Squeaky Wheel Productions
Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc. is a nonprofit community media organization whose mission is to promote and foster public awareness of points of view, news and information — generally ignored or marginalized in the media — in order to encourage a more just and democratic global community.
WINTER 2009-10 APPEAL
We Can't Do it Without You!
Day after day, month after month corporate media outlets pump stories out to our television sets, radio, Internet sites, newspapers and magazines with excruciating detail about the exploits of the "balloon boy," Sarah Palin's "tweets," and national security questions related to Tiger Woods' recent car accident and sex scandal.
Given what passes for news and political dialogue in the U.S. these days, it's no wonder you're searching for something of substance -- news that actually examines critical issues from points of view that don't find a home in the "mainstream."
At Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine, we're proud to bring you critical analysis on a wide range of issues including the failures of our capitalist system; voices of dissent organizing opposition to President Obama's escalation of the Afghan war; the Obama administration's willingness to tolerate the violence and repression of the coup regime in Honduras; and eyewitness accounts of a growing citizens movement in Appalachia willing to risk arrest to stop coal company's from environmentally-destructive mountain top removal coal mining.
If you want alternatives to the right-wing rantings of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly -- and more in-depth coverage of important issues than you get from either the timid beltway press corps or the "liberal" cable TV Democratic party defense committee, we hope you'll support Between the Lines with a small or large end of year contribution.
Independent media outlets such as Between The Lines are needed to maintain a focus on the critical issues and common sense solutions the corporate media refuse to cover -- and to hold spineless politicians accountable.
Your support helps spread viewpoints like these:
- Economics professor Richard D. Wolff on the global economic meltdown and the basic structural changes needed not only to fix today's broken economy, but to prevent future crises. Wolff was a consultant on Michael Moore's latest film, "Capitalism: A Love Story."
- "Agenda for a New Economy" author David Korten on how to build local, sustainable economies after we've seen how Wall Street priorities have created the global crises that's devastating Main Street
- Physicians for National Health Program's Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler -- advocate for single-payer, universal health care where the well-being of society's citizens is the main priority, not maximizing profits.
Your donation will enable us to provide the program free of charge to more radio stations across the U.S. -- and purchase equipment vital to the production of the program each week.
Donate now by clicking here:
www.firstgiving.com/betweenthelines
Or send a check made payable to our tax-exempt fiscal sponsor, "The Global Center" and mail to:
Squeaky Wheel Productions
P.O. Box 110176
Trumbull, CT 06611
PAST EVENTS
What Michael Moore Doesn't Cover in His New Film!
Richard Wolff, economics professor emeritus, consultant on "Capitalism: A Love Story" shares his analysis and solutions
A public forum and film screening: "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown
and What Can be Done About It"
with economics professor emeritus Richard D. Wolff
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The film, 
"Capitalism Hits the Fan: Richard Wolff on The Economic Meltdown" and his book, "The Global Economic Meltdown and What Can Be Done About It" chronicle economist Richard D. Wolff's growing alarm and insights as, from 2005 to 2009, he watched the economic crisis build, burst and then change the world. The argument here differs sharply from most other explanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and academics. Step by step, Wolff shows that deep economic structures -- the relationship of wages to profits, of workers to boards of directors, and of debts to income -- account for the crisis. Bailout interventions by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury have thrown too little money too late at a problem that requires more than money to solve.
The film and book engage the long-overdue public discussion about capitalism as a system and about the basic structural changes needed not only to fix today's broken economy, but to prevent future crises.
Sneak Preview — FEB. 21, 2009
“Billboard from Bethlehem”
A Sneak Preview of a 1-Hour Film Documentary featuring Former Israeli Soldiers and Former Palestinian Fighters Followed by a Talk and Reception with Producer/Director Bruce Barrett of IWagePeace.org and former Israel Defense Forces paratrooper Elik Elhanan.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 2008
A GREEN JOBS NOW: National Day of Action Event
A FORUM WITH MICHAEL T. KLARE SPEAKING ON OIL, WAR and the FUTURE of AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
MP3 (full-length)
See more details, including trailer, press releases, audio clips, parking and directions. See a summary at Green Jobs Now.
Learn about Green Jobs Now 9.27.08 National Day of Action to Build the New Economy. "Our military policy and our energy policy have become intertwined. They have become one and the same. ... And if we continue to rely on military force to solve our resource needs, we're in for a very bloody and dangerous and painful century indeed."-- Michael T. Klare, in "Blood and Oil"
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