Seattle 99' WTO Footage (mostly mine- 2-clips by others) - again ... set to Chemical Brothers music. Features voice of David Solnet at the top of the piece & secret camera cops.
http://www.videoa ctivism.org/wtojourn al.html
features media analysis, clips and reactions - mostly to the pie-ing of Mayor Willie Brown and about the issue of homeless people dieing on the streets of San Francisco - circa 1998. by Whispered Media - http://www.whispered media.org/piepage.ht ml
I was working on a video about urban displacement with mates in Whispered Media ... 1999. I cut this short that winter with some help from Adams, Mark and Fran. They later edited a feature called Boom: The Sound of Eviction.
Then Fox "journalist," Jennifer Jolly, is pied on the streets of San Francisco after delivering a day's worth of speculation and hyperbole disguised as "news." Note: April 8, 2003 was the day the Palestine hotel was attacked. Ms. Jolly now works full-time in the PR industry. For more info:
http://www.whispe redmedia.org/jollypi e.html
During the dot-com boom, evictions soared as new tech workers drove up rents. Willie was giddy with money and pay-offs. Elderly evictees often died ... Urban Renewal, it's a "natural process."
http://www.mangob unny.com/docs_a-m/bu nnydex.html
Since real social planning and vision have sunk to all time lows - the answer for everything is more police, more prisons, more war ... and yes ... more "less lethal" weapons ... rock on
Political appointees shouldn't lead agencies like FEMA ... but, what the heck ... it's only American lives and tax-dollars right?
FEMA has always been a dumping ground for presidential appointees and its pathetic. Chertoff is no better. Be afraid ... be very afraid
A segment for Showdown in Seattle by Whispered Media ... about public relations and shopping in a police state - Seattle 99, WTO protests
http://www.whispe redmedia.org/showdow n.html
Blue n Gold fleet cruise around the Bay with Jeff and Jennifer. It's an adventure. The music is a tune called, International Flight by the Thievery Corporation.
Stoney Burke rocks the Republicans in Houston. Produced by Bob Hercules for "The 90's." PBS aired with Oliver North and maybe two other clips censored out.
Everyone (democrats as well as republicans) keep invoking the tragedies of 9/11 as a reason for the "war on terror." But, could it all be a grand farce? Could these resource wars have been planned before 9/11?
Private contractors have been involved in all the worst of this Iraq campaign: Torture = Caci, Rip Off's = KBR, Spying = SAIC, Randomly Killing Civilians = Aegis ... so, check out this short vid ... & these sites:
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Private_ military_contractor< br />
http://www.aegisw orld.com/
American Culture in 2005 ... fear politics, conformity, militarism and shopping. I throw in some spy lounge music, myself and the silver surfer for good measure ... peace
Stoney Burke greets Oliver North at the RNC 92.
Produced by Bob Hercules - "The 90's"
check out:
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Stoney_B urke
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Oliver_N orth