Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday at 8pm. Ph 9633 6976 to contact the producers or make a donation.
Storytellers of the Pacific — This program contains five segments — from the USA, Canada, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia — dealing with the ways in which various indigenous groups and individuals are overcoming the damage done by colonisation. ABC-TV, Saturday, November 21, 12.30pm.
Dateline: Trouble in Palestine — A new Middle East peace accord has just been agreed but many Palestinians find little cause for joy. Mike Carey reports on how many Palestinians believe their leaders have failed them. SBS, Saturday, November 21, 7.30pm.
The Cola Conquest — About capitalism, the homogenisation of global culture, the politics of business, the business of politics and the selling of an image above substance. It shows how Coca-Cola — a sugary, nutritionally empty soft drink — has come to represent the US capitalist way of life. ABC-TV, Saturday, November 21, 9.30pm.
Tracey Moffat introduces Teorema — Tracey Moffat, an artist who works in photograph and film (Night Cries, Bedevil) has chosen Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1968 masterpiece Teorema. In Teorema, Pasolini achieved his most perfect fusion of Marxism and religion; the film is both political allegory and mystical fable. SBS, Sunday, November 22, 10.30pm.
Jila: Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert — The program documents the creation of a giant painting to support the Ngurrura clan's native title claim in WA's Great Sandy Desert. SBS, Tuesday, November 24, 7.30pm.