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Showing videos filed under: world trade center
Sonali Kolhatkar: Reflecting on Bin Laden, Afghanistan
May 3, 2011"Bin Laden's ideology is not the ideology of the masses, of the Arabs, of people in central Asia, of Muslims," notes Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission. But, she notes, the danger is that now by killing him we have made him a martyr and inflamed anger again among people already feeling marginalized.Tariq Ali, Sonali Kolhatkar, and Voices from Ground Zero
May 2, 2011"If the aim was to show us that state terror was more powerful than individual terrorists, we already knew that," says Tariq Ali of the U.S. special forces action that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. As Americans celebrated outside of the White House and gathered at Ground Zero to remember those lost, Tariq reminds us that bin Laden's death will not make the U.S. safer.The F Word: Searching for Closure at Ground Zero
May 2, 2011Closure. That was the word on people's lips last night after President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan.Best of 2010: Philippe Petit, Mountains that Take Wing, Tracie Morris
December 30, 2010Continuing our look back at some of our favorite interviews of 2010, we hope you'll enjoy this very special one. Philippe Petit is probably best known for walking on a high wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. He was arrested as soon as he came off the wire, but his act was captured in the Academy Award-winning film Man on Wire. Petit has continued to perform on the high wire, as well as to draw, teach, and to challenge himself constantly. "If you are not taunted by artistic challenge at least once a day you're dead," he says.Philippe Petit: Somebody Has to Trespass
December 24, 2010Philippe Petit is probably best known for walking on a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. He was arrested as soon as he came off the wire, but his act was captured in the Academy Award-winning film Man on Wire. Petit has continued to perform on the high wire, as well as to draw, teach, and to challenge himself constantly. "If you are not taunted by artistic challenge at least once a day you're dead," he says.Philippe Petit, Mountains That Take Wing, and Tracie Morris
December 23, 2010Philippe Petit is probably best known for walking on a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. He was arrested as soon as he came off the wire, but his act was captured in the Academy Award-winning film Man on Wire. Petit has continued to perform on the high wire, as well as to draw, teach, and to challenge himself constantly. "If you are not taunted by artistic challenge at least once a day you're dead," he says.Islamophobia Back with a Vengeance, 9 Years Later
September 10, 2010It's the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon this weekend, and while one war has ostensibly been wound up, another still rages--and inside the U.S., the culture wars have reached a fever pitch, with Islamophobic ugliness centering on the anniversary seemingly everywhere. From a pastor in Florida threatening to burn Qurans on Saturday (and terror alerts being issued because of his actions) to the ongoing media arguments over the Cordoba House community center, American Muslims feel threatened, and the outreach to the larger Islamic world is threatened.Greg Grandin, Islamophobia and 9/11, and Pentagon PR
September 9, 2010September 11 is not only an infamous date in the U.S.--in Chile, it marks the anniversary of the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. This year, 33 miners will spend that anniversary trapped underground, and Greg Grandin notes that Chile is seeing what amounts to the "Shock doctrine with a human face" under its current regime--deregulation leading to safety issues like that in the mine. Meanwhile, Mexico continues to see ever-escalating violence from drug cartels, and the U.S. State Department is now calling it an "insurgency."Summertime Blues?, Craig Dykers, and The Standoff in Honduras
July 7, 2009How will state budget cuts impact kids on summer vacation? Well, from NY to California state parks are being closed and fewer resources are available for public programs. We talk to Marcy Winograd and others about the economic crisis and its impact on public space. Craig Dykers and his design firm Snohetta have been creating unique public spaces and buildings throughout the world. Dykers talks about their current work on the September 11 Memorial Museum. Finally, an update on the coup in Honduras.
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