International Perspectives
Ondas Indigenas (Indigenous Waves)
Shot on location in Bolivia, Ondas Indigenas documents the indigenous community radio movement in the high plains surrounding La Paz. Featuring interviews with program directors, listeners, and producers from four different radio stations this video gives an overview of the importance of community radio and the difficulty in preserving Aymaran culture. It highlights the many ways in which these community-driven radio stations protect and encourage pride in Aymaran culture for a new generation, which has grown up largely without it. More info...
2004 TRT: 11 minutes #321
Bombs Away!: Amy Goodman Looks at NATO's Bombing of the Balkans
Shot during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo, BOMBS AWAY! features Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now host and WBAI Wake-up Call co-host, Amy Goodman. She critically examines the supposed humanitarian motives of the war, comparing the situation in the Balkans with other humanitarian crises in which the US government directly supports the aggressor. More info...
1999 TRT: 28 minutes #284
Crash the G8 Party
Paper Tiger TV crashes the Koln G8 Summit with a show featuring Doug Henwood, editor of the Left Buisness Observer. Doug dissects the history of the G7/8 and examines the agenda of this upcoming meeting of the world's oligarchy. The show also features Stephen Duncombe of Reclaim the Streets NYC, who describes the history of the organization and the day of international demonstrations planned for the summit. More info...
1999 TRT: 28 minutes #285
Media Machete: The Chiapas Media Project
Paper Tiger Television presents a video interview with Chiapas Media Project members Francisco Vacquec and Hermenegildo Rojas. The Chiapas Media Project provides video equipment and training to indigenous communities in Chiapas. In the video, they discuss the current situation in Chiapas and show how video is being used as a vital communications tool for community development, cultural preservation and as a means of self defense against the government's tactics of intimidation and violent repression. More info...
1998 TRT: 28 minutes #280
Freeing the Media and Marcos' Message
This tape highlights the opening panel of the 1997 conference "Freeing the Media" which was organized by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the Learning Alliance, and Paper Tiger. Panelists include Jeff Cohen of FAIR, Loretta Ross of the Center of Human Rights Education, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Danny Schechter of Globalvision Media. The conference concludes with a video message from Subcommandante Marcos in Chiapas, Mexico reminding the US independent media community of their role in international affairs. More info...
1997 TRT: 28 minutes #271
Subcommandante Marcos
A short 15 minute video message from Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos in Chiapas, Mexico to the US independent media community. This message was produced, with the help of the National Commission for Democracy in Mexico, as a greeting to the attendants of the Free Media Conference in New York City. Marcos stresses the importance of network building and coalition-building between cultural workers and independent media-makers--especially in light of the growing threat of globalization. More info...
1997 TRT: 15 minutes #272
Dan Hallin Unmasks Jacobo Zabludovsky
Who are the real heirs of the legacy of Emiliano Zapata? If you believe Mexico's most reknowned journalist, Jacobo Zabludovsky, it is the Mexican establishment! Jacobo just happens to work for Televisa, which is the largest media conglomerate in Mexico, and is also an unabashed supporter of the PRI government. In this video, Paper Tiger takes apart Jacobo and the Televisa media empire and their coverage of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Dan Hallin teaches communications at UCSD. More info...
1995 TRT: 28 minutes #258
Super Barrio
Mexico's Number 1 super-hero, Super Barrio, takes on government injustice and media sponsored ignorance in this show made just after the 1994 Mexican Elections. Join the masked crime fighter as he analyzes the economic conditions of Mexico's indigenous population, government repression, and the ongoing corruption in the government and electoral process. This video also provides a historical link between the current struggle and the revolutionary work of Emiliano Zapata. More info...
1995 TRT: 28 minutes #257
A Cry for Freedom and Democracy
Made in Chiapas by Cheche Martinez between January 6 and 12, 1994, this video follows human rights activists, journalists and family members as they try to gain access to the militarily blockaded region. Residents of Chiapas who witnessed the Mexican Army's indiscriminate brutality following the New Year's Day Zapatista uprising give their first hand accounts of the ongoing repression of indigenous areas before and after the uprising. An eyewitness account you won't see on TV. More info...
1994 TRT: 28 minutes #254
Breaking the Gaze of the Lion
A look at the media's coverage of the 1994 elections in Mexico. More info...
1994 TRT: 28 minutes #252