| Howard Baker, Republican For President - 61 sec
classic 1980 campaign ad where dissent is squashed by nationalist fever.
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 | | The Only Thing Governments Have Done - 103 sec
I love you Ryan! I created a music video for you.
check out Ryan Harvey's website at
riotfolk.org
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| | Iraq: Much Larger Problems - 92 sec
Seth Manzel, Seattle IVAW.
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| | Militarization Resistance in Lakewood/Tacoma - 92 sec
The USNS Brittin unloaded Stryker vehicles and other military equipment at the Port of Tacoma, WA, bound for Fort Lewis. Resistance groups, opposing the occupation of Iraq, blockade intersections at the port, but also exit 123 and exit 122 in Lakewood, WA for some direct action.
This is video from Aug. 1 and 2nd. 6 or more arrests have occurred at 4 different locations.
Want to stay up to date? People are constantly posting updates on militarizations at the ports in Washington on:
www.seattle.indymedia.org.
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Tags: port militarization resistance
| | Take Back What is Ours - 49 sec
a public service announcement brought to you by Pepperspray Productions.
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| | New GI Coffeehouse - 350 sec
Thanks to all the editors, I added a correction to the video since this would not be the first coffeehouse since the 1970s. Visit the Different Drummer Cafe's website to find more about this coffeehouse which begun operating in 2006 in Watertown, NY.
http://www.differentdrummercafe.org/
Article about the Ft. Lewis coffeehouse on theMelonOnline.com:
http://www.themelononline.com/2008/07/the-new-gi-coffeehouse.html
A social movement doesn't have a specific place or a location. It lives in the actions, the minds, and the relationships between people. But there are places where the ideas of a movement develop, places where the movement's ideas go more mainstream.
A group of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are planning to start up a G.I. coffeehouse near the entrance of the Fort Lewis military base in Washington State. Though the project is still in its planning stages, the idea is that it will be a center for supporting GI rights and war resistance in the region, as well as a place for G.I.s to get coffee right off the base.
On a street littered with barber shops and abandoned dry cleaning businesses in Tillicum, WA, the veterans have found several possible locations for this project. Seth Manzel served in Iraq with a Stryker Combat Team before joining his local chapter of IVAW, and is shown in the video talking about these locations. Most of the places he and the other vets have been checking out are abandoned dry cleaners, oddly enough, because with fewer Army requirements for cleaning their attire these places have virtually disappeared from the communities around military bases.
A coffeehouse like this would not be the first of its kind in the nation since the 1970s. A coffeehouse known as the Different Drummer Cafe has begun operating since 2006 in Watertown, NY near Fort Drum, and near Fort Hood, TX a coffeehouse known as Under The Hood will begin operating soon. During the Vietnam-era dozens of coffeehouses popped around the nation. In Texas one was called the Oleo Strut, which was named after a part that made sure helicopters landed smoothly. In October of 1968 coffeehouse known as the Shelter Half was established Tacoma not far from Fort Lewis. It took its name from a makeshift military tent structure. Aside from continual harassment from the police force, however, the Shelter Half's shortfall was that its location was still a twenty minute drive from the base. Still, it was in its later years deemed "off-limits" by the U.S. Army. Jane Fonda, the popular anti-war actress, was also banned from Fort Lewis around this time. IVAW believes that one of the closer, newer locations will be more effective.
When the Shelter Half opened its doors, the same month saw the first issue of Counterpoint, a G.I. resistance publication, followed by the Lewis-McChord Free Press, B Troop News, and Fed Up!, which were all published off-base near Fort Lewis. This all happened within a short period of time. The Seattle Chapter of IVAW last year started publishing the G.I. Voice, a publication that makes its way onto Fort Lewis, and has also begun a G.I. Radio project, available on GIRadio.org. Though G.I.Radio currently broadcasts from Seth's garage, playing re-runs of Winter Soldier—IVAW's testimonies about Iraq and war crimes recorded in Washington D.C.—the vets plan to move the show to the coffeehouse once its setup.
"We're promoting GI resistance," Seth says, "something that hasn't been done a whole lot." Civilians are realizing they can actually do something about this war, he tells me, whereas active-duty G.I.s are not so much in that position. A number of individuals and groups have already started donating equipment to the coffeehouse, such as a cash register. IVAW says the next step in organizing is to raise enough money to pay for the lease they need to start operating and selling coffee. They are several thousand dollars short at this point.
As far as a name goes for the coffeehouse, the vets are tossing around "Ogive Plunger" which is the name for a part on a Mk19, a gun that can be mounted to a Stryker vehicle. Seth told me he thinks that's a silly name though. IVAW and volunteers will vote on a name as the project unfolds.
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Tags: ivaw iraq vets veterans against the war coffeehouse oleo strut shelter half mk19 stryker fort lewis
| | Kill Your TV PSA - 36 sec
indymedia.org
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| | Hokkaido G8 on Indymedia Presents - 712 sec
Episode on the G8 Summit in Hokkaido on Indymedia Presents.
1) Introduction to the G8.
2) 1:00 Video submitted by Anticapitalistas.net.
3) 5:25 Brief history of the G8's promises and trends.
4) 8:57 Advertisement for the G8 Summit in Hokkaido, with summaries of G8 military spending and summit spending.
5) 11:30 G8-tv alternative media.
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| | Seattle Out and Proud - 354 sec
Indymedia Presents
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| | A Brief, Bright Flash of Red Light (short film) - 427 sec
a 48 hour film which some friends and I used for Foolish Pleasures 2008.
the prompts were "It makes me want to cry" "French Film" and "a brief bright flash of red light."
so we obviously used one of those for the title.
** special thanks to **
Capers Restaurant
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Tags: praxis imago foolish pleasures de femme guns&ammo war on drugs university puget sound film festival
| | Tacoma Shuts Down Military Recruiting Center - 582 sec
to find out about the March 15 & 19 protests,
answer.pephost.org
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Tags: counter-recruitment tacoma iraq war protest military toby kieth anarchy hell's angels support troops estonia kvi foxnew
| | Union Busting at the Port of Tacoma - 357 sec
Praxis Imago & Pepperspray Productions has the scoop in Tacoma.
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| | Son of Nun -- My Music - 63 sec
politics are back in the mix.
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Tags: son of nun reality check marksmen marxist marxism hip hop tacoma hell's kitchen
| | Son of Nun -- Reality Check - 129 sec
http://www.sonofnun.net/
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| | Saul Williams "Why Africa Matters" - 300 sec
Feb. 15th at the Rialto in Tacoma, WA. This was part of a benefit concert featuring local talent like "2012" and others raising money for Why Africa Matters.
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| | The Answer and the Betrayal (short film) - 136 sec
Ages 2+
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| | College Students Phone-Bank for Obama - 189 sec
Interviews with Young Democrats at the University of Puget Sound.
samples:
1) Plump DJs "Something Goin' On"
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| | Smash ICE Northwest Detention Center - docushort - 340 sec
The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington. The detention center opened in 2004 under a contract with The US Department of Homeland Security, Though owners have changed over time, the facility is now owned by the GEO Group Which operates prison facilities in Australia, The UK, South Africa, the US and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the largest and primary investigative branch of Homeland Security, expanded the facility's housing capacity 1,000 detainees, making it the largest detention center owned by GEO Group on the West Coast of the United States.
In 2003 the ICE launched Operation End Game, the largest police operation in US history, to remove all undocumented migrants from the US by the year 2012. The project's predecessor, Operation Wetback in 1954, removed 1.2 million Mexicans from the American Southwest.
ICE does not need warrants to make arrests or to conduct raids. Since July 2007, raids have increased the number of detained migrants from 18,000 to 26,000 nationwide. Homeland Security relocates 700 detainees a week in the United States.
Migrants in the facility are mostly from the Northwest regions of Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Washington. Due to the increase in raids they've recently come from places like New York, Puerto Rico and Guam. ICE agents move the detainees to the facility under the cover of night.
Nationwide tens of thousands of children every year lose a parent to deportation. 85% percent of those detained don't have legal counsel, since they do not have a right to due process or protections against unlawful searches or seizures.
After raids in the Northwest rounded up hundreds of migrant workers at a time from places like Auburn, Washington and Portland, Oregon, a protest in solidarity with the No Borders Camp actions in Arizona took place at the same time in Tacoma.
The march was focused not at the facility itself, which is tucked away unnoticed amongst shipping terminals and superfund sites, but at the Wells Fargo Bank building, which invests in the GEO Group's operations worldwide. The march was labeled a homeland security threat, and policed heavily. Police with cameras and less than lethal weapons intimidated protesters, and suggested that local landlords evict the protest organizers from their homes. The march occupied an intersection for more than ten minutes, circling from crosswalk to crosswalk until police used force. One woman taking pictures was arrested for spitting on the ground, and then intimidated by police and bystanders. Another was arrested for disarming an officer, though that charge was later dropped. In front of the Wells Fargo Bank, another arrest occurred.
As raids at jobs sites increased over the last years, members in the community seemed to have noticed little. As purges in accordance with End Game increase, the Tacoma activist community is attempting to increase awareness about the facility's proximity and what it stands for.
samples:
1) Plaid & Bob Jaroc "EMR"
2) Freq Nasty "Creator"
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| | Army of None, Olympia - 268 sec
Army Of None ad 1:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=px6MIDBd_cQ&feature=related
Army Of None ad 2:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lPaWv9pewoE&feature=related
Army Of None ad 3:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yTHfzRphucY&feature=related
Clown Army of Oakland, Ca:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QvRgxVrwtyQ
activategr.org
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| | Tacoma -- Living-Wage Jobs and Worker-Affordable Housing - 267 sec
Read more about this action here:
http://wsjwj.org/news/action-12-5-2007.asp
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Tags: tacoma protest jobs with justice sds students for democratic society catholic worker union busting rick talbert picket
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