Citizen Journalism

SHOCKING AND AWFUL MARATHON -- PART THREE:

"Empire and Oil" (28 minutes)

Jon Li interviews Noha Radwan, UCD Comparative Literature professor.

What's Going On?

Attention 6th Graders: find out about what Egypt is like today. Now
that you know what it was like when it ruled the world, you can find
out the challenges now.

Find out what happened a year ago when the Arab Spring Revolution was
unfolding at Tahrir Square in Cairo from an eye witness.

"Peak Moment" (28 minutes)
Dignity Village -- A Community By and For the Homeless (part 1). “Anybody can come through our gates 8 am-10 pm and use all of our facilities. We have hot showers, a telephone, free computers internet-ready, our commons, offices, [and a free store of donated items.] Anybody has access to this.” Tour guide Jon Hawkes highlights this community’s generosity to the larger community: its residents well understand what homeless people need. Visit their greenhouse, gardens, houses, and business enterprises — all built with ingenuity on a city-owned site.

"The United States of ALEC" (41 minutes)
Bill Moyers' report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of -- ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC presents itself as a “nonpartisan public-private partnership”. But behind that mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.

"When Abortion Was Illegal" (28 minutes)

Patrick Shearer hosts Shelby Ziccardi and Elsa Young of Spectra Magazine.

Topics discussed include: what is Spectra (a magazine about community stories and connectedness), what goes into producing an issue (permissions, copyright, editing, layout), who is involved (15 people in various roles), transitioning from online to print (yes against the grain!) and how they're building an audience.

"Catastrophic Pentagon Cuts? Not Really...." (2 minutes)
After a $1 trillion cut over the next 10 years, the end of two wars, and accounting for inflation, we’d still spend more on the Pentagon than we did during most of Vietnam and the Cold War, and much more than we spend on education.

"Peak Moment" (28 Minutes)

"Health Care as a Human Right in Occupied Palestine" (60 minutes)
At an event in Sacramento on October 30, Dr. Ruchama Marton, founder of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and 2010 winner of the Right Livelihood Award, and Dr. Allam Jarrar of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society described the current state of health care in the West Bank. They also discussed the challenges in providing comprehensive health services in light of the military occupation. The event was sponsored by PSR/Sacramento and Jewish Voice for Peace/Sacramento, and endorsed by Sacramento Area Peace Action.