next 5 minutes international festival of tactical media, September 11-14 2003, Amsterdam

Political Protest 2

1:Radical Teen Cheer 2:We Interrupt this Empire


 
1: RADICAL TEEN CHEER
Eli Elliott, 2003, USA, 10', VHS ntsc
Eli Elliott's inspired portrait of Los Angeles high school students who boldly express their political views as cheerleaders. From cheers against third world country sweatshops to the hypocrisy of the United States government, Radical Teen Cheer shows a rare group of youths speaking out on issues in an interesting new form of political expression.
 

2:WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE
San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network , USA, 2003, 54', mini dv
What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot
aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? The San Francisco Bay
Area Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News:
an eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to
an illegal war.
 


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WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE
RADICAL TEEN CHEERS