Democracy and Dissent
Right to the City
IndyVideo and Paper Tiger Television present a 3-part DVD on the Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance in New York City. In a city run by moneyed interests, a united front is forming to win the real and lasting changes needed to make the city a place that provides decent living conditions for majority of New Yorkers, not just the wealthy few. More info...
2009 TRT: 1 hour 52 minutes #331
Paper Tiger Live Election Night Show 2008
To commemorate the historic 2008 presidential election Paper Tiger TV produced an hour-long live election night show, broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (Manhattan cable access TV)on November 4. Featuring the Indypendent newspaper's Arun Gupta, Nick Powers and Steve Wishnia and Paper Tiger TV collective member Isabel Macdonald. Bye-bye Republicans! After the announcement of Obama's electoral victory, in the middle of the show the crew bid farewell to the Republicans with a music video directed by Matthew Filipowicz from headzuptv.com. More info...
2008 TRT: 56 minutes #326
Who Want to be America's Next Top President?
Paper Tiger TV flags some of the lowlights of the 08 election coverage, comparing the media's image-obsessed campaign narrative to the selection process in the show America's Next Top Model. Studio guests Arun Gupta (The Indypendent, NYC) and Neal Cortell (producer, PBS's the American Consumer) weigh in on how election coverage has come to resemble reality TV, and discuss the implications for democracy. More info...
2008 TRT: 28 minutes #324
Smokin' Out the Evil-Doers: Unconventional TV Exposes the RNC
Smokin' Out the Evil-Doers: Unconventional TV Exposes the RNC As the GOP staked an opportunistic claim for the symbolic prize of New York City, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to say NO! From the Bushville poor to the defenders of proletariat-hero Johnny Cash and from the rock concert thunder of an uber-immigrant action hero to harlequin high jinks with down-home delegates, Smoking Out the Evil-Doers documents a dynamic week of civil action, police repression and creative resistance. More info...
2004 TRT: 56 minutes #319
Homeless in Toronto: Fighting Back
Filmed in November 2002 at workshops in Toronto lead by veteran Tiger Dee Dee Halleck and video professor Rebecca Garrett, this production relates the struggles of the homeless in Toronto, Canada. The last two years have seen major confrontations as the burgeoning population of people without shelter seek redress by squatting, protesting, live-ins in the municipal park and a militant march on the Canadian parliament. Although continually met with violence and harassment, they fight back for the right to affordable housing. More info...
2003 TRT: 28 minutes #315
Reports from the Peace Movement
REPORTS FROM THE PEACE MOVEMENT: a compilation of 7 short segments from the NYC Anti Gulf War II Movement Current Activist Anti-War segments produced on February 15th and March 22nd, and 27th 2003. (7 segments totaling 22 minutes) Titles: February 15th programs-2 Activists and a Flag(documenting the Palestinian contingent)59th Street Feeder MarchThe People of Color Feeder March. More info...
2003 TRT: 22 minutes #313
Restating the Union
While well-rehearsed, well-choreographed, and written better than most Hollywood movies, George Bush''s 2003 State of the Union Address somehow dropped the ball in the fact-checking department. Paper Tiger''s "Restating the Union Address" attempts to correct the record. Featuring pop-ups correcting George''s most obvious blunders, it also includes interviews with scores of anti-war demonstrators in Manhattan, Washington D.C. and the Bronx. It is rounded out with a counter military recruitment segment. All-in-all a fabulous 28 minutes to counter war hysteria. More info...
2003 TRT: 28 minutes #311
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
Showdown in Seattle (1 hour version)
A one hour version of the five-part "Showdown in Seattle" series produced by Paper Tiger TV, in coalition with Changing America, Whispered Media, Big Noise, VideoActive, and the Independent Media Center. This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization's Millennium meeting, December 1999. This tape contains edited versions of all 5 shows that were satellite cast during the WTO's ministerial. More info...
1999 TRT: 1 hour #294
Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO (Entire Series)
A five part series produced by Paper Tiger TV, in coalition with Changing America, Whispered Media, Big Noise, VideoActive, and the Independent Media Center. This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization's Millennium meeting in December 1999. This tape contains all 5 shows that were satellite cast during the WTO's ministerial. More info...
1999 TRT: 2 hours 30 minutes #288