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"Green Card Voices: Muhend Abakar" (8 minutes)

Born in the city of Nyala, Muhend Abakar spent the first four years of his life in Sudan before moving to Egypt with his family.  When he first arrived in Egypt, he was saddened by the racism he encountered and had a difficult time socializing. Muhend eventually made many friends by playing of soccer and discovered how easy it is to meet people through sports.

"A Celebration of Natural Hair" (14 minutes)

Cheyenne Cochrane explores the role that hair texture has played in the history of being black in America — from the heat straightening products of the post-Civil War era to the thousands of women today who have decided to stop chasing a conventional beauty standard and start embracing their natural hair. "This is about more than a hairstyle," Cochrane says. "It's about being brave enough not to fold under the pressure of others' expectations."

Sci-Fi Journal for August 2017 shot live at Pintastic New England and ConnectiCon with hosts James Hinsey, Jay Kingston, Marc Morisseau and Calvin Watts III. Jay and Marc at ConnectiCon in Hartford, CT, start the show and Jay does Popcorn Previews with trailers for "Geostorm", "A Wrinkle in Time", "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle", "The Lego Ninjago Movie". Marc does Toob News covering all of our favorite and new television shows. James and Calvin are at Pintastic New England in Sturbridge, MA, and James does Anime Daisuki covering the latest in Japanese animation.

 "The Laura Flanders Show" (25.5 minutes)

Organizing in a Trump and Amazon World -- new concentrations of power are bringing forth new models of resistance. Cathy Albisa and Sabino Milian discuss the targeting of activists in immigration sweeps. Those ICE raids aren't that random, they say. And as Amazon gets ever bigger, what happens to the workers behind your mouse-click? We’ll hear how low-wage warehouse workers are Raising the Floor from Sophia Zaman.

(1) Hilman Tobey, a Northern Paiute living at Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, who celebrated his 100th birthday, made stone-bowled pipes for use in traditional ceremonies.  He teaches pipe-making skills to apprentice Norman Zuniga.  (2) It is 70 BC, before the Roman subjugation of Gaul by Julius Caesar.  Cotos, an aristocrat and warrior, runs a farm with his wife, Artimias, in the land of the Eduens, in what is now Burgundy.  Cotos is going to Bibracte, for an important vote and to fetch a sword for his son Eusugenios, establishing him as a genuine warrior.

"The Laura Flanders Show" (26 minutes)

Episode #636 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV during the period of July 15-21, 2017) includes:

TRIBUTE TO GEORGE STONEY:

George Stoney, the “father of public access TV,” died on July 12, 2012 at the age of 96.

Media Edge marks the fifth anniversary of his passing this week with two videos about his life and work, and his never-ending support of community media:

Sci-Fi Journal for July 2017 shot at the RISFC Annual Picnic at Goddard Memorial State Park with James Hinsey, Jay Kingston, Madison Morisseau, and Calvin Watts III. James starts with Anime Daisuki covering anime news. Calvin does Game Over covering upcoming home video releases and video games news. Jay does Popcorn Previews with trailers for "Black Panther", "The Last Jedi", "War for the Planet of the Apes", and "The Dark Tower". Madison sits in for her dad, Marc, and does Toob News covering all of our favorite and new television shows.

"Bernie Sanders at the People's Summit 2017" (54 minutes)

Bernie Sanders delivered this rousing keynote speech on June 10 at the People’s Summit 2017 in Chicago.  Sanders makes it clear: The time for Revolution is now.

"This is What Democracy Looks Like" (13 minutes)