TV

Human Rights Here Now!

Thursday Nights at 9 p.m.

Channels 27 (Comcast) and 73 (Charter)

Overview

"Human Rights Here Now" explores the current state of the observance in
Santa Cruz County of human rights as defined in international law. It
invites county residents to participate in the very promising worldwide
movement for human rights. The format, so far, is generally a focused
conversation about current affairs between representatives of a
particular sector of county life;  but the key principle in all
these conversations is respect for the dignity, worth & equality of
all human beings. Beginning in April the Alliance has been represented by
a monthly hour-long discussion program on Santa Cruz Community TV.
 The program is produced & hosted by David Sweet, directed by
Mathilde Rand and uses an all-volunteer crew of six that usually includes
Ken Knobler and Gail Page. The focus each month is on an aspect of the
current observance of human rights in Santa Cruz County.  Programs
are filmed in the the first Saturday afternoon each month, and then
broadcast every Thursday night at 9:00 the following month.  We hope
soon to be able to link to these entire programs from our website.
 In the meantime, DVDs are available for borrowing from David Sweet
at 458-1210, or dgsweet@cruzio.com.

show 1 (May)

"Dignity, Worth & Equality" featured the Revs. Deborah Johnson of Inner
Light Ministry and Pallas Stanford of the Unitarian-Universalist
Fellowship in Aptos, with UCSC professor of sociology John Brown Childs
& UCSC lecturer in Latin American and Latino Studies Guillermo
Delgado.

show 2 (June)

"Human Rights History" was a collaboration between David Sweet (with a
series of four 8-minute talks summarizing the history of our movement
over the past ten thousand years) and local singer and guitarist David
Winters (who illustrated the successive historical moments with song).

show 3 (July)

"Human Rights and County Government"
invited Watsonville City Councilwoman & ex-mayor Kimberly Petersen
& former County Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt to consider what might
have been the implications for life in Santa Cruz County today, had the
U.S. embraced the United Nations and worldwide movement for human rights
back in the 1940s & 50s, rather than framing them as threats to
American sovereignty.

show 4 (August)

"The Human Rights of Pre-Schoolers" featured a lively exchange between
Julie Edwards (founder of the Cabrillo Children's Center & long-time
chair of the Early Childhood Education Program at Cabrillo College),   Jim Marshall (current Director of
the Cabrillo Children's Center, veteran early childhood educator &
former director of the Santa Cruz County Children's Commission) &
Rosa María Quintero (owner-operator of the nationally accredited Rosie's
Sandbox Preschool in Watsonville.

show 5 (September)

"Human Rights and the High School Student," was a wide-ranging discussion
between popular high school social studies teachers Sara Roe, now at
Aptos High, who also taught several years at Watsonville High, and Teresa
Gaims of Harbor High.

show 6 (October)

"Corporations, Persons & Human Rights" (October) is a pathfinding discussion of
the knotty question of corporate personhood & its relationship to
human rights between long-time WILPF activist Nancy Abbey & local
lawyer & activist Ray Glock-Grueneich (twice the Green Party
candidate for the 17th District Congressional seat.

show 7 (November)

"College Students & Human Rights" is a conversation between three young
residents of Santa Cruz County -- locally-reared Cabrillo student, Edgar
de la Cruz, UCSC Economics major Sam Hilkey of Nevada City & UCSC
Literature major Marjani Muhammad that was born of their recent reading
& discussion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.