Irene, Migrant Justice and "Madness" - This Week

September 07, 2011

*WATCH on TV (or online) This Week  *

Tuesday 9/6/11 at 7 a.m.

Vermont Access Network (VAN): Hurricane Irene: After The Storm, Report 1 08/29/2011 The devastation of Hurricane Irene in parts of Windham County, Vermont. Report 1 of 3 includes clips and still pictures from Grafton, Brattleboro, Brockway Mills, Rockingham, Saxtons River, Westminster, & Bellows Falls.

Wednesday 9/7/11 at 1 p.m.

Positively Vermont: Essex Community Historical Society 08/22/2011 Host Dennis McMahon talks with Ann Gray and Tim Jerman members of the Essex Community Historical Society, on the organizations activities and treasures.  More information on the Historical Society can be found at http://www.essex.org  click on 'community organizations'.

Thursday 9/8/11 at 1 p.m.

Artful Word: Historic Flood 08/29/2011 Community producer James Gero's video on the Winooski River flooding after the tropical storm.

 

Friday 9/9/11 at 4 p.m. 

Vermont Workers' Center: Winning Healthcare & Migrant Justice 08/26/2011 Traven Leyson hosts this monthly call-in. He is joined by Katie Robbins, Katie Robbins, National Organizer of Healthcare-NOW! and Natalia Fajardo, Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project.

Saturday 9/10/11 at 2 p.m.

Local Matters: Islamaphobia and Current Trends in the Middle East 09/02/2011 Host Rob Reiber speaks with Ali Haji Jafari on Islam, Arab uprisings and 9/11 among other topics.

Sunday 9/11/11 1 p.m.

Near & Far Video, Introduced by Richard Kemp: The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? Part 2 08/08/2011  "The definitive documentary on psychotropic drugging—this is the story of the high-income partnership between drug companies and psychiatry which has created an $80 billion profit from the peddling of psychotropic drugs to an unsuspecting public". - The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Part 2 of 2. For more information, please contact Citizens Commission on Human Rights.  If you have questions or comments about this program, please contact Richard Kemp at rtkemp [at] aol [dot] com.

Tune in on Sunday 9/11/11 at 5 p.m. 
9/11 - 10th anniversary CCTV Rewind programming from the archives of 2001.  

**Participate**

Save the Date! September 22, 2011 at 7 p.m.

Digital Media at the Crossroads: Content and Control in the Internet Era Promo   "An ever-expanding, ubiquitous, and powerful commercial system of digital surveillance has stealthfully become part of our daily lives. Watching and assessing our  travels, purchases, finances, health, communications wherever we are and wherever we go. Today, citizens have to fear from both the intrusive power wielded by government and large private corporations."  - Jeff Chester

 


Join Jeff Chester on September 22, 7 p.m. at Champlain College Alumni Auditorium to learn more about how tracking works and how to protect yourself.  This event is Free and Open to the Public.  Presented by your Community Media Centers: VCAM/Channel 15, RETN/Channel 16 and Channel 17/Town Meeting TV in cooperation with Champlain College, The Center for Media and Democracy, Vermont School Library Association, VT ACLU, UVM , VT Library Association, Vermont Commons, The Radiator, Seven Days, and Front Porch Forum.  For more information and to register for this event visit http://www.MyMediaVT.net
 

Also, Earlier that day:
 
The 6th Annual Nonprofit Luncheon  on September 22 at Noon featuring visiting speaker Jeff Chester from the Center for Digital Democracyregister today: http://6thannualnpolunch.eventbrite.com