You may be using an older version of the Adobe Flash Player. To enjoy multimedia content on WGBH.org, please click here to upgrade to the latest version of the free Flash player.

Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I
December 31, 1969
Paul Farmer physician, anthropologist
Matt Damon actor, activist
Linda Dorcena Forry state representative, D-MA
Brian Concannon Jr. director, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Hai
Amy Goodman host, Democracy Now!

Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, share their stories of eradicating disease and injustice in one of the world's poorest nations, and discuss how changes in US policy can help to build a stronger, more resilient, and prosperous Haiti. Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, moderates.

Business & Economics | Culture & Identity | People & Places | Politics & Public Affairs
Activism | haiti | Human Rights | Matt Damon | Partners In Health | Print | Military & Warfare | TV & Radio | Community Building | Natural Disasters | Economics | Caribbean | Law & Criminal Justice | Lifestyle | Race
WGBH
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Zainab Salbi: Between Two Worlds
Zainab Salbi
00:56:54
Zainab Salbi reveals the tyrant Saddam Hussein through the eyes of a child, a secretly rebellious teenager, an abused wife, and ultimately a professional woman coming to terms with the horror of her family story. Salbi was 11 when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot.
Your Mental Health at Work
Rosalynn Carter
01:24:02
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and an expert panel discuss workplace conditions that can greatly affect employees' mental health and on-the-job productivity.
Audio-only
You Want Fries With That?
Prioleau Alexander
00:49:23
Prioleau Alexander tells what it was like when he walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive, seeking a life. His jobs included pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER tech, fast food jockey, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch.
Audio-only
Yaron Brook: Why the Forward Strategy of Freedom Had to Fail
Yaron Brook
01:47:29
As an expert on foreign policy and the Middle East, Yaron Brook is interviewed for his answers to a range of questions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the war in Iraq, the Iranian threat and Totalitarian Islam and terrorism.
Writing on the Walls: American Prison Writing
H. Bruce Franklin
01:40:59
PEN New England's Freedom-to-Write (FTW) Committee, and the Cambridge Forum, host Writing on the Walls, a panel discussion about writing in, from, and about American prisons.
Audio-only
Writers on War
Sean Hemingway
01:26:41
Sean Hemingway, who has just edited a collection of his grandfather's writings titled Hemingway on War, shares his insights with Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory, and James Webb, author of the acclaimed Vietnam novel, Fields of Fire.
Image of Global Health in Times of Violence (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Author:
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)
Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 438 pages
Image of Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 419 pages
Image of AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: University of California Press (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 372 pages
Image of Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Robin Williams
Rating: R (Restricted)
Image of The Bourne Trilogy (The Bourne Identity | The Bourne Supremacy | The Bourne Ultimatum)
Director:
Starring: Matt Damon
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Image of The Talented Mr. Ripley
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rating: R (Restricted)
Image of The Departed (Widescreen Edition)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio
Rating: R (Restricted)
Image of John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Mary Kay Place, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, Danny DeVito, Matt Damon
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Image of The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition)
Director:
Starring: Michael Gambon, Keir Dullea, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin
Rating: R (Restricted)
Image of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
Author: David Goodman, Amy Goodman
Publisher: Hyperion (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa (Updated with a New Afterword)
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: University of California Press (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 418 pages
Login or register to post comments