Asia

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A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture synthesis of environmentalism - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years worldwide. It tells the story of the environmental movement from conservation to climate change. We focus on activism -- people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future. Our concerns are connecting causes, how the issues grew, exploring ideas and the evolution of a vision. The common theme is a struggle to save nature against the destructive impact of humanity – from halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization. Our thesis is that this is the time when mankind must learn to live with nature, move beyond the exploitation at the heart of industrial society and find a way based on biology, balancing human needs with the natural world that sustains us, creating a living planet. As Stewart Brand says in the film, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are Spaceship Earth. We are Gaia.”  

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In 2009, JIMENA launched its Oral History Program and Website Program in order to develop a dynamic and sustainable educational and cultural resource to raise awareness of Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, and to preserve an important aspect of Jewish and Middle Eastern history.

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The four-part public television series Standing on Sacred Ground tells eight compelling stories of indigenous people around the world resisting the destruction of their culture and sacred lands. 

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Threads is a documentary film about a Bangladeshi Muslim woman who overcomes physical, social  and economic hardships and liberates herself and other women by creating timeless works of art.

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Rise of the Phoenix is a feature length documentary that examines how the unprecedented transformation of China's economy is changing the roles, rights and status of modern day Chinese women as witnessed by four or five women from very different social and economic backgrounds. These intimate and sometimes heart-breaking stories reflect a remarkable sexual revolution redefining one-fifth of the world's population despite a gender-biased tradition.

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In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, this hour-long radio documentary will portray experiences of volunteers from every decade, in every region, using audio they recorded while serving. The archive recordings from the field will be complemented by contemporary interviews with the returned Peace Corps volunteers and with historians who've written about the Peace Corps.    

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In a world rarely seen by outsiders, Houda al-Habash challenges traditions of Arab society and empowers her mosque sisters through Islamic education at her Qur’an school in Damascus, Syria. The story of one summer at Houda’s school reveals the crucial role women are playing in the Islamic resurgence.

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Hot Topics will bring to light the human impacts of climate change around the world. The project’s products will include a book (both paper and an interactive e-book) and related multimedia materials, such as dispatches for National Geographic News Watch and radio features for Public Radio International's program The World.