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Friends,
I-Witness Video has been served with two subpoenas by lawyers from the City of New York in connection with the 2004 Republican National Convention. The City has demanded every piece of paper, electronic file, and videotape related to the protests - even our copies of the tapes shot by their own NYPD!

I will be watching the Activist Studio online! Check out the part at the end that shows credits, you may see a certain name of a certain cameraman that is exceptionally cool.

(from the Washington Post)

MODBURY, England — Rebecca Hosking’s moment, when a happy English farm girl cried tears that changed her life, came on a speck of sugar-white beach in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

“All you could smell was death,” Hosking recalled, sitting snugly in a 600-year-old pub in her rainy home town, which has been transformed by her epiphany two years ago on Midway Atoll.

coldcut - panopticon. three furiously full-on years from the eco-war of the mid 90's. featuring treetop and rooftop action from Claremont Road, Newbury, Solsbury Hill, Reclaim the Streets... where we became "more possible than they could powerfully imagine". Edited by Neil Goodwin. Shot by scores of video activists. Music by Coldcut and Outerbongolia.

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Visualized Film Festival is starting tonight and going through November 4th! Not sure if I'll be there tonight, but will be going some! Hope to see you there.

My friend Daniel Tucker from Chicago has just started up Reviews/Interviews/Commentary, a pretty great activist blog where he will be compiling his writings on art/activism/organizing. You should check-it out.

So when you work in TV Programming, you get really excited when you have repeat producers doing amazing stuff. Deep Dish T.V., the first public access TV Satellite Network is a great example. They have been covering events, promoting radical programs, producing great documentaries, and working hard to cover the most pressing issues the U.S.

In a move that smacks of political intimidation, the Rocky Mountain News, a right wing daily newspaper in Denver, Colorado, printed the addresses of activists who are accused of blocking the Columbus Day Parade.

I found this chilling story of political intimidation via boingboing