WITH TAVIS SMILEY

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Getting Ahead focuses on the reality being faced by both small business owners and employees. Small business owners such as Sal Bednarz, owner of Actual Café, who is an outspoken supporter of increasing the minimum wage but now worries that his very slim profit margin may not be sustainable; Asiya Jabaar, director of a small state accredited day care center, who is reducing her full time staff to one part-time worker and is concerned that as a teacher she is being priced out of keeping her day care center open; Oakland’s Chinatown merchants who express concern that they cannot raise their prices to keep pace with paying mandated salary increases; Nina Cooper of Nina Cooper Designs who is convinced that a possible $19 an hour minimum wage in Berkeley will destroy small businesses; and Sam Mogannan, who owns Bi-Rite Markets and Catering and has over 300 employees who knows that he can only raise his prices so high before he looses customers.

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YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Meet the charismatic pioneering activist whose rallying cry of “su voto es su voz” (your vote is your voice) started a grassroots movement that transformed the nation’s political landscape and paved the way for the growing power of the Latino vote.

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MOTION

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 @ 9:00PM

The forces of nature have kept Earth on the move since it was formed billions of years ago. Though we can’t feel the motion, we experience the consequences – from tidal bores surging through the Amazon rainforest to the ruinous power of hurricanes.

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THE GREAT HUMAN ODYSSEY

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Our ancient human ancestors once lived only in Africa, in tiny bands of a few thousand hunter-gatherers. Then we moved out of our African cradle, spreading rapidly to every corner of the planet. How did we acquire the skills, technology and talent to thrive in every environment on earth? How did our prehistoric forebears cross the Sahara on foot, survive frigid ice ages, and sail to remote Pacific islands? (2 HOURS)

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HART/JACKSON – THE VISIONARIES

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 @ 9:00PM

Examine the stories of the charismatic Sen. Gary Hart and Rev. Jesse Jackson, forward-leaning aspirants determined to tackle the biggest foreign policy and domestic issues of the day.

Equal parts brain and brawn, both were ready to upend American politics.

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 @ 7:00PM

It’s called the undercard debate for a reason. The buzz around Mike Pence and Tim Kaine’s vice-presidential debate on Tuesday pales in comparison to the anticipation surrounding the first presidential debate last week, which drew a record 84 million viewers. But that doesn’t mean the Pence-Kaine showdown, at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, isn’t important. The stakes are high for both candidates.

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BEST OF ENEMIES

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3 @ 7:00PM

In the summer of 1968, television news changed forever. That year, gunmen assassinated both Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The Democratic convention in Chicago flared up with protests and violence. Overseas, the Vietnam War raged on, and the streets at home roiled with race riots. With this tense political climate as a backdrop, Best of Enemies captures the legendary televised debates between ideological opposites Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr.

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