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14:04:34 01/30/12
Independent Lens | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Clip 2 | PBS
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Independent Lens | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Clip 2 | PBS
www.itvs.org Premiering February 9, 2012. Check local listings: www.pbs.org A 1968 speech by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver sets the stage for a contemporary reaction by singer Erykah Badu about how African American self-defense and community empowerment was depicted by the mainstream media and politicians as acts of radical aggression. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. Combining startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage that had lain undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, this film looks at the people, society, culture, and style that fuelled an era of convulsive change. Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 1970s mixtape format, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is a cinematic and musical journey into the black communities of America. At the end of the '60s and into the early '70s, Swedish interest in the US civil rights movement and the US anti-war movement peaked. With a combination of commitment and naivet%eacute, Swedish filmmakers traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the US media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement. Despite the obstacles they encountered, both from the conservative white American power ... From: PBS Views: 179 6 ratings Time: 02:36 More in Film & Animation
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14:02:38 01/30/12
Independent Lens | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Clip 1 | PBS
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www.itvs.org Premiering February 9, 2012. Check local listings: www.pbs.org Hip hop musician Talib Kweli recounts how he became a figure of interest to federal officials while he was researching the speeches of Stokely Carmichael ... 40 years after the fact. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. Combining startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage that had lain undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, this film looks at the people, society, culture, and style that fuelled an era of convulsive change. Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 1970s mixtape format, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is a cinematic and musical journey into the black communities of America. At the end of the '60s and into the early '70s, Swedish interest in the US civil rights movement and the US anti-war movement peaked. With a combination of commitment and naivet%eacute, Swedish filmmakers traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the US media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement. Despite the obstacles they encountered, both from the conservative white American power establishment and from radicalized ,ovement members themselves, the Swedish filmmakers ... From: PBS Views: 388 19 ratings Time: 02:47 More in Film & Animation
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21:50:08 01/18/12
Happy Birthday, Stefan Edberg!!!
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[Follow Stefan Edberg at http://stefanstennis.free.fr/ and at http://www.facebook.com/stefan.edberg.tribute] Stefan Edberg celebrates his 29th birthday in Melbourne during the Australian Open on January 19, 1995. After winning his 2nd round match against Adrian Voinea, he receives a cake and the wishes from the journalists in the press room and talks about his birthdays on court to Ubaldo Scanagatta. This report was recorded from the news magazine "Sport time" of the Italian sports tv Tele+2. Speech: Elena Pero, Edberg's voice: Mino Taveri, interview: Ubaldo Scanagatta, subtitles: Mauro Cappiello for STE...fans.
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16:50:52 01/06/12
Interview with James Galbraith on History, War & the Economics of Empire
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This interview with James Galbraith on History, War & the Economics of Empire is very insightful and offers the viewer an understanding of the mechanics behind the United States of America and how it operates on the global stage. James Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. To learn more please visit: http://DemocracyorEmpire.org This is a zgraphix production. Produced by Jeff Zavala. http://zgraphix.org
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18:10:41 12/31/11
Criminales Todos
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Criminales Todos The interviews were filmed in part for CRIMINALES TODOS, a travelling community art exhibit aiming to inspire an ongoing dialogue and examination of the social, political and cultural issues related to the criminalization of communities of color. From post-Civil War vagrancy laws targeting newly freed African Americans in the South, to police rounding up Japanese Americans and sending them to internment camps during WWII, to SB1070 targeting Latinos in Arizona; the history of police targeting communities of color has deep roots in American history. In times of increased police surveillance, tightened border control and the implementation of anti-immigrant and racist laws across the country, we encourage artists to engage in a conversation about the devastating repercussions of policing and the militarization in our local communities. From: bmediacollective Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 11:32 More in Autos & Vehicles
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16:39:07 12/31/11
Arun Gupta on the past and future of Occupy Wall Street
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Arun Gupta on the past and future of Occupy Wall Street Interview conducted at Occupy West Tampa, 12.30.11 by Kelly Benjamin From: kombatrock Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 09:58 More in News & Politics
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16:00:56 12/29/11
Mitt Romney's Big Promises - and Bigger Lies
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In the election of 1928, the Republican Party of Herbert Hoover promised voters "a chicken in every pot and a car in every backyard." (We all know how that turned out.) Now, Mitt Romney is pledging that "If I'm President" every college graduate will be guaranteed a job, Iran will have no nuclear weapons and the United States will dominate the 21st century. And when Romney isn't making fantastic promises about what he'll do when he gets to the White House, he's slandering the current occupant , Barack Obama.
"I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes"
Governor Romney's guarantees start with Iran and its nuclear program . In a November 10, 2011 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Romney pledged, " I won't let Iran get nukes ." Or as he put it 10 days earlier during a GOP national security debate : >
"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If you elect me as president, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."
As to how he'll ensure that outcome, Romney explained that "If you want peace, prepare for war." And despite occasionally acknowledging the complexity of a strike against Iran and even the questionable possibility of success, Romney told the Wall Street Journal this weekend how he would get it done: >
So what would he do about it? "I do not have a top secret security clearance at this stage to be able to define precisely what kinds of actions we could take." But he adds that "the range includes something of a blockade nature, to something of a surgical strike nature, to something of a decapitate the regime nature, to eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether."
No U.S. Decline in Romney's "American Century"
Romney's promise to "eliminate the military threat of Iran altogether" is just part of his larger assurance that the 21st century will be another " American Century ." Pretending that the rise of India, China and Brazil doesn't inevitably entail the relative loss of U.S. power and influence, Romney announced in his October address at The Citadel : >
"This century must be an American Century. In an American Century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. In an American Century, America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world...As President of the United States, I will devote myself to an American Century. And I will never, ever apologize for America."
Not content to rest there, Romney accused President Obama of "waving the white flag of surrender": >
"An eloquently justified surrender of world leadership is still surrender. >
I will not surrender America's role in the world. This is very simple: If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your President. >
You have that President today."
Two months later, Mitt Romney repackaged his promise and his slander at the December 15 Republican debate in Sioux City, Iowa: >
"Our president thinks America is in decline. It is if he's president. It's not if I'm president. This is going to be an American century."
As for Romney's charge that President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America," the Washington Post Fact Checker deemed it a Four-Pinocchio lie .
A Job for Every College Graduate
At an event in New Hampshire last week, Governor Romney's pandering went from the sublime to the ridiculous. There, Mitt pledged President Romney would deliver full-employment for all American college graduates: >
"What I can promise you is this -- when you get out of college, if I'm president you'll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job. That's the reason I will hopefully get young people who are in college is to say, You know what, I understand what it takes to get jobs in America."
As the record shows , not so much. After all, as the Los Angeles Times recently documented, Romney's "Bain Capital often maximized profits in part by firing workers." That's why FactCheck.org , the Washington Post Fact Checker and Fortune all refused to vouch for Romney's claim that "In those hundreds of businesses we invested in, tens of thousands of jobs net-net were created."
Obama "Has Not Created Any New Jobs"
If Mitt Romney can't prove his boasts about his own job creation record, neither can he justify his blatant lie about President Obama's : >
"25 million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I'll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs." >
"I'll compare that record with his record, where he has not created any new jobs."
Sadly for Mitt Romney, the Bush recession began in December 2007. As ThinkProgress rightly noted, "The private sector has added 2.3 million new jobs since March 2010, and it took the Obama economy one year to create more jobs than the economy under President Bush did in eight." As The Economist explained earlier, the recession was not at its deepest just as Barack Obama was entering office, but far worse than official statistics revealed at the time. Romney might also want to check with former McCain economic adviser Mark Zandi as well as the non-partisan CBO , who concluded that the Obama stimulus program "added up to 0.9 million jobs in 2009, 3.3 million jobs in 2010 and 2.6 million jobs in 2011."
Obama's Debt Exceeds All Previous Presidents Combined
Mitt Romney didn't just lie about Barack Obama's jobs record. At the Sioux City debate, he got President Obama's contribution to the federal debt all wrong as well: >
"We all understand that the spending crisis is extraordinary, with $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that's racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Of course, we don't all understand that, because it's not true . After Ronald Reagan tripled the gross national debt and George W. Bush doubled it again, Uncle Sam's red ink totaled almost $11 trillion when Barack Obama took the oath of office.
Obama is "Taking over 100 Percent" of Health Care
In his desperate quest to win over conservative Republican primary voters, Mitt Romney has turned his back on his signature achievement which he once boasted was a health care model for the nation. And to do it, Romney has been lying for months by telling voters "Obamacare is about taking over 100 percent of the people's insurance in this country."
In a September 15, 2011 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer , Romney made the same charge: >
"The Massachusetts plan was crafted for Massachusetts, for the needs of 8 percent of our population that didn't have insurance, not for the 92 percent that did. Obamacare is a plan that takes over 100 percent of the people in the country and their health care, and that's one of the reasons why people don't want it."
Sadly for Mitt Romney, repetition of a lie doesn't make it any more true.
The Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in the spring of 2010 targets the 17 percent of people (over 50 million people) who are uninsured . As Politifact explained in deeming Romney's fraud another "Pants on Fire" lie: >
According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans without health insurance nationally was slightly under 17 percent in 2009, the year Obama began pushing for the bill. According to a Congressional Budget Office estimate, the number was about the same in 2010, when the measure was signed into law. Other estimates have pegged the national number at about 15 percent.
As Henry Aaron, a senior fellow with the centrist-to-liberal Brookings Institution right noted, comparing 8 percent to 17 percent "would have been apples to apples" when it comes to the impact of the individual mandate at the center of both the Massachusetts and national plans. Sadly, Politifact concluded, Romney was guilty of "a felony case of comparing apples and oranges."
Romney "Will Reverse President Obama's Massive Defense Cuts"
During that same "American Century" speech in October, Governor Romney pledged: >
"I will reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts. Time and again, we have seen that attempts to balance the budget by weakening our military only lead to a far higher price, not only in treasure, but in blood."
Sadly for Romney, as Steve Benen pointed out, defense spending has not only gone up every year of the Obama presidency . It is higher than it ever was when George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office.
Of course, Romney's confusion over matters of war and peace are hardly new. In an April op-ed for the Manchester Union Leader, Mitt forgot about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as he denounced President Obama for "one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history."
Obama's "Equal Outcomes" and "Entitlement Society"
Last week, the Romney campaign rolled out what may well become the meta-theme and meta-lie for the 2012 general election race.
After President Obama declared in his Osawatomie, Kansas address that Republican trickle down economics "never worked," Romney struck back. Just not with the truth: >
"Just a couple of weeks ago in Kansas, President Obama lectured us about Teddy Roosevelt's philosophy of government. But he failed to mention the important difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama. Roosevelt believed that government should level the playing field to create equal opportunities. President Obama believes that government should create equal outcomes. >
"In an entitlement society, everyone receives the same or similar rewards, regardless of education, effort, and willingness to take risk. That which is earned by some is redistributed to the others. And the only people who truly enjoy any real rewards are those who do the redistributing -- the government. >
"The truth is that everyone may get the same rewards, but virtually everyone will be worse off."
By raising the mythical red menace of communism and falsely attributing it to Barack Obama, Romney in the words of Paul Krugman had introduced " The Big Lie " into his " Post-Truth Campaign ." While Andrew Sullivan announced "Mitt Romney is a big, fat liar," Steve Benen lamented that "Romney, allegedly the responsible one in the Republican field, has been reduced to lying uncontrollably." And while Greg Sargent in the past had expressed amazement at "Mitt Romney's casual, effortless falsehoods," New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait explained that Romney's red scare rose to a whole new level of duplicity: >
"This isn't just a casual line. In eight sentences, Romney asserts over and over again that Obama wants to create "equal outcomes" and give everybody the "same rewards." This is nuts, Glenn Beck-level insane. Restoring Clinton-era taxes is not a plan to equalize outcomes, or even close. It's not even a plan to stop rising inequality. Obama's America will continue to be the most unequal society in the advanced world -- only slightly less so. The alternative proposals accelerate inequality even further."
Of course, as the proliferating profiles from the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times , the Washington Post and others show, Mitt Romney is no stranger to inequality. Legendarily cheap and analytical , as a Harvard Business School student Romney gave a presentation to his classmates that "proved the value of family time based not on emotion but on yield." Two Romney quotes - " I love business " and " I love data " - seem to sum up the man.
As for loving the truth, that for Mitt Romney is apparently another matter altogether.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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00:17:17 12/25/11
Reverend Billy Liberty Square Interview - December 21, 2011
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Reverend Billy Liberty Square Interview - December 21, 2011 From: glassbeadian Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 20:15 More in News & Politics
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17:00:31 12/23/11
#OccupyLA: Take 'Free Speech' Class After Arrests for Exercising Freedom of Speech
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[Alanis Morissette: "Ironic"]
Occupy LA protesters who have been arrested are being offered a deal that would allow them to avoid court trials. For $355, protesters can pay a private company for lessons in free speech. American Justice Associates offers the educational program taught by an attorney - Neil G. Anderson - a former police officer and Supervising Deputy District Attorney for Sacramento County, and his partner attorney Deborah Bryce McKinley of Atlanta, GA.
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Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Atty. William Carter said the city won't press charges against protesters who complete the educational program offered by American Justice Associates.
He said the program, which may include lectures by attorneys and retired judges, is being offered to people with no other criminal history and who were arrested on low-level misdemeanor offenses, such as failure to disperse.
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Carter said the free-speech class will save the city money and teach protesters the nuances of the law.
"The 1st Amendment is not absolute," he said, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled government can regulate when, where and how free speech can be exercised.
American Justice Associates , and it’s founders include Neil G. Anderson , previously a police officer and Supervising Deputy District Attorney for Sacramento County, and Deborah Bryce McKinley , a lawyer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Anderson, who lives in Newcastle, is currently listed as “inactive” by the State Bar of California and therefore ineligible to practice law in the state. McKinley is currently licensed to practice in the state.
In a 1997 interview, Anderson told the Los Angeles Times that "We run defendants through a comprehensive approach to keeping a job and maintaining self-esteem, so we don't have to see them back here again."
The majority of Occupy LA protesters, those who were arrested the night of the LAPD's eviction of the encampment, were already held for at least two days with a bail of at least $5,000.
A civil rights attorney who has worked with the protesters called the free speech class "patronizing," and said the demonstrators who were arrested are the last people needing free-speech training.
"There they were exercising their 1st Amendment, their lawful right to protest nonviolently," said attorney Cynthia Anderson-Barker.
[Hat tip to Alternet ]
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07:33:51 12/13/11
Greg Palast: Why We #Occupy: How Wall Street Picks the Bones of America
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Greg Palast: Why We #Occupy: How Wall Street Picks the Bones of America occupyvermont.wordpress.com Sponsored by www.towardfreedom.com Greg Palast is an investigative journalist on tour with his latest book: Vultures' Picnic: In pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High Finance Carnivores. Greg Palast, the BBC investigative reporter who busted open the theft of the election in Florida, is back with a new book, Vultures' Picnic, an investigation of The One Percent. From his four-continent sleuthing, he exposes the high-finance carnivores and petroleum pigs, the movers and shakers who move and shake us. Weird, eye-opening, funny, sick and insanely informative ... it's WHY we occupy. Download the first chapter free ----and check out the uncover films that go with the book----at VulturesPicnic.org. "The most important investigative reporter of our time" - Tribune Magazine Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Winner of six Project Censored awards for reporting the news corporate media doesn't want you to hear. To request an interview with Greg Palast, excerpt, review copy, photos or video, contact Leni@GregPalast.com and klestrange@yahoo.com or call 1.212.505.5566. From: WHYNotNews Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 01:11:03 More in Education
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13:40:30 12/01/11
Don Brown on Climate Denial at COP 17 Climate Summit, Durban, South Africa
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Don Brown on Climate Denial at COP 17 Climate Summit, Durban, South Africa Interview with Professor Donald Brown of Penn State University on climate denial in the US hampering international negotiations at COP 17. Tuesday, November 29th From: kombatrock Views: 12 2 ratings Time: 06:14 More in Science & Technology
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02:15:12 11/21/11
Occupation Analysis - CNN Damage Control
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Occupation Analysis - CNN Damage Control A couple days ago I was interviewed by CNN for a piece about the live streaming of Occupy Wall St. events and the development of GlobalRevolution.tv I botched the question about the historical importance of the Occupy Movement and it's been buggin' me so I made this video in response to my own stupid answer. The CNN piece will likely be released in a couple of days. for more on the occupation GlobalRevolution.tv http From: FluxRostrum Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 06:49 More in People & Blogs
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15:36:50 11/15/11
Joseph Gordon Levitt interview at Occupy Wall Street
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Joseph Gordon Levitt interview at Occupy Wall Street I met Actor Joseph Gordon Levitt from Hollywood films such as Inception, 50/50 and Angels In The Outfield and we had a short interview on Hollywood and on Occupy Wall Street. He interviewed me in return. Really nice guy. Spoke to him for a good couple of hours. Enjoy :) From: 11jcantor Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 12:51 More in Nonprofits & Activism
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04:42:54 11/13/11
Joe Anybody interviews Portland Police - Bob King about so-called Occupy Crime 11.11.11
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Joe Anybody interviews Portland Police - Bob King about so-called Occupy Crime 11.11.11 I ask Bob King with public relations with the Portland Police about why the fixation on the Occupy Portland - so-called crime finger pointing. I presented my side somewhat but didn't get the answers I was wanting. The veteran he speaks of that needed CPR ...could of been at the Veteran parade else where in town. From: zebra334 Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 07:34 More in Nonprofits & Activism My TIP JAR
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01:23:25 11/08/11
Occupy Austin Day 16 - Night Interviews
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On the night of 10/21/11 Austin Smith gets interviews for the Occupy Austin livestream, asking people why they are choosing to Occupy Austin and what they want changed. Visit: http://occupyaustin.org Produced for Austin Indymedia by Jeff Zavala. Videography by Austin Smith and Jeff Zavala. A ZGraphix production. http://zgraphix.org My TIP JAR
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22:52:29 11/01/11
Interview: Stephanoplous On Perry's NH Speech
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Interview: Stephanoplous On Perry's NH Speech
News 9's Josh McElveen talks with ABC's George Stephanoplous about a recent speech candidate Rick Perry made in New Hampshire that some have called "strange" and "meandering." Texas Gov. Rick Perry became animated while discussing the state's motto: "Live Free or Die." Stephanoplous says he doesn't think the speech will hurt Perry's campaign. From: wmurtv Views: 186 1 ratings Time: 03:16 More in News & Politics
