The Seattle Times came out with an editorial calling for Watada's conviction. Lt. Watada faces not only charges of missing movement but also several "Conduct Unbecoming" charges stemming from speeches he gave. It has been a while in America since somebody went to jail for giving a speech, but that is the situation with Lt. Watada. Give a speech, go to jail. One of the "criminal" speeches he is charged with giving was to a veterans convention. We start off with that speech. You be the judge; hear the speech and decide if a crime was committed. I sincerely doubt if the editors at the Seattle Times who called for Watada's conviction had even heard the speech, or seen it in print. Yet there they were–aping, chanting for a conviction like a Greek chorus of harpies. We present the speech, uncut. Be inspired, we were.
www.thankyoult.org
www.couragetoresist.org
We follow this up with footage from the FTA tours that occurred in the early 70s. Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Holly Near, Country Jo McDonald, and oth…

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On NEWSREAL, people — not corporations — make the news!
NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from Indymedia video producers across the nation.
Segments included in this episode:
"Tucson Activists and La Otra" Producer: Steev Hise, www.arizona.indymedia.org
"Ya Se Pudo" www.peppersprayproductions.org
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The 3BL Media CSR Minute: 60 seconds or so of news and commentary on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the triple bottom line (3BL).

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CITIZENS HEARING ON THE LEGALITY OF U.S. ACTIONS IN IRAQ:
The Case of Lt. Ehren Watada
JANUARY 20-21, 2007
Tacoma, Washington, USA
"In an unprecedented two-day Citizens' Hearing held over January 20-21, more than 600 citizens joined a distinguished tribunal panel in listening to testimony about the legality of the US invasion of Iraq. The Citizens' Hearing was convened to present evidence that Lt. Ehren Watada would have presented in his February 5 court martial on the question that the military ruled barred from entry on Jan. 16 – the question of the Iraq War's legality. Lt. Watada has repeatedly erted that because the Iraq War is illegal, it is his duty to refuse orders to deploy. He is the Army's first commissioned officer to take such a stand."
For complete details of the Citizens' Hearing, please see:
www.WarTribunal.org
For updates on Lt. Watada, please see:
www.thankyoult.org
www.couragetoresist.org
Part 1 Tribunal testifiers:
* Geoffrey Millard 8 years in Army National Guard; awarded 13 medals
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"KPCN–Radio Movemiento" is PepperSpray Collective member Bill Birney's piece on the efforts to build a low power FM station in the Chicano town of Woodburn, Oregon. Bill traveled to Woodburn three times to make this piece. He led the first PepperSpray team which went to Woodburn and out into the fields to interview farmworkers, making an advance video that served to build media interest in the Radio KPCN project. Then he went back to cover the Prometheus "barn-raising" weekend, where activists converged and merged with the community, to build the station in a single weekend. Finally, Bill returned to Woodburn for the final occasion, the celebration of the station commencing regular programing. His excellent and uplifting report fills this week's whole program, and is the final of three pieces PepperSpray has produced on this topic.
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media". We believe …

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It's Mulch time! Sit back, relax and enjoy the best of the green wide web. We've dug up a tree-planting bag, the ultimate carbon calculator and a green o site that exposes the secret lives of insects.

For more Webby Award-winning videos, check out TitanGreens.com!

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Medical Providers live by the oath to "Do No Harm." What does that mean when providing care as part of the military in Iraq? A general surgeon and a medic, who both served in Iraq, give their different perspectives on how to "do no harm." The surgeon believes that caring for injured soldiers, enemy combatants and civilians is doing no harm. The medic believes that refusing to load his weapon and becoming a Conscientious Objector to all war is doing no harm.
Produced and directed by Pepperspray videographer Patricia Boiko. http://www.aguayodefense.org/
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Our man in Portland sent us up an hour-long presentation by investigative reporter Greg Palast, produced by Jim Lockhart. We edited it down to fit on our half-hour show. Palast's speaking tour, the "Armed Madhouse Tour," is funny and very sharp politically. In the portion we present, he speaks about how the last two presidential elections were stolen, with considerable attention to what were the smoking gun details of how it was done. With the presidential election campaigns already off and running, it is not too early to remind people that the electoral system is broken. Greg Palast is a very watchable speaker with important things to say. As more and more people turn away from the conservatives and toward our side, the issue isn't will they come to us, but rather what will we tell them when they arrive. This is some of the important stuff we have to say. www.gregpalast.com

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We bring you the last speech Lt. Watada gave before facing court martial (which as you may know, ended in a mistrial, when the military judge pulled the plug on the trial after the prosecution rested their shaky case, rather than risk a Watada victory. We will bring you all the details on that in the near future).
The Saturday night before Watada's trial began on Feb 5th, Lt. Watada appeared for what most folks thought would be his last public event before going to prison. Patricia Boiko was there to capture the event, so thanks to her, and Winning Pictures, we bring you this moving speech. Lt. Ehren Watada
www.thankyoult.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War Deployed
www.ivawdeployed.org
Courage to Resist
www.couragetoresist.org
Counter Recruiting
www.counter-recruiting.org
Beyond Treason
www.beyondtreason.org
Sir! No Sir!
www.SirNoSir.com
Pepperspray Productions formed shortly after the WTO protests in Seattle, in response to the Independent Media Center's call, "don't hate the media, be the media". We beli…

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Christian Peacemakers in Palestine http://www.cpt.org
This program was sent to us by our friends down in San Diego, who put out an excellent access series called "Alternate Focus." This particular episode is about the Christian Peacemakers Teams in Israel/Palestine.

http://alternatefocus.org

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