This week we start off with a powerful piece, Smash ICE, by our newest PepperSpray Collective member, Tacoma Joe. 1) Smash ICE (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement)It's protesters vs the cops at the Regional Immigration Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. You think the movement's dead? Thin...
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Alrick Brown's name might not be well known to viewers of "Indymedia Presents," but regulars to our show will recognize one of his videos, "The Battle For America Has Begun". We've shown it several times over the last few years. It is the piece that cuts from one speaker to another, across age, r...
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Utah Phillips was a personal friend of some of the members of the PepperSpray Collective stretching back almost 30 years. He recently passed away. Radicalized in part because of his experiences as a soldier in the US war against Korea, he went on to become the most famous member of the Internatio...
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First up, Olympia Washington's Citizens Band sings "Wal-Mart" at the Seattle benefit concert for Utah Phillips. http://www.citizensband.orgNext up, Café Conciencia! Coffee with a Conscience!"Café Conciencia an international non-profit organization that works in solidarity with worker-ow...
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At the end of their life, the best you can say about some folks is that they really didn't do much harm, or maybe they were nice to their kids. This week on "Indymedia Presents" we pay tribute to another fallen comrade. Jim Hinde, well known Seattle busker, passed away. Just about anybody who has...
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PepperSpray wasn't in St. Paul, Minnesota to document the Republicans, or the crimes they have committed. The list is so long and the crimes so bad that even corporate media has been doing that for some time now. Our reporters were getting another story. The powers apparently don't want that stor...
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The second in a series by one of our Pepper producers, Patricia Boiko. The first program examined the genocide in Rwanda, and how people heal from a horror like that.This piece looks at the Abatwa people, better known in the US as the Pygmies. The Abatwa, who are the indigenous people of the regi...
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PepperSpray' s summer intern, Ericka Ward, produced our lead piece this week. "Solutions, Not Repression" looks at the street vendor's movement in El Salvador."Free Trade" agreements require the Salvadorian government to crack down on street vendors selling so-called pirated music and software, c...
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This week we start off with episode #30 of "Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." The creator of this zaniness, Franklin Lopez, tells it as he seize it, and seize it he does. He starts off with a call for stalwarts to plan on going to the "republicrat" conventions later this y...
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The second of two episodes with Pepperspray/Indymedia producer Patricia Boiko covering this years Sundance/Slamdance film festivals.First Patricia interviews film maker Virginia Williams, whose documentary, "FRONTRUNNER", played at Slamdance this year. The film looks at Dr. Massouda Jalal, the wo...
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Leading off this episode PepperSpray videographer and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member Tacoma Joe contributes our latest segment in the "Voice of the Veteran" series with an interview of Army veteran Seth Manzel.Tacoma Joe has been busy, and the rest of the program are pieces from h...
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"Indymedia Presents" turns to the plight of injured soldiers in a new piece by Arianne Garden Vasquez and Lambert Rochfort, "Disposable Heroes," which looks at the movement to "fund the wounded, not the war." Many an American soldier has felt the inexpressible sense of betrayal when they realize ...
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