Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents"

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.orgDeath 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, Caf Conciencia! Coffee with a Conscience! "Caf 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. Pubic 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 propaganda 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.Pubic 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 Pubic 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. The "Indymedia Presents" podcast is available 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!!! "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." http://miroguide.com/channels/1786 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 Pubic 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 Pubic 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)

This week, 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 is striking for it's simplicity in conveying the message of Rwanda and Dafur. His 5 minute film is shown in it's entirity. 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. 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).