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An excellent piece written by James Jordan about Haiti for Narco News. If you want a real examination and lowdown about Haiti, look no further. Saludos, James. The Labor Movement in Haiti: A Personal Reflection • http://www.narconews.com/Issue64/article4069.html

Check out this 8-min piece from the "unapologetic Mexican," Nezua. If you can, people should drop a line in the comments with a link back to Jason, Pan Left, and the Arpaio doc. A lot of activists watch this dude. We should let them know what Jason, et al., are doing!

On January 16 the masses gathered in Phoenix to march for human rights and demand action from the Obama administration to stop the abuses by Sheriff Joe Arpaio . The momentum towards change is getting stronger. Mi video is heavy on poetic aesthetic and light on news info., so if you need to get educated on the matter I suggest... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arpaio • http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/ and info. on the movement is here... http://puenteaz.org/ and of course mas to come on my end soon, but until then Zack's palabras will do just fine for now. P@z.

Get on YouTube, rate it high, and leave some good comments (fight back the haters por favor). Also on Vimeo

"The choppers began landing a short while ago and we are now getting patients by airlift."

Despair take action!
Besides praying and crying, staying online in the last days of rescue help in Haiti can save lives! My desperate surfing and a message of relief follow:

iReport —(http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-392119)

Tucson Feed the Homeless Project fed the homeless in a park in Tucson Arizona on January 17th. The Tucson Feed the Homeless Project is a program of The Carlos G. Figueroa Foundation. The video slide show was part of a project of The Homeless Documentaries Team another program of The Carlos G. Figueroa Foundation. The photos were taken by Kathleen Dreier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPOqWagOIvw

Tucson Feed the Homeless Project fed the homeless in a park in Tucson Arizona.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPOqWagOIvw

A video slide show the Homeless Memorial that is put on every year by the Primavera Foundation (primavera.org) at the County plot in Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson Az.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBqsxgNspE

Derechos Humanos made this video about the Panda Express 11 workers arrested in 2008 for fake ID's and were held in Pima County Jail without bail. For more info go to http://derechoshumanosaz.net/

David Lynch has a new web series called Interview Project which are interviews (I assume video; see earlier Lynch charla) with "every day" people encountered on a cross country road trip. Sounds like familiar road trip genre stuff and Lynch always gathers the critic crowd, so debates will begin, but after watching the first two episodes and the trailer, they're interesting from a "get to know your neighbor" perspective. The cinematography looks great and I tend to take notice of the simple minimal stuff these days since I need some reprogramming from my MTV youth, so i'll keep tuning in. However...

not sure how the critics and bloggers will rate this new Lynch project, but i'm willing to bet he'll receive some acclaim for creating this kind of docu-web series. So it occurred to me that if you like this kind of approach there's another great docu-web series that's been around a while and has a similar style. The videos from Center for Creative Chaos has some excellent on-the-scene videos with homeless people in their web series, and although the theme might be different from Lynch's project; I felt a similar vibe to the connection being created with people on camera and so far I've found their stores more compelling. So I want to give a salud to, Ron Austin, the producer with the homeless documentary team at Center for Creative Chaos who creates media that doesn't get noticed like Lynch, but are no less important.

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/
http://community.centerforcreativechaos.com/