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Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Radical Culture
This new Paper Tiger Television production is being created in collaboration with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. The show will take a look at how corporations are chipping away at democracy and personal integrity by copying the style and techniques of alternative culture. The program will examine how and why underground culture has been co-opted by corporate advertising, what happens when the underground becomes just another market, and what the government is (or isn't) doing about it.

This show will be produced at MNN studios on Monday September 22.

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Love Me, Love My Avatar
A studio show is now in the works with Prof. Dominic Pettman, from the New School. Pettman is a scholar of new media and cultural studies and the author of After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion and Love and Other Technologies. The show, entitled Love Me, Love My Avatar, will address changing notions of love and romance in the face of the rampant technological change of the internet era. Pettman will discuss several manifestations of "Love 4.0", including dating websites, objectum sexuality, virtual girlfriends, and cyborg love, and explore the possible impacts of this new love on the future of the libidinal economy. Stayed tuned and make sure to join Paper Tiger TV, Dominic Pettman, and our avatar host for a look at love in the digital era.
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Peace Pentagon Production(working title)
For forty years, the building at 339 Lafayette, also known as the Peace Pentagon, has been home to countless peace and justice organizations in New York City. The AJ Muste Institute, the current owner of the building, has played a vital role in supporting the work of many committed and inspirational leaders of the social justice movement. A recent engineering survey revealed that the building is in need of significant repairs, therefore this stronghold of national and international activism and organizing now faces an uncertain future. Members of Paper Tiger Television, which has been housed in the Peace Pentagon since 1986, are working to produce a video that will raise awareness of the building’s significant history and the need to repair, renovate and green the building. The current situation presents a unique opportunity to transform this landmark building into a powerful and sustainable cornerstone of progressive ideals, while simultaneously making a prominent statement against the consumer excess rapidly engulfing the neighborhood around it.

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An Emergent Second Life
For 27 years, the PTTV collective has played an important role in the tradition of media criticism, paying special attention to the inner workings of media production. The media landscape today, with the proliferation of new content providers, creates complex relationships and convergences among everyday and corporate forms of production, distribution and consumption. Media criticism no longer can take an "outside" vantage point, but must instead account for our general immersion in a veritable media ecology. This program, hosted by anthropologist Jason Pine (Purchase College – SUNY), focuses on identity in the virtual world Second Life and what it can tell us about identity in everyday experience. It suggests that self-designed experiences may enable us to articulate emergent identities for ourselves and others. The program combines a live studio audience, videotaped testimonials of Second Life users who express profound personal investments while creating their avatars and environments, and experimental machinima (machine cinema) to evoke the experience of virtual self-design and world-building.
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NEW Studio Show
2008 will see the long overdue return of the Paper Tiger TV studio Shows! We are going back to our fun and funky roots! Reviving the pioneering work of PTTV’s early studio shows, the video collective plans to produce spontaneous, creative new episodes of our eccentric television show that provide media and cultural analysis for broadcast on cable access television. Stay tuned and brace yourself.

ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS! Any video producers looking to submit shorts (anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes) to be a part of our studio show, please contact us at info(at)papertiger.org. Topics slated for the first season include gentrification, election coverage, social networking, surveillance and corporatization of the underground culture.
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Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television
In honor of Paper Tiger's 25-year anniversary, this autobiographical production documents the illustrious, influential, and often irreverent history of one of the world’s oldest video collectives. Weaving together archival footage from PTTV productions, interviews with past and present Tigers, and homemade video shorts by Tigers from around the world, this 45-minute documentary tells the story of how PTTV began, documents its influence on alternative media, explores how the collective has changed over the years, and celebrates how PTTV continues to be a major influence in shaping the grassroots media and media reform movement.

We are currently hosting screenings of our documentary! If you are interested in coming to one of our screenings or organizing a screening of your own for your work, school, or community, contact us at info(at)papertiger.org.
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Art, Activism and Analysis Broadcast Series

PTTV is working on the 13-week television series, “Art, Activism, and Analysis (AAA): A Historical Look at Paper Tiger Television,” to be broadcast on local cable access. This will be a rare opportunity for the NYC audience to see the groundbreaking programming created by PTTV over the last 25 years. The AAA series will engage regular public access television viewers while striving to reach new viewers, including students, media reform activists, and artists. This will be the launching point to consider how PTTV history can guide and inform the next generation of innovative do-it-yourself (DIY) media makers and media reform advocates.
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Gentrification in Sunset Park
Paper Tiger is collaborating with youth in Brooklyn to create a video on how gentrification and development is affecting Sunset Park residents. Rents and property values have skyrocketed over the past few years in Sunset Park, a mostly Latino and Asian working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. People are being displaced as condominiums are being built. This video will be used to inform people about what is happening and to inspire the community to take action. Gentrification is happening in communities everywhere, and we want this video to be seen in a global context. Paper Tiger will be teaching the youth how to use a camera, edit, and construct a video while the youth are teaching our collective what they see happening in their community.
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Archive Project
We've launched an ambitious archiving project! The Paper Tiger archive includes over 320 shows and hundreds of related documents, items, and ephemera. These shows and documents not only reflect the work of many prominent media scholars, activists, cultural critics, and artists of the last 25 years, but also that of activists from social justice movements whose struggle might otherwise have gone undocumented. As a result, the Paper Tiger archive houses one of the most unique and important historical media collections, and encompasses critical components of the evolution of public access television, video art, media advocacy, visual literacy, and video activism.

There are two components to the current project:
• preservation of tapes (video masters)
• organization, catalogue, and preservation of historically important documents, items, and related ephemera (for example, photographs, props from shows, meeting minutes, etc.)

The project is currently in the assessment stage.
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Military Myths
In summer 2001 (before 9/11), Paper Tiger created a counter-recruitment video called Military Myths in partnership with ROOTS (then, the youth component of the War Resisters League.) Since it was produced, the video has been used in at least 500 national community organizations, peace groups, schools, and churches to support Counter Recruitment. Several organizations use the video as a center point of their workshops including Ya Ya Network, NYCoRE, CCCO and the War Resisters League Youth and the Military Program.

By popular demand, PTTV updated the video in 2006 with more recent statistics, Spanish subtitles and added a curriculum giude and counter-recruitment resources. Thanks to a generous grant from ADCO, Paper Tiger is now engaged in a concerted outreach campaign to continue to spread the word about Military Myths and further the impact of this valuable resource! For more information about this project, or for help organizing a screening near you, email mariko@papertiger.org.

Military Myths is an organizing tool to educate the public on the military's agressive recruitment of low income youth and youth of color. Featuring interviews with youth, activists and people of color who have served in military, the video gives an alternative viewpoint exposing the tactics military representatives use to engage youth - and the video exposes the reality of military service. (It's not all trips around the world and a free education.) The producers contrast media representations of war and military life with the personal experiences of veterans who have gone to war. Interviews with activists and students are also presented along with statistics from the Veterans Administration, CCCO, SLDN, and recent Pentagon studies that lay clear the myths of military life. Check out our online catalog to order your copy today!

Reasons to Organize a Screening:
We call on all youth and youth advocates to organize community screenings of Military Myths in your communities. Contact Paper Tiger to see if your group qualifies to recieve a free or discounted screening copy for your event. As the military becomes further engaged with the Middle East, young people in our communities are being aggressively recruited. It's time that they heard another side of the story and make an educated decision before enlisting. Encourage your local public television and cable access stations to re-broadcast this program
See a trailer for Military Myths.