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USSF 2010 Interview Electronic Intifada

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Nora Barrows-Friedman from Electronic Intifada gives insight into the approach that this media collective uses to cover the stories in Palestine and highlight voices of Palestinians. Their website is a place for independent journalists to offer an alternative to mainstream media coverage. They hosted a great workshop and offer great perspective on the connections that we face in border struggles across the world. We are not alone.

Video Postcard to OBAMA (abridged)

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Here it is! Our Video Postcard to OBAMA (much shorter of course). On January 17th this year we had a great event over at Pan Left to celebrate Obama's inauguration and there was almost 2 and 1/2 hours of footage! This version I managed to whittle down to 5 and 1/2 minutes so you all can see some of what everyone had to say. We'll send the Prez both versions cut and un-cut on the DVD. Thanks for everyone who came out! We'll see how the next 4 years go.

President Obama, the first hours, ahhhh...

That does feel good to wake up in the morning and know Bush is gone baby gone, and within the few first hours of Prez Obama you hear this kind of news,
" Obama has already begun a series of official acts. His administration has asked for a suspension of Guantanamo trials for detainees so it could review the cases and the procedures. A federal court approved the request this morning.

Obama also ordered federal agencies to freeze any action on federal regulations promulgated in the Bush administration's waning days so that they could be reviewed as well." - LA Times

Rough Clip from "Death and Taxes": Eszter and Larry

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This is a brief clip of part of the ongoing rough cut of the war tax resistance documentary, "Death and Taxes." This clip is part of an interview with Larry Harper and Eszter Freeman in Sebastopol, California, who have been resisting since the 80s. I really could use some photos of Eszter's coffin action that she is talking about in this clip, so that I can illustrate better what she did.

For the trailer of the film, see http://panleft.net/cms/wtr-trailer2

Telling the Story of War Tax Resistance

I'm in perhaps the most exciting yet frustrating stage in my work on the documentary about war tax resistance that I'm making. I'm basically trying to make sense of all the footage and figure out how to present it in a compelling way - the big question is: what is the story? I've been struggling with this for about 4 years, ever since I started thinking about the challenges of making a film about this subject - Put another way, how do I tell the story of war tax resistance in a way that's interesting and exciting?

Trailer #2 for War Tax Resistance Doc

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This is a snazzy new trailer for the film on war tax resistance that Pan Left is producing for the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. It features a performance by Antibalas, a Brooklyn-based band with at least one war tax resisting member. More of their music will form the majority of the soundtrack of the film. The footage of the band was shot by one-time Pan Left member Salvador, who now lives in New York.

Editing of the film will proceed throughout the summer and hopefully finish up in September.

Julia Butterfly Hill Interview excerpt for War Tax Resistance Doc

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From the ongoing documentary about war tax resistance that I'm working on, this is a bit of roughly-edited footage from a discussion/interview between Julia Butterfly Hill and the "stars" of our doc, Shanti Sellz and Rico Chenyek.

Sibel Edmonds: Have You Heard of Her? No? Wonder Why?

Sibel Edmonds is an FBI Whistle blower who is making news all over the world. Except in the U.S.A. hmmmmm... Take a look at these articles:

Chomsky: Responsibility and War Guilt

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In June Gabe emailed me to see if I wanted to go to Boston with him to videotape him interviewing Noam Chomsky.

Report From Bush

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At the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, intrepid investigative journalist Esteban Caliente deftly made his way into the most high-security zone in the world to bring you the news....

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