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Fearless Summer: Video: Mainers Block Frac-Oil Trains

June 29, 2013 Regis Tremblay, Fairfield Direct Action, www.youtube.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fearless Summer, Fracking, Video

This video shows 350 Maine, a grassroots movement addressing the climate crisis,blockading a Pan Am train as it passes through downtown Fairfield tonight, preventing roughly 70,000 barrels of crude oil from reaching the Irving Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. Police are on the scene. Trains running through Maine carry crude from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, where it is “fracked” or extracted by blasting a high pressure toxic cocktail deep into the ground to release the oil from shale rock, polluting air and water in surrounding communities.

Video: Greenwald Speaks About the Contagious Courage of Edward Snowden

June 29, 2013 Staff, www.youtube.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Surveillance, Video, Wars and Militarism

If you are interested in the state of freedom, privacy and the US security state, this is a must watch video of a speech by Glenn Greenwald about Edward Snowden's revelations describing the NSA's global dragnet surveillance program, its implications and the reaction of the corporate, mass media and government. One month after the initial revelations Greenwald provides personal reflections and insights about one of the most important disclosures in US history. Greenwald is introduced by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the film Dirty Wars. Scahill describes how Greenwald has shaken the foundations of Washington, DC and why we should all stand with him. Scahill is introduced by Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism. The event takes place at "Socialism 2013" in Chicago.

Video: Protest at White House, Close Guantanamo, Diane Wilson Goes Over White House Fence

June 26, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Guantanamo Bay, Video

Human Rights activist Diane Wilson was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, June 26, 2013 around 2 pm for going over the fence and lading on the lawn at the White House in a daring protest action. A member of Veterans For Peace and co-founder of CODEPINK, she has been on "a water-only hunger strike since June 1 in solidarity with the detainees at Guantanamo." Before the demonstration began, Ms. Wilson shared with me the reasons why she is protesting. Soon after her arrest, about 20 more activists were arrested in front of the White House. On this tape, activist Kevin Zeese gives his analysis of the demonstration. He held President Barack Obama responsible for Guantanamo and labeled him "a torturer-in-chief."

Video: CNBC Reporter Apologizes for Suggesting Greenwald Should be Arrested

June 26, 2013 Staff, www.majority.fm/ Educate! Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Video

Andrew Ross Sorkin, CNBC host, famous for going to Occupy Wall Street at the behest of Wall Street bankers to see if they had anything to worry about, said on the air that he "almost thought Glenn Greenwald should be arrested. After looking at the video and the context (we wonder if that included all the criticism he received) Sorkin went on the air to apologize. Sam Seder of Majority Report pierces the veil of that apology.

Video: The Battle To Stop The Trans- Pacific Partnership

June 22, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com Organize! TPP, Video

"Things are boiling, we know the system doesn't work, we know that it is unfair, and eventually, something tips it off," says Dr. Margaret Flowers in this interview with Acronym TV host Dennis Trainor, Jr.. Kevin Zeese, also interviewed here, added, "This is a global, connected, challenge to trans-national neo-liberalism. TPP will unify us and it will be people versus transnationals, and the people will win." The Obama administration has been working hard at crafting the Trans Pacific partnership -- the TPP- for several years and President Obama has said he wants to fast track the agreement through congress this fall. There has been no public debate on the trade agreement that has been called by many NAFTA on steroids, but people are organizing to stop the TPP.

Video: In The Eye Of The Storm (No Olho Do Furação) Brazil, 2013

June 18, 2013 Michel de Souza, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Brazil, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Video

An unusual combination of video and photographs present the images of Brazil's revolt this week. Powerful and emotional. Here' what the photographer says: "During the protests this week in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, I filmed myself photographing the riots. It is a video that shows moments before each photograph was taken. I think it also tells the story of something that seems to be marking our country. I confess that, towards the end, it moved me to tears. Watch it, share it, multiply it."

Video Update: Save the Innocent, Close Gitmo

June 17, 2013 Elliott Adams, www.closegitmo.net Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Video, Wars and Militarism

Born in 1967 he could be my son – tortured for 10 years by my government, 10 years when he was at the prime of life. I don’t know if the pain for me is greater thinking of this young man or thinking of the despotism of a government in my name. He keeps creeping into my mind. Djamal Ameziane came from a close family with 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Djamal left his home, Algeria, to avoid persecution for his religion, lived in Austria and Canada working for years as a head chef and selling office supplies waiting for process of his immigration papers. After both countries denied him and fearing he would be deported to Algeria, he headed for Afghanistan thinking this is one country that would not persecute him for being a Muslim. Djamal is an accomplished young man, with a college degree and work experience managing public water systems, he speaks something like 4 languages.

Video:History is Happening in Rap

June 16, 2013 Staff, www.thejuicemedia.com Educate! Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Privacy, Video, Wars and Militarism

It started off as a slow news day, and a routine update on the state of the Free World Order with NSA Director General Baxter. But then the news broke of startling revelations from the fearless paladin of adversarial journalism, guardian of civil liberties, journalist Glen Greenwald, concerning a shadowy spying program called PRISM. Who is behind these revelations, and how should we view them? How will the Authorities, and the Corporations implicated, respond? Join Robert Foster for a whirlwind summary of the events in this ongoing saga...

Video: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

June 15, 2013 TheNakedEmperor.com, www.youtube.com Educate! TPP, Video

President Obama, Governor Romney and the man with the crown discuss the merits of a trade deal that has been negotiated in secret that would allow foreign corporations to strike down US law. Video by TheNakedEmperor.com.

Video: Sovereign Summer Protest Against Shale Oil, 12 Arrested

June 15, 2013 Sovereign Summer, wwwyoutube.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Video

Early in the morning of June 14, First Nation protesters in New Brunswick, Canada blocked the intersection of Highways 126 and 116 to stop work trucks from passing through on their way to perform seismic testing for shale oil extraction. Twelve were arrested and held in custody.This is one of many protests taking place to end the extraction economy's assault on Mother Earth as part of Sovereign Summer.

Video: #OccupyGezi Brought Back Our Rusted Hope

June 15, 2013 Deniz Tarsus, www.punkpatriot.blogspot.com Resist! Türkiye, Video

The unity and joy of the people in Gezi Park is apparent in this video. As one said the occupation of Gezi has "brought back our rusted hope . . . and our subsided dreams." Others described the protest as different people working together in unity, "like trees in a forest." This video shows the people who Prime Minister Erdogan has promised to "clean the park of terrorists" These are the people Erdogan accuses of being "troublemakers" controlled by "foreign forces, international media and market speculators of stoking the conflict. What Erdogan really fears is the people in the video, a cross-section of Turkey -- brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and grandparents so he tells the media that they are terrorists.

Video: Hunger Strike Song

June 14, 2013 the Peace Poets, www.youtube.com Resist! Human Rights, Torture, Video

166 men remain trapped at Guantánamo. The vast majority have never been, and will never be, charged with any crime. Of these, 86 have been cleared for release. Almost all of the men are on hunger strike since Feb 6, 2013. This three and a half minute video was produce by the Peace Poets and Witness Against Torture.

Video: Is the U.S. on the Precipice of Revolution?

June 10, 2013 Acronym TV, www.youtube.com Educate! Video

Acronym TV host Dennis Trainor, Jr. speaks with U.S. Uncut co-founder Carl Gibson about the possibility of revolution here in the United States. “The struggle in Iceland is ongoing, but the nation's people have achieved monumental results in a relatively short amount of time due to the nature of their movement building,” Carl Gibson, writes in his recent piece, “Five Ways the US Can Have an Icelandic Revolution.” They managed to arrest and jail the bankers who wrecked the economy. When the government privatized public banking institutions to their friends, essentially for free, and made the people pay for their bailouts, the people threw them out of office and refused to give the banks their money.

Video: Frack is Whack – Californians Against Fracking

June 10, 2013 The Undercurrent, www.youtube.com Organize! Environment, Fracking, Video

Joined by "Gasland" director Josh Fox, environmental activists in LA gathered on May 30 to launch Californians Against Fracking and to deliver a petition with over a 100,000 signatures for banning fracking to Gov. Jerry Brown. His office was closed at 1 pm on a Thursday afternoon, so they went to Atty. General Kamala Harris's office, where they were told that no one is there to address the concerns of the citizens. We hear from Rose Braz of the Center for Biological Diversity, Josh Fox of "Gasland," and fracking activists Siena Lorraine and Aura Walker.

Video: War Veterans Talk About Bradley Manning

June 10, 2013 ebecker, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Video, Wars and Militarism

This seven-minute video featured veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan speaking about how Bradley Manning's revelations helped them articulate their own strong reservations about the wars, and a foreign policy that is far from the ideal that drew them into the military in the first place.

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