National Day of Action Against Electoral Politics

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August 10th protests against electoral politics at the Pepsi Center in Denver.

Related Links ::: Come to Denver, Unconventional Action

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Strategies for Effective Disaster Relief

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Tony Sferlazza is a field director working with the graqssroots relief organization, Plenty International. Plenty is a not-for-profit alternative relief and development organization founded in Tennessee in 1974.

Related Links ::: Plenty International

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Indymedia US NewsReal July 2008

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On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news!

Indymedia NewsReal is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists across the nation. Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know!

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org
http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produceasegmentfaq.html

NewsReal is a monthly joint project of Free SpeechTV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ).

NewsReal's goals are to embolden the global movement for social, environmental, and economic justice, strengthen non-corporate communication networks, and to encourage authentic participatory democracy, one community at a time.

Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like the war, air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more.

July 2008 Indymedia Newsreal runsheet:

Actionday 27
Producer: Freundeskreis Videoclips
http://freundeskreis-videoclips.de
Squatters struggle against police in Berlin.

Hospital Bosses Lie
Producer: Maia & Elfie Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org
Labor and management conflict at a hospital in Fresno, California.

Anita Roddick Advocacy Center
Producer: Flux Rostrum
http://MobileBroadcastNews.com
The dedication of a new Common Ground Relief facility in New Orleans. http://www.commongroundrelief.org

Death and Taxes trailer
Producer: Steev Hise
http://panleft.org
A preview for a new documentary about war tax resistance.

Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs (Independent Media Centers) are encouraged to screen or air NewsReal. To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact Pepperspray Productions at pepperspray@riseup.net.

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Coke or Pepsi?

The absudity of the 2 party system exposed.

Related Links ::: SubMedia TV

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Rainbow Gathering Kids Village Attacked by Police

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On July 3rd Law Enforcement Officers attacked Kid Village at the Rainbow Gathering with Tazers and Pepper Ball Machine Guns.

Related Links ::: Kid Village Attack Chronological Composition, Full Video Source Clips of the incident, Wyoming Gathering 2008

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Mandatory Evacuation From The Rainbow Gathering

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We entered the Rainbow Gathering on July 7th.. most of the family had left by this time and those who hadn't were packing up, except for the clean up crew. At the final turn into the gathering we were informed that the event was under a MANDITORY EVACUATION due to a raging forest fire ... that no one could see.

Related Links ::: Welcome Home, Wildland Fire Reported Near Rainbow Family Gathering, Mandatory evacuation order given for July 7 fire, Wyoming Gathering 2008

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Crawford Nebraska: We Live in Fear

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embedding options @ Revver Red Ribbon Grand Jury Testimony regarding racism & corruption in Dawes County Nebraska. Specifically Crawford, Nebraska.

Related Links ::: Local News, Mobile Broadcast News

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Testimony Regarding Dominique Ten Fingers

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A part of the Republic of Lakotah Red Ribbon Grand Jury Against Racism & Corruption in Dawes County Nebraska. This is testimony regarding felony assault charges brought against Dominique Ten Fingers, apparently for defending herself in her home.

Related Links ::: Local News, Mobile Broadcast News

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Red Ribbon Grand Jury: Opening Remarks

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Russell Means and Vernon Moves Camp give opening remarks at the Republic of Lakotah sponsored Red Ribbon Grand Jury on Systematic Racism and Corruption in Dawes County Nebraska. Racism, however is a door that swings both directions.

Related Links ::: The Republic of Lakotah

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Russell Means Freedom

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An interview regarding Freedom and sovereignty with Russell Means leader of the movement to establish the Republic of Lakotah as an independent nation, separate from the United States

Related Links ::: Russell Means, The Republic of Lakotah, Wikipedia

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Uranium Mining Threatens Wild Horse Sanctuary and Your Water

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A talk with Tom Cook; field director for Running Strong for American Indian Youth, regarding Uranium Mining in the North West Nebraska and South West South Dakota.

Related Links ::: Uranium is NOT my Frien, Running Strong for American Indian Youth

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Oglala Veterans Day Pow Wow

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This video DOES NOT represent the views of FluxRostrum or Mobile Broadcast News. This is NOT the story that we have come to the Lakota to hear but it is a story that they want told; and that is as important as our agenda.

Related Links ::: IVAW, Oglala Veterans Pow Wow

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NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY RESISTANCE

Related Links ::: YaBasta5000

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Critical Mass NYC w/ Al Sharpton & Sean Bell's Family

Our friends from Uptown and Queens know the value to Right of Assembly... just ask Rosa Parks and her fire-hosed friends... cut to 2008, where Reverend Al Sharpton joins the heavily policed and harassed NEW YORK CITY CRITICAL MASS... A statement of Unity from diverse people who share a passion / recognize the necessity for the Right of Assembly!

Related Links ::: Sean Bell,
music: WE OWN THE STREETS by TeamSpider*

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Election to Be Decided by the 2 Headed Party

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A Los Angeles press conference on May 10, 2008, Alan Breslauer of HotPotatoMash asks presidential candidate Ralph Nader if he sees the upcoming election ending any differently than in 2004 (stolen by the Republicans) and 2000 (decided by the Supreme Court).
Related Links ::: Hot Potato Mash, The Brad Blog

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Chris Lugo: Tennessee Green Party Candidate for US Senate

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Chris explains his major platform positions.
Related Links ::: Chris4Senate.org, David Rovics, Mobile Broadcast News

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Mid Town Tunnel Blockade ~ NYC

May 7, 2008.. NYC citizens disrupt all major Bridges and Tunnels to show outrage at Sean Bell "50 shots" verdict*... Video by TeamSpider
*all officers: NOT Guilty

Related Links ::: Sean Bell Murder Protests

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Dissipating Dissent in the North American Union

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report back from "The Peoples Summit"
after the second sunburnt day of the gulf coast's people's summit, we here in new orleans are acting like we have months left before bush comes to town, when in fact he is here enjoying the city, comforted by air conditioning and motorcades. we are already witnessing the effects of his Security & Prosperity Partnership: with the mississippi river bridge's on and off ramps blocked, I-10 was made into an express highway, directing flows of traffic and people, conveniently out of his way, inconveniencing everyone else from having access to the city.

The canal street ferry, shuttling internally displaced traffic across the mississippi river, was circled through the day by coast guard boats fully armed and ready to fire mounted machine guns, in full show of force and what bush intends to mean by 'security,' we on the docks agreed was menacing and intimidating. the imminent, historic, and nation-altering meeting about to take place between the leaders of the "free world'' is being met with little, hardly any, noticeable resistance. Due at least in part to the crippled condition of new orleans, where 3 years after the hurricanes people continue to face daily struggles to survive, with no surplus resources, time, or active community members to lend to what would likely be, in any other city in the hemisphere, an equally historic People's protest to the executive meeting.

Civilian resistance and protest to massive free trade agreements seems to be planned for more by bush than by the american public or the "progressive left", and so new orleans is the perfect backdrop for the announcement of the spp: sweeping decisions adversely affecting millions of people are met with a strangled cry, gone unheard by the rest of the nation.

"Understanding who profits and how: NAFTA + and Katrina Profiteering" was a misnomer, a vague power-analysis turned roundcircle discussion, facilitated by the people's institute for survival and beyond. The session was attended by community organizers, international public service workers union representative, mexican trade unions, activists from chiapas, american and canadian youth, citizen journalists and media activists, farmer union representative, social workers, non-profit organizations, and new orleanians, served more as the critical race theory workshop that the Peoples Institute is known for, and not as any attempt for a coordinated approach or discussion on how to challenge bush, calderon and harper at this critical moment.

ironically, at this international summit, facilitators asked that we divide ourselves into national groups to notice similarities between new orleans and wherever we were visiting from, something that would have been manifold more useful to hear from each other, as it was a rare opportunity to hear voices from across the heavily guarded borders. discussion was derailed and became about how we are gate keepers, moving further and further away from any plan of action. the 6 hours were used as an introduction to social inequality, as if people signed up to take a class on the internalization of inferiority/superiority. in fact people came to act together in the face of big brother government.

for all of our talk on giving voices to disenfranchised people around the world, taking queues from these communities, learning from eachother, creating access to decision-making, none of the mexicans who traveled the long distance were asked what they thought should happen at this summit. there was no mention of their very successful strategies for organizing resistance to destructive neo-colonial economic policies. nobody asked "what can we do now that all of our presidents are in town?" instead was the same old, painfully ineffective naval-gazing

speaking with a gentleman from mexico after the looooong winded sessions were over, he asked what the break-out group of americans discussed, and i said they were just talking and not saying much, like americans do. and he laughed, agreeing said i should have been sitting with the mexican delegation because they were discussing that very
point.

report back is OK

Related Links ::: SPP.gov, Freedom Fighter Radio, People's Summit,
more NAU coverage @ MobileBroadcastNews.org

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NAU NOLA Peoples Summit Press Conference

Coverage of The Peoples Summit Press Conference April 20th in New Orleans.

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Day Labor Congress Play about the effects of NAFTA on workers.


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Related Links ::: The People's Summit New Orleans

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Security and Prosperity Partnership in NOLA

Going well beyond the Port of New Orleans, Security and Prosperity Partnership plans for "North American Integration" endanger port, trucking, and railroad jobs, as well as investments, incomes, and State revenues all over the country. The SPP is coming to the Big Easy, why should you care? Let's have a look...

Here's what you can expect.



Go to New Orleans and DO SOMETHING
Monday, 4/21
9am – 12pm Community Tour of New Orleans & Story Circles in Congo Square
12 – 1:30pm Opening Ceremony & Lunch in Congo Square
2pm – 5pm Understanding Who Profits & How: NAFTA+ and Katrina Profiteering
6pm – 9pm Understanding Who Profits & How: NAFTA+ and Katrina Profiteering

Tuesday, 4/22
9am – 12pm Self-organized sessions
1pm – 4pm Self-organized sessions
6pm – 9pm Breaking Inferiority & Superiority to Restore Ourselves & Our Communities

Wednesday, 4/23
10am Press Conference

NEW ORLEANS POLICE SAY THEY WILL TREAT NAU PROTEST AS A RIOT

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