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Paper Tiger Television Presents: Resisting the Empire 09/14/2016

Resisting the Empire critiques the media's coverage of the War in Iraq (Gulf War II). Produced by the Paper Tiger TV collective in the spring of 2003 soon after the US invasion of Iraq in response to the lack of alternative perspectives on the war available through the mainstream media. This production provides a brief history of US foreign policy and military involvement abroad, looks at the corporate media's inadequate coverage of the peace movement and resistance to the war, deconstructs flashy techniques used to illustrate military intervention on the major networks and gives some information on how to get involved in activism for peace in your own community.

TRT: 28 minutes

Released: 2003

Tape # 316

Paper Tiger Television Presents: Erik Barnouw Looks at Television and The Elections: Is U.S. Democracy Going Down The Tubes? 09/14/2016

Media historian Erik Barnouw traces the development of the election campaign through the early days of radio to today's big $$$ TV campaigns. Addressing the roles of media companies, sponsors, government, and the candidates, this video presents an incisive overview of 20th century media. Barnouw is the author of many books on media, including "Tube of Plenty" and "Documenting the Documentary".

TRT: 28 minutes

Released: 1992

Tape # 222

Paper Tiger Television Presents: Market This: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation 01/01/2003

While global capitalism is a defining feature of our times, many engage in an anti-capitalist resistance. MARKET THIS! is a timely documentary that explores the desire for radical politics and culture in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited and Transgender community. The documentary began in 1999 after the Queeruption gathering in New York City. During workshops and caucuses and through discussion and entertainment, participants came together to explore ways that this community can sustain and validate itself without supporting a system that actively exploits poor people, women, People of Color, g/b/I/TS/t people. 

VT ALLIANCE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT MTG. 06/06/1992

Members of the VT Alliance for People of African Descent meet with Newsprint Journalists to Discuss How People of Color are Portrayed in the Media

Paper Tiger Television Presents: Erik Barnouw Looks at Television and the Elections: Is U.S. Democracy Going Down The Tubes? 01/01/1992

Media historyian Erik Barnouw traces the development of the election campaign through the early days of radio to today's big $$$ TV campaigns. Addressing the roles of media companies, sponsors, government, and the candidates, this video presents an inclusive overview of 20th century media. Barnouw is the author of many books on media, including "Tube of Plenty" and "Documenting the Documentary". 

Tape #222. Released 1992. 

Paper Tiger Television Presents: Low Power Empowerment: Neighborhood Radio in Ireland and the United States 01/01/1992

This video highlights the existence of two community radio stations and the people who make them work. Mbanna Kantako's one watt of truth, Black Liberation Radio, is in Springfield, Illinois. In Galway, Ireland there is a very different station called Galway Pirate Women. For many years this group has programmed radio about the social and political life of, for and by women in Ireland. 

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