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The woman who say May 5th was mistaken.  It was April 5th

The United Mine Workers of America, AFL-CIO and random environmental groups protest outside the Massey Energy shareholders meeting May 18th 2010.

Features Cecile Roberts president of the UMWA, Kevin Zeese of the Prosperity Agenda and random pissed off miners demanding justice by various means of punishment for Don Blankenship and the Massey Energy board of directors.

http://umwa.org
http://ProsecuteMassey.org

According to the Associated Press, the FBI is currently investigating Massey Energy for criminal negligence and its role in the death of 29 miners at the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in Raleigh County, W.Va.  Mountain Justice is calling for decision-makers of Massey Energy to be held accountable for their actions which caused the fatal disaster. Similar in sentiment, shareholders of Massey Energy have called for the immediate resignation of Don Blankenship after the Upper Big Branch disaster, calling the distaster a "tragic consequence of the board's failure to challenge Blankenship's confrontational approach to regulatory compliance.
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In this first of its kind “dramatic-documentary-musical,” essayist Lewis Lapham and an all-star cast (including Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Altman, James Baker and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.) take two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. This “astonishing”, “coruscating” satire poses the question:  Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?

Appearing on the screen are a range of leaders and commentators from across the political spectrum, among them: the late Robert B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara Ehrenreich, Vartan Gregorian, Doug Henwood, Mike Medavoy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., John Perkins, (a.k.a., the economic hit-man) Samuel Peabody, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV, the late Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Zinn.

The June 2009 Indymedia Newsreal is complete and on its way to airing on Free Speech TV next month. Below is the runsheet. Program is downloadable here:
http://political.detritus.net/vid/newsreal/june2009-IndyNewsreal.mp4

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We really need more submissions and are in danger of needing to put the project into hibernation once again. Please spread the word! Refer potential new contributors to
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6 Years of Saying No To War
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
www.gjredpill.org
Protesting the Iraq war this year in Grand Junction, Colorado.

First 100 Days Rally
Producer: Steev Hise
www.newsontheline.tv
On President Obama's second day in office, community members and
activists in Tucson gathered at the federal building to state their rights and needs.

Raging Grannies Sing of Water and Garbage
Producer: Elfie and Maia Ballis
SunMt.org
A little song about private property and public good.

Mobile News Corpses
Producer: Flux Rostrum
www.mobilebroadcastnews.org
The saga of police oppression of journalists at the 2008 RNC.

Crashing the Taste of Vail
Producer: Jacob Carpenter
www.gjredpill.org
Activists in Vail, Colorado inform consumers of lamb about the unfair labor practices involved with bringing them their delicious meat.

Related Links ::: Journeyman Pictures, Chinese Olympics

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Working 115 hours a week, earning under $4 dollars an hour, in New York City, where minimum wage is $7.15 and a studio apartment may cost $900 a month or more; three Latino employees at HWH Trading Company decided to unionize and join the Industrial Workers of the World in order to demand fair conditions.

July 1st Brooklyn, NY ~ Pay attention when the guy who claims NOT to be the owner says '"I" pay them 2,000 a week!'. Marcos uncovers several layers of deceit and a beautiful no compromise protest.

Related Links ::: cinecantina, IWW

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It has been a wild couple of weeks as the release of the Wal-Mart film gets closer, and Wal-Mart gets angrier.

They've touched a nerve in Bentonville with the release of an extended video of former Wal-Mart manager Weldon Nicholson, just one of the stories they tell in the film. A manager for 17 years, he confesses deeply personal stories about his crisis of conscience, how it was to see workers who couldn't afford to eat, marking family businesses for destruction, and bribing local officals.
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Filmed at, and prior to, the BioTech 2005 Counter Conference in Philadelphia between June 14th -21st; this video Features Fabricio Rodriguez (Jobs With Justice), Jeff Brooks (President; TWU #234), Pedro Rodriguez (Action Alliance for Senior Citizens) and Adam Tsai, MD (Physicians for a Natonal Healthcare Program).

The corporations recognize that paying for healthcare in an environment that is geared solely to profiting from sick people will bankrupt them sending all of your and their money to the Pharmaceutical companies. So, of course they don't want to be responsible for paying for the healthcare of their employees. That's why everytime a major labor contract comes up for negotiations the companies have been taking the offensive by demanding unions to accept LESS healthcare benefits. The best solution for both would be Universal Healthcare but that requires employers and heathcare recipients to take on the Pharmaceutical Lobby ...

Related Links ::: Jobs With Justice, Transit Workers Union #234, Action Alliance of Senior Citizens, Hep C Solutions, Physicians for a National Health Program, Kucinich's Universal Healthcare Plan

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