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Special Programming Mosaic: World News From The
Middle East Broadcast times:
Journal can also be seen online via WorldLink TV's Live Streams page. The Active Opposition
Africa: The Politics of
Poverty Addicted to Failure Guests in San Francisco: Guest in New York:
Labor
Pains: Sweatshops and the Global Economy Afghan Women: Eyes on the
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selection of TV news reports in English from a variety of Middle Eastern
broadcasters. The daily series is supported by the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which advances journalism excellence
worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities. For episode
summaries and a daily archive of episodes in stream format, click 
JOURNAL:
DEUTSCHE WELLE NEWS - 
The
program includes a recent BBC documentary, Profits
of Doom, that focuses on the West African country of Ghana, once hailed
by the World Bank as a showcase for its policies. Today, after two decades
of financial �discipline,� the majority of Ghanaians are worse off than
before. After the documentary, viewers call in their questions or comments
to Robert Liebenthal, Senior Advisor for Africa of The
World Bank and Njoki Jehu (pictured), Executive Director of 50
Years Is Enough, an organization favoring alternative models of globalization.
Also taking calls are Tony Fratto, Director of Public Affairs for the
U.S. Treasury Dept., and Thomas
Paley, Director of the Globalization
Reform Project for the Open Society Institute.
A
national live call-in program that dissects the U.S. governments�s faltering
30-Year, $19 Billion War on Drugs. The program includes the American premiere
of �Coca Mama,� a Journeyman Pictures
documentary on the effects of U.S. drug policies in four South American
countries. Following the film, a panel of experts from the US and Europe
take viewer calls to debate the current U.S. strategy of eradication,
interdiction and criminalization, and to discuss alternatives. The show
is hosted by noted public radio journalist Holly Kernan.
York
discuss issues surrounding the U.S. response to the terrorist attack of
Sept. 11. Was the attack a crime against humanity or an act of war? What
are the consequences of labeling it either? Why do they hate us? These
and other questions are answered by Jane Wales, President of World Affairs
Council and former staff member of the National Security Council, and
Kevin Danahar, co-founder of Global Exchange, from San Francisco; and
Michael Ratner, a Human Rights and International Justice lawyer, from
New York. Moderated by Nicole Sawaya.
hardships
not unique to Arab society but intimately familiar to us all. Each episode
thematically centers on one of the universal phases of life -- Birth,
Youth, Love and Marriage, Work and Money, and Home. Three compelling stories
and the characters surrounding them comprise each 26- minute episode.
Stories are taken from major Arab countries throughout the Middle East
and North Africa, including Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine,
Syria and Iraq. Series produced by Deborah Davies. To purchase Arab Diaries,
please visit the First Run/Icarus
Films site.
from
our studio in San Francisco to delegates attending the World Social Forum
in Porto Alegre, Brazil. We hear the voices of sweatshop workers from
around the world, anti-globalization protesters, and questions from WorldLink TV
viewers. Guests and speakers tell us "what's behind the label" by discussing
such issues as sweatshops and the global economy, globalization's impact
on the poor and women, child labor; and inform us on how to be a sweatshop-aware
consumer. For more information on the World Social Forum, World Economic
Forum protests and related issues, please click here.
WorldLink TV viewers called in their questions to Sahar Saba of the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA); Suria Paikan, a Lawyer
with UNSMA, the United Nations Special Mission for Afghanistan; and Marzia
Ali, Program Coordinator of Refuge Action Montreal in Canada, where she
has worked to sponsor hundreds of Afghan refugees. Joining the discussion
from the WorldLink TV Studios in San Francisco was Dr. Farid Younos, Islamic
scholar and educator. The Afghan Womens' Summit was sponsored by European
Women's Lobby, Equality
Now, V-Day, and the Center for
Strategic Initiatives of Women. The Summit was held in collaboration with
the Gender Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and
UNIFEM. Fifty Afghan women leaders, broadly representative of women in
Afghanistan, took part in the Summit, which helped bring the voices of
Afghan women into the current international political discourse, ensuring
that their message is heard.