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Perils for Pedestrians

Submitted by John Z Wetmore on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 3:34pm
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We visit New Orleans. -We learn about 8 80 Cities and Open Streets. -We talk with the exec. dir. of Friends of Lafitte Greenway. -Bike Easy works to make bicycling easy, safe, and fun. -The LA Secretary of DOT. -The Great American Rail Trail.

Perils for Pedestrians

Submitted by John Z Wetmore on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 1:48pm
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We travel to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where an old bridge is closed to pedestrians. We talk with the Superintendent of the Vicksburg Bridge Commission of Warren County. We learn about Friends of the Vicksburg Bridge. We meet a community health advocate.

Meat File - Physicians, Scientists and Nutritionists Speak Out

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 12:53pm
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250 millions tons of meat are consumed annually worldwide. The increasing meat consumption determines our future.

The steadily growing meat production sector has drastic consequences not only to the ecological and climatic balance of the Earth, but also to our health. But where does meat come from and under what circumstances is it produced? MEAT FILE provides facts about livestock production, animal husbandry and slaughter, as well as the effects on people and the Planet Earth.

Cuba, Libre? - Pt2 - Voices of the Present

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 12:22pm
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Part 1 of "Cuba, Libre?" showed Cuba as an exotic tourist destinations for Americans during the decades before the revolution led by Fidel Castro in the late 1950s ultimately resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States.

In part 2 of the documentary, five travel writers describe how Cuba changed from the early 1990s when, after the demise of Cuba's financial benefactor, the government of Fidel Castro began to look to tourism to bolster the country's sagging economy and American tourists began to visit the island once again.

Cuba, Libre? - Pt1 - Voices of the Past

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 12:16pm
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Part 1 of "Cuba, Libre?" shows Cuba as an glamorous tropical tourist destination in the years before Fidel Castro led a revolution that ousted the government of Fulgencio Batista which had been favorable to the U.S., and replaced it with a Communist government that was allied with America's nemesis, the Soviet Union.

This first half of the documentary also includes archival footage from the Castro revolution, the break in U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations, the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion of the island nation, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Perils for Pedestrians

Submitted by John Z Wetmore on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 11:37am
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We visit Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Dale Drive Safety Coalition wants sidewalks and crosswalks.

We look at pedestrian problems along Georgia Avenue in Montgomery Hills.

Forest Glen is also divided by Georgia Avenue.

16th Street needs sidewalks.

Perils for Pedestrians

Submitted by John Z Wetmore on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 11:35am
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We visit Boston, Massachusetts.

We talk with the chief engineer about sidewalks,

We learn about WalkBoston and pedestrian advocacy,

We drop in on the Liveable Streets Alliance,

We look at the Smoot and the nature of distance.