Celebrating 20 Years of Public Access TV

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Programs in this series

• Black Women, Sexual Politics, and the Revolution
  Feminist home-girls offer an indestructible analysis of sex, class and gender attitudes in the Black and Latino communities.
• 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.
• 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).
• Invisible Women
  Three women refuse to remain invisible victims of HIV and defy notions of female complacency through art, community AIDS education, and AIDS activism.
• No More War Toys
  There is a long-standing debate over whether televised violence produces violent behavior in children. This special examines this issue in the broader context of war toys, as well as, their television counterpart- the animated super-heroes of children's television.
• 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.
• 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 Democracy: Living the First Amendment
  Is it really safe to watch the six o'clock news?
• We Interrupt This Program: 1991 World AIDS Day
  Some of today's most powerful and challenging artistic voices mark a decade of loss and celebrate struggle by presenting vitally important AIDS information in a contemporary aesthetic context, and invite viewers throughout the country to share their own thoughts and experience "on the air" via LIVE call-in segments.