Video: Seattle’s hidden history of Filipino struggle
On Saturday, the Filipino activist group AnakBayan Seattle will celebrate its tenth anniversary as the first overseas chapter of the democratic youth organization, which is based in the Philippines. But the history of Filipinos fighting…
In which I am pepper sprayed in the face by police at #OccupySeattle
Just a few comments: I don’t think it’s all that productive to curse at the cops. I tried to be an observer – I wasn’t saying anything or holding a sign, and I complied with…
Video: Peasants March Against Monsanto Hybrid Seeds in Haiti
The demonstration took place on Friday (struggled to find a decent Internet connection to get the video online until today). A friend of mine got sick and we had to leave Hinche (in Haiti’s Central…
Video: Rains in Haiti Expected to Double this Month. “Don’t Forget Us Because We’re Suffering.”
This is a short video looking at IDP camps in Cite Soleil, Grand Goave, and Chanmas where people still have almost nonexistent shelter. The UN shelter cluster claims they’ve provided shelter materials to 75% of…
Video: Mistrusting of Their Government and UN, Haitians Place Their Hopes In US Troops, Aristide
Update: Also big thanks to Valparaiso for adding Japanese captions to the YouTube video! Check out his Caracas Cafe blog for continuing independent coverage of Venezuela, Honduras, and Haiti (in Japanese). Finally sorted out some…
Video: The Morning After, Haiti Earthquake Victims Can Only Rely on Each Other
This dispatch begins at 10pm the night of the Tuesday’s earthquake, and resumes the following morning after I caught some sleep in an open bus abandoned in a downtown Port-Au-Prince street. More to come. Update:…
Video: Immediate Aftermath of Earthquake in Jacquet, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
I really wish I could have edited and uploaded this footage sooner. Here it is. The scenes are graphic, shot as soon I left my house in Jacquet, in the 2-30 minutes after the tremors….
Video Retrospective: The Ssangyong Occupation
Click the (HQ) high quality button or view on Youtube. Thanks to Youtube users dc2video, girwainet, and atrhasis, for uploading the footage used in this video. And of course to the journalists in Korea who…
