11.11.2007 Olympia City Hall 3

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11.11.2007 Olympia City Hall 3

Submitted by epjmcginley on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 4:31pm.

port of olympia resistance documentary

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Good Video

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 6:43pm.

Thanks for posting this, Ned.

p.s. Good Video

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 6:53pm.

p.s. Good editing, it's clear that you took care and put effort into making this.

About these videos:

Submitted by epjmcginley on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 10:53pm.

Thanks Rob. I have a two dvd version that totals about two hours and forty minutes running time. I am slowly working through that to produce these ten minute chunks, I expect there will be about six. It requires that I edit the material for content, build in the transitions (audio and video), and render the work, then it all has to be compressed from a couple of gigabytes to twenty five or so megabytes in order to upload it onto youtube. Then I embed them here and post the link on the listserve. All in all it takes a few hours to get ten minutes of video on the web. I have been surprised that there have not been any comments on olyblog, I am not sure wether that indicates they are effective or ineffective. If you have any thoughts on getting a wider audience I would of course be interested. Thanks again, Ned All the material is available on: www.youtube.com/epjmcginley

lack of comments

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 10:59pm.

I don't know why people don't want to discuss them either. Maybe there is some shell-shock going on. Maybe it's too emotional. Maybe there is too much grief and it is too painful to bring it up.

But I think it's important to keep talking about it - both for the sake of accountability and for getting over the trauma and grief.

Some of the protesters felt

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 11:03pm.

Some of the protesters felt singled out by the police because of their homosexuality. I think that is an important perspective to include in the youtube versions.

Maybe people would be interested in getting together to see the full length version sometime.

dvds etc

Submitted by epjmcginley on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 11:27pm.

There is a brief reference to the singling out of individuals for their sexual orientation in the first of the three pieces currently posted, but I sadly missed the introductory comment that set it up and gave it context. I was having some technical difficulties that night. I have also been handing out dvds and people have been watching them in their entirety. The complete set on dvd does include about everything that was said, even if my camera was pointed at the ceiling. I only edited out the applause and the dead air etc. This abridged version has really been distilled down to the most compelling testimony, and inevitably that is something that I am determining in a few seconds or minutes while editing. Often it has as much to do with some vague quality of the material as with any substantial effort to craft the message.

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