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Hey Y’all,

Damn it feels good to be appreciated. Over the last week I’ve received hundreds emails from angry, sad or depressed viewers who offered their condolences at the

supposed firing of the stimulator

. I appreciate this, but listen up suckers, I said HIATUS. Which basically means extended break, a pause if you may. I’ve been sitting on a film adaptation of

Derrick Jensen’s ‘Endgame’

for quite some time, and now I have a producer crazy enough to take on the project. (Thanks Andrew!)

So with that out of the way, let me say that the RNC/DNC experience has cemented my suspicions

that we are totally fucked

. What this means is that we have our work cut out for us. And if we want get rid of this corporate police state we need to get totally fuckin serious. And that does not mean campaigning for Obama. Heh! Need suggestions? Watch any of 45 episodes of "

It’s the end of the world

" and there will be the something in there. Don’t like my ideas? Look around, there’s a grand variety of fucked up-ness for you to choose from. Just pick a problem and make it your own.

At the end of this month, I’ll be collaborating with my friends from

Pepperspray Productions

and

Anne Elizabeth Moore

, to create a 30 minute re-cap of our collective experience. We are hoping that people will screen it in their communities to show their friends what they didn’t see on the corporate channels. The video should be done by Oct. 3rd and will premiere in Seattle on Oct. 4th. An online version should be up that weekend for anyone to watch, but if you would like to a DVD of this, email me. We have not decided on a price but it should be $10-$20.

Finally, I wanted to show y’all two videos some of my fans made.

The first one was done by a fan in Australia

. He saw the footage of the un-arrest we captured in Saint Paul. He dug around and found 3 more angles of the same incident. A truly heroic moment indeed, and one I hope is duplicated more and more. The second one, also made by a fan, well,

it’s just fuckin funny.

Hasta la pasta

love//stim

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Sept. 4 2008

1. Kissinger is mute
2. Lambert is Free
3. Wendy is Free
4. I-Witness is Raided Again
5. Torturing the "Terrorists"
6. Champions
7. Final thoughts 
 

Pepperspray Productions journalist Joseph La Sac released
Pepperspray Productions journalist Lamert Rochfort is being charged with felony riot.

Below is an email sent from their home office in Seattle.

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Randy Rowland, from PepperSpray Productions, here. Instead of sending you an announcement about a screening, this email is unusual for us, it is a call for help.

Two PepperSpray collective members, Lambert Rochfort and Joe LaSac, on assignment in St Paul covering the protests associated with the Republican National Convention, were both arrested on Sunday while covering the story. Both are still being held without charges or an opportunity to go before a judge.

Lambert was swept up in a mass arrest of peaceful citizens who were surrounded by cops and all arrested. Joe was arrested about the same time as Amy Goodman and two other journalists from "Democracy Now!" were arrested. In fact if you watch the footage of Amy Goodman standing in handcuffs, the fellow sitting on the ground at her feet is Joe.

Lambert and Joe had covered the DNC in Denver, and were in St Paul to cover the protests. They both had their cameras with them when arrested and were clearly doing nothing illegal, just trying to get the story that corporate media tends to overlook. There have been several other attacks on journalists there, including a raid on an indymedia hospitality center, and a raid on the house of a group that documents police brutality. It goes without saying that there is no freedom of the press if reporters are jailed for covering the story.

We want our people released without charges, and we want our equipment back. If you value indymedia and the role of independent journalists–and I know you do, or you wouldn’t be on our announcement list–then please take some or all of the following actions to secure the timely release of these PepperSpray videographers.

If you are in the St Paul area or can ask those you know who are in that area, please join the 24 hour vigil at the Ramsey County Jail,  425 Grove St., St Paul (24 hour vigil)

Please call some or all of the following numbers, demanding that our reporters be freed:

Chris Coleman, St. Paul Mayor: 651.266.8510
or Chris Rider from Mayor Coleman’s office at 651-266-8535
Ramsey County Jail at 651-266-9350 (press extension 0)
Ramsey County Sheriff: 651.487.5149

Here are the names and numbers of St Paul City Council people to call as well:
Melvin Carter - Ward 1 - 651- 266-8610
Dan Thune - Ward 2 - 651-266-8620
Pat Harris - Ward 3 - 651-266-8630
Russ Stark - Ward 4 - 651-26-8640
Lee Helgen - Ward 5 - 651-266-8520
Dan Bostrom - Ward 6 - 651-266-8660
Cathy Lantree - Ward 7 - 651-266-8670

PepperSpray Productions is an all-volunteer independent media collective based in Seattle, WA. Among other things, we produce a weekly access TV show called "Indymedia Presents" which airs on 20 channels, from Seattle to New York, including in St. Paul and Minneapolis.

For more info about our work, we invite you to visit our website: www.peppersprayproductions.org

Thanks,

Randy Rowland
PepperSpray Productions

if you really don’t want to get emails from us, reply to this email with your request and we’ll take you off our list. You are on the list because you signed up for it, or got one of our videos. Typically we only use this list to announce occasional screenings or releases of major DVDs. If you would like to get a weekly update email about what is on each episode of "Indymedia Presents", you may also email us wih that request.

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Labor Day 2008
1. Rage in Saint Paulice
2. Amy Goodman Arrested