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June 18, 2003New Dispatch Column: AMEDIA Uncensored
AMEDIA Uncensored: June 18, 2003
by Amy Chozick, La Lutta NMC DISPATCH Editor
From La Lutta NMC: For the Summer 2003, we at La Lutta NMC have much planned. We will be hosting the second annual Visual Liberation Film/Talk Festival with the Brecht Forum, the Institute for Mass Communications, Junno's and New York University; complete filming on Machetero directed by Vagabond; start production of Dennis Leroy Moore's new film The Desperate Ones; launch a new, improved web site; continue our collaboration with the Lower East Tenement Museum and a host of other activity. Most exciting is our work with our DISPATCH Independent Media Project.
For close to three years now, DISPATCH has been a critical voice for excluded communities around the world. In our effort to continue to build on all the wonderful support we have received, we at La Lutta NMC have committed ourselves to expanding DISPATCH. First, we are working with Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel to develop a YouthDISPATCH. YouthDISPATCH will serve as a new media repository where youth from all around the world can contribute their journalism, films, poetry, and music.
Second, I am proud to introduce Amy Chozick's new media column, AMEDIA Uncensored. Amy, a poet and journalist based in New York City, will cull the pages (print, web and otherwise) of the major media outlets and report on what is left out, missing, censored and misrepresented. Please bookmark this column and look for it every Thursday. We encourage and welcome feedback on this project as well as on all our projects. Help us challenge and fight representation. La Lutta NMC is the media.
-Antonino D'Ambrosio,
La Lutta NMC
I write my first of many weekly columns for La Lutta in defense of tabloids.
That's right, those faded, grocery store publications made from cheap
paper and even cheaper paparazzi photos. Tabloids serve more of a purpose
than simply spreading fictitious rumors about over-paid celebrities. By
admitting that their erroneous stories are just that, stories, figments
of some celebrity-obsessed editor's imagination...[more]
La Lutta NMC pays respect to Nina Simone
April 24,2003
"The High Priestess of Soul," singer and pianist Nina Simone died April 21,
of natural causes at her home in the south of France. She was 70 years old.
Simone could sing just about anything in any style, from jazz and blues to
pop, folk, gospel and classical music. She sang protest songs during the
Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, but later claimed her true love was
performing with symphony orchestras.
Long Live the High Priestess of Soul: A Tribute to Nina Simone
March 11, 2003--Dispatch
New Cultura Piece: O Say Can You Hear
By Stephen Oliver
May 1, 2003
Sydney, Australia
The dripping Gorgonâs head
over the sands of Iraq, spittle of snakes flame out
from a thousand gun barrels....
March 11, 2003--Dispatch
New Cultura Piece: just gimme a fix
by Johnita Anthony
my hair begged to be straightened out of its crooked ways. spank me, tie me up, deny me, get control. "just gimme a fix," it said, "cause Kinky Reggae gots to go." and in the fashion of a true addict, i proceeded to the salon for a relaxer...
February 28, 2003--Dispatch
Book Review: Beneath the Burqa-Afghan Women Rise-Up
Words by Antonino D'Ambrosio, La Lutta NMC
On February 15th and 16th, cities around the world rallied, marched, and demonstrated against the impending US war on Iraq. The estimated 11 million people who gathered spoke to the magnitude of the current anti-war movement, letting the Bush Administration know in no uncertain terms that senseless war mongering must end and if they are serious about stopping terrorism they must stop participating in it...
February 19, 2003--Dispatch
A Letter to the People (from Paris)
by Covell Meyskens
January 12, 2003 --Dispatch
Union Dreams Fade for Immigrant Workers in Brooklyn
by Jordan Green
When they walked off the job in July 2001, the Latino immigrant workers at Tuv Taam knew they faced an uphill battle to unionize their workplace, a food processing plant in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn...
December 16, 2002--Dispatch
Profile: Edith Villavicencio, Union Rep
by Chris Maag
Chances are good that today, Edith Villavicencio is talking to workers over the crash of factory noise, over the static of cell phones, at 6 oâclock in the morning, at 12:30 at night, in her car, in her kitchen, from her bed, cajoling union members, screaming at laundry owners, pushing, pushing, pushing, and, in her less-than subtle way, carrying the American labor movement into a new, post- industrial century.
November 20, 2002--Dispatch
We Will Not Be Dishonored
by Antonino D'Ambrosio
During the Summer of 2002 La Lutta began work with the Insitute for Mass Communication in an effort to provide vital media services to the Transport Workers Union. One of the key projects completed was a documentary produced by Antonino D'Ambrosio, Alfredo Lopez, Karim Lopez, Lucas Lopez and Dennis Leroy Moore called 'Road to the Contract.' The piece written by Antonino D'Ambrosio was written immediately after filmming the final march leading to the strike vote. It has been used widely distributed in support of the tranist workers.
November 13, 2002--Coltura Words Column: Fact & Fiction by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Born Again
by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
I grew up in an Evangelical Christian period of my mother's life. Born a few years earlier, I would have been weeding her pot garden; born a few years later, I'd have been accessing...
November 7, 2002 -- Dispatch
Visiting Orwell's Grave
by Brian Diedrick
As far as headstone pilgrimages go, my favorite account was written by the author and critic Gerald Early. Recalling his family's visit to Jimi Hendrix's final resting place in Renton, Washington, Mr. Early concludes that paying...
October 29, 2002 -- New Dispatch Coltura Words
Untitled
by Kareem, Washington Irving High School
Please Note:As part of our Active Knowledge Program La Lutta NMC members have been working with schools all across the country. Recently, a La Lutta NMC contributor, the poet Amy Chozick, spoke at Washington Iriving High School. Amy's student guide for the day was a dynamic, creative young man named Kareem. This is the first of what we hope are many more submissions from Kareem and the hundreds of students we have worked with this past year. APD, La Lutta NMC.
We need to stop this aids epidemicIts getting everybody sick and im gettin sik wit it
Its hard to see our people die in front of our eyes its not a surprise
This whole world is full of demise
This whole world is dyin from all types of S***...
October 3, 2002 -- New Dispatch Feature
Entering Activism in Rural America
By Jakob Juntunen
I joined the Communist Party as a joke to piss off my high school government teacher. Like anywhere else in the US the word "communist" carried every negative connotation, but to declare oneself a Communist where I lived in Idaho...
October 1, 2002 -- -- New Dispatch Coltura Words
New Coltura Words Piece: LOCKED
By Amy Chozick
Tight coarse curls,
pubic hair in ponytails,
string ringlets Elmer's-glued to the temples,
only white girl with a 'fro,
nappy...
September 11, 2002 -- New Dispatch Editorial
The Ghost Dance of Liberty and Freedom
Words by Antonino D'Ambrosio
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Today, September 12, 2002, I intended to write a book review for Dispatch Coltura on the books Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown On the Rez by Ian Fraizer and Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt. However, while researching another piece I came across the above quote by Ben Franklin and it prompted me to examine more closely the current situation whereby Americans are being asked to hand over essential and hard-fought rights for "a little temporary safety". In particular, the rollback on these rights ...
September 11, 2002 -- New Dispatch Editorial
The World's Greatest Terrorist: The American Media.
Words by Antonino D'Ambrosio
2002 has proven to be an eventful and enlightening period for those of us working in and around La Lutta NMC. The projects underway include a summer long film festival (co-sponsored with the Brecht Forum and the Institute for Mass Communications) and activity in Nigeria, Ghana, Cuba, Italy, France, Brazil, Scotland and all around the United States. These events have provided a great deal of insight on what people...
August 22, 2002 -- New Dispatch Feature
Someday the Birds Will Fall from the Sky: Life Under Occupation in the West Bank
By Jordan Green
People's attitudes here are characterized by humor and a rough-edged durability, typical of rural communities all over the world, pressured as they are by the double-edge vise of military enclosure and settler attacks that are strangling the farm economy. But in this town of 12,000 where almost every person has a story about someone who has been beaten, killed, or abducted by the military, considerations of the future are tinged with an ominous foreboding
July 24, 2002 -- New Coltura Words Piece: Hunters and Gatherers
By Bridget Cross
From now on, I only want to remember
that part of you that pauses
in our kitchen, knife hanging
over rows...
July 22, 2002 -- New Coltura Column: Fact & Fiction by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Retro-Rubbernecking in Pink Bowling Shoes
By Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Since my arrival, I have felt perpetually redundant in my uber-hip new neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. There is nothing like sitting in a cafe that is named after a part of speech ¾ and realizing that you are part of the 80% of double-decaf-skinny-Americano-sippers writing in a journal. Here begins a new chapter of Emily Post place setting ¾ ashtray on the left, latte on the right, journal tilted, three inches from the sticky...
Summer
2002 -- Freedom Summer: Dispatches
from Palestine
Editor Carolyn Lovejoy, Recorded by Amy Laura
Breaking News: REPORT FROM DEIR IBZIYA CHILDREN'S SUMMER CAMP
Two
hundred thirty children excitedly clamor around a dozen adults in anticipation
of their third day of summer camp in the Palestinian village of Deir Ibziya.
Their numbers have grown from 150 on the first day, which was already
straining the capacity of the house and materials. The summer day camp
was the vision of Deeb, a Palestinian man who had left his home in Deir
Ibziya at the age of 19...
July 16, 2002
-- An Oldie But Goodie On The Pacific NorthWest:
The Good Rain, (1991) by Timothy Egan.
Book Review by Brian Diedrick
Driving West down Interstate 84 into Portland, Oregon, during my first
trip to the Pacific Northwest, I was jolted up from a road-weary stupor
by a horizon's-eye view of Mt. Hood looming out over my dashboard. At
first glance from sixty miles out, the well-known peak appeared as a giant,
snow cone-shaped cloud. To me this picture verged on the surreal, given
the fact that I was riding on a savagely...
July 15, 2002
-- Eyewitness of Palestine
Interview by Adam Tucker
Kunle Ibidun works in the Research and Development department of a European
cellphone network. Having travelled to Palestine in April to observe conditions
in the West Bank, and to demonstrate solidarity with those living under
Israeli occupation, he was shot and wounded while attempting to take provisions
to Palestinian civilians trapped by the fighting. Kunle was marching towards...
July 11, 2002
-- The Struggle for the Political Soul
of U.S. Soccer
by Russell Cobb
Contrary to what most American fans will tell you, soccer holds a privileged
position in the American sports pantheon. That's because soccer is the
only sport in the United States that has been wholly embraced by this
country's cosmopolitan intellectuals. The reasons are fairly obvious:
practically no one else plays our chauvinistic games-football, baseball,
and basketball...
July 1, 2002 -- Born Again
in Guatemala: The Politics of Protestanization
by Amy Chozick
It's Easter Sunday in Guatemala City and a row of brightly colored pick-up
trucks rides in slow procession down the crowded Reforma Avenue. Campesinos
in cowboy hats and white jeans chant religious messages to the background
beat of salsa music. Brightly-dressed children skip on the sidewalk and
throw flowers at the passing trucks. At the end of the parade a preacher
gives a sermon in Spanish and three Mayan languages to a crowd that erupts
in applause. Meanwhile...
June/July 2002 -- Dispatch Sports: World Cup Coverage: The Politics of Sports
May 29, 2002 -- Iranian opposition members protest United Nations decision on human rights situation in Iran.
by David Montero
For the first time in nearly two decades, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) has voted not to renew the mandate for a special representative on human rights in Iran. The decision, made during the 58th session of the UNCHR at the end of April, effectively removes the only independent human rights ...
May 23, 2002 -- The Measure of a Man:
La Lutta NMC pays its respect to Stephen Jay Gould.
Words by Antonino D'Ambrosio
On Sunday, May 20, 2002 Stephen Jay Gould, noted evolutionary biologist, professor and writer, died at the age of 60 after a bout with cancer. The loss will be felt by all of us who were influenced by and followed Gould's prolific career. For those of us lucky enough to have read him, or, like myself, met him, Gould's life was one characterized by integrity, honor and a commitment to truth...
May 19, 2002 -- Isolationists vs. the ICC
by Mandy Hu
American isolationists and unilateralists have stirred themselves into an ideological frenzy over the recent establishment of the International Criminal Court. On April 11, ten countries ratified the Rome Treaty, which was crafted by the United Nations in 1998. The treaty called for the creation of an independent, international legal institution
...
May 15, 2002 -- In the US, 12 Million Italians Strike Out
Words and Translation by Antonino D'Ambrosio
On the evening of April 17, 2002, one day after 12 million people in Italy participated in one of the largest general strikes in history, I received an email marked 'la volontà della gente non puù essere negate'. Translated this means the will of the people cannot be denied. The author is Giovanni Paolo Lambroscetti...
May 14, 2002 -- We Become What We Hate: Murder Victims' Families and the Death Penalty
By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
"My daughter [Frances] was murdered and I originally wanted to kill her murderer," Anne Coleman explains, "but that doesn't mean I wanted the death penalty.... I was opposed to the death penalty and I always had been, but I could have cheerfully killed someone myself when I found out Frances was dead...
May 3, 2002 -- New Coltura Column: Fact & Fiction by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Pickled
By Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
A few years ago my mother asked me to help pickle her uterus. As she had imperiously informed the hospital, she had already left an appendix in Manhattan, a placenta in Boston, another...
April 23, 2002 -- Peruvians Begin Documenting The Horror.
Accounting for twenty years of government-sanctioned terrorism: 1980 - 2000.
By Grahame Russell
Mamacita, I am inside the barracks. Look for a lawyer. Look for money and please get me out of here. I am desperate ...
April 17, 2002 -- New Dispatch Sports Feature: Fear of a Black Tournament
By Russel Cobb
The heart and soul of the game of basketball is rooted in street ball, claims John Edgar Wideman in his memoir "Hoop Roots." The pick-up version of the game, played on asphalt and iron rims with no nets, Wideman suggests, can be as beautiful and urgent as John Coltrane soloing ...
March 29, 2002 -- The Third Force: Who are the true architects of Iran's
future?
Part two of a two-part series
By David Montero
If there is a democratic future to be had in Iran, it is clear that it will not be fashioned from the good intentions of the ruling clerics. It was hoped that the presidential election in 1997 of the reformist cleric, Mohammed Khatami, presaged an age...
March 27, 2002 -- Iranian Dissidents Find an Unlikely Ally in President Bush
American criticism provides unexpected morale boost to the opposition movement
Part one of a two-part series
By David Montero
Parvin Darabi is probably one of very few progressive activists who endorse President Bush's notion of an axis of evil. What makes Darabi even more unusual, at least from the perspective of the Western media...
March 14, 2002 -- US Armaments Back Israel's Occupation of Palestinian Lands
By Jordan Green
As I write, young Palestinian men are being processed through ad hoc detention centers and Israeli military bases, where they are kept blindfolded and bound, some with identification numbers written in ink on their arms...
New Coltura Film Feature
February 28, 2002 -- Gosford park: The End of an Aura
By Roger Bromley
The film has been described as a classic murder mystery set in an English country house in 1932. The first thing to ask is why this particular moment...
New Dispatch Sports Feature
February 14, 2002 -- Unbranding the Beast: Reclaiming Sports in the Name of the Fan
By Russell Cobb
As if things weren't bad enough for Enron, their hometown baseball team, the Houston Astros, have sued the company over naming rights for the team's ballpark, Enron Field. Ironically, it was Enron's influence over city politics that, in part, compelled the Astros to move from the Astrodome-billed as "The Eighth Wonder of the World" when it was completed in 1965-to their new home downtown...
February 8, 2002 -- When the gloves come off.
By Adam Tucker
Most of the time it's easy for the casual observer to believe that Westerners live in a free society where the right to question and voice opinions is guaranteed by a constitution. That the media, police and business are impartial observers and reporters of an unhindered debate on the shape of our society. That the police are ideologically neutral upholders of the democratic rule of law. There are, after all, few overt censorship laws...
February 1, 2002 -- Enron's End Run.
White Collar Crime Reports:The Bush White House's Brewing Scandal
By Sander Hicks
The Washington Post once referred to Kuwait as an "oil company with a
flag." Perhaps this is what the Bush White House once thought the USA
should be. This administration was intimate with the Enron
Corporation, now in ruins of potential scandal and criminal fraud...
February 1, 2002 -- The Crackers are coming with a Trojan Horse.
By Antonino D'Ambrosio
New media technology is an interesting social mechanism and a useful tool for activities like independent music and video production, alternative, progressive media publishing, and community-based cultural and artistic web site development. Proponents hail it as a revolutionary vehicle for truly democratizing society...
Please email us with any feedback, submissions or proposals at disptach@lalutta.org.
All Africa News
Associated Press
Culture Jamming (AdBusters)
Bush Watch
Civil Liberties
Clamor
Counterpunch
Coup
2K
Covert Action Quarterly
Culture Jamming (AdBusters)
Democracy Now
DisInfo
Earth Island Journal
Europe Internet News
Guardian Unlimited
Italia
News
Iraq Journal
Le Monde
Media Alliance
Media Matters
Russia News
United Press International(UPI)
July 17, 2002
--
For Democracy in Iran, Student Movement Coordination Committee
July 17, 2002 --
Report from Palestine, L.A. activists Garrick and Tamara report from
the Occupied Territories
July 16, 2002 -- Nigerian Women Let Workers Leave , Associated Press
July 16, 2002 --Planned volunteer-informant corps elicits '1984' fears, by Ellen Sorkin, Washinton Times
July
15, 2002 --
Women Protesters Turn Down Pleas to Vacate Chevron Facility , Vanguard
(Lagos)
June
19, 2002 --
The Paper of Wreckage: The 'Times' Bulldozes Its Way to a Sweetheart Land
Deal You Will Pay For, by Paul Moses
June 18, 2002 --
Argentina Protesta June 19, 2002
June 18, 2002 -- The
truth about Carlos Saul MENEM, Former president of Argentina.
June 18, 2002 -- Former
President Carlos Menem Speaks at Fordham Amidst Protest and Cacerolazo
June 17, 2002 -- Former
President Carlos Menem Speaks at Fordham Amidst Protest and Cacerolazo
May 28, 2002 -- Human
Rights Watch International Film Festival
May 22, 2002 -- Take the Capital!, The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC)
A CALL TO ACTION AGAINST THE G8
OTTAWA, CANADUH -- JUNE 26-27, 2002
May 10, 2002 -- Active Element Foundation
May 5, 2002 -- Iranian
journalist gets 8-year jail term
May 4, 2002 -- TransAfrican
Forum
May 3, 2002 -- Thaddeus
Stevens
May 2, 2002 -- SOLIDARITY
-- Socialism - Feminism - Activism - Labor
May 1, 2002 -- The
Alternative Information Center
May 1, 2002 -- AfroCubaWeb
April 30, 2002 -- School
of Americas Watch
April 29, 2002 -- Pay
Watch
April 29, 2002 -- The
blood red record review of the horrible lynchings and burning of Negroes
April 28, 2002 -- Heresies
in Pursuit of Peace: Thoughts on Israel/Palestine
April 27, 2002 -- IRAN:
Editor sentenced to 74 lashes
April 17, 2002 -- Jenin
camp 'horrific beyond belief'
April 16, 2002 -- IndyMedia
Italia: For the latest news on the general strike
April 16, 2002 -- Millions
Join Strike in Italy
April 16, 2002 -- Millions
of Italian Workers On Strike
April 16, 2002 -- Urgent:
12 Million set to Strike in Italy
April 15, 2002 -- Italy
Strike: A Call to Action
April 15, 2002 -- Italy's
Left Confronts Berlusconi
April 12, 2002 -- Anti-Semitic
Attacks in France
April 10, 2002 -- After
Survival, What? by Edward Said
April 9, 2002 -- World
bank to the West Bank by George Monbiot
April 5, 2002 -- The
Berlusconi Effect by Pierre Musso
April 3, 2002 -- Black
Pride 2000 Survey Report
March 10, 2002 -- Hospital
Watch, United Hospital Fund
March 5, 2002 -- Community
Rallies To Support Gil Noble, Anti-Racism Net
February 28, 2002 -- Tribute
to Transgender Activist Sylvia Rivera
February 12, 2002 -- Old
Italy, New Fascism, by IGNACIO RAMONET Le Monde diplomatique
February 11, 2002 -- Lynching
in Britain, by Mark Sherwood
February 5, 2002 -- Halliburton
Co.: To the Victors Go the Markets, Institute for Southern Studies
and Southern Exposure magazine
Febuary 1, 2002 -- World
Forum Web Site Crashes , By Jim Krane, AP in the Washington Post
January 31, 2002 -- FBI
Raid Silences Teen Anarchist's Site from Newsbytes.com
January 31, 2002 -- WBAI
Extended Anti-WEF Coverage
January 31, 2002 -- Dispatch
Anti-WEF Guide
January 31, 2002 -- Anti-WEF
Calendar of Events (NYC), protest.net
January 30, 2002 -- Keeper's
of the Flame: As Moderate Groups Turn Down the Heat, Anarchists Light
a New Way for Dissent, By Esther Kaplan, The Village Voice
January 27, 2002 -- Class
Dismissed: Whatever happened to the politics of pitting the haves against
the have-nots?, By Neal Gabler,
The LA Times