On October 15th, 2013 The Illuminator projected the world debut of Fight For The Future’s brand new short film about the NSA. Demand Progress, Restore the 4th, and Time’s Up activists helped organize. Over 100 people gathered in Washington Square Park to come see the screening. To learn more about the evils of the NSA and to see the film check out Fight For The Future’s page here:

http://www.fightforthefuture.org/

http://www.thensavideo.com/
( to see the film )

Photos by Kyle Depew

On Saturday, October 5th we projected with Breakthrough, a humanitarian and immigrant rights group. At the Bushwick Film Festival we helped spread the message to…. deport the Statue of Liberty?!

http://breakthrough.tv/

On September 21st, we debuted our latest project, The Green Lumen, a trusty sidekick to our van, The Illuminator.  It’s a hacked Pedicab, a bike-powered tactical media machine, and its AWESOME! We brought this out in parntership with 350.org, participating in the national Draw the Line on Keystone XL Pipeline action. The intent was to spread awareness about climate change by projecting where the water-line would reach if another Hurricane Sandy happened at the end of the century if we don’t start to wean ourselves off fossil fuels. This pipeline, which will transport dirty Tar Sands oil from Canada to the USA, is where we’ve decided to Draw the Line. Interestingly most of the major banks on Wall Street who are investing in dirty energy projects such as the Keystone pipeline would be underwater! #Drawtheline.  Check out video of the debut on YouTube!

Last night, we teamed up with VOCAL NY to help with their week of action to expose Tax Dodging, and fight back against Corporations Advocating for Cuts to Public Services.

Learn more about what they’re fighting for on their website: http://www.vocal-ny.org/

 

Photos by Kyle Depew

On Sunday, we hit the streets to celebrate and raise awareness of some important hackers and information leakers who have put their lives on the line fighting for government transparency and internet freedom!

Photos by Kyle Depew

On Saturday, we hit the streets to support the new film The Lottery of Birth.  It’s the first “episode” of a series of independently produced documentaries that explores the relationship between freedom and power in democratic society by drawing together interviews with some of the world’s leading intellectuals, academics, journalists and activists. A wide-ranging analysis of the mechanisms and manifestations of power, ‘Creating Freedom’ joins the dots between the education system, the media, PR, democracy, and economics to offer an alternative perspective on today’s society and the future we are creating.  It features interviews with: Howard Zinn, Daniel Dennet, Vandana Shiva, Steven Pinker, George Monbiot, Jeff Schmidt, and more.  Check out their site to see a trailer and learn more about what they’re doing with the Creating Freedom series….

http://www.creatingfreedom.info/

Photos by Kyle Depew

We made a quick stop by Cooper Union the other night to support the students currently occupying the President’s office!  The protesting students believe that in saving a tuition-free Cooper, they’re saving an idea about what education should be in America, and who it should be available to — everyone.  That’s why the students have set up camp in President Jamshed Bharucha’s office Occupy Wall Street-style, where they’re protesting what they call a trend of school boards being over-compensated, while knowing less and less about students.  Cooper Union students want to keep the college tuition-free, and they say they’re not going anywhere until they’re assured it will stay that way.

https://www.facebook.com/FreeCooperUnion

photos by Kyle Depew

On the night of May 9th, 2013, The Illuminator hit the streets to support Dos Países, Una Voz in their effort to expose Carlos Slim’s new charity as laughable.  Dos Países, Una Voz (Two Countries, One Voice) is comprised of Latino community leaders from across the country that have come together to give a voice to all those who cannot speak out. This coalition is driven by a desire to expose how the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, continues to amass his wealth on the backs of the Mexican people and how his practices continue to corrode Mexico’s economic development.

http://www.twocountriesonevoice.com/


photos by Kyle Depew

The Illuminator works with KOSID (www.kosid.org)  to project ads on the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC on April 17th, 2013 in protest of the Bank’s support of the proposed Kosovo C coal-fired power plant, despite grave health concerns raised by Kosovars.  Get more info about this fight here

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