Citizens Media Resource: January 2016

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Who Will Watch the Watchers? Official Trailer Released Today

As Americans increasingly view police abuses caught on camera -- and after police arrested persons who videoed them in Memphis, Tennessee -- a movement arose to enable citizen oversight of police.

Who Will Watch the Watchers? is an episodic series which examines police and community in U.S. cities. The series begins with episodes which tell a national story -- that we "drill down" in Memphis.

Vimeo (preferred):

Link to the official trailer for Who Will Watch the Watchers? Episode I: "No Justice, No Peace."

YouTube:

Link to trailer on YouTube

Monday, January 18, 2016

'Chinga la Migra!' Die-In MLK Day Memphis

"Chinga la Migra!" die-in on MLK Day at National Civil Rights Museum Jan. 18, 2016, protesting unjust and inhumane I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids in Shelby County, Tennessee.

YouTube Link:

'Chinga la Migra!' Protest at Civil Rights Museum on MLK Day

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Fear-Mongering over Terrorism Fuels Further Beat-Down of Middle Class

Fear mongers are winning the national narrative -- aided by the corporate media -- which plays into right-wing political rhetoric and widens gulf between haves and have-nots. Click to read.

Wish List of Research

1. Who makes money on war? And on military buying, protecting and occupying? Yeah, we already know, but let's audit this with excellent research that lays out who profited and continues to profit from our invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afganistan....or any other military activity and occupations, past or present. We have at least 823 foreign bases that the U.S. admits to; those are paid for by taxpayers, and the military bases are there principally to guard the oil for Exxon-Mobil. I believe we will find that taxpayers spend a huge amount on corporate welfare and subsidies to giant corporations, whose profits obviously are more important than the lives and limbs that are sacrificed in military actions. While we are at it, we should study who makes money from natural disasters, and how they get handed huge government contracts---in a no-bid rush, of course, since it is an emergency. There are capitalistic exploiters who feed off this as an industry; they are just not so long-established as what President Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex."

2. Economic impact of legalizing use and sale of marijuana. There's another economic stimulus and revenue raiser. It would be regulated for safety and legal for individuals and small outfits to grow and sell. With the chance for broad participation, and the exclusion of monopolistic takeover of the market, many Americans would have the opportunity to be entrepreneurs.