Indymedia US NewsReal July 2008

27 min. ~ Download iPod ~ embedding options @ here

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.

Stumble It!

Critical Mass is a Contact Sport

Cops TACKLES bicyclist in Time Square

news reports part 1


news reports part 2

Stumble It!

Coke or Pepsi?

The absudity of the 2 party system exposed.

Related Links ::: SubMedia TV

Stumble It!

subpoenas

Friends,
I-Witness Video has been served with two subpoenas by lawyers from the City of New York in connection with the 2004 Republican National Convention. The City has demanded every piece of paper, electronic file, and videotape related to the protests - even our copies of the tapes shot by their own NYPD!

We're fighting this gross abuse of subpoena power. Yesterday our lawyers at Schulte Roth & Zabel moved to quash both subpoenas.

See the website for our statement.
http://iwitnessvideo.info/blog/index.html

This is a link to today's New York Times article about the subpoenas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/nyregion/20convention.html

We need your support to continue this important work. Let us know if you are interested in helping to document the presidential conventions in Denver and Minneapolis this summer. And if you can make a financial contribution at iwitnessvideo.info/contribute/index.html, it would be enormously useful at this time, to help us fight these subpoenas, and to continue our work opposing police misconduct.

In solidarity,
Eileen Clancy

e-mail: iwitness@iwitnessvideo.info
website: iwitnessvideo.info

Stumble It!

NOmadjik Media Bus ~ AFTER Tour

5 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Bandwidth Challenged
embedding options @ Revver An invitation for independent video journalists to get on the bus and a tour of our current facilities. Check out what 11 months of progress looks like on a school bus converted to run on waste vegetable oil and deployed to facilitate independent journalism focusing on grass roots movements while giving the middle finger to corporate media.

Related Links ::: Fluxview, USA DVD CLUB,
Mobile Broadcast News

Stumble It!

CCRB Report Recommends NYPD Discipline

6 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Bandwidth Challenged
embedding options @ Revver
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!"

Stumble It!

LIVE Independent Media Network

Josh Wolf, a San Francisco activist and videographer wants to create a live video network, powered by citizens and cheap tech.

Related Links ::: Josh Wolf, Rabble TV, From the Frontline

Stumble It!

Fluxview USA Screening in Chicago

The (international | independent | interstitial) festival schedule is up, they have selected 2 shorts videos from my videography to screen at the festival... but they are not announcing which ones. ..hmmm

The festival will take place in the i-cubed studio February 29th though March 2nd.
11 W Illinois (State/Illinois - one block south of Grand Red Line)

More about the festival and schedule

Stumble It!

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?

Stumble It!

New Hampshire Primary Recount Results

It's official.
Watch More @ Black Box Voting (U2B) Read More @ Black Box Voting (site)

please listen to the song below after watching the video

Stumble It!

S 1959 “THOUGHT CRIME” Bill Is In OBAMA’s Hands

Online policing of politically unreliable web sites (Senate Bill S-1959) will bring to the US internet what Yahoo has already brought to China: Internet related censorship services and jailed dissidents. It also will apply to real life demonstraqtions of dissent that are generally accepted and ineffectual.

The bill, (S-1959) misleadingly called the Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization act of 2007 is a thought crime bill. The bill was passed in the house under a curious suspension of the rules usually reserved for non controversial issues like the naming of a post office.

A Senate Vote is imminent. Obama sits on the Senate committee responsible for moving it forward or sending it back to nazi Germany. As of December 27, 2007, Obama says he hasn’t yet decided how he will vote.

The bill is being pushed by the Pentagon through it’s think tank, the Rand Corporation. If passed it will be another step toward completely totalitarian fascist "democracy".

Related Links ::: Better Bad News

Stumble It!

New Hampshire Primary: Vote Fraud & Thuggery

9.5 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Bandwidth Challenged
embedding options here or U2BPrimary Day in New Hampshire and all the candidates are glad handing to beat hell. Giuliani's goons attack Vermin Supreme.
featuring: Rudy Giuliani, Vermin Supreme, John Edwards, McCain, Kucinich

Stumble It!

Bio Liberty: Energy is Freedom

19 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Full Screen ~ Bandwidth Challenged ~
embed it from Revver, BlipTV or U2B ~The Bio Liberty relief / redevelopment camp in Slidell Louisiana is pioneering sustainable, off the grid, weather resistant and affordable housing solutions for the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast region. The property itself was a landing/launching pad for numerous groups of grassroots hurricane relief workers and is now being developed as a model for Solar, Geothermal and BioDiesel powered communities.

Related Links ::: Bio Liberty, Plenty International, Common Ground Collective, Emergency Communities, H.A.W.C., Cultural Warrior, Mr. Dibbs

Stumble It!

Happy Human Rights Day

Witness: "The Hub" is the world's first participatory media site for human rights.

Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.

Related Links ::: The HUB

Stumble It!

NOmadjik Journey: The Other LA

7 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Full Screen ~ Bandwidth Challenged ~
embedding options here or U2B
The NOmadjik Media Bus finally makes it to New Orleans after a grueling cross country adventure. With assistance from our friends @ Bio Liberty and New Orleans BioDiesel Initiative the bus received some much needed upgrades. I learned a lot about Waste Vegetable Oil as Fuel and the empowering process of BioDiesel Production in the Gulf Coast Region.
~~~
The NOmadjik Media Bus is now preparing to start coverage of the Presidential Primary Selections in New Hampshire and beyond. We will be following the primaries south from New Hampshire hitting as many as possible.

We will also be attending BOTH the Democratic and Republican Conventions and Inauguration. If you'd like to visit us or join us on the road, get in touch.

Tax Deductible Donations made now will benefit the project greatly as we still need to gear up a bit and winterize.

Related Links ::: DONATE (Tax Deductible), DONATE a dollar,
New Orleans BioDiesel Initiative, Bio Liberty

Stumble It!

Days Down in TexAss

14 min. ~ Contains Explicit Language
The NOmadjik Media Bus attempts to cross Texas.
Downloads I-pod ~ Bandwidth Challenged
embedding options here or U2B

Related Links::: Clifton Hicks, DONATIONS, Satellite Internet Fund, Text Blog

Stumble It!

NOmadjik LA-TEX 07

The NOmadjik WVO media bus travels from LA to Texas.
6 min. ~ Contains Explicit Language
Downloads I-pod ~ Full Screen ~ Bandwidth Challenged
embedding options here or U2B

Related Links::: Illogik, AZ Chief, Green Acres, Cactus Jerky, Photos by O Music, Photos by Clay Greenbush, Text Blog

Stumble It!

Let's Get Civilized!

Related Links ::: SOURCE

Stumble It!

Let's Go Waterboarding!

Military leaked waterboarding instructional video for the beginner interrogator.

Related Links ::: Shadowbox Film, More Info

Stumble It!

Press Arrested for Filming Hot Pig on Bear Action

Monday October 22nd, at least 59 people had been arrested taking part in the No War No Warming direct action taking place all day on capitol hill. Protesters used creativity in staging their demonstrations to bring attention to the need to end the war in Iraq, and to focus our energy on solving the problem of global warming." Polar Bears for Solutions blocked entrances and sidewalks around the Cannon House office building on capitol hill in Washington DC.

Related Links ::: The DC Bears, Why Not News, No War No Warming

Stumble It!