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About
Link TV
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Link
TV is the first national network offering a global
perspective on news, current events and culture, presenting
viewpoints seldom covered in the U.S. media. The channel
presents first-run documentaries on global issues, current
affairs series, international news, classic foreign feature
films, and the best of world music. Link's programming,
combined with innovative use of two-way digital link-ups
and a participatory web site, deepens audience engagement
and encourages active participation. The channel, launched
in December 1999, is available to 24 million homes on
DIRECTV channel 375, and The DISH Network channel 9410.
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Global
Talk Series
America Alone? An Encounter
Between Americans and the World
In January 2003, as the administration's
new unilateralist policies pushed the US towards war in
Iraq, Bridge Initiative and
Link TV produced the call-in special that linked participants
at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the
World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to the San
Francisco studio. San Francisco guests Ken Jowitt of
the Hoover Institution and Mark Danner of
New Yorker Magazine discussed the 'Axis of Evil,' US Middle
East policy, and the wisdom of war in Iraq. With Shafeeq
Ghabar of Kuwait University and Reinhardt
Shiekler of German Television in Davos; and with Nicola
Bullard of Thailand's Focus on Global South and Boris
Kargarlitsky of the Moscow Times, in Porto Alegre.
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FAQ's
Call-In Series
FAQs was
a call-in series that gave Americans a forum
for discussing
frequently asked questions on critical issues.
On the first of three programs, produced by
InterAct, Iraq war veterans, enlistees, family
members, and both policy and military experts
talked with viewers nationwide about the soldiers
view of Iraq, military families struggling
with unexpected deployments, soldier protection,
and veterans' issues. The nightly 60-minute
broadcasts were hosted by former NBC News reporter
and longtime talk-radio host Peter
Laufer,
and simulcast on Pacifica Radio stations nationwide.
Guests included: Nancy Pelosi,
Democratic Party Leader, House of Representatives; Robert
Gard, Lt. General US Army (ret.); Paul
Rieckhoff, Operation Truth; and Michelle
Joyner, National Military Family Association.
See more on FAQs About Military Manpower and the Draft
at Link TV.
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Global
Talk Series
Globilization: The Great Divide
This documentary
was produced by Article Z and co-produced by InterAct,
partners
in the Bridge Initiative
on Globalization project. In January 2001, using "video
bridge" technology, the producers linked participants
at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with activists
at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The program
features highlights of this spirited dialogue.
Participating from Davos were Mark
Malloch Brown of the United Nations Development
Program; George Soros, international financier
and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations; Bjorn
Edlund, of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) and John
Ruggie, Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi
Annan. In Porto Alegre, panelists include Rafael
Alegria of the International Movement of Landless
Peasants; Hebe de Bonafini of the Argentinean
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and Njoki Njehu of
Fifty Years is Enough Network.
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Global
Talk Series
Afghan Women: Eyes on the
Future
This special linked the Afghan Womens'
Summit, sponsored by the European Women's Lobby, to viewers
across the United States. On the day of the link (December
5, 2001), the joint interim agreement on Afghanistan was
announced. The Afghan women were able to express their
concern about the new leaders, and their hopes for representation
by women in Afghanistan. Guests were Sahar Saba of the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA); Suria
Paikan, a lawyer with the United Nations Special
Mission for Afghanistan; Marzia Ali, Coordinator
of Refuge Action Montreal; and in the San Francisco studio, Dr.
Farid Younis, Islamic scholar and educator who
has written about Islamic gender issues.
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Global
Talk Series
Listening to Beirut
This November 2001 special linked Arab intellectuals
in Beirut, Lebanon to US callers. With the help of the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Beirut-based Arab
NGO Network on Development, Americans and Arabs discussed
their differences about war, terrorism and Mid-East policy.
Beirut panel members were Hassan Krayem of
the American University in Beirut and Islah Jad of
the Institute of Women's Studies at Bir Zeit University in
Ramallah, and in San Francisco, Laurence Michalak of
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. The
program featured an interview with Dr. Hanan Ashrawi,
Spokesperson for the Arab League.
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