Episode #393 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV: November 17-23) includes:
"Peak Moment" (27 minutes)
Novelist Dan Armstrong’s Prairie Fire is a fast-paced thriller whose characters forge unlikely alliances to revolutionize the American food system. It’s spearheaded by farmers squeezed by skyrocketing oil prices while marketeers get whopping price gains. This revolution is unlikely to succeed, yet… well, we won’t spoil it! In Dan’s Taming the Dragon, climate change causes Chinese grain production to plummet, bringing the world to the brink. Dan illuminates the real-world backdrop behind both novels. His solution? Localize food production. Meet farmer Harry MacCormack with exciting results in central Oregon.
"First Lesson in Peace" (56 minutes)
The Jewish-Arab conflict through the eyes of a six-year-old girl.
"SHADA" (3.5 minutes)
A photographic journey with Haiti's Forgotten Children by Sacramento area photographer and activist Leisa Faulkner.
"Legacy of Torture: The War Against The Black Liberation Movement" (28 minutes)
This video documents the torture of activists John Bowman, Hank Jones and Harold Taylor by New Orleans police in 1973, and the assassinations, police brutality, and abuse suffered by the Black community during the 1960s and 1970s.