victoria Maldonado in the Deep Dish office. This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change

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Community Visions

Part 1: Peace At Home - Getting a Protection Order.

The first half-hour "From Victim to Survivor” depicts with sensitivity the ability of survivors of sexual violence to heal. The second half-hour, "Peace at Home”, offers insights into the experiences of survivors of domestic violence and examples of how women can defend themselves.

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Cork Community TV Provides Voice to the Voiceless

Production Year: 2009
Runtime: 04:00
Producers: DeeDee Halleck
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Ireland
Subjects: Media Studies, Globalization Studies, Youth Media, Art and Literature, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03342

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.

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Digital Connectors

Production Year: 2008
Runtime: 02:00
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Internet
Subjects: Media Studies, Urban Studies, Youth Media, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03343

This project connects youth with computers and each other. This segment will be part of our new series in production Waves of Change

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Dishwarmer

Production Year: 1994
Runtime: 28:00
Series: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Subjects: Health Care, Youth, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03453

Deep Dish TV Network promos and Public Service Announcements from around the country on health care.

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Elvia: The Fight for Land and Liberty

Production Year: 1992
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Rick Tejada Flores, Laura Rodriguez
Series: Democracy In Communication
Locale: Honduras
Subjects: Latin-American Studies, Latino Studies, Social Movement Studies, Central America, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03445

Portrait of Elvia Alvarado, a campesino leader in Honduras who dedicated her life to organizing. Produced by Laura Rodriguez and Rick Tejada Flores The video aired in 1988 on PBS as part of the VISTAS series and in 1993 as part of Deep Dish TV's Democracy in Communication Series.

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Getting A Grip On Access

Production Year: 1986
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Diana Agosta, David Shulman, Andrew Blau
Series: The Opening Series
Subjects: Media Studies, Social Movement Studies, Documentary Studies, Video Art, Paper Tiger, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03210

Excerpts from community television around the U.S. Demonstrating the significance of community made media

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Herb Schiller Reads The New York Times

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Series: ROAR - Paper Tiger - A Mini Retrospective
Subjects: Political Science, Media Studies, Economics, Paper Tiger, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03040

Communications expert Herb Schiller peels away the many layers of the Sunday Times.

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Hong Kong: Only Something That Is About To Disappear Becomes An Image

Production Year: 1990
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Shu Lea Cheang
Series: ...will be televised: Video Documents From Asia
Locale: Hong Kong
Subjects: Media Studies, Art and Literature, Human Rights, Community Media, Asian Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03359

The tapes in this poignant collection make use of old black and white film from the city's historical archive. As Hong Kong readies for the inevitable change of governance in 1997, these young artists contemplate their shared history and present anxiety.

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Idiot Box Savant

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Erin O'Meara
Series: Celebrating 20 Years of Public Access TV
Subjects: Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03376

Some of the most innovative uses of access from across the country. It will convince even the most cynical viewers that public access TV is worth watching (and making).

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In Other Words: The Struggle Over Language

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: PRESSA, Lesbian and Gay TV
Series: Behind Censorship: The Assault on Civil Liberties
Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Post-Colonialism, Community Media, Censorship
CatalogueNumber: 03366

Before censorship, there is the location of what is "normal" and "commonsense".

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Inauguration 2001: Raining on the Parade

Production Year: 2001
Runtime: 28:31
Producers: none Deep Dish TV, Changing America, Free Speech TV
Series: Raining on the Parade
Subjects: Politics, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03461

Hosted by Laura Flanders.

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Interview with Berta Rodriguez Santos

Radio Zapoteca

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.

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Judith Mayne Dials Through Daytime Soap Opera

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Series: ROAR - Paper Tiger - A Mini Retrospective
Subjects: Media Studies, Women's Studies, Art and Literature, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03043

This is a Paper Tiger Program featuring Ohio State Professor and feminist cultural critic, Judith Mayne gives a critical reading of soapopera mags and subculture to discover their unmistakable allure.

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Kids Play Back

Production Year: 1986
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: DeeDee Halleck, Karen Einstein
Series: The Opening Series
Locale: US
Subjects: Media Studies, Youth Media, Art and Literature, Education, Mass Media/Popular Culture, Video Art, Youth, Paper Tiger, Community Media, Communication, Film Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03373

Kids make their own TV.

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Kids Playback

TV Made By Children

Production Year: 1986
Runtime: 58:00
Subjects: Art, American Studies, Urban Studies, Youth Media, Education, Youth, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03531

Can making a little of their own media be a homeopathic remedy against the massive doses of corporate culture kids consume daily? Teachers and facilitators worked with children to produce television from a kids point of view.

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Korea: Until Daybreak

Production Year: 1990
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Hye Jung Park
Series: ...will be televised: Video Documents From Asia
Locale: Korea
Subjects: Media Studies, Globalization Studies, Labor Studies, Community Media, Asian Studies, International Relations
CatalogueNumber: 03360

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.

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La Voz de Guaicaipuro

Community Radio in Venezuela

Production Year: 2007
Runtime: 02:00
Producers: Daniel Del Solar
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Venezuela
Subjects: Media Studies, Latin-American Studies, Youth Media, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03348

The Venezuelan government has opened the broadcast spectrum to many small community stations.This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.

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Labor Produces: Access to Solidarity

Production Year: 1986
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Pat Keeton, Pennee Bender, Carol Anshien
Series: The Opening Series
Subjects: Labor Studies, Women's Studies, Africa, Central America, Documentary Studies, Work/Labor, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03463

Alternative news, documentary, talk show and music video formats provide an insightful and creative examination of issues involving exploitation and livelihood seldom confronted by the mainstream media.

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Mediums Well Done

Re-making Pop Culture

Production Year: 1986
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Marisa Bowe, William Boddy
Series: The Opening Series
Locale: USA
Subjects: Media Studies, Urban Studies, Mass Media/Popular Culture, Video Art, Visual Arts, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03217

This show reassembles the debris of mass media in order to comment upon that culture.

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NetRoots

Cultivating the Digital Park

Production Year: 1994
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Paper Tiger
Series: News You Can Use III
Subjects: Media Studies, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03340

Paper Tiger TV returns to the issues surrounding the growth of new communication and information technologies.

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Occupy Wall Street - The Movement Grows!

Grit TV's Laura Flanders Live Broadcast on FSTV

Since Saturday, September 17, 2011, thousands have been gathering at Zucotti Park in downtown New York City, in the eye of the storm of capitalism, to protest the erosion of economic justice, social equality and democracy itself over the past 40 years, during which the living standards of 99% of Americans has declined, while the richest 1% have reaped the benefits. But this isn't your average U.S. protest - inspired by the Arab Spring and protests in Greece, Spain and elsehwere in Europe, OWS is dynamic yet leaderless, organized yet broad-based. The media, the general public and the very politicians are looking to established media narratives to make sense of this movement, but they will not find any help there. One thing is clear: it is time to end our deference to corporate, monied power, and time to hold the banksters accountable for the financial crimes committed against the people of the United States. And, most importantly, it is time to find an alternative to the currently-deteriorating system of capitalism. As economist Richard Wolff emplored a gathering of listeners on an early October evening, "You can do better than capitalism!"

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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.

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Opening Graphics for Waves of Change

The Many Voices of the Global Village

Production Year: 2008
Runtime: 02:00
Producers: Victoria Maldonado, DeeDee Halleck
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Brazil, South Africa, Mexico
Subjects: Media Studies, Art and Literature, Community Media, Film Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03390

This is the opening for a new Deep Dish series, Waves of Change, about community media around the world.

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Paper Tiger Reads Columbus Media

Production Year: 1991
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Paper Tiger
Series: ROAR - Paper Tiger - A Mini Retrospective
Subjects: Media Studies, Art and Literature, Community Media, Cultural Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03410

Ohio media activists detail conflicts of interest, biased reporting, and squelching of stories by the main media outlets in Columbus.

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RASA FM : Perifery Voices

Molefi speaks about the Soweto community radio

Production Year: 2006
Runtime: 02:40
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Durban and Soweto, South Africa
Subjects: Media Studies, Latin-American Studies, Youth Media, Africa, Human Rights, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03345

Indymedia South Africa initiated a community radio project in Soweto which was eventually closed down by SABC. This is a segment from our new series in production Waves of Change

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Resistencia y Solidaridad

El Salvador, Colombia, and the U.S. Solidarity Movement

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.

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Schoolnet in Namibia

Comics Are Used Instead of Computer Manuals

Production Year: 2007
Runtime: 03:00
Producers: DeeDee Halleck
Series: Waves of Change
Subjects: Media Studies, African American Studies, Africa, Art and Literature, Education, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03341

How comic books are promoting open source free software in Southern Africa.
This program is part of our series Waves of Change

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Staking a Claim in Cyberspace: Information Policy for the People

Production Year: 1993
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Paper Tiger
Series: News You Can Use II
Subjects: Media Studies, Information, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03452

Hear from everyday media users, grassroots activists, public advocates, hackers and others about a real vision for future communications policy.

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Stephen Dunifer at Radio Free Berkeley

Micro Radio Pioneer

Production Year: 2007
Runtime: 04:00
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: Berkeley
Subjects: Political Science, Media Studies, Urban Studies, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03344

Stephen Dunifer discusses the opportunities for micro radio and television. This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.

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Stirring Up the Myth of the Melting Pot

Part 6

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.

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Taiwan: Generation Under Martial Law

Production Year: 1990
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Shu Lea Cheang
Series: ...will be televised: Video Documents From Asia
Locale: Taipei, Taiwan
Subjects: Media Studies, Human Rights, Community Media, International Relations
CatalogueNumber: 03357

This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes of sounds and scores and an effective editing style that belies the urgency under which it is being made. The video movement in Taiwan has made successful use of home cassette distribution, via both mail and street vendors. The Green Team collective has pioneered in this effort with over 100 titles in distribution, documenting the struggles of farmers, students, workers and environmentalists.

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Teaching TV

Video Production In The Schools

Teaching TV is a compilation of youth produced work from over 20 different projects from around the country.

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The 9th International Women's Day Video Festival

The 1990's--How We See It

Production Year: 1993
Runtime: 58:00
Series: Visions of Ourselves
Subjects: Video Art, Women's Movement, Community Media, Gender Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03433

Women from across the United States and around the world celebrate International Women's Day through video.

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The Empire Strikes Out!

Part 3

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.

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The Empire Strikes Out!

Part 4

Production Year: 1990
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Martha Wallner
Editors: Lisa Guido
Series: Spigot For Bigots Or Channels For Change?
Subjects: Media Studies, American Studies, Civil Liberties, Globalization Studies, Art and Literature, Racism, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03330

Part 4 of the Spigot for Bigot series, the second half of The Empire Strikes Out!, further explores white hate organizations.

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The New Resistance

Southwestern Communities of Color Struggling for Environmental and Economic Justice

Production Year: 1992
Runtime: 1:30:00
Producers: Fernando Moreno
Series: Rock the Boat
Subjects: American Studies, Community Media, Environmental Justice
CatalogueNumber: 03418

500 years after Columbus, the multicultural communities of this nation's Southwest region are joining forces in the perpetual struggles against social, economic, environmental and cultural injustices.

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The Philippines: a Legacy of Violence

Production Year: 1990
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Shu Lea Cheang
Series: ...will be televised: Video Documents From Asia
Locale: Philippines
Subjects: Media Studies, Globalization Studies, Human Rights, Post-Colonialism, Community Media, Asian Studies, International Relations
CatalogueNumber: 03361

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)

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Video Dialtone: Malling Our Free Speech

Production Year: 1992
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Paper Tiger
Series: Rock the Boat
Subjects: Media Studies, Art and Literature, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03423

Picture a television future where hundreds of channels come into your home through a single telephone line. Find out what's being planned for your communications future, and what you can do about it.

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Voices of Democracy: Living the First Amendment

Is it really safe to watch the six o'clock news?

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War, Oil and Power

Gulf Crisis TV Project

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.

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Waves of Change

Community Media Trust and Interviews with Deccan Women

Production Year: 2010
Runtime: 18:32
Series: Waves of Change
Subjects: Women's Studies, Agriculture, Women's Movement, Media Justice, Community Media, Asian Studies, Poverty
CatalogueNumber: 03530

Community Media Trust and Interviews with Deccan Women We are proud to present two new clips from the Waves of Change series by Deep Dish TV! The Waves of Change Project is a series that celebrates Local Media that: -Resist Commercial Culture -Defend Human Rights -Protect Tradition -Connect Communities Waves of Change features clips, interviews, debates and images looking at: -Ideas for sustainability -Interactions with Political Power -The Dangerous lives of media activists -Creative communications options -Structures for consensus -And much more!

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Waves of Change Excerpts

Voices of the Global Village

Production Year: 2008
Runtime: 09:27
Series: Waves of Change
Locale: global
Subjects: Media Studies, Latin-American Studies, Human Rights, Mass Media/Popular Culture, Work/Labor, Radio, Youth, Community Media, Communication
CatalogueNumber: 03466

This is a short preview of the new series, Waves of Change. It features selections from the many interviews, clips and graphics which will make up the series.

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Women of the First Nations

Production Year: 1992
Runtime: 28:00
Producers: Claudia Sperber
Series: Rock the Boat
Subjects: Native American Studies, Women's Movement, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03424

This program celebrates the new generation of Native women active in film and video who are reclaiming the image, ability and power of Native women to define their own identities in the world.

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Word! Your Voice is a Drum

Production Year: 1992
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: Anthony Riddle
Series: Rock the Boat
Subjects: Media Studies, Art and Literature, Music and Performance, Community Media, Cultural Studies
CatalogueNumber: 03417

The National Federation of Local Cable Programmers' July 1992 convention focusing on oral traditions throughout history.

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World AIDS Day: We Interrupt This Program...

Production Year: 1992
Runtime: 58:00
Series: Rock the Boat
Subjects: AIDS, Visual Arts, Community Media
CatalogueNumber: 03428

Combining confrontation, commentary, and personal narration in a call for AIDS action and awareness, We Interrupt This Program... creates a national forum that is both essential AIDS information and challenging art.

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