Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents"
Pepperspray Productions is a small independent video activist collective located in Seattle, Washington. We formed shortly after the Seat...Video Episodes:
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15:44:51 07/06/09
Indymedia Newsreal: Tyranny of Oil
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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/
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16:22:51 06/22/09
Indymedia NewsReal: 6 years of Saying No To War/ First 100 Days Rally/ Raging Grannies/ Mobile News Corpses/ Crasing the Taste of Vail/
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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.
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19:30:58 06/08/09
Tamim Ansary on Afghanistan
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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.
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18:19:32 06/01/09
Cracking Shell / Salaam Garage
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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.
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16:08:57 06/01/09
Its The End of The World As We Know It / Sicko Pharmaceutical Industry / A Soldier
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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/.
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21:22:00 01/27/09
Antonia Juhasz: "The Tyranny of Oil" Book Tour
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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
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17:29:37 01/21/09
Seattle's Critical Mass / Antonia Juhasz / Indymedia Cooks
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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
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22:12:47 06/19/08
Indymedia US NewsReal June 2008
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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.
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01:10:50 06/08/08
"No Peace, No Work" Mayday Longshore Strike Against the War
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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
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17:28:31 05/27/08
Pastors For Peace Caravans / Stimul8tor submedia tv
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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 )
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23:05:15 10/14/07
Indymedia US NewsReal September 2007
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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
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12:35:54 09/28/07
Chicago Occupied / Voice of the Iraq Vet #1
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"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.
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22:35:22 09/18/07
Indymedia US NewsReal August 2007
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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
attn: steev hise
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!