Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents"
Pepperspray Productions is a small independent video activist collective located in Seattle, Washington. We formed shortly after the Seat...News
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17:31:02 06/22/09
Indymedia Newsreal: Seattle General Strike/ White Privilege/ Demand for Universal Health Care
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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.”
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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.orgThe runsheet for this month is as follows:6 Years of Saying No To WarProducer: Jacob Carpenterwww.gjredpill.orgProtesting the Iraq war this year in Grand Junction, Colorado.First 100 Days RallyProducer: Steev Hisewww.newsontheline.tvOn 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 GarbageProducer: Elfie and Maia BallisSunMt.orgA little song about private property and public good.Mobile News CorpsesProducer: Flux Rostrumwww.mobilebroadcastnews.orgThe saga of police oppression of journalists at the 2008 RNC.Crashing the Taste of VailProducer: Jacob Carpenterwww.gjredpill.orgActivists 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 357This 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 up2. Montreal Angst3. X-acto Shooting4. Olympic Greenwash5. Obama chills out6. European Rebellions part Deux7. Biden needs more time8. Goose Liver Revolution9. Atari Teenage Riot10.C.R.A.S.S. & the RNC 8More 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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18:21:40 05/18/09
He Stood Up: The Mistrial of Lt. Ehren Watada
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Write up for IP #355Lt. 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.
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15:15:05 05/11/09
Indymedia Newsreal: Back Country Blues, Wobblies March Hillcrest, Showdown At The Rio Bosque, Blair Grocery School
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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.
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14:32:48 05/04/09
Seattle General Strike Music / 2010 Olympic Resistance / Tar Sands / Tea Party Protests
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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?
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16:42:15 04/27/09
Indymedia NewsReal: Shake Your Peace Squat / Mono Mono On The Border / Solidarity with Tristan Anderson & Palestine / Inauguration Day in Mexicali
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“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/
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18:45:18 04/20/09
G20 Protests and UK Factory Takeovers
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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.
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15:10:04 04/13/09
May Day Immigrant Rights Retrospective
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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.
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14:19:03 04/06/09
The Situation and Our Tasks
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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.
04/13/09