Programs with the subject 'Social Movement 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.
• 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).
• Bearing Witness: Homemade Videos from the Environmental Front
  People around the country blow the whistle on polluters and lax government regulators.
• 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 the Bank
  Thousands converged on Washington D.C. to challenge the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at their meeting in April 2000.
• Dance of Death
  The American military in Iraq: lambs led to slaughter or centurions for the Empire? Either way, U.S. troops are locked in a deadly interaction with the people of Iraq. This program is also available with Spanish subtitles.
• Death Row Notebook
  This program is a look at the background of Mumia and the case against him. Includes an interview with Mumia from prison.
• Drawing the Line at Pittston
  This program chronicles the year-long miners strike against the Pittston Mine Company in western Virginia.
• 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.
• Ends And Means
  A lively compilation of clips from anti- communist propaganda films intercut with footage taken from an international conference at Harvard University in 1989.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Getting A Grip On Access
  Excerpts from community television around the U.S. Demonstrating the significance of community made media
• Getting Out of the Sand Trap
  Looks at US foreign policy in a post-cold war world. Includes Daniel Ellsberg, David Morrison, Edward Said, Michael Ratner and Dessima Williams.
• 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's Piggy Bank
  In the wake of Haiti's catastrophic January 2010 earthquake and the "military occupation first" response of the U.S. government it is instructive to watch this 1985 documentary that recounts the efforts of Haitians to recover from the U.S. eradication of the Creole pig, the sustaining asset of the peasants. Includes narration by Edwidge Danticat, author of Farming the Bones We are presenting this film to benefit Haitian relief. Please send donations through Grassroots International
• 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.
• Iraqi Women Speak Out
  In March 2006, Code Pink invited eight Iraqi women to the U.S. to speak about their experiences under U.S. invasion and occupation. Two of the women had their entire families killed by U.S. troops. These two women were denied visas on the grounds they did not have sufficient family to guarantee they would return to Iraq.
• Like A Prayer
  This show explores the many issues that were cause for the December 10th, 1989 demonstration by ACT UP and WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) at St. Patrick's Cathedral as well as those resulting from it - while charting the course of events both inside and outside the church.
• Lucha Libre: Super Barrio
  Super Barrio Gomez, defender of the poor, organizer of the homeless of Mexico City.
• Many Yeses, One No
  Many Yesses, One No is a remarkable look back at the Global Justice Movement, or "anti-globalization" movement as it was often called by mainstream media. This DVD collects material that spans from 1988 to 2000 and provides real insight into the development of this important recent social movement, and the role that independent media has played within that movement. Part three of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments.
• Michael Harrington Looks At Democracy
  Why was the 1988 electorate at an all time low? Micheal Harrington, author of "The Other America", begins to de-mystify the American political process.
• National Health Emergency: An Activist Survey
  A trenchant analysis of health care reform in the United States. Though made in 1994, it remains, sadly, accurate.
• Operation Dissidence
  Operation Dissidence is about how the first Gulf War was sold to the American people. Includes Laura Flanders, Undercurrents Radio, Noam Chomsky, Jeff Cohen, FAIR, Paul Zaloom, comic from Beekman's World.
• Precious Places
  In the past three years Scribe Video Center has collaborated with community groups to produce 42 community histories.
• Protest + Education Can Equal Change
  A compilation-style exploration of strategies for social change, focusing on protest demonstrations and other efforts to educate communities about the culture, problems and future of indigenous people.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sacred Lies, Civil Truths
  Amid a galloping onslaught of misinformation and violence, lesbians and gay men in the U.S. are struggling harder than ever to claim their civil and human rights.
• Standing With The Women of Iraq
  Iraqi women's passionate statements of resistance to U.S. occupation are intercut with actions by Code Pink, Women in Black and others who have been at the forefront of protests against the war in the U.S.
• The Art of Resistance
  Picasso responded to the fascist takeover of Spain in the 1930s with his famous painting Guernica. Artists today are responding the the U.S. occupation of Iraq and domestic repression with music, murals, street performance, comedy, cartoon animations and giant puppets. This program is also available with Spanish subtitles.
• 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 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 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.
• Transformer AIDS
  Bob Kinney looks at media and governmental response to AIDS.
• Unbalancing the News
  These two programs look at the work of citizen activists who use community television to challenge the mainstream news enterprise.
• Voices of a People's History of the United States
  Author Howard Zinn is honored at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, where actors, activists and authors read excerpts from book with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
• We Dare to Speak
  The Jewish Committee on the Middle East (JCOME), a new organization with supporters nationwide, has waged a public information campaign to call for Palestinian statehood and an end to U.S. subsidy of the occupation.
• Winter Soldier - Iraq and Afghanistan
  A remarkable one-hour DVD of selected testimony from the Winter Solder - Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Testimonies held in March 2008.