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The Cleveland Indians. Washington Redskins. Atlanta Braves. What's wrong with American Indian sports mascots? This moving, award-winning film is the first of its kind to address that subject.In Whose Honor? takes a critical look at the long-running practice of honoring American Indians as mascots and nicknames in sports. It follows the story of Native American mother Charlene Teters, and her transformation into the leader some are calling the Rosa Parks of American Indians as she struggles to protect her cultural symbols and identity.In Whose Honor? looks at the issues of racism, stereotypes, minority representation and the powerful effects of mass-media imagery, and the extent to which one university will go to defend and justify its mascot.

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]]> Jay Rosenstein Multicultural Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8075&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, March 11

Nationally acclaimed artist and Skokomish tribal leader Gerald Bruce Miller (subiyay) interpreted the sacred teachings of the natural world for anyone who wanted to learn. A passionate student of traditional culture, Bruce became the bearer of the language, oral history, art, and spirituality of the tuwaduq (Twana) and Southern Coast Salish peoples. This gentle and generous film documents his race against time and ailing health to pass the knowledge of his ancestors on to those who would listen.

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]]> Katie Jennings Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=463&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7922&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, March 12

Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World is a compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst the beautiful images of Hopi land and life, a variety of Hopi--a farmer, religious elder, grandmother, painter, potter and weaver--speak about the preservation of the Hopi way.

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]]> Pat Ferrero Native American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=467&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8146&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, March 13

Why does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways? Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines. Across the nation, tracks were torn up, sometimes overnight, and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed through Congress a vast network of urban freeways that doubled the cost of the Interstates, fueled suburban development, increased auto dependence, and elicited passionate opposition. Seventeen city freeways were stopped by citizens who would become the leading edge of a new environmental movement. With investigative journalism, vintage archival footage and candid interviews, Taken for a Ride presents a revealing history of our cities in the 20th century that is also a meditation on corporate power, city form, citizen protest and the social and environmental implications of transportation. Taken for a Ride was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

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]]> Jim Klein Urban Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=467&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8090&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, March 14

You're stopped at an intersection, and someone with a sign asks for money. What do you do? Do you give them change or do you stare straight ahead pretending they're not there? With humor and compassion, When The Light's Red chronicles the filmmaker's own experience with intersection panhandling. Narrated with his own conflicted and stark inner dialogue, the filmmaker seeks guidance from other drivers, a homeless services provider and panhandlers themselves. The film asks the difficult question: How do you size up a person in the span of a red light?

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]]> Keith Wilson Urban Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7997&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, March 15

Sixty-miles east of Reno, in the small military and ranching town of Fallon, Nevada, an unfathomable mystery is unfolding. In the span of just two years, 14 children have been diagnosed with acute-lymphocytic leukemia, and no-one seems to know why. As the film unfolds, two children die and two more cases are discovered, as families square off with scientists, government bureaucrats and media opportunists who are occupied with everything it seems but the welfare of the children. Due to recent medical advances, for the first time in history, the town of Fallon may be able to provide much-needed answers to the impact environmental hazards can have on health. While kids undergo excruciating spinal taps and parents break down, the community is stretched to the breaking point. As the country gears up for war, military exercises at the Fallon naval air base increase, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrive to canvass the population. Is this the ultimate testing ground that will provide much-needed answers for the rest of the world, or the ultimate cover-up? Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis leads the viewer into a charged landscape of questions…that we as a nation must have the courage to answer.

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]]> Amie Williams Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=462&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8024&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, March 16

With revealing honesty and a touch of humor, children from over 50 diverse families open the door to their homes and explain things like divorce, mixed race, gay and lesbian parents, birth mom, single parent, guardian, and stepdad —and get right to the point of what they wish other people would understand about their families. While designed especially for young audiences, That's a Family! stretches the minds and touches the hearts of people of all ages. From the makers of It's Elementary and Let's Get Real, this fresh look at the changing American family breaks new ground and lets children lead the way in preventing prejudice and embracing diversity.

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]]> Debra Chasnoff Multicultural Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=467&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7851&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, March 17

Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative went on to gain national recognition as residents fought to close down illegal dumps, gain unprecedented control of land from City Hall and create a comprehensive plan to rebuild the fabric of their community. Through the voices of committed residents, activists and city officials, this moving documentary shows how a Boston neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change.

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]]> Mark Lipman Urban Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=460&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8150&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, March 18

Daddy Papa is a one-hour documentary video that opens a candid window on the personal, cultural and political implications of gay fatherhood. From surrogacy, foster care and interracial adoption, to the complexities of gay divorce and legal battle around gay parenting, Daddy Papa presents a revealing look at some of the gay dads who are breaking new ground in the ever-changing landscape of the American family. The film utilizes an accessible, first-person narrative to create an intimate portrayal of gay dads, following the filmmaker and his partner on the their rocky, and sometimes amusing, journey to parenthood.Along the way, we meet other gay dads: a single father confronting the isolation of raising at-risk kids in a gay, and largely childless, neighborhood; a healthcare worker battling Florida state law to adopt the child who for five years has called him Dad ; and a couple and their nine-year-old daughter, whose biggest problem is not that her parents are gay, but divorced. Daddy Papa takes an unflinching look at some of the complex issues surrounding gay fatherhood, including the effect of sexual orientation on children, challenge of white gay men raising African-American kids, changing relationship of gay fathers to the gay community and real impact on children of being raised without a mother. In the process, it reveals a new picture of what it means to be a family. For tips on facilitating a community forum, information on adoption and foster care, an overview of legal issues, and more, download our 8-page Discussion Guide from the Study Resources section.

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]]> Johnny Symons LGBT Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=471&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7843&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, March 19

This extraordiary work explores the deep connections in a circle of lesbian friends as they face death and celebrate life and love. Viewers say Liberty has documented the meaning of community with rare grace and wit. It is not a wimpy, weepy tale by a mile, but a keen celebration of family values.Liberty demystifies death, dispels misinformation about age and sexual orientation, and reminds us how rich life is, even in the shadow of death.Part One: Death to Life records the death of Joyce Fulton, 66. In the opening scenes, we see her, wasted, beyond speech, with a group of friends around her who are helping her out of this world. Moving backwards in time, we then observe the process of Joyce's terminal brain cancer over the course of two years. In a sense, we see Joyce moving from sick to well, becoming the person she was on the day she celebrated retiring from teaching high school four years earlier.Part Two: Life to Death is a reminiscence of Mary Bell Wilson, 79, described by one of her friends as a Katherine Hepburn type. She is a long time friend of Joyce Fulton, and Joyce reappears several times in Life to Death. Before Mary Bell dies, she has high hopes of building a new home with her lover and partner of 25 years and of riding in Dykes on Bikes in the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. With indefatigable courage, she faces up to her own losing struggle with lymphoma.Part Three: Life is about Nan Golub, a close friend of both Joyce and Mary Bell. In New York, in winter, we see her living as an artist -- a black-leather-jacketed, platinum-dyed city woman. In one sequence she sketches a family tree of the women we've met earlier and suddenly we have a more vivid idea of who they were and what they've meant to each other. Golub ties the three parts of the documentary together and reminds us that in spite of tragedy and death, life is worth living, even worth celebrating.

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]]> Pam Walton Women's Studies/Men's Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8194&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, March 20

Jumping Off Bridges is the heartfelt and authentic story of teenagers coming to terms with the mental illness and eventual suicide of a parent. The film illustrates the ripple effect of trauma and depression and explores issues of friendship, trust, grief, rage, love, and conflict resolution. This is a story about friendship, strength and finding hope.

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]]> Stacy Schoolfield Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=467&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7863&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, March 21

Stephanie is pregnant and has a warrant for running away from a group home. Shangra is torn between taking care of her mother, who is homeless and struggling with drug addiction, and taking care of herself. Sheila, whose father and siblings have been in and out of jail, risks arrest and jail time by selling and using drugs.Girl Trouble is an intimate look at the compelling personal stories of three teenagers entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system. These girls, and many like them, aren't just at-risk, they are in deep trouble.Trying to change their lives, the girls work part-time at the innovative Center for Young Women's Development, an organization run by young women who have faced similar challenges. As the girls confront seemingly impossible problems and pivotal decisions, the Center's 22-year-old director, Lateefah Simon, is often their only support and mentor.Bay Area filmmakers Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko document the girls remarkable successes and heartbreaking setbacks over a four-year period, their daily struggles with poverty, violence, public defenders and homelessness,and expose a system that fails to end the cycle of incarceration.

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]]> Lexi Leban & Lidia Szajko Urban Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=460&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8012&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, March 22

In October 1998, Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die. The horror of this murder pushed Laramie into the media spotlight and sparked a nationwide debate about homophobia, gay-bashing and hate crimes. Filmmaker Beverly Seckinger, who grew up in Laramie, was compelled to return to her hometown to see how this event had altered the site of her own closeted adolescence. Along the way she meets God-hates-fags Westboro Baptist Church Reverend Fred Phelps, who condemns Shepard and all homosexuals to a merciless eternity in hell. But Seckinger meets many more—students, teachers, parents, and clergy—wrestling with painful complexities, speaking out and taking action.

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]]> Bev Seckinger LGBT Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=462&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8174&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, March 23

Home to Tibet documents the return of the Tibetan stone mason, Sonam Lama, to his homeland for the first time since his escape 12 years ago. It is the moving story of one Tibetan which illustrates the struggles of the Tibetan people to preserve their culture and way of life while living under Chinese occupation. Any film about Tibet and its people must inevitably address the political situation, but politics is not the central concern of this production. Rather, it is about the inseparability of spirituality, family, culture and politics for the Tibetan people. Home to Tibet is Sonam's story, but it is also the story of thousands of other Tibetans.

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]]> Lisa Merton Multicultural Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8087&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, March 24

The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed in a terrorist act on a kibbutz near the West Bank. Director Lynne Sachs' journey to discover who Revital is results in this stunning cine-essay on violence, identity, crisis in the Middle East and motherhood. Avoiding easy political polarizations, the film is structured around an exchange of letters between Sachs and her Israeli friend Nir Zats. Together, they reveal Revital's story through her films, news reports, and interviews, culminating in heartbreaking footage of children discussing the violence they've witnessed and an unforgettable visit with Ohayon's grieving family. Without taking sides or casting blame, States of UnBelonging becomes a cine-essay on fear and filmmaking, tragedy and transformation, violence and the land of Israel/Palestine.

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]]> Lynne Sachs Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=478&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8182&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, March 25

Seoul Train is a gripping documentary expose into the life-and-death struggle faced by North Korean refugees as they flee their homeland through China. Seoul Train combines verite and hidden camera footage with personal stories and interviews to reveal the harrowing journey attempted by some 250,000 North Koreans, whose refugee status is not recognized by China. Their clandestine escape covers hundreds of miles of Chinese territory via an underground railroad of safe houses and hidden routes. If caught, the refugees - and the activists that help them - face imprisonment and possibly execution if captured and returned to North Korea. With rare and candid interviews with U.N., U.S., South Korean and Chinese officials, Seoul Train skillfully explores the geopolitical forces behind this crisis - with a human face.

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]]> Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth Asian and Asian American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=459&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7895&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, March 26

One man's journey of conscience from Vietnam to El Salvador, Witness to War is the Academy Award winning story of Dr. Charlie Clements who was a pilot in Vietnam until he refused further combat missions. Stripped of his military identity, Charlie Clements dedicated his life to non-violence and healing, ultimately tending to the wounded behind rebel lines in El Salvador. A personal testament to the enduring tragedy of war as relevant in our times as it was then, this new edition includes a soul-searching return to El Salvador with Dr. Clements.

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]]> Paco de Onis Latin American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=462&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8033&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, March 27

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son’s memory and invites the town of Craig, Alaska to help. Before he is done, the pole becomes a communal project, bringing people of diverse backgrounds and ages together. Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and raising the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence. This powerful film explores questions of death and dying, family relationships and parenting, domestic violence, and the impact of the war on veterans and their families. It also acknowledges the intergenerational grief growing out of the rapid changes in lifestyle, and the interruptions to the passing on of tradition and knowledge within Alaska Native and American Indian communities like Craig. But, most importantly, Carved from the Heart demonstrates the enormous power of mutual support, culture, art, and ceremony in enabling a community to face tragedy, provide support to its members, and find a path to healing.

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]]> Ellen Frankenstein Multicultural Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=478&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8166&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, March 28

In Japan, WWII Kamikaze are still revered as self-sacrificing heroes. Internationally, they remain a potent symbol of fanaticism. In astonishingly candid interviews, four former Kamikaze reveal that they were neither suicidal nor fanatical. In fact, they were young men sentenced to death by a military that could not admit defeat. In heartbreaking testimony corroborated with rare archival footage, they tell us about their dramatic survival and their survivors guilt. This riveting, seamlessly edited film is an emotionally charged and timely expose, probing the responsibilities that a government at war has to its people and its soldiers.

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]]> Linda Hoaglund Asian and Asian American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=461&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7918&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, March 29

Downside Up captures the beginnings of America's largest museum of contemporary art, MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) and the rebirth of its host-city, North Adams, Massachusetts. Through the eyes of filmmaker Nancy Kelly and her family, most of who worked in the former capacitor factory before it closed, the film renders the subtle changes in the spirit of a region. Downside Up is about hope: the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a town widely viewed as hopeless.

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]]> Nancy Kelly Media, Art & Culture http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=460&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8158&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, March 30

This groundbreaking film explores the power of youth and beauty in the gay community. A diverse group of gay men, ages 19 to 77, negotiate their fears of becoming old, undesirable and alone. The film critically examines the pressure to look young and attractive, the lack of positive older role models and the ways in which AIDS intensifies the fear and process of aging. Beauty Before Age offers a male perspective on a historically female issue and illuminates the larger societal obsession with physical appearance.

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]]> Johnny Symons LGBT Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7883&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, March 31

Important background that helps explain protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Hungry for Profit is a provocative investigation of the link between world hunger and the global agribusiness system. Filmed in Africa, Asia and Latin America.\"Clear and convincing. Excellent for studies of population, land use, food economics, international banking, social organization, history and comparative government.\"American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS)

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]]> Robert Richter Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=463&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8039&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, April 1

Education is your most powerful weapon. With it, you are the whiteman's equal, without it, you are his victim. Chief Plentycoups, last Crow Chief Spirit of the Dawn explores the dramatic changes in Indian education from the boarding schools of the past, where children were beaten for speaking their language in school, to the more culturally-sensitive classrooms of today. On the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, we meet two sixth graders, Bruce Big Hail and Heywood Big Day III, as they participate in an innovative poetry class that encourages them to create beautiful poems celebrating Crow culture and history. Through the children, their parents and their teachers we see the strength and resiliency of a community fighting the constraints of the past to secure a future for its children.

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]]> Heidi Emberling Native American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8078&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, April 2

Iris Baez, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, never meant to become an activist. Kadiatou Diallo never meant to leave her home in Africa and move to the U.S., to fight for justice for her son. Doris Busch Boskey, a Jewish woman from the suburbs, never thought she'd be become a spokesperson against police brutality. This film profiles three women from very different walks of life who find themselves united to seek justice after their sons are unjustly killed by police. Anthony Baez died during a football game when an officer put him in an illegal chokehold. Amadou Diallo was unarmed when he was shot at 41 times by police in his doorway. Gary (Gidone) Busch was pepper-sprayed and shot to death while holding a small hammer, though witnesses said he posed no threat. Their stories are tragic and the courage shown by the mothers heroic. As one witness says, As long a there's a mother, we'll continue to fight.

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]]> Kelly Anderson & Tami Gold Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=471&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7831&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, April 3

The Collectors' Edition has nine additional short films on Barbie -- including Black Barbie, about African-American dolls, and The Handlers at Home, featuring more of the Barbie creator's views on women's issues. The Barbie doll is not just the world's most popular toy, she's a Rorschach test, revealing attitudes about sexuality, body image, gender roles and creativity. Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations, from girls' play dates to Barbie web pages, Barbie Nation plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, telling the Barbie stories of men, women and children. At the center of Barbie Nation is the story of Barbie creator and Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler. Handler's ironic rise and fall brings Barbie Nation to a climax that is about the creation of femininity and the marketing -- and subversion -- of femininity's icon.

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]]> Susan Stern Women's Studies/Men's Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=471&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8009&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, April 4

The groundbreaking, award winning film on alcohol, prescription drug abuse and women- the myth, the stigma, the reality. Concealed by families, protected by friends and physicians, women are kept invisible. They themselves are often The Last to Know. This extraordinary film speaks directly to these women by sensitively focusing on four intimate stories and shows how the medical community, the media and the values of society at large, actually perpetuate alcoholism and prescription drug abuse in women. QUOTES FROM FILM I used to come out of blackouts to find myself in bed with complete strangers...This was Loretta, I was brought up in Catholic schools, a lady who was now wondering what the hell had I done the night before. Loretta When I got sober, I got scared of people, scared to talk in front of people. When I was drunk, I could dance on top of a bar. Sharon I drink because I don't want to live in reality. Lori

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]]> Bonnie Friedman Women's Studies/Men's Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8105&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, April 5

Maybe Baby is an intimate, provocative documentary that takes a new look at the journeys of single women in their '30s and '40s as they pursue pregnancy through Assisted Reproductive Technology, a multi-billion dollar industry on the cutting edge of medicine and science. This film provides an intimate window into the lives of women as they navigate an incredibly complex arena of fertility clinics, while getting pregnant, miscarrying, and having babies alone. Against a backdrop of ticking biological clocks, this riveting 60-minute film illuminates basic human questions of life, love, fertility, and the meaning of motherhood today.

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]]> Shannon ORourke Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=454&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7920&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, April 6

Freedom Machines dramatically broadens the concept of diversity through the intimate stories of adults and children with disabilities who are using modern technologies to change their lives. Among them are Susanna who is beginning her college career, 38 year old Floyd Stewart who was paralyzed in mid-life while raising four children; 92 year old Gladys who is determined to overcome a hearing loss; and high school student Latoya Nesmith who dreams of becoming a translator at the U.N. Fifteen years after passage of the ADA, Freedom Machines is a riveting reflection on the status of life of America's largest minority group: 55 million people with disabilities.

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]]> Richard Cox, Janet Cole, and Jamie Stobie Disabilites: New Perspectives http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=459&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7891&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, April 7

How can an open society balance demands for security with democracy? Based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, State of Fear follows events in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a nation like the United States. Filmmakers Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, and Paco de Onis masterfully blend personal testimony, history and archival footage to tell the story of escalating violence in the Andean nation and how the fear of terror undermined their democracy, making Peru a virtual dictatorship where official corruption replaced the rule of law. Terrorist attacks by Shining Path insurgents provoked a military occupation of the countryside. Military justice replaced civil authority, widespread abuses by the Peruvian Army went unpunished, and the terrorism continued to spread. Nearly 70,000 civilians eventually died at the hands of Shining Path and the Peruvian military.

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]]> Paco de Onis Latin American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7924&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, April 8

Name-calling and bullying have reached epidemic proportions in schools today. Let's Get Real gives young people the chance to speak up in their own words about the real issues behind the problem. With amazing courage and candor, the students featured in Let's Get Real discuss racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and more. From the youth who are targeted to the students who pick on them to those who find the courage to intervene, Let's Get Real examines bullying from the full range of perspectives. This poignant film educates audiences of all ages about why we can no longer accept name-calling and bullying as just a normal rite of passage.Let's Get Real is now widely used to jump-start violence-prevention and multicultural educational programs all over the United States, and throughout the world. And it is a must-see for any adults who work with young adolescents.

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]]> Debra Chasnoff Children, Youth, & Families