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At 4:30 MST Flux Rostrum returns. As a Writer/Director/Editor FluxRostrum’s digital shorts “DotCompost Heap” & “WOOD” were selected for The Malibu International Film Festival 2002, “Public Housing and Black Panthers in New Orleans” and “N.O. Evictions” were screened at the Anthology Theatre in NYC March 22nd 2006 as part of a program from Third World News Reel entitled “imMEDIAcy“. “Public Housing and Black Panthers in New Orleans” was also screened at the 6th annual Anarchist Film Festival on 7.May.06.
Many FluxRostrum Films have been aired on FreeSpeech TV as part of the Blacked Out Media show and on numerous public access channels world wide, including Manhattan Neighborhood Network and PeraltaTV.
Get That Camera! has aired on FreeSpeech TV, screened at a variety of film festivals and was aired on The Documentary Channel. Flux has worked as part of several collectives that regularly contribute footage and/or finished pieces, such as “Watch This!”, “Mandate?” & “The Iraq War 3rd Anniversary Special”, to FreeSpeech TV. Several videos from Flux’s time in Post Katrina New Orleans have been screened at Columbia University, film festivals and are available for rent on-line @ Liberation Video. Flux has contributed protest footage to several feature films and documentaries including “the F Word” (Tribeca Film Festival) and Still We Ride (Bike Film Festival). As well as contributing footage to Democracy Now, Deep Dish TV and French Television projects.

At 5 PM MST Linda Nathan author of “The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test”
Linda Nathan is the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy, the city’s first and only public high school for the visual and performing arts. BAA sends over 95 percent of its graduates to college—all residents of the city of Boston.
Under her leadership, the school has won state, national, and international recognition and awards. These include a Massachusetts Compass Award, a “Breaking Ranks” award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and a Mentor School award from the Coalition of Essential Schools.
Linda was instrumental in starting Boston’s first performing-arts middle school, and was a driving force behind the creation of Fenway High School, recognized nationally for its innovative educational strategies and school-to-work programs.

We spoke earlier with Professor Curtis Doebbler, a well-recognized international Human Rights Attorney.
Dr. Doebbler is an expert in international law, particularly international human rights law. He has earned law degrees from New York Law School in the United States. Nijmegen University in the Netherlands a Meesterstitel in European law, comparative constitutional law and international law and London School of Economics and Political Science Ph.D. in public international law, specialized in international human rights law. He has also been awarded a diploma in Public International Law by the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law in the Den Haag, Nederland.
He earned first degrees in journalism and English literature from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA.
His clients have included heads of state, governments, non-government organizations and, particularly some of the most vulnerable and oppressed individuals in the world. He has defended Saddam Hussein.

Dr. Doebbler practices law before the International Court of Justice, the African Commission and Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, and the United Nations Treaty bodies. Almost all of his work is pro bono. We discussed his work on the Goldstone Report on Human Right violations in Gaza.

We will be sharing with you Michael Geist’s succinct presentation audio regarding Internet Freedoms from the recent Beyond TRIPS: The Current Push for Greater International Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights conference at American University, Washington College of Law.
The ACTA Threat: My Talk on Everything You Need To Know About ACTA, But Didn’t Know To Ask (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)

Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law and was a member of Canada’s National Task Force on Spam. He is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the BBC. Dr. Geist is the editor of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law, the editor of several monthly technology law publications, and the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues.

What is ACTA? – Electronic Frontier Foundation

” … If ratified, many suggest it would criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers’ communications.

Why You Should Care About It
ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties, for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet, legitimate commerce, and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development.

ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialized countries, outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and (since TRIPs) the World Trade Organization. Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed, no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations.

The Fact Sheet published by the USTR, together with the USTR’s 2008 “Special 301″ report make it clear that the goal is to create a new standard of intellectual property enforcement, above the current internationally-agreed standards in the TRIPs Agreement, and increased international cooperation including sharing of information between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies. The last 10 bilateral free trade agreements entered into by the United States have required trading partners to adopt intellectual property enforcement obligations that are above those in TRIPs. Even though developing countries are not party to the ACTA negotiations, it is likely that accession to, and implementation of, ACTA by developing countries will be a condition imposed in future free trade agreements, and the subject of evaluation in content industry submissions to the annual Section 301 process and USTR report.

While little information has been made available by the governments negotiating ACTA, a document recently leaked to the public entitled “Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement” from an unknown source gives an indication of what content industry rightsholder groups appear to be asking for – including new legal regimes to “encourage ISPs to cooperate with right holders in the removal of infringing material”, criminal measures, and increased border search powers. The Discussion Paper leaves open how Internet Service Providers should be encouraged to identify and remove allegedly infringing material from the Internet. However the same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the “Three Strikes” /Graduated Response), so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers. While mandating copyright filtering by ISPs will not be technologically effective because it can be defeated by use of encryption, efforts to introduce network level filtering will likely involve deep packet inspection of citizens’ Internet communications. This raises considerable concerns for citizens’ civil liberties and privacy rights, and the future of Internet innovation. …

Yet all we know for certain is it’s a treaty (.pdf) about beefing up intellectual property protections being negotiated in secret by the European Union, the United Sates, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand. …
“Because the text of the treaty and relevant discussion documents remain secret, the public has no way of assessing whether and to what extent these and related concerns are merited,” the groups said in a letter (.pdf) to trade representatives from the participating nations.

The groups include Consumers Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Essential Action, IP Justice, Knowledge Ecology International, Public Knowledge, Global Trade Watch, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, IP Left (Korea), Australian Digital Alliance, The Canadian Library Association, Consumers Union of Japan, National Consumer Council (UK) and Doctors without Borders’ Campaign for Essential Medicines. …” – Wired, Threat Level, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction?, by David Kravets, 15.Sept.08

Dr. Geist serves on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Expert Advisory Board, on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy’s Review Panel, and on the Information Program Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute. He has received numerous awards for his work including the Les Fowlie Award for Intellectual Freedom from the Ontario Library Association in 2009, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award in 2008, Canarie’s IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada and he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2003.