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On Monday, October 5th, 2009, Hunter College cafeteria workers protested against their new management company, AVI, which took over recently from Sodexho. Hunter faculty, students and others joined them to let AVI know that they will not accept reduced inferior working conditions. AVI is refusing to stand by the cafeteria workers’ old contract which included healthcare and a pension fund that some workers have been paying into for decades.

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I’d highly recommend checking out Code Pink’s recent video “Eight Years Later” that essentially animates a speech given by Rep. Barbara Lee prior to the invasion.

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This Saturday – May 30th – I’ll be conducting a low budget video lighting workshop with fellow IMA students Laurie Sumiye and Sebastian Gutierrez at the 6th annual Grassroots Media Conference. It’ll be in the morning slot 10:30 – 12:00 at Hunter College.
And Hunter’s own Veralyn Williams was on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show [...]

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Here are some photos from the “Youth Action” screening last night. It was put on by the Grassroots Media Conference crew and hosted by Youth Media Reporter at the Academy for Educational Development. Filmmakers that have made work through Educational Video Center, and Casa Atabex Ache were on hand to show and [...]

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This is a three-minute audio vignette about the New York Times Special Edition. On the morning of the action, I followed a Brooklyn couple.

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To the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles,
The very fact that the states in the U.S. continue to execute anyone, even if they are “guilty,” is deplorable. The justice system’s propensity to convict and sentence indigent people, black men in particular, is a practice that must end now. Every citizen deserves a fair [...]

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I worked on an animation a few weeks ago about “white spaces.” They are the frequencies between broadcast signals that will open up once broadcast TV goes from analogue to digital. The People’s Production House is advocating for public use of the space. Otherwise it’ll probably be sold of to the same [...]

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Last night i went to the opening night of “Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960’s to Now” at Exit Art. first i was simply impressed as the size of the gallery. then i went in to enjoy a large selection of political posters and some other graphics.
it was great to see [...]

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Last week I attended a unique gathering – Future of Interactive Technology for Peace Conference – at Carnegie Mellon University. It was sponsored by the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) – an impressive interactive technology program in Pittsburgh. I went with Hunter’s own Professor Mary Flanagan, who had invited me along for the [...]

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Today I read the EZLN / Zapatista’s book “The Other Campaign” about the organization’s Sixth Declaration and La Otra Campaña. Essentially the Sixth Declaration is literally the Zapatista’s sixth major outward manifesto. And La Otra is their movement to form a grassroots movement of the anti-neoliberal Left. I picked up the book [...]

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