MEDIA ROOTS — When you’re Julian Assange, you just can’t do right. The USA’s establishment has got it in for him now. Doubtless, they’d like to grab him like Bradley Manning. Assange says he’ll be called a traitor for interviewing radicals. Journalist Glenn Greenwald says the attacks on Assange and RT reveal as much about the critics: “The real cause … Read More
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MR Journalist Jailed For Videotaping Park Police
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MEDIA ROOTS — Independent journalists have a passion to get information out to individuals who might not otherwise receive it and most often require supplementary sources of income to survive. Here at Media Roots, life’s no different. My second line of work is operating a pedicab, a three-wheeler that helps shuttle tourists to various monuments, memorials, and museums in the … Read More
ACLU: Warrantless Police Tracking of Cell Phones
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MEDIA ROOTS — From warrantless wiretapping to SMART meter invasion of privacy, it seems everywhere we turn we are allowing erosion of our rights to privacy. Meanwhile, the state wants it both ways, as it’s pushed to stifle police transparency by outlawing videotaping of on-duty cops in some states. Legal scholar and professor Jonathan Turley, has noted the absurdity of … Read More
Do You Make Political Films? You Might Be a Terrorist
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MEDIA ROOTS — Many well educated and politically aware people in the United States would like to believe that the so-called ‘War On Terror,’ a false war against a tactic, will have no effect on their personal lives. As long as it’s not affecting you, it’s not a problem, right? Well, the problem is that many people who have chosen to … Read More
Media Roots TV – DEA & IRS Raid on Oakland Pot Clinic
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MEDIA ROOTS – The IRS and DEA came to downtown Oakland this afternoon to aggressively raid multiple medical marijuana dispensaries as well as Oaksterdam, an educational facility that teaches plant cultivation to medical marijuana patients.Robbie Martin of Media Roots ran to catch the raid and captured an intense standoff between the people and the federal officials. He also confronts an ABC … Read More