Playlist: Action Speaks's Portfolio
2011: Conflict & Amusement in America: How Can it hurt if it's so Much Fun?
1961: President Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex Speech
From Action Speaks | Part of the Action Speaks! 2011 Season: Conflict and Amusement in America: How Can it Hurt if it's so Much Fun? series | 00:58:58
Did a Fox guarding a hen house get it right, and if so, how?
1972: The Birth of Pong and the Rise of Video Games
From Action Speaks | Part of the Action Speaks! 2011 Season: Conflict and Amusement in America: How Can it Hurt if it's so Much Fun? series | 00:58:59
Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back.
Is this why we don't leave our houses anymore?
1971: 'An American Family'; Our First Reality TV Show
From Action Speaks | Part of the Action Speaks! 2011 Season: Conflict and Amusement in America: How Can it Hurt if it's so Much Fun? series | 00:58:59
What's Real? What's Not? Does Anybody Care?
1981: President Reagan Fires Air Traffic Controllers
From Action Speaks | Part of the Action Speaks! 2011 Season: Conflict and Amusement in America: How Can it Hurt if it's so Much Fun? series | 00:58:59
A Shot Over the Bow Thirty Years Ago Lands Today in Wisconsin and Elsewhere
2010: What's Eating Us?
Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1987 The Roaming Mobro Trash Barge
From Action Speaks | 00:58:59
In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use this event to frame contemporary issues of consumption, disposal, and reuse.
Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1973 The First U.S. Mobile Phone Call
From Action Speaks | 00:58:51
Everyone has an opinion about the role of cellular phones and mobile media technology in our society. Action Speaks panelists look at the first ever cellular phone call and approach this topic from ethical, philosophical, political, and community activist points of view.
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1927 - Father Coughlin "On the Air" and the Birth of Right-Wing Radio
From Action Speaks | 00:58:59
With the popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and now Glenn Beck, we felt it was time to look at the ‘original’ nationally known conservative radio talk show host, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who organized and addressed large rallies, called for a return to God and became a leading oppositional figure for a sitting President. In our conversation we look at Father Coughlin’s career to see what methods of communication and distribution he created and to compare our current group of conservative commentators in philosophy, method, and content as well as in their reach and popularity. Our panelists for this episode are Dr. Susan Smulyan, Professor of American Civilization at Brown University with a research specialization in American radio history, Dr. Sheldon Marcus, Professor of Education at Fordham University and Coughlin biographer, and Talkers Magazine’s Michael Harrison.
Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1971 Alice Waters Opens Chez Panisse
From Action Speaks | 00:58:51
In 1971 famed Chef Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. The current popularity of Farmers’ Markets and Community Gardens can in many ways be traced back to Waters and her restaurant. This episode of Action Speaks looks at the economic, cultural, political, and public and private health implications of the local food movement.
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1998 - The Sonny Bono Act (Copywright Extension)
From Action Speaks | 00:58:50
Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawrence Lessig -- explore the complexities of copyright protection in a world of free culture, public art, technology, and cyberspace.
2009: What Now?
Action Speaks!: What’s race got to do with it?
From Action Speaks | 00:58:50
Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed America.
In this program we discuss the 2000 U.S. Census when, for the first time, individuals could identify themselves as mixed-race citizens of the United States.
Join host Marc Joel Levitt and guest panelists for some old-fashioned community exchange in the downtown arts district of Providence, Rhode Island.
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1993: The creation of Hilary Clinton's Taskforce on Healthcare
From Action Speaks | 00:58:51
Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform?
As we enter into what will be the next big stretch of our nation's effort to reform the health care system, Action Speaks looks back on Hillary Clinton's 1993 Healthcare Taskforce. What can past failures teach us about the present stakes, struggles, and special interests in the health care arena? Can this historical precedent offer us any clues in our search for long-term solutions?
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1932 -The Highlander Center opens its doors
From Action Speaks | 00:58:48
Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
First door-to-door, now e-mail-to-email, will community organizing have the same power in a virtual community? How will we organize for change in the 21st Century?
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1961: JFK Calls for the Moon!
From Action Speaks | 00:58:51
Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
President Kennedy called for a Moon Landing. President Obama wants a 'Green' Nation. Are solar panels and wind turbines as exciting as 'One Giant Leap for Mankind?' How do we re-energize and re-mobilize America?
Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China
From Action Speaks | 00:58:59
Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of 'Chicken'...the US and China; partners or enablers? The relationship between the US and China has been a driving force in the development of both countries. In the past 30 years, China has transformed from agricultural superpower to manufacturing giant, from a capitalist enemy to the biggest U.S. lender. To understand the impact of this relationship on the future of the US economy and its foreign relations, Action Speaks is heading back in time to follow President Nixon on his historic visit to China when much of this co-dependent relationship began to take shape.
Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1951 - The Rise of Levittown
From Action Speaks | 00:59:00
Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroids?
This week, Action Speaks takes a look at a birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown. In just over 50 years, the American suburbs have physically transformed the landscape of our country, redefined the middle class and helped to both fuel and bring down our nation's economy. Is this the American dream we were looking for? Will the suburbs, built on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of oil, be able to turn 'green' and can bastions of 'white flight' and individualism reflect our nation's demographic diversity and its needs for community?
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1937: The Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers Sit-In
From Action Speaks | 00:58:58
Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
Banks, Auto and Insurance Companies bailed out, lay-offs abound and yet...Where's the anger of the past? The Auto Industry, unions and the drive to protest; has it stalled and are union's pot-holes on the road to recovery?
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps
From Action Speaks | 00:58:59
Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
Did building dams, planting trees and taking the boys from the city help end a depression or were we then, as now, just pretending? What exactly does 'Shovel Ready' projects mean for those who are not part of the 'Shovel Ready' construction force?
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced
From Action Speaks | 00:58:51
Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.
What does it mean to 'fail' in America? Have we failed or has the 'American Dream' proven to be hollow? Is there an alternative?
