As the 10th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle approach, we have rooted around in our archives to bring you the 5 original episodes of "Showdown in Seattle," produced at the Seattle Indymedia Center that week. "What Democracy Looks Like" Dec 3, 1999 William Kunsler, great American defense attorney describes Michelangelo's Statue of David as unique because it captures the moment of decision, not the moment of victory. The first four episodes of "Showdown in Seattle" were produced while the battle was raging, when each activist and group had to face THEIR moment of decision, the moment when they decided to go up against all odds to really stop the WTO. This, the final episode of "Showdown," proclaims their victory as the WTO talks collapsed in defeat. (Although not shown in this episode, to really rub it in, the city government of Seattle refused to let the WTO conference extend their stay in town by even a day, even though the WTO begged for an extension. Activists in the streets shut down the WTO on the first day, and the City shut them down again on the last day. Double shut-down! Some people feel that it took 911 and the subsequent development of the US security state to check the people's movement that stopped the WTO. Irregardless of 911, the united front that emerged to stop the WTO in Seattle still is needed, now, more than ever. There have been subsequent losses of liberties, economic collapse, and an ever greater understanding of the importance of taking into consideration the environment. As a species, we are still racing for the bottom when we need to fight for the other world that is possible. (There is not one peep about global warming in ANY of these 5 episodes. That's one example of an issue that has arisen full force since 1999, but that proves the point of the protests.) These videos serve as a fine example of what can come out of a people's media. The IMC went viral, spreading to countries around the world, playing an important part in keeping the movement alive and well. The PepperSpray Collective, producers of "Indymedia Presents," began as part of the Seattle IMC. We are proud to continue this fine tradition. Like Michelangelo's David we have decided we CAN fight the giant, and we can win. Please visit our website for more info: www.peppersprayproductions.org

It was the moment when a great coalition of the future, the people of the world, united together, first became visible. American labor had seen its factories closed down, jobs exported to more exploitative regions of the world. The third world had felt its own pains, and WTO delegates from those countries knew they were committing their homelands to perpetual poverty if they willingly locked on the shackles of the WTO agreements. Farmers of India were committing mass suicide. Environmentalists had recognized the signs of ecological collapse. Nowhere was safe from the reach of global capital and a bleak future of corporate monoculture, all in the name of ?free trade.? The crack-down intensified, the jails filled up, but demonstrations continued. In the swirling clouds of teargas, the American public got a glimpse of the crossroads of the future: one way was the road of repression and a corporate-dominated race to hell. The other road raised the possibility of world unity and a fight to lift us all, symbolized by the coalition of ?Teamsters and Turtles.? At the least, people the world over, wondering what the fuss was all about, got a quick political education, fulfilling one of the goals of the protests. This is episode 4 of the 5-part series ?Showdown in Seattle, 5 days that shook theWTO,? produced by the Seattle Indymedia Center during the week of meetings and protests in late 1999. Looking back we know that the ?Millennium Round? of the WTO collapsed that week, but when this episode was produced, the collapse had not yet happened. Like the Berlin Wall, which fell without warning, the demonstrators rage against the machine, not knowing how close to total success they were getting. Students of political process could study these videos and learn profound lessons about going up against the corporate state.

It was Wednesday, day 3 of WTO week in Seattle, and day 2 of the Ministerial meetings. Tuesday had been a disaster for the authorities on every level, as wave after wave of activists poured into the town like the Seattle rain that poured from the skies. The WTO had been shut down before it could even open and by Tuesday evening the National Guard had been called out, a large area in downtown Seattle had been designated a political free-fire zone, and public opinion had swung heavily against the WTO. Wednesday morning the world wondered whether things would settle down or what would happen next. One of the great strengths of the anti-WTO protests in Seattle in late 1999 was what later became known as "diversity of tactics." Different groups had taken different parts of the week to stage their activities, so that the movement always had fresh forces and a new focus to keep the pressure up. On Wednesday the Steelworkers held a permitted rally down on the waterfront. Other activists gathered in the Westlake area of downtown to challenge the legitimacy of the hastily declared "no-protest zone." Episode 3 of the 5-part "Showdown in Seattle" series is entitled "Occupied Seattle." It takes up the street battles of the day, but beyond that it brings to the screen a group little mentioned by most documentaries of the protests, the Filipino community. One of the contingents, numbering in the thousands, that marched in its own march into downtown Seattle on Tuesday was organized by a coalition of Filipino groups. They understood and were there to protest the effects of "neoliberalism" which is the term for what the WTO represents. Indymedia Presents #372 contains the third of five episodes of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE" produced at the Seattle Indymedia Center during the week of protests. IP #370 was episode 1, IP #371 contained episode 2. We will soon post the final 2 episodes as IP #373 & 374. For a good but short definition of "neoliberalism" see www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376 Here's the short course: Economic liberalism is different from the political liberalism most Americans associate with the left. Conservative politicians who say they hate "liberals" -- meaning the political type -- have no real problem with economic liberalism, including neoliberalism. The main points of neo-liberalism include: 1. THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. 2. CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business. 3. DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job. 4. PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. 5. ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."

Part 1 of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE, 5 Days That Shook the WTO" (Nov 29, 1999) Ten years ago the WTO came to Seattle, the only American city with a statue of Lenin, and got run out of town. It was a moment legends are made of, but it was real life. Sixty thousand protesters, all in one way or another saying "shut it down," para-trouped in behind corporate lines, regrouping into alliances and affinity groups. They formed the legions of a political army, with all the division of labor any other army would have. It was "People, United," and they would NOT be defeated. They DID shut it down, physically and politically, internally, and perhaps eternally. The people stood up, not in some Obama music video, but in real life. Diversity of tactics and timing allowed the action to go on all week, and our side--people's army that it was--didn't abandon our casualties. In the end, the WTO, in disarray, asked the City of Seattle if they could please extend their stay by a day or so. The City said "No, leave as scheduled," and firmly ran them out of town. One good thing that came out of those times was the birth of the Seattle Indymedia Center (IMC). Before 1999 there was much less thought about going to the Internet to follow an event like a political uprising. The IMC cobbled together servers galore and a phat pipeline to the web. Even if Corporate America had wanted to cover the story of the opponents to the WTO, they couldn't have done so well. CBS or NBC might have one camera on the ground, and that most likely in with the dignitaries, but every gang and gaggle of activists likely included somebody who recorded it or reported it. Citizen journalism was alive, and even Corporate News turned to the IMC website for accurate reporting. An ad-hoc collaboration of some pre-existing video groups under the auspices of the IMC, gathered this footage and produced a daily video in a series called "Showdown in Seattle, 5 Days that Shook the WTO." Indymedia Presents #370, is Part 1 of that original series, produced Nov 29, 1999, a day of banner drops, debt drop, and raindrops, with a big show that night in the Seattle Center. Episode #371 of Indymedia Presents will be the second part in the 5-part series, and so on. We hope these original episodes can be useful in providing some deeper understanding of the issues, many of which have become mainstream, hidden in a sound-bite mention of the 10th anniversary of those days of action. In these 5 shows we can see a victory for the people and for people?s media. It was messy, but the WTO is still in shambles, while the IMC, with its collaborative model, went viral.

"Showdown in Seattle, 5 Days That Shook the WTO" part 2, Nov 30, 99 It was the opening day of the official proceedings. Activists were way better organized, and got up earlier than authorities had expected. Using multiple tactics, including the blockading of the streets leading to the meetings, activists managed to do what they had promised to do, which is keep the meetings from happening. Longshoremen shut down every port on the west coast, Seattle cab drivers went on strike, activists held their blockades and barricades, and 50,000 union members marched into the city center, hard hats, steel toed boots and all. Beyond physically stopping the meetings, the coalition which formed to stop the "Millennium Round" of the WTO scored a BIG political victory by putting the WTO and the problems with it in the minds of people and by really boosting and linking movements around the world. Watching this footage, which was captured and edited in the thick of the "Battle of Seattle" is fascinating, because 10 years later we know how the story turned out, and that the effort was way more successful than even the activists understood at the moment. The stories of how US Secretary of State Madaline Albright was stuck in her hotel room and couldn't get to the sites of the WTO meetings were not known to demonstrators on the ground. The stories of how the protests outside embolded Third World delegates inside the Ministerial meetings only came out later. The video coverage of that day, contained in part two of the 5 segments is remarkable for how similar it is to ANY large demonstration, and shows, in a way, how "mountaintop" moments are made. Indymedia Presents #371 features part 2 of the 5 parts series made 10 years ago in occupied Seattle. Part 3 will be in our next episode, #372, and so on.

This week Indymedia presents “Testimonies From Falluja.” One of the guiding priciples of Indymedia is to have the people tell their own stories, to speak for themselves. This video is an outstanding example of this concept. The piece was made in the war zone, by Iraqi videographers shortly after the second US siege of Falluja. Directed by Dr. Hamodi Jasim, with an independent Iraqi crew, the video cut through the baloney to bring out the true situation on the ground. At the time, the US was suppressing information about what had happened in Falluja, and this video played an important role in letting people around the world know of the horror imposed on the citizens of that unlucky city. Dahr Jamail, independent US journalist, who was in Iraq when this piece was made, provides the narration. When we originally showed this piece on “Indymedia Presents #136,” it was the first time the video had been shown on American TV. Dahr brought the piece out of Iraq as a video CD. The PepperSpray Collective converted the VCD to DVD and began US distribution. For those concerned with how the war in Afghanistan is going, watchin g this video about Iraqis quite instructive, since it seems like much of the same thing all over again. For more info about this video, contact the PepperSpray collective: PepperSpray@riseup.net.

Continuing our serialization of “The Leader #17,” Indymedia presents two short videos this week:

“Critical Mass” is about the bicycle ride of the same name that regularly occurs all over the country. Produced by PepperSpray’s Lila Kitaeff and Len Davis, this video focuses on the mass bicycle ride, but quickly enough goes to a confrontation between riders and an auto driver.

“Voices of the Veterans” is a compilation of interviews collected over the last few years with Iraq Veterans Against The War, compiled for last veteran’s day. This is a continuation of a long-standing effort by PepperSpray to bring to the public the view and lessons of veterans, paid for in blood, and necessary for the public to fully grasp the horrors of war and occupation. The GI and veterans movements are integral parts of the anti-war effort.

On episode #364 Indymedia presents back-to-back joints from our favorite Puerto Rican in Canada, Franklyn Lopez. Were talking about episodes 10 &11 of his brash series Its the End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Fine. We can never get enough of The Simulator and his wicked political perspective!

Perhaps most thought provoking is the material regarding the attention anti-2010 Olympics activists in Vancouver, Canada are getting from intelligence agents. Its Franklyn at his best, as he interviews a woman in a police hat and pig ears who comments that the Olympics are a great excuse for the security state to ramp up targeting of environmental, indigenous, globalization, animal rights and other activists in a way that normally would be unacceptable. The security dollars are flooding into Vancouver and the season has opened on activists of all sorts. We have seen this sort of this before, during the Democratic and Republican national conventions in the US, for example. For those who believe fascism stopped with the guy who wore the little mustache, heres some insight in Technicolor to shake your faith.
End of the World Episode 10:
1.Your tax dollars at work in Obamastan

2.A cum blast from the past
3.Future crimes today
4.The Winter Olympigs
5.Worldwide Resistance Report
6.Ska-P
7.Ward Churchill deconstructs Obamas Cairo speech

Episode 11 has The Stimulator reporting on repression in the streets of Iran, but the footage is from St. Paul during the Republican National Convention. And you wonder why we love this guy?
End of the World Episode 11:
1.The King of Cock
2.Twiran
3.Honduras Coup Plug
4.Mayans fight back against Goldcorp
5.The ELF strikes in Mexico
6.Jim Hansens Coal Theater
7.Uribes new boss
8.cOalbamas clean energy plan
9.Really clean CO2 free transport
10.Emergency Broadcast Network
11.Nickelsville USA

The second in a series by one of our Pepper producers, Patricia Boiko. The first program examined the genocide in Rwanda, and how people heal from a horror like that.

This piece looks at the Abatwa people, better known in the US as the Pygmies. The Abatwa, who are the indigenous people of the region, have suffered unspeakably and unnoticed by all except themselves.

Traditional hunters, they were kicked off their ancestral lands when that area was made into an animal preserve. The unintended consequence of an environmental victory was great destruction to Abatwa culture, and the loss of many lives.

Later, during the period of the Rwandan genocide, they lost 30% of their population. Nobody noticed because the Abatwa were not important to anybody but themselves.

The Abatwa are an example of the phenomenon feared by Subcomandante Marcos and the indigenous communities of the Chiapas region of Mexico, that of being so marginalized as a people that you just don't matter any more.

http://caurwa.org

http://hdirwanda.org

http://healthleadershipinternational.org

Never Again Rwanda This short, also by Patricia Boiko, captures a little presentation in a community trying to heal from and prevent future genocide.

http://neveragainrwanda.org

http://winningpicturesllc.org


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When Enron traders scattered like cockroaches in a sudden ray of light, they regrouped in the oil industry, setting up unregulated oil futures trading based on the Enron model. Antonia Juhasz sleuths out this and other shocking dirt on Evil Oil, the most profitable industry in the world, in her book “Tyranny of Oil.” She gave the presentation upon which this PepperSpray video piece is based at King’s Books in Tacoma, WA. Pepperproducer Tacoma Joe LaSac skillfully B-rolled Juhasz to make this very watchable piece also entitled “Tyranny of Oil.” This video was included on “The Leader #17,” a compilation DVD recently published by the PepperSpray video collective, which we have been serializing on “Indymedia Presents.” For more info on Antonia Juhasz go to: www.tyrannyofoil.org/

This week Indymedia presents a short piece on police brutality by Tajuan LaBee. Prompted by the beating of a 15 year old girl by two Seattle-area jailers, he asks “if teachers and nurses are not allowed to beat up people, then why do we tolerate violence by cops?” Then we visit the “Judas Goat,” a reference to military recruiters. We round out the show with two pieces from the newly released “The Leader #17.” “Break The Cuba Blockade,” created by Steve Anderson, examines the Pastors For Peace efforts to deliver supplies to Cuba. “Seattle Out and Proud” by Tacoma Joe LaSac is just in time for Pride season activities.

The demand for universal healthcare for all, with “single payer” government administration is sweeping the nation. Recently in Seattle thousands took to the streets to demand single payer health care for all. PepperSpray reporters were there and produced the story that leads off “Indymedia Presents #360.” Every industrial “First World” country in the world—except for the US—and many developing nations as well have universal government sponsored healthcare. The US lack of a government health program for all Americans is directly responsible for the terrible health statistics in the US (infant mortality, life expectancy etc), but the Obama administration has indicated that single payer is “off the table.” Judging from the streets, this isn’t quite true. We follow this with a 3 minute animated piece called “White Privilege.” The final segment on this week’s program is taken from PepperSpray’s newly released 2 DVD set of activist videos, “The Leader #17.” Over the next while we will feature material from that compilation DVD set on this show. This week we start with “The Seattle General Strike.”

This week Indymedia presents the June 09 “Indymedia NewsReal.” The “NewsReal” is a joint effort of Indymedia and Free Speech TV. The idea is that independent videographers send in their short news videos, which are edited into a monthly show. We carry the resulting show on “Indymedia Presents” each month. For more on the “Indymedia NewsReal” project go to: http://newsreal.indymedia.org

The runsheet for this month is as follows:

6 Years of Saying No To War
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
www.gjredpill.org
Protesting the Iraq war this year in Grand Junction, Colorado.

First 100 Days Rally
Producer: Steev Hise
www.newsontheline.tv
On President Obama's second day in office, community members and
activists in Tucson gathered at the federal building to state their
rights and needs.

Raging Grannies Sing of Water and Garbage
Producer: Elfie and Maia Ballis
SunMt.org
A little song about private property and public good.

Mobile News Corpses
Producer: Flux Rostrum
www.mobilebroadcastnews.org
The saga of police oppression of journalists at the 2008 RNC.

Crashing the Taste of Vail
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
www.gjredpill.org
Activists in Vail, Colorado inform consumers of lamb about the unfair
labor practices involved with bringing them their delicious meat.

Tamim Ansary is an Afghan/American. He is a lecturer and author of 2 books, West of Kabul, East of New York and Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes. This presentation, which he delivered in March at the Veterans For Peace NW Regional Conference, has a clarity we seldom get from officials regarding Afghanistan. His first hand familiarity with the subject matter makes a difference. His presentation serves as an insider’s briefing into the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Write-up for IP 357

This week Indymedia presents a bit of back story for a case that is currently being tried in New York City. Shell Oil is accused of being behind the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa, a Nigerian writer and activist who was tortured and hanged along with other Nigerian protesters, who had been campaigning against the environmental devastation of the big oil companies who exploit the Niger Delta. Our piece, called “Cracking Shell” was filmed a while back and, among others, features Damu Smith, American activist, who campaigned to bring Shell to justice.

The other piece this week is called “Salaam Garage,” named for a socially conscious travel organization. The concept is to take media-savy people on a trip that relates to a local NGO somewhere in the world, inviting participants to document their trip and tell the story back home.

This week Indymedia presents season 3, episode 5 of “Its The End of The World,” where Vancouver film/trouble maker Franklin Lopez covers the following:
1. Good news round up
2. Montreal Angst
3. X-acto Shooting
4. Olympic Greenwash
5. Obama chills out
6. European Rebellions part Deux
7. Biden needs more time
8. Goose Liver Revolution
9. Atari Teenage Riot
10.C.R.A.S.S. & the RNC 8
More from Franklin at www.submedia.tv.

Then, as the movement struggles for a single payer solution to the US health care misery, addressing the issue of insurance companies and how they rip off the people, we remind people of Sicko, the Michael Moore film that jump started this movement. Then, we bring back a rant from Indymedia Presents producer Randy Rowland on another aspect of the health care rip-off, the pharmaceutical industry with their criminal patent-protected super-profit margins.

We finish this episode of Indymedia Presents with a music video put together by Jim Lockhart of Portland. (For more of Jim’s work see his website: www.PhilosopherSeed.org) This piece, entitled “A Soldier” uses music from Freebo (www.freebomusic.com) and photographs from the amazing NW photographer Mike Hastie. To browse more of Mike’s photos, and some of his writing, a good place to start would be http://www.squadron13.com/MikeHastieGallery/.

Write up for IP #355

Lt. Ehren Watada, the Ft. Lewis officer who refused to ship to Iraq, and then was also charged with “Conduct Unbecoming An Officer” for giving a speech at the national convention of Veterans For Peace, won a major victory recently when the US Army had to drop its challenge against him in federal appeals court. That means Lt. Watada can not be tried again on the three counts that ended in a mistrial back in 2007.

The PepperSpray Collective followed the Watada case closely from the beginning. We conducted an exclusive interview with Lt. Watada before he was ever charged with any crime, we captured a number of his speeches, including the speech he gave at the VFP convention, we had a ringside seat at his court-martial, we got the court artist sketches, and our teams captured the street protests in support of the plucky Lt. Although pieces of our footage were broadcast on everything from Japanese TV to various documentary pieces, we were uniquely positioned to bring the best and most complete and accurate accounting of this remarkable piece of GI resistance.

This week, Indymedia presents “He Stood UP,” our accounting of the Watada trial. We made this piece immediately after his court-martial. The appellate rulings in Lt. Watada’s favor only serve to emphasize just how “right” we got it with this 28 minute court room drama-style documentary.

This week Indymedia presents the May 09 Indymedia NewsReal. This monthly effort is a collaboration between Indymedia and Free Speech TV. The pieces that comprise this edition of the NewsReal are: 1) Back Country Blues, produced by Jacob Carpenter, www.gjredpill.org The 3rd part in a series about exploited immigrant workers on ranches in Wyoming and Colorado. 2) Wobblies March Hillcrest, produced by the Scar Media Collective, sandiego.indymedia.org San Diego IWW Union marches through Hillcrest in San Diego and pickets New Alternatives, Inc for union busting. 3) Showdown At The Rio Bosque, produced by Steev Hise, www.newsontheline.tv The story of the first act of civil disobedience to try to stop construction of the U.S./Mexico border wall. 4) Blair Grocery School, produced by Flux Rostrum www.mobilebroadcastnews.org Converting a Katrina-ruined New Orleans grocery store into grassroots community school.

Music From the Seattle General Strike It wasn’t good enough to shut it down, they said during the Seattle General Strike 90 years ago this year. Strikers shut down the city and then began opening it up again under worker control. What a lesson for today! This week on “Indymedia Presents” #353 we bring the viewer the final part of our coverage of the celebration of the Seattle General Strike of 1919. In this segment we focus on music that came out of interviews with participants in that famous event. Rob Rosenthal is a professor at Wesleyan University who spoke at the celebration. He recounted how in the 1970s he interviewed participants in the Seattle General Strike, and then wrote a rock opera based on his research. He plays two of the songs from that effort and talks about the role music can play in the struggle. The General Strike celebration, which took place in February was sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and the King County Labor Council. For more on the Seattle General Strike go here: http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/ For the actual recorded interviews go here: http://condor.wesleyan.edu/openmedia/rrosenthal/audio/seattle/seattle.html It’s the End of the World As I Know It, And I Feel Fine (S3E4) The Stimulator reports on activist opposition to the Winter Olympics scheduled for Vancouver, BC, gives us an update on the tar sands, and addresses the issue of destruction of property during protests by referring to the Boston Tea Party, where disguised protestors destroyed private property. This was certainly not the lesson the right was trying to bring out in their recent round of “teaparty” protests. What would we do without The Stimulator?

“Indymedia Presents” #352 features the April 09 edition of “Indymedia NewsReal,” which is a joint production of Free Speech TV and the global Indymedia Center. The contents of this edition of “Indymedia NewsReal” are as follows:

Shake Your Peace Squat, Producer: Hannah Dobbz (killnormal.com/shelter)
For political reasons, Gabe Dominguez is squatting an apartment in the
quickly-gentrifying Mission District of San Francisco.

Mono Mono On The Border, Producer: Steev Hise (www.newsontheline.tv)
San Diego musician and performer Mono Mono brings a message of
international love with his unique live shows.

Solidarity with Tristan Anderson and Palestine, Producer: Jino Choi (spaz.org)
On March 13th Tristan Anderson of Oakland, California was shot in the
head by Israeli forces in Palestine. Three days later friends and
allies gathered at the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.

Inauguration Day in Mexicali, Producer: Steev Hise (www.newsontheline.tv)
An interview about border ecology with a Professor of Environmental
Law at the University of Baja California.

“Indymedia NewsReal” comes out once a month. The PepperSpray collective is responsible for dubbing and distributing the final edit. We also include it on “Indymedia Presents.” For more info on “Indymedia NewsReal” go to: http://newsreal.indymedia.org/

The recent meeting of the G-20 brought out large numbers of militant protesters. Seems the economic slump may have started in the US, but now has spread world-wide, which has contributed a heavy working class character to the movement against corporate globalization. We start off episode 351 with the G-20, thanks to Franklyn Lopez, then move quickly to UK workers who took over their factory. Just in time for Mayday, Indymedia presents stories of working class heros, locked in dramatic battle for their futures. “Workers of the World Unite!” This episode was edited for PepperSpray by Tacoma Joe LaSac. For more from Franklyn Lopez see www.submedia.tv. For more from Will Roche, who made the UK takeover video, see www.marxist.com.

Mayday 2009 is coming up, so for Indymedia Presents episode #350 we reach into our archive for mayday-related pieces we made in years past, to build interest and participation in the Mayday actions that will happen this year.
We first feature our coverage of the 2006 April 10th immigrant march in Seattle. (This piece was an official selection in the compilation Gigante Despierta.) That year immigrants marched in April as a build-up to the largest general strike in the history of the United States. Millions stayed off the job on Mayday that year in “Day without a Mexican” actions. The idea was that if folks don’t like immigrants picking strawberries and washing dishes, then they could try those activities themselves, and see how they liked it then. The Seattle April 10th march, and the Mayday march that followed, stretched for as far as the eye could see, as the immigrant community burst forth in political life. This is a growing portion of the US population and a group with the potential to wield more political power as time goes on. Our piece speaks of the pressures (such as NAFTA) to come to the US, and also of the history of Mayday, which was born in the fight for the 8-hour day almost a century and a half ago.
Then we reprise coverage of a great Seattle Mayday in 2003, replete with interviews of Central American immigrants who speak to what Mayday means to people in their countries.

The end of the reign of Bush meant a whole new historical moment had arrived. By the end of the Bush years, you could spit out a random curse, along with Bush’s name, to strike up a friendly conversation on any street corner in the world. But the united front against the Bush agenda dissipated like engine vapor from the helicopter that flew him away from the White House. The Obama era mass movement and its coalitions has yet to be determined.

New eras deserve new strategies, so PepperSpray went to some leading voices on the left in the Seattle area and asked them to analyze this new situation and the strategies that flow from it. We edited this into our presentation, “The Situation and Our Tasks.” Interviewed for this piece: Aaron Dixon, Lynn Domingo, Sara VanGelder, Cecile Hansen, Erica Kay, Paul Loeb, Sylva Jones, Bill Moyer, Ricardo Ortega, Geov Parrish, James Rasmussen, Chanan Suarez-Diaz, and Joaquin Uy. What emerged is thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Franklyn Lopez never stops amazing. He is so bold, so radical, that he thinks its normal to be that way. And that’s why we carry his stuff on “Indymedia Presents.” This week we lead off with another episode of Frank’s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Fine.” He starts with a report on the worldwide economic revolts, then turns his unblinking eye to “Bailout Blues,” “Wall 7 are Free!” “Gore’s Dire Warning,” “West Bank Food Boycott,” a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, and finishes off with “Media Elixir.” In a political moment when much of the left still has Obama stars for eyes, Frank’s material is a potent antidote.

Then on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, we dip into our archive for a little “Weapons of Mass Distraction” to invite you to remember the lies that justified this horror.

Jim Lockhart is a dedicated Portland, Oregon video activist. He sent us our next video, Fur Free Friday, about a campaign by In Defense of Animals (www.idausa.org) that targets Nordstroms, among other retailers, in hopes that they will stop carrying fur products. The campaign has already had some success. Jim’s video takes us to the street to join the protest. For more from Jim, visit www.philosopherseed.org.

And since we’re talking about animals, we finish off this week’s episode with “The Judas Goat,” a counter-recruiting “message from the front.” Military recruiters are a human judas goat. So long as they supply their quota of fresh meat to the front, they don’t have to go themselves. We call them out for what they are.

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Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Thursdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channels 34 & 67), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34). Our newest channel is in Phippsburg, Maine. This station is downloading the show for free through a new service for PEG stations, available at PEGMedia.org.

Indymedia Presents #348 first airs on Seattle's SCAN TV on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 8:30pm
This show airs on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Channel 34 on Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 10:30pm. All other locations, check local listings

For more info visit our website: www.peppersprayproductions.org

This week Indymedia presents a mock presidential briefing, which was conducted recently at the Vets For Peace Northwest Regional Conference. Ray McGovern plays himself (a CIA intelligence officer) while Michael McPhearson, national Executive Director of Veterans For Peace plays President Obama.

Ray McGovern is a retired CIA officer turned political activist. He served under 6 or 7 presidents during his 27 year career, and was responsible for preparing daily security briefings for a number of them, including President Reagan and the first President Bush. He became an outspoken critic on intelligence-related issues starting in the late 1990s. In 2002 he was publicly critical of President George W Bush's use of government intelligence in the lead-up to the US invasion of Iraq. McGovern, who was in Seattle to present a keynote address at the conference, brings his vast experience to life in this mock briefing, which was filmed live by PepperSpray at the Vets For Peace conference. The skit touches on a number of current foreign policy topics with insight and humor.

Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Thursdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channels 34 & 67), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34). Our newest channel is in Phippsburg, Maine

For a good list of articles written by Ray McGovern, go to
www.alternet.org/authors/5591

Michael McPhearson was a field artillery officer during the first Gulf War. He is Executive Director in the national office of Veterans For Peace. He was in Seattle for the NW Regional Conference of VFP and made a perfect President Obama for Ray McGovern's mock briefing.

For more on Veterans For Peace go to: www.veteransforpeace.org

Beating Malika
Seattle recently made international news when a jail surveillance video was released which shows two cops attacking and beating a 15 year old girl who was in their custody. The brutality prompted a protest in front of the county courthouse. PepperSpray was there to get the story, presented here along with the video of the brutality which prompted the protest.

Code Pink builds a platform (with Jim Page)
The women of Code Pink went around building a “platform” of various social justice demands, taking Seattle’s iconic busker Jim Page with them.

David Rovics sings “DU”
David Rovics takes on America’s use of depleted uranium munitions in this little rant of a song.

The Stimulator is back
We finish off “Indymedia Presents #346” with a recent submission from Franklin Lopez, “It’s The End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Fine” season 3, episode 2. Contents include:
“The Chomskulator,” “Ohhhhhhhhh Bama,” “Clean Coal 2 for 2,” “Duke Nuke ‘Em,” “Somali Ocean Defenders,” “Syncrude’s bad karma,” “Smash EDO,” “Paris,” “Jeff Munson

2009 marks the 90th anniversary of the Seattle General Strike. This is the second part in a series on that event. This week, Indymedia presents a speech by Howard Kimeldorf, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, given at the anniversary celebration held in the Seattle Labor Temple. He describes, to an enthusiastic crowd, a bit of radical Seattle's history, along with the circumstances of the Seattle General Strike, and the syndicalism it exhibited. Recorded live on 2/7/9, his presentation is "Historical Legacies of the IWW and Workers Control." Those interested in labor will be fascinated to hear the details and see the photos of the first general strike in the US. Activists will marvel at some radical history they probably haven't heard before.

Episode 341 of "Indymedia Presents" features the monthly "Indymedia NewsReal" for November 2008

Traces of Collective Dispossession
Producer: A-Films
a-films.blogspot.com
Looting, arson and intentional destruction in a Lebanese refugee camp
point to a systematic collective dispossession of the camp's
residents by the Lebanese army.

Citizens Band Walmart
Producer: Pepperspray Productions
www.peppersprayproductions.org
A satirical, musical take on the history of Wal-Mart

Charismatic Autopoesis
Producer: Steev Hise
detritus.net/steev
Impressionistic expressions of past manifestations.

"Indymedia NewsReal" is a monthly joint project of Free Speech TV and the Independent Media Center. It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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. The Seattle PepperSpray Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month, and we also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents."

Here's what's on "Indymedia Presents" #342:

Seattle General Strike
It is the 90th anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, the first general strike in US history, and one of only a few ever to occur in this country. PepperSpray was there at the King County Labor Temple to record the celebration, and over several shows we will bring you bits and pieces of this fascinating moment in Labor history. We begin with the introduction, provided by James Gregory, Chair of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. One surprise he unveiled was a proclamation from Washington State's governor declaring 2009 a year to acknowledge the state's labor heritage. Governor Gregoire's proclamation noted that it is 100 years since the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) fought for free speech in the streets of Spokane; 90 years since the IWW was besieged by angry vigilantes in the Centralia Tragedy; 90 years since the Seattle General Strike shut down the city; the 75th anniversary of the waterfront strikes which birthed the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Much to the delight of the crowd, the proclamation also noted with pride that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the Seattle "Battle In Seattle" WTO protests. Amazing how they call out the troops on us in the midst of struggle, and later call out those times as our finest hours.

For those interested in labor history, the proud legacy of struggle, or this not-well-known chapter in Seattle history will appreciate this series, beginning with "Indymedia Presents" #342.

Water Wars
The Common Language Project, a Seattle-based collective of journalists, provides first-rate reportage on social justice issues from around the world, with a specific focus on stigmatized regions and peoples under-represented in corporate media. They gave us this piece by Alex Stonehill and Sarah Stuteville, called "Troubled Waters," done as part of their "Water Wars" reports. Over 30 million people rely on East Africa's Lake Victoria for their livelihoods. But lake levels have dropped dramatically in recent years. Climate change, hydroelectric dam projects and increasing pressure on its threatened resources have some environmentalists suggesting the lake may be destroyed within twenty years. For more info about this topic or the Common Language Project, go to www.clpmag.org.

St. Patrick Battalion
David Rovics sings this song, which we filmed a while back at a concert for Utah Phillips. We present it here for all those who want more substance than green beer and superficial shenanigans on St. Patrick's Day. This is based on the true story of Irish immigrants who arrived in Boston just in time to be drafted in the US war against Mexico. The Irish were shocked at the anti-Catholic rhetoric and misbehavior of the US troops and a large number went over to the side of Mexico, forming the St. Patrick Battalion.

They say that on St. Patrick's Day we're all Irish. If so, then we can all celebrate these brave Irishmen who chose humanity over uniform. For more music from David Rovics, go to his website: www.davidrovics.com.

Equal access is a right, not a privilege
We end the show with a Pepperspray public service announcement, made in conjunction with students at the Washington State School For the Blind.

Episode 344 of "Indymedia Presents" features the monthly "Indymedia NewsReal" for March 2009

Off Our Butts
Producer: Maia & Elfie Ballis
www.sunmt.org
Activists in Fresno refuse to rest on their laurels now that we have a
new president.

One Afternoon At Friendship Park
Producer: Steev Hise
www.newsontheline.tv
San Diego and Tijuana community members come together at the border
every Sunday - but for how much longer?

The Other Galveston
Producer: Flux Rostrum
MobileBroadcastNews.com
After Hurricane Ike the other Galveston stands strong, supporting each
other in their attempt to get back to their poverty level lives.

Recrui-ducation
Producer: Pepperspray Productions
www.peppersprayproductions.org
Students at Seattle Central Community College do a counter-recruiting
action when military recruiters try to slither back on to a campus
that made national news a few years ago by physically kicking military
recruiters off campus.


"Indymedia NewsReal" is a monthly joint project of Free Speech TV and the Independent Media Center. It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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. The Seattle PepperSpray Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month, and we also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents."

Pepperspray's Randy Rowland remembers the FTA show.

Donald Sutherland's recitation at the end of the show is not to be missed.

Since 2003 militias known as the Janjaweed under orders from the sudanese government have killed over 200,000 civilians and another 2.5 million have been forced into refugee camps. In a bid to secure their oil interests inside of sudan and chad, many of the worlds major governments pour weapons and cash into the region and remain passive to the growing carnage allowing the violence to spread further into neighboring chad. Frustrated by the situation, in February 2007 Matt Bowen from Canada and Robert Simental from the US traveled to Eastern Chad. This is the story the captured. Darfur is back in the news again, while American understanding of the situation has not improved. So we felt it a good time to bring this video to our viewers. Director Robert Simental made this special 28 minute version of the film just for Indymedia Presents. For the full 97 minute version of the film visit http://www.GoogleDarfur.com .

PepperSpray producer Tacoma Joe LaSac scores a direct hit this week with "Tyranny of Oil."

Joe recorded Antonia's speech, condensed it down to Indymedia Presents time constraints, and b-rolled it so well it feels like Ms. Juhasz is narrating the piece.

In the current economic melt-down it is important to get a clear assessment of where the players are, and what they are up to. "Tyranny of Oil" does that and more.

"Tyranny of Oil" serves as a what-time-is-it with regard to oil, exposing Enron-style behavior--complete with manipulation of prices and rip-off schemes-- and corporate consolidation that would make the trust-busters roll over in their graves. After all, these giants are the same monopolies who were whittled down to size back in the day, and now they are bigger and more monopolistic than ever.


The Tyranny of Oil: The Worlds Most Powerful Industry—And What We Must Do to Stop It.
Amazon Customer Book Reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0061434507

Also of interest:
Democracy Now! interview with Antonia Juhasz:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/7/the_tyranny_of_oil_antonia_juhasz

Tajuan LaBee is the PepperSpray Collective's newest member, and he lost no time finishing his first piece for PepperSpray, which is the lead segment in this week's "Indymedia Presents." He was on hand at Seattle Central Community College when student activists recently staged a counter-recruiting action. His footage forms the basis for "Recrui-ducation." Stopping the flow of recruits into the military remains and will continue to be an important political and practical tactic in limiting US efforts to wage aggressive wars. Beyond that, it has the potential to save the lives of those who otherwise might be recruited. A few years back, students at SCCC made national headlines when they ran recruiters off their campus. Apparently the military thought this might be the time to sneak back on campus. The recruiters were met with a spirited action, and Tajuan got it on tape. With the airing of his first PepperSpray production, we publicly welcome Tajuan into our merry band.

We dipped into the archives to follow Tajuan's piece with our short "Judas Goat." A judas Goat is a trained slaughterhouse animal that leads the others to their death, only to be spared the knife itself, so it may lead herd after herd into the killing chambers. Recruiters perform a similar function. So long as they can deliver a supply of fresh recruits for the front lines, military recruiters don't have to go themselves.

Next up, we turn to a bit of music that continues the theme, featuring Seattle's daring duo, Rebel Voices, singing "Put your name on a different line." This material was filmed live in Seattle in 2008 and was edited into this piece to accompany Tajuan's "Recrui-ducation.


Rounding out our show we are VERY pleased to include Episode 1 of Franklyn Lopez's third season of "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." Regular viewers will welcome Franklyn's work back to the little screen. Last fall the Swami of Snark announced that he was not going to be producing "End of the World" while he pursued other things, but luckily he just couldn't help himself. This episode features:

1. Greece is the word
2. Oakland riots
3. Sea Shepherd stink bomb attack
4. Coal christmas
5. The first auction hero
6. Anarchists Against the Wall
7. Barack Israel Obama
8. Buh Bye King of Pain
9. Beastie Boys
10. New Years Revolutions
11. Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping



"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

Over the next few months we will feature a serialization of the Palestine Information Project's "Palestine For Beginners", first broadcast August 2004.

Palestine Solidarity Committee - Seattle
Palestine Information Project

Palestine For Beginners DVD available
Linda Bevis and Edward Mast
http://www.palestineinformation.org

1) Social InSecurity
Produced by longtime pepper producer Patricia Boiko of Winning Pictures, LLC.

http://www.winningpicturesllc.com

http://www.thecorporalsdiary.com/


2) Fletch and Friends sing about 'Dubya at the No Blood For Oil gathering.

3) Indymedia Demo Reel


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

For more info, please visit us at: www.peppersprayproductions.org

Duwamish Tribe
http://www.duwamishtribe.org

To get this story we went right to the great great grandniece of Chief Seattle.

The Duwamish Tribe lived in Seattle long before the settlers thought of naming their new settlement after the Duwamish chief, who signed a treaty with the Territorial Governor, later ratified by Congress, and gave up the land upon which the city now sits.

Later, the "Seattlers" burned down the Indian longhouses, and ran the Duwamish out of town. But the Tribe had lived here for a couple thousand years, and didn't "go away".

When it was time for reservations, casinos or fishing rights, the Duwamish got nothing, because their tribe doesn't have Federal recognition, a cause that has been central in their hundred year campaign.

This January, for the first time in over 100 years, the Duwamish Tribe will again have a longhouse.The final touches were being put on when we went there to get the story and the tour.

The Tribe is hopeful that their time has finally arrived (again).

Turns out that within 48 hours of taking office, the Bush Administration took back federal recognition, which the Tribe had just won under the Clinton Administration.

The Duwamish were not the only tribe to get this treatment, but they are the tribe in Seattle, and if there wasn't any other reason for a decent Seattle person to want to shoe the Bush Administration out of office, this would be enough.


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

For more info, please visit us at: www.peppersprayproductions.org

Farmworkers and their union, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste (PCUN), have long been excluded from the airwaves in Oregon's Willamette Valley. For instance, their money wasn't good enough to buy uncensored radio ads promoting the immigration reform marches on Mayday 2007.

On KPCN Radio's 2nd anniversary on the air, PepperSpray revisits the "barn-raising" held to create the low-power FM station for farmworkers in Woodburn, OR.

Under the leadership of the Prometheus Radio Project, media activists from all over converged on this little town where 80% of the population traces their heritage to Mexico.

This video tells the story of the "barnraising" weekend where Prometheus Radio Project and PCUN pulled together to create a whole radio station, almost out of thin air, giving farmworkers a voice on the airwaves where none previously existed.

The result? KPCN has been on the air for two years, the voice of the fields, the voice of the people. This report, "Ya se Pudo: KPCN Radio Barnraising," tells the story.

http://www.prometheusradio.org

http://www.pcun.org


Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call 'don't hate the media, be the media'. We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

On the occasion of an Obama presidency, we, as a nation, have an opportunity to examine with uncommon clarity where pockets of racism remain, and what it will take to clean them up.

This week Indymedia Presents features a piece done for the Atlanta Indymedia Center by Gary Cameron. He interviews Benetta M Standly of the Georgia ACLU, who tells us about the "Schools to Prison Pipeline" in Georgia, and shows us an actual cog in the mechanism of racism.

She describes a situation where alternative schools are used to ease kids of color right into jail. The Georgia ACLU studied it, organized a campaign, and launched their suit. Over time the front lines have shifted in the battle against racism, but they have always been there somewhere. This week we take you to one place where the trenches are today, courtesy of the Atlanta IMC.


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

For more info, please visit: www.peppersprayproductions.org

This week we bring you 4 short pieces:

1) "Critical Mass" It was a critical moment for Seattle's Critical Mass bicyclists when the driver of a car that was stuck among the bicycles freaked out and ran over a couple riders. Big mistake. The next month as riders massed again, PepperSpray videographer Len Davis was on the scene to capture the footage for this report, edited by Lila Kitaeff.

2) A brief excerpt from a speech given by Antonia Juhasz in Portland, recorded by Jim Lockhart of PhilosopherSeed. In this few minutes from Antonia's "Building a Movement for the Future We Want," we get a sense of what will be coming in the near future on "Indymedia Presents," a discussion of the "situation and our tasks." Antionia gave this speech long before the Obama victory, but it is right on the money. See the following URL for Antonia's full talk:
http://blip.tv/file/859584

3) "Indymedia Cooks" this short by Patricia Boiko is about vegetarian cooking. Many see vegetarian eating as a socially responsible response to the times, so Patricia takes us with her to cooking class.

4) With the holidays rushing toward us like the change in Presidents (ooh, we just can't wait!), its time to bring out an old standard on "Indymedia Presents," "How to make an electric peace sign" using Christmas lights.



"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

For more info, please visit: www.peppersprayproductions.org

With the end of the Bush neocon years, the PepperSpray video collective has embarked on a series of programs addressing this question: What is the Current Situation and Our Tasks Ahead?

We have been interviewing leaders on the left, getting their perspectives on this critical question, and in the near future we will be bringing you the thoughts of some very thoughtful people.

A generation ago there arose on PBS a 13-part TV series called Cosmos. It was the brainchild of Carl Sagan; astronomer and astrobiologist, a giant among scientists, a leader in a movement of science for the people.

As Americans throw off the burden of many years of right-wing, anti-science politics, part of getting back on the road forward is to get our bearings, to base our social and political movements on scientific understanding rather than on right-wing dogma.

What better way to chart the road forward for humanity, than to start at the beginning, as Carl Sagans Cosmos series did.

This week we devote the entire show to a review of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos."

There is no way we can do justice to the 13 hour series in a half hour show, but we did manage to tease out a few good parts to pique your appetite for more. We want people to go to their library or video source and get the whole 13 part series and watch them all.

You will be amazed. Global warming, which is getting a lot of attention now, was detailed on that 1980 series. Yes, long before Al Gore's movie, Carl Sagan was trying to get a message from the scientists to the people about the dangers that face humanity and the world we live on.

According to NASA, "Cosmos" holds the world-wide record for the most watched PBS series ever.

It is a history of science that details the efforts of those who challenged established ideas, and even their own closely held beliefs, to discover important breakthroughs for humanity.

Many of the gains of the human species are also linked, in Sagans view, with the free exchange of ideas.

In Cosmos we learn that tradition, along with political and religious tyranny, often held back--or worse, set back--human achievement, while freedom of thought, speech, and association moved our species forward.

In 1980, the techniques used to create the "Cosmos" series were ground-breaking (blue screen sets and clever models, coupled with Hubble photos). Now, almost 30 years later, the effects seem primitive, but the science stands, and the message is as fresh as morning coffee.

In the intervening years we have seen a rise in the rabid right, in religious fundamentalism and the last gasp of creationists. Now, with the back of the neocons broken, it feels like spring, and our own personal renaissance after a generation-long dark age.

There is no better way to get our collective heads screwed on right than to start with where we left off, almost 30 years ago, "Cosmos."

Iraq Veterans Against The War

http://ivaw.org

Military Families Speak Out

http://mfso.org


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

PepperSpray wasn't in St. Paul, Minnesota to document the Republicans, or the crimes they have committed. The list is so long and the crimes so bad that even corporate media has been doing that for some time now.

Our reporters were getting another story.

The powers apparently don't want that story out, and were targeting independent reporting to try to keep that story from getting to the people.

Although the arrests and harassment of media is a crime that forms part of the problem, the real story is that regular people are organizing themselves and rising up for solutions.


About the film documentary GROUND NOISE AND STATIC:

http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2008/10...


In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the politicians, that counts.

A 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 Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org


Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs (Independent Media Centers) are encouraged to screen or air "Indymedia Presents". To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact us, Pepperspray Productions, at pepperspray@riseup.net http://peppersprayproductions.org


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

PepperSpray' s summer intern, Ericka Ward, produced our lead piece this week. "Solutions, Not Repression" looks at the street vendor's movement in El Salvador.

"Free Trade" agreements require the Salvadorian government to crack down on street vendors selling so-called pirated music and software, creating a crisis for thousands of people in the informal sector.
"Who's side are you on", the market vendors ask their government, "the big American corporations or your own people?"

The answer comes with truncheons and boots.

It is an amazing moment in world history, when global capital no longer has big economies to devour, and having worked its way down the food chain, turns now to licking up the poorest crumbs on the far-flung edges of empire.

The vendors are fighting back and this piece is all about that.

Salvador is interesting for another reason: The current American vice-president cut his teeth repressing the Salvadorian people back in the 1980s, and was famously quoted just before the death squads ramped up in Iraq as saying that since the US was doing poorly in establishing control over Iraq, they would have to exercise the "Salvadorian option."

Only weeks later, Iraqi morgues were piled high with tortured, mangled bodies, and many more have been "disappeared."

Looking at Salvador today gives one a glimpse of the Iraqi future wished for by the Bush/Cheney camp.

Revolutionaries in Salvador have spoken about how they fear that all these NAFA/CAFTA/WTO type agreements bind the country so much that even if they are successful in bringing in a decent government, the new government will not be able to deliver on the promises of the revolution because of all the international agreements which bind the hands of any future government in the country.

Committee in Solidarity With The People Of El Salvador

http://www.cispes.org



"Uncounted: A discussion with film maker David Earnhardt.

Our next segment is from long-time collective member Patricia Boiko, just in time for voting season.

Patricia filmed the after-film discussion with David Earnhardt, director of a movie about the deep flaws in American voting.

Earnhardt was in Seattle with his movie, "Uncounted", hosted by Seattle' s Warren Etherge, the force behind "The Warren Report."

Patricia's piece intersperses clips from the film with comments by the director.


The Warren Report: Smarter Audiences Make Better Movies

http://www.thewarrenreport.com


Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections

http://uncountedthemovie.com


As Goes Ohio: Election Theft Since 2004

http://www.harveywasserman.com



Our last segment this week contains narration from Guy Debord's " Society of the Spectacle".

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord

Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

Leading off this episode PepperSpray videographer and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member Tacoma Joe contributes our latest segment in the "Voice of the Veteran" series with an interview of Army veteran Seth Manzel.

Tacoma Joe has been busy, and the rest of the program are pieces from him. They are, in order of appearance:
- Army of None
- Take Back the Media
- End The War (GI Movement)
- RNC/DNC call
- Celebrity Protests (in this one Joe poses as a foreign journalist, to interview pro-war demonstrators)
- Underground Communication
- and two clips of rapper Son of Nun, "Rebellion," and "Hypocritical"


Websites referenced in the program:

Tacoma Students for a Democratic Society
http://tacomasds.org

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

OlyBlog: We Are the Media
http://olyblog.net

http://riseup.net

http://codepink4peace.org

http://raginggrannies.org

http://unitedforpeace.org

http://veteransforpeace.org



Related Free Speech Websites:

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

The second in a series by one of our Pepper producers, Patricia Boiko. The first program examined the genocide in Rwanda, and how people heal from a horror like that.

This piece looks at the Abatwa people, better known in the US as the Pygmies. The Abatwa, who are the indigenous people of the region, have suffered unspeakably and unnoticed by all except themselves.

Traditional hunters, they were kicked off their ancestral lands when that area was made into an animal preserve. The unintended consequence of an environmental victory was great destruction to Abatwa culture, and the loss of many lives.

Later, during the period of the Rwandan genocide, they lost 30% of their population. Nobody noticed because the Abatwa were not important to anybody but themselves.

The Abatwa are an example of the phenomenon feared by Subcomandante Marcos and the indigenous communities of the Chiapas region of Mexico, that of being so marginalized as a people that you just don't matter any more.

http://caurwa.org

http://hdirwanda.org

http://healthleadershipinternational.org

Never Again Rwanda

This short, also by Patricia Boiko, captures a little presentation in a community trying to heal from and prevent future genocide.

http://neveragainrwanda.org

http://winningpicturesllc.org


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

The August Indymedia Newsreal program is looking really good! Things seem to be picking up, though we're still far from having anything like a steady stream of submissions. Please keep keeping the project in mind and keep spreading the word!

Thanx for everyone's support and contributions!


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

Indymedia NewsReal is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists across the nation.

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org
http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produce...


August 2008 Indymedia Newsreal runsheet:

The New Attack
Producer: cine rebelde
http://www.cinerebelde.org
An activist from Chiapas describes the current dire circumstances in the Zapatista territories.

After Tour
Producer: Flux Rostrum
http://www.MobileBroadcastNews.com
A tour of the Nomadjik Media Bus!

90 Cents and Hour
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
http://www.gjredpill.org
Investigation of the working conditions of exploited immigrants working as sheepherders on the high plains of Wyoming and Colorado.

Rescue the Bill of Rights
Producer: Maia & Elfie Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org
A creative street theater action about the loss of civil rights in the U.S.


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.

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.

Submedia tv interviews Randy Rowland, co-founder of Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents".

Seattle's WTO Protests As A Lesson For The Role Of Indymedia In An Election Year.

"The looming election puts people into political motion but can draw them away from the barricades.

The role of independent media can be to tell the "stories of the barricades" to the vast numbers of people who are--thanks to the elections--more interested than usual in the issues.

We are the megaphone of the movement," Randy says. Skillful agitation encourages all those marching toward the ballot box to exceed their limitations, to join the militants on the barricades, and really go for the change we so sorely need."

Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

We start this episode off with an excerpt from a piece by Portland Oregon producer Jim Lockhart, featuring Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip-Hop Caucus, tell a haunting story of a young Iraqi woman he met. Its a reality check, a painful reminder that as the various political candidates tip-toe around issues like the US occupation of Iraq, all the while real people's lives are being ruined. With every flip-flop more bombs drop--and the blood stains all American hands. Rev. Yearwood's full speech can be viewed at: http://philosopherseed.blip.tv/file/8...

http://wordpress.com/tag/rev-lennox-y...

http://hiphopcaucus.org

Turning our lens to the perpetrators, we next present the 2nd piece from Tacoma Joe about the G8, which met in Japan earlier this month (July 08). Representing about 65% of the gross world product, the vast majority of military might and nearly all the nuclear weapons, the G8 is like a meeting of Mafia families. Tacoma Joe looks past the glitter and sharkskin suits to list their failed promises to find bloodstains under their fingernails.

http://g8-tv.org

Then we spend a minute or two in a spoken word concert, watching Saul Williams pay homage to the ancestors...

http://www.saulwilliams.com

... which gets you ready for the final segment on the show, episode S2-E10 of the increasingly popular "Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine," with host The Stimul8tor.

http://www.submedia.tv

http://www.stimulator.tv


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

This week on "Indymedia Presents" we turn to the youth, featuring two videos produced as Reel Grrls projects. In the spirit of "Become the Media," we salute Reel Grrls, whose mission is to "empower young women from diverse communities to realize their power, talent and influence through media production." As they point out, by the time a girl is 16 she will have spent more time watching TV than going to school, but only 3% of Hollywood cinematographers are women, and a woman has NEVER won an Academy Award for Film Directing. The Reel Grrls project puts teenage women in the director's chair and behind the camera, as they learn all aspects of movie making. Several PepperSpray Collective members have been staff or mentors for the Reel Grrls project, so it is with great pride that we devote this entire show to a couple pieces made by the Grrls: first a documentary called "A Generation of Consolidation," by Samantha Muilenburg and Brooke Noel about media consolidation, and then a dramatic piece by Sami Kubo and Camille Kolodz Ejaki, "Thicker Than Water."

Reel Grrls
http://www.reelgrrls.org


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

Tacoma Joe does it again with his latest video report, "Seattle Out & Proud," which examines this year's Gay Pride March, focusing on topics such as the intersection of ethnicity and gender preference.

http://www.seattlepride.org


Next up is "G-8 Anticapitalista," which explains why regular folks ought to boo the G-8 as a "shadow world government."

http://anticapitalistas.net

http://theplatform.nuevaradio.org


We round up this episode of "Indymedia Presents" with Season 2, Episode 8 (S2-E8)of "Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

http://submedia.tv

This is a great Stimul8tor episode, as usual, but we'd especially like to draw attention to the last 5 or so minutes, which is an interview with a co-founder of "Indymedia Presents," Randy Rowland, using Seattle's WTO protests as a lesson for the role of Indymedia in an election year. The looming election puts people into political motion, he says, but can draw them away from the barricades. The role of independent media can be to tell the stories of the barricades to the vast numbers of people who are--thanks to the elections--more interested than normal in the issues. "We are the megaphone of the movement," he says. Skillful agitation encourages all those marching toward the ballot box to exceed their limitations, to join the militants on the barricades, and really go for the change we so sorely need.



Be the Media!

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

"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

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.

"Indymedia Presents" turns to the plight of injured soldiers in a new piece by Arianne Garden Vasquez and Lambert Rochfort, "Disposable Heroes," which looks at the movement to "fund the wounded, not the war." Many an American soldier has felt the inexpressible sense of betrayal when they realize the bitter truth to the saying "used once, then thrown away." If all those yellow ribbon folks really cared about the soldiers they pretend to support, they'd force the government to take care of the fallen.


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

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

Alrick Brown's name might not be well known to viewers of "Indymedia Presents," but regulars to our show will recognize one of his videos, "The Battle For America Has Begun". We've shown it several times over the last few years. It is the piece that cuts from one speaker to another, across age, race, ethnic, and gender lines, each person speaking one line of a powerful political call to action. We ran across that excellent piece a while back and fell in love with its diversity and upliftment.

http://www.alricksporch.com

That led us to other of Alrick's pieces, but we never really had contact with Alrick himself, since he lives in New York and we're based in Seattle. So when Seattle's Langston Hughes African American Film Festival screened Alrick's new feature, called "Death of Two Sons," it was our chance to catch up to one of our heroes. (We loved, by the way, this film, and encourage our viewers to seek it out.) This week on "Indymedia Presents" we interview Alrick Brown and embed two of his short films in the resultant piece (our favorite "The Battle For America Has Begun," and a dramatic piece, "SuperN," inspired by the murder of Amadou Diallo, an innocent African immigrant, gunned down on his own front porch in New York in a hail of 41 police bullets).

We round out the show with a sneak preview DeeDee Halleck gave us of a new series starting up on Free Speech TV, "The Last Televangelist," with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir. The piece is called "First Amendment Kareoke," and its about, well, the First Amendment, of course. The series is produced by Big Noise Films in collaboration with Free Speech TV.

http://www.deedeehalleck.org

http://www.bignoisefilms.com

http://www.freespeech.org


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

At the end of their life, the best you can say about some folks is that they really didn't do much harm, or maybe they were nice to their kids. This week on "Indymedia Presents" we pay tribute to another fallen comrade. Jim Hinde, well known Seattle busker, passed away. Just about anybody who has spent much time in Seattle's open-air public market probably saw Jim playing at one time or another. He entertained, all right, but more to the point, he inspired and influenced many with his music. When we got word that Jim had passed, we made another death-defying trip into our archives and found an old piece of Jim Hinde performing live at a demonstration, singing his song "Raise Your Glass, Raise Your Voice."

We raise our glass and dedicate this show to Jim Hinde.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/hinde4


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

Utah Phillips was a personal friend of some of the members of the PepperSpray Collective stretching back almost 30 years. He recently passed away. Radicalized in part because of his experiences as a soldier in the US war against Korea, he went on to become the most famous member of the International Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies") in modern times. He was a great storyteller and singer, and a champion of the class struggle.
When we got the call that Utah had passed, we dug around in our library to unearth the piece that leads off this episode of "Indymedia Presents," an interview with Utah Phillips conducted by Kay Powers, in which he gives, among other things, his advice to graduating high school students.

Utah Phillips. Live like him.

http://www.utahphillips.org


Moving from the past to the present, we round off the show with Season 2, Episode 9 of Franlin Lopez's "Its The End Of The World As We Know It, and I Feel Fine." Franklin's highly political pieces amount to a very watchable all out frontal attack on the citadels of capitalism.

http://submedia.tv




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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

First up, Olympia Washington's Citizens Band sings "Wal-Mart" at the Seattle benefit concert for Utah Phillips.

http://www.citizensband.org


Next up, Café Conciencia! Coffee with a Conscience!

"Café Conciencia an international non-profit organization that works in solidarity with worker-owned coffee cooperatives in Guatemala to help them achieve social and economic justice."

http://www.cafeconciencia.org


Citizen Band is back singing in the spirit of Emma Goldman, "If I can't Dance..."


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Gol...


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

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

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 ).

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.

Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience.

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org
http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produce...


June 2008 Indymedia Newsreal runsheet:

Dooda Means No!
Producer: Marcos Ramirez
http://newmexico.indymedia.org
The story of native opposition to a new coal power plant near Desert Rock, New Mexico.

Special Newsreal Message
Producer: Steev Hise
http://newsreal.indymedia.org
A reminder to activist videographers that Newsreal is a great opportunity to get videoactivist work out to the world.

Impacts of the Wall
Producer: Steev Hise
http://arizona.indymedia.org
Details, according to experts from Texas, Arizona, and California, of what environmental effects there will be as a result of the ongoing and impending construction of the U.S./Mexico border wall.

Boundary Conditions
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.panleft.org
A video collage about borders, with live music accompaniment.


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.

It was a moment without historical precedent, American workers striking against a war that their government is waging. On Mayday this year, the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down every port on the west coast of the United Stated--all 26 of them--in opposition to the US war against the people of Iraq. A few weeks back we reported on the struggle of Iraqi labor unions in the Basra area, who are fighting against the privatization of Iraqi ports and oil fields. As US missiles rained down on their houses, and the puppet government tried to arrest union leaders, they called for international solidarity and support from organized labor. The ILWU answered that cry bigtime. Now, on "Indymedia Presents" ----we bring you a report of the Mayday strike that completely shut down every port on the west coast for at least 8 hours. Longshoremen stayed off the job and in major port cities they marched, proud, in their union jackets, banners unfurled. In response, dock workers in Iraq shut down the port there for two hours. It was like a blinking signal light on a distant shore at night, acknowledging that the message of solidarity had been received.

The Seattle Times reported that "dozens" of dock workers protested in Seattle. In our report you can clearly see the demonstration is 5 lanes wide, stretching back past the focus of the camera. There were "dozens" just in the first row or two. PepperSpray was there to document this heroic moment. It was a bit of a cinematographer's dilemma: how do you show something like a stop work situation, where the story is "something's NOT happening." We arrived at the hall early and union members showed us where to get beautiful shots of the idle port. Later we captured the march, the music, the mood. We're proud of the ILWU, and it shows in this report.

http://www.ilwu.org/longshore

Be the Media!


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

A SHORT PRIMER ON THE ARMS RACE.

Pepperperson Steve Anderson turned in his first "major" piece, so we lead the show off with Steve's report on the Pastors For Peace caravans that break the US blockade of Cuba by taking medical and other needed supplies across the US border on their way to Cuba. Year after year these heros face down the US government as they tour America, gathering the supplies, and then blatantly take another shipment across the border to deliver it to the Cuban people. Steve weaves their story in with glimpses of a Cuba Americans are prohibited by our own government from seeing.

http://www.ifconews.org

Be the Media!

Then its on to that rascal the Stimul8tor for another episode of "Its the End Of The World As We Know IT, and I Feel Fine." Besides the hijinks we have learned to anticipate, in this episode we hear from Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, as he explains how he personally briefed many of the people in Washington who now claim they had no way of knowing that Bush & Company were full of the stuff birds pick at when they were proclaiming WMDs in Iraq, as an excuse to go to a wrongful war. We also get some great rap and an interview with Anne E. Moore, Punk Planet zine-maker and author of "Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity." You wonder what those terms mean? Tune in and find out.

http://submedia.tv

http://antiadvertisingagency.com

http://add-art.org

Be the Media!


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Link TV
http://www.linktv.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org(more)

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

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 ).

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.

Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience.

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


May 2008 Indymedia Newsreal runsheet:

Oxford Tree Protest
Protest and action against city destroying trees in Oxford, UK.
Producer: Undercurrents
http://www.undercurrents.org

Special Newsreal Message
An entreaty for more submissions to Newsreal
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org
http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produceasegmentfaq.html

Dismissal!
The story of a police witchhunt in Germany following the G8 protests of 2007.
Producer: freundeskreis videoclips
http://freundeskreis-videoclips.de


The Wall Will Not Work
Interviews with several experts from all along the U.S./Mexico border about how the planned border wall will not do what it's supposed to.
Producer: Steev Hise
http://arizona.indymedia.org


Port Security Struggle
Protest against shipping of war materiel in Olympia, Washington
Producer: Pepperspray Productions
http://peppersprayproductions.org
http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

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.

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

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 ).

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.

Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience.

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


April 2008 Indymedia Newsreal:

Smash I.C.E.
"NewsReal" starts off with a contribution by PepperSpray's Tacoma Joe, on the subject of the ICE regional detention center in Tacoma. What's going on at the center is shocking, and the footage of brave black-garbed demonstrators faced off against robocops is worth the watch.
Producer: Pepperspray Productions
http://www.peppersprayproductions.org
http://indymediapresents.blip.tv
Tacoma Students for a Democratic Society
http://www.tacomasds.org
Protest in Tacoma against the current immigration regime.


To Pay Or Not To Pay (trailer)
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.panleft.org
A preview for an in-progress documentary about war tax resistance.
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
http://www.nwtrcc.org


Picnic for Fun and Unity
Voices from the African American community on the questions of the day. Corporate media attention on Reverend Wright has played him as a wild-eyed America-damning kook. This piece brings you other voices, just as passionate, from Black America.
Producer: Maia and Elfie Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org


"No Match" Letters Immigration Rally
Immigration rally against employer santions in Portland, OR.
Producer: Jim Lockhart
http://www.PhilosopherSeed.org
http://philosopherseed.blip.tv
Portland Jobs with Justice
http://www.jwjpdx.org
American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org


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.

Its a Happy Birthday party as "Indymedia Presents" turns 300!

Feeling pretty good about having 300 shows under our belt we decided to air a little retrospective... PepperSpray editor Lambert Rochfort stirred up the pot and picked out the good bits and snatches that floated to the top, assembling them into a rollicking compilation of moments to remember from the last 299 shows. There was plenty of good material that should have been included in our 300th show retrospective, but you can only cram so much into 28 minutes!

Indymedia was born in the swirling tear gas of the anti-WTO protests that occurred in Seattle in November 1999. The original Independent Media Center (IMC) was set up to host visiting independent journalists from around the world who were in Seattle to cover some aspect of the WTO ministerial meeting.

The model worked, and in a world that had not yet seen YouTube or the online blogs and news sources that have sprung up since then, the IMC web site proved very effective in getting the info about the protests and the reasons behind the actions out to the world.

Even if FOX news had wanted to cover the protests, they would have sent one crew who would have spent almost all their time interviewing bigwigs, and they would have covered the protests only as a sideline and meaningless spectacle, if they did that much.

The IMC model relied on the things the movement has in abundance... passion, a sense of purpose, and people.

First of all we actually asked demonstrators why they were in the streets, and then reported their/our story in a sympathetic way. And frankly we got the best shots, because while some corporate news team would have one camera "on the ground," we had hundreds. Every group of protesters had somebody with a camera in their pocket.

The notion of citizen journalism was so fresh and so profound that it has spawned a whole lot of corporate efforts to profit from people's efforts to "become the media." Video sharing and news sites have appeared all over the internet like windsocks in spring, and blogs have become a respected part of the spectrum of journalism. Meanwhile the IMC movement spread world-wide like the latest steps at a teen dance and continues to be an important part of the movement.

The PepperSpray video Collective formed as a sub-set of the Seattle Independent Media Center. At first we just made stand-alone videos which were screened in the IMC space. We quickly realized the need to build a variety of distribution channels and began our weekly access program, "Indymedia Presents" on Seattle's SCAN TV. Eventually we added one station after another, until we now appear on stations from coast to coast.

Our material has appeared on Free Speech TV and on "Democracy Now!" and somehow we have kept it going year after year. We have never gotten a corporate grant. Our money comes from table sales, fundraisers, donations and video sales on our website.

All our collective members, several of whom are award-winners in their own right, are volunteers.

"Indymedia Presents" turns 300 this week with a look back at just a little of the wild, wacky, and wonderful coverage we have included on the show so far.


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


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org(more)

OK, we've finally done it. We made a video that supports the enemy.

Somebody had to do it, because in Basra, the US government's "enemy" seems to be the people of that southern town and region of Iraq.

And not just anybody, and not some dark-of-the-night terrorist militia, but rather the unions of Basra, particularly the oil workers and dock workers unions.

It all boils down to this: big oil wants to be the sellers of Iraqi oil, not the buyers. The stakes in Basra are privatization of Iraqi oil and ports.

No matter what other differences they might have, pretty much all Iraqis understand that the question with respect to these "birthrights" is who will own them, giant multinational corporations, or the Iraqi people.

In the last few months there have been occasional articles telegraphing the attack on Basra. Articles complaining that the dock workers refuse to work more than 8 hours a day. Articles about how some British corporate executive has been appointed "Basra Development Commisioner" to head up corporate efforts to privatize the Iraqi ports and oil companies. Articles, like the one in the Guardian of London entitled "Oil giants are poised to move into Basra." (Feb 24, 2008)

After the initial attack faltered, General Petraeus testified to congress that Maliki (US puppet ruler of the Iraqi government) had launched the attack on Basra without letting the US military know what the plan was. Too bad General Petraeus hadn't read the article in the NY Times from March 13, 2008 headlined "Iraqi Troops May Move to Reclaim Basra's Port."

So in this week's "Indymedia Presents", we feature interviews with Iraqi labor leaders, who tell the story of some of the union battles that have occurred in Southern Iraq since the US/British occupation began, combined with some footage we got from our friends at "Labor Beat" in Chicago to bring you the story that corporate media is carefully avoiding, the on-going attack on the trade unions of Basra, and what is behind it.

By the Way, American Longshoremen (ILWU) http://www.ilwu.org, who have been very supportive of their Iraqi union bretheren, have called for a one day strike up and down the west coast on Mayday in opposition to the war. We expect more information regarding Basra and the fight against privatization to emerge in the course of that job action. Join a Mayday action, and stay tuned for more from the independent media, who bring you the stories corporate media would rather you not notice.

"The Dow's Down"
We finish off this week with the duo Rebel Voices singing at the benefit concert for Utah Phillips. http://www.rebelvoices.com

This week we start off with episode #30 of "Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." The creator of this zaniness, Franklin Lopez, tells it as he seize it, and seize it he does. He starts off with a call for stalwarts to plan on going to the "republicrat" conventions later this year. then he gives us the "riot news," "capitalist pig news" and the like. For more on Franklin, go to http://www.submedia.tv.

After shaking it with Franklin, we bring you a musical interlude, filmed at Seattle's benefit concert for the medical bills incurred by Utah Phillips. David Rovics was in town for the event and here performs his song "New Orleans." For more on Utah Phillips, go to http://www.utahphillips.org. For more on David Rovics, see http://www.davidrovics.com.

We finish off this episode of "Indymedia Presents" with our newest affiliate station in mind, DUTV in Philadelphia. We present a spoken word piece honoring one of the best-known sons of that city, Mumia Abu-Jamal, once again in the news after recently winning a partial legal victory.

Many of our viewers are familiar with Mumia's radio series, "Live From Death Row." Mumia Abu-Jamal is a renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been in prison since 1981, and on death row since 1983 for allegedly shooting a Philadelphia police officer. Mumia was serving as the President of the Association of Black Journalists at the time of his arrest. As a teenager, he was a founding member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Years later he began reporting professionally on radio stations such as NPR, and was the News Director of Philadelphia station WHAT. He focused a lot of attention on a revolutionary organization called "MOVE," which had a base in Philadelphia in those days. Mumia's trial is widely considered to have been horribly flawed by overt racism. Later, one of his appeals was rejected by the same Judge Sabo who had presided over the original botched trial, and who was quoted by the Court Stenographer as saying he was going to "help fry the N....r." Later, another man, Arnold Beverly, confessed to killing the cop (we carried video of that confession on "Indymedia Presents"), but that inconvenient truth has never been allowed to be heard by the courts. Meanwhile Mumia has become a world-renown commentator and perhaps the leading political prisoner in the US. For more info on Mumia, go to http://www.freemumia.com.

The piece on "Indymedia Presents" this week is entitled "A Dream For Mumia." It uses images of "outside art" from the Rainier Valley, south side of Seattle, for the visuals. Seattle jazz band Reptet provided the musical underlayment, and PepperSpray's Randy Rowland provides the spoken word.

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

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

Indymedia NewsReal is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists across the nation.

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.

NewsReal is a monthly joint project of Free Speech TV (http://freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml), bringing stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience.

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.

Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know!

http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produce...


March NewsReal runsheet:

Port of Olympia Protest
Producer: Pepperspray Productions
http://indymediapresents.blip.tv
http://www.peppersprayproductions.org
Activists block the port in Olympia to prevent transport of military
equipment used in Iraq.

Surprise, Surprise, The Cops Lie
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.panleft.org
Catching a police sargent in a blatant falsehood.

Polar Bears Populate Welsh Coal Mine
Producer: Undercurrents
http://www.undercurrents.org
Climate change protesters occupy a coal mine in Wales.

Cost of Iraq War
Producer: Jim Lockhart
http://www.philosopherseed.blip.tv
http://www.PhilosopherSeed.org
Activists in Portland attempt to increase awareness of the financial
side of the war in Iraq

Tucson Says No to Sheriff Joe
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.panleft.org
A protest against "the nation's toughest sheriff".
http://www.arpaio.com
http://www.derechoshumanosaz.net
http://www.borderaction.org
http://www.nomoredeaths.org


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 us, Pepperspray Productions, at pepperspray@riseup.net.

Seattle's Real Change Street Newspaper

We've started a new "from-time-to-time" series on Indymedia Presents, which we are calling "meet your independent media maker."

Our first look is at Seattle's "homeless" newspaper, Real Change. The business model for Real Change is great; publish an outstanding weekly newspaper with a focus on social justice, and use an army of homeless/low income venders to hawk it on the streets.Venders buy the paper for 35¢ and sell it for a dollar.

I remember selling papers like this for the "Berkeley Barb" and later Seattle's "Sabot" newspapers back in the day.

Real Change is a real success story, having been at it for a number of years now.

http://www.realchangenews.org

http://www.streetroots.org



Its the End of the World As We Know it, and I Feel Fine

The Stimulator from Vancouver, BC is at it again, with another episode of "End of the World." We can't get enough of this guy. From environmentalists being attacked by paid counter-protesters in British Columbia, to the torching of some "McMansions" near Seattle, to issues of media activists signing big book contracts, The Stimulator looks at the world with a sharp tongue and sharper perspective.

http://submedia.tv



Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War Protests

We take the viewers downtown to a rally in Seattle, where a speaker talks about the battle to stop war material from flowing through the Ports of Olympia and Tacoma, Washington. This is the best short summary of that campaign we have heard.

Port Military Resistance - Olympia
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/olypmr101107.html

Standing with demonstrators in San Francisco

We take a few minutes to stand with demonstrators who blocked streets in San Francisco in civil disobedience on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq occupation.



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Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

This week we devote the entire episode to Dr. Helen Caldicott, one of the founders of Physicians For Social Responsibility (PSR).

In this piece, edited by PepperSpray's Patricia Boiko, Dr. Caldicott talks of the nuclear issues and the health of the earth from the perspective of a healer/physician.

PepperSpray collective members kept her in the viewfinder during on-air radio interviews in Seattle and accompanied her to the Washington meeting of PSR where she was the keynote speaker.


Physicians for Social Responsibility is an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues and the public about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

http://www.psr.org

After being instrumental in the formation of PSR in the US, Dr. Caldecott helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries.

The international umbrella group (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

http://www.ippnw.org

She also founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, now Women's Action for New Directions (WAND) in the US in 1980.

http://www.wand.org

Other professions took up the challenge of "social responsibility," and the 1980s and 90s saw an array of organizations such as Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility, each with their own focus.

http://www.cpsr.org


Books by Helen Caldicott referenced in the video:

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

http://books.google.com/books?id=iEVb...

The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

http://books.google.com/books?id=Diy9...

War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

http://books.google.com/books?id=FoJu...




"Indymedia Presents" is a weekly public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions... now also a weekly podcast available at:

http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

http://miroguide.com/channels/1786

Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs are encouraged to screen or air "Indymedia Presents." To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact us at pepperspray@riseup.net.


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

Mad Cow Disease (BSE) is in the news again. The Humane Society released a video of suffering "down" cows being tortured into standing up long enough to be considered "walkers" and therefore safe to eat by current USDA standards. The video also shows the California slaughterhouse processing cows too weak to be tortured into standing. In response to the video, the USDA forced a recall of 143 million pounds of beef that was already in the food chain, much of it already consumed in school lunches.

But horrible as the situation is, there is something more horrible, not covered (as usual) by corporate media.

The "process no downers" rule was instituted after the first mad cow was discovered in Eastern Washington. But the "mad cow" wasn't a downer.


As required by the European Union and Japan, mandatory testing of all cattle needs to be performed prior to slaughter.

You decide.


We bring you archival footage of the worker who killed the mad cow, testifying that it looked fine, was walking and just happened to arrive in a truck filled with genuine downers.

This is the story of an everyday guy who found himself at the center of the storm and who rose to the occasion to do the right thing. "I'm proud to be a cow-killer," he says, "but I'm no murderer!"

He felt that if he participated in the cover-up, he would be complicit in the knowing exposure of millions of innocent humans to mad cow disease, a brain-eating medical condition with no cure.

This is a story corporate media got but didn't run. We bring it to you again, first hand from the man who killed the mad cow.


The Seattle Times
Friday, April 23, 2004

Mad-cow question lingers: Was animal a 'downer' cow?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/200191055...


NoDowners.org
A Farm Sanctuary Campaign
http://www.nodowners.org


The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) website below is offered to point viewers toward current articles, links, and actions they may wish to take regarding Mad Cow Disease.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.cfm

Quoted from the OCA website:

"Join tens of thousands of citizens and sign the Mad Cow USA-Stop the Madness petition, demanding that the US Government adopt and enforce the same strict standards required by the European Union and Japan:

1) Mandatory testing for all cattle brought to slaughter, before they enter the food chain.

2) Ban the feeding of blood, manure, and slaughterhouse waste to animals.

3) Stop harassing farmers and food processors who are interested in independently testing their own beef."

This week we start off with a powerful piece, Smash ICE, by our newest PepperSpray Collective member, Tacoma Joe.

1) Smash ICE (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

It's protesters vs the cops at the Regional Immigration Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. You think the movement's dead? Think again! Heros are on the barricades, calling. This piece goes well beyond being just demonstration footage to bring shocking information about the scope of deportations, and the private company who runs this facility (and Guantanamo).

http://www.bordc.org/threats/detention.php

http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/aboutdetention

2) Equal access is a right, not a privilege!
This is a 60 second PSA made by PepperSpray from a concept by our man in Tucson, Dale Roose. The title says it all; disabled people have a right to access government and other significant places, but often access is treated as a special privilege or something optional, the first thing to go if there are budget constraints. This PSA seeks, in a light-hearted way, to raise awareness about the right to access.

3) Port Security Struggle (another piece by Tacoma Joe)
Security guards on the docks in Tacoma are fighting to get rid of the sell-out company union, and join the Longshoremen instead. Its a classic labor battle, of bad bosses vs. workers, united and brave in the face of danger. The struggle is no doubt radicalizing security guards, who constitute yet another group the rich absolutely depend on. Jobs With Justice was there to fan the flames.

http://www.jwj.org

4) White Privilege
This short animated piece came from Aislinn Dewey. It is thoughtful and challenging, and a useful reminder to white folks that privilege is like dishes. Nobody ever notices clean dishes, only dirty ones, and the privileged tend not to notice what is painfully obvious to those who don't enjoy its benefits. But it must be noticed and understood by all if we hope to put an end to it.

http://www.activedesigns.org

5) "Its the End of the World As We Know it, and I Feel Fine!" episode 28
We finish off with the latest episode from one of our heros, Franklin Lopez. He does this outstanding series called "Its the End of the World As We Know it, and I Feel Fine!" He has promised to start feeding us cleaned up versions of this high quality series and this if the first one. In this episode, like most, he covers a range of sins, as well as resistance, interviews etc. We are so happy to start carrying his material, which is consistently high quality, funny, and really revolutionary.

http://submedia.tv

"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions.

The "Indymedia Presents" podcast is available at:

http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

http://miroguide.com/channels/1786

Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs are encouraged to screen or air "Indymedia Presents." To obtain the show on a regular basis, contact pepperspray@riseup.net, or visit our web site at www.peppersprayproductions.org.


"Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

The second of two episodes with Pepperspray/Indymedia producer Patricia Boiko covering this years Sundance/Slamdance film festivals.

First Patricia interviews film maker Virginia Williams, whose documentary, "FRONTRUNNER", played at Slamdance this year. The film looks at Dr. Massouda Jalal, the woman who ran for president of Afghanistan after the Taliban fell.

You didn't know a woman ran for president of Afghanistan? That's why you watch "Indymedia Presents"!

http://www.frontrunnermovie.com

Next Patricia talks with John Ealer, whose movie "View From the Bridge" also played at Slamdance. His flick, which he made about Kosovo, tries to answer the question "How do you envision peace when all you remember is war?" The film is about peacemaking, and finding one's way back to humanity after great horror. As the film points out, "Peace is for the brave."

http://www.kosovomovie.com

http://www.slamdance.com
http://www.sundance.org/festival

"Indymedia Presents" is Pepperspray Video Collective's Weekly Podcast and is available through RSS subscription at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via Miro Player... free and open-source, because open media matters!!!

http://www.getmiro.com

"Miro is a free, open-source software project led by a non-profit organization. It's a platform that benefits everyone by keeping online video open. Our organization isn't controlled by venture capitalists or stockholders, which means we always put our users first."


BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org(more)

The first of two episodes with Pepperspray/Indymedia producer Patricia Boiko covering this years Sundance/Slamdance film festivals.

LIES and broadcasting the truth. Our first three films center on the lies we tell ourselves and each other. We end with the tools to broadcast the truth.

Patricia Boiko caught up with filmmaker,
Sam Kauffman, at the Slamdance Film Festival. His
beautifully crafted and poignant film, Massacre at Murambi, is striking for
it's simplicity in conveying the message of Rwanda and
Dafur. His 5 minute film is shown in it's entirity.

http://www.samkauffmann.com/films/murambi

The second film is from our newest and youngest award
winning director and "IndyMedia Presents" producer in
Denmark. Mia Graabak's film was a winner in a
videomarathon.

Then we move to Park City, Utah and the Sundance Film
Festival where Marina and Ryan, Seattle high school
students, tell us about stereotypical lies spun about people from the Middle
East and how the hilarious new Morgan Spurlock film,
"Where In The World is Osama Bin Laden" gave them a
whole new perspective.

The final piece comes by way of the filmmakers lodge
at Sundance and http://www.witness.org and tells how to broadcast
the truth.

http://www.slamdance.com
http://www.sundance.org/festival

"Indymedia Presents" is Pepperspray Video Collective's Weekly Podcast

Indymedia Presents is also available as an RSS podcast at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via Miro Player... free and open-source, because open media matters!!!

http://www.getmiro.com

"Miro is a free, open-source software project led by a non-profit organization. It's a platform that benefits everyone by keeping online video open. Our organization isn't controlled by venture capitalists or stockholders, which means we always put our users first."


BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

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

NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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 episode of NewsReal is aired on Free Speech TV every month:

http://www.freespeech.org

Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know!

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

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org


February NewsReal runsheet:

Charade Posing As Regs
Pesticide woes in California
Producer: Elfie and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org


PacificCorp Protest
Opposition to salmon-killing dams.
Producer: Jim Lockhart
http://www.PhilosopherSeed.org
http://philosopherseed.blip.tv


Ethiopia Out of Somalia
A protest in Seattle against violence in Somalia.
Producer: Pepperspray Productions
http://www.peppersprayproductions.org
http://indymediapresents.blip.tv


Voice From North
Northern indigenous tell of signs of global warming.
Producer: Elfie and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org


"Indymedia 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 ). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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.


Seattle's PepperSpray Productions Video Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month. We also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents." pepperspray@riseup.net

"No More 16 Tons In America"
Longshoremen's Union Hall in Tacoma, WA

Congressman Dennis Kucinich announced he is withdrawing from the 2008 presidential race. While it is true that neither the PepperSpray Collective or "Indymedia Presents" endorses ANY candidate for ANY office, we have always liked Kucinich for raising the issues so clearly, and for his consistency.

On the occasion of him withdrawing from the race, we reached back into our archives and dug out a speech he made at the Longshoremen's Union hall in Tacoma, WA four years ago. It was a great speech, and if we didn't tell you it was that old, you'd probably think it was right up to the moment.

This speech was given BEFORE Al Gore came out with "An Inconvenient Truth," This speech was given BEFORE the exposure of the broken health care system in "Sicko." This speech was given BEFORE 80% of the American people had turned against the war.

Dennis Kucinich has been there all along.
http://www.dennis4president.com

International Longshore and Warehouse Union
ILWU Longshore Division Homepage
http://www.ilwu.org/longshore

BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

Juncture moments.... there have been "juncture" moments before: Dr. Martin Luther King, in his 1967 speech at the Riverside Church, said he was "compelled to see the (Viet Nam) war as an enemy of the poor." After all the work to achieve passage of both Civil Rights and anti-poverty legislation, he said, then "came the buildup in Viet Nam," and King knew "that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Viet Nam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."

This week we reprise an analysis of the current juncture, presented at the Vets For Peace convention in Seattle, by David Korten, based on his most recent book, "The Great Turning." His previous book, "When Corporations Rule the World" was used by many WTO protesters as a handbook addressing the problems hidden in the corporate global dream.

Korten outlines the "perfect storm" created by the concurrent crisis of a collapsing US dollar, end of oil, environmental disaster and war, and presents his ideas on how to turn this tailspin into an opportunity for humanity to reach a higher goal. He makes a persuasive case that we shouldn't be arguing how one issue is more important than the other, but need to see how all the issues are coming together, interacting, and how this calls for an "all as one" perspective.

www.davidkorten.org www.davidkorten.org/Books/greatturning.htm

Veterans for Peace http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV: http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org

International Day of Action to Shut Down Guantanamo with Muslim Army Chaplain James Yee

International Day to Action to Shut Down Guantanamo
Downtown Seattle, Washington
January 11th, 2008

Featured Speakers:

Description of waterboarding read by Maggie Lawless of World Can't Wait
http://www.worldcantwait.net

Chaplain James Yee
Former US Army Muslim chaplain who served at Guantanamo Bay
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/5/22...

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott


Martin Luther King Assembly 2005

Video student Mark Hughes, who attends Cascade HS in Everett, WA, put together this 7 minute video as a class project.

Flashback to 2002: Is U.S. Big Media Still Brainwashing Us?

In the last few years many Americans have come to believe that the war in Iraq is wrong.

Fewer it would seem, have the same opinion about the war against Afganistan.

You decide.

Let's go back with US Representative Jim McDermott


Indymedia Presents is available as an RSS feed at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via Miro Player (free and open-source, because open media matters!) http://www.getmiro.com

"Miro is a free, open-source software project led by a non-profit organization. It's a platform that benefits everyone by keeping online video open. Our organization isn't controlled by venture capitalists or stockholders, which means we always put our users first."

BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://freespeech.org


Veterans Voices:

Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 47 & 48), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

Voice of the Iraq Veteran #3

Harvey Tharp is a former US Navy Lt. who served in Kirkuk, Iraq from 2003 to 2004. He resigned from the Navy rather than go back. In this episode of "Voice of the Veteran" he explains what turned him around.


"Women Together As One"

"As a filmmaker and sociologist, I work to uncover power relations reflected in discourses of race, gender, class, sexuality and notions of empire to stimulate critical and creative thinking, a sense of agency and a revolution in consciousness."
Gilda L. Sheppard, Ph.D.

Gilda Sheppard's documentary film "Women Together as One" was the first ever short film selected for showing by Fest Afrique 360 at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in France. Gilda generously allowed us to feature it on our show (PepperSpray's Lila Kitaeff got editing credits on this piece).

"Women Together as One" focuses on work Sheppard did with Liberian women refugees who live at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, West Africa. She worked with the refugees to organize and design classes for economic sustainability (computer literacy, adult literacy, cosmetology, catering, sewing and tie and dye workshops) and school scholarships for their children.

In this piece we see the women, strong and powerful, full of laughter and life, breaking media "victim" stereotypes at the rate of 30 frames per second.


Global Voices: The world is talking. Are you listening?
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org


Indymedia Presents is also available as an RSS feed at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via the iTunes Store.

BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://freespeech.org




Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org


"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 47 & 48), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

"Refusing to Kill"

Payday sent us the video we start the show with this week.
"Refusing to Kill" features seven Refuseniks from around the world speaking out against murder, rape & other torture. Payday is an international and multiracial network of men which works with the Global Women's Strike. The range of participants in this project are impressive. http://www.refusingtokill.net

"Buy Nothing Santa" from Franklin Lopez. Our hero Franklin Lopez is back again, this time with a little piece where buy nothing activists dressed as Santa and the elves invade a shopping mall to pass out buy nothing material that appear to be discount coupons. http://www.submedia.tv


Indymedia Presents is also available as an RSS feed at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via the iTunes Store.

BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://freespeech.org

Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org



"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 47 & 48), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).

We start things off this week with 2 music videos back to back from Vancouver's fiesty film maker, Franklin Lopez.
"Bush Don't Like Black People" and "We're at war with ourselves." Franklin is one of our favorites, he is an award-winning filmmaker originally hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His stuff is hilarious and politically barbed. You can view more of Frank's work on http://www.submedia.tv

Boiko: ballet-"We Should Know Their Names" In this section we present a Patricia Boiko-produced dance video. The US invasion and occupation of Iraq seeps into every aspect of our lives, and jumps out in unexpected places. In this piece, dancers perform with a banner, upon which are written the names of all the US war dead. Their point is clear and powerful, and the subtext is that EVERY medium, every art form can cry out against oppression and war.

Interview with 14yr olds about FCC. When the FCC came to Seattle to hold a public hearing about media consolidation, over a thousand people turned out to give them a piece of their mind. Among them were these 14 year old twins.


Indymedia Presents is also available as an RSS feed at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via the iTunes Store.

BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:

http://freespeech.org
(more)

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.

Strong voices of the people. Keep sending in your segment contributions! And spread the word!

Submission details are here:

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

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


Here's the lineup for the January episode of Indymedia Newsreal:

Shanti Sellz: I Am An American
Producer: Cindy Weber
Pato Productions
Profile of a humanitarian aid worker on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

The Los Angeles Burrito Project
Producer: Paola Gomez
http://www.themishaped.com
A bike-distributed, tortilla-encased food-to-the-needy project in L.A.

End Executions
Producer: Houston Indymedia
http://www.houston.indymedia.org
A spirited march and rally against capital punishment in Houston, Texas.

Scar Presents No Borders Camp
Producer: Scar Media Collective
http://www.noborderscamp.org
The trailer for a forthcoming full-length documentary about the 2007 No Borders Camp in Calexico/Mexicali.


"Indymedia 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 ). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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. The Seattle PepperSpray Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month, and we also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents."

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.

Strong voices of the people. Keep sending in your segment contributions! And spread the word!

Submission details are here:

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

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


The December US NewReal lineup:

The Wall and the River
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.arizona.indymedia.org

Ulises Ruiz = Terrorist
Producer: Michael Eisenmenger
http://www.mayfirst.org

Voice of the Vet #4
Producer: Randy Rowland
http://www.peppersprayproductions.org

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary
Producer: Jim Lockhart
http://www.philosopherseed.org

No Borders Camp Overview
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.panleft.org


"Indymedia 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 ). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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. The Seattle PepperSpray Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month, and we also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents".

Make Your Own Electric Peace Sign for Christmas!

A big thank you for watching "Indymedia Presents" this past year from all the volunteers at Pepperspray Productions!

Be the Media!

Change the World!


Related websites:

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:

http://freespeech.org

MAERSK picket line at Port of Tacoma

This piece was done by our newest PepperSpray videographer, who is also in Students for Democratic Society (SDS)

http://www.studentsforademocraticsoci...

Security guards at the Port of Tacoma have been fighting to bring in their preferred union, and get rid of the company union. This is like a throw-back to earlier days of labor struggles, created by a clause in the Homeland Security rules that mandate that the workers must be allowed to join a union. So MAERSK, biggest shipper in the world, with North American headquarters in Tacoma, created a union and mandated that the workers join. Not so fast said the workers, we'll choose our own union, thank you. In this piece the workers throw up a picket line supported by Jobs With Justice. Longshoremen from the ILWU, confronted with a militant picket line when they arrive to work, show what solidarity is all about.


STOP WARS Olympia PMR

http://www.omjp.org

http://www.omjp.org/Port2007.html

This piece was also done by our newest PepperSpray videographer. The Olympia Port & Military Resistance group featured in this piece is really doing great work to stop military shipments through Northwest ports.

Day after day demonstrators protested at the Port of Olympia, trying to prevent war materials from moving through the Port, in this case strykers and other heavy equipment just back from Iraq, returning to be refurbished and made ready for the next time over. Sometimes the demonstrators shut the Port down, sometimes they were forced to retreat, but put up roadblocks through the city and freeway that are the route to Fort Lewis. This is great stuff, because the demonstrators are not politely begging for the war stop, but taking direct action, with resultant pepperspray and point-blank pepper bullets. This segment contains gripping footage of demonstrators locked down, facing police lines, taking hit after hit, point blank from police pepper bullets, and not backing down. One can only hope that this represents a new wave of heroism and determination in America. This is a great action piece by our newest PepperSpray videographer.


Battle in Seattle

November 1999 saw the huge protests in Seattle against the WTO. On this year's anniversary of that struggle, we replay a piece from back in the day by Collective Media, forerunner of the PepperSpray Collective, about those days of heroism and determination. It is called "Battle in Seattle." Steward Townsend is about to release a Hollywood movie by the same name which is set during that amazing moment in people's history. It stars Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin. The PepperSpray Collective consulted on the script and helped organize extras for the scenes shot in Seattle, so we are looking forward to seeing the flick once it is released. But once it is out, nobody will remember our little slideshow with a sound track by the same name from so many years ago, so here it is, one last time, before it is eclipsed.


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BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:

http://freespeech.org




Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org

Voice of the Iraq Veteran #4

We start off this episode with the 4th in a little series we have been doing, "Voice of the Veteran." In this episode, we do a street interview at a demonstration with Evan Knappenberger, an Iraq vet who was in the US Army Infantry. He tells a story of GI resistance that occurred when he was in Iraq that perhaps begins to explain why US casualties are declining, even though the Iraqi people have not found a new love for their American occupiers.


Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org


Interview with Jill Freidberg, producer of Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (a little bit of so much truth) http://www.corrugate.org

http://www.mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca
http://www.oaxacalibre.org
http://www.fsrn.org

From the producer of the award-winning,"Granito de Arena" and "This is What Democracy Looks Like", comes an intimate, breathtaking account of the revolution that WAS televised, the uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico. "A Little Bit of So Much Truth" tells the story of the unprecedented phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, healthcare workers, farmers and students took over 14 radio stations and one TV station during the summer of 2006. The uprising in the state of Oaxaca started off as a teacher's strike but quickly escalated into a confrontation with the state apparatus of historic proportions. Jill Freidberg was there and got the whole thing on tape. She was lucky to be well positioned to get this story, because her previous movie, Granito de Arena was about the Oaxaca teachers' struggle up to just before the uprising she covers now in "Poquito."

PepperSpray was pleased to interview Jill about her new movie, which we love. Jill was generous in providing a lot of great Oaxaca footage that really makes this interview stand out. Those familiar with Seattle's anti-WTO protests may remember Jill for her movie about those times called This is What Democracy Looks Like. Then she went on to make the excellent Granito de Arena, which looks at the teachers' legacy of struggle in the Oaxaca area. Now she has this triumph of a movie "Poquito," about the Oaxaca uprising.

In the PepperSpray interview Jill talks about the struggle, the making of the movie, and what it means to be a revolutionary film maker. The piece, filmed and edited by Lila Kitaeff, is thoughtful, personal, and uplifting.




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BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:

http://freespeech.org

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.


Strong voices of the people. Produce a NewsReal segment yourself!

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

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

On November US NewsReal:


Warnick Recants
Producer: George and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org
The November 07 Indymedia NewsReal starts off with an amazing segment. A woman who for years stood on the "support the troops" pro-war side of an intersection decided that from now on she has to stand on the side of peace. At a time when news polls say that 70% of Americans want the troops out, our cities must be full of people just like this woman, who initially chose the wrong side, thinking they were doing the right thing. Seldom do we see them on-screen, but the good folks at Sun Mountain, to their credit, got the interview. Those who wonder if the peace movement has failed, should watch this little segment and take new heart.

Other segments this month:

Let My People Work!
Producer: Kennedy Helm
http://www.workingeastbay.org

Ofelia Rivas: I Am An American
Producer: Cynthia Weber
Pato Productions

We Gays Apply For Marriage Licenses, Producer:
George and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org

Responsibility and War Guilt (Noam Chomsky)
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.panleft.org

"Indymedia 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 ). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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. The Seattle PepperSpray Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month, and we also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents."

Voice of the Iraq Veteran #2--Ryan Lockwood

This is the second short in the Voice of the Veteran Series. Each of these episodes is a snippet from interviews PepperSpray did with vets during the 2006 Veterans For Peace national convention. In this one, Lockwood recounts what turned him around, as real-life experience changed him from somebody who thought killing would be cool to a veteran dedicated to ending the war.

Save Cascade

Gentrification seems to be a universal problem in America. This week we feature a story in progress, about a lively community center in the South Lake Union area of Seattle that is being threatened with closure because the city plans to cut off its funding. The Cascade People's Center provides many progressive groups with free space for meetings, as well as after school programs for kids, and on and on. But in Paul Allentown, to borrow Seattle busker Jim Page's term, it is apparently a useless relic of a pre-gentrification past. Of course the volunteers and those who benefit from the many programs at the Cascade People's Center have a different opinion, and off they went to march to City Hall to kick off their campaign to "Save Cascade." PepperSpray videographers were there, and this is the story, with a musical score provided by two of Seattle's well-know buskers, Jim Hinde and Jim Page.

With Choices Like These

Jonny Hahn is the piano-playing busker often seen down at Seattle's Pike Place Market. Here he plays an election-themed song in his finest bandaged-finger style.

Thank You Lt. Watada

Lt. Watada update from outside the Federal Courthouse in Tacoma, WA
The brave Lt.'s stay has been extended, as Federal Judge Settle considers the issue of double jeopardy. In this short update a retired Navy Commander and even a statue get into the act of standing against illegal, immoral war.


Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org


Indymedia Presents is also available as an RSS feed at:

Blip TV-- http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

... or download/subscribe to the Indymedia Presents podcast via the iTunes Store.

BE THE MEDIA!
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:

http://freespeech.org

Federal Judge finds "merit" in Lt. Watada's claim against double jeopardy.

No, it isn't the final victory for the brave Lt. that we are all hoping for, but in this video clip of Lt. Watada's lawyer, who was speaking at a Physicians For Social Responsibility event, we find out that Federal Judge Settle made a ruling that there was merit in Lt. Watada's claim. As the lawyer explains, this probably means that even if Watada has to appeal his double jeopardy argument to the 9th Circuit Court, that the stay preventing the Army from proceeding with their second attempt to court martial the Lt. would likely continue to protect Watada. We have been trying to get Watada's lawyer in front of the camera for a while, and finally managed to deliver the goods.


PepperSpray's "Pharma" commercial for "Indymedia Presents"
Beware "corporate fasciitis!" We have the cure, however.


US Representative Jim McDermott: "They're going to pull the trigger on Iran"
Seattle's favorite Congressman blurts it out, and PepperSpray, as always, was there to bring you the message.



Our response to Ken Burn's new WWII series: "Day of Infamy"

Much has been made of Ken Burns going around interviewing WWII veterans. It is a good idea, because after all, these old timers are dying off at the rate of thousands every month. But the PBS series missed a few important points and so Indymedia has to pick up the slack, as usual. In this interview with a WWII Disabled American Veteran, we find out that the main Pearl Harbor newspaper published a banner headline on the top of the front page of the paper a week before the so-called "sneak attack" that read "Japanese may strike over weekend!" As O'Kelly McClusky holds up a copy of the newspaper for the camera, he tells how the US intentionally sacrificed their old, obsolete ships, along with 3,000 sailors, to change public opinion about getting into the war with Japan, and how he went from gung-ho to disillusioned. This piece was originally produced as a critique of the Hollywood movie "Pearl Harbor," and uses fair use footage to review that film. As December 7th nears, and with all the attention generated by the Ken Burns series, it only seemed right to pull our piece out of the archives and run it again. Hey, Ken Burns, we did it first, and we told people something they might not know. Additionally, with all the fear of another "false flag" incident to spur our nation into war with Iran, it seems quite appropriate to study exactly how we got into past wars.


PepperSpray interviews the Prince of Peace
Through the miracle of TV, we talk to the big guy himself, to discover his opinion on war mongers, the WTO, gays, and Rastafarians.


Portland IMC's Indymedia Ad
Boy they do good work!


Thank You Lt. Watada
http://www.thankyoult.org

Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org

Independent(Indy)media sites:

http://www.indymedia.org

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.

Steev Hise, who puts the "Indymedia NewsReal" monthly program together is really pumping it with the October episode. The segments on the October NewsReal are great examples of what Indymedia video has to offer. Raw, passionate, real. Real people, the real perspective. IF this was what commercial reality TV was all about, we would have had the revolution already.

Strong voices of the people. Produce a NewsReal segment yourself!

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

On the October Indymedia NewsReal:

Stop Anti-Immigrant Repression
Producer: Steev Hise, arizona.indymedia
A rally in Tucson in August against militarized borders and opressive
immigration policy. A young woman's face fills the screen: "They're putting whole families and little kids in immigration prison cells, and keeping them there for a long time, how holocaust is that?"

New Orleans Post-Katrina Toxicity
Producer: Rick Callaway
http://www.commongroundrelief.org
A look at chemical dumping in New Orleans after the storm. The mucky underbelly of a failed system.

Silenced By The Media
Producer: AWAAM
http://www.awaam.org
A controversy stirred up by mainstream media in New York about a
public Arabic school, and responses by members of AWAAM, Arab Women
Active in the Arts and Media. These sisters have strong voice, and they are right on it.

Palestine En Solidaridad
Producer: Jason Aragón
http://www.panleft.org
Palestinians who struggle against the Israeli wall visit Southern
Arizona to see the U.S./Mexico wall and give their perspectives. Those walls, dividing up the world, and military occupation are a terrible present, and the wrong road for humanity.

strong work y'all.

"Indymedia 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 ). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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. The Seattle PepperSpray Collective contributes segments to the "NewsReal" Project. In addition, we do the dubbing/mailing of the finished "NewsReal" for community screeners each month, and we also build the program's outreach by featuring the monthly "NewsReal" on "Indymedia Presents."

From the website, "Voices for Creative Nonviolence":
http://www.vcnv.org


"Kathy Kelly, 54, of Chicago, IL, is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq in 1996. For bringing "medicine and toys" to Iraq in open violation of the UN/US sanctions, she and other campaign members were notified of a proposed $163,000 penalty for the organization, threatened with 12 years in prison, and eventually fined $20,000, a sum which they've refused to pay. Voices in the Wilderness organized 70 delegations to visit Iraq in the period between 1996 and the beginning of the "Operation Shock and Awe" warfare (March 2003). Kelly has been to Iraq twenty four times since January 1996, when the campaign began. In October 2002, she joined Iraq Peace Team members in Baghdad where she and the team maintained a presence throughout the bombardment and invasion. Kelly left Iraq on April 19, 2003 and has returned three times, most recently in May of 2006 when she traveled to northern Iraq.

Along with three other Voices activists, Kathy was in Beirut, Lebanon during the final days of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006. They subsequently reported from southern Lebanon following a ceasefire.

During the first two weeks of the Gulf War, she was part of a peace encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border called the Gulf Peace Team. Following evacuation to Amman, Jordan, (February 4, 1991), team members stayed in the region for the next six months to help coordinate medical relief convoys and study teams.

In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites. Kelly served nine months of the sentence in Lexington KY maximum security prison.

Kelly in Beirut, Lebanon during the final days of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006

Kelly has taught in Chicago area community colleges and high schools since 1974. From 1980 -- 1986 she taught at St. Ignatius College Prep (Chicago, IL). She is active with the Catholic Worker movement and, as a pacifist and war tax refuser, has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 26 years.

Kelly helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti (summer of 1994), Bosnia (August, 1993, December, 1992) and Iraq (Gulf Peace Team, 1991). In April of 2002, she was among the first internationals to visit the Jenin camp, where conventional military forces of the Israeli Defense Force had destroyed over 100 civilian homes, in the Occupied West Bank.

In the spring of 2004, she served three months at Pekin federal prison for crossing the line as part of an ongoing effort to close an army military combat training school at Fort Benning, GA."

http://www.vcnv.org/speaker-bio/kathy...

On June 22, 2007, Camilo Mejia, the first Conscientious Objector to walk off the front lines in Iraq, spoke at the First Unitarian Church in Portland Oregon.

On May 21, 2004, a U.S. military court sentenced Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia Castillo of the Florida National Guard to the maximum penalty of one year's imprisonment for desertion. He had refused to return to his unit in Iraq, citing moral reasons, the legality of the war and the conduct of US troops towards Iraqi civilians and prisoners.

Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned for his conscientious opposition to participating in war.

After a few brief introductory comments, Camilo Mejia read excerpts from his new book, "Road From Ar Ramadi".

Camilo joined the service at age 19, served as an infantryman for 8 years, was a staff sergeant and squad leader. "I had done the training and had the knowledge and the expertise to do my job in Iraq." Though trained to kill and ignore the collateral damage of civilian casualties, he says that "there's no training to prepare one for that type of experience." He states further that "at 19 years of age we are not allowed to buy alcohol, yet when a young person decides not to participate in war they say that you knew what you were doing when you signed that contract."

He recounts numerous experiences in Ar Ramadi, witnessing abuse, and worse, of civilians.


Websites Camilo recommended during his presentation:

Courage To Resist
http://www.couragetoresist.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

Veterans for Peace
http://www.veteransforpeace.org

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org

Gold Star Families for Peace
http://www.gsfp.org

Agustin Aguayo Website
http://www.aguayodefense.org

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.

Segments included in this episode:

We Take On Nuclear Power Still
Producers: George and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org

Political Travel
Producer: http://www.allies.org

Comfest Anti-War Protest
Producer: Columbus Indymdia
http://www.columbus.indymedia.org

Report From Bush
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.indymedia.org

We Immigrant Women Protest
the Raids
Producers: George and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org

Beverly Thompson from Florida sent this piece up to us. As anti-abortionists stepped up their attack on a local women's clinic and its clients in Miami, a group formed to protect the clinic and the women who used its services. In the struggle around that clinic we can see the national battle playing out. In fact, clinics in Seattle are being targeted now in a new wave of activity similar to what played out in Miami.

For more info on this piece visit www.snakegirl.net

"Chicago Occupied"

Our friends at Labor Beat in Chicago sent us this piece, about a street theater-style action where members of Iraq Vets Against the War, dressed in battle gear, did a mock patrol, sweeping up and mistreating Chicago civilians in the same style they did in Iraq. This action was modeled after a similar action by Vietnam Vets Against the War, done in the early 1970s, during the US invasion and occupation of Viet Nam, (the "RAW March," which we have archival footage of, and hope to put on a future "Indymedia Presents" episode, for its historical interest). Much like VVAW of yesteryear, IVAW has played an important role in opposing the US presence in Iraq, as well they should. Nobody knows the horror of the American presence better than its victims, the Iraqi people, but their voice is not at all present in the American discourse on the war. Next to the Iraqis, the American soldiers who have served in Iraq have the most to say and IVAW has been a strong voice, trying to alert the American public to the wrongfulness of US actions over there, using increasingly creative ways to get the word to the people here at home. Their efforts reflect a tremendous faith in Americans. The idea is that if Americans are confronted with the truth, they will not turn away, but will stop the war.

Although "Chicago Occupied" was made before the latest scandal developed, regarding the Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq, it sheds some light on that situation. Blackwater is accused of randomly shooting at civilians who have pulled over to allow the US convoys to go by. Apparently its not a few loose cannons, or an isolated incident, but done routinely, as policy. The world over people don't really mind pulling over when the the flashing blue lights race by, with nary a bad thought or negative attitude towards the authorities when we do so. But if the cops randomly shot as us as they careened by, we'd all get restive real quick. Putting aside for a moment the question of whether the US should be in Iraq, it is a legitimate question to ask "Are American soldiers and the US-hired mercenaries in Iraq there to pacify the Iraqis, or to bully and incite them?" Is this a new and very bad definition of "making war," where we keep the war going (and therefore profitable) by mistreating the Iraqis until they HAVE to resist? In "Chicago Occupied" we see American veterans, returned from Iraq, trying to bring a message to the American people about what they are actually doing to the Iraqis.

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org

"Voice of the Vet #1"

This short snippet is the first in an ambitious series the PepperSpray video collective is developing based on interviews conducted with veterans at the Veterans For Peace national convention. In this one Hart Viges, who served with the 82nd Infantry, tells the story of why the citizens of Falluja were angered at the US occupying forces, who had taken over a school in that city to use as their headquarters. When the Iraqis demonstrated out front, asking for their school back so the kids could return to classes, the American forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 15 and wounding many more. It was this incident, Viges feels, that turned the city of Falluja against the Americans, which resulted in the death of the four Blackwater mercenaries a short time later.

This powerfully significent program was sent to us by our friends in San Diego, Alternate Focus. http://alternatefocus.org

Produce a NEWSREAL segment!

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.

Please see submission information below this month's runsheet.

Segments included in this episode:

If A Body Catch A Body
Coming Through The Rye
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.kein.tv

Let The Hemp Revolution Begin
Producer: Columbus Indymedia
http://www.columbus.indymedia.org

Live from Gate 3
Producer: Steev Hise
http://www.kein.tv

March 6 March
Producer: Pete Anderson
http:/www.peoples-activist-cafe.org

We Join Our Souls,
Soles, For Peace
Producers: George and Maia Ballis
http://www.sunmt.org

Newsreal is looking for current reports of people taking action to achieve progressive social, environmental and economic justice. You can help by covering actions in your home town.

Newsreal is currently in need of edited segments 1 minute to 10 minutes long. If your segment is included on Newsreal, it will be aired over the DISH Network on Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org) and you will receive $50. (You might starve by the time the check arrives from Free Speech TV, but it will indeed show up as a surprise after you have forgotten all about it...make sure to include your Social Security or Tax ID number on the submission form below so you get paid.)

Please visit the URL below for Newsreal submission information:

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

If the above URL completely confused you (it is being updated soon), try this:

1) All future producers should sign up with the imc-satellite@indymedia.org list at: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-satellite. This is the main way we all communicate about Newreal. Feel free to ask questions.

When your segment is included in a Newsreal program, the imc-sat. list is where it will show up first...on the newest Newreal runsheet. If your segment isn't included for some reason, no one will tell you. Oh well, there are worse things we can all think of.

2) Print out the submission form below and mail it along with a miniDV of your edited segment to:

indymedia newsreal
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p.o. box 1105
tucson, az 85702

Newsreal Submission Form:

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Indymedia Newsreal is a monthly joint project of Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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.

So... find a video camera and some editing equipment, and help local organizers in communities getting hit the hardest make their voices heard!

Medical Providers live by the oath to "Do No Harm." What does that mean when providing care as part of the military in Iraq? A general surgeon and a medic, who both served in Iraq, give their different perspectives on how to "do no harm." The surgeon believes that caring for injured soldiers, enemy combatants and civilians is doing no harm. The medic believes that refusing to load his weapon and becoming a Conscientious Objector to all war is doing no harm.

Produced and directed by Pepperspray videographer Patricia Boiko.

http://www.aguayodefense.org/

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BE THE MEDIA!

Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.

Related websites:

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

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From Dahr Jamail's website www.dahrjamailiraq.com

"Independent News From the MidEast"

"In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.

His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent to name just a few. Dahr's dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.

Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the MidEast, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Dahr uses the DahrJamailIraq.com website and his popular mailing list to disseminate his dispatches."

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BE THE MEDIA!

Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard.


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Indymedia Newsreal is also aired monthly on Free Speech TV:

http://freespeech.org

Produce a NEWSREAL segment!

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

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.

Please see submission information below this month's runsheet.

Segments included in this episode:

Baden Gehen Parts 1 & 2
Producer: less than ten minutes TV
www.g8-tv.org

Cesar Turning in His Grave
Producer: George and Maia Ballis
www.sunmt.org

G8 Day of Action for Migration
Producer: Steev Hise
www.arizona.indymedia.org
www.kein.tv

Molly's Ghost
Producer: George and Maia Ballis
www.sunmt.org

Resolutionary Television
Producer: Undergrowth Media

Newsreal is looking for current reports of people taking action to achieve progressive social, environmental and economic justice. You can help by covering actions in your home town.

Newsreal is currently in need of edited segments 1 minute to 10 minutes long. If your segment is included on Newsreal, it will be aired over the DISH Network on Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org) and you will receive $50. (You might starve by the time the check arrives from Free Speech TV, but it will indeed show up as a surprise after you have forgotten all about it...make sure to include your Social Security or Tax ID number on the submission form below so you get paid.)

Please visit the URL below for Newsreal submission information:

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

If the above URL completely confused you (it is being updated soon), try this:

1) All future producers should sign up with the imc-satellite@indymedia.org list at: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-satellite. This is the main way we all communicate about Newreal. Feel free to ask questions.

When your segment is included in a Newsreal program, the imc-sat. list is where it will show up first...on the newest Newreal runsheet. If your segment isn't included for some reason, no one will tell you. Oh well, there are worse things we can all think of.

2) Print out the submission form below and mail it along with a miniDV of your edited segment to:

indymedia newsreal
attn: steev hise
p.o. box 1105
tucson, az 85702

Newsreal Submission Form:

Segment Title:
Total Running Time:
Preferred Program Month to Run:
Producer/Organization:
Producer Website URL:
Producer Contact Name:
Social Security or Tax ID Number
(this is needed so you get paid):
Producer Contact Email:
Producer Phone Number:
Producer Contact Mailing Address:



Segment synopsis (one sentence describing the issue and action):



And if available also send:
Featured Activist Contact Name:
Featured Activist Contact E-Mail:
Featured Activist Phone Number:
Featured Activist Website URL:

Indymedia Newsreal is a monthly joint project of Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. 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.

So... find a video camera and some editing equipment, and help local organizers in communities getting hit the hardest make their voices heard!