Deep Dish TV
About this original series
For 22 years Deep Dish has been a laboratory for new, democratic and empowering ways to make and distribute video. It has been a hub for linking thousands of artists, independent videomakers, programmers, and social activists. The network has produced and distributed over 300 hours of television series that challenge the supprssion of awareness, the curruption of language, and the perversion of logic that characterizes so much of commercial media. With humor, passion, creative flair and very low budgets, Deep Dish TV artists and producers have developed provocative video series exploring issues that profoundly impact our lives.
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# Episodes
208 episodes -
Rating
TV-G
Episodes of Deep Dish TV
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Hip-Hop, Politics, and Protest: A Battle for Hea...
At the 2012 Left Forum, Deep Dish TV interviewed the members of a hip-hop panel, expanding on the topics of discussion presented in the panel "Hip-Hop, Politics, and Protest: A Battle for Hearts, Minds and Money." UMI and M1 are members of the legendary hip-hop group dead prez. Will Vill is another New York-based rapper, coming out of Washington Heights. Esteban Nembhard is a union organizer in the city, and Dr. Nyaka NiiLampti is a child psychologist and UMI's sister.
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Release date
May 20, 2012
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Runtime
15:01
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Don't Forget About Haiti
At the 2012 Left Forum, Deep Dish TV interviewed the members of a panel discussion on Haiti. These four activists discuss the United States' and the United Nations' relationship with Haiti, and the exploitation of the Haitian people at their hands, and how it plays into the U.S. global strategy. Colia Liddell La Fayette Clark is a Humanist, Pan Africanist, USA Coordinator for the International Commission of Inquiry on Haiti, Co-Coordinator for the Guadeloupe Haiti Tour, New York Green Party ca...
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Release date
May 20, 2012
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Runtime
24:02
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Interview with Malaak and Ilyasha Shabazz
At the 2012 Left Forum, Deep Dish TV interviewed Malaak Shabazz and Ilyasha Shabazz, two of Malcolm X's daughters. They discuss the legacy of the Black Liberation Movement in the 21st century and where people can go to learn educate and empower themselves.
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Release date
May 20, 2012
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Runtime
06:18
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How a Black Activist Befriended an Aryan Brother...
At the 2012 Left Forum, Deep Dish TV interviewed Reverend Edward Pinkney, the director of the Benton Harbor, MI NAACP and the founder of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO). Here, he tells about how he ran into legal trouble and landed in prison fighting police and government corruption and corporate wrongdoing. While he was in prison, he helped inmates protest against inhumane conditions, while making allies in the unlikeliest of places.
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Release date
May 20, 2012
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Runtime
18:14
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Amiri Baraka on the Legacy of Malcolm X, Occupy ...
At the 2012 Left Forum, Amiri Baraka participated in a panel on the late Dr. Manning Marable's book on Malcolm X's life and legacy. He challenges the book's depiction of Malcolm X and discusses his influence on the revolutionary spirit of the Black Liberation Movement. He also gives his thoughts on the meaning of "confronting global capitalism," the theme of the 2012 Left Forum. Amiri Baraka is a political activist, theorist, poet, playwright, and music critic. He has been politically active s...
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Release date
May 18, 2012
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Runtime
05:15
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Kazemba Balagun on Education
Kazemba Alagun, Director of Education and Outreach for the Brecht Forum, discusses why spaces where critical discussion can occur are so vital. He also discusses the Black Left, what it can teach Occupy movements, and where the Black Left is right now.
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Release date
May 17, 2012
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Runtime
02:58
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Johanna Fernandez on Our Broken Justice System
Johanna Fernandez, a Baruch College Professor of History, explains how a recent ruling throwing out Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence, has galvanized further efforts to "Occupy the Justice System." Police corruption is rampant throughout urban areas in the United States, and only serves to exacerbate the effect policing practices like racial profiling and stop and frisk, and mass incarceration have on communities of color and working-class people.
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Release date
May 17, 2012
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Runtime
08:08
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Stanley Aronowitz on the Limits of Protest
Stanley Aronowitz, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, gives his thoughts on the limits of protest, and how the left can work to change the world concretely.
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Release date
May 17, 2012
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Runtime
05:52
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Danny Schechter's Recommendations for Occupy
At the 2012 Left Forum, Deep Dish TV caught up with Danny Schechter the News Dissector, and here he explains a small part of what he'd like to see from Occupy moving forward.
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Release date
May 17, 2012
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Runtime
02:00
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Theresa Shoatz Interview
Theresa Shoatz discusses the fight against the expansion of the prison industrial complex (PIC), and the effect that the PIC has on young people, working-class families and communities of color. She is an anti-prison industrial complex activist involved with Decarcerate PA and many other groups. Her father is Russell Shoatz, a Black Panther Party member and co-founder of the Black Unity Council, has been in jail for 40 years. He has spent 30 of those years in solitary confinement. She has been...
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Release date
May 16, 2012
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Runtime
13:56
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