Coalition

The movie “The Way We Get By” deals with a lot of large issues, aging in America, military service, but manages to succeed as an intimate portrait of a group of senior citizens in Bangor Maine, who dedicate their lives to greet homecoming troops. Draxtor welcomes producer Gita Pullapilly to the virtual BAVC studio.

Every year, SF based Bay Area Video Coalition brings filmmakers together with technologists to develop new media strategies for their projects at the annual Producer’s Institute.
[more about BAVC PI 2009 at http://www.bavc.org/producersinstitute ]

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Five years ago, nobody expected US forces to still be in Iraq, least of all George Bush.

At the time, George Bush was more concerned with gaining international approval for what he thought would be a short, swift war.

Owen Fay has this report.

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On December 3rd 2008 over 100 governments are expected in Oslo to sign The Convention on Cluster Munitions, a treaty banning the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs and containing strong provisions for assistance to victims and clearance of contaminated land. It will be the most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty of the decade.

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