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About this episode

Alrick Brown's name might not be well known to viewers of "Indymedia Presents," but regulars to our show will recognize one of his videos, "The Battle For America Has Begun". We've shown it several times over the last few years. It is the piece that cuts from one speaker to another, across age, race, ethnic, and gender lines, each person speaking one line of a powerful political call to action. We ran across that excellent piece a while back and fell in love with its diversity and upliftment.http://www.alricksporch.comThat led us to other of Alrick's pieces, but we never really had contact with Alrick himself, since he lives in New York and we're based in Seattle. So when Seattle's Langston Hughes African American Film Festival screened Alrick's new feature, called "Death of Two Sons," it was our chance to catch up to one of our heroes. (We loved, by the way, this film, and encourage our viewers to seek it out.) This week on "Indymedia Presents" we interview Alrick Brown and embed two of his short films in the resultant piece (our favorite "The Battle For America Has Begun," and a dramatic piece, "SuperN," inspired by the murder of Amadou Diallo, an innocent African immigrant, gunned down on his own front porch in New York in a hail of 41 police bullets).We round out the show with a sneak preview DeeDee Halleck gave us of a new series starting up on Free Speech TV, "The Last Televangelist," with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir. The piece is called "First Amendment Kareoke," and its about, well, the First Amendment, of course. The series is produced by Big Noise Films in collaboration with Free Speech TV.http://www.deedeehalleck.orghttp://www.bignoisefilms.comhttp://www.freespeech.orgPublic Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs (Independent Media Centers) are encouraged to screen or air "Indymedia Presents". To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact us, Pepperspray Productions, at pepperspray@riseup.net."Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. 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), Brooklyn, NY (BCAT Channels 34, & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).Related Free Speech Websites:Independent Media Centerhttp://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtmlIndymedia NewsRealhttp://www.newsreal.indymedia.orgFree Speech TV:http://www.freespeech.orgLink TVhttp://www.linktv.orgDemocracy Now!http://www.democracynow.org

• Release Date

  Jul 31, 2008

• Runtime

  27:40