1 Death Row Prisoner on Surviving Solitary Confinement
2 Mitt Romney's Champion Dressage Horse
3 Nuns' Bus Tour to Protest GOP Budget
4 'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator' on PBS
5 Five Broken Cameras (Movie Trailer)

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Death Row Prisoner on Surviving the Torture of Solitary
Confinement

In a rare interview, former Texas death row prisoner
Anthony Graves joins us to recount his experience in
solitary confinement, and how he was fully exonerated
and released from prison in 2010. Graves was convicted
in 1994 of assisting Robert Carter, a man he barely
knew, in the brutal murders of six people. There was no
physical evidence linking Graves to the crime, and his
conviction relied primarily on Carter's testimony.
Before he was executed, Carter twice admitted he had
lied about Graves's involvement in the crime. In 2006,
an appeals court overturned Graves's conviction and
ordered a new trial, saying prosecutors had elicited
false statements and withheld testimony. After 18 years
in prison, most of them on death row, Graves was
exonerated and reunited with his family after a special
prosecutor concluded he was an innocent man. Graves is
now an active member of the movement to abolish the
death penalty. "My experience was hell," Graves says. "I
always liken it to something that you would consider to
be your worst nightmare. I had to go through that
experience every day for 18-and-a-half years and it was
just no way to live." Urging an end to the death
penalty, Graves says: "They're killing in your name, and
I say to you stand up and tell these people, 'Not in my
name anymore.'"

Watch part 1 of our interview with Anthony Graves and
journalist James Ridgeway: http://youtu.be/8O-gX9mtEg8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WAGnK6tyYs
June 22, 2012
22:55

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Mitt Romney's Champion Horse & Stephen's Dressage
Contribution

The Romneys' horse Rafalca makes the Olympic team, and
the United States Equestrian Federation welcomes
Stephen's new dressage tradition.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415570/june-19-2012/mitt-romney-s-champion-horse---stephen-s-dressage-contribution
June 19, 2012
6:02

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Nuns' Bus Tour to Protest GOP Budget

A group of Catholic nuns who said they are traveling
around the country to fight for social justice made a
stop in Janesville Tuesday on their bus tour.

Margo Spann reports. Published by WiscTvChannel3000.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etxYLYF8Qb0
Jun 19, 2012 
1:51

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'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator' on PBS

PBS's program Documentaries with a Point of View (POV)
is nationally airing the documentary film, Granito: How
to Nail a Dictator on Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 10pm on
PBS. The film highlights the work of National Security
Archive's Guatemala Documentation Project director Kate
Doyle. See here for a review of 'Granito,' and here for
Kate's reflections on "a film that makes history."

In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America,
a Guatemalan court recently charged former dictator
Efrain Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war
against the country's Mayan people in the 1980s -- and
Pamela Yates' 1983 documentary, When the Mountains
Tremble, provided key evidence for bringing the
indictment. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator tells the
extraordinary story of how a film, aiding a new
generation of human rights activists, became a granito
-- a tiny grain of sand -- that helped tip the scales of
justice.

You can visit this link
http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule/?ref=povhptopr
and enter your zip code to find your local PBS channel
and schedule. The film will also be streaming online on
PBS website for free, available in English and Spanish,
from June 29, 2012 through July 28, 2012. See a trailer
here

http://video.pbs.org/video/2221937101
2:46

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Five Broken Cameras (Movie Trailer)

A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his
nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army
(IMDB.com). (Thanks to Mark Elsis for this link. --
video moderator.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_tQEgiYoV4
Nov 15, 2010
5:29

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