Atari Teenage Riot "Rage" (Matt Pizzolo) WTO/World ...

[Note: All of this footage is from the US except for the black & white stuff, that's Berlin. But all the color footage is from Seattle & Washington DC] In 2000 I gave a DiY Media presentation at 2600's Hackers On Planet Earth conference. The topic was media-bias/become-the-media and I basically juxtaposed news footage of the 1999 Seattle WTO protests with documentary video footage shot in the streets by activists... obviously the news footage was heavily biased and edited (as was the street footage, to be fair, but that was also part of the point). Atari Teenage Riot saw the street footage and wanted to help get it seen by a wider audience, so we decided to cut it into a video for their song "Rage" and encourage it to be made freely available. At the time, Atari had just played a renegade set on the back of a truck at a Mayday protest in Berlin where they were arrested, so I decided to include that protest footage as well as footage from the World Bank protests in DC (and I have to thank the DC police for being cordial enough to let me get my dog out of the street before they teargased us). I directed/produced this video back in 2000 utilizing some footage I shot but mostly other people's documentary footage (with permission) from PickAxe Productions, RegenerationTV, and Philipp Virus. I've seen this video posted around but generally poor quality and sometimes pulled down for copyright-violation, but I have a decent master and the rights to distribute it so I figured I'd post it myself. If you're interested in seeing/learning more, there are two particularly good documentaries about the Seattle WTO protest: - "Breaking The Spell" (PickAxe Productions) is fantastic and available from Crimethinc - "Showdown In Seattle" (Indymedia) There's also a movie that came out a few years ago by Stuart Townsend called "Battle In Seattle" that I have mixed feelings about. "Rage" by Atari Teenage Riot w/Tom Morello Kings Mob Productions dir/prod Matt Pizzolo editor Caleb Oglesby footage provided by PickAxe ...