Audio:Weenie Royale

May 3, 2011

This historical Hidden Kitchen from the Kitchen Sisters comes from the memories and kitchens of the Japanese Americans uprooted from the west coat and forcibly relocated inland after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In camps like Manzaner, Topaz, Tule Lake some 120,000 internees lived for four years in remote and desolate locations—their traditional food replaced by US government commodities and war surplus—hotdogs, ketchup, spam, potatoes—changing the traditional Japanese diet and family table.

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Audio Community United States Food War & Conflict History Hidden Kitchen Internment camps Japanese-Americans Kitchen Sisters Land Pearl Harbor WWII

 

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The Bold and the Beautiful

Posted on Mar 17, 2011 by kavita

At some point in late 2003, I got my first real job in documentary film, the excitement of which was quickly curtailed by my first real documentary film assignment: researching the impact of suburban sprawl in Greater Cleveland.

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A Land Compromised: Earthquake in Japan

Posted on Mar 11, 2011 by cristina

While curled up and sleeping in my perfectly temperate bed in my perfectly temperate hotel room in Austin, I got a phone call at 6:34 this morning from my fiancé. “A huge earthquake and tsunami hit Japan…” He said. There’s no better wake-up call than bad news. I have family in Japan. In fact, my mother’s entire side of the family lives in Japan.  I sat up, and said, “What?” Where?” Sean told me to turn on the news, that it hit the east coast. Denial instantly sets in. “They’re probably fine. They’re fine. Everyone’s fine” I replied, to a question that wasn’t asked.

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Audio:Coal Reignites: A Mighty Battle Of Labor History

Apr 27, 2011

Recently, NPR visited a place that could be thought of the Bastille or Lexington and Concord of organized labor in America. It's called Blair Mountain, and it's located in a southern pocket of West Virginia. Coal Reignites: A Mighty Battle Of Labor History takes us to visit the heart of a region often called the "Saudi Arabia of coal" and explores this pivotal moment in America's organized labor history.

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Audio Earth Environment Politics United States Biography & Profiles Social Issues Blair Mountain coal labor unions Land mountain top removal West Virgina

 

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Video:Waterbuster

Filmmaker J. Carlos Peinado revisits his ancestral homeland in North Dakota to investigate the impact of the massive Garrison Dam project. Constructed in the 1950s by the Army Corps of Engineers, the dam destroyed a self-sufficient American Indian community, submerging 156,000 acres of fertile farmland and ranchland, and ultimately displaced Peinado's family and others at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.