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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.

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Blogs

  • MAMA Radio
    Deep Dish TV's Mario Murillo Reports From Colombia
  • The Grace Paley Legacy
    Grace Paley was an early supporter of Deep Dish TV. This site presents examples of non-violent resistance from around the world.
  • Waves of Change
    News, information and examples of community media around the world. Radio, television, theater, murals, comics and the internet as forms of resistance to homogenous commercial culture.

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Voices of Democracy: Living the First Amendment

ProductionYear: 1991
Runtime: 58:00
Producers: National Federation of Local Cable Programmers, National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
Series: Celebrating 20 Years of Public Access TV
Subject: Political Science, Media Studies, Economics, Community Media, Cultural Studies
Catalogue Number: 03372
Highlights the Symposium, an audiovisual presentation given at the NFLCP and NAMAC conferences held in Portland, Oregon, in July, 1991. The first segment of the program opens with drummer Obo Addy, a Ghanaian master, and features excerpts from talks given by Maria Rocha, labor organizer and Herbert I. Schiller author and media critic. The Anchormen provide a musical revue and answer the question, "Is it really safe to watch the six o'clock news?" The second segment also begins with drumming by Obo Addy and features presentations by Bill Wassmuth, human rights worker and Julian Low, cultural activist. The segment closes with video "testimonials" from people throughout the country sharing their thoughts on free speech and democracy.
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