click here to download. Originally planned as a protest against Bank of America on the Ithaca Commons, students & community members rallied Friday, December 12 in celebration of the victory by the 200 Republic Windows and Doors workers who had been occuping the factory in Chicago over Republic’s and BoA’s failure to live up to contract [...] [...]
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Click here to download. [...] Laila Al-Arian is a freelance journalist and co-author, with Chris Hedges, of Collateral Damage: America?s War Against Iraqi Civilians (Nation Books, 2008). She has written for The Nation, USA Today, United Press International, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Staff Sergeant Camilo Mej?a was the first veteran to publicly refuse [...] [...] [qt:http://tompkinsagainstwar.org/video/Camilo_Mejia_Laila_Al-Arian-3.mov 480 272] [...] October 1, 2008, Ithaca, N.Y. Common Council votes to designate Ithaca a ‘Community of Sanctuary’, thus respecting the rights of its residents to support lawfully and proactively military personnel and veterans who are organizing to stop the wars in and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Next step is to bring a resolution forward to [...] [...] Go to Real News Network Video on Youtube. Iraq War Resister Jeremy Hinzman won a stay of deportation this week as a judge refused to allow Canada to send him back to the United States to face prosecution for desertion. Hinzman is one of numerous war resisters currently in Canada. Despite the Canadian parliament passing [...] [...] Thanks to Tony Ingraham for finding this gem: I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning. Hooo. It was an experience. About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena’ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. After shaking it off with a good [...] [...] Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord. Google Video Direct Download – iPod/PSP Palin: Iraq war ‘a task that is from God’ —Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry [...] [...] PBS cameras captured an IVAW member who unfurled banners reading “YOU CAN’T WIN AN OCCUPATION” and “McCAIN VOTES AGAINST VETS” during John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Thursday, September 4, 2008. http://tompkinsagainstwar.blip.tv [...] Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan. ›Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC on Twin Cities Indymedia. Goodman and two Democracy Now producers have been arrested on felony charges at the RNC. >From John [...] [...] Activists Break Blockade of Gaza Israel Allows Boats to Deliver Symbolic Shipment of Aid By Linda Gradstein Special to The Washington Post Sunday, August 24, 2008; A12 JERUSALEM, Aug. 23 — Two wooden boats carrying dozens of human rights activists reached the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon after the Israeli navy decided no t to hinder the challenge to Israel’s [...] [...] Bio Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine. Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, The O’Reilly Factor, and NPR, and his newspaper commentaries have run in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, and a host of other newspapers. Rothschild is also the author of a book entitled You Have No Rights: Stories of America in Our Repressive Age (New Press, 2007). Rothschild is also the co-founder and director of The Progressive Media Project, which since 1993 has been distributing opinion pieces to newspapers around the country in an effort to diversify and democratize the national debate. [...] Rep. Denis Kucinich, D-Ohio, 10th District and Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-New York, 22nd District, testify at the Judiciary Committee hearing “executive power and its constitutional limitation” July 25, 2008. [...] [QT:http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/NYSMarches08/AdamsCenter-Watertown.mov http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/NYSMarches08/AdamsCenter-Watertown-poster.mov http://cmprovideo.net/downloads/NYSMarches08/Veterans_parade_action_watertown_5-17-08.mp4 480 286] Open full screen in Quicktime Player This video streams at: 56|256|385|512 kbps Last Friday night, Back to Democracy hosted a discussion of the New York State Marches for Peace walk to Fort Drum at the Trumansburg Firehall. I am posting the video I edited for that event. The video [...] [...] [qt:http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/NYSMarches08/nysmarches08_day1_ithaca-streaming.mov http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/NYSMarches08/nysmarches08_day1_ithaca-poster.mov http://cmprovideo.net/downloads/NYSMarches08/nysmarches08_day1_ithaca-iPod.mp4 480 376] Click here for lower bandwidth version on Google Video Marchers rally in Dewitt Park then proceed through the Ithaca Commons, up state street hill and the Cornell campus. We pick up the marchers against at their destination, the Dryden Community Building. Rally speakers: John Hamilton, Tom DeGloma, Linda Finlay, Mike Blake, Colleen [...] [...] Video 2h:15m, 300 Kbps stream with chapters. Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), the Watermargin Cooperative, and the Bully Pulpit sponsored this Winter Soldier event which started with a selected screening of testimonies from Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan held March 13-16 in Silversprings, Md., including: Jason Washburn, Bryan Casler, Garret Reppenhagen, Tanya Austin, Matthew Childers, and Jon Turner. This was followed by a CAN/IVAW panel including Iraq/Afghanistan veterans Eli Wright, Perry O’Brien, Michael Blake, and Vietnam veteran Ron Applegate. The event concluded with Q&A, with questions ranging from troop withdrawl and support for veterans, to the prospects for change through political action and organizing. [...] [qt:http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Mike_Gravel_3-31-08/Mike_Gravel_Talk-streaming.mov http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Mike_Gravel_3-31-08/Mike_Gravel_Talk_3-31-08_poster.mov 480 286] Open in Quicktime Player in full screen mode [...] [qt:http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Mike_Gravel_3-31-08/Mike_Gravel_interview_3-31-08-streaming.mov http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Mike_Gravel_3-31-08/Mike_Gravel_Interview_3-31-08-poster.mov http://tompkinsagainstwar.org/video/iPod/Mike_Gravel_Interview_3-31-08-iPod-Video.m4v 480 376] This video is also available on our Youtube Channel http://youtube.com/user/tompkinsagainstwar 5-minutes Interview with Mike Gravel, libertarian candidate for president, in Ithaca, NY 3/31/08. Mike responded to questions regarding how his views differ from those of Ron Paul; how libertarians and progressives can transcend political difference to work on issues of the economy, [...] [...] [qt:http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Dahr_Jamail_3-25-08/Dahr_Jamail_3-25-08_streaming.mov http://cmprovideo.net/streaming1/Dahr_Jamail_3-25-08/Dahr_Jamail_3-25-08_poster.mov http://tompkinsagainstwar.org/video/iPod/Dahr_Jamail_3-25-08-iPod-Video.m4v 480 376] To play full screen, copy link location here and open URL in stand-alone Quicktime or Quicktime7 compatible player application. This video also is available on Google Video. Download 28 kbps audio file for dial-up. Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who spent a total of eight months in occupied Iraq as [...] [...] |
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