Advocacy & Activism

"To Prison for Poverty" (13.5 minutes)

To Prison for Poverty documents the system that enables private probation companies to profit from charging excessive fees to low income people who can't pay small fines like traffic tickets. If they can't pay, they go to jail.

"PSR 2014 Scholarship Essay Contest Finals" (71.5 minutes)

Part two of a seven part international and entertainment series that deals with women's issues and celebrates women's strength and diversity. Includes segments focusing on the issue of reproductive rights, women in the media, experimental film, poetry, and an interview with Nikki Giovanni. Produced by local resident jesikah maria ross.

Original catalog date 09-03-1990.  U-matic U-060-0877. Submitted 9-10-1990.

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"Immigrants For Sale" (33 minutes)

Immigrants For Sale is a ground-breaking documentary that goes inside the private immigrant detention industry, through the lens of those most impacted, the players behind the trade and the multi-billion dollar profits that fuel it all.

"Peak Moment" (27 minutes)

"Deport Hate" (10 minutes)

Our current immigration system is broken. Deportations are at a record high, families are being separated, immigrant workers exploited, human lives are being lost at the border, there is rampant persecution and discrimination of immigrants and a continuation in the perpetuation of negative stereotypes and the criminalization of migration.

Clear Channel neglects its emergency system, disaster strikes, people die. Pentagon Pundits profit from the same war they promote. Fox News gets a court ruling that news does not have to be true. Rush Limbaugh incites violence, and Hate Radio rules.

Media Policy is killing people in this country. Literally. And it is killing our democracy, too. Corporate financed lawmakers have stacked the media policy deck against We the People.

"Peak Moment" (28 minutes)