The Paper Tiger Television's ART, ACTIVISM and ANALYSIS series
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Paper Tiger Television and Free Speech TV will present ART, ACTIVISM and ANALYSIS, a curated series highlighting some of Paper Tiger’s most outstanding alternative community media. The series consists of thirteen 28-minute shows that cover a wide range of topics from racism, classism, DIY media, domestic violence, the prison-industrial complex, media conglomeration and displacement, just to name a few.Programs in this Series
2004 Class Dismissed TRT:29:30
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...
2001 Fenced OutTRT:29:30
Fenced Out documents the fight for the Christopher St. pier, a long-established hangout and safe haven for New York City’s youth of color and lower-income, homeless, lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, questioning and...
1995 America's Least WantedTRT:29:30
Lock your doors, buy 'The Club' and move to Connecticut: crime is everywhere, and according to your local media purveyors, it's getting worse. But is it? "America's Least Wanted"...
1991 Luis R. Beltran Tunes in to Bolivian Miners' RadioTRT:29:30
South American scholar Luis Beltran describes the creation and activities of the radical Bolivian miners' radio station poised in the Andes Mountains. For twenty years this...
1987 Donna Haraway Reads "The National Geographic" on PrimatesTRT:29:30
How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing...
1983 Richie Perez Watches "Fort Apache: The Bronx"TRT:29:30
In this show NYC activist Ritchie Pérez gives an in-depth look at the campaign to counteract the negative depictions of Puerto Rican and Blacks in the film Fort Apache: The Bronx...
2007 Paper Tiger Television Reads Paper Tiger Television TRT:29:30
An early innovator in video art and public access television of the early 80’s, PTTV developed a unique, handmade, irreverent aesthetic that experimented with the television...
Featured Story
CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!