April 22, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Apr 22 2007

The attack campaigns of the New York Sun; a new campaign to save affordable rental housing in New York City; and an exhibit at Museo del Barrio on los desaparecidos of Latin America [Audio forthcoming.]

Episode segments
  • Los Desaparecidos exhibit at El Museo del Barrio
    Exhibits, South America
    Laurel Reuter, curator, North Dakota Museum of Art, where the show originated
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    An exhibit of work of artists from eight South American and Central American countries that disappeared their citizens during the repression of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, in some cases continuing to this day.

  • New York is Our Home Campaign
    Housing
    Natasha Winegar and Fil-Aime Anderson of New York State Tenants and Neighbors
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A broad coalition of labor and community organizations have launched New York is Our Home, a new campaign to save affordable rental units in New York City. A major rally is planned for May 23, 2007, at Stuyvesant Town.

  • The New York Sun
    News media
    Scott Sherman, author of "Sun-Rise in New York," in The Nation; Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and a frequent target of the New York Sun
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The far right New York Sun has just celebrated five years of publication; with only 13,000 paid subscribers, the paper has a disproportionate ability to drum up scandal, with Israel and the United Nations its favored topics. Respected scholar Rashid Khalidi, playwright Tony Kushner, and Columbia University's Middle East studies department have all come under repeated, and usually unsubstantiated, fire. A look at the paper's tactics and enemies list.