Lynne Stewart: My Fight for Justice in "Patriot Act" USA
www.lynnestewart.org
Introduction by Ashlee Albies, chair, Portland National Lawyers Guild www.portlandnlg.org
Radical human rights attorney Lynne Stewart is acclaimed for defending poor people, radicals of color and controversial figures. Because of this she has been falsely accused of helping terrorists. Now convicted, she recently received a 28 month sentence, but is free on bail pending appeal.
On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, she was arrested and agents searched her Manhattan office for documents. She was arraigned before Manhattan federal Judge John Koeltl. This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent, curtail vigorous defense lawyers, and install fear in those who would fight against the U.S. government's racism, seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for free speech and defend the rights of all oppressed people.
Lynne Stewart was in Portland, March 6, 2007, at Portland State University, as part of a West coast fund...
"Gigante: Despierta! (Giant: Awake!)" is a compilation DVD that contains a number of video segments concerning the historic 2006 mobilization for immigrant rights that swept across the US. While mainstream news media predictably covered the marches with a mix of surprise, ignorance, and racism, grassroots media activists were there to document the voices and stories behind this mass movement.
PepperSpray covered a number of stories during this time, and now we bring you some from the DVD "Gigante: Despierta!" We contributed footage to this collaborative project. Those who are involved in organizing around these issues, as well as those who want to know more about the issues are encouraged to check out this compilation DVD. To find it, go to the website: http://www.gigantedespierta.org .
Selections featured:
-intro -- a good montage
-Brian Liola, “Si Se Puede” -- takes you into the lives of two immigrant brothers. These are real people, living real lives, and in their story you can see much of the larg...
This weeks Hip Hop News Presented by Sasha Solette
Marley Marl Heart Attack
Saigon Album vs Atlantic
More Big Brother Racism Rows
Incredible Akon Throws Kid, Saves World
Busta Charges Thrown Out
Dupri Escapes Small Accident
Fat Joe Ready to Talk
The Game in Basketball Beef
Gucci Bag Thrown Out of Window
Jay-Z on Vanity Fair Cover
Snoop Dogs Wild N Out
50 Threatens G-Unit
Jin vs Iron Solomon MC Battle
MTV Short Circuitz asset, video. One of the winners chosen from the viewer submission portion of the show talks about erasing racism. Nick Cannon presents Short Circuitz Season 2, a sketch comedy show where viewer’s can submit their own shorts and the top three will make it to air and earn them $1,000. Season 2 premieres Thursday, June 7th at 1030pm ET/PT, and airs every Thursday after. http://shortcircuitz.mtv.com/ From Wiredset Digital Agency.
In 'Death of a Shaman', a young mien woman from Sacramento, Fahm Saeyang responds to her father's unsettled life and death by taking a reverse journey to examine the heartbreaking path he took from respectability to hopelessness-and from Southeast Asia to America-in a heartfelt personal mission to understand his tragic story.
This dual journey helps 'Death of a Shaman' examine with painful honesty how Fahm's Mien immigrant family suffered through a 20 year ordeal of poverty, racism, religions, drugs, jail, and the murder of a family member.
It is a chronicle of a darker side of the pursuit of the American dream that affected many of the 40,000 Mien who came from a primitive life in the mountains of Southeast Asia to America. 'Death of a Shaman' is also a moving account of Fahm's need to understand her father's pain, and a desire to figure out what will placate his troubled spirit and her own.
A discussion with professor Noam Chomsky
On Power, Dissent and Racism is a 70 minutes video based on a series of talks and conversations with Professor Noam Chomsky taken in 2002 and 2003 in New York and Cambridge, Mass. In this video, Chomsky presents with rigorous analysis and humor his reflection on the motivations behind 9/11 and its consequences on the international system. Chomsky starts with the principle that we need to think globally when we want to comprehend the world of today. He defines the notion of terrorism within its historical context and gives his thoughts on how we should fight it without exercising the politics of the most powerful. Chomsky also gives his personal perspectives on the role of the Media in the war on terrorism, and personal views on racism against Arabs and Muslims since 9/11 and much more...
Republicans go to the White House and tell Bush he has no credibility on the Iraq war. Uh...huh. Tell us something we don't know. Attacks in Iraq are up since the beginning of the surge. Some Generals take Bush to task over the Iraq War. Fredo Gonzales is headed back to the hill. O.J. is asked to leave a restaurant and he cries racism. American Idol become I-dull.
It' s The Ointment for Monday, April 23, 2007 - Shirley Temple's birthday. The Supreme Courts says racism A-OK in the workplace, France is holding an election and Miss America is holding a pistol.
Performed by Siami. This band is a hungarian alternativ group whose singer is Peter Muller. Peter Muller organises the Sziget Festival what is one of greatest festival in Europe. This is an ironic song about the racism.
Keith does stories on how we are losing Afghanistan, the clueless Condoleeza Rice, the racism of the right wing, the homophobia of pro-athletes. And Keith makes a major announcement that has to do with four more years.
“Bobby,” written and directed by Emilio Estevez, revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. With an incredible ensemble cast portraying fictionalized characters from a cross-section of America, the film follows 22 individuals who are all at the hotel for different purposes but share the common thread of anticipating Kennedy’s arrival at the primary election night party, which would change their lives forever. This historic night is set against the backdrop of the cultural issues gripping the country at the time, including racism, sexual inequality and class differences.
A video made by our small group for a depth studies class at Quest church.
"We need to continually break the silence about racism whenever we can. We need to talk about it at home, at school, in our houses of worship, in our workplaces, in our community groups."
In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com goes undercover to expose the racism and bias in the discriminatory hiring practices at the hands of Blake White. Ridge Forrester investigates.