March 24, 2013




Beyond the Pale show

Summary: Co-hosts Lizzy Ratner and Jesse Meyerson talk with Joshua Oppenheimer about his remarkable, rivetting, award winning film, The Act of Killing, about the death squad leaders who helped the Indonesian army slaughter of morel than one million Communists, ethnic Chinese and intellectuals in 1965. Filmmaker Werner Artist Ruth Sergel talks with Lizzy and Jesse about the street-art project,  Chalk, dedicated to preserving the memory victims of the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire. BTP co-host Alex Kane talks with us from Israel and Palestine where he has been covering President Obama's visit and the ongoing Palestinian resistance movement.