Original deProgramming

The last day of our 6 day march finds 1000 people marching up 1900 ft to the summit of Blair Mountain.

mo'fo'  http://www.friendsofblairmountain.org

A few days ago someone blocked the public access road to the Blair Mountain Battle Field with boulders that were clearly brought from a mine site.  This would prevent the march from using this state road turnout off the highway as a pick up and drop off spot for Marchers who intended to walk up the Public Road to the historic site.   A small group of marchers took the initiative to move those boulders with their bare hands.   They opened up the road while jeering miners, private security and state police looked on.  The action had been cleared by the Dept of Tr

The March on Blair Mountain has lunch at an camp spot of the original 1921 march and enters Logan County.

Marchers tell personal accounts of the impact o their lives from Mountain Top Removal and the battle to save their own personal histories and the sustainability of the land.   Spirits are high as the march passes through Madison WV.
http://marchonblairmountain.org

It was NOT actually Bug Spray.   A counter protester tries to sabotage the generator being used by independent media at the first campsite of the march.  Several independent reports from those on the scene said it smelled like Starter Fluid.   Irregardless, the best thing that could have happened if I had allowed this man to continue would have been the destruction of the generator.  The worst thing that could have happened is that he blew up himself, the generator, gas can, and potentially the Media Bus full of people and equipment.

mo'fo'

A little bit of Union History, morals & ethics in regard to the Blair Mountain Historic Battle Field; the site of the largest Armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.  10,000 union miners engaged in armed conflict with coal company thugs and the US Military over the Unionization of the coal mines in 1921.

This starts off with a bike ride through the French Quarter.  Then NOmadjik Media Bus travels from Frenchmen st.

Time lapse photos of 2 afternoons worth of heating, filtering and pumping about a 100 gallons of waste veggie oil.   I'm fueling up to head into the Alabama Tornado Zone in a couple days and then on to the March on Blair Mountain.

http://marchonblairmountain.org

Thanks to the Frenchmen St Deli & Mardi Gras Zone for their lovely fuel.

This film follows the lives of Kindra Arnesen and family from Hurricane Katrina through the BP Oil Disaster from their perspective in Venice Louisianan; first land fall of Katrina and closest populated land mass to the Deep Water Horizon site.  

Gulf Coast Disasters, long removed from the news cycle, are eating away at the livelihoods and patriotism of those left behind to deal with the front lines of the environmental and economic terrorism that is the legacy of our government. 

Gulf Coast Disasters, long removed from the news cycle, are eating away at the livelihoods and patriotism of those left behind to deal with the front lines of the environmental and economic terrorism that is the legacy of our government.

This film follows the lives of Kindra Arnesen and family from Hurricane Katrina through the BP Oil Disaster from their perspective in Venice Louisianan; first land fall of Katrina and closest populated land mass to the Deep Water Horizon site.   The disaster is ongoing.

Hurricane Katrina hits Venice, LA; commonly referred to as...  the boot, the end of the road or the marsh that slowed the hurricane down for New Orleans.   5 1/2 years later only 1/4 of the residents have returned.

A rough cut of part 1 of

Kindra's Window
perspective on gulf coast disasters

A video art project intended for projection on a relevant structure in New Orleans.You can watch the unadulterated wikileaded video at http://www.collateralmurder.comFor some real info about Bradley Manning Solidarity Weekend April 9th & 10th go here  http://www.bradleymanning.org/take-action/bradley-manning-solidarity-wee...

Live Mixed Video on Perception and societal pressure to conform

March 21st meeting of Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association. 
Issues presented by Mardi Gras Zone, The Lost Love Lounge Plan B, and the Iron Rail Book Collective.

http://www.faubourgmarigny.org
http://www.bikeproject.org
http://ironrail.org
http://lostlovelounge.com/

On February 28th the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force held public meeting for about 12 hours.  The initial hours were all about government presentations about various aspects of the ecosystem and constant reminders that this process was and will be a bottom up process with the people who are affected and the people who are doing the work steering the cart of recovery.

Most of the people speaking here are representing one of the multitude of non profit organizations that are and have been working on gulf coast restoration for years.