Political Action

At the height of the turmoil leading up to and following President Ferdinand Marcos' departure from power, Jon Alpert traveled throughout the Philippines recording the daily lives of people from all levels of society and documenting the country's great disparities between the rich, with their extravagant lifestyles, and the poor, who scavenge in Manila's smoking garbage heaps to feed their enormous shanty town.

Low turnout among our nation's youngest voters (18-24) is a growing epidemic. In the 1998 State and Federal elections, less than one fifth of the eligible youth voted. While young people are often the subject of political discussion, their opinions are seldom included in civic dialogue...until Speak Up!

Produced in association with WNET/Thirteen.

Termed "the best look at Cuba since Castro toppled the Batista regime" by the news agency United Press International, this ground-breaking work of international advocacy journalism was one of the first independently produced documentaries to be broadcast on national television.

On January 1, 1994 thousands of poorly armed indigenous men and women marched into six towns in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico. The Mexican government responded by sending 25,000 soldiers into the region, and reports of human rights abuses quickly surfaced.

Chiapas: The Fight for Land and Liberty takes us into the heart of Zapatista territory in the early months of the uprising in a series of groundbreaking reports.