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GreenWatch TV
(Houston)
[we're
on Facebook now]
Local,
progressive television every other Wednesday, 8:30-9:30 PM
public
access cable TV inside Houston city limits --
Comcast 17 (soon to change, to 317 or 417 or...)
and TVMax 95; Sudden Link 98; Phonoscope 75
CALL-IN NUMBER DURING THE SHOW: [01]-713-807-1794
See HMS
for studio info, including the address in case you want to
join us in person..
HEY!
catch the show live on the internet:
www.hmstv.org/streaming.htm
ARCHIVES:
Good Old GWTV on-line
(low resolution.)
Upcoming
shows
(bold
font indicates relative certainty; italics mean uncertain)
| September
8 and 22 |
Let us know of your issues; communicate with us via the
new Facebook presence.
Topics in the pipeline: IVAW, Historically
Black Universities and Colleges (HBUCs), Women's Issues |
| October
6 and 20 |
TOPICS?
During Black History month, we had lined up a show about
HBUCs. Once recently Lisa asked Art if we might do a
show about TIRZ. Gordon asks IVAW about a show, and
we have promised "Under The Hood" to show
their 10-minute DVD. More topics under consideration:
Humanistic Economics; Education; Redefining Work; 2010
Census; Consumption: The Story of Stuff. How about RASH?
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on thru November
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Yet MORE possible topics
for shows:
1. Look over "top 25 censored stories" of
past year. past decade, too? 2. Investigate/prosecute
Torture Proponents; 3. Election Reform; 4. Explore
Real Economics for Real People; 5. Expose Texas Taxation
Realities (see Center
for Public Policy Priorities); 6. Prison
Reform/Replacement; 7. Water (Global
Water Resources: Public Property or Profitable Commodity?);
8. Life Choices; Women's Rights, Wrongs Against Women
(for example, Juarez/Laredo);
9. Disabilities;
10. Nursing Homes; 11. Mental Illness; 12. Global Human
Rights; 13. Homeless Population; 14. Home Birthing,
Doulas; 15. TIRZs; 16. etc. The list goes on and on;
we welcome suggestions, for topics and for guests.
Guests:
Are you or do you know some grassroots person who can
comfortably present progressive points of view on TV?
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH. [Especially if you or your peers
can be in Houston on alternate Wednesday evenings.] |
GreenWatch
is a locally produced, live, call-in TV show that has aired
since 1999 on Houston cable access channel 17 (other channels
depending on area). Our planning meetings start at 7:00
PM on Wednesday evenings the week after each show. We meet
at Field of Greens, 2320 W Alabama St. Houston, TX 77098
(north side of Alabama, two blocks east of Kirby). Call
or e-mail if you'd like to join us. We
welcome Volunteers. Contact the Green Watch TV crew by phone
713-635-5286 (Brian) or 281-728-6327 (Art).
wrapped
programs
(see
bottom of page for links to written
records from the past decade, & music
credits)
August
25: Topic
- Homeless in Houston - services for and how it feels.
Guests: Marilyn Fountain (Star
of Hope), Joseph 'Cowboy' Benson (SEARCH),
Dr. David Buck (Health
Care for the Homeless)
WATCH this on the WEB:
Vimeo
August
11: Topic
- Opposition to the proposed White Stallion power plant in
Matagorda County.
Guests: Allison Sliva (No
Coal Coalition), Ryan Rittenhouse (Public
Citizen), Shondra Wygal (Sierra
Club)
WATCH this on the WEB:
Vimeo
July
28: Topic
- CIVICUS: Democracy.
Guests: Cleveland Gite (host), Michelle Barnes, Omawale Luthuli.
WATCH this on the WEB:
Vimeo
July
14: Topic
- Pastors for Peace and the Cuba Caravan.
Guests: Gloria Rubac, Ayana Ade, Alma Diaz Cooper.
Waiting on DVD to capture, compress, and
upload archive
June
30 : Due
to travel by several of the crew, we re-aired the Cap-and-Trade
show from earlier this year.
June
16 : Live
show was pre-empted by power outage announced the day before
by Center Point due to construction of the new East End light
rail. We had planned a show about opposition to the proposed
White Stallion power plant in Matagorda County. The show aired
August 1.
June
2 : Topics
- Protests
in Houston against Chevron; a visit to Lousiana coastline
polluted by BP.
Guest hosts: Liana Lopez (Nuestra
Palabra, KPFT 90.1 FM), Bryan Parras (T.E.J.A.S.)
We also showed tape of part of a press conference by George
Galloway (former Member of Parliament in the UK) objecting
to Israeli commandos killing peace activists on boats carrying
relief supplies to Gaza early this week.
May
19: Topic
- Anarchism
- really [past, present, future - dispelling myths
and misunderstandings]
Guests: Cale, René, and Daniel, volunteers
at the local, radical infoshop/library/meeting place, Sedition
Books on Richmond just east of Montrose.
WATCH this on the WEB: Vimeo
May
5 (Cinco de Mayo):
Topic
- Immigration - in
the wake of Arizona whacky legislation.
Guests: Mike Chavez (American
Dream Community Agency), Cesar Espinoza (Houston
America for All), Maria Jimenez (Coalition
in Defense of the Community), Oscar Hernandez (F.I.E.L.,
Immigrant Families & Students in Struggle).
WATCH this on the WEB: Vimeo
April
21:
Topic
- Houston Arab-American Women who inspire us
Host: Jackie Carpenter
Guests: Lilas Taha, Hadeel Asali, Sahar Abusada.
Their LINKS, in order: Asians
Against Domestic Abuse, Houston
Palestine FIlm Festival, Palestinians
for Peace and Democracy (Houston)
WATCH this on the WEB: Vimeo
April
7 :
Topic
- Local Grassroots Activists
Houston Institute for Culture (HIMC).
Guests:
Mark Lacy and Marie Elena Cortes
Food Not Bombs Houston (FNB).
Guests: Michelle, Monica, Travis.
WATCH these on the WEB:
HIMC
Vimeo, FNB
Vimeo
March
24:
Topic
- What's happening with Health Care legislation?
GUESTS: Health
Care for All Texans.
1) Dr. Christine Adams,
2) Ken Kenegos, R.N.
3) Peg Nosek, Ph.D.
WATCH THIS ON THE WEB: Vimeo
March
10:
Topic
- Green Party 2010 ballot access drive.
Guests: Harris County Green Party people seeking
nomination at the GPTX convention in June to run for various
offices in and around the great state of Texas.
1) Bart Boyce (anti-candidate for governor),
2) Deb Shafto (seeking nomination for governor), and
3) Christine Morshedi (co-chair, Green
Party of Texas).
WATCH THIS ON THE WEB: Vimeo
February
24:
Topic
- IRAQ
WATCH THIS ON THE WEB: Vimeo.
February
10:
Topic
- Cap and Trade
Guests: Barry Lefer (UH Professor) and Emeka Durruigbo (TSU
Professor)
How
this plan simply transfers the rights to pollute the air.
WATCH THIS ON THE WEB:
Vimeo
January
27:
Topic
- HAITI
Guests: Survivors and family
Reactions
and support, some history, some pleas, some insights:
1) Sophia Leveque (Haiti
Counts),
2) Marie Baptiste (Haitian
Multicultural Association),
3) Mawiyah Duperval (Haitian
American Ministry), and
4) Caroline and Emmanuel Dumay.
WATCH THIS ON THE WEB:
Vimeo
January
13:
Topic
- Terrorism and Civil Liberties
Guest: Maida Asofsky [ACLU-Texas].
Examining
freedom and security.
WATCH THIS ON THE WEB:
Vimeo
Previous
years (click on the year to see details)
2009
Includes:
Media,
HEALTH
CARE Health
Care health
care, Human
Trafficking, Air
Quality, Vaccines,
Climate
Disruption, Domestic
Violence, Death
Row, ACORN,
Building
Materials Reuse Warehouse, more.
2008
Includes:
Localism,
Cynthia
McKinney,
ICE
Raids, Racism,
SEIU
and Aramark, Toxic
Tour of east Houston, on Hearing
Loss, Remove
Rosenthal (Bad DA), Stop
Executions NOW, Stop
Sweatshops, Transportation,
and more...
2007
Includes:
Clean
Elections, 4 impeachment shows, 2 health care shows, Katrina
survivors, water, black history, Tazers, Texas Greens, Cynthia
McKinney, and much more.
2006
Includes:
SHROC
VI, Justice
for Janitors, Elections 2006, Defending Women's Rights,
Domestic Violence, Climate
Crisis, Mountaintop
Removal, Houston
Social Forum, Immigrant
Rights, Mental Health, and much more.
2005
Includes:
Frances Newton, Election
Fraud, Immigration, Women's Health, Iraq War, Veterans,
Etc.
2004
Includes:
Values and Politics, Radical Encuentro, Texas Water Resources,
Mr. Sharon Tear Down that Wall, Electronic Elections, Proposition
1 (Spring 2004 in Houston), What is going ON in Haiti, Immigrants
and Homeland Security.
2003
Includes:
Local Elections (Dec 10; Oct 1, 15, 31;
Sep 17), Simplicity, Iraq
Quagmire, Globalization/WTO,
Hispanic Politics, Gay Rights, Tree Sitting, Cuba, Health
Care, FCC, Flooding, Women and War, Labor Day, War
and Immigrants, Death Penalty (Apr 3, Jan 23), Progressive
Media, Living Wage, Peace Movement, and the Souls
of Black Folk.
2002
Includes:
Civil Rights in Perilous Times (Robert Jensen, Danalyn Recer),
Police Accountability
(Civilians Down, Corpus Justice, Copwatch), Rahul Mahajan
for Governor, Texans for Gun Safety, The
New Katy Freeway, Labor Day Special, HIV at home and in
the world, Plan Colombia, Pacifica Radio, Health Care for
All, Palestine,
Latino Labor, Congo
Conflict, African American History, Enron and Deregulation,
Cuba, statewide Green Party candidates for office, and more.
2001
Includes:
School of the Americas Watch, Peace, Middle East Policy, LGBT
Politics in Houston, Alternative Media, Marijuana
Law Reform, Immigration Issues, Death Row, Prisons and
Criminal Justice (Ray
Hill), Corporate Misbehavior (Ralph Nader taped), Third
World Debt (Jere Locke), Environmental Issues, Green Party
supported local candidates, and more.
Music played
during the show (especially during in-tro and out-tro) has
been an evolving element. In the beginning back in late 1999/early
2000 or so, canned 'public domain' clips gave something...
Then we got a Free
Radicals CD and encouragement to use it on the air free
from Houston musician/activist Nick Cooper, so we used several
cuts from that pretty exclusively for a year or so. Then on
KPFT's Democracy Now! we heard "Is It For Freedom"
by Sara
Thomsen, tracked her down and got permission to use that
song, so did and still do upon occasion. We also play songs
from GASCD,
including Bruce Cockburn "Call It Democracy", Propaghandi
"Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes", Michael Franti
"Oh My God", Rheostatics "Bad Time to be Poor"
-- Get this excellent double disk set! (GASCD: Governments
Accountable to Society and Citizens = Democracy; thanks, Susan
and Allan in Ontario, for turning us on to this.) And we're
looking to air tunes from Green Revolution when/if Sudden
Death responds. Listen up for David
Rovics, Dave
Lippman, or you never know who might show up live
in the studio, Darryl
Cherney did once... Come on down! Our show ends at 10:00
PM and a short, topical song might fit in real nice to close
the show...
Explicit Links to Music (for printed
bi-fold...)
http://www.enjoymusic.com/freeradicals/
http://www.gascd.com
http://www.davidrovics.com
http://davelippman.com/
http://www.darrylcherney.com/
http://www.righteousmothers.com
http://www.sarathomsen.com
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