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Check here for various clips from Flying Focus Video Collective as posted to YouTube.com.
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Also see our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/flyingfocus

Current clips are:

Multicultural Issues/Indigineous People
Real Questions (Restorative Listening Project #3)
Senior Pastor Don Frazier of the inter-racial Genesis Community Fellowship Congregation shares experiences about growing up in North Portland and how gentrification affected the community. He called upon people moving into a new neighborhood to learn its history and ask themselves some "real questions."

The full program (VB #71.6&7) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Porches and Smiles (Restorative Listening Project #2)
Community activists Noni Cause and John Canda discuss the effects of gentrification on North and Northeast Portland. The whole program also includes Charles Ford, a community elder. Themes include the importance to the community of front porches, smiles, and eye contact, and moving from harm to hope.

The full program (VB #70.11&12) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Nathan McCall: The Effects of Gentrification (Restorative Listening Project #1)
McCall is the best-selling author of "Makes Me Wanna Holler" and "Them" and is a lecturer for Emory University in Atlanta. In January, 2008, he visited Concordia University in Portland, OR, where he read an excerpt from "Them", a book which explores the ramifications of well-to-do whites moving into poor black neighborhoods. In this clip, he shares some of his personal feelings about politics and race.

The full program (VB #68.11 & 12) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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"Native Perspectives on Sustainability: Nichole Maher (Tlingit)"
This is a 2-minute clip features Maher, a Native leader who serves as the Executive Director of Portland's Native American Youth and Family Center, speaking on ideas of what "sustainability" means to her. It is part of a series of interviews conducted by David Hall, Ph.D. Candidate at Portland State University.

The full program (VB #65.5) is available for a donation of $11 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage, and for $14 in a two-part packege with "Native Perspectives on Sustainability: Roberta Conner (Cayuse)" (VB #66.3).
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Civil Rights/Police Accountability
Civil Liberties 2009: Are We Still at Risk?
Short clip from an hour-long show of a panel discussion held in June, 2009, which raised the question whether the transition from the Bush to the Obama administration made a difference regarding our civil liberties. Features lawyers working on an illegal wiretapping case, a public defender who represented Guantanamo prisoners, and the Oregon director of the ACLU.

The full program (VB #73.2&3) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Community Dialogue on Racial Profiling
This is a ninety-second clip from the hour-long Flying Focus Video Bus featuring a dialogue with Portland Police officers talking with community members about experiences at traffic stops and on the streets. The dialogue took place in June, 2006 in NE Portland and was coordinated by Oregon Action.

The full program (VB #60.13&61.1) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Foreign Affairs
Peruvians Say "Go Home, Bush!"
Yvonne Simmons videotaped two protests against then-President George Bush when he visited Peru in late 2008. Two shows, "Peruvian Workers Say, 'Go Home Bush!'" and "Peruvians Say, 'Go Home Bush!'" captured the music, speeches and street theater.

The full programs (VB #70.3&4) are available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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A Nonviolent Response to Genocide
This 90-second clip from the hour-long Flying Focus Video Bus shows Dr. Elavie Ndura of Burundi, a Hutu widow whose family experienced colonialism, exploiation and genocide. She encourages people to become more culturally competent as a means to avoid the kinds of violence she has seen. Her talk was taped at Portland State University in February 2005, but the video was first cablecast in October, 2006.

The full program (VB #61.3&4) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Update on Burma
A clip from the show featuring Edith Mirante, author, human rights activist, and internationally known expert on Burma. She discusses recent history under rule of a military junta that has oppressed Burma's people and stripped its environment. Also mentioned is use of force labor in collusion with Western multinationals.

The full program (VB #59.4) is available for a donation of $11 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Vietnam and Agent Orange
This is a short clip from the show taped in Dec. 2005. Speakers featured include Ho Sy Hai a victim of Agent Orange during the war, Nguyen Tron Nhan, former President of the Vietnamese Red Cross, who discusses the effects of Dioxin in Agent Orange. Translator is Binh Vu.

The full program (VB #58.5) is available for a donation of $11 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Health Care Alternatives, Economic Justice
MindFreedom: Mental Health Choice and Empowerment
Here are a few short clips from a panel representing mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors who spoke on how to further organize for change in the mental health system.
The speakers are survivors of an abusive psychiatric system who became activists. The main speaker is David Oaks, director of Mind Freedom International based in Eugene, who describes his efforts to give choice, freedom, and human rights priority within the system. He talks about his own experience, how mental health consumers are being shut out of the debate, and the problems caused by too much influence of the pharmaceutical industry in mental health, including within the prison system. But he also is sets the principle of personal choice over use of psychiatric drugs as opposed to the forced drugging that often occurs. He makes clear his goal is change by peaceful revolution.
And during the public forum we hear from an activist who proclaims, "dont let them label your soul", referring to the arbitrary psychiatric labels the industry often assigns. Taped Feb. '08

The full program (VB #66.13) is available for a donation of $11 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Women Confronting Globalization
A clip from the Flying Focus program featuring Christina Obregon, an organizer from Chicago with the Mexican Solidarity Network. Taping in Dec. '05 Christina leads a discussion in how women are taking the lead in confronting corporate globalization and for workers' and womens' rights.

The full program (VB #58.7&8) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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War and Peace, Nuclear Issuess
Iraq, Six Years Later: Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad (March 15, 2009)
Short clips from our show feature Mo Mack singing, Benji Lewis of Iraq Veterans Against the War-Oregon, Linda Burgin of SEIU 503, and the No War Drum Corps at a march and rally in Salem, OR.

The full one hour program (VB #71.10&11) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Hiroshima Day 2008: Remembering the Past to Change the Future
Portland's 2008 "Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day" at Waterfront Park is featured, including the Taiko drummers, Mikio Ohgushi of the Dharma Rain Zen Center, and Pamela Vergun, editor of "A Dimly Burning Wick: Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima."

The full program (VB #69.4&5) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage.
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Retrospectives
16th Busiversary Teaser Clip:
This is a 3-minute clip compiled for PCM's Producer Showcase in November 2007, using video from our "Sixteenth Busiversary" with clips from November 2006-October 2007. The assignment was to spend the first 90 seconds explaining who we are and what we do and share clips from our work. Short clips appear from "Native Perspectives on Sustainability: Nichole Maher"; "No More Invasions, No More Wars"; "Middle East WILPF Women London 9/06"; "The Chick Who Always Talks About Atrocities in the Congo at Parties"; and "Lynne Stewart: Attorney on Trial."

The full one hour Sixteenth Busiversary (VB #65.8&9) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage and features producers introducing clips from programs produced between December 2006 and October 2007.
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Fifteen Years of Flying Focus:
This is an 8-minute clip compiled for our "Fifteenth Busiversary" looking back at the years 1991- 2006 and some of the various topics, individuals, and musical performers featured on the Flying Focus Video Bus.

The full one hour Fifteenth Busiversary (VB #61.7&8) is available for a donation of $14 (DVD/VHS) plus $4 postage and also features producers introducing clips from all the new programs produced between December 2005 and October 2006.
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Page added 1/16/07, last updated 5/29/10

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