[imc-auckland-video] Short Items for Sunday

[Geraldene Peters]

BTW - the West Papua item is about 3 minutes long.


On 10/15/04 10:08 PM, "Geraldene Peters" <bern at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> 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
> ___________________________
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> ______________
> 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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