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Online Video: Amy Goodman, "Breaking the Sound Barrier"

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Breaking the Sound Barrier

Amy Goodman
Host of Democracy Now!
Recorded November 17, 2009 78 Minutes

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Amy Goodman, award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program Democracy Now!, breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects—the "experts" who, in Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong"—this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who've said "No" to Washington's wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman's reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier proves the power that independent journalism can play in the struggle for a better world, one in which ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives and communities.

"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis." - Noam Chomsky

Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now! airing on nearly 800 stations worldwide. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers.

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The Goldstone Report: War Crimes in Gaza, Silence in Washington

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Peninsula Peace and Justice Center's Award-Winning Monthly Forum & TV Program
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The Goldstone Report: War Crimes in Gaza, Silence in Washington
November 3, 2009

Joel Beinin
Professor of Middle East History, Stanford Unviersity

In September of this year, the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed up by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, unveiled the results of its investigations into war crimes during Israel's "Operation Cast Lead," a massive attack on Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The Mission concluded that both sides in the conflict -- the Hamas-led government in Gaza and the Israeli Defense Forces -- committed war crimes and that justice must be pursued.

Washington's response was to call the report "flawed." Israel responded that the report was "biased." Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, initially refused to support the report's referral to the UN Security Council.

"I have yet to hear from the Obama administration what the flaws in the report that they have identified are. I would be happy to respond to them, if and when I know what they are." ~ Richard Goldstone

On this Other Voices program, we look into just what is in Goldstone's report, why the various actors have responded in the ways they have, and what must be done to pursue justice in this situation.

Other Voices TV is a monthly program produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center in Palo Alto, CA. http://www.peaceandjustice.org The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month from the studios of the Community Media Center in Palo Alto. http://www.midpenmedia.org

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Online Video - Honduras: Repression and Resistance

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Honduras: Repression and Resistance
October 6, 2009

Lucy Rodriguez
Attorney and Member of recent Fact-Finding Mission of International Jurists to Honduras

In a return to the "bad old ways" of Latin America, business elites in Honduras backed a coup against the democratically elected president Zelaya. The people of Honduras have continued to resist the coup, however, and demand the return of their president.

Now Zelaya has returned to the country, taking up refuge in the Brazilian embassy.

Why is Honduras important? What role is the US playing and what role should it be playing? We will discuss these and other aspects of this startling political drama.

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Online Video - Afghanistan: Why? How Long? To What End?

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Peninsula Peace and Justice Center's Award-Winning Monthly Forum & TV Program
Named "Best Issues Talk Show" 2006 by the Alliance for Community Media

Afghanistan: Why? For how long? To what end?
September 1, 2009

Conn Hallinan
Foreign Policy Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus

As the 8th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan approaches, U.S. and NATO casualties are skyrocketing and the devastating toll on the civilian population continues unabated. And yet, serious questions remain about why we are still there. Is Afghanistan really the central battle in the so-called war on terror, or is it Afghanistan’s strategic location—right in the middle of a region that is home to vast energy reserves—that holds the interest of policy-makers? Are we in a confrontation with Al Qaeda—or are we jockeying for position against Russia and China?

Online Video: Uprising in Iran

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Peninsula Peace and Justice Center's Award-Winning Monthly Forum & TV Program
Named "Best Issues Talk Show" 2006 by the Alliance for Community Media

Uprising in Iran: Exploring the Deeper Meanings
August 4, 2009

Ali Ferdowsi
Chair, History and Political Science Department
Notre Dame de Namur University

Dr. Ali Ferdowsi is an Iranian American political scientist who spends each summer in Iran, researching the latest political dynamics there. This year's visit put Dr. Ferdowsi right in the middle of the most significant political development since the Iranian revolution 30 years ago.

A native of Iran, Dr. Ferdowsi was in Iran from the first week of June through the first week of July, watching and participating in the election and the protests that followed it. We will discuss, among other things, why an election that was poised to be a routine exercise in a limited democracy turned into a mass protest against a fraudulent election which met with a bloody response by the security and paramilitary forces. What do the protesters want? What does this mean for the future of the Islamic Republic? And what can we do as Americans to side with the Iranian people in their century old yearning for democracy and human rights?

While most mainstream media reporting -- where it was able to function at all -- focused on the capital city of Tehran, Dr. Ferdowsi traveled throughout the country, witnessing the "green wave" uprising in cities and towns large and small.

After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Ali Ferdowsi studied as a post-doctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught for three years as a visiting professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Tokyo University for Foreign Studies in Japan.

After working for five years as an International Specialist for NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation), he returned to the United States in 1997 and began teaching in the Department of History and Political Science at Notre Dame de Namur University.

Online Video: Reese Erlich - Eyewitness Iran

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Eyewitness Iran

Reese Erlich
Journalist
Author, The Iran Agenda
Recorded July 17, 2009 38 Minutes

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Foreign correspondent Reese Erlich has just returned from Iran, where he was covering the recent elections. Hear a first-hand account from the streets of Iran from the author of The Iran Agenda.

Reese Erlich began his career in journalism in the 1960s as an investigative reporter for the magazine Ramparts. He reports regularly for NPR, CBC, ABC (Australia), Radio Deutsche Welle and The World, as well as several newspapers. Reese co-authored the book Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You with Norman Solomon and is also the author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis . In 2001, he produced a one-hour radio documentary, The Struggle for Iran, hosted by Walter Cronkite. Erlich was a segment producer for the public radio series “Crossing East,” which received a Peabody Award in 2007.

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Online Video - Paul George on KZSU-FM

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KZSU's Shedding Light Radio Program

Paul George
Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Recorded June 29. 2009 1 hour

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Paul George, Director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, discusses a broad range of issues with the host of Shedding Light, a weekly radio program on KZSU 91.4 FM, Stanford's radio sation. Among the topics discussed are the recently passed energy bill, the health care reform debate, peoples' uprisings in Iran and Peru, and the Cuba embargo.

Online Video: Economic Meltdown Update

Meaningful television . . . for a change.

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center's Award-Winning Monthly Forum & TV Program
Named "Best Issues Talk Show" 2006 by the Alliance for Community Media

Economic Meltdown Update
June 2, 2009

Jack Rasmus, Ph.D.
Author, Political Economist, Economics Writer for Z Magazine
Jack's website: http://www.kyklosproductions.com/

Who Gets Bailed Out and Who's Doing the Bailing?

Jack Rasmus and host Paul George discuss the latest twists and turns in the ongoing economic meltdown. Why is the corporate media grasping at straws, reporting a turnaround? Just who is getting all that money? What about GM? What about all those unemployed -- are the numbers even real?

There's a lot to talk about.

Online Video - Ali Abunimah

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What Future for Palestine After Gaza 2009?

Ali Abunimah
Author, Founder of Electronic Intifada
Recorded March 24. 2009 1 hour 49 minutes

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Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada (www.ElectronicIntifada.net), a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Born in Washington D.C., he spent his early years in the United Kingdom and Belgium before returning to the United States to attend college. His mother is originally from the village of Lifta, now controlled by Israel, but became a refugee in the 1948 Palestinian exodus. His father is from the village of Battir, now in the West Bank, and is a former Jordanian diplomat who served as ambassador to the United Nations.

Abunimah is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago and is a frequent speaker and commentator on the Middle East, contributing regularly to the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He is author of the recent book One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Online Video: Sister Helen Prejean - Dead Man walking

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Dead Man Walking: The Continuing Effort to End the Death Penalty

Sister Helen Prejean
Roman Catholic Nun and Anti-Death Penalty Activist
Author of Dead Man Walking

Recorded November 23, 2008. 1 hour 10 minutes

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For over twenty years, Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun, has worked to educate the public about the death penalty. She has been spiritual adviser to eight death row inmates, turning her experience visiting one into the best-selling book "Dead Man Walking". In 1995, the book was made into a film starring Susan Sarandon, winning the actress an Oscar for her performance.

"If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissable in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well." "I'm more of a storyteller than a lecturer. So I bring people with me, in my experience -- somebody who knew nothing about the death penalty, who got involved with poor people in New Orleans and started writing to somebody on death row. Two and a half years later I am witnessing as the state of Louisiana pumps 1900 volts of electricity through his body and kills him. And I walk out of that execution chamber and I'm never the same again. And the realization that came to me was that people are never going to see this. Executions are a secret ritual, so people don't have any close-up experience and they never will. I help people navigate across the poles and I give them a few pertinent facts about how the death penalty is actually practiced." ~ Sister Helen Prejean

This program was recorded on November 21 in Palo Alto, CA by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.

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