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This week:
1.What?
2. Crispy Pigs
3. Hot in Roch City
4. Olympig Harassment
5. Vienna Occupation
6. Old school bank robber
7. Coal River Blast
8. 350 or 250
9. Modest Mouse
10. Torch Hypnosis
Monthly Archive for October, 2009
First dispatch
from the Torch Relay kickoff from
Victoria, on occupied Coast Salish territories
October, 30th 2009
This is a joint production of B-Channel News, subMedia.TV, Vancouver Media Coop and Victoria Indymedia
Today, October 30th 2009 subMedia joins forces with Victoria Indymedia, B-Channel News and the Vancouver Media Coop to bring you coverage of the anti-olympic torch actions in Victoria BC.
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Here’s the latest from END:CIV. Both clips include footage and interviews we shot during our west coast tour. Interviews include Ward Churchill, John Zerzan, Lierre Keith and Dr. Michael Becker.
The first piece breaks down the first premise of Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame”
“Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization.”
The second clip is an updated edit of “Clearcuts” first released on the world wide web in June.
I recently watched H2Oil at the Vancouver Film Festival. This is one of the most important documentaries out, period. It should be out on video soon so stay tuned. In the meantime check out these amazing animations by La Moustache.
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress:
(Exerpts from Chapter 1 of Howad Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States)
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:
“They… brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned…. They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane…. They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Continue reading ‘Happy Genocide Day’
Recently, I found an interview with filmmaker Velcrow Ripper on diydharma.org, a Buddhist meditation site based in Vancouver. Ripper is best known for his film “Scared Sacred,” and more recently for “Fierce Light,” an exploration of spirituality and activism. The interviewer asked Mr. Ripper to comment on my recent short film “Star Wars, the environmentalists’ version” a satire written by author Derrick Jensen and part of my upcoming film END:CIV. Here Jensen envisions the rebel alliance fighting Darth Vader and the Empire with letter-writing campaigns, banner drops and vegan cream pies.
But Ripper misses the philosophy and the point of the film, so he misrepresents both:
…That idea of a violent response being the only response and that everything else is basically wimpy, is basically what you might say is one of their perspectives.
Clearly, Ripper is not familiar with Jensen’s work, but he’s heard about it from Jensen-bashers. It’s the dogmatic pacificists who attack Jensen most often, slamming the urgent reality that we must do everything we can, now, to end this destructive culture. Over-reacting and sensationalizing Jensen’s ideas, as Ripper does, is typical of the criticisms I hear from some members of my community.
Here is a passage from Jensen’s Endgame, and one that he has repeated at hundreds of talks he has given across North America. Continue reading ‘Velcrow Ripper's misguided light’
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