Remix Politics

From Dahr Jamail's website www.dahrjamailiraq.com:

Produce a NEWSREAL segment!

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation.

NEWSREAL's goals are to embolden the global movement for social, environmental, and economic justice, strengthen non-corporate communication networks, and to encourage authentic participatory democracy, one community at a time.

Please see submission information below this month's runsheet.

Segments included in this episode:

Baden Gehen Parts 1 & 2
Producer: less than ten minutes TV
www.g8-tv.org

Cesar Turning in His Grave
Producer: George and Maia Ballis
www.sunmt.org

G8 Day of Action for Migration
Producer: Steev Hise
arizona.indymedia.org
kein.tv

Molly's Ghost
Producer: George and Maia Ballis
www.sunmt.org

Resolutionary Television
Producer: Undergrowth Media

Newsreal is looking for current reports of people taking action to achieve progressive social, environmental and economic justice. You can help by covering actions in your home town.

Newsreal is currently in need of edited segments 1 minute to 10 minutes long. If your segment is included on Newsreal, it will be aired over the DISH Network on Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org) and you will receive $50. (You might starve by the time the check arrives from Free Speech TV, but it will indeed show up as a surprise after you have forgotten all about it...make sure to include your Social Security or Tax ID number on the submission form below so you get paid.)

Please visit the URL below for Newsreal submission information:

http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org/produceasegmentfaq.html

If the above URL completely confused you (it is being updated soon), try this:

1) All future producers should sign up with the imc-satellite@indymedia.org list at: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-satellite. This is the main way we all communicate about Newreal. Feel free to ask questions.

When your segment is included in a Newsreal program, the imc-sat. list is where it will show up first...on the newest Newreal runsheet. If your segment isn't included for some reason, no one will tell you. Oh well, there are worse things we can all think of.

2) Print out the submission form below and mail it along with a miniDV of your edited segment to:

indymedia newsreal
attn: steev hise
p.o. box 1105
tucson, az 85702

Newsreal Submission Form:

Segment Title:
Total Running Time:
Preferred Program Month to Run:
Producer/Organization:
Producer Website URL:
Producer Contact Name:
Social Security or Tax ID Number
(this is needed so you get paid):
Producer Contact Email:
Producer Phone Number:
Producer Contact Mailing Address:

Segment synopsis (one sentence describing the issue and action):

And if available also send:
Featured Activist Contact Name:
Featured Activist Contact E-Mail:
Featured Activist Phone Number:
Featured Activist Website URL:

Indymedia Newsreal is a monthly joint project of Free Speech TV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml). It brings stories of progressive grassroots organizing, going on in backyards everywhere, to a national television audience. Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like the war, air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more.

So... find a video camera and some editing equipment, and help local organizers in communities getting hit the hardest make their voices heard!

Sen. John McCain at the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford, in a 3 1/2 minute response to a question from the audience about Saudi Arabia and Pakistan's role in terrorism.

Animated cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Walt Handelsman of Newsday.

MSNBC.com purges Newsweek articles after a short while, so we'll republish this short primer here:

In March Philip de Vellis (a.k.a. ParkRidge47) ushered in an era of voter-generated campaign ads with his Hillary "1984" spot. Want to generate buzz? Andrew Romano asked him for tips:

1. Writing: Keep it under 60 seconds. Make sure your concept is fresh—and resonant. It's often smart to borrow a template from pop culture (I used an old Apple ad). Funny helps.

2. Material: Record TV footage, then transfer it into your computer through digital capture devices ($50 to $200). Try Quicktime Player Pro ($30) to convert Web clips into the proper format.

3. Copyright: Use short clips; refrain from selling them to avoid snafus.

4. Editing: No more VCRs. Rely on iMovie (Mac) or Windows Movie Maker (PC). You can cut and rearrange footage, then add text, sound or additional video layers.

5. Attribution: Cite quotes in small, readable text at the bottom of the screen. If you want to remain anonymous (like I did initially), leave clues in the work to let viewers know whose side you're on.

6. Distribution: Put your video to YouTube (only one version—buzz is based on views), then send it to political sites. Be patient. It can take months to go viral.

Republished from MSNBC.com here.

A campaign speech by Theodore Roosevelt entitled "the right of the people to rule," cautioning against political extremes of the right and left.

The speech can be downloaded here.