Smash ICE/ Port Union Struggle/White Privilege/Submedia tv

A great show this week!

We start off with a piece by our newest PepperSpray Collective member, Tacoma Joe.

1) Smash ICE (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

It's protesters vs the cops at the Regional Immigration Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. You think the movement's dead? Think again! Heros are on the barricades, calling. This piece goes well beyond being just demonstration footage to bring shocking information about the scope of deportations, and the private company who runs this facility (and Guantanamo).

http://www.bordc.org/threats/detention.php

http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/aboutdetention

2) Equal access is a right, not a privilege!
This is a 60 second PSA made by PepperSpray from a concept by our man in Tucson, Dale Roose. The title says it all; disabled people have a right to access government and other significant places, but often access is treated as a special privilege or something optional, the first thing to go if there are budget constraints. This PSA seeks, in a light-hearted way, to raise awareness about the right to access.

3) Port Security Struggle (another piece by Tacoma Joe)
Security guards on the docks in Tacoma are fighting to get rid of the sell-out company union, and join the Longshoremen instead. Its a classic labor battle, of bad bosses vs. workers, united and brave in the face of danger. The struggle is no doubt radicalizing security guards, who constitute yet another group the rich absolutely depend on. Jobs With Justice was there to fan the flames.

http://www.jwj.org

4) White Privilege
This short animated piece came from Aislinn Dewey. It is thoughtful and challenging, and a useful reminder to white folks that privilege is like dishes. Nobody ever notices clean dishes, only dirty ones, and the privileged tend not to notice what is painfully obvious to those who don't enjoy its benefits. But it must be noticed and understood by all if we hope to put an end to it.

http://www.activedesigns.org

5) "Its the End of the World As We Know it, and I Feel Fine!" episode 28
We finish off with the latest episode from one of our heros, Franklin Lopez. He does this outstanding series called "Its the End of the World As We Know it, and I Feel Fine!" He has promised to start feeding us cleaned up versions of this high quality series and this if the first one. In this episode, like most, he covers a range of sins, as well as resistance, interviews etc. We are so happy to start carrying his material, which is consistently high quality, funny, and really revolutionary.

http://submedia.tv

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http://indymediapresents.blip.tv

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"Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Vancouver, WA (Channel 11), Portland, OR (Channel 22 and a few others), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).


Related Free Speech Websites:

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Indymedia NewsReal
http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org

Free Speech TV:
http://www.freespeech.org

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• immigration
• ICE
• US
• Ports
• unions
• Franklin
• Lopez
• Aislinn
• Dewey