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    METROPOLIS, ILLINOIS

    METROPOLIS, ILLINOIS

    I first met the Honeywell workers from Metropolis, Illinois in Madison, Wisconsin early this spring, where workers from all over the country gathered to defend collectively bargaining rights.  Until their lockout in June of last summer, these workers ran Honeywell’s uranium conversion plant, the only one of its kind in the country, and they depended [...]

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    INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY

    INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY

    On March 8th women all over the world celebrated International Womens Day.  Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a great grassroots organization based in Harlem hosted an evening at Maysles Cinema at which we celebrated revolutionary women all over the world.  I put together this video for them to conclude the program.  As of March [...]

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    THE HARVEST

    THE HARVEST

    Running time: 6 minutes 26 seconds For tasty food, a healthy planet, and a strong local economy, sustainable food is a win-win-win. In The Harvest, my partner and cinematographer Zac & I visited buckwheat and the Farmer Ground Mill of Ithaca, NY to talk about doing right while eating well. Erick Smith of Cayuga Organics [...]

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    SURVIVING MCCARTHYSIM

    SURVIVING MCCARTHYSIM

    The term “McCarthyism” is tossed around a lot, but Joe McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee had real victims back in the 1950s, and Miriam Moskowitz was one of them. She served two years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice after being investigated along with Harry Gold, whose testimony was later used [...]

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    QUEL SOUVENIR TRAILER

    QUEL SOUVENIR TRAILER

    Running time: 5 minutes In 2000, construction began on a pipeline that stretches a thousand kilometers from Chad’s Doba Basin to the beaches of Cameroon. Funded by oil giants Exxon, Chevron and Petronas, morally insured by the World Bank whose stated purpose is to alleviate poverty, the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline was a beacon of hope [...]

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    JENNIFER BEHR, DESIGNER

    JENNIFER BEHR, DESIGNER

    *Video: jennifer behr, designer Running time: 3 minutes I made this video last fall for the lovely Jennifer Behr, a Brooklyn-based designer of hair accessories.  Even diva Lady Gaga has worn has come to appreciate these exquisite works of art!

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