Food Banks in Desperate Need!!

Tens of millions of Americans will go hungry this holiday season because of a dramatic drop in supplies. Please do what you can to help!!

Surge In Military Rape

PBS's NOW reports that almost 25% of woman in the military have been sexually assaulted while on active duty.

Monty Python on Public TV

This is a clip from an in-studio appearance for local PBS affiliate KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas in 1975. Apparently, KERA was the first station in the US to broadcast Monty Python's Flying Circus, after an executive pulled the show from a box of rejected British television programs. This appearance on the station's pledge drive, however, has not been aired since it was broadcast live, and only a portion of it has survived the last 32 years. It is an extremely rare interview and was shot just after Monty Python and the Holy Grail had wrapped production.

Bill Moyers Journal - Low Power Radio

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This week's Bill Moyers Journal focussed on big media's attempts to consolidate power and lobby Congress and the FCC.

In this segment, Moyers looked at the services provided by small local broadcasters and how they benefit their communities. During Hurricane Katrina, only 4 out of 41 broadcasters were able to stay on air and provide the area with coverage of the storm, as well as issue evacuation warnings and direct survivors to FEMA aid centers - information the big media failed to offer. And this isn't the first time big media has failed the districts in which they broadcast.

But now we have a chance to turn it all around. Legislation in both the House and the Senate could help to promote local media and restore a balance of power over the public airwaves.

Bill Moyers Journal - The Rove Legacy

The great Bill Moyers is once again the media's sole voice of reason. Here, he shares the true legacy of Presidential Adviser Karl Rove.

Soldier Suicide

By now you've probably heard the report that 99 US soldiers committed suicide last year. Wanna take a guess at how many ATTEMPTED suicide?

948.

Voter Caging

PBS's Now, with David Brancaccio spoke with investigative journalist Greg Palast about how the republican party stole the 2004 presidential election, by disqualifying thousands of students, soldiers and minorities.

Bill Moyers on Sacrifice

In the latest episode of Bill Moyers Journal, Bill reflected on two classes of America's youth. Clip includes portions of Generation Chickenhawk.

Bill Moyers - The Yes Men

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Bill Moyers sat down with the brilliant satirists Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men, who impersonate corporate representatives at international business conferences, and present outlandish schemes in order to draw media attention to serious issues.

The Making of a Kiss Show

This is a special behind-the-scenes look at how Kiss concerts were put together, from the PBS kids show 3-2-1 Contact, from 1979.

Creatures of the Abyss

PBS's News Hour speaks with French wildlife producer and journalist Claire Nouvian about her new book The Deep, a collection of more than 200 photos of rare and newly discovered aquatic species living in the deepest parts of the ocean.

Check out the online slideshow, for more awesome photos of these bioluminescent sea creatures.

The Secret Life of Plants

Rare 1979 documentary, based on a book by the same name, featuring music from Stevie Wonder's album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants.

There's lots of cool, trippy time-lapse photography of plants growing and flowers blooming, and well, it's pretty trippy overall... According to some scientists, plants have feelings and consciousness. Others have even tried to give plants a voice. And then there's the interpretive dance...

Bill Moyers - Impeachment

In tonight's Bill Moyers' Journal, Bill spoke with Bruce Fein, a constitutional scholar, and John Nichols, correspondent for The Nation magazine, about the possibility and validity of impeaching Bush & Cheney.

IMPEACH! IMPEACH! IMPEACH!

Women in Iran

A group of American women travel to Iran and share their experiences living in a society where women are treated very differently than men.

Democrats on Racial Inequality

PBS hosted a presidential debate for the Democratic candidates. In this clip, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Dennis Kucinich give their views on the issue and share ideas on how to make things better.

Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch

Bill Moyers pulls no punches in this editorial on Rupert Murdoch's plans to grow his media monopoly. Thank god we still have Bill Moyers!!

One More Down in Jack Abramoff Scandal

The Jim Lehrer News Hour reports that another Bush administration official has been sentenced to prison. This is the highest ranking official to be sentenced in the Abramoff scandal, to date.

Bill Moyers - Lobbying for Dictators

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Ken Silverstein visits the Bill Moyers Journal to share his undercover expose` on how brutal dictatorships are able to successfully lobby Congress for favors, business deals, trade agreements and even US tax dollars. (YOUR tax dollars are being used to support their regimes.)

NOVA ScienceNOW - Manhattanhenge

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson shows how, two days out of every year (May 28 & July 11), the sun aligns perfectly with the street grid of Manhattan Island.

UPDATE: To learn more about this phenomenon, and other cosmic goodness, check out Neil's website.

Radio Paradise Lost?

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David Brancaccio of PBS's Now reports on the the legislation that threatens to kill internet radio by next month.

Do your part to help save internet radio now.