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Subject: An 8-hr. video for
$5!Chomsky(9/20/99)/Goodman/Grossman/Bensky/Bernstein
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 3:58 PM
Dear Supporters and Other Friends of JusticeVision:
We are happy to announce the contents of the next tape in the Democracy
University Video Series, Volume 17:
Noam Chomsky on the Lessons of Yugoslavia and East Timor (Kansas State
University, 9/20/99, 1 hour 46 minutes);
The L.A. Teach-In on the Crisis at ("Free Speech Radio") Pacifica, with
Larry
Bensky, Dennis Bernstein, Roy Tuckman, and (by telephone) Helen Caldicott
(Los Angeles, 3 hours 32 minutes);
Amy Goodman, on the massacre she witnessed in East Timor in 1996 (1 hour 15
minutes);
Richard Grossman: "The Corporate Insurgency Against Democracy" (59 minutes);
The termination without notification or hearing of Ruben Tapia's "Enfoque
Latino" by Pacifica's Los Angeles station, KPFK, following an alleged
violation of it's "gag rule", plus a visit to the tent city that arose in
protest of the lock-out at KPFA in Berkeley (35 minutes).
If you are already down as a subscriber your tape will be mailed to you as
soon as we are able to get them made and packaged, probably about a week. If
you haven't sent in your donation for earlier tapes in the series please do
so, since we are almost out of funds to buy blank tapes. We are sending an
8-hour tape this time, even though it is more work and the blank tapes cost
more, because we have a lot of timely and informative material that we do
not
want to have to hold back. Please help us by sending in your checks for
earlier tapes so that we can buy blank tape and get the new ones made and
mailed. In case you have extra resources and would like to help out, we also
need funds for more VCRs so we can make more videotapes at a time and get
them out faster. Even when we are home we can only make about 2 tapes an
hour
right now. We would also like to be able to get a digital camera eventually.
Anything you can send will be greatly appreciated and will be put to good
use.
If you are not a subscriber to the series you may order this new tape
individually for $12 (in part because of the higher cost of 8-hour
videotape), or you may still take advantage of the special $5 per tape
subscription price by letting us also send you the 2 previous tapes in the
series (at $5 each by subscription):
Volume 15: Michael Parenti at CSUF, Howard Zinn at Sonoma State Univ.,
Noam Chomsky interviewed at MIT, Belgian journalist Michel Collon on the 4
goals of NATO in Europe, Sara Flounders, and Lenore Foerstel. All of these
talks related to the US/NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Total time: 6 hours 6
minutes.
Volume 16: The First Hearing of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to
Investigate U.S./NATO War Crimes Against the People of Yugoslavia held in
New
York City on July 31, 1999. The tape includes the two major plenaries and
most of 2 workshops, and is 6 hours 7 minutes long. Among the 25 speakers
were Michael Parenti and Ramsey Clark, who gave the keynote address.
Like Volume 17, these are both excellent and thoroughly engrossing
tapes,
with much that relates to what we can expect in the future. As a subscriber,
you will receive subsequent tapes in the series, much like subscribing to a
magazine. They will come about 4 to 6 weeks apart, and you will be expected
to send a $5 or more after each one, in the envelope we will send with each
tape. You can cancel whenever you choose. To subscribe, just email or call
us
and tell us you would like to subscribe, and give us your mailing address.
You can also order a tape by phone or email; if just ordering a tape, please
identify the tape you wish to order, and give your mailing address. Again,
the $5 minimum donation applies to subscriptions only. The difference
reflects the amount of time it takes to handle individual orders. Please
subscribe if you can.
If you haven't already, please send payment at this time for the tapes you
have already received. Please do not send payment for Volume 17 until after
you receive it, in part because we want to make sure the tape gets to you
intact, but also so that you will have had an opportunity to ascertain the
value of the material on the tape when deciding whether or not to send an
extra donation above the $5 minimum. Hopefully we will eventually have
enough
subscribers so that our average costs approximate $5, so that we will not
find it as necessary to seek extra donations from those that wish to and can
afford to make them.
We are happy to announce that thanks to the efforts of many of you we now
have about 400 signed up as subscribers. Hopefully, most of them will follow
through and send in their pledges, although many have not so far. Assuming
they do, our next goal is to reach 1000 subscribers by the end of the year
(by December if possible). We'll need your help to do that. I'll keep you
posted as to how the subscription count is progressing. As a thank you to
those that spread the word I'll send a copy of Democracy University Volume 1
to each of those that refer a new subscriber between now and the next
announcement.
I really enjoyed my 3200 mile drive to Kansas and back (from L.A.) to tape
Noam, but felt bad that I didn't have time to visit subscribers along the
way. It was a treat to bump into two of you at the event: Preston Enright
(of
Boulder) and Chris Renner (of Manhattan, KS).
Best wishes and thank you for your consideration and/or support,
Ralph Cole
JusticeVision videomaker,
and producer of the Democracy University Video Series
(213) 747-6345; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: If you received this announcement via a friend or a listserve you may
not
be on our email list. Please let us know and we will be happy to add you to
it.
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