On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NewsReal is a monthly joint project of Free SpeechTV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ). Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like the war, air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more. Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience. http://newsreal.indymedia.org http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produce... April 2008 Indymedia Newsreal: Smash I.C.E. "NewsReal" starts off with a contribution by PepperSpray's Tacoma Joe, on the subject of the ICE regional detention center in Tacoma. What's going on at the center is shocking, and the footage of brave black-garbed demonstrators faced off against robocops is worth the watch. Producer: Pepperspray Productions http://www.peppersprayproductions.org http://indymediapresents.blip.tv Tacoma Students for a Democratic Society http://www.tacomasds.org Protest in Tacoma against the current immigration regime. To Pay Or Not To Pay (trailer) Producer: Steev Hise http://www.panleft.org A preview for an in-progress documentary about war tax resistance. National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee http://www.nwtrcc.org Picnic for Fun and Unity Voices from the African American community on the questions of the day. Corporate media attention on Reverend Wright has played him as a wild-eyed America-damning kook. This piece brings you other voices, just as passionate, from Black America. Producer: Maia and Elfie Ballis http://www.sunmt.org "No Match" Letters Immigration Rally Immigration rally against employer santions in Portland, OR. Producer: Jim Lockhart http://www.PhilosopherSeed.org http://philosopherseed.blip.tv Portland Jobs with Justice http://www.jwjpdx.org American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs (Independent Media Centers) are encouraged to screen or air NewsReal. To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact Pepperspray Productions at pepperspray@riseup.net.