Bradley Cox’s highly controversial 2010 documentary Who Killed Chea Vichea? has been honored with a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. Only 38 Peabodies were awarded worldwide this year. Other recipients include CNN, the BBC, HBO and the Colbert Report.
The Peabody has recognized “excellence, distinguished achievement, and meritorious public service” in electronic media for more than seventy years.
By Ralph Litzinger PhD
Dear C.E.O of Apple Inc.,
For many years I have been a loyal customer of Apple. I have bought many of your products: the iTouch, iPhone, iMAC, and new MacBook Pro, to name just a few. Like many Apple users, I was an avid fan of the wonderfully witty commercials that pitted cool, hip and trendy Mac users against the staid and blasé conventionality of Microsoft users. I embraced Apple for its brilliant operating system, its commitment to making user-friendly tools, and its aesthetic sensibility. Apple crafts beautifully designed machines, which is one reason your market share continues to grow.
But it seems there is another Apple that few of your customers know about.
By Wen-Hsuan Tseng
Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary directed by Chinese-Canadian
director Lixin Fan, will open in New York on September 3rd at IFC
Center. Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million
migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration–an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past
and industrial future.
By Shiwei Ye
Migrant workers
represent one of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups in the world.
Recognizing this acute vulnerability, in 1990 the UN General Assembly adopted
the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW). In the 20 years since, while
some progress has been made to strengthen the protection regime at various
levels, in practice, migrant workers remain largely unprotected. This is
especially the case in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
region, where the Convention has been ratified by only one country (the
Philippines) and signed by just two others (Cambodia and Indonesia).
by Rich Garella
Cambodian workers who hoped to see Who Killed Chea Vichea? on
International Labor Day didn’t get so much as a bite of popcorn before
police intervened and tore down the screen.
