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Showing videos filed under: Brooklyn
East WillyB: Creating Socially Conscious Humor Online
April 23, 2011"We need to be able to laugh about issues but we also need to know that aside from the comedy, there is a very real issue of displacement in many urban communities," says Julia Ahumada Grob, the co-creator and lead actor of the web TV series East WillyB. The show is set in Bushwick a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and it addresses the problems of gentrification and displacement of communities of color through humor, and brings high-quality TV production values to the 'net.East WillyB, The Price of Sex, and San Francisco Action
April 22, 2011"We need to be able to laugh about issues but we also need to know that aside from the comedy, there is a very real issue of displacement in many urban communities," says Julia Ahumada Grob, the co-creator and lead actor of the web TV series East WillyB. The show is set in Bushwick a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and it addresses the problems of gentrification and displacement of communities of color through humor, and brings high-quality TV production values to the 'net.Mike Papantonio, Freeing the Scott Sisters, and Snow
January 3, 2011President Obama needs to go after Republicans as aggressively as they go after him, notes Mike Papantonio, "not just for his presidency but for democracy." The new Congress gets sworn in this week, and Darrell Issa is already announcing his investigations, but Papantonio notes that Democrats still control the Senate and that they can still push back against Republican attacks.The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed
January 3, 2011The snow is mostly melted after a near-record storm immobilized much of New York for nearly four days last week. But before non-New Yorkers gloat -- beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of a crop of problems that are likely to be coming your way.Got Docs: Lasting Scars
December 18, 2010Kelly Anderson is a longtime Brooklyn resident, but when she found herself being priced out of neighborhoods, she decided to take a closer look at the forces of gentrification, and their impact on the city's race and class makeup. Zeroing in on the Fulton Mall, a historically black shopping district in Downtown Brooklyn being eyed by developers for a "renaissance," Anderson and her crew examine the forces reshaping the city.Raj Patel & David Kirby, Lasting Scars, and Marjorie Ingall
December 17, 2010"We are heading toward a two-tiered food system in this country," notes David Kirby, author of Animal Factory. The food safety bill that just passed Congress puts some safety standards back into the U.S. food system, but does it do anything to change the ability of poor folks to buy healthy food? Raj Patel points out that when wages are kept low and work is devalued, it doesn't matter how cheap food is; people won't be able to afford it.St. Nicks Alliance: Restoring & Rebuilding in Brooklyn
August 13, 2010The St. Nicks Alliance Neighborhood Preservation Corp of North Brooklyn is putting a new spin on community development. They are repurposing and restoring the turn-of-the-century Greenpoint Hospital Buildings and have expanded their programs to include a 5000 square foot gallery space. The goal is to support and bring together the new and old residents of this changing neighborhood. Will it work? The current show is up until August 22nd and our field producer, Sarah Friedland, went to take a look.Whither Glenn Beck and Community Development in Brooklyn
August 13, 2010Glenn Beck might not have a lot of advertisers left, but he's got a lot of viewers still. And the Obama administration recently showed off just how terrified they are of the FOX News host by pressuring Shirley Sherrod to leave her position because of the threat of a video appearing on Beck's show. But Beck didn't start off as a journalist (or a demagogue). He came from much humbler beginnings.Got Docs? The Pass It On Project
January 14, 2010Two teachers at a Brooklyn middle school, frustrated with a lack of social-justice education in public schools, founded the Pass it On Project to engage their students, mostly black and Latino, around issues of race and the civil rights movement. They ended up taking a road trip through the South, visiting historic sites and learning from leaders from the civil rights era. The Pass It On Project is a feature documentary about that experience.Groundswell: A Mural in Brooklyn
October 28, 2008How is the war being read here at home? Well, in ways you might not expect. This summer, a three-story mural appeared in Sunset Park, NY just off the Brooklyn-Queens expressway. “Arm Yourself With the Knowledge to Think for Yourself,” the mural read, “We Are Not Government Issue.” Organized by Groundswell, a New York City based non-profit, the mural reflects the military experience of women in Iraq and reveals the deceptions that
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