Ground Noise and Static: Part 2

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In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the politicians, that counts.

A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, This is what democracy looks like.

Ground Noise & Static is a joint effort of Franklin López of subMedia.TV and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia-style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their Unconventional stories.

subMedia.TV is a Vancouver-based video production company and website headed up by video artist Franklin López, creating and broadcasting independent art and news.
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PepperSpray Productions is an independent media collective based in Seattle, WA. Our weekly access program, Indymedia Presents airs in Seattle on Thursdays at 8:30pm (SCAN Channel 77). It has regular time slots on about 20 channels nationwide, check local listings.
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[Zacariasd]

We are living in a fucking police state.

[kevindeacon7]

I understand we have more rights than others, but it shouldn't have to be fucking North Korea before we do something.

[PuffSmelly]

i feel sick i have so much hate flowing through me

[owingawat]

@zacblade That's just fucking stupid. Not trying to kill people, shit.

[sunlovedulce]

The saddest part about this video is that these people were not behaving violently for the most part

[reliquias1980]

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[abrooklynnigga]

FOUL SHIT. FUCK THE POLICE!!!

[zacblade]

one of these anarchists should have a bomb straped to himself and run into the police. Show them the brutality they have been showing for a while.

[dkdkssks]

*continued from other response:

really important to determine who is most oppressed?

[postprandialzen]

Finally, surely anti-militarism was a central facet of the RNC actions. I am simply speaking to the overarching "police state" narrative oozing from the video and the majority oft he comments here. It's hardly ever done from INSIDE activist circles, and that's unfortunate.

[postprandialzen]

a candle to the poverty experienced by the majority of the world population, and that is something we need to acknowledge. Fighting that reality is pretty much akin to white folks, fighting anti-racist oppression activists of color, who say "Well, there is racism against whites too you know!" -- The point has truth, but it detracts from the largest most systemic issue at hand.

[postprandialzen]

I honestly cannot tell you where specifically to find that position of his (it is not a DIRECT quote), though I do remember it was in a response to 9/11 and the truth movement.

I would also have to fervently disagree with you and say the entire U.S. population is tremendously privileged. I get plenty annoyed when I go to some place like China and encounter subjectificaiton as the Rich American White Guy, however disadvantaged I consider myself. But the point remains, our poverty doesn't hold