Episode #392 of “Media Edge” (initial airing on cable TV: November 10-16) includes:
"The United States of ALEC" (41minutes)
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)
This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act.
"The Children of Ibdaa - To Create Something Out of Nothing" (29.5 minutes)
The lives of several adolescents in a Palestinian children’s dance troupe from a West Bank refugee camp. They use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of their people.
"Omar Is My Friend" (15 minutes)
A student at Baghdad University works as a taxi driver to support his wife and four daughters. As he negotiates his clapped out taxi around checkpoints, tanks and traffic jams, he talks about work, lack of petrol, electricity, having daughters in a male-dominated society, his personal aspirations and those of his society.