This Week On ‘Global Currents’…
“DecAIDS: Anything is Possible”
Saturday, November 11th at 7 p.m. ET/PT (60 mins.)

DecAIDS: Anything is Possible brings viewers behind the scenes of Canada’s hottest fashion fundraising event – Fashion Cares – a renowned, annual gala in support of the AIDS Committee of Toronto. In its 20 th year, Fashion Cares have raised nearly $10 million to date and continues to generate more awareness about HIV and AIDS. The documentary follows the event’s mastermind, artistic director Phillip Ing, as he planned and executed his final Fashion Cares show this year. Ing reflects on the challenges and triumphs organizers have faced in the last two decades to earn credibility, respect, and acceptance in a world not entirely comfortable with the growing visibility of the gay community.

About ‘GLOBAL CURRENTS’: Global National’s Kevin Newman hosts this critically acclaimed documentary series committed to revealing extraordinary perspectives and issues affecting all Canadians. Each one-hour, independently-produced documentary represents the talents of Canada’s best socio-political, environmental, humanist and scientific documentary filmmakers.

Other documentaries in the series include:

• 100 Days of Freedom – November 18
• Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey – December 9
• The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner – December 16

Broadcast schedules are subject to change.

From Global:

“Somba Ke – The Money Place”
Saturday, November 4th at 7 p.m. ET/PT (60 mins.)

Somba Ke: The Money Place takes viewers on a journey to the Canadian Arctic where a uranium mine is at the centre of a worldwide demand for a controversial energy source – nuclear power. The local Sahtu Dene First Nations call the mine “Somba Ke” or “the money place.” Few Canadians know that the Canadian government operated this mine in the 1940s that supplied the United States with uranium for the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Now, that same mine is being re-opened for exploration despite claims by natives that the mine is contaminating sacred land and is the cause of several cancer-related deaths in the community. Directed and produced by Tokyo-based David Henningson, this controversial film uncovers the deadly legacy of Canadians caught between the wave of the future – and the secrets of the past.

About ‘GLOBAL CURRENTS’: Global National’s Kevin Newman hosts this critically acclaimed documentary series committed to revealing extraordinary perspectives and issues affecting all Canadians. Each one-hour, independently-produced documentary represents the talents of Canada’s best socio-political, environmental, humanist and scientific documentary filmmakers.

Other documentaries in the series include:

o DecAIDS: Anything is Possible – November 11
o 100 Days of Freedom – November 18*
o Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey – December 9*
o The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner – December 16* (new)

* New date
Broadcast schedules are subject to change.

This Week On ‘Global Currents’…
“The Stamp Fishery: Loss of a Dream”
Saturday, October 28th at 7 p.m. ET/PT (60 mins.)

The Stamp Fishery: Loss of a Dream takes a critical look at the ailing fishing industry in Newfoundland and Labrador and how communities are left dependent on employment insurance (EI) due to generations of over-fishing and government enforced quotas. Through the eyes of two reluctant “stamp fishers” – whose family have fished the shores for nearly 100 years – the Johnson brothers take viewers on a journey of revelations, examining how this EI policy has impacted all sectors of the province’s economy, leaving more than half of its population dependent on Canadian taxpayers’ money.

About ‘GLOBAL CURRENTS’: Global National’s Kevin Newman hosts this critically acclaimed documentary series committed to revealing extraordinary perspectives and issues affecting all Canadians. Each one-hour, independently-produced documentary represents the talents of Canada’s best socio-political, environmental, humanist and scientific documentary filmmakers.

Other documentaries in the series include:

* Somba K’e – The Money Place – November 4
* DecAIDS: Anything is Possible – November 11
* 100 Days of Freedom – November 18*
* Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey – December 9*
* The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner – December 16* (new)

* New date
Broadcast schedules are subject to change.

From Global:

This Week On ‘Global Currents’…
“Polygamy’s Lost Boys”
Saturday, October 21st at 7 p.m. ET/PT (60 mins.)

Polygamy’s Lost Boys follows three young men from Fundamentalist Mormon communities in Bountiful, British Columbia, and Colorado City, Arizona in their struggles to build normal lives in the outside world. Like Peter Pan’s lost boys, they are cast out, or have left on their own accord and are marooned without family, social skills and little education. Caught between a volatile political clash between their Church’s two leaders, Warren Jeffs in the U.S. and Winston Blackmore in Bountiful – the former arrested by the FBI and the latter investigated by the RCMP – the boys make life-changing choices that will ultimately transform them into mature, adult men and rock the Church that devalued them.

About ‘GLOBAL CURRENTS’: Global National’s Kevin Newman hosts this critically acclaimed documentary series committed to revealing extraordinary perspectives and issues affecting all Canadians. Each one-hour, independently-produced documentary represents the talents of Canada’s best socio-political, environmental, humanist and scientific documentary filmmakers.

Other documentaries in the series include:

* The Stamp Fishery: Loss of a Dream – October 28
* Somba K’e – The Money Place – November 4
* DecAIDS: Anything is Possible – November 11
* 100 Days of Freedom – November 25*
* Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey – December 2*
* Rich Nation – December 9*
* Thin Ice – December 16*

* New date
Broadcast schedules are subject to change.

From the Canadian Press:

• Jeff Douglas of”I am Canadian” fame hosts new geneology show