Many of today s youth view going to prison as a rite of passage, but they don t know what prison life is really like. The inmates in Prison Dialogues, all serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison, have chosen to participate in this program because they have seen young people as young as 13 years old serving hard time in prison. In this program, inmates openly discuss their crimes, describe the harsh realities of life in prison, and offer advice to young people to help them avoid making the same mistakes that permanently cost the inmates their freedom. One inmate serving a life sentence poignantly remarks, I can predict my future...Can you predict yours?
Documents the civil protest and legal efforts that residents of Chester, Pennsylvania, directed toward controlling the air pollution emitted by waste treatment facilities within their community and to preventing the construction of new facilities
The film explores the consequences of the city’s urban renewal policies on the lifelong residents of the communities affected and places their opposition to the city in the context of an increasingly global economic order that devalues labor, local economies, and the sense of community that once formed the core of urban America. The film demonstrates that urban renewal and eminent domain policies are usually aimed at community residents who are unaware of their rights and are easily confused and frightened by the powerful forces that are changing their neighborhoods and disrupting their lives.
The effects of fracking are felt far and wide. No Pipeline looks at a community in Nelson County, Virginia fighting a gas pipeline which threatens the beauty of the countryside and change the way of life they have come to love.
Feathers fly as animal rights activists and participants clash at the annual labor day pigeon shoot Hegins, PA. Recorded 1992