From the producers of the award winning video, ?LUNA ? The Stafford Giant Tree-Sit?, and ?Fire in the Eyes? come two new videos: ?Timber Gap? and ?Showdown in Seattle?Five Days That Shook the WTO?.
Headwaters Action Video Collective (HAVC), in association with Earth Films and Tobermory Studios, have released ?Timber GAP?. This video tells the story of the Fisher family of GAP, Inc.?s newly acquired Mendocino Redwood Company and the growing activism against the GAP. This investigative video includes interviews with Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange and the late Judi Bari.
This 18-minute video covers several issues, including a look at the unsustainable logging practices of the Mendocino Redwood Company financed by profits from The Gap, Inc., as well as the sweatshop labor exploitation that has defined the profit margin of this corporation.
This video provides an overview of the ecological issues behind the environmental impacts and community resistance to this large corporation. Colorful protests involving civil disobedience and direct action by a variety of activists bring home the point that all is not well in the great north woods.
Another new release co-produced by HAVC is ?Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that shook the WTO? (155 minutes). This video features an on-the-ground, non-corporate perspective and in-depth analysis of the police repression and protests against the World Trade Organization?s Ministerial meetings held in Seattle last November. An unprecedented collaborative effort of video producers from around the world, ?Showdown in Seattle? contains footage from dozens of video activists working under the umbrella of the Independent Media Center. The programs in this series were produced daily on location in Seattle and sattelite-cast across the US each day of the WTO Ministerial.
?Showdown in Seattle? was produced in December, 1999 by the Independent Media Center, Big Noise Productions, Whispered Media, Changing America, Paper Tiger TV, Video Active and the Headwaters Action Video Collective.
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TOC for Forest & River News, Spring 2000