[IMC-US] Collaboration: Walmart

[dirtyjoe at riseup.net]

Great news to me.  I am strangely obsessed with walmart (it all stems from
an early childhood accident with a wrench from there breaking and me
slicing my wrist on my bicycle).  We have lots of footage from walmart
protests in Arkansas at the shareholders convention, interviews with local
organizers, and quite a few connections from some of the oddest places in
the emerging global anti-walmart movement.

So...I am totally into helping with a walmart collaboration.  There are
actually a few documentaries being made about walmart right now.  Wal-town
is making a film about walmart in canada and so are two people with
canadian public television.

joe
arkansas IMC volunteer

Hello, friends. Yeah, Im pushing this theme. For good
> reason.
>
> Check out:
>
> http://www.walmartmovie.com/wednesday.php?track=now
>
> Greenwald, who produced Outfoxxed, is producing this
> film under BravenewFilm. Check out sponsors of this
> film. Certainly won't see any other media org, so I
> thought it'd be great if Indymedia showed solidarity.
> Not with an official sponsor, but with a collaborative
> journalism piece instead. In other words, contributing
> how we know best.
>
> See, BravenewFilm is asking for video footage and
> photographs of communities impacted by Walmart. Our
> movement is positioned perfectly to assist with the
> content. And if not with this film, then with future
> productions of BravenewFilms perhaps.
>
> But aside from the actual imagery (video and photo)
> many IMCists might pass along, we could also provide a
> national print (online) journalistic piece to
> complement the Uncover Walmart's Injustices Campaign.
> Which is why I'm pushing hard for Walmart to be the
> first theme for our Collaboration project. If we were
> to issue a call by the end of July, we might spur some
> local photo or video journalists to pass some
> compelling footage to the project. And then we could
> set a September deadline for the publication of print
> project.
>
> All this is contestable and in need of group
> discussion, but I just wanted to outline the growing
> campaign against Walmart, and how Indymedia could gain
> a good deal of readership and merit if we were to
> focus our innovative, independent media creation
> community on this topic.
>
> Peace, in solidarity,
>
> tarik abdelazim
> binghamton-imc
>
>
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