Behind the Scenes Video Journalism with The Stimulator

The brain behind the eyes of the Stimulator. A must see primer for indy media producers or wanna be's.

Related Links ::: SubMedia TV, Rochester IndyMedia

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Army Shreds Files on Dead Soldiers

HELMET CAM FROM RAMADI, IRAQ shows what shredded paper hides.

cover up? shades of grey in war time.
Related Links ::: Read THE FULL STORY at Salon

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Evil is Real: Rights are No Consideration

7:44 min. ~ Download iPod
embedding options @ Blip The saga of the NOmadjik Media Bus at the Republican National Convention played out among context that will sadden anyone who believes in freedom and democracy. The RNC in St. Paul was an exercise in intimidation, harassment and preemptive arrest of JOURNALISTS.

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Related Links ::: SubMedia TV, Glass Bead Collective, RNCIMC

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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 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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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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Josh Wolf: Freedom of the Blog

Use the Open Tools link in the video player to navigate to specific topics within the video.

Related Links ::: Josh Wolf, Commonwealth Club, Fora TV

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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

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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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Cop Killer Confesses

Arnold Beverly's Confession

Arnold Beverly, NOT MUMIA, killed the cop. He explains the facts and details of what REALLY happened. - Video from the Partisan Defence Committee.

From Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal (part 2 of Mondays video)

From Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal (part 3 of Mondays video)

ALL OUT IN PHILLY MAY 17th

Related Links ::: Partisan Defense Commitee, FREE MUMIA NOW!, Mo' Mumia

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Mumia's Last Chance ~ Freedom or Death

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a Peabody award winning journalist who smashed a ring of corrupt police. Just a few months later, he was arrested, tried and convicted (by an all-white jury). The charge: killing a cop. Mumia is innocent, and he embodies everything good about the American Free Press.

His final chance at freedom is approaching. If he is not granted pardon, he will either be executed, as he is on death row, or he will spend the rest of his life in a cage.

What are you going to do?

Related Links ::: More about Mumia, Gonzo Muckraker

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1st Amendment Right to Assemble... nice while it lasted

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The NYPD now requires a permit for any public gathering, or 'parade', of 50 people or more. Section 1A of the city ruling defines a parade as "any march, motorcade, caravan, promenade, foot, or bicycle race, or similar event of any kind, procession or race which consists of a recognizable group of 50 or more pedestrians, vehicles, bicycles, or other devices move by human power, or ridden or herded animals proceeding together upon any public street or roadway."

This "redefinition" is Explicitly Prohibited in 1st Amendment.

"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble ..."

This video shows how they intend to regulate free assembly while physically infringing upon the free press by following a typical monthly bike ride through Manhattan. ~ Critical Mass 3-30-07

Come out today in solidarity with the Radical Homosexual Agenda to challenge this unconstitutional change in rules for public gatherings.
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If you're in NYC you can help challenge this "redefinition" TODAY
PARADE WITHOUT A PERMIT! Thursday, April 19th, 4PM at City Hall
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Related Links ::: Times Up!, Critical Mass Tickets, Glass Bead Collective, Radical Homosexual Agenda

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The War on Journalism

6 minutes ~ IPOD ~ Download the Full Screen Version
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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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Brad Will's Last Stand

Click Image ~ Watch Video ~ mp4 16 minutes ~ Spanish Language Torrent ~ U2B ~ download

This is the last footage of a well respected colleague and good friend of many of my good friends. I knew Brad only as ships passing in the night but knew of his many adventures through the stories his good friends have told ... and will continue to tell. The video is provided by the Oaxaca IndyMedia Center. It shows his skill as a videographer as he runs with the crowd, backward away from gunfire, in order to "get the shot" of the people running... through his lens you can hide with him under a truck to "get the shot" of the group that likley included his killer... He died rollin' tape for justice ... I guess that's as good as it gets these days ...

In some mainstream articles about this event they describe it as a "shoot out" ...
I guess so, a shoot out between guns and a video camera ... guns have won the fight but the wars not over...

MONDAY Oct. 30th Call to Action!

Related Links ::: Oaxaca IndyMedia, Much More INFO @ NYC IMC,
Join the Global Outrage @ your nearest Mexican Consulate Office,
Spanish TV VIDEO of the Aftermath of the shooting
VIDEO ~ Camera's or Guns part 2 & 3 here (on the right),
Spanish Only Version of Brad's Last Interviews

Electronic Blockade add a log to the fire

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