“It’s just beautiful – the voices, the messages, the graphics, the ETHICS and politics, you’ve nailed it!”
– Rosalind Petchesky, Leading theorist on international reproductive rights
Laura Flanders & Friends this week discuss the past, present and future of Third World Newsreel.
Back in 1968, filmmakers and activists created Newsreel to get their footage of protests to the masses. Now the oldest media arts collective in the U.S., Third World Newsreel continues to champion movement media and is training the next generation of storytellers. Learn more on Laura Flanders & Friends.
Third World Newsreel: Six Decades of Activist Media for Social Justice LAUNCHING FEBRUARY 20, 2026 on YouTube. It will begin its launch on PBS stations across the US at on February 22, 2026.
Tami Gold is a professor at Hunter College, a filmmaker, visual artist and activist. She has produced many critically acclaimed documentaries that have consistently been at the forefront of social issues looking at racism, police violence, women’s rights, conditions for workers and labor organizing, violence and discrimination against LGBT people.
