Protest at Penn Station on May 4th

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The Keep America Coalition and transit workers in solidarity with New York City Student Union, Brooklyn Tech's Progressive Student Awareness, the Working Families Party, and many other community groups from across the nation protested last week to

Artist Protest

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For decades, parks in New York have provided a safe refuge for artists to sell their work. Just stroll down through Battery Park or Union Square on any given day and you have a chance to support these struggling artists. A new rule proposed by the Department of Parks and Recreation would limit

Green Dot Program-Interpersonal Violence Prevention

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Paper Tiger headed out to New Jersey to work with a group of high school students to create a PSA to help prevent interpersonal violence.

You didn't see it on TV

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We are into our seventh year of the Iraq War with no end in sight. How come we did not see this coming? This short shows us that plenty of people knew exactly where the war was heading before it happened- the power of one camera reminds us.

You didn't see it on TV

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We are into our seventh year of the Iraq War with no end in sight. How come we did not see this coming? This short shows us that plenty of people knew exactly where the war was heading before it happened- the power of one camera reminds us.

Surveilling Surveillance: Melissa Goodman

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How has the U.S. government's approach to domestic surveillance changed in recent years? And, how does it affect our rights as individuals? Paper Tiger talked to ACLU lawyer Melissa Goodman about issues of security, technology, privacy and freedom.

Part of our in-the-works show on the cultural and political ramifications of modern-day surveillance.

Domestic Violence PSA

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Every year Paper Tiger Television and Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault
Intervention Services team up with High School students to create a PSA.

The Right to the City Alliance Makes Demands

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What would New York City be like if everyone had...
 
Housing that was safe and affordable?
Public space that was truly public?
Local governance that was representative and powerful?
Jobs that were good and available?
 
We know, its hard to imagine.
But that's why the Right to the City Alliance brought together dozens of
community groups from throughout the five boroughs to visualize a
better City and flesh out demands and build a movement to make it
happen. On Thursday, February 11th, the Alliance presented the Right to the City
platform, cultivated from months of radically democratic thinking. New
York City has been the playground of the wealthy for far too long  --
its time for the people to take back the power!

Paper Tiger screened our new documentary on the RTTC movement. 
Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, CUNY and Dr. Peter Marcuse, 
Professor Emeritus, Columbia University were special guests, representatives 
from RTTC partner organizations presented on a panel, and 250 community members
showed up for this inspiring event.
 
WHERE: CUNY Graduate Center
 
WHEN: Thursday, February 11th, 2010 -  6:30pm to 8:30pm

Left Forum 2010

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The Left Forum is coming back to New York City!
Join this great event with stellar speakers and breathtaking panels this year march 19-21 and watch this little commercial...

The Art of the New York Street Art Takeover 2

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This piece looks at some of the artwork that was on display during this fall's New York Street Art Takeover 2. Look out for the full story coming soon!

Interview with Jill Magid

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Paper Tiger interview with artist and author Jill Magid about her work that touches on the topics of surveillance, power and intimacy. This excerpt is part of our upcoming show on surveillance culture- Surveilling Surveillance.

Media Blanks Out on Health Care Reform DEJA VU!!!

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In 1994 Paper Tiger outlined the major problems with the healthcare system-- feel like you are living in a time warp? Bonus points for those who can spot the difference between 1994 and 2010. Hint it rhymes with "older ads"

What's the score on the healthcare reform card? Our tally says Health Insurance Companies - 1, Health Care Coverage - 0. Players from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Health Care We Gotta Have It, labor unions and others give the play-by-play on how the administration went to bat for the big business of the health insurance industry, how the mainstream media declared it safe and how the Single-Payer national health care option got fouled out of the debate. Paper Tiger Production 1994.

Class Dismissed

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In memory of Howard Zinn Paper Tiger TV is showing today a part of the show, which was produced 2004:
Our beloved Howard Zinn died today of a heart attack in Los Angeles; he was 87. What a huge loss, for us as progressives, as human beings who care about the world and about how people are treated.

How lucky we were, to share this world and this time with him; he always offered a perspective that included telling the truth, humor, and hope.

"If we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." --Howard Zinn

Reality of Reality TV School

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Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger is currently creating a show on reality television to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. This clip highlights an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and principal of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real.

Extended Interview with David Harvey (50 mins.)

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This is our third part of our 3 Part DVD:
Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor at City College of New York speaks about the history of New York, and the Right to the City movement. He is author of numerous books including The Limits of Capital, Social Justice and The City, and The Urban Experience.

Right to the City: New York City Demands

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This is our second part of our 3 Part DVD:

Right to the City: New York City Demands (14 mins.)
This fast-paced film unfolds the RTTC Alliance’s 2009 Platform: the right to community decision-making power; to federal stimulus funds; to quality, affordable housing; to environmental and public health, to public space; and jobs and workforce training.

The Right to the City (28 min)

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We are thrilled to present to you a 3-part DVD on the Right to the City (RTTC) alliance in New York City, which is fighting for a just, healthy, affordable and equitable city. In a city run by moneyed interests, a united front is needed to win real and lasting change for the majority of New Yorkers.

About this documentary:

Connecting yesterdays suburban sprawl to todays condo gluts and Robert Moses style development with the growing movement taking back the city, this irreverent film brings it all together with the analysis of scholar David Harvey.

#294: Showdown in Seattle

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To mark the 10 year anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests we wanted to dust off the fantastic "Showdown in Seattle" show that we made way back in 1999.

This show is a one hour version of the five-part "Showdown in Seattle" series produced by Paper Tiger TV, in coalition with Changing America, Whispered Media, Big Noise, VideoActive, and the Independent Media Center. This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization's Millennium meeting, December 1999. This tape contains edited versions of all 5 shows that were satellite cast during the WTO's ministerial.

Peace Pentagon Parade

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Residents and friends of the legendary "Peace Pentagon" rally to save the building. Located at 339 Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan, the building has had a major role in New York's social justice movement since the late sixties. To learn more about what's going on with 339 Lafayette, check out:

http://www.peacepentagon.org/

http://peacepentagoncompetition.org/

Retreat 2009

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We had a great weekend out in the Catskills and made this horror-fun movie:
Enjoy!!!

Surveilling Surveillance: The Spy Store

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Part of a longer production that explores modern surveillance technologies and how they affect us, this segment exposes civilian spy techniques at their weirdest and finest.

Shot at Spy Store NYC in the West Village.

David Harvey Interview

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Art, Activism and Analysis: A New Series on Free Speech TV (Trailer)

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Paper Tiger Television will present ART, ACTIVISM and ANALYSIS a 13-part curated series highlighting some of our most outstanding shows. The series presents a chronological look at how the content and style of the collective's work has changed since 1981. It covers a wide range of topics from racism, classism, DIY media, domestic violence, the prison-industrial complex, media conglomeration and displacement... just to name a few. Broadcast dates TBD but look for it sometime in late 2009 or early 2010 on Free Speech TV! Tune in!

Right to the City trailer

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This is the trailer for our first collaborative documentary with IndyVideo
(the video component of the Indypendent).

The Right to the City (RTTC) is a documentary about the New York coalition
of many groups which are giving a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt 
the displacement of low-income people, LGBTQ, and  youths of color from their
historic urban neighborhoods.The RTTC is a national alliance of racial, economic 
and environmental justice organizations. Groups like Picture the Homeless, Make the
Road, Mothers on the  Move... and also academics such as David Harvey are part
of the local movement.

The 28-minute documentary will come out soon.
Look for broadcast dates and information about local screenings 
on our website in the next few weeks.

For more information check this out: http://www.righttothecity.org/

Let Them Eat (Stinky) Cheese!

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On Thursday, September 24th, 2009, members of Times Up! orchestrated a bike ride and “Funky Protest Cheese Party” at Union Square to protest the privatization and transformation of the park’s Pavilion into a private upscale restaurant, a plan proposed by Danny Meyer and the Union Square Partnership. Through funky dance, protestors interrupted the annual private “dinner” for supporters of the privatization of the Pavilion, a place that is considered a birthplace of the Labor Movement and a historically important site for Free Speech: it’s an idea that stinks!

Paper Tiger Reads the 21st Century Working Woman

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In this mock-local news program, Paper Tiger will consider whether the utopian vision of working women seen in the popular movies of the late 1980's has come to fruition. Through a mix of sketch comedy, video mash-up, news media critique, faux hidden camera segments, and interviews with working women and the organizations that promote them, Paper Tiger will examine the current state of women in the workforce.

worms!!

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A closer look at worm composting--one form of DIY environmentalism and sustainable living in New York City.

Addicted to Beauty

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Another sneak peek at an upcoming Paper Tiger production: "Reality Unreeled: The Really Real Unreal Reality of Real Reality TV." Stay posted!

Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger's summer 2009 interns are currently creating a show on reality television to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. The show will also include an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and “principal” of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real. And the interns will try to make sense of all of those "Addicted to Beauty" posters that you see everywhere through interviews with random subway passer-bys. Stay tuned for the release of the show in late Fall 2009. In the meantime, keep yourselves busy with this preview piece from the Paper Tiger archives with Herb Schiller on Geraldo and trash television—the unfortunate predecessors of contemporary “video nausea!!!”

July 23rd 2009: Tent City

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Urban Environmentalism: DIY Green Living

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Paper Tiger Television introduces you to New Yorkers who have found ways to live more sustainably through DIY environmentalism. The creative and unique projects of these city dwellers show how living in urban settings encourages rather than hinders their ability to live a green lifestyle. This show features segments on worm composting as an alternative to landfill waste, reusable bags for green markets, food foraging walks with Wildman Steve Brill, and the monthly "Really, Really Free Market" in Manhattan, hosted by the In Our Hearts Collective. As an extra bonus, there is also an archival piece about the thriving yet threatened Lower East Side community gardens, documenting the residents struggle to save their gardens from the wrath of Mayor Giuliani's gentrifying bulldozers. Finally, the show includes a studio conversation between community members discussing how environmentalism, through resourcefulness and perseverance, can become a part of everyone's urban routine.

reality bites: the summer intern show!

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Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger's summer 2009 interns are currently creating a show on reality television to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. The show will also include an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and “principal” of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real. And the interns will try to make sense of all of those "Addicted to Beauty" posters that you see everywhere through interviews with random subway passer-bys. Stay tuned for the release of the show in late Fall 2009. In the meantime, keep yourselves busy with this preview piece from the Paper Tiger archives with Herb Schiller on Geraldo and trash television—the unfortunate predecessors of contemporary “video nausea!!!”

Street Art Takeover!

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On April 25th teams of whitewashers and artists transformed over 100 of NPA City Outdoor's 480 illegal billboards in Manhattan from street level advertising to art. Organized by Public Ad Campaign's Jordan Seiler, the New York Street Art Takeover 2009 not only set out to bring more art to public space, but to raise the question of who controls our visual landscape?

Prescription for REAL Debate on Healthcare Reform

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FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and local healthcare advocacy groups delivered a petition signed by over 12,500 people demanding that the TV networks include the single-payer proposal in their coverage of the national healthcare debate. The petition's signatories include Obama's longtime physician, Dr. David Scheiner; filmmaker Michael Moore; former MSNBC host Phil Donahue; actors Mike Farrell, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon; and doctors Quentin Young, Stephanie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program.

The petition was presented to a security guard, despite FAIR's efforts to speak directly to an ABC representative with editorial control. ABC News disinvited Dr. Scheiner from its recent forum on healthcare reform, where he'd been planning to ask Obama a question about single-payer.

FAIR, Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!, the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, Code Pink and the Raging Grannies all took part in the petition delivery.

For more information www.healthcare-now.org/

Paper Tiger and IndyVideo Production

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Tiger meets Indy 

Left Forum Superhero 2009

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IndyVideo and Paper Tiger TV went out to ask some serious and some funny questions at the 2009 Left Forum. Here is an example of what the people there thought about superheroes.

Surveilling Surveillance

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Paper Tiger Television is currently in production on a new show on surveillance culture. From government wiretapping to Facebook, GPS systems to credit card swipes, Google searches to nanny cams- how are you being watched? What are the implications if living in a surveillance culture? Are we safer or are our civil liberties threatened? Watch out for this new production coming out in summer 2009.

An Emergent Second Life

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For 27 years, the PTTV collective has played an important role in the tradition of media criticism, paying special attention to the inner workings of media production. The media landscape today, with the proliferation of new content providers, creates complex relationships and convergences among everyday and corporate forms of production, distribution and consumption. Media criticism no longer can take an "outside" vantage point, but must instead account for our general immersion in a veritable media ecology. This program, hosted by anthropologist Jason Pine (Purchase College SUNY), focuses on identity in the virtual world Second Life and what it can tell us about identity in everyday experience. It suggests that self-designed experiences may enable us to articulate emergent identities for ourselves and others. The program combines a live studio audience, videotaped testimonials of Second Life users who express profound personal investments while creating their avatars and environments, and experimental machinima (machine cinema) to evoke the experience of virtual self-design and world-building. Co- Producer and Director, Bianca Ahmadi; Associate Producer, Juan Rubio; Editor, Juan David Gonzalez; Content Director, Jason Pine.

Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Radical Culture

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This Paper Tiger Television production was created in collaboration with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. The show takes a look at how corporations are chipping away at democracy and personal integrity by copying the style and techniques of alternative culture. The program examines how and why anti-corporate culture and independent media have been co-opted by corporate advertising and their profit-making agenda, examining instances where the government and big business collude to silence independent voicesand concerns for social justice. Moore explains what happens when the underground becomes just another market and the implications for a democracy founded on the ideals of access to a diversity of ideas and perspectives. It also provides insight as to why underground culture willingly participates and what independent artists and media makers can do about it. Paper Tiger Televisions 27-year history of provocative independent television and Moores 23 years of independent print publishing combine in this compelling look at cultural production and economic censorship in this age of rampant branding.

Love Me, Love My Avatar

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This show addresses changing notions of love and romance in the face of the rampant technological innovations of the Internet era. Dominic Pettman, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at the New School and our avatar host take a look at love in the digital era. Pettman discuses several manifestations of "Love 5.0" such as objectum sexuality, virtual girlfriends, and cyborg love, and explore the possible impacts of this new love on the future of the libidinal economy. Includes a clip from Donna Haraway Reads National Geographic and a PTTV eharmony spoof.

Infiltrating the Underground Preview

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Paper Tiger Television, in cooperation with author and activist Anne Elizabeth Moore, presents a new thirty-minute documentary, Infiltrating the Underground: The Corporatization of Underground Culture, to air Wednesday, December 10th at 3 and 11 p.m. on Brooklyn Community Access Television, and at 8 p.m. on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. This video collaboration will look at how big business is chipping away at democracy through underground cultures—and how underground cultures willingly participate.

The program will examine how and why anti-corporate culture and independent media have been co-opted by corporate advertising and the profit-making agenda, examining instances where the government and big business collude to silence independent voices—and concerns for social justice. Copies of Infiltrating the Underground are available for purchase for classroom use or to air on local community access stations.

A follow-up to Moore’s 2007 New Press book, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity, the video Infiltrating the Underground investigates what happens when the underground becomes just another market, and what independent artists and media makers can do about it. Paper Tiger Television’s 27-year history of provocative independent television and Anne Elizabeth Moore’s 23 years of independent print publishing combine in this compelling look at cultural production and economic censorship in this age of rampant branding.

An Emergent Second Life

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A television show produced in collaboration with Paper Tiger TV that focuses on identity in the virtual world Second Life and what it can tell us about identity in everyday experience. It suggests that self-designed experiences may enable us to articulate emergent identities for ourselves and for others. The program combines a live studio audience, videotaped testimonials of Second Life users who express profound personal investments while creating their avatars and environments, and experimental machinima (machine cinema) to evoke the experience of virtual self-design and world-building: www.papertiger.org

The show airs on December 3rd at 8pm on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) and at 3pm and 11pm on Brooklyn Community (BCAT). Co-producer and Director, Bianca Ahmadi; Associate Producer, Juan Rubio; Editor, Juan David Gonzalez; Content Director, Jason Pine.

Election Night Show Part 2

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The second half of Paper Tiger's live hour-long live election coverage on MNN.

Election Night Show Highlights

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From a surprise performance by an experimental gospel singer, to engaging discussions about Obama's silence on drug-war policy, his support for the Wall Street bailout, and his plans to increase military spending, Paper Tiger's live election show responsed in real time to the Democratic presidential victory.

Featuring Detroit-based experimental and gospel singer Abigail, the Indypendent newspaper's Steve Wishnia, Nick Powers and Arun Gupta, and Isabel Macdonald of the Paper Tiger TV collective.

Election Night Show Part 1

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First half-hour of Paper Tiger TV's hour-long live election night show, broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (Manhattan cable access TV) 10:30 - 11:30 pm on November 4. Featuring the Indypendent newspaper's Arun Gupta, Nick Powers and Steve Wishnia and Paper Tiger TV collective member Isabel Macdonald.

McCain-the-Maverick Rap

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Bye-bye Republicans! After the announcement of Obama's electoral victory, in the middle of Paper Tiger's live election show on Nov 4, the crew bid farewell to the Republicans with this music video directed by Matthew Filipowicz from headzuptv.com.

The Can-didates Debate

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This 30 second clip from Paper Tiger's live election night show probes the parallels between presidential campaigns and branding, highlighting some of the issues that were, er, not debated in the televised presidential debates. Animation by Gary B. Martin.

Peace Pentagon

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This short video gives a brief history of the building at 339 Lafayette. Since 1969 the Peace Pentagon has been the home of many social justice and peace organizations in New York City. We are working to raise the funds needed to save this historic epicenter of the progressive movement and create a sustainable haven for many future generations of activists, artists and organizers. Please visit our website for more information www.peacepentagon.org

TRT 8 minutes

Home on the Frontline

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Produced by a trio of teenage Brooklyn filmmakers using video to highlight the stories of young people affected by the war in Iraq on a daily basis. A collaboration with Hook Productions. 2008 TRT 11 minutes

Subverting Media : A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism

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From stencils to 'zines to graffiti and poster art, "Subverting the Media" takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective "Sister Serpents", Bronx-based graffiti group, "Tats Cru" and Sabrina Margarita Sandata, a feminist zinester, challenge social and cultural stereotypes through their work. The program explores the potential everyone has to create their own media, examines the process for creating the message, and demonstrates how to go out and make your own media. 1998 TRT: 25 minutes.

Paper Tiger Wednesday Night Series on MNN

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Paper Tiger broadcasts every Wednesday night on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) TimeWarner Ch34 and RCN Ch82. In September of 2008 we will be launching a 14-week curated series highlighting some of our most outstanding shows. Covering a wide range of topics from racism, classism, DIY media, media conglomeration, domestic violence, prisons, globalization and displacement. TUNE IN! For more information www.papertiger.org www.mnn.org