Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Art, Dadaism, David Bowie, European History, History, Modernism, Philosophy, Surrealism, Tony Novosel, University of Pittsburgh
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Afghanistan, Civil Rights Movement, Conflict Resolution, Creaative Writing, IRA, Iraq, Kelly Cullen, Loyalists, Marines, Nationalists, Northern Ireland, Pacifism, The Troubles, Tony Novosel, University of Pittsburgh, UVF
It’s Part 2 of the continuing series on American perspectives on the conflict in Northern Ireland. This time it’s Kelly Cullen, a senior at Pitt and a marine reservist, who explains why he took such an interest in the Troubles + what he learned from studying it.
Partly it’s a heritage thing for Kelly, having grown up in an Irish American family. But his interest in Northern Ireland also grows out of his impending deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan, and his creative writing projects.
Produced for The Politics Show
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Captain Britain, Comic Books, Ethnic Conflict, Ian Paisley, IRA, MI-13, Norman Osborn, Northern Ireland, Politics, Scott Nicolson, Sociopaths, Spiderman, The Green Goblin, Tony Novosel, Torture, UK, Unionists, University of Pittsburgh
Scott, in Avatar Form
University of Pittsburgh offers a class on the politics of Northern Ireland every semester. Tony Novosel teaches it with the intention that it will be the most challenging – and most involving – class the students will ever take.
The veterans of the class — like Scott Nicolson, heard here — leave with an intricate understanding of the Troubles, as well as some insight into the unexpected comic book connections + psychological conditions of the province.
produced for The Politics Show
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Communism, Diaspora, Ireland, Loyalism, Northern Ireland, Patrick Pierce, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Republicans, Students, Tony Novosel, Unionism, University of Pittsburgh
More from Tony: http://anotherworldradio.com/2007/11/20/episode-1-tony-novosel-miroslav-budinski/
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Baltimore, Crashdance, Exchanges, FBI, Flashdance, Football, Hollywood, Larry Evans, Millhunk Herald, Pittsburgh, Plastic Turf, Public Broadcasting, Reform School, Rust Belt, Security Threat, Serbia, Socialism, Spiro Agnew, Steel, Tony Novosel, Ukraine, Unions, Work, Writing
Larry with the Mill Hunk Herald
In the 1980s, Larry Evans was named a national security threat, Hollywood script writers were intent on telling his life story, he was crossing the Iron Curtain, and he was overtaking the Pittsburgh public television airwaves. As the steel mills were closing down in that decade, Larry ran the Millhunk Herald, a local journal, and was active in the efforts to keep the industry alive. He tells his story — how he got politically active, what’s happened to him since those activist days, and what it’s like to be classed a threat to society.
The video clip below comes from a documentary Larry made about his Millhunk Herald days. Tony Novosel stars in the 1983 Pittsburgh-made ‘Crashdance’, as a steelworker who turns to exotic dancing amidst the collapse of the steel industry in the city.
