Behind Censorship: The Assault on Civil Liberties

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Programs in this series

• Access Denied
  Local cable access producers who have been censored
• 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.
• Forbidden Fruit Fight Back!
  With joy and collective pride, lesbians and gay men display unity and confidence as they confront the censorship of the fact of their lives.
• In Other Words: The Struggle Over Language
  Before censorship, there is the location of what is "normal" and "commonsense".
• Mutiny on the Corporate Sponsorship
  Issues of media access, coverage decisions and the corporate underwriting of the media industry.
• Political Prisoners and POWs in the U.S.
  Young activists trapped by COINTELPRO twenty years ago make a mockery of United States human rights policies.
• State of the Art: Art of the State
  The implications of and justifications for government censorship of the arts.
• Vibrant Voices: People of Color Speak Out
  The struggle of African-Americans and Native, Latino and Asian peoples for control of their heritage and communities in the face of acculturation and assimilation.
• Who Owns This Body?
  With high humor and a visceral insight, this examination of the sexuality and reproductive life of women takes us from Reubens to Sadie Benning.