Indymedia Newreal (October 2002) & “paint it Black: Anarchism, Urban Uprising & the Mainstream News Media”
2001, NR, 86 min.
Directed by Jessica Lawless, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

The October Newreal includes footage form a longshoremen rally in Seattle, antiwar demonstrations in San Francisco and Colorado Springs, preparations for the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Ecuador, and more. The 56-minute long “Paint It Black” by Jessica Lawless is a response to the corporate media’s portrayal of anarchists after the 1999 Seattle WTO protests.

This article appears in Stan Knee.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.