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Independent progressive video programming.

Video News from TAC: A half-hour news program each month bringing you stories from around the world.

In this episode, lay volunteers catalog artifacts thorugh the Forest Service Passport In Time (PIT) program at the Edge of the Cedars State Park Meseum in Blanding, Utah.

The rocky island of Inishark, off the west coast of Ireland, was inhabited for thousands of years and then abandoned in 1960. Archaeologists fortunately can bring three former residents to the island to help them dicument the very visible ruins.

Episode #399 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV during week of December 29 - January 4) includes:

"A Buffalo's Trail of Tears" (6 minutes)

A short video about the annual hazing of the last wild and free buffalo, by the Buffalo Field Campaign.

"The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation" (1 hour, 48 minutes)

"Health Care as a Human Right in Occupied Palestine"

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.

Episode #396 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV during week of December 8 - 14) includes:

"The Fragile Promise of Choice" (57.5 minutes)

Follow archaeologists in Nevada and Illinois as they work to preserve the past and intercept our common history.

Episode #395 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV during week of December 1 - 7) includes:

"It Takes a Village" (22 minutes)
After being devastated by a cyclone in 1991, the community of Chakaria in Bangladesh tries a new approach to community health care.

"An Evening with Rabbi Michael Lerner" (68 minutes)