Media Roots Radio – Live From Occupy Oakland General Strike 11-2-11 by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS- Abby and Robbie Martin broadcast a live episode of Media Roots Radio at the center of Occupy Oakland’s historic general strike from Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland on . They discuss the police brutality that occurred last week during the initial raid of … Read More
Media Roots Radio – Occupy Wall Street, Medical Marijuana by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS- Abby & Robbie Martin cover the Occupy Wall Street movement: Bay Area activism compared to other cities nationwide, the divide and conquer tactics being used to discredit OWS, the different schools of thought and ideology within the movement and the original demands made by the US … Read More
Media Roots Radio – Interview with Former Senator Mike Gravel by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS- Mike Gravel is a former US Senator and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election. As Senator, Gravel became nationally known for his attempts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971. … Read More
Media Roots Radio – Trevor Paglen Interview by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS- Trevor Paglen’s work deliberately blurs the lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at several art museums worldwide and his writing and art have been … Read More
Interview With Josh Wolf by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS – Josh Wolf is an American journalist and filmmaker who served 226 days in prison for refusing to turn over a collection of video tapes he recorded during a 2005 demonstration. Wolf recently graduated from Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he made the film Police Tape for his thesis project. … Read More
