December 5, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Dec 5 2010

Two little noticed tools of government repression: the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 and the creation of Communications Management Units (CMUs) in the federal prisons; Next Year in Jerusalem, Anselm Kiefer's new show at Gargosian Gallery; plus filmmaker Claude Lanzmann on the 25th anniversary of his landmark film Shoah.

Episode segments
  • Blurring the Lines Between Domestic Protest and International Wars on Terrorism
    National Politics, Civil Rights
    Rachel Meeropol is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she has worked since 2002. She is the co-editor and primary author of the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook, a widely-requested resource for prisoners, and the editor of America’s Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the “War on Terror,” (Seven Stories Press, 2005).
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A growing concern among activists is that the government is conflating peace, social and economic justice, and ecological, environmental and animal rights activism with foreign terrorism.  We talk with CCR's Rachel Meeropol about two little known items in the federal government's tool kit: the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and the creation of Communications Management Units (CMUs) in the federal prison system.

  • Anselm Kiefer at Gargosian
    Visual Art, Arts & Culture
    Martha Schwendener writes about art for The Village Voice, Tablet, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art Forum and other publications.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Anselm Kiefer ranks among the best-known, most successful, but also most controversial of post World War II German artists.  The massive show of his work--Next Year in Jerusalem at the Gargosian Gallery in Chelsea--is his first in New York City in 8 years.  It runs through December 18th.

  • Shoah: Twenty-Five Years Later
    Holocaust, Film, Arts & Culture, Anti-Semitism

    Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was born in France in 1925, was a member of the French resistance during WWII, a close associate of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and popular journalist.  In addition to his 9 1/2 hour epic, Shoah, Lanzmann's other films include: 

     In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare), expected to be released in English in 2011.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with filmmaker Claude Lanzmann about his epic, 9 1/2 long film, Shoah, first shown twenty five years ago.  Shoah will open on December 10th, at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and on December 24th at IFC Center.