The 90's, episode 210: LOVE AND CARING, CHILDREN OF WAR
2:08 ""Children of War"" by Wendy Appel, Alan Barker, & Dana Gluckstein. Students from war-torn countries gather at Beverly Hills High School and tearfully describe the situation in their native countries. A student from Lebanon recalls, ""My country has been at a war for 15 years. There is no water, no gas, no electricity and no place to go."" A student from Iran tells how she lost her grandfather and her best friend in a bombing attack. A South African student refuses to be photographed or identified because she claims it is dangerous for her to complain about her country. ""It's not my fault I'm black, I didn't choose to be black.""
12:30 More from ""Children of War."" Students discuss how they can bring about peace and the importance of education to prevent future wars. A Latino student describes his fight for equal education in a U.S. high school where the attitude is ""You're not gonna make it, so why try?""
16:48 ""Why There Is Misery"" by Nancy Cain. Tara Proctor, a young girl, tells a fable. An old woman called Auntie Misery is harassed by a gang of rowdy boys who throw rocks and sticks and smash her beloved pear tree. One day, the woman generously offers shelter to a stranger who in exchange grants her a wish - whoever touches her pear tree gets stuck and can't come back down. The boys come back, get stuck and promise never to bother the old woman again. Sometime later a dark stranger comes to call. It is Death. In a desperate attempt to escape him, the old woman asks him to fetch a pear for her. He gets stuck in the tree and the world becomes overpopulated and miserable because everyone is immortal. Although Auntie Misery eventually let death out of the tree, she was granted immortality, and it is because of her that misery lives on in the world today.
41:21 ""Guerilla Poetry"" by Nancy Cain. Homeless poets from Skid Row in Los Angeles convene to perform their work.
47:45 ""We Didn't Start the Fire"" by Nancy Cain. Tara Proctor sings the Billy Joel song.
51:49 Paul Krassner commentary by Nancy Cain. Krassner gets a massage and tells how he trained himself to ""laugh at pain"" while visiting the Kyopis Indians in Ecuador.