RIOTS
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Democracy Now! June 19, 2003
More than 300 Police Officers Take to the Streets in Benton Harbor Michigan to Control Rioting; The Rosenberg Execution 50 Years Later |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines In Benton Harbor Michigan yesterday more than 300 police officers took to the streets following two nights of riots. A state of emergency and curfew has been declared in…
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Democracy Now! June 23, 2003
Protesting the War on Women and the War on Terror. As President Bush and Karl Rove launch the largest political fundraising campaign in history, women s rights advocates join forces with the peace movement to protest today s fundraiser in NYC; USDA opens $3 million dollar biotech conference in Sacramento; agriculture ministers from over 100…
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Democracy Now! August 26, 2002
AFRICAN-AMERICANS PROTEST AGAINST POLICE SHOOTINGS IN MINNEAPOLIS/WORLD SUMMIT OPENS IN SOUTH AFRICA |[Headlines: African-Americans protest against police shootings in Minneapolis] World Summit On Sustainable Development opens in South Africa, and police attack protesters: we ll go to Johannesburg Thousands of farm workers marCh on the California capitol: a conversation with actor Ed Begley, Jr. Attorney…
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Attica: rebellion and response / produced by Bill Northwood.
Documentary on the buildup and violent riot of prison inmates at Attica, New York. The violence at Attica Prison, September 13, 1971, when law enforcement officials used force to quell a prisoners’ rebellion, resulted in the deaths of 42 persons. This documentary explores those events and the history behind them. It includes statements by prison…
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Attica : five years after / produced by David Levine.
On consequences of the 1971 prison riot and current conditions; interview with John Hill. The program traces the consequences of the 1971 rebellion at Attica State Prison; current conditions at the prison; the state’s imbalanced prosecution of Attica cases; the abject failure to convict; the subsequent exposure by a former state prosecutor; and an interiew…
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Blackout / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
Examination of the news blackout which followed the storming of Attica prison. After the New York State Correction Department recaptured Attica State Prison, killing over 40 people in the process, a news blackout was imposed by state officials. Despite ifforts by reporters, lawyers, and medical teams to penetrate the prison walls, news from attica was…