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Cris McConkey's Video
is my weblog for broadband versions of various videos I have produced as part of my service work on a variety of social justice themes. Quality may vary. Some may be complete edited programs I have produced with professional gear; other times I may be at an event with only a handheld consumer camcorder and I will upload clips from raw footage. Unless stated otherwise, all the material in Cris McConkey's Video weblog is covered by a Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) license which allows non-commercial use as long as attribution is given.

Some of these videos are available on DVD-R. Send me an email asking for details.

 

Videos on DVD

Bush's War on Iraq: Rhetoric Vs. Reality


From the Dowing Street Memos to the Ethics of Karl Rove —an honest assessment of George W. Bush's Post-9/11 leadership. With U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey. Ithaca Town Hall, July 30, 2005.

This DVD contains a video of the full two-hour town meeting with U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey at the Ithaca Town Hall on July 30, 2005 including Q&A playable on most DVD players. DVD-ROM content (for computers with a DVD drive) includes pdf scans and text files of the original Downing Street memo plus various subsequent memos that surfaced latter. Courtesy of http://www.downingstreetmemo.com

Will we look back at the summer of 2005 as a water shed moment?

 

Burmese Democracy Day in the City of Ithaca

  • 60th Birthday of Aung Sang Suu Kyi, June 18, 2005
  • Bo Hla Tint, minister in exile of the Burmese Government
  • Introduction by Ithaca's acting mayor, Maria Coles
  • Tompkins County Poet Laureate Michelle Berry delivers the world premiere of "Flight", her special poem in honor of Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Also includes footage from Ithaca Common Council Burmese Democracy Day resolution

 


poster art by George Sapio

Ismael Guadalupe

Ismael Guadalupe Ortiz is perhaps best recognized for his leading role in the more than six decades long movement in Vieques, Puerto Rico, to close the bombing range which the U.S. Navy opened in 1941, to regain ownership of the ancestral lands expropriated (2/3 of the land), to obtain the decontamination of the Island Municipality of Vieques, and to establish a viable and sustainable economic life. In April of 2005, Ismael Guadelupe visited Cornell University and Ithaca, N.Y. at the invitation of the Latin@ Graduate Student Coalition and the Ithaca Catholic Worker Vieques Support Group.

 

This single DVD contains three titles:

  • Lecture, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Cornell University, April 14th, 2005.
  • Vieques P'alante Extravaganza, Common Ground, Ithaca, NY, April 14th, 2005. Includes both community lecture sessions, two short videos Canción para Vieques and Paz para Vieques: El Rostro Oculto, and performances by Yerba Buena, Salsaamigos, and Sabor Latino.
  • Interview, Latino Studies Center, Cornell, April 15th, 2005.

 
   

 

 

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