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The NYCGMC is a growing alliance of media makers, artists, independent media organizations and community-based organizations who are interested in working towards a more democratic media in NYC. Incubated as a project of Paper Tiger, the GMC has now developed into its own organization. The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition creates spaces for media makers and social justice organizers to come together and organizes the annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference. To learn more and get involved visit: www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
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Standing With Palestine #314 2004
Standing with Palestine looks at the growing grassroots movement in the United States in support of the Palestinian people and against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Through interviews with activists, the video shows how many Americans are no longer accepting the traditional views and official policies that have contributed to, if not caused, the worsening situation in the Middle East. These organizations are finding creative ways to be heard and to affect real change from a grassroots perspective. Groups highlighted include the ''International Solidarity Movement'' which seeks to bring attention to the Palestinian cause through direct action and confrontation of the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories; others include ''Jews Against the Occupation'', and ''Stop US Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now'' (SUSTAIN) which are finding creative ways to raise consciousness in the United States and force change in the US''s role in the Middle East. The video also includes interviews with activists on US campuses who are building a campaign, based on the Divestment campaigns in the 1980''s against Apartheid South Africa, to force Universities to withdraw their investments from companies that contribute to and support the Israeli Occupation. TRT: 12 minutes
Class Dismissed #320 2004
Class Dismissed provides a critical look at how U.S. history is taught in high school, at the myths that reduce the complexity of history into simple soundbites, and the information that never seems to make it onto the textbook pages. How can we alter this system to address the limitations of the current curriculum, to allow students to find their own place in history and the world today, to inspire them to become active learners and agents for social change? This video takes a beginning step by looking at the textbook industry, standardized testing, the lack of race and class analysis in textbooks, and the teacher’s role in introducing a range of perspectives into the classroom. Featuring authors Howard Zinn (The People's History of the United States) and James Loewen (Lies My Teacher Told Me), New York City public high school students, textbook industry insiders and teachers this is a must-see video for any student of American History. TRT: 28 minutes
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Hollywood Victory: Delusions of a Maverick President #318 2003
When hawks and film producers spin, a presidency that began with an AWOL fortunate son becomes a commander-in-chief cruising through a pre-election photo-op. Click HERE! for 13.5MB file and you too can land aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln!
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Resisting the Empire #316 2003
Resisting the Empire was completed in April 2003 as a tool with which to critique the media's coverage and participation in the War in Iraq (Gulf War II). Resisting the Empire features interviews with grassroots organizers from DRUM, Peace Williamsburg, The Green Party, Corporate Lawyers Against the War, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Colombia Social Justice, Labor against the War, Riot Grrls NYC, Nodutdol, high school students, a Long Island resident and father of 4, and other New York based organizations. Produced by the Paper Tiger TV collective, the show looks at the history of US military involvement and foreign policy, the corporate media's coverage of the resistance against the war, techniques for illustrating military intervention on the major networks and gives some instructions on how to get involved in your own community in activism for peace. TRT: 28 minutes
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War and The Economy #312 2002
Made during the Community Media workshop with The Impact Coalition/Bronx Defenders, War and the Economy was produced by high school students all between the ages 15-18, from Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn in reaction to the financial stress felt in New York pre-dating the war on Iraq in 2003. In the search for the true opinions of New Yorkers on war and the local economy, the young producers conduct interviews in some of New York City's diverse neighborhoods such as Soho, Times Square and their neighborhoods in the Bronx. The production illuminates the public's opinions on how the war might impact New York City – and will be used as an educational tool during teach-ins about the war with Iraq. TRT: 7 minutes
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Keep on Living #308 2002
Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and J.D. Samson) is a feminist electronic-punk band that has staged multi-media performance art within our live show.
In collaboration with Le Tigre, Paper Tiger Television organized a group of G/B/L/TS/T/Q youth in New York to produce a three minute video for the song "Keep On Livin'" that will be projected during the live performances of the song. This visual layer will foreground conceptual and theoretical ideas that might otherwise be lost in the rock club settings where the band often perform. TRT: 3 minutes
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Who's Paying the Price? #309 2002
This video looks at the effects of September 11 on the working people of New York City. As we mourned for the thousands of workers who perished that day and we rallied behind civil service & construction workers in the rescue effort, tens of thousands of poor and working class people faced unemployment and strained resources. At a time when we are told to be unified, the events of September 11 have actually deepened some the nation’s most basic inequalities. “Who’s Paying the Price?” examines the contradictory glorification of workers in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and the near complete disregard of their needs in the ensuing national and local “economic stimulus” packages. The project highlights the movement for a fair redevelopment of lower Manhattan and the struggle of laid-off Marriott WTC Hotel workers. “Who’s Paying the Price?” investigates the legacy of Mayor Giuliani’s fiscal management of New York City and exposes how the tragedy has been exploited to obscure the ongoing policy failures of the city, state and federal governments. Video includes interviews with: Displaced workers of WTC Marriott, Kim Moody of Labor Notes, Janine Jackson of FAIR, Bertha Lewis of ACORN, Lower East Side members of the Coalition to Rebuild with Spotlight on the Poor, Jonathan Rosen of NY Unemployment Project and others.
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Turning Tragedy into War #303 2001
The World Trade Center tragedy has triggered a wide and varied reaction from the US public. However, what the corporate media has reflected is a narrow range of sensationalized, uncontextualized, misleading and racist coverage of these events pushing military retaliation as the only solution.
Paper Tiger produced a 28 min show counteracting the corporate media's war and racist spin on the recent events. The show, featuring Kamran Rastegar and Robin Anderson, critiques the media's coverage while providing an alternative forum for information and viewpoints. The show uncovers the way that the media is taking advantage of the fear and confusion in the US public opinion to accepting a military response and the possibility of war as the only option.
While it is still in stock, Paper Tiger will be distributing one 60 minute tape with both "From Tragedy to War" and "911" (a tape produced by the New York Indymedia center.
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Fenced Out #304 2001
Fenced Out documents the fight for the Christopher St. pier - one of the only places in New York City where youth of color, low income, homeless and l/g/b/t/q youth could once hang out. In the summer of 2000, fences were built on the spot where the kids congregated, for construction for a new state park. By the summer of 2001 most of the space had been taken over by this development. Not only were city developers interested in "fencing out" the kids, neighbors with apartments overlooking the water want these kids to leave as well. The youth noticed an increased police presence that is not intended to keep them safe but as one officer stated quite bluntly "you are lowering the property value". At first, upset that they would lose the piers the young producers of the documentary interview pierets about how important the piers are in their lives. To further explore their connection to the piers, the producers interview older l/g/b/t/q activists about the history of the location and its connection to the gay liberation movement of the 60s. In turn they become more politicized and see how their struggle to save their public space connects to a larger historical and social movement. As the video come to a conclusion, the young filmmakers' anger and sadness about losing the piers develops into a plan of action to save them.
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