Tuesday, September 16, 7-10pm at The Change You Want To See Gallery
With Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now!, I-Witness Video, Glassbead Collective, Big Noise Tactical, Indymedia
Please join us for an evening of video clips and conversation with independent media activists who’ve recently returned from the national political conventions. Hear first-hand accounts from the convention floor to the protests in the streets to the insides of a Minneapolis jailhouse.
Discussion topics include the state of protest, the state of independent media, the state of the state, policies of pre-emption, policies of exception, party policies, predictions, predelictions, and lessons learned...
Participants Include:
Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous with Democracy Now!
Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen with Big Noise Tactical
Brandon Jourdan with Glassbead Collective
Eileen Clancy with I-Witness Video
And more…
Inside the Republican National Convention
Iraq Veterans Against the War March
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Arrested
Jeremy Scahill, an independent journalist who reports frequently for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!, has spent extensive time reporting from Iraq and Yugoslavia. He is currently a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Scahill is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The show airs on over 700 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S. Democracy Now! is committed to covering issues the conventional media avoid and bringing the voices of the marginalized to the airwaves. Goodman and Gonzalez’s engaging reports feature interviews with activists, muckrakers, visionaries, artists, academics, and "ordinary folks" who share a commitment to truth, justice, diversity, and peace.
I-Witness Video is a New York-based collective that uses groundbreaking techniques to harness the power of video to protect civil liberties and the right to use public space, particularly in the context of First Amendment activity such as demonstrations, marches and rallies. I-Witness Video has uncovered perjury and abuse by police officers and prosecutors, revealed illegal police surveillance and exposed official lies.
Big Noise Tactical is a not-for-profit, all-volunteer collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images. Big Noise crystallizes radical community and weaves a network of skin and images, of dreams and bone, of solidarity and connection against the isolation, alienation and cynicism of capitalist decomposition. Big Noise is tactical because our media is a part of movements, embedded in a history of struggle.
Glassbead Collective, based in New York City, brings together individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds including video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy to create works which re-contextualize culture and the world in which we find ourselves today. Glassbead was founded in 2002 with a multimedia theatrical performance of Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit. They have produced various live art events and films experimenting with a multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary issues (mixing visual and literary narratives in real time) as well as created live visuals for groups such as Billionaires for Bush, The War Resisters, Brooklyn Media Lab, GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival among others.
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. There are currently over one hundred and fifty Independent Media Centers around the world. Each IMC is an autonomous group that has its own mission statement, manages its own finances and makes its own decisions through its own processes.