Filed under: Radio | Tags: Carnegie Mellon University, Checkpoint, Ethnic Conflict, Israel, Jonas Moffat, Maternal Deaths, Mel Packer, Midwives, Oakland, Palestine, Pittsburgh, Roadblock, Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Pittsburgh
Israel-Palestine Checkpoint Action in Oakland
Checkpoint Palestine
Last Thursday, at 5:30 in the afternoon, about 15 people took to the streets of Oakland. Their goal: to make Pittsburghers aware of the regular hassles and dangers that Palestinian people face in their daily lives.
Produced for Rustbelt Radio
Filed under: Radio | Tags: America, Ed Robbins, Embedded Journalists, Gulf War, Iraq, Iraqi Refugees, Iraqi Translators, Jordan, Nicholas Kristof, Syria, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh, War Documentaries
Ed Robbins – Shooting the Iraq War
Ed Robbins has made several films about the Iraq war — including one from the perspective of American soldiers, and one about Iraqi refugees. He recently visited Pittsburgh to discuss the complications of documenting war.
Produced for Rustbelt Radio.
Abdullah, an Iraqi Refugee
Hannan, an Iraqi Refugee
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Barack Obama, Dan Gore, Democrats, Pittsburgh, Political Junkie, Students for Obama, University of Pittsburgh
Obama in Pittsburgh
Dan Gore founded the University of Pittsburgh chapter of Students for Obama two years ago, and spent the time since then running a massive drive to get the university vote out. The response was enormous in Pittsburgh, just as it was nationwide, but now that the campaign has given way to the administration, it’s not clear whether the mass political mobilization can be sustained. Dan reflects on the winding down of the campaign, the start of Obama’s time in Washington, and his own political future.
And if you want to enter the world of political junkie-ism, Dan’s got a few recommendations for online reading. For a more balanced perspective there’s http://politico.com or http://politicalwire.com. But if you’re looking for bombast or bias, he has some other picks. Leftists and liberals, head to http://dailykos.com, or http://mydd.com. And the Republicans – http://redstate.com.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Art, Dadaism, David Bowie, European History, History, Modernism, Philosophy, Surrealism, Tony Novosel, University of Pittsburgh
Filed under: Radio | Tags: 69th Pennsylvania, Belfast, Bloody Sunday, British Soldiers, Civil War Re-enactments, Conflict Resolution, Dawn Purvis, Gaza Strip, Gusty Spence, Ian Paisley, Imperialism, Insurgencies, Iraq, Long Kesh, Murals, Northern Ireland, PUP, Republicans, Sam May, Shankill Road, The Troubles, University of Pittsburgh, UVF
Sam in Belfast
Sam May took an interest in Northern Ireland young. A history buff in school, he participated in Civil War re-enactments and ended up in the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry, a regiment that had been made up of Irish immigrants. His fellow re-enacters introduced him to Irish Rebel songs and Republican ideology — but at the same time Sam was conflicted. He had family links to Ireland — but to Protestant Ireland in the North.
Out of this confusion, Sam started to read up on Irish history, and it led him to Tony Novosel’s class at Pitt. But studying the Troubles hasn’t necessarily made it any easier to stake out opinions about what’s best for Northern Ireland.
Produced for The Politics Show
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, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Belfast, Canada, Capitalism, Democratization, Duquesne, Ethnic Conflict, Exchanges, Gerry Adams, Irish-Americans, Novi Sad, Pittsburgh, Politics, Ruthenians, Serbia, Sheep-shearing, Socialism, Students, Teaching, The Troubles, University of Pittsburgh, USA, Vojvodina
Tony Novosel
The first episode of Another World features interviews with Tony Novosel and Miroslav Budinski. Tony speaks about teaching on the Northern Irish conflict in America and coordinating student exchanges between the US and Northern Ireland.
Miroslav, a shepherd and hostel operator in Novi Sad, the capital of the northern province of Vojvodina in Serbia, turns the conversation to sheep-shearing, socialism, and ethnic conflict.
Novi Sad's Central Square
