Joe La Sac in conjunction with Pepperspray Production and Seattle Independent Media will be showing “Ground Noise and Static” in the University of Puget Sound’s Rotunda at 7pm on November 3rd.  The film chronicles the experiences of demonstrators at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions and their clashes with police.  A discussion is planned for after the showing. Here’s Joe’s detail for the film:

Our goal at the DNC and RNC conventions was to cover what was happening in the streets, not to obtain passes for the scripted and superficial showcases going on inside the armored fortresses. This included a 10 to 15 minute daily video dispatch as well as blogs from each convention. The daily video dispatches are viewable online and were also aired on cable television via Free Speech TV.

If you can’t make the showing, be sure to watch the film here. It discusses use of excessive police force and other law-bending actions at the DNC/RNC that ARE NOT being covered by the mainstream media.

Our goal at the DNC and RNC conventions was to cover what was happening in the streets, not to obtain passes for the scripted and superficial showcases going on inside the armored fortresses. This included a 10 to 15 minute daily video dispatch as well as blogs from each convention. The daily video dispatches are viewable online and were also aired on cable television via Free Speech TV.

Ground Noise and Static was a week-long editing effort between several members of PepperSpray Productions and was directed by Franklin Lopez from subMedia.

This documentary will be shown at UPS, WWU, TESC, and possible UW in the next couple of weeks. I will keep you updated on that.

(DON’T FORGET TO REFRESH FOR UPDATES.)

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This Thursday, for the first time in the history of the universe, The Melon’s Electric Elliot will be live-blogging the Vice-Presidential debate. Who’s winning? Who’s losing? Can one really win a lose a debate with this magnitude of pandering? One thing is for sure, with Electric Elliot at the helm (yes, I’m speaking in 3rd person) everyone will be burned.

Join me at 6pm PST and for an hour and a half of pure verbal murder on these Veep hopefuls. Who came up with Veep anyway? Isn’t VP abbreviated enough? F*cking media idiots!

Civil libertarian Chuck Samuelson, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, talks about the history and causes of Republican and Democrat convention “federalization”. The UPTAKE is an independent media laboratory, and one of the places where myself and others had used for creating our own content.

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This is our final dispatch at the Democratic National Convention. The resistance will be taking its message next week to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

PART 1

PART 2

The mood at the DNC protest has turned around completely from what it felt like the entire week.

At 11:00 AM this morning I received a text message from Olympia activists that the Convergence Center (where Recreate ’68 and Unconventional Denver plan their actions) was being raided by riot police. Three people were arrested, one from the Tacoma Pitchpipe Infoshop, and the police confiscated painting supplies and banner material. It was a very low blow to the resistance here in Denver. Riot police surrounded the building, but failed to eventually come up with a warrant that would allow them to raid the building and make mass arrests.

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Second day at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

This is our first episode of coverage while at the Democratic National Convention. It takes a lot of work to get a show like this lined up. Now we are completely tired out, I am totally sun-burned. Until tomorrow!