9500Liberty
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This channel is an "Interactive Documentary" about the politicization of the immigration issue, currently being shot in Northern Virginia. We will respond to viewer feedback, including requests for more coverage on certain story lines, contextual clarifications, and even perhaps on-site production. The aim of this documentary is to inform the public, and investigate alternatives to the intense polarization that is hindering progress on the immigration issue. Clips on this page will be shot and edited quickly by independent filmmakers--Eric Byler, Annabel Park, Jeff Man--with additional production support from Zhibo Lai, Jay Kim, Tom Moore, Tomiko Anders, Levi Magyar, Leo Torrezao, and Harry Yoon. Special thanks to Liz Barnes and Dan Rapela at PWC Channel 23 for courtesy footage.
Name: Eric, Annabel & Jeff
Because of the timeliness of the immigration issue and the urgency of the situation, we decided to create this real-time, interactive documentary page -- breaking with the usual documentary post-production method that delays public feedback for months and months. Some clips on this page will become part of a feature length documentary to be released next year. We hope our YouTube videos can help promote greater understanding and alleviate the hostility in Northern Virginia.
9500 Liberty in the WASHINGTON POST Outlook Section: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12 /14/AR2007121401327.html
Washington Post article by Nick Miroff:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11 /02/AR2007110202158_2.html?sid =ST2007110202179
CNN Story:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBI Z/05/01/immigration.lens/index .html?iref=24hours
NBC 4:
http://video.nbc4.com/player/? id=178717
ABC 7:
http://www.wjla.com/news/stori es/1107/469383.html
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =h3jK5lhD08Q
Fox News 5:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6pNFaPTYwBc
City: Prince William County, VA
Hometown: Burke, VA
Country: United States
Occupation: Filmmakers
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kev
The fact that I don't know anyone whose job has been displaced doesn't mean I don't understand that this happens. It is because we are in the Northern Virginia region, where jobs are comparatively plentiful.
I agree with you, mm2327, when you state that corporate interests "seek to squash American wage standards and workplace and environmental protections." That's why I was advocating for a living wage for all workers.
The laws are in place to protect poor American citizen workers from being harmed, their ability to support their families. American citizens have civil rights and human rights considerations as well. I know that the documentarians here find that truth inconvenient, but it doesn't change the facts. Unbiased documentarians would have also interviewed unemployed and underemployed American citizens to provide a balance to the discussion. As it stands, the realities are inconvenient for those with a bias who want to rationalize the discrimination of poor American citizens.
Secondly, to those who exploit the history of native peoples to rationalize illegal aliens, the ancestors of many of the illegal aliens, the Spanish committed genocide against the native peoples of what is now called Latin America, they are also the ones who invented the trans-Atlantic slave trade. As a woman of native ancestry, when I hear illegals telling citizens to go back to Europe, I feel the need to remind them that they should do the same, as well as apologize for creating slavery in the Americas.