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Building Cultural Bridges: Bhutan – Nepal – Portland

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Building Cultural Bridges is the culmination of a year-long community project to make a film about the experience of coming to America. Covering the cultural and spiritual realities of transition through community dialogues, interviews with immigration service stakeholders, teachers and volunteers, the film provides insight into the transition to life in Portland, OR. The film was made by youth from the Bhutanese refugee community, and edited in collaboration with members of B media Collective. While the film is made through the culturally specific lens of South Asian refugee immigrants, the issues raised and advice given is relevant to all newcomers to America.

Below is a video short from one of the media trainings conducted through the course of this project: […]

Flying Focus Video Collective turns 20!

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Portland Oregon’s very own Flying Focus Video Collective has been around for a while –check out some of the original community media makers in town “The Flying Focus Video Collective recently marked its 20th year of producing documentary-style cable television programming about progressive issues and organizations. Core members, including PC Peri and Dan Handelman, have Read more about Flying Focus Video Collective turns 20![…]

Criminales Todos Interviews on ICE

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As Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio comes under increasing scrutiny for numerous suspicious and brutal deaths of inmates in his custody, the culture of racism he has cultivated and his refusal to investigate allegations of rape and abuse, the plight of millions of undocumented workers is still in the lurch. Here is a 11 min piece Read more about Criminales Todos Interviews on ICE[…]

Amateur Riot — The Anti-Nuke Movement in Japan

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An excellent peice from Franklin Lopez. Check out more of his amazing and often incendiary work at www.submedia.tv Dispatch #2 of Stop the Flows focuses on the burgeoning anti-nuke movement in Japan, following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Truth be told I had larger plans for this dispatch. But with time Read more about Amateur Riot — The Anti-Nuke Movement in Japan[…]

Outrage : Eviction at Occupy Wall Street

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Outrage : Eviction at Occupy Wall Street from Phil Airey on Vimeo. An excellent piece by Phil Airey on the events that transpired last week with the brutal eviction of Occupy Wall Street from Zucotti Park. Video demonstrating the suspension of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America in New Read more about Outrage : Eviction at Occupy Wall Street[…]

People Push Police out of Park in Portland

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Here is a short movie from the Oregonian– an example of some of their finer reporting (ie no editorial punditry :). Undoubtedly there will be other videos emerging that capture the feeling of what was an incredible night, but until then, check this out: Here are some live feeds of events as they are unfolding: Read more about People Push Police out of Park in Portland[…]