The promo for our Fault Lines episode today at 2230 GMT/5:30p EST on Al Jazeera English on the frustrated students in Chile who are demanding a fairer education system.
We examine the student movement and the issues behind the anger.
Watch online as we livetweet from @ajfaultlines.
Source: youtube.com
Here’s the full Fault Lines episode that aired on Al Jazeera English tonight on drones and the future of the US military.
Our final episode of the season, “Chile Rising,” airs next Monday, January 2nd, at 2230 GMT/ 5:30p EST.
Synopsis:
Fault Lines looks at how these new weapons of choice are allowing the US to stretch the international laws of war and what it could mean when more and more autonomy is developed for these lethal machines.
Tonight at 2230 GMT/ 5:30 p EST, our new Fault Lines episode on how drones change the way the US fights wars airs on Al Jazeera English. Above, the trailer, and we’ll post the entire episode here after it airs.
Source: youtube.com
Our Fault Lines episode on drones and the future of the US military and intelligence airs tonight at 2230 GMT/5:30p EST on Al Jazeera English.
The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Winners
Columbia University announced the winners of the 2012 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards.The awards have been called the ” broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzers.”
Al Jazeera English, Media Storm and the New York Times are among the winners who were honored for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism.
See the full list on the Columbia Journalism site.
This award goes a long way towards validating Al Jazeera English in the U.S.
Thanks! That’s our Al Jazeera English Fault Lines episode, “Haiti: Six Months On,” that received the award.
(via shortformblog)
Source: onaissues
Here’s our new episode from tonight on labor, unions, and the Occupy movement that aired today 2230 GMT/ 5:30p EST on Al Jazeera English. All our livetweets are on our Twitter account, @ajfaultlines. Join us next week at the same time for a new episode on drone journalism.
For decades, labor unions in the United States have been on the decline. While they are widely credited with boosting safety standards and worker pay, many have received blame for wanting too much in the struggling economy. Unemployment is at 9% and people are clamoring for jobs, unionized or not. And their greatest political ally, the Democratic party, has taken its’ support for granted weakening its’ pull on the strings of power in Washington, DC.
A new battle has emerged in 2011 as Republican governors have taken on public sector unions, in some cases stripping them of rights that have been in place for 50 years. It’s part of a trend that is happening in key swing states and may weaken democratic voting strength in next year’s presidential election. But organized labor has fought back hard. In Wisconsin unions occupied the state capitol as 100,000 protesters took to the streets. In Ohio, voters overturned a law that was intended to greatly reduce the right that unions have in that state to bargain collectively.
Now as Occupy Wall Street galvanizes Americans to take action against financial institutions and big corporations, Labor has a new ally. But can organized labor harness the anger that everyday Americans are emitting or will this opportunity pass it by? Do Labor unions still have the strength to organize or has their power waned to the point that they will no longer be a major player in American politics?
Source: youtube.com
Somalia’s Shabab fighters take to Twitter
Here’s the Fault Lines episode, “Horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia’s Famine,” that aired November 28, 2011 on Al Jazeera about Somalia’s famine and the US policies that may contribute to the unrest.
This Fault Lines episode first aired on Al Jazeera English 12 December 2011 at 2230 GMT.
With a powerful Tea Party movement framing Republican policy in Washington and across the United States, Fault Lines looks into the links between the Tea Party movement, the Christian conservative movement, and Republican politics ahead of the GOP primaries.
As the race to be the Republican nominee in the 2012 Presidential election heats up, Fault lines follows the Iowa campaign trail, to understand how the far-right conservative movement is reshaping the American political debate, and to open a window onto the political landscape of the United States, its religious sensibilities, its fears, and possibly its future.
This new episode premiered last night on Al Jazeera English at 2230 GMT.
In part one of a two-part series, Fault Lines goes to Mogadishu to see the impact of Somalia’s famine, and asks if US policies have contributed to the disaster.
The worst drought in 60 years has thrown some 13 million people across the Horn of Africa into crisis.
In Somalia, ravaged by two decades of conflict, the consequences have been disastrous. For over six months, aid agencies on the ground sounded the alarm that a major drought and famine was on the horizon.
Then in July and August, the world watched and international aid agencies scrambled as tens of thousands of Somalis fled famine and fighting in the devastated Southern part of the country, controlled by the armed group al-Shabab. And they continued to flee - to the Somali capital of Mogadishu, and refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia - in the following months, when the world seemed to lose interest.
Tens of thousands of Somalis have died and the UN has warned that three quarters of a million more are at risk of dying before the end of the year.
Somalia’s weak Transitional Federal Government, the Obama administration, and the United Nations have all blamed the anti-government group al-Shabab for restricting international aid operations in the areas they control. But is al-Shabab the only reason a drought and food crisis has turned into a deadly famine?
In the first of a two-part series examining the US response to drought and hunger in the Horn of Africa, Fault Lines travels to Mogadishu to meet refugees who have fled to the most war-ravaged city in the world to escape a worse fate, and the aid and medical workers struggling to help them. We examine the legacy of US engagement in Somalia and its efforts to address the current crisis.
Has aid in this region of the world become politicised? And has Washington’s pre-occupation with terrorism in the Horn of Africa contributed to the deadly consequences of this disaster?
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AJFaultLines
Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/AJFaultLines
See all episodes of Fault Lines: http://www.youtube.com/show/faultlines
Meet the Fault Lines staff: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL2A3A165068A8A650
Returning to Mogadishu - @AJEnglish updates viewers on the tormented Somali capital from where the network first reported in 2006. They find it worse off. The reporter Nazanine Moshiri stated why the network “chose Mogadishu as one of the cities from which to launch its new channel”:
The conflict in Somalia is one of the longest running in Africa, and one of the most under reported. The Somali people have lived without a central government for 20 years. War and famine have claimed perhaps a million lives.
Source: ajenews
