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Video: Cops Torture Activists (video/quicktime 1.4MB) Some brief clips of the Humboldt County Sherriffs forcing liquid pepper spray into the eyes of non-violent demonstrators. These acts were described by Amnesty ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 8:51am PDT
Self Portrait--poet/expatriate writer (video/quicktime 734.1KB) Filmed atop and within a Tenderloin Residential Hotel-- poet/writer/producer Marie Kazalia reads her poetry, and
has added her writing on poverty and ritual in India as subtitles disjointed with her voice cut by the wind on the rooftop and overlaps of her visual CUT-UP imagery in a first time experiment for her, using Burroughs/Gyson Cut-Up methods applied to video....
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 10:42am PDT
Civil Disobedience in SF: HERE Local 2 (video/quicktime 12.7MB) Local 2 Takes to the Streets on Labor Day. Over 130 Arrested. Part 1.
Hundreds of hotel workers and their allies took to the streets this Labor Day to demonstrate their growing impatience with the San Francisco Hotels Multi-Employer Group, which is taking a hard line in negotations with Local 2. Over a hundred were arrested as they blocked cable car traffic around Union Square, in the heart of San Francisco's tourist district.
Three weeks after the expiration of Local 2's citywide contra...
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Eviction! North Beach. (video/quicktime 9.9MB) Tenants scheduled for eviction in North Beach gather outside their Francisco St. building. Parts 2 & 3 down below.Three-minute QT movie. 10MB....
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 5:09pm PDT
Eviction! North Beach. Part 2 (video/quicktime 11.4MB) 4 minutes. 11MB....
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 5:16pm PDT
Eviction! North Beach. Part 3 (video/quicktime 10.0MB) Part 3 (the last). 3 minutes. 10MB....
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 5:22pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: The March to the Hilton: August 20th (video/quicktime 29.0MB) Local 2's fight for a new contract continues. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 29MB.
Movies from August 13th:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692036.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692106.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692191.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692330.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692336.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1692337.php...
Posted: Tue, Aug 24, 2004 2:40am PDT
The Creep You Let In (video/quicktime 748.8KB) a day in the life T-girlfirend (Jenny Names)and T-boyfriend (Christopher Robin) couple--subtitled with Christopher Robin's writing about his new life as a man after years of living female--and includes his poem River Flats Stomp--they end up at the small press store NEEDLES & PENS reviewing zines etc...(one hour)...
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 6:27pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Aurolyn Rush speaks (video/quicktime 5.2MB) Aurolyn Rush, member of the Negotiating Committee, tells how disastrous is the bosses' offer and explains that the only way to beat them is to get a two-year contract which will enable Local 2 to unify with hotel workers all over North America. Two-minute QT movie. 5MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 3:49pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Ramon Guevarra speaks (video/quicktime 3.1MB) Ramon Guevarra recalled the victory over the SF Marriott Hotel and stressed the importance of national unity for United HERE!
One-minute QT movie. 3MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 3:15pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Walter Johnson speaks (video/quicktime 9.2MB) Walter Johnson, recently retired head of the San Francisco Labor Council thinks it would be a good idea to call for a general strike in the city if Local 2 encounters resistence from the hospitality industry. Three-minute QT movie. 9MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 2:37pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: The March from Yerba Buena Gardens to Local 2 Square (video/quicktime 20.4MB) One wing started out from Union Square and greeted the Yerba Buena Gardens wing as it entered Local 2 Square. This video features Local 2 organizer Kevin O'Connor. Three-minute QuickTime movie. 20MB....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 2:29am PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: John Wilhelm speaks (video/quicktime 11.6MB) One of Local 2's main goals for their new contract is to have it last for two years. Then it would expire in 2006. The goal, Wilhelm, president of UNITE HERE! says, is to have all contracts expire at the same time. There would then be a unified fight against the half-dozen or so corporations controlling the industry in the US and Canada. Four-minute QT movie. 12MB....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 8:55pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Janice Loux speaks (video/quicktime 19.2MB) Coast-to-coast unity was the theme at the August 13th rally in San Francisco of hotel and restaurant workers. Six-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:04pm PDT
SF demands end to ICE raids in the city - Juana Flores & Sunaina Maira (video/quicktime 21.6MB) Flores and Maira speak at the July 27th demonstration demanding an end to ICE raids in San Francisco. Seven minute QT movie. 22MB....
Posted: Fri, Aug 13, 2004 10:09am PDT
Youth tells City Hall: Make BofA pay its taxes! (video/quicktime 16.0MB) San Francisco Assessment Appeals Board considers lowering Bank of America taxes $4.6 million! The Common Cents Coalition testifies in opposition. August 3, 2004. Four minute QuickTime movie. 16MB. (Part 2 is down below: click on "Latest Comments....")...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 3:09pm PDT
D10 Recall - Arntz Delays Certification of Signatures (video/quicktime 6.8MB) Why won’t Elections director put District 10 recall on Nov. 2 ballot? Special election would cost hundreds of thousands and disenfranchise voters...
Posted: Thu, Aug 5, 2004 1:47am PDT
Non-Citizen Voting Rights Campaign Launch (video/quicktime 7.6MB) Historic and Unprecedented Coalition to Launch Campaign to
Allow Immigrant Parents to Vote in School Board Elections...
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 6:49pm PDT
SF demands end to ICE raids in the city - Marisol Ocampo (video/quicktime 16.4MB) Marisol Ocampo speaks on "Immigration & Globalization" in front of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco July 27th. (I missed the first minute of her speech.) Six minute QT movie. 16MB....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 6:20pm PDT
SF demands end to ICE raids in the city - David Rodriguez (video/quicktime 9.0MB) David Rodriguez speaks at the July 27th demonstration demanding an end to ICE raids in San Francisco. Three minute QT movie. 9MB....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 12:20pm PDT
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