Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents"
About this original series
Pepperspray Productions is a small independent video activist collective located in Seattle, Washington. We formed shortly after the Seattle WTO protests in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "Don't hate the media, be the media!". We believe that the Corporate Media is not telling us the whole story, and that the people must make our own media if we want our voices to be heard (www.indymedia.org).In short, we bring you independent video from the front lines of the global battle against the corporate state. In addition to creating individual video pieces, we produce the activist video quarterly, The Leader, and the weekly public access TV show, Indymedia Presents, the latter now an RSS podcast from blip.tv. We also dub and distribute Indymedia NewsReal (www.newsreal.indymedia.org), a monthly compilation of short video pieces produced by IndyMedia Centers around the country and shown on Free Speech TV (www.freespeech.org).As a collective we cover Seattle-area demonstrations for social and environmental justice as well as progressive/radical political conferences and events. Pepperspray members can also be seen at National and International protest actions.All Pepperspray collective members are volunteers.Don't hate the media, Be the media!
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# Episodes
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Episodes of Pepperspray Productions' "Indymedia Presents"
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Indymedia Presents #374-part 5, final episode of...
As the 10th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle approach, we have rooted around in our archives to bring you the 5 original episodes of "Showdown in Seattle," produced at the Seattle Indymedia Center that week. "What Democracy Looks Like" Dec 3, 1999 William Kunsler, great American defense attorney describes Michelangelo's Statue of David as unique because it captures the moment of decision, not the moment of victory. The first four episodes of "Showdown in Seattle" were produced while ...
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Release date
Nov 21, 2009
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28:00
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Indymedia Presents #373-Showdown in Seattle part 4
It was the moment when a great coalition of the future, the people of the world, united together, first became visible. American labor had seen its factories closed down, jobs exported to more exploitative regions of the world. The third world had felt its own pains, and WTO delegates from those countries knew they were committing their homelands to perpetual poverty if they willingly locked on the shackles of the WTO agreements. Farmers of India were committing mass suicide. Environmentalists...
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Release date
Nov 20, 2009
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28:00
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Indymedia Presents #372-Showdown in Seattle (WTO...
It was Wednesday, day 3 of WTO week in Seattle, and day 2 of the Ministerial meetings. Tuesday had been a disaster for the authorities on every level, as wave after wave of activists poured into the town like the Seattle rain that poured from the skies. The WTO had been shut down before it could even open and by Tuesday evening the National Guard had been called out, a large area in downtown Seattle had been designated a political free-fire zone, and public opinion had swung heavily against th...
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Nov 18, 2009
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28:00
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Indymedia Presents #370-Showdown in Seattle (WTO...
Part 1 of "SHOWDOWN IN SEATTLE, 5 Days That Shook the WTO" (Nov 29, 1999) Ten years ago the WTO came to Seattle, the only American city with a statue of Lenin, and got run out of town. It was a moment legends are made of, but it was real life. Sixty thousand protesters, all in one way or another saying "shut it down," para-trouped in behind corporate lines, regrouping into alliances and affinity groups. They formed the legions of a political army, with all the division of labor any other army ...
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Nov 18, 2009
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28:00
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Indymedia Presents #371-Showdown in Seattle (WTO...
"Showdown in Seattle, 5 Days That Shook the WTO" part 2, Nov 30, 99 It was the opening day of the official proceedings. Activists were way better organized, and got up earlier than authorities had expected. Using multiple tactics, including the blockading of the streets leading to the meetings, activists managed to do what they had promised to do, which is keep the meetings from happening. Longshoremen shut down every port on the west coast, Seattle cab drivers went on strike, activists held t...
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Release date
Nov 18, 2009
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28:00
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IndyMedia NewsReal: Testimonies from Falluja
This week Indymedia presents “Testimonies From Falluja.” One of the guiding priciples of Indymedia is to have the people tell their own stories, to speak for themselves. This video is an outstanding example of this concept. The piece was made in the war zone, by Iraqi videographers shortly after the second US siege of Falluja. Directed by Dr. Hamodi Jasim, with an independent Iraqi crew, the video cut through the baloney to bring out the true situation on the ground. At the time, the US was su...
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Release date
Aug 3, 2009
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27:41
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Critical Mass / Voices of Veterans
Continuing our serialization of “The Leader #17,” Indymedia presents two short videos this week:“Critical Mass” is about the bicycle ride of the same name that regularly occurs all over the country. Produced by PepperSpray’s Lila Kitaeff and Len Davis, this video focuses on the mass bicycle ride, but quickly enough goes to a confrontation between riders and an auto driver.“Voices of the Veterans” is a compilation of interviews collected over the last few years with Iraq Veterans Against The Wa...
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Release date
Jul 27, 2009
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Runtime
27:41
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IndyMedia NewsReal: Franklyn Lopez, The Stimulator
On episode #364 Indymedia presents back-to-back joints from our favorite Puerto Rican in Canada, Franklyn Lopez. Were talking about episodes 10 &11 of his brash series Its the End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Fine. We can never get enough of The Simulator and his wicked political perspective!Perhaps most thought provoking is the material regarding the attention anti-2010 Olympics activists in Vancouver, Canada are getting from intelligence agents. Its Franklyn at his best, as he inte...
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Release date
Jul 20, 2009
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27:41
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IndyMedia NewsReal: The Destruction of the Abatw...
The second in a series by one of our Pepper producers, Patricia Boiko. The first program examined the genocide in Rwanda, and how people heal from a horror like that.This piece looks at the Abatwa people, better known in the US as the Pygmies. The Abatwa, who are the indigenous people of the region, have suffered unspeakably and unnoticed by all except themselves. Traditional hunters, they were kicked off their ancestral lands when that area was made into an animal preserve. The unintended con...
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Release date
Jul 20, 2009
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Runtime
27:41
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Indymedia Newsreal: Tyranny of Oil
When Enron traders scattered like cockroaches in a sudden ray of light, they regrouped in the oil industry, setting up unregulated oil futures trading based on the Enron model. Antonia Juhasz sleuths out this and other shocking dirt on Evil Oil, the most profitable industry in the world, in her book “Tyranny of Oil.” She gave the presentation upon which this PepperSpray video piece is based at King’s Books in Tacoma, WA. Pepperproducer Tacoma Joe LaSac skillfully B-rolled Juhasz to make this v...
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Release date
Jul 6, 2009
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Runtime
27:41
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