[imc-auckland-video] Short Items for Sunday

[Geraldene Peters]

Hi all,

Just in the process of transferring vcd/dvd to vhs. (although didn't have
foie gras dvd to do this)

Will take the tape to the hikoi tomorrow in the hope of bumping into
someone.

No one's mentioned a programming order so somewhat arbitrarily I'm working
with the premise that we start off with:

1.  Foie Gras 12 mins (?)

2.  Newsreal 1:  Baxter 2003 (5mins.02)

3.  Newsreal 2:  Thomson's Catchment (7mins. 09)

4.  Newsreal 3:  Video Letter from West Papuan Independence Movement
Nov.2003

5.  Happy Birthday Timor L'este  (7mins 39 sec) director, Peter Marra
(Taranaki based)

6.  Intermission Filler:  Oceania Newsreal Introduction (6 mins 33)


Harry, I've included information references below - call me if you need
anymore info 3765 994

All the best, Geraldene

NB.  New Newsreal just finished - another one to be produced at the end of
January.  Currently calling out for material.

Newsreal synopses + background to Oceania Newreal:
Available at:  http://www.oceania.indymedia.org/newsreal


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIMOR L'ESTE INFORMATION from Peter Marra
East Timor celebrates it second anniversary of independence on may the 20th
But because Australia dosent recognise East Timors maritme boundaries
And  pumps and grabs East Timors Oil worth billions of dollars
9 percent of infants  die before they reach one years of age
.65 % of women are illiterate
 And Timorese try to live in a year what people in the west might earn in a
day/week.
Œ¹Xanana Gusmao recently said it¹s a question of Life or DeathŠŠŠbeing
continually poor,continually begging or to be self ­sufficient¹¹.
 Big demonstrations are planed by the East Timorese community in Melbourne
See the Time magazine article May 10 Oil campanies involved via Australia
Woodside Petroleum,BHP Billiton and Shell
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Review from a Puerto Rican perspective of Happy Birthday Timor Leste.
----- Original Message -----
From: felix leo campos <mailto:felix_leo_c at hotmail.com>
To: editor at tnl.co.nz ; marrap at xtra.co.nz
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Happy Birthday TimorL'este

Mr.Churchouse:
 
Thank you for your inquiry. I am partly familiar with the situation in East
Timor and Peter Marra's documentary, "Happy Birthday Timor L'este", brings
new and valuable information to me and my socially conscious viewers here in
the US.
 
The title deceives viewers into thinking that the piece is a celebratory
documentary on the milestone success of this small nation, relative to many
including New Zealand and Australia, in achieving its independence. This is
made even more astonishing an accomplishment considering that Puerto Rico, a
US "commonwealth" in the Caribbean region, has not yet accomplished such a
feat despite have a larger population and relatively modern industrial &
technological society. Following that revelation, one has to wonder, ¿How is
it that an East Timor can gain independence and not Puerto Rico? (The
quotation marks are my political statement for cultural maintenance).
 
The struggle in the documentary continues, without respite, against
Australia over oil reserves found off shore within East Tiimor international
borders. It resonates as the 21st century's embodiment of the struggle of
Southern Hemispheric countries seeking independence, economic development
and self-sufficiency against the dominance of Euro-centric ideology.
 
What may be a generation ago, economic development in southern hemispheric
nations was focused on lumber. Brasil, Congo, and other countries were
depleting their rain forests for the production of lumber and to clear the
way for farming and human occupation. Europe and the US protested the
depletion of yet another natural resource on the basis of the consequence of
global warming. The retort was that they (northern hemispheric nations) were
not as concerned with harmfull consequences when it was they who depleted
natural resources for their own economic development. The same still holds
true as the US continues to avoid signing the Tokyo Accord to lessen gases
producing the greenhouse effect.
 
Our intentions are to include the segment as part of our series, "Rebel
Media". The program airs on P.E.G. (Public, Education, & Government) Access
Television and is simultaneously web streamed around the world. The series
focuses on presenting fresh and provocative insight from independent
sources. It features short documentaries, profiles, interviews, news
reports, and performances produced by independent sources, i.e. Indymedia,
Freespeech TV, Deep Dish, and Paper Tiger TV, among others.
 
We can expect our audiences to receive the information and internalize it in
their own fashion. However, our audiences are politically astute and
conscious of the amount of skewing, mis-information and omission that occurs
in the commercial media industry here in the US, so they turn to networks
such as P.E.G. Access and programs like "Rebel Media" on stations such as
Manhattan Neighborhood Network for alternative and reliable news and
information omitted from the mainstream.
 
We hope to have fulfilled your objectives in reviewing Peter Marra's
documentary. We would like to continue this dialogue and develop a
relationship that develops and shares stories, features, and reports that
can serve both our audiences.
 
Be well.
Felix Leo Campos

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Hi all, i have attached the link to Mahatten Neighbourhood Network MNN
which reaches 600,000 households in New York.Felix Leo Compos of Rebel Media
says this is the Station that Happy Birthday Timor Leste will be aired
on.Aparently it links to other public access stations in NY and cable.[1.3
to 3 million potential viewers]
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