VIDEO: Seattle March 19 protest against media: ‘Silence is betrayal’
Written by Abe DeJamminen and Fred Moreau
Sunday, 23 March 2008
On Saturday, Nancy Botta of RainDagger Productions posted a video of a March 19 Seattle demonstration focusing on inadequacies of media coverage in the U.S.[1] -- The video features several minutes of a speech by Air Force veteran and Tacoma middle school teacher Nathan Bowling, who said: “The war in Iraq is destroying the culture of democracy that we have in the United States.” -- Citing Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, he said that the time has come for the war in Iraq when “silence is betrayal.” -- Among several others featured: Linda Boyd of Washington For Impeachment, who said that “We need to be our own media. . . . We have new tools now to make our voices heard.” ...