Programs with the subject 'Urban Studies'

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Angry Initiatives, Defiant Stategies
  This video discusses the relationship between the American AIDS epidemic and the mainstream media. In particular it focuses the "Name Project" (a memorial quilt for those who have died of AIDS).
• 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.
• Breathless
  In 1992, New York City announced its plan to build seven garbage incinerators in low income neighborhoods to solve the city's waste problem.
• Bush Crimes Commission
  Bush Crimes Commission
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Environmental Racism
  This program examines the phenomenon of environmental racism and shows what grassroots movements are doing to redefine issues such as housing, education and health as environmental concerns.
• Expression = Life
  Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video and the AIDS Crisis combines multiple programs from the Deep Dish TV archive and a fascinating discussion with a rare gathering of veteran members of ACT UP, filmmakers, and media theorists, who dissect the history of grass-roots media coordination in America and its role in advancing AIDS activism from the 1980s until today. Part one of the series, DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments.
• 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.
• Give Peace A Channel
  Voices of city teenager discuss budget priorities. Why are we spending money on bombs when entire neighborhoods are being abandoned?
• 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.
• Hands on the Verdict: The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
  This compilation looks at the South Central L.A. community since Watts, the persistence of police brutality, the meanings of "riot," and the aftermath of the rebellion.
• Home Sweet Homefront
  This video both exposes the drastic living situations that people have faced due to Reagan year cut backs, and attempts to recreate the media image of a homeless person as someone with dignity and strength.
• 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.
• 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.
• Latino Images
  A compilation of video looking at the expectations, realities and loss that are part of the lives of recent Latin American immigrants. Produced by Yvette Nieves and the Latino Collaborative in association with Starfish Productions (NY, NY)
• Lock Down USA
  The U.S. has the highest penal incarceration rate in the world. 1.7 million prisoners when this video was made in 1996. The number now exceeds 2 million. The number of prisoners has doubled every 7 years. 200 new prison cells are built every single day. What is going on?
• Mediums Well Done
  This show reassembles the debris of mass media in order to comment upon that 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.
• Precious Places
  In the past three years Scribe Video Center has collaborated with community groups to produce 42 community histories.
• Redwood Summer and Beyond
  This program documents the fight to save forests from Australia to the Amazon, and the efforts to re-forest the planet, from the Sahara to our own backyard.
• Slow Death in the Cities
  Hosts Larry Bensky and Amy Goodwin discuss controversial environmental issues facing city-dwellers with a panel representing governmental, corporate, educational and consumer viewpoints.
• Snake Bite Kit For Access
  Part of Spigot for Bigot series. This hour focuses on organizing efforts across the nation, providing valuable information about resources for activists concerned with combating racism and strengthening public access television. Interview with Ann Ginger.
• 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.
• The Killing State
  The list of African-American leaders killed, jailed and silenced by the state and their agents is long. Mumia Abu Jamal, a voice of the voiceless, has been on Death Row since 1986.
• The Last Graduation
  You will not be able to remain neutral about the issue of higher education in prison after viewing this powerful and moving documentary.
• The Nation Erupts
  The Los Angeles rebellion produced aftershocks felt across the country. This program gives voice to the disenfranchised nationwide and presents the efforts of some community groups to organize viable coalitions against the grain of deepening divisions.
• Toxic Wars
  This program documents environmental health movements around the country, showing how three different communities of color have fought for environmental justice.
• 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.
• 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.
• Who's In Control
  Does the responsibility for equal reproductive care begin with us? Ethical, moral and legal issues raised by three leading women of color in Milwaukee's health care professions.
• Women of Substance and Crack Clouds Over Hells Kitchen
  "Woman of Substance" looks beyond the statistics to reveal the human and social problems encountered by pregnant and parenting addicts seeking treatment.In "Crack Clouds Over Hell's Kitchen" by Educational Video Center students visit a park in New York City's infamous "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood.