The pilot episode of the new one-hour format for the Resistance Report by Dennis Trainor, Jr. will premiere tonight on PopularResistance.org and Acronym TV after 6 pm EST. It will also air on Free Speech TV later this week. Trainor describes the new format as “What Meet the Press would look like if it wasn’t dominated by corporate advertising bias.”
Trainor is a commentator, activist and filmmaker. He is the writer and director of AMERICAN AUTUMN: an occudoc, the documentary about the occupy movement hailed by The New York Times as “calm and smart, offsetting its stridency with discussion, music, even humor, while issuing a call to arms.” His first documentary, released in January 2011, was MANIFEST DESTINY’S CHILD on US foreign policy.
The program was filmed in the Bond Street Studio in Brooklyn, New York on February 28. There are six segments.
The show begins with a panel discussion of the possibility of black politics and the myth of the post-racial society. Nicole Carty, J. Prentice Northram and Julianna Forlano interview Mychal Denzel Smith.
Then Kateryna Ruban joins them to talk about the current situation in Ukraine.
Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala discusses whether creating a minimum wage is adequate compared to a guaranteed income for all. She describes her work in the anti-poverty movement and the next US Social Forum.
This is followed by a segment with Laura Gottesdiener of Waging Nonviolence on Wall Street equity firms and the fake housing recovery created by their gambling in the housing market.
Dennis Trainior, Jr. wraps up the show with an editorial commentary in the form of an open letter to the middle class.
If the pilot is successful, Trainor and his team plan to continue to create professional video programs using this format that will bring the news without the corporate spin. If you want to see more content like this, please spread the word.
Here are more photos from the videotaping. All photos by Alex Fradkin.
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