MEDIA ROOTS — Abby and Robbie Martin grew up in Pleasanton, CA, a city located ten miles from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a secret nuclear weapons production facility. They initially set out to explore the psychological impacts of taking nuclear testing into virtual space. But as their investigation unfolded, they found that the LLNL—in conjunction with Site 300—has … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Judi Bari was an activist, a person of conscience, who exercised her First Amendment rights toward socioeconomic justice for much of her life. She was one of the leading organisers to popularise environmental activism with Earth First!, which influenced the environmental activism contributing to the historic 1999 WTO resistance in Seattle, as well as the more recent … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Among the lot of what is being starved under Obama’s junk economics austerity, schools are being underfunded and then attacked for struggling to perform academically. Economic hitmen then move in to push the privatizations and the underlying attacks on labour, particularly since teachers are among the last segments of the workforce that are still organized. MR *** … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — You’ve likely heard of Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran shot in the head by a police tear gas canister at point blank range during the nationwide crackdown on the Occupy Movement. The tragic event transformed him into an international symbol of police brutality, and it continues to be an important story signifying state repression. Yet, you … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – I’m very excited to announce that an extensive lot of our footage from Occupy Oakland is going to be used to represent the S.F. Bay Area in the upcoming 99% Collaborative Film Project! The film is unique in its collaborative fashion and is geared to represent an honest portrayal of the ongoing Occupy Movement. At 2:18, the … Read More
