On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news!
NewsReal is a monthly joint project of Free SpeechTV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ).
Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like the war, air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more.
Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience.
Dooda Means No! Producer: Marcos Ramirez http://newmexico.indymedia.org The story of native opposition to a new coal power plant near Desert Rock, New Mexico.
Special Newsreal Message Producer: Steev Hise http://newsreal.indymedia.org A reminder to activist videographers that Newsreal is a great opportunity to get videoactivist work out to the world.
Impacts of the Wall Producer: Steev Hise http://arizona.indymedia.org Details, according to experts from Texas, Arizona, and California, of what environmental effects there will be as a result of the ongoing and impending construction of the U.S./Mexico border wall.
Boundary Conditions Producer: Steev Hise http://www.panleft.org A video collage about borders, with live music accompaniment.
Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs (Independent Media Centers) are encouraged to screen or air NewsReal. To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact Pepperspray Productions at pepperspray@riseup.net.
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