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Showing videos filed under: propaganda
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.The F Word: Citizens United Allowing Workplace Propaganda
April 22, 2011We've talked a lot about the devastating effects of corporate cash on elections following the Citizens United decision, but a new story in The Nation shows that the Supreme Court's also made it a lot easier for companies to pressure their employees directly about voting.Week in Review: Maintaining Bush's Propaganda Program?
October 30, 2009Earlier this week, we spoke to Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist with The Raw Story, about his series on a Pentagon program that, under George W. Bush used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.Maintaining Bush's Propaganda Program?
October 29, 2009Under George W. Bush, the Pentagon used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. The story was broken by the New York Times, and reporter David Barstow won a Pulitzer for his work. Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist with The Raw Story, has discovered that a key figure in that Bush administration program remains in the same position, as deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, under Obama.Whose American Dream, Bush-Era Propaganda and Kyria Abrahams
October 28, 2009Joining us to discuss whether the American Dream should apply just to rich bankers or to the rest of us are Matt Taibbi, journalist with Rolling Stone and author of The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion, George Goehl, executive director of National People's Action, Christina Clausen, International Representative, United Food & Commercial Workers Union and Change to Win, and Rob Robertson of the Right To The City Alliance and Picture the Homeless.Ennis Carter: Art of the WPA
July 14, 2008An interview with Ennis Carter, founder and co-director of The Social Arts and author of the forthcoming book, Posters for the People: Art of the WPA on the social art of the New Deal. On the 75th anniversary of Roosevelt’s sweeping program, Flanders and Carter discuss the role of art in progressive politics.
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