 selected writing The 2010 Olympics and Repression of Independent Media: Report for Rustbelt Radio Nigel Parry, Monday, February 15th, 2010 
The 21st Winter Olympics are being held from February 12th–28th, 2010, in Vancouver and Whistler, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Host cities use the Olympic Games as a means to attract corporate investment in a similar way as with large-scale events such as the Republican and Democratic political conventions and global financial gatherings such as the World Trade Organization, G-8, and G-20 meetings. Nigel Parry reports for Rustbelt Radio.  Israel & the Goldstone Report: Report for Rustbelt Radio Nigel Parry, Monday, February 1st, 2010 
After refusing to cooperate with the UN Gaza enquiry in 2009, Israel submitted its report by UN General Assembly mandate last week. Nigel Parry looks into the background of the Goldstone Report for Rustbelt Radio, Pittsburgh Indymedia's weekly radio program featuring news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. Rustbelt Radio is broadcast live from WRCT studios on 88.3FM in Pittsburgh. Egypt and Gaza: Report for Rustbelt Radio Nigel Parry, Monday, January 18th, 2010 
One year after Israel's attack on Gaza, aid and solidarity convoys find Egypt barring access to the region. Nigel Parry reports for Rustbelt Radio. Rustbelt Radio is Pittsburgh Indymedia's weekly radio program featuring news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. Rustbelt Radio is broadcast live from WRCT studios every other Monday at 6PM on 88.3FM in Pittsburgh, and the program airs again on WRCT every Tuesday morning at 9AM. Rustbelt Radio can also be heard online at radio.indypgh.org. Press Release: G-20 Summit Leaves Pittsburgh, Questions About Freedom In America In Its Wake Thomas Merton Center/Twin Cities Pittsburgh and Indymedia/Glassbead Collective NYC , Sunday, September 27th, 2009 On the first day of the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh, residents and visitors arriving in the downtown area of the two time “Most Livable City” winner were greeted with a town locked down with security fences, barricades, and checkpoints staffed by security forces in camouflage standing next to armored vehicles typically seen in TV news reports from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. From St. Paul to Pittsburgh: Citizen Media is Not a Crime Nigel Parry, Monday, September 21st, 2009 
My first experience with a National Special Security Event (NSSE) was the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC), held between September 1st and 4th in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following years of work developing different areas of the independent media around the world, I co-hosted a variety of independent media from around the country in what became known as “the Indymedia Lounge” during the Convention, and was able to witness first-hand how independent media functions during a large-scale political event. The right to practice citizen journalism and freely carry the tools of reporting is a fundamental right in any free society. Why St. Paul City Attorney John Choi is a danger to public safety Nigel Parry, RNC '08 Report, Friday, February 20th, 2009 
Police actions towards protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention were excessive and have to date gone completely unchecked. The ongoing dismissals of RNC cases and hung juries underline this fact. City officials who have done nothing to put the police on notice that they must tread lightly at First Amendment events are responsible for creating a political climate where the freedom of speech of all can be said to be being seriously violated. Letter sent to Minnesotan protesters of the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company tour Nigel Parry, Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 
Everyone is pissed off about Gaza. We should be pissed off about Gaza. This tour of dancing Israeli soldiers and any other cultural events that have a clear Israeli focus should be boycotted. I'm an artist. I'm a musician, I do design, I am with artists. But I am not "with" artists from countries that have systematically violated international law for decades, and I am not "with" artists who sign on to supporting stuff that's clearly whacked out. Letter to the BBC about refusing to broadcast the DEC's Gaza Appeal Nigel Parry, Thursday, January 29th, 2009 
Like it or not, the BBC has taken a position on the war in Gaza. The BBC is not only saying that it will not help the victims, the BBC has put an obstacle in the path of those who are attempting to help the victims. Both positions are unacceptable. The BBC did the same during the summer 2006 Lebanon War. In that war, Israel also massively targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. When any state is breaching international law in such a way, they are automatically on the wrong side of history. To attempt to address their wrongs by helping their victims is a moral imperative and has nothing to do with taking sides. A humanitarian concern takes the side of humans, not any party to the conflict. Mass Arrests and the Heffelfinger-Luger Report Nigel Parry, RNC '089 Report, Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 
The phrase “mass arrest” appears in the main body of the Heffelfinger-Luger report 11 times. At the official presentation of the report at the St. Paul City Council on January 14th, the phrase was used hesitantly, almost reverentially as if to state the obvious would somehow have been the wrong thing to do.... The RNC Review Commission report deals with one of the clearest problems with police actions—three mass arrests—in a completely unsatisfying way. Mass arrests are illegitimate and unconstitutional because people should only be arrested if they have committed a crime. Mass arrests target the innocent as well as the guilty. They are a form of lazy, intimidating, and civil rights-abusing police work. They expose and exploit the innocent rather than protect and serve them. |
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