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Wabanaki-State TRC to name commissioners Tuesday
The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation (TRC) Selection Panel will announce its commissioners at a news conference scheduled for Tue., Dec. 18, at 1:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Nick Sapiel Building, large conference room, 27 Wabanaki Way, Indian Island, Maine. The TRC Selection Panel has been tasked by the Wabanaki Tribal […]
Posted in peace, reconciliation
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Charlie Rose ‘Brain Series’ tackles post-trauma stress
Update: The “Post-Traumatic Stress” episode is now available to view in its entirety (54 min.) on The Charlie Rose Show website. Tonight, The Charlie Rose Show will focus exclusively on PTSD/PTSI as part of its two-year Brain Series. MPBN is scheduled to air “Post-Traumatic Stress” (Series 2, Episode 12) at 11 p.m. ET on Fri., Dec. 14, with the […]
Posted in PTSD/PTSI
Tagged Charlie Rose, PTSD, PTSI
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A chance to see ‘Half the Sky’ this week
“Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” a four-hour documentary, will air tonight and tomorrow, beginning at 9 p.m. ET on MPBN. The two-part series is part of the Half the Sky movement, inspired by the book, Half the Sky, by journalists/authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The documentary accompanies Kristof, along […]
Posted in actor, children, filmmaker, sexual violence
Tagged Half the Sky, MPBN, Nicholas Kristof, PBS
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Doc Channel frames war in two lenses tonight
Tonight, the Documentary Channel pairs two documentaries that deliver unique perspectives on conflict. “War Photographer” (2001), a film by Christian Frei, follows Massachusetts-born James Nachtwey, a world renowned photojournalist and winner of the 2012 Dresden Peace Prize. For two years, the Swiss author/director/producer Frei joined Nachtwey as he documented war and conflict across Indonesia, Kosovo and […]
Posted in children, filmmaker, genocide, journalist, peace, photographer
Tagged Christian Frei, citizen journalist, Documentary Channel, Homs, Lode Desmet, Syria, War is not a Game, War Photographer
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Come hitch a ride and ‘Fly Over Egypt’
This one goes out to the artists, the human rights advocates and the hybrids among us. Amidst the struggle, it feels a little bit like hope. “Fly Over Egypt” is from The Narcicyst, aka Yassin Alsalman, a Montreal-based author, actor and hip-hop artist, raised by Iranian parents in Dubai. The man is on a mission to […]
Posted in artist, filmmaker, immigrant, musician, photographer
Tagged #Fly Over Egypt, 11 February, Ahmad Shokr, Bei Ru, Democracy Now, Egyptian Revolution, homonyms, Hosni Mubarek, Nik Brovkin, Ridwan Adhami, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Sundus Abdul Hadi, Tamara Abdul Hadi, The Narcicyst, VIBE, Wesam Nassar
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