Antiwar Videos

The students who occupied Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus this Thanksgiving didn't win their demands, but at least they made their opinion known. In the face of the escalation of war in Afghanistan, it's hard to know what building to occupy. In several polls since this summer, a slim majority of Americans reported opposition to the war--in September, 51 percent told the Washington Post/ABC News poll that the war was not ?worth fighting," let alone escalating. But that view's barely been seen on the opinion pages of this nation's most powerful papers. The media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting has run the numbers and the Washington Post's the worst offender. Ten times as many pro-war columns appeared as anti-war. The New York Times was almost as bad. Of 43 columns on the war, only 7 opposed, 14 called for escalation, and 22 called for a new idea. Despite polls showing more women than men opposed escalation, not one anti-war woman got to share her views in either paper. In fact, women wrote only 12 of 110 columns in FAIR's report. Fareed Zakaria, giving voice to the Beltway consensus, said: ?It is time to get real about Afghanistan. Withdrawal is not a serious option.? Does this mean that 51 to 53% of the American people simply aren't ?serious?? The ?Church of the Savvy,? as today's guest Jay Rosen calls them, clearly think so. The F Word is a regular commentary by Laura Flanders, the host of GRITtv which broadcasts weekdays on satellite TV (Dish Network Ch. 9415 Free Speech TV) on cable, and online at GRITtv.org and TheNation.com. Follow GRITtv or GRITlaura on Twitter.com.

President Obama is about to announce a troop escalation in Afghanistan. Though it's consistent with his campaign promises, public opinion has shifted and now, according to most polls, a majority of the American people oppose the war. Politics as usual? Is he stuck? Is there a way around the machine to create a true politics of the people?We continue our discussion with two more big thinkers. David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union and founder of AfterDowningStreet, and Mark Winston Griffith, on leave from the Drum Major Institute and former candidate for New York City Council, join Laura to talk about the way nothing seems to change in politics.Jay Rosen, New York University professor and one of the most prominent thinkers about journalism in the new media era, thinks the media are at least partly to blame for the narrow scope of discussion in Washington. Rosen is the author of What Are Journalists For? , blogs at PressThink, and famously does "mindcasting, not lifecasting," on Twitter.

3 uncles from the UK do just that.... http://visionon.tv

On November 15, 2009 the Syracuse Peace Council organized a demonstration against the deployment of Reaper drones on a nearby air force base. Members of Hudson Mohawk Indymedia were there to document, interviewing Kathy Kelly, Dan Berrigan, organizers and protesters about the drones and the future of the antiwar movement.

Artists and activists spoke at a press conference in Albany, NY, on Veterans Day, November 11, 2009, held after the veterans' parade to discuss upcoming antiwar events in the capital region, and to unveil a new billboard on route 787 south, "Soldier Williams 396 Days in Iraq," installed as part of photographer Suzanne Opton's national soldier billboard project.

Coordinator of Proyecto Hondure?o

9/11 Truth Movement Calling for a New Investigation into What Really Happened on 9/11

Veterans for Peace

What makes a poor man vote for a rich polititian? All this and more are explored in a singing indictment of America Gone Wild!

"Verging on the Ridiculous" is the story of the nationwide police suppression of the celebrated schnews film On The Verge , firstly at its Brighton premiere and then as it toured around the country. http://visionon.tv http://schnews.org.uk

They're there because Raytheon produce some of the most hideous military hardware imaginable (they claim to be world leaders in "smart" hidware). Bunker busters and cluster bombs being just two examples of their lethal hardware. Their hardware wasn't smart enough to avoid 62 civilians in Iraq: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-proof-marketplace-deaths-were-caused-by-a-us-missile-593074.html As CAAT reports, "Raytheon is the prime contractor for the Tomahawk cruise missile and the JSOW AGM-154, both of which deliver BLU/97B submunitions." (that's cluster bombs to you and me). They've got a regular stall at DSEi: http://www.caat.org.uk/publications/armsfairs/dsei-2003-report/clusterbombs.php And do you remember Israel's little bombing frenzy in the summer of 2006? When they blasted Lebanon to smithereens? Well Raytheon's hardware played its part: http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/newswire.php?story_id=25266 All that seems reason enough to protest Raytheon's presence in Bristol. In fact plenty of people have been protesting against Raytheon. Nine fine folk from Northern Ireland were recently (June 2008) "acquitted in Belfast for their action in decommissioning the Raytheon offices in Derry in August 2006. The prosecution could produce not a shred of evidence to counter our case that we had acted to prevent the commission of war crimes during the Lebanon war by the Israeli armed forces using weapons supplied by Raytheon." http://www.raytheon9.org/ The rooftop protesters want Raytheon, and the rest of the world to know, that there'll be protests every Thursday at Raytheon's offices in Bristol. Let's give 'em hell! Bristol IndyMedia has regular updates on their front page: http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/index.php

Throw a protest march at the DNC and all types of people show up: organized anarchists (is that an oxymoron?) global warming polar bears, third party candidates and a wide range of other interests. They do all have one thing in common. They want something to change. Here's a look at the Recreate 68 Protest March Sunday August 24, 2008. Denver State Capitol to the Democratic Convention. Music by Dead Prez. **http://The-UpTake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/517/

"Ralph Nader and Patti Smith: Awake From Your Slumber" "Awake From Your Slumber" brings together two visionaries: citizen-activist Ralph Nader and punk poet Patti Smith, in a powerful dialogue of war and peace. Touring together as the Democracy Rising Peace Tour, Ralph and Patti make the case against the Iraq war and the corporate takeover of our democracy. Produced by the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center, Awake mixes image, music and spoken word to strip away the facade of political lies and reveal the annihilation of civilization, war profiteering, the unseen dead, and the unheard cries of motherhood. Awake From Your Slumber is history lesson, poetry reading and rock concert. Above all, it is an inspiring, mesmerizing, and deeply moving call to action, showing the power of the people to make change. Special features include three additional songs by Patti Smith, an interview with Ralph Nader by Amy Goodman, and additional information about Ralph, Patti, Democracy Rising and the Hudson-Mohawk Indy Media Center. 2008.