Iraq Vet Crushed By Police Horse at Presidential Debate

Iraq Vet trampled by police horse while peacefully protesting on the sidewalk.

Related Links ::: More on this story From I-Witness Video

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Political Conventions Ate My Constitution and All I Got Was This Stupid Head Wound

Download iPodA video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”

Ground Noise & Static is a joint effort of Franklin López of subMedia.TV and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their “Unconventional” stories.

Related Links ::: Pepper Spray Productions, Submedia

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Unwritten Future: RNC Police State Tactics

.mp4, HiRes Download available for free(2008) A documentary that looks into the events during the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN.

Footage contains excessive use of force and questionable tactics used by police toward activists. It also includes interviews with citizens, asking them what they are fighting for.

This documentary is strictly for educational purposes only and should never be sold. The footage contains graphic state terrorism of its own people and some adult language.

The footage used in this documentary was shot mainly by independent, non-profit, and volunteer citizens that have risked much to bring you this uncensored look into the Republican National Convention. Thanks to all of you that fight for truth.

Related Links ::: GuerrillaJournal60

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RNC Audience With The Mayor

20 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Bandwidth Challenged
embedding options @ BlipTV MEDIA ADVISORY September, 4, 2008
For Immediate Release: Contingent of Lawyers, Activists, and Media Take Concerns of Police Brutality at RNC to Mayor Coleman's Office

Contact: Kris Hermes 510-681-6361
- WHAT: Attempt to meet with Mayor Chris Coleman about escalation of police brutality in St. Paul
- WHO: Lawyers, activists, and members of the media - WHEN: September 4, 2008 @ 4:00 p.m.
- WHERE: St. Paul Mayor’s Office, 15 W. Kellogg Blvd. Police violence has not been limited to the streets. The Coldsnap Legal Collective, providing support to people arrested at the RNC, has received numerous reports of abuse in the jails. In addition to widespread denial of medical attention, multiple people have been brutalized by Sheriff’s Deputies inside their cells.

At a press conference earlier today, recently released activist Elliot Hughes made statements that while in jail he had a bag placed over his head, a gag in his mouth, and was beaten to unconsciousness by multiple correctional officers.

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RNC Poor People's Snatch & Grab

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Interview with a Portland IndyMedia reporter who was snatched from the Poor People's March Tuesday at the RNC in St. Paul mixed with footage from the incident and the march.

Related Links ::: Portland IMC

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Critical Mass is a Contact Sport

Cops TACKLES bicyclist in Time Square

news reports part 1


news reports part 2

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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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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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CCRB Report Recommends NYPD Discipline

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An update regarding the video "Get That Camera!". The NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board has recommended command discipline for one officer and allowed 2 to skate by. The CCRB has NO authority to actually discipline police officers, their recommendations are sent to the Police Commissioner. I expect another letter in 2 years telling me no punishment will be levied against the fall guy.

Related Links ::: WATCH "GET THAT CAMERA!"

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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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State of Police

This is all very recent activity.
more of this?


Officer Salvatore Rivieri


more of this?

more of this? Could This be for THIS?

Respect is something that is earned, not taken.
At what point is it acceptable to disallow their authority?

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Birthdays Celebrated in Oaxaca: RIP Brad, Viva Oaxaca

Ironically it appears that the revolution in Oaxaca and Brad Will were both born on the 14th of June. Brad would have been 38 this year, Oaxaca is 1. AUDIO

Investigator of Brad Will's Death Shot Twice

Related Links ::: KBOO ~ Portland, Brad Will . org,
Friends of Brad Will, The Unapologetic Mexican

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Torture & Coercion in America

Is It Fascism Yet?

Sign it or I'm gonna shoot you ...
Cops extorting bribe money and drugs from a small business man.

This starts out a little slow just keep listening.
If you're not truly disgusted by the end... your a fascist.

Related Links ::: More Info @ Free Speech TV, Thank You 2 Pirate News

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Black Panther Flag Ceremony

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At the end of the 40,000 person strong "Shopping For Justice" March lead by Al Sharpton a group of Panthers raised their Fists in front of Macy's and burned a flag for justice.

Related Links ::: Fire Ray Kelly, Failing to Protect,
History of the Black Panther Party, New Orleans Panthers

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The War on Journalism

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This video is dedicated to Independent Journalists worldwide who've paid a price for seeking the truth ... some more than others. ~presente

HOW TO TAKE ACTION

It's not like this is the 1st time ...
CBS 2 Investigates: Videotape Cops At Own Peril

In the last three years, there has been an increase of 25% in civilian complaints against the NYPD. In the last two years, there has been an increase of 12% in lawsuits filed against the NYPD for false arrest, assault, excessive force or other wrongdoing.*

Related Links ::: Let Them Talk, Reporters Without Borders, Friends of Brad Will, Free Josh Wolf, Witness, "Why I did not leave Nazi Germany in time", Al Crespo's PBS Photo Journalism Video, Guilty of Independent Journalism, Who will police the NYPD?, Failing to Protect, IFEX, IFJ, Off-Center, I Witness Video, Brad Will's last Stand ~ VIDEO, Brad Will Vigil ~ VIDEO, Bloggers Beware, CyberJournalist.net, The Center for Citizen Media

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Cop Watching

Eye of the Storm

August 22 2002 Portland Oregon
The face of dissent through the eyes of official police surveillance video.

Related Links ::: Cop Watch 101

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May Day In Fighting

Audio ~ Work from Audio Anarchy

May Day is not a worker of color holiday.
It's all "The Worker's" Holiday

So, while it is refreshing AND LONG OVER DUE to have the participation of our new immigrant brothers & sisters... why do they join us now only to shove aside and denigrate whitey activists who have been fighting these battles for them (albeit lamely) for so many years?
~ immigrant Beat Down NYC
~ Whitey Indy Reporters Attacked by ANSWER
~ Anarchist Bloc @ Chicago Mayday/Immigrant's Rights March

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Posse Comitatus Conundrum

Soldiers Patrol the streets of New Orleans at all times of the day, in all areas of the city.

They are welcomed by and friendly with people who live here, the relief workers who have come to volunteer and the previously unemployed from all parts of the country who've come here for jobs, which are plentiful.

If the New Orleans Police weren't brutalizing people and making complelty unfounded arrests... We'd all be screaming about the Posse Comitatus Law... but under the circumstances..

For example.. to relate just a few of the many stories I've heard since being here.

On the day that residents were "welcomed Back" to their city some were arrested for being on their own porch after curfew (their homes had not been demolded yet and staying inside was not safe). One man was arrested for "stealing" his own car. volunteer, non governmental, relief workers have recently been arrested for disorderly conduct & drunk in public when they were simply walking to where they were staying after attending organizational meetings where drinking was not involved.(in a city that allows people to walk around drinking alcohol openly) Any black man walking with a white woman should try to pretend they are not together.. for his own safty. Arrests have be brutal, some times accompanied by threats that in most cases would be considered terrorism. (we're gonna kill you, make it look like a suicide and throw your body in the river).

The commonly consensed reason for these unlawful arrests is that the police force needs to keep the number of arrests at about the same level as before the hurricane or they will be forced to lay off some cops. Problem is, thare are so few people in town that to do this they will need to arrest practically everyone at least once.

The ATF and ICE (which people seem to think are "Homeland Security") have also been harassing those who are here to rebuild the city. WHY ARE THEY HERE AT ALL?

Crime is exceptionally low. The city is full of people living in their vehicles, in tents in parks or in their yards.. The mold makes a great deal of the housing unlivable until cleaned. The rhetoric of welcoming people back but not offering any way for them to live while they seek jobs and clean ther homes is making tempers fly, toward anything governmental, and is bringing a level of solidarity among the people that I have not seen before.

Which brings me back to the Posse Comitatus. It's quite disturbing to me that I myself, having railed against violations of this law at most of the major protests of last year, find myself smiling and chating with the national guard. I'm sitting in a French Quarter bar as I write this and just watched 2 fully armed guardsmen walk by the window. They are needed to protect us from the cops. No one notices them as the walk down the street. If they were N.O.P.D. people would have crossed to the other side of the street to avoid them. NO P.D. :)

Could this be planned? To accustom people to military occupation on American Soil?

Gaurdsmen routinely break rules in order to help the various activists volunteer relief workers in the city. The same groups that are being constanly harassed by the cops and city officials. It seems to be commonly agreed that to get any support to the residents trying to return that rules must be ignored. During Manditory evacuation of Rita (i think) I've heard from passengers of a "hippie bus" that was fueled for free by the miltary guard who wrote on the paper work involved to charge FEMA. Is this a higher level of good cop bad cop? Or are miltary members beginning to see that our bureaucracies are killing us?

Last night there was a house fire in the 8th ward. A friend lived a couple doors down and filmed the entire event, getting spectacular shots of interior explosions, huge flames, and Hero firemen scaling a roof with flames shooting up 20 feet or more above their heads. When the news crews showed up (after the fire was out). I suggested to her that they may want to buy her footage. She showed one of them what she got and while a few of us watched intently he simply packed his equipment and left without shooting a single frame or saying a word. We called a couple of stations and talked to 2 other late comers and the response was "we'll use what we got, we don't buy footage, escpecially for a routine house fire".

I stopped shooting after seeing her footage as well and completly lost interest in being there until the Red Cross showed up. I had not yet seen Red Cross workers anywhere in the city. They came in after the fire was completely out and the onlookers had disbursed. They had 3 large trucks and a couple cars, must have been 20 - 30 Red Crossers hanging around handing water to the neighbors and making sure they weren't too freaked out. WHY WERE THEY THERE AT ALL? It was "just a routine house fire".

I hate to write. I would have much preferred to Show You. But I still can't edit. I'm working on it.

Related Links ::: Posse Comitatus: A principle in need of renewal, The Posse Comitatus Act, New Orleans IndyMedia, AUDIO: aid worker jailed and battered, Malik Rahim speaks on his experience following Katrina and the formation of Common Ground, Common Ground Collective

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VIDEO: Resistencia! Tearing Down Fences

Since I can't make my own videos right now I thought I post some underappreciated work from others from time to time.
This is from Pan Left Productions
Resistencia! Tearing Down Fences
A personal account of the director's experiences in the anti-globalization movement during fall 2003, Resistencia covers ground from the anti-WTO actions in Cancún to the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Miami. Addressing the impacts of tourism, agriculture in a global setting, organized labor, media control, and the rise of the police state, Resistencia offers a glimpse into worldwide organizing against corporate globalization from a regional angle with a focus on movements in Mexico and the United States.
View the streaming video (requires RealPlayer)

Related Links ::: Fluxview, USA Globalization Video Archive

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17 month old Susie Lopez shotin the head by the LAPD

Video of a Community in outrage by the LAIMC
Watts community residents took the streets in response to the shooting of 17 month old Susie Lopez who was shot in the head with a rifle by the LAPD...... There has been little if any covereage of the rampant police killings burning throughout Los Angeles.

Related Links ::: LAIMC, Windows Media Video

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