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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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A newly minted store selling “skateboards, flowers and dry goods” makes its presence in Crown Heights, Brooklyn by reaching out to young skaters, families, and putting on free community events.

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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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okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.

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i shot an interview last tonight with ira goldstein of the new york city taxi and limousine commission. the interview will be included in a short documentary that i’m making about the effects of technological upgrades in nyc cabs. the new technology – gps and credit card machines – were highly contested [...]

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Yesterday I worked with Gabriel Berrios and volunteer Laura Deutch on the third training in a series of workshops with South Philly organization Juntos. The trainings are being run by Media Mobilizing Project. The participants have already learned about every thing from framing a shot to writing a shooting script. Yesterday they [...]

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UNITE HERE and CUPE joined forces on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 to march against poverty and draw attention to the twenty locked-out workers of Toronto’s Holiday Inn on King Street. This video contains photos from the rally and a short interview with one of the locked out hotel workers.

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i took public transportation from the airport to the hotel, a bus and then the subway for only $2.30 canadian.  speaking of money, the conversion rate sucks.  as i told someone yesterday, this is the only time in my life when i wished american imperialism worked ; – )   okay, not really, but the dollar [...]

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Newark International Airport – Headed off to Toronto (tuesday oct 16th).   the Online News Association is having it’s 8th annual conference there and I am going as a representative of the Media Mobilizing Project – which won a Knight Foundation Challenge Grant.  Though the conference is geared toward mainstream journalists, which i’m not, it will [...]

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