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Art In Action
This mural was created from 2009 to 2011, with the understanding that our lives are impacted by the condition of the cities where we live; that creativity is a fabulous teacher; and that art opens doors. A collaboration of Troy Alley Action, School One Community Art Program and Taylor Apartments Troy Alley Action www.troyalleyaction.org Artist Marcus Kwame Anderson www.marcuskwame.com A Media Alliance Production www.MediaSanctuary.org
ACLU President Susan Herman "Taking Liberties"
On the 10th anniversary of the Patriot Act, ACLU president Susan N. Herman challenges the belief that we can buy security by squandering our freedom in "TAKING LIBERTIES: The War on Terror and the Erosion of Democracy." Recorded live at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on Thursday, October 13, 2011. Co-sponsored by Market Block Books and the New York Civil Liberties Union Capital Region chapter. Visit www.mediasanctuary.org for more information.
NY Shout Out! Q&A Part 1: 2nd Annual Youth Media Film Festival
2nd Annual Youth Media Film Festival at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY April 30th, 2011 Featuring Green Guerillas Tech Collective, Ithaca HarlemLive, NYC Tech Valley High School, Rensselaer Youth FX Youth Media Sanctuary Co-sponsored by Youth FX and Media Alliance www.mediasanctuary.org
Q&A with activist media maker Frank Lopez
http://www.mediasanctuary.org Journalist Frank Lopez presents his new film, END:CIV, exploring our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. www.endciv.com www.submedia.tv
Patricio Guzman Q&A
www.MediaSanctuary.org Award-winning Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman appearing with producer Renate Sachse at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on 3-20-11 for a q&a following the screening of Nostalgia for the Light. Translated by Daniel Mosquera, director of the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program at Union College in Schenectady NY. Famed for his political documentaries capturing the history and politics of Chile (The Battle of Chile, Salvador Allende, The Pinochet Case), for the new film Guzman traveled to the Atacama Desert, where the sky is so translucent that it allows astronomers to see right to the boundaries of the universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact, including political prisoners "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the U.S.-supported coup of September 11, 1973.
North Troy: Roughcut
Youth from North Troy, NY take to the streets with their cameras to document life in their neighborhood. Created by the youth media producers of Youth Media Sanctuary, in Troy, NY, during the fall of 2010. Youth Media Sanctuary producers: Medena Henderson, Antonio Pablon, Chelsea Kereszi,, Denise Ramos, Kayleara Miller. Produced at The Sanctuary for Independent Media with Media Alliance in collaboration with the Missing Link Street Ministry and funding from The Louis and Hortense Rubin Community Fellowship (a Troy-based organization that funds faculty-community collaboration) and the New York State Council on the Arts. http://www.mediasanctuary.org/yms
Chris Hedges “Liberal Class Failed”
(excerpt) Death of the Liberal Class, presented on October 15, 2010 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY. Christopher Hedges, whose book “Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day gave of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." ;Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Chris Hedges "Inverted Totalitarianism"
(excerpt) Death of the Liberal Class, presented on October 15, 2010 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY.Christopher Hedges, whose book “Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day gave of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." ;Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Chris Hedges Q&A "The Death of the Liberal Class" at The Sanctuary for Independent Media
Christopher Hedges, whose book “Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day gave of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.This event was co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
Chris Hedges “Death of the Liberal Class,” Intro by Professor Gordon
Tamar Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology in LL&C at Rensselaer. Her work focuses on the cultural analysis of contemporary religions and their intersections with local and global modernities; themed environments; Polynesian and American societies; Her graduate courses include Ethnography and Cultural Analysis. Her undergraduate courses include colonial and postcolonial representation; religion, culture and media; and the EMAC Senior Capstone Design class. She is the author of a book in press, Mormons and Modernity in Tonga, and the editor of a collection of articles on ethnic theme parks, also forthcoming, and the director of a documentary film on ethnic theme parks entitled "Global Villages: the Globalization of Ethnic Display." Christopher Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day gave of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker.
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