Thursday, July 12, 2007

July13th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks edition of Social Justice Television we will viewing Part Two of HipHop 101 as presented by MC, activist and philosopher KRS-ONE.

As one of hip-hop's pioneers, KRS-One has reached audiences from around the world with his beats and incredible rhymes that vividly detailed life in the ghetto. At the same time, he also sought to raise the consciousness of all who would listen. KRS-One's days as a member of Boogie Down Productions have helped to establish him as an innovator who still continues to deliver to his fans.

http://templeofhiphop.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRS-One

Monday, June 11, 2007

June 14th Edition of Social Justice Television

We begin this edition of SJTV with a video short from KillerCoke.org who are organizing a campaign against the Coca Cola Company over allegations they hired death squads to suppress Union Organizing activities in it's Columbian bottling plants in South America.

In July 2001, the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund (www.laborrights.org) filed a lawsuit on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, several of its members and the estate of Isidro Gil, one of its murdered officers. The lawsuit and campaign aim to force Coca-Cola to prevent further bloodshed and to provide safe working conditions.

Coca-Cola bottlers “contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilize extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders,” the lawsuit states. It also notes that Colombian troops connected with the paramilitaries have trained at the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga., where trainees were encouraged to torture and murder those who do “union organizing and recruiting;” pass out “propaganda in favor of workers;” and “sympathize with demonstrators or strikes.” This was made public when the Pentagon was forced to reveal the contents of training manuals used at the school. (For more information, see www.soaw.org, the website of SOA Watch.) The year that the lawsuit was filed, The Coca-Cola Co. made $4 billion in profits and paid its CEO, Douglas Daft, more than $105 million. Coca-Cola continues to rake in billions each year, yet the frightening conditions at the Coke plants remain unchanged. Labor unions and human rights advocates in the United States can stop these atrocities at Coca-Cola’s bottling plants.



COKE CAN'T HIDE ITS CRIMES IN COLOMBIA

Isidro Segundo Gil, an employee at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Colombia, was killed at his workplace by paramilitary thugs. His children, now living in hiding with relatives, understand all too well why their homeland is known as "a country where union work is like carrying a tombstone on your back." Read More...


Killer Coke's Casualties

Listed below are union leaders at Coca-Cola's Colombian bottling plants who have been murdered. Hundreds of other Coke workers have been tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by violent paramilitaries, often working closely with plant managements.


Date Name Coca-Cola Plant
1989 Avelino Achicanoy Pasto
4/8/94 Jose Elaseasar MancoDavid Carepa
4/20/94 Luis Enrique Giraldo Arango Carepa
4/23/95 Luis Enrique Gomez Garado Carepa
12/5/96 Isidro Segundo Gil Carepa
12/26/96 Jose Librado Herrera Osorio Carepa
6/21/2001 Oscar Dario Soto Polo Monteria
8/31/2002 Adolfo de Jesus Munera Lopez Baranquilla


Voting Machine Security Demo
We will also see a brief Security Demonstration from Princeton University Computer Scientists who claim they created a demonstration on vote stealing software that can be installed in under one minute. For more information go to http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting or http://engineering.princeton.edu/news/felten06




In the second half of todays show we will hear from visionary designer and architect William McDonough as he calls for us to to rethink how we make things and incorporate sustainable design into human industry http://www.mcdonough.com

“I believe we can accomplish great and profitable things within a new conceptual framework—one that values our legacy, honors diversity, and feeds ecosystems and societies . . . It is time for designs that are creative, abundant, prosperous, and intelligent from the start.”

William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet" in 1999, stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world."

Mr. McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the cofounder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), which employs a comprehensive Cradle to Cradle design protocol to chemical benchmarking, supply-chain integration, energy and materials assessment, clean-production qualification, and sustainability issue management and optimization.

Author of Cradle to Cradle
Now in its fifth printing . . .
By William McDonough & Michael Braungart
North Point Press, 2002

Monday, March 26, 2007

March 29th Edition of SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we will be exploring expression of social justice and activism through the arts with the Seattle Slam Poets who will be covering a variety of themes including War, Racism, Sexism and Sexuality, Addiction and issues of Class to name a few.

Featured in this show will be the extraordinary Poet and Spoken Word Performance Artist, Christa Bell http://www.christabellonline.com/ . Hopefully by the end of the show you will be enchanted with her own special brand of "Coochie Magic" and you'll feel inspired to invoke the primal incantation of "Coochie! Coochie! Now say it with me Coochie".

You can catch Seattle Poetry Slam Every Tuesday night at @ 7:00p.m. at TOST 516 North 36 th Street in Freemont. For more information go to http://www.poetryfestival.org/

Thursday, March 15, 2007

March 15th Edition of SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we travel down to the Northwest Detention Center at 1623 East J Strteet Tacoma, Washington to talk with family members of detainees who are being held at the this privately owned immigration prison. We also speak with activists who are trying to draw attention to their plight by holding vigils on the second Saturday of every month outside the prison.

In investigating this story we found out that not only is this facility owned and operated by one of the most notorious providers of corporate owned and operated privatized detention prisons but that the facility was built upon the highly toxic remains of a meat packing plant were benzene was discovered in the ground resulting in it being designated a U.S. Superfund cleanup site. We discovered a common pattern of people who end up in this facility is that they were found guilty of some petty transgression like overstaying a Visa or traffic violations which gave law enforecment a legal opening to enter their lives and incarcerate. Very few of the detainees are there because of commiting serious crimes worthy of this type of harsh treatment.

The private corporation GEO Group Inc,. http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/global.asp has a contract with the Department of Homeland Security and I.C.E ( Immigration Customs and Enforecment) to operate this detention facility on behalf of the U.S. Government. This is part of a new disturbing trend of what people are calling the new "Prison Industrial Complex", where private corporations are making profits from imprisoning citizens and non-citizens. The GEO Group has facilities world-wide including Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Here is alink to a list of their facilities http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/global.asp

The following article Home-Grown Gitmo By William Fisher at Truthout.org http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020907K.shtml
details the origins of this company and others like it and how they profit from the suffering of the detaineeds and exploit their labor to keep the cost of opoerations abnormally low resulting it profits for it's investors and shareholders. It also documnents the numerous allegations of torture, beatings, theft and sexual abuse of detainees by guards.

In the second part of today's show we go to the Port of Tacoma to witness the growing protest of the Stryker Brigades being loaded onto ships for deploymnent to Iraq as part of the Bush Administrations troop surge.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

February 22nd Edition of SJTV

On today's episode of Social Justice Television we will hear Democracy Now's Amy Goodman speak about the importance of an Independent Media and other stories when she addressed the crowd at Seattle Town Hall last September 2006.

For more information about Democracy Now visit www.democracynow.org

Monday, February 12, 2007

February 15th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks Edition of Social Justice Television we will be covering the Topic of the Patriot Act and Security in post 911 Amerika.
We will start the show with a brief video clip from "Beyond the Patriot Act" a video documentary produced by the ACLU. You can get their entire series at www.aclu.tv

http://www.aclu.tv/producersclub

We will also hear a lecture from renowned security expert Bruce Schneier as he talks about getting Beyond Fear and thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world. You can also check out his book of the same title "Beyond Fear".
http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html

Wrapping things up we will see a video clip from Unconstitutional - The War on Civil Liberties. A documentary by Robert Greenwald also available at www.unconstitutionalthemovie.org

February 8th Edition of SJTV

This Edition of Social Justice Television was produced by SJTV producer Lynnda Solfield, who journeyed down to Northern California to speak with renowned Peace Activist, Vietnam Veteran and author Brian Willson

Brian Willson has written extensively on Challenging Patriotism, Root Causes of War, Non-Violent Alternatives. You can read all his essays at http://www.brianwillson.com/

February 1st Edition of SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we start with testimony from Marine Corporal Cloy Richards as he describes his participation in the taking of Fallujah and the thoughts of suicide that now haunt for the things he has seen and done in service of his country in the U.S. War on Terror.

Our feature is a documentary named Shock and Awe Produced by Sean Logan and Sam Seedorf, who visited Iraq with the Human Shields Project two weeks before U. S Forces invaded Iraq in March 2003. This is an eye opening and touching glimpse into the lives of ordinary Iraqis and what conditions were like before the War began.

Monday, January 22, 2007

January 25th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks Edition of Social Justice we will be showing the documentary Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.

Made in the year 2000 and taking two years of investigation, this film by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy brings answers to questions not only about The Gulf War I in 1991 but also the history of Western involvement and influence in the Middle East that continues right up until today.

You cannot truly understand the conflict in the Middle East and the current Iraq War without going back to 1921 and the beginning of the quest for oil in that region and how World War I and II affected the regional dynamics as former colonial powers struggle to maintain their grip on colonized. This documentary manages to explains all this in one feld masterful swoop.

Check out the website
http://www.hiddenwars.com/

Monday, January 15, 2007

January 18TH EDITION OF SJTV

On this edition of SJTV we will be hearing from "Courageous Resisters" to the Iraq War.

First up will be Corporal Grant Collins (IVAW) giving very moving testimony of his units involvement in the taking of Fallujah.

Then we will hear from Aidan Delgado about the time he spent in Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib Prison and the things he witnessed.

We'll also hear from Lt. Ehren Watda who is the first officer to refuse deployment to Iraq on the grounds that the War is illegal. This is an interview we had with Lt. Watada in early Spring of 2006 right after he announced his intentions to refuse to deploy. For the latest info on his case go to www.thankyoult.org

We also have a special report from SJTV Producer Lynnda Solfield on the Troop Surge Protests last week by Seattle World Can't Wait Drive Out The Bush Regime in response to Bush announcing the deployment of 21,500 for troops to Iraq. For more info and to read the call you can go to http://www.worldcantwait.org/

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

January 11th Edition of SJTV

Social Justice Television is back for the 2007 Season and we are currently working on some very exciting video projects.

On this weeks Edition of Social Justice Television we will be covering the Topic of the Patriot Act and Security in post 911 Amerika.
We will start the show with a brief video clip from "Beyond the Patriot Act" a video documentary produced by the ACLU. You can get their entire series at www.aclu.tv

http://www.aclu.tv/producersclub?PHPSESSID=c5f1917eaf75d52e3e636c2f2276e54f

We will also hear a lecture from renowned security expert Bruce Schneier as he talks about getting Beyond Fear and thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world. You can also check out his book of the same title "Beyond Fear".
http://www.schneier.com/book-beyondfear.html

Wrapping things up we will see a video clip from Unconstitutional - The War on Civil Liberties. A documentary by Robert Greenwald also available at www.unconstitutionalthemovie.org

Monday, December 04, 2006

November 30th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks edition of SJTV we will be rep;aying two interviews we had last year with the Reverend Rich Lang of Trinity United Methodist Church www.tumseattle.org on the subject of Christian Fascism. Rev. Lan has written a booklet and is currentlky working on a book on the Rise of Chrsitian Fascism.

Other good resoiurces on the subject are "With God on Their Side" by Ester Kaplan which documents the entry of Christian Fundamentalism into the modern era of politics.

Lawrence Britts The 14 Characteristics of Fascism
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Monday, October 23, 2006

October 26th, 2006 Edition OF SJTV

On this edition of Social Justice Television we will be speaking with Green Party Senatorial Candidate Aaron Dixon discussing his views on Election Finance Reform, Third Party Politics and his 30 year career as an activist for Social Justice. http://www.dixon4senate.com/

We will also discuss his arrest at King 5 Studios and why he was excluded from the King 5 Televised Candidates Debate. You can read more about it at the following links

WA Green Party Candidate Arrested at KING 5
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/255549.shtml

Aaron Dixon and the Politics of Debate Exclusion
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/255559.shtml

Arrested Democracy: Trying to Ignore Aaron Dixon
http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/255560.shtml


According to FCC regululations TV Stations are required to provided equal access to Political candidates in debates and to provide public with content that serves the "public interest".

According to Aaron Dixon Campaign Manager Jesse Hagopian, Aaron Dixon was excluded from the debates strictly on the basis of him not meeting the financial requirement of having 1 million dollars in his campaign fund despite the fact that has actually rasied more money that the libertarian candidate and polled higher BEFORE that candidate lent himself One Million dollars to be included in the debates.

If you are outraged by this you can contact King 5 Studios at :

Mailing Address
KING 5 Television
333 Dexter Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98109

Phone: 206-448-5555


or call their corporate offices and speak to CONTACT: Carey Hendrickson, vice president-Investor Relations & Corporate
Communications of Belo Corp., +1-214-977-6626

http://www.belo.com/

King 5 's Broadcast License is up for renewal Februaruy 1, 2007 and based upon this incident the license should be challenged. You can get info about filing an FCC complaint at the following links ...

Free Press - Challenging a License

http://freepress.net/content/license_challenge

Welcome to the FCC License Challenge Database.

Enter a City and State and click the 'Submit Query' button to see which broadcasters in your area may be up for license renewal soon.

http://vilimpoc.org/research/fcc-challenge


FCC DBase - Broadcast License Renewal Filing & Expiration Dates

http://www.fcc.gov/localism/renewals.html



You can also contact the FCC to file a complaint against King5 for violating a candidates "political speech" equal access right.
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/policy/political/

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/2007/25/701/

Thursday, October 19, 2006

October 19th, 2006 Edition of SJTV

On todays Episode of SJTV we will hear from investigative reporter Greg Palast on Iraq, Voter Fraud and Blood For Oil and how the vote was not only stolen in 2004 but how the Republican party plans to steal more votes in the 2008 elections.

We will also see a video clip of a Security Demonstration conducted by Princeton University showing how Diebold Eletronic voting machines currently in use in most parts of the country can be hacked and infected with software that is designed to steal votes.

Before that we will start out with a video from Hip Hop Artist Talam Acey called True Lies!
http://gnn.tv/videos/52/True_Lies

A taste of the upcoming GNN doc, American Blackout
If GNN produced 60 Minutes, Taalam Acey would be our Andy Rooney.
A true guerrilla collaboration to give audiences a taste of what to expect from the soon to be released documentary, American Blackout directed by GNN’s Ian Inaba. Set to premiere at Sundance 2006 the feature length film follows the career of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and investigates the current tactics used to control our democratic process and silence political dissent. This piece originally inspired by the book of the same name, features Taalam Acey’s ever potent prose deftly matched by the animation of Haik Hoisington and scored to the music of another GNN ally, The Soulsavers.

Recommended Dosage: 3-4 views as needed. Best results if taken 30 minutes prior to television consumption.

CreditsPoem: Taalam Acey Animation: Haik Hoisington Music: The Soulsavers Editing: Ian Inaba Compositing: Anson Vogt Directed by: Ian Inaba and Anson Vogt

October 12th, 2006 Edition of SJTV

On This weeks episode we document the local World Can't Wait Protest at Seattle's Cal Anderson Park which was part of a larger nationwide series of protests that occured in over 235 cities. http://www.worldcantwait.net/

SJTV was on the scene when Seattle Police instigated an incident with a group of self described anarchists youth. The Police claim they had intercepted intelligence on Seattle indymedia that indicated the "anarchists" were going to use a flag to spark a violent incident. None of this has been substantiaed with any tangile evidence and it is oiur contention that was an an attempt by the local authorities to try and shut down the Rally and Free speech. Three people were arrested and are currently facing charges. The Rally did continue and the protest proceeded to the Federal Building in Downtown Seattle.

Portlands Indy media also reported a similar but much more serious incident of Police attacking the peaceful protesters. See those story links below

O5: World Still Waiting
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/347085.shtml

October 5th, the pig riot
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/347079.shtml

Monday, October 02, 2006

October 5th , 2006 Edition of SJTV

On this weeks edition of SJTV will be airing a speech by Carl Mayer, renowned corporate civil rights lawyer, author, activist, and former campaign manager for Ralph Nader as he speaks about ending corporate rule over democracy.

The speaking event was hosted by Revernd Rich Lang of Trinity United Church in Ballard Trinity United Church, 6512 23rd Ave. N.W., 206-368-9090 www.tumseattle.org and sponsored by Alliance ForDemocracy www.sounddemocracy.org. THE ALLIANCE is part of a new non-partisan Populist movement --- not a political party --- setting forth to end the domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment by large corporations.

The Producers of SJTV encourage you to invesigate and research the issues of corporate personhood and become involed in the fight to take back our country from corporate domination and corruption of our political process and values.

check out David Korten's - When Corporations Rule The World
http://www.pcdf.org/corprule/corporat.htm

PEOPLE OVER PROFIT!!!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Sept 28th, 2006 - 911 Truth

On tonights show we will be airing "911 Truth" as presented by Webster Tarpely, author of "Synthetic Terror" www.tarpley.net/

We taped Webster Tarpley's lecture at the University of Washington HUB Auditorium building during his last visist to Seattle in March of 2006. Tarpely breaks down the various theories of 911 from LIPHOP (Let It Happen on Purpose ) to MIHOP (Made It Happen on Purpose) as well as the players, dupes, patsies and agents. He reveals astonishing information not known to many about how September 11th, 2001 was the "Day of Drills" in which the U.S. Governmnent conducted dozens of drills that paralelled and the events of that fateful day.

He offers up credible documentation and information during the presentation and in his book and in the end challenges you the viewer to take his information and investigate it for yourself.

He also believes that the truth about what happened on September 11th is the single most important issue today that can unify the polarized masses on both the left and right of the political spectrum because 911 Truth is a ground where we can all meet in search of answers and the truth and perhaps realize we have all been duped by our government but also that we have far more in common than we realize.

Monday, September 18, 2006

September 21st Edition of SJTV will Feature Arundhati Roy

In this upcoming edition of SJTV we will be featuring the historical speech given by Arundhati Roy at Riverside Church in Harlem , NY in May 2003. Video Provided Courtesy of Democracynow.org.

The title of the speech is "Instant Mix Imperial Democracy- Buy One Get One Free" and is as inspirational and relevant now as it was back in 2003. Also included is a brief conversation between Arundhati Roy and famed author and historian Howard Zinn.

September 14th Starts the New Season of Social Justice Television

Social Justice Television is back after Summer Break with a new season of News, Information and Stories. Our new timeslot is Thursday 10-11 p.m on SCANTV Channel 77/29 and streaming live @ www.scantv.org.

We kicked off the new season with a video compilation speakers forum starting off with Marine Corporal Grant Collins giving very moving testimony about his time in Iraq and why he feels it is now his duty to speak out against the War in Iraq. This video segment also available at Truthout.org

Next we hear from former Weapons Insoector Scott Riiter at his last speech at Town Hall Seattle.
Then wrapping things up we hear from Bush Crimes Commission Members retired Colonel Anne Wright and Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power and Empire.

As soon as the SCAN Studios are fully renovated we will resume production of our featured activist spotlight where we interview local activists about issues important to the community.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

June 30th Edition of SJTV

On this weeks edition of Social Justice Televsion we will be broadcasting the full interview we recently had with Lt. Ehran Watada in Seattle followed by a brief talk with his father Bob Watada. Before that we will give a few moments of the show to a talk with independent Congressional Candidate Jed Whittaker in Olympia, Washington.

Lt. Watada has publicly stated his belief that the Iraq war is illegal based on US and international law, and that he has an obligation to his unit and his country to refuse to participate. He is currently confined to base and awaits the Army's action as to his fate.

Now is the time to give him and all other Courageous resisters your support. Here is a link to information about other resisters.

http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,17/Itemid,31/

For information about Lt. Ehran Watada
Go to http://www.thankyoult.org/ for more details and an updated list of cities holding support activities.