The Rise Up! Network

I'm in TIME! Originally uploaded by Insurgent. Laura Locke recently interviewed me about Current for TIME. I picked up a copy recently and find the article to be quite balanced and reveals how Al Gore's station's success is pending on carriage through Rupert Murdoch's Direct TV. Well done Laura!And although Current promised to hire hundreds of digital correspondents, contributors must now sign on as free-lancers, who get neither salary nor benefits. In frustration with Current's tight controls, Josh Wolf, 23, a filmmaker and volunteer organizer for Current's San Francisco "meet-up group," at which digital artists view and critique one another's videos, launched his own alternative to Current. Called the Rise Up Network, the collective of video makers is creating a website on which anyone can feature his or her own videos. "A lot of people feel disaffected," he says. Technorati tag: Current TV

Daffodils trailer Watch the video

Anarchist trailer Watch the video

Sierra At Large: episode 1: Jack London Watch the video

Sierra At Large: episode 2: Anarchist on the Run Watch the video

Sierra At Large: pilot episode Watch the video This video has been controversial in its depiction of the female form as something resembling life and death or an object of eviseration. The narrative itself has been suggested as the patriarchal form of control over female sexuality. ?? An alternate edit of this video was made by Josh Wolf and is available to view on his site: The Revolution Will be Televised. One contributor had commented that a version of this video had really been about the violent rape and the desecration of a woman and described it in such visceral detail that had lead to the censorship of the commentator. ?? This is the ending sequence of the pilot episode of Sierra At Large, produced in association with the Rise Up Network and PCTV.???? ?? The original script entailed the scene to be representative of a sculptor in relation to the inspiration of his object of creation, the molding of clay as a metaphor for the female form.?? ??

Anarchist On The Run Watch the video Josh Wolf, the San Francisco filmmaker This is the introduction sequence to the second episode of Sierra At Large, produced in association with the RiseUp Network PCTV.

Quicktime 29.1 MB 4'55" Rally to protest the logging of ancient redwoods in Nanning Creek Grove by the Maxxam Corporation & Pacific Lumber Co. - A follow up to the previous post about the largest treesit ever. Time is critical.

Sierra At Large: pilot episode Watch the video This video has caused a lot of controversy, especially in its depiction of the female form as something resembling life and death or an object of eviseration. The narrative itself has been suggested as the patriarchal form of control over female sexuality.   One contributor had commented that a version of this video had really been about the violent rape and the desecration of a woman and described it in such visceral detail that it had been edited out of a href='http:///www.joshwolf.net" Josh Wolf's vlog site.   This is the ending sequence of the pilot episode of Sierra At Large, produced in association with the Rise Up Network and PCTV.     The original script entailed the scene to be representative of a sculptor in relation to the inspiration of his object of creation, the molding of clay as a metaphor for the female form.   

Anarchist On The Run Watch the video Josh Wolf, the San Francisco filmmaker This is the introduction sequence to the second episode of a href= http://www.sierraatlarge.com Sierra At Large /a , produced in association with the RiseUp Network PCTV.

Quicktime 29.1 MB 4'55" Rally to protest the logging of ancient redwoods in Nanning Creek Grove by the Maxxam Corporation & Pacific Lumber Co. - A follow up to the previous post about the largest treesit ever. Time is critical.

Quicktime 29.1 MB 4'55" Rally to protest the logging of ancient redwoods in Nanning Creek Grove by the Maxxam Corporation & Pacific Lumber Co. - A follow up to the previous post about the largest treesit ever. Time is critical.

Watch Movie! Go To web Site! We Save Trees activists have risen up again! A treesit has been set up in a massive tree in the Bonanza THP near Scotia! In the middle of the night, friendly climbers scaled the Gigantic tree, and set ropes and living quarters, in order to occupy the tree so it wont be cut. This area is adjacent to an older treesit village in a virgin redwood grove, that was clearcut in late 2002. The area is inhabitted by endangered seabirds called Marbled Murrelets. The logging plan, called ???Bonanza???,is 249 acres. 192 acres are occupied stands for the murrelet.The Bonanza harvest plan contains the largest unprotected, contiguous, occupied marbled murrelet stand left on Maxxam/PL's land. We Save Trees desperately needs your help to protect this ancient tree and the surrounding oldgrowth forest! Call us if you can Help! Phone Number is in the movie! And Please, Tell your friends, and/or send out an email to folks you know, with the link to the movie. Thank You! May the Forest Be With You! Updates on www.wesavetrees.org

Critical Mass 13 Originally uploaded by renegade. For a Lucky 13 years Critical Mass has been riding strong and spreading "Whose Streets? Our Streets!" across the globe every last friday of the month. CM is a combination celebration and protest, promoting an affordable, eco-friendly means of transportation and enjoyment. Unfortunately, NYC Critical Mass has suffered intense static from the NYPD since the RNC, resulting in mass arrests and harrassment during rides and confiscation of bicycles. Find out how you can help defend cyclists rights at Times-Up!

Watch Movie! Go To web Site! We Save Trees activists have risen up again! A treesit has been set up in a massive tree in the Bonanza THP near Scotia! In the middle of the night, friendly climbers scaled the Gigantic tree, and set ropes and living quarters, in order to occupy the tree so it wont be cut. This area is adjacent to an older treesit village in a virgin redwood grove, that was clearcut in late 2002. The area is inhabitted by endangered seabirds called Marbled Murrelets. The logging plan, called “Bonanza”,is 249 acres. 192 acres are occupied stands for the murrelet.The Bonanza harvest plan contains the largest unprotected, contiguous, occupied marbled murrelet stand left on Maxxam/PL's land. We Save Trees desperately needs your help to protect this ancient tree and the surrounding oldgrowth forest! Call us if you can Help! Phone Number is in the movie! And Please, Tell your friends, and/or send out an email to folks you know, with the link to the movie. Thank You! May the Forest Be With You! Updates on www.wesavetrees.org

Watch Movie! Go To web Site! We Save Trees activists have risen up again! A treesit has been set up in a massive tree in the Bonanza THP near Scotia! In the middle of the night, friendly climbers scaled the Gigantic tree, and set ropes and living quarters, in order to occupy the tree so it wont be cut. This area is adjacent to an older treesit village in a virgin redwood grove, that was clearcut in late 2002. The area is inhabitted by endangered seabirds called Marbled Murrelets. The logging plan, called “Bonanza”,is 249 acres. 192 acres are occupied stands for the murrelet.The Bonanza harvest plan contains the largest unprotected, contiguous, occupied marbled murrelet stand left on Maxxam/PL's land. We Save Trees desperately needs your help to protect this ancient tree and the surrounding oldgrowth forest! Call us if you can Help! Phone Number is in the movie! And Please, Tell your friends, and/or send out an email to folks you know, with the link to the movie. Thank You! May the Forest Be With You! Updates on www.wesavetrees.org

n n Critical Mass 13 Originally uploaded by renegade. nFor a Lucky 13 years nCritical Massn has been riding strong and spreading "Whose Streets? Our Streets!" across the globe every last friday of the month. CM is a combination celebration and protest, promoting an affordable, eco-friendly means of transportation and enjoyment. Unfortunately, nNYC Critical Massn has suffered intense static from the NYPD since the RNC, resulting in mass arrests and harrassment during rides and confiscation of bicycles. Find out how you can help defend cyclists rights at nTimes-Up!nn

Critical Mass 13 Originally uploaded by renegade. For a Lucky 13 years Critical Mass has been riding strong and spreading "Whose Streets? Our Streets!" across the globe every last friday of the month. CM is a combination celebration and protest, promoting an affordable, eco-friendly means of transportation and enjoyment. Unfortunately, NYC Critical Mass has suffered intense static from the NYPD since the RNC, resulting in mass arrests and harrassment during rides and confiscation of bicycles. Find out how you can help defend cyclists rights at Times-Up!

Social Strike Originally uploaded by Insurgent. From the Social Strike website: It's on! From September 1 onward, MUNI riders and drivers are engaging in a social strike. Riders won't pay, and drivers won't collect, until ALL fare hikes, service cuts, and layoffs are reversed. This will last, and it will grow as long as it lasts, until our demands are met: the fare is reduced back to $1.25, all service cuts are reversed, and drivers who were laid off are rehired.A quick guide to the fare strike can be found here. Please explore our website to get more information and to learn how to get involved in spreading the strike.

Social Strike Originally uploaded by Insurgent. From the Social Strike website: It's on! From September 1 onward, MUNI riders and drivers are engaging in a social strike. Riders won't pay, and drivers won't collect, until ALL fare hikes, service cuts, and layoffs are reversed. This will last, and it will grow as long as it lasts, until our demands are met: the fare is reduced back to $1.25, all service cuts are reversed, and drivers who were laid off are rehired.A quick guide to the fare strike can be found here. Please explore our website to get more information and to learn how to get involved in spreading the strike.

Social Strike Originally uploaded by Insurgent. From the Social Strike website: It's on! From September 1 onward, MUNI riders and drivers are engaging in a social strike. Riders won't pay, and drivers won't collect, until ALL fare hikes, service cuts, and layoffs are reversed. This will last, and it will grow as long as it lasts, until our demands are met: the fare is reduced back to $1.25, all service cuts are reversed, and drivers who were laid off are rehired.A quick guide to the fare strike can be found here. Please explore our website to get more information and to learn how to get involved in spreading the strike.

March 19th 2005 Originally uploaded by Insurgent. To commemerate the second anniversary of the Iraq war, San Francisco came out into the streets to express it's discontent with the present political system. Here's my first-hand take of the events. This video is a little long at just under 15 minutes, but I didn't want to cut anymore out. I'll be making a full-screen H.264 version of this video available tomorrow.

QT 48.7 MB 4'29 Meet some folks from the Berkeley Biodiesel Collective and their cars that run on veggie fuel. Biodiesel DIY: Novella Carpenter of Biofuels Oasis talks about the process of making biodiesel. original post

In Defense of the Forest The Big Ones Humboldt County, CA The last remaining privately owned Oldgrowth Redwood forests are being destroyed by greedy Industrial Timber Corporations. Rampant clearcutting and steep slope logging have taken an extremely heavy toll on the steep slopes of the North Coast, yet the cutting continues. When will this disregard for our environment and essentially ourselves continue. Without healthy forests, we cannot have a healthy world, and therefore caonnot live on it indefinately. We must Rise Up, and take the forest back, in solidarity with Forest Defenders worldwide and take back what is Most important to us, the Land. Humboldt Forest Defenders needs more Hardcore Forest Defenders to take up their positions in the Ancient Forest Canopy. The Pacific Lumber Company, has filed plans to log some 65 acres of Oldgrowth Redwoods, directy adjacent to both U.S. Highway 101, and Humboldt Redwoods State Park. The Timber Harvest Plan (THP) is just South of Bear Creek, on the West side of the freeway, near the small towns of Redcrest and Shively. Many people assume it is part of the Avenue of the Giants, because of the massive size and heigth of the trees! The area is home to endangered epecies, including the Marbled Murrlet, a tiny rare seabird, and the Spotted Owl. Excessive logging has been a major factor in the decline of these species. Please contact We Save Trees to learn more about Ancient Forest Destruction, and what you can do to stop it! May the Forest Be With You! www.wesavetrees.org

March 18-20: The World Says End the War! It'll be the 2-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq. Here we go again... in the streets until they bring the troops home! Rise Up Network will be out documenting the M19 demo. Bring your camera and join us!

January 20th, 2005 Originally uploaded by blackcatmedia. Warning: This video is pretty big -- ~150MBs and it's pretty long (over 15 minutes), but I'd like to think it's worth it. This video is an attempt at creating a first person account of a recent San Francisco protest. The footage was shot on January 20th, the date of Bush's innauguration and captures this cities discontent with the current state of American politics.

Click here to view 5 1/4 is a film that I made with a great group of friends for the 48 Hour Film Project 2003. We randomly chose "mocumentary" as our genre. Additionally, everyone in the contest had to use a brick as a prop, the character Jordan Mooney, and the line of dialog, "Excuse me, I think I love you." We won the audience award, best script, and best use of the prop.

Renegade Bike Ride...Guerrilla video on wheels.

Old Glory on Fire Originally uploaded by blackcatmedia. This is a piece I put together to send off to INdTV -- after seeing their choice of topics -- knowing I had the footage already, I just couldn't resist. The arrangement is by G.W.E. Freiderick (1854) and was located on the 1st Brigade Band website. The footage was shot on January 20th on the outside edge of Justin Herman Plaza. INdTV's prompt was as follows: Star-Spangled Banner It was an old broadcasting tradition to run the Star-Spangled Banner at the beginning and end of every broadcast day. Create a music video set to your favorite version that reflects your American experience.

n n March 19th 2005 Originally uploaded by Insurgent. nTo commemerate the second anniversary of the Iraq war, San Francisco came out into the streets to express it's discontent with the present political system. Here's my first-hand take of the events.nThis video is a little long at just under 15 minutes, but I didn't want to cut anymore out. I'll be making a full-screen H.264 version of this video available tomorrow.