Do-It-Yourself and Grassroots Media
Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Radical Culture
This Paper Tiger Television production was created in collaboration with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. The show takes a look at how corporations are chipping away at democracy and personal integrity by copying the style and techniques of alternative culture. The program examines how and why anti-corporate culture and independent media have been co-opted by corporate advertising and their profit-making agenda, examining instances where the government and big business collude to silence independent voices—and concerns for social justice. More info...
2008 TRT: 28 minutes #328
Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television
The pioneering social justice, media advocacy, and creative productions made by Paper Tiger Television over the past 25 years have influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world. This documentary tells the story of how the collective has combined media art, media activism and media analysis to create a new kind of television and provide a true alternative to the mainstream. This jubilant mosaic of media myth-smashing archival footage features interviews with media scholars, media critics and over 20 current and past Tigers. More info...
2007 TRT: 46 minutes #323
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
D.I.Y. MicroPower Radio Workshop
In 1998, as the deregulatory fervor following passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed further consolidation of radio station ownership, low-power FM stations took to the air and to the road to spread their message of community radio. More info...
1998 TRT: 28 minutes #276
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
Subverting the Media: A Guide To Low Tech Information Activism
From stencils to 'zines to graffiti and poster art, "Subverting the Media" takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective "Sister Serpents", Bronx-based graffiti group, "Tats Cru" and Sabrina Margarita Sandata, a feminist zinester, challenge social and cultural stereotypes through their work. The program explores the potential everyone has to create their own media, examines the process for creating the message, and demonstrates how to go out and make your own media. More info...
1998 TRT: 25 minutes #279
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
Freeing The Media, Part One
In 1997 media activists from across the country met in New York to discuss the slippery slope of media privatization so pervasive in our current times. PTTV captured the presentations of Bob McChesney, Makani Themba, Laura Flanders, Nolan Bowie and Linda Foley. This panel of media scholars, journalists, critics, lawyers and activists covers a wide range of topics from the globalization of media and the eradication of independent community based news, to the way corporate media effects public and social policy. More info...
1997 TRT: 28 minutes #282
Freeing The Media, Part Two
In 1997 media activists from across the country met in New York to discuss the slippery slope of media privatization so pervasive in our current times. PTTV captured the presentations of Bob McChesney, Makani Themba, Laura Flanders, Nolan Bowie and Linda Foley. This panel of media scholars, journalists, critics, lawyers and activists covers a wide range of topics from the globalization of media and the eradication of independent community based news, to the way corporate media effects public and social policy. More info...
1997 TRT: 1 hour #283
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