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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 11:05am
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"Peak Moment" (28 minutes)
“Sharing really is going to save the world!” declares Janelle Orsi, author of "The Sharing Solution," noting that it’s fun, doesn’t require special skills -- and we can start now. She and Jennifer Kassan co-founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center to help people formalize collaborative structures like producer cooperatives, cohousing developments and tool lending libraries. They’re working to reduce the hurdles to investing in locally-owned and locally-controlled enterprises.

"COINTELPRO 101" (65 minutes)

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 11:10am
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"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.

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 3:35pm
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"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)

Media Edge

Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 1:15pm
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"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)

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 3:45pm
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"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.

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Submitted by Cliff Garibay on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 12:09pm
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SHOCKING AND AWFUL MARATHON -- PART ONE
10 years after the second US invasion of Iraq, the Deep Dish TV series "Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation" remains the most comprehensive and powerful analysis of the war and opposition that arose in the US and around the world. To mark the 8th anniversary since the first "Media Edge" telecast on April 3, 2005, we present this entire 12-part series during the next three weeks, with each Media Edge episode featuring four of the Shocking and Awful series programs: