StopMotionSolo -- who's been documenting actions since the days of Occupy -- covered the Hands Up Walk Out demonstration in Manhattan yesterday, often at considerable peril to himself. The embedded video below shows the end of the demonstration, nearly three hours after it began.
The demonstrators were mostly highschool students who walked out of class and assembled at Union Square, where, led by the Raging Grannies, they marched and chanted -- and then headed for the streets. They made their way through the streets of Manhattan -- chased and herded by police -- until they reached Times Square where they assembled and heard from speakers about police violence and murder, and how it had to end. Then they made their way further on where about a hundred of them listened to impassioned speakers tell of how their future was being stolen and it was up to the survivors to claim the future for themselves. Powerful and stirring sentiments from the young, powerful shaming of the rulers and their police.
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
Perhaps the most moving testament starts at about 41:37 in the video.
Links to earlier videos from the day's action:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/56023714
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/56024776
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/56026641
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
The Prodigal Returns -- Or Something
Earlier, I was looking for some kind of news regarding the much anticipated return of Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras to New York to humbly receive their Polk Award for reporting the Young Snowden NSA material last summer, and surprisingly there was nothing but WikiLeaks live blogging their plane's travel across the Atlantic, blogging which ceased approximately half an hour before it landed.
I just checked online for any updates, and the most recent was from Le Monde.
There you have it. Even if you don't read French, it's pretty clear they got through the tight security at JFK without incident.
Who'd a thunk, eh?
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UPDATE: Paul Carr at Pando wants to know if the Intercept has ceased publishing. Hard to say that it's still publishing, as there has not been a new post for ten days or more, and even the comments stopped several days ago.
After the Poynter story about a strategic planning session -- involving unnamed principals, at an unannounced location, at some point in the unspecificed past -- during which discussion centered on First Look's focus and audience and so forth, the basics of any startup, let alone a "transformative" quarter-billion dollar media empire, quite late in the game it would seem, I wouldn't be surprised if retooling and potentially relaunch of the Intercept were in order.
I just checked online for any updates, and the most recent was from Le Monde.
Le journaliste Glenn Greenwald passe sans encombre la frontière des Etats-Unis
Le Monde.fr |Glenn Greenwald et Laura Poitras, deux des journalistes derrière les révélations sur l'Agence de sécurité nationale (NSA) américaine sont arrivés aux Etats-Unis, vendredi 11 avril. Venus à New York recevoir le George Polk Award, prix américain qui reconnaît l'excellence en journalisme, ils ont passé les contrôles de l'immigration à l'aéroport de New York sans problème, a annoncé Julie Turkewitz, journaliste pour le New York Times.
Arrival in nyc of @ggreenwald. No arrest made. #nytimes. http://t.co/mQPXuLWDf7
— julieturkewitz (@fotojulie)
There you have it. Even if you don't read French, it's pretty clear they got through the tight security at JFK without incident.
Who'd a thunk, eh?
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UPDATE: Paul Carr at Pando wants to know if the Intercept has ceased publishing. Hard to say that it's still publishing, as there has not been a new post for ten days or more, and even the comments stopped several days ago.
After the Poynter story about a strategic planning session -- involving unnamed principals, at an unannounced location, at some point in the unspecificed past -- during which discussion centered on First Look's focus and audience and so forth, the basics of any startup, let alone a "transformative" quarter-billion dollar media empire, quite late in the game it would seem, I wouldn't be surprised if retooling and potentially relaunch of the Intercept were in order.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
On The Continuing Chaos in DC
The recent DC incident, in which a young mother was shot to death in her car by police and/or Secret Service after being cornered near the Capitol was little more than a blip on the radar; these things have become a kind of New Normal. We now expect people to be shot by police routinely. It's what they do.
The woman was accused of ramming her car into a gate or barricade at the White House and firing at officers as she attempted to escape, but as has been the case with a number of recent high profile police shooting incidents (cf: Boston Bombing suspect captured), she was later determined to be unarmed. The location of the supposed ramming is not at the White House at all, it's the Treasury Building at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Ave NW. There is no damage to the car that indicates it "rammed" anything at that location in any case.
There is video of a car matching the description of the one she was driving attempting to elude officers near the Capitol, striking one, and then rather expertly maneuvering away from pursuing vehicles. Shots are heard being fired during this escape. Shortly thereafter, apparently, the car is caught in a barricade and the driver is shot to death. There is reported to be an infant in the backseat who was taken to Child Protective Services. That is all.
One of the most striking things -- literally -- that happened during this incident/chase was the police car that rammed a barricade in an apparent attempt to apprehend the suspect.
This is just chaos, pure and simple.
It follows closely on the incident in New York in which bikers and an SUV driver tangled -- and mangled -- one another, and of course the DC incident follows on the heels of the Mother of All Shutdowns, in which the Rs in the House refuse to pay the officers involved in incident but give them a standing ovation instead. That ought to do, shouldn't it?
Chaos.
The New Normal.
The woman was accused of ramming her car into a gate or barricade at the White House and firing at officers as she attempted to escape, but as has been the case with a number of recent high profile police shooting incidents (cf: Boston Bombing suspect captured), she was later determined to be unarmed. The location of the supposed ramming is not at the White House at all, it's the Treasury Building at 15th Street and Pennsylvania Ave NW. There is no damage to the car that indicates it "rammed" anything at that location in any case.
There is video of a car matching the description of the one she was driving attempting to elude officers near the Capitol, striking one, and then rather expertly maneuvering away from pursuing vehicles. Shots are heard being fired during this escape. Shortly thereafter, apparently, the car is caught in a barricade and the driver is shot to death. There is reported to be an infant in the backseat who was taken to Child Protective Services. That is all.
One of the most striking things -- literally -- that happened during this incident/chase was the police car that rammed a barricade in an apparent attempt to apprehend the suspect.
This is just chaos, pure and simple.
It follows closely on the incident in New York in which bikers and an SUV driver tangled -- and mangled -- one another, and of course the DC incident follows on the heels of the Mother of All Shutdowns, in which the Rs in the House refuse to pay the officers involved in incident but give them a standing ovation instead. That ought to do, shouldn't it?
Chaos.
The New Normal.
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