A segment from my Senior's March to End MTR series is included in this episode of Grit TV, thanks Sam & Laura.

Rush Limbaugh tried (and failed) to buy a football team, Obama picked a fight with FOX News, and oh yeah–there’s still ongoing debate over health care reform, two wars, and a major recession. There was plenty of bad (and a little good) to debate in this week’s media coverage.

Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, Joe Conason of The New York Observer, and Air America’s Sam Seder joined our media panel, discussing the best and worst of this week in journalism, pointing out the flaws and asking why the right wing always seems to make news, while the left can barely grab a headline.

Last week, world leaders gathered in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit
and delivered - as usual - lots of talk but little promise for action.
There was definitely lots of action on the city's streets as security
forces clashed with protesters. Bill Quigley, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice is just back from Pittsburgh and breaks down the week's events for us.

I just found out about this film festival for films promoting the cause of non profit organizations...

Lights. Camera. Help.  it's in Austin July 31st - Aug. 2nd

It's too late to submit for this year.. so here's my Non Prof Film Fest.

My video starts around the 6 minute 40 second mark.

Thanks Mike, Amy et al.

Full Pettus Coal Video available here

The June 2009 Indymedia Newsreal is complete and on its way to airing on Free Speech TV next month. Below is the runsheet. Program is downloadable here:
http://political.detritus.net/vid/newsreal/june2009-IndyNewsreal.mp4

DVDs, as always, are available to subscribers who sign up by emailing newsrealsubs@gmail.com
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We really need more submissions and are in danger of needing to put the project into hibernation once again. Please spread the word! Refer potential new contributors to
http://newsreal.indymedia.org for more information.
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6 Years of Saying No To War
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
www.gjredpill.org
Protesting the Iraq war this year in Grand Junction, Colorado.

First 100 Days Rally
Producer: Steev Hise
www.newsontheline.tv
On President Obama's second day in office, community members and
activists in Tucson gathered at the federal building to state their rights and needs.

Raging Grannies Sing of Water and Garbage
Producer: Elfie and Maia Ballis
SunMt.org
A little song about private property and public good.

Mobile News Corpses
Producer: Flux Rostrum
www.mobilebroadcastnews.org
The saga of police oppression of journalists at the 2008 RNC.

Crashing the Taste of Vail
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
www.gjredpill.org
Activists in Vail, Colorado inform consumers of lamb about the unfair labor practices involved with bringing them their delicious meat.

Apparently they're screening something of mine it's on the poster.

The Third Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival in Honor of our murdered comrade and colleague Brad Will takes place Friday April 10, 2009 in the lower east side. See attached flier for locations and event times.

As a prelude to the Third Annual NYC Anarchist Bookfair from April 11-12, The Third Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival will showcase contemporary documentaries and videos on current events and social movements from Palestinian resistance in Gaza to the popular uprising and recent riots that swept Greece like wildfire.

Big Noise Films will screen a selection of short films from Iraq. Other filmmakers will present videos on environment, militant feminism, and movements for justice such as the ongoing struggle for human rights in Oaxaca Mexico. Videos will show courageous examples of resistance from India to Europe, to Latin America, to the U.S.A where dissent is being criminalized as terrorism. See videos that challenge the State’s unconstitutional "anti-terrorist" mandate from protests against the 2008 Republican National Convention. We also proudly present footage from the fight for free speech, in the lower east side's famous "Donut Riot" that ended with spontaneous combustion in Tompkins square park last summer. Carlos Castaneda wrote in "Tales of Power" that the "true art of a warrior is to balance terror and wonder." The NYC Anarchist Film Festival does not shy away from either the terror we are forced to confront in our world or from the wondrous inspiration that graces the human spirit...

Related Links ::: New York City - Anarchist Film Festival 2009

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We had our first Screening Night our last night in Slab City. We showed a selection of videos from the RNC, DNC, the Vermin Supreme campaign and other selections of interest to the 15 Slabbers who loved having info from the outside world. More Photos Here and here's a video from "The Range" the main venue in the Slabs.

Still in Slab City. Setting up a movie screening night on Friday. If you're in the neighborhood come on by the bus and watch some of our latest videos on the big screen. Bring an AMFM radio and a chair if you want to sit. We'll have a fire afterward too.

DNC & RNC coverage starts this weekend. Watch Mobile Broadcast News broadcasting on Free Speech TV between 5 & 9 pm MST and if your blogging from home Al will get the shot you need to round out your story IF you're reporting on anything of importance.

Related Links ::: The Photo Journalism Store, Al Crespo, Mobile Broadcast News, Free Speech TV

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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.org

Death 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.

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