Free Speech Public Access TV On Trial at US Supreme Court
Channel: ORCA Media
Date: 2019-02-22

This film is a compilation of 6 videos - made by Paper Tiger and Deep Dish TV founder DeeDee Halleck from 1986 - 2012 - which serve as backstory to the always precipitous and now threatened relationship of Public Access (PEG) TV to our First Amendment Right to Free Speech. "Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck and Jesus Papoleto Melendez" will be heard at the US Supreme Court on February 25, 2019.
Melendez is one of the founding Nuyorican poets of NYC, a dynamic and emotionally-vulnerable community activist in East Harlem.  Democracy Now's Amy Goodman has named DeeDee Halleck "the Grandmother of Public Access TV".
Edited by Jerome Lipani at Onion River Community Access in Montpelier, VT.