October 3, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Oct 3 2010

Can school food programs be fixed?; "Panic! Euphoria! Blackout," a new production from Talking Band; the Sukkah City Design Competition takes over New York City's Union Square; plus, where are Israeli-Palestinian negotiations headed?

Episode segments
  • Can School Food Programs Be Fixed?
    New York Politics, National Politics, Health Care, Education, Domestic Policy

    Janet Poppendieck is the author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America. She is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, The City University of New York. Her previous books include: Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement and Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression.

    Kathy Goldman is a long-time community activist who has helped initiate innovative food programs in New York City since the 1960s.  In 1980 she founded the Community Food Resource Center (now part of the Food Bank for the New York City, and was its executive director until she retired in 2003.  In January 2010, with Agnes Molnar, she founded the not-for-profit Community Food Advocates to focus on finding creative ways to increase participation in New York City's School Breakfast and Lunch Programs, the Summer Food Service Programs, and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Why, despite over six decades of efforts by anti-hunger advocates and federal legislation, are too many school children either not finding healthy meals in school cafeterias or, even when such meals are available, choosing not to eat them?  We talk to Kathy Poppendieck and Kathy Goldman about the social and structural barriers to healthy school meals and what we need to do to remove them.

  • Panic! Euphoria! Blackout
    Theater, Arts & Culture
    Ellen Maddow is a founding member of The Talking Band, and has composed for and performed in most of its works. Her most recent work is Panic! Euphoria! Blackout.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Beyond the Pale talks with playwright Ellen Maddow about her most recent work for Talking Band, Panic! Euphoria! Blackout, which will be performed at Here Arts Center, 145 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, from October 7th through October 23rd.

  • Sukkah City: NYC 2010
    Religion, Holidays, Visual Art, Arts & Culture, Jewish Life
    Nan Rubin

    Nan Rubin visits Sukkah City, an exhibit of Sukkas that were part of a design competition intended to explore what happens when a structure that is biblical in origin is relocated from the dessert to New York City's Union Square.

    To see all the winning designs and learn more about the competition click here.

  • Peace Process Redux
    Foreign Policy, National Politics, International Politics, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Palestinian Politics, Occupation, Jewish

    Michel Warshawski

    is a founder of the

    Alternative Information Center

    in Jerusalem and the author of:
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Beyond the Pale talks with Michel Warshawski (a/k/a Mikado) about the prospects for the current round of negotiations between Israel, the Palestine Authority and the U.S.