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Tension is high in town when the Store Manager finally gets the Councilor to kick Mai Biggie and the women vendors of the street. Tari fights for vendors and in order to do so, she will have to stand up to the manager, her family and historical preconceptions about women and business.
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Singer Mariem Hassan tirelessly promotes the cause of her people, the Saharawis, who have lost their homeland. Outspoken Bangladeshi singer-songwriter Anusheh has pioneered the fusion of traditional rural songs with rock music, giving them new life.
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The choices of the past, both long ago and recent, come back to haunt our players in this episode.
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In this dreamlike tale rich in Sufi storytelling tradition, a blind wanderer and his spirited granddaughter travel the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
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American college students explore a model of water conservation and community cooperation in India.
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Explore the lush jungles, warm waters, intriguing island culture and historical sites of the island.
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Follows Art Wolfe's intrepid crew as they venture through the remote kingdom of Bhutan and Nepal.
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Art pursues wild horses roaming the steppe and rides in the mountains with a Kazakh tribesman.
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Geysers, glaciers, volcanoes and rough-hewn coastlines collide in this volatile landscape.
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Art discovers mountainside monasteries, sacred festivals and chanting monks in a spiritual nation.
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A unique discussion exploring engaging topics including justice, the veil and "Divine intoxication".
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Septeto Santiaguero (Cuba) - "La Jelenguera" Fernada Porto (Brazil) - "Sambassim" Kinky (Mexico) - "Soun Tha Mi Primer Amor" Macaco (Spain) - "Giratutto" Andres Cabas (Colombia) - "Bom Bom"
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Karin Muller stays in private homes and participates in festivals and religious ceremonies in Cuba.
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An exploration of the everyday lives of Cubans includes a fireworks festival in Remedios and more.
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The capital of El Salvador is being torn apart as gangs clash, leaving death, chaos and destruction in their wake.
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No matter how much you might want to fight it, you can't just ignore tradition. But do tradition and progress always have to be mortal enemies?
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The new Indonesian law may open the world's largest coastline to commercial development. At stake -- fragile coastal ecosystems and the lives and livelihood of the people who depend on them. As demand for coal grows, mountaintop coal removal in the Appalachian Mountains becomes more controversial. Battle for the Mountains profiles the polarization of communities in West Virginia where coal extraction keeps people employed but at great peril to the environment. Ninety nine percent of Ethiopians don't have access to electricity. But solar energy is changing all that. In the rural Ethiopian village of Rema, solar power is helping promote health, education and economic growth. Filmmaker Jennifer Readfearn on her new film Sun Come Up which tells the story of New Guinea's Carteret Islanders who are forced to move to Bougainville, a land torn by civil war, to escape the rising seas. The Islanders are among the world's first climate change refugees. Protrack Episode Number: 32
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In this episode of explore Charlie and his team are on a fact-finding mission to learn about the obstacles and opportunities faced by those with disabilities. Meet the former mayor of Vancouver, Sam Sullivan, who survived a near fatal ski accident at the age of 19 leaving him almost completely paralyzed from the shoulders down. Overcoming his physical impairments, Sullivan has dedicated his life to working with the disabled and people struggling with addiction. Then, in Jordan, deaf children have a place of their own to learn and grow at the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf thanks to Brother Andrew de Carpentier and his mentoring program.
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"Border Crossing"' is a survey of the Alternative side of Latin videos, featuring the Kumbia Kings, The Hip Hop Hoodios, Molotov, Los Amigos Invisibles and Andrea Echeverri--as well as a more familiar get-down-and-party number by Yerba Buena.
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A block of Latin Alternative music with percolating sounds from Novalima, cumbia rap by Bomba Estereo, the Spanish-Southwest fusion of DePedro, retro madness from MIS and Cineplexx, and the ultra cool sounds of Pacha Massive and LatinBitman.
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A crew from the BBC is coming to Israel in order to do a story about Amjad and follow him and his everyday experience as an Arabic living inside the Israel-Jewish society. Amjad dreams of an international career to follow the BBC story. He tells the foregin reporters about the brotherhood and coexistence between him and his Jewish neighbors, only to find out that this is not what they are looking for. They demand to see racism and looking for a story about the difficulty of being a minority in the Israeli society. Amjad goes out to look for the racism and he finds it in no other place but a cookie store.
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The enlightened Amjad is invited to lecture on the International Women's Day on his femninist outlook which despises old values like Family Honor. At the same time he finds out that his little girl, Maya, is falling in love with Nadav, Nathan and Timna's son, who lives in their building. The enlightened Amjad is going out of his way to stop the horror occuring under his own roof.
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Posted Something Ventured: Risk, Reward and the Original Venture Capitalists
in Something Ventured: Risk, Reward and the Original Venture CapitalistsA look at how the venture capitalist industry laid the groundwork for America's start-up economy.
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Tension is high in town when the Store Manager finally gets the Councilor to kick Mai Biggie and the women vendors of the street. Tari fights for vendors and in order to do so, she will have to stand up to the manager, her family and historical preconceptions about women and business.
-
Singer Mariem Hassan tirelessly promotes the cause of her people, the Saharawis, who have lost their homeland. Outspoken Bangladeshi singer-songwriter Anusheh has pioneered the fusion of traditional rural songs with rock music, giving them new life.
-
The choices of the past, both long ago and recent, come back to haunt our players in this episode.
-
In this dreamlike tale rich in Sufi storytelling tradition, a blind wanderer and his spirited granddaughter travel the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
-
American college students explore a model of water conservation and community cooperation in India.
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Explore the lush jungles, warm waters, intriguing island culture and historical sites of the island.
