Wild Clearing - Art Documenting Reality

EXCERPT - COA CHATTANOOGA BUS LINE HISTORY TRIP

2011-05-06T02:31:00.000-07:00

An excerpt from Chattanooga Organized for Action's city history trip on a regularly scheduled CARTA bus, history offered by Mike Feely - 3 minutes - filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

iPHONE EDITED - APISON TN TORNADO DESTRUCTION & AID

2011-05-03T07:06:00.000-07:00

iPhone filmed & edited video of tornado destruction in Apison TN on April 27, 2011. Filmed while I and Eileen Rehberg sought to assess victims' needs for United Way of Chattanooga 211, Eileen the 211 director - Wes Rehberg

"ANOTHER WAY TO PUT" - title segment of video album

2011-04-05T10:33:00.000-07:00

"Another Way to Put it" is a 2-part experimental short on a reflection on filming direction -- actors include Christy Gallo, Jennelle Gilreath, Randall Pennington -- 2nd camera was Megan Hollenbeck -- additional music by Donnie Jenkins and Dalton Roberts -- filmed by me, Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing - 6-minutes

"DOWN HOME WITH DALTON" - a video album documentary

2011-04-05T06:17:00.000-07:00

"Down Home With Dalton" is a video album documentary about Dalton Roberts, singer, songwriter, storyteller and former Hamilton County, Tennessee, county executive. Features songs and conversations with Dalton, also with musicians Donnie Jenkins and Martha Ann Brooks. This video clip is an introduction to the video album - Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing - see www.wildclearing.com/dalton.html for more ...

"War Is Over" sung by The States ("When War Is Done")

2010-11-11T09:52:00.000-08:00

"War Is Over," Si Kahn's song, is sung by The States in this informal take filmed by Wes Rehberg. The States are Janie Stein and Marty Bates - roving troubadour folk singers. Filmed inside their home, their RV ... © 2010 Wild Clearing (Also know as "When War is Done"

Bluegrass, Brakhage, Breakage and Brouillage Redux - a lens cleaner

2010-09-28T12:38:00.000-07:00

Bluegrass, Brakhage, Breakage and Brouillage Redux - a lens cleaner - to keep the other eye open in the midst of doc shots and sketches ... my harkening way way back to when it was then ... 3 minutes

Y-CAP Juvenile Offenders Garden Work With Disabled Adults

2010-09-19T16:33:00.000-07:00

Y-CAP began a juvenile offenders garden project in Chattanooga as part of work to help them develop positive behaviors and share their work with disabled adults who live as Orange Grove Center residents. This rough video excerpt from my developing documentary film sketch offers a view of that project. Four minutes, by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing.

3 Raw Video Clips - Y-CAP juvenile behavior help

2010-09-11T04:21:00.000-07:00

Three compiled unedited video clips of one aspect of Y-CAP's work with juvenile offenders - Daily review of school performance and after-school tutoring. Six minutes. These are raw video clips, unedited, to give a glimpse as we continue to film a documentary on this Chattanooga YMCA Community Action Project. Filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing.

Improvisor 2010 - Andrea Centazzo (percussion) - Chattanooga TN

2010-08-17T12:14:00.000-07:00

Improvisor 2010 - Chattanooga - Excerpts - Barking Legs Theater

2010-08-17T12:12:00.000-07:00

"Uneven Surfaces: A Cuba Reverie"

2010-07-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

This indicates a direction for my Uneven Surfaces experimental video series - Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

Downtown Street Dancing - Chattanooga TN

2010-07-26T07:56:00.000-07:00

Angela Sweet, Elizabeth Longphre and Polly Curtis dance improvisationally on East Main Street in Chattanooga in this 9-minute video filmed by Wes Rehberg of Wild Clearing. The Angela Sweet Dances have been a summer Friday night routine on city streets.

BROKEN PANES: A REFLECTION: REVISED:

2010-06-08T13:36:00.000-07:00

Phenomena, Sprirituality and Design

2010-02-16T06:45:00.000-08:00

Notes on Phenomena, Design and the Spiritual

I'm amazed amid all the devastation at the failure to grasp the extent of the intimacy of interconnectedness in the phenomena we share, as a phenomenologist (logos embracing both rationality and spirituality) and one who feels a kinship with what is loosely called the spiritual.
My rational self sees a design at work in the interconnectedness of phenomena as science seeks to comprehend the design and reason it out, work out methods and measures.
The design, however, is a priori, and as far as I understand design, it too has an a priori. Mutation is part of the design, the method - so is probability and randomness.
I can't escape the notion of design per se and can't explain how it, in itself, came to be. It's here that I make the Kierkegaardian leap, keeping in mind what he called "the cunning of oblivion."
So I try to value what is, as both immanent and transcendent, recognizing the gray matter limits -that valuing, to me, is "spiritual."

MAKE SURE THEY'RE CLEAN - an experimental video rant on injustices ...

2010-02-11T02:47:00.000-08:00

"Make Sure They're Clean" is an experimental way to express complicity with injustices - filmed by Wes Rehberg of Wild Clearing ... 4 minutes

ENOCH'S DECISION: THE FOG

2009-09-05T11:35:00.000-07:00

THE FOG

The fog, somehow Enoch felt secure in its midst. He always seemed to himself a little distant, out of place. Still he played with others, stickball in the schoolyard, punchball, stoopball, roller hockey on the streets. But there was a space between all this and himself that he knew but couldn't fathom.

“Maybe it’s my name,” he thought, walking down narrow 208th Street to a corner candy store. “Enoch Jubal.” The Irish and Italian young people would call him “Jewboy” while the neighboring Jewish community ignored him - he didn’t go to temple. Actually, his Hungarian-born grandfather was a Catholic and his grandmother a Lutheran and Enoch was a communicant in the Catholic church. His grandfather had an Austrian name, Rothauer, but his drinking buddies called him “Rummy.” “Rummy Jewboy,” the young people would say, teasing maliciously, when Enoch let on about his grandfather’s nickname.

In the fog along the street, a pungent mist rose from the manhole covers in the road, sewer smell. “Enoch!,” a boy’s voice called. It was Barry, a Jewish friend he sometimes played with, though Barry's mother didn’t approve. Barry was up in a maple tree. “Where ya goin’?” “Down to Dinks.” Barry couldn’t go so he said, “OK.”

This was well before the Long Island Expressway cut a channel through his neighborhood and just a little later than World War II, which Enoch followed somewhat in the news from third grade on, remembering Franklin D. Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech on the radio after Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. He also remembered the atomic bomb's first tests at Alamagordo, New Mexico and Bikini Atoll and the question about whether a chain reaction would uncontrollably erupt throughout the world. He recalled too the brown B-47 bombers flying low overhead in Queens en route to the war, the blackouts, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, V-E day when the Allies finally defeated Hitler's armies and neighborhood people ran out into the night to celebrate with shouts, banging pots and pans, and V-J Day, when Japan surrendered. It was also before the so-called Korean conflict and President Harry Truman's decision to deny World War Ii hero General Douglas MacArthur's trenchant desire to pursue retreating North Korea invaders across the 38th Parallel.

Though by now beginning to fail in school, Enoch knew all this and more in his young years. Homework was out of tbe question for him in the three-rooms he shared with his mother, brother and grandparents, especially the times when his grandfather came home drunk. These times became worse after the war when his grandfather was out of work when his job ended as foreman at the Farmingdale plant that built P-47 fighter planes. It would be a couple of humiliating years before he'd find work again, this time as a machinist in the Lilly Tulip cup factory in Queens. Enoch's mother Stephany, was the mainstay support with her cartoon job at Paramount during that difficult time.

So Enoch felt separate in the fog on his walk to Dinks. When challenged by other boys to fight, he wouldn't, to the hoots of "chicken!" He wouldn't steal candy bars at Dinks either, though he liked to look at woman's bodies in magazine and comic pictures, feeling a surge between his legs. "You gonna buy one of those?" Jim Dinks would ask. "No, I want a candy bar," Enoch replied. He first felt that surge in the park when he was shinnying on the angled bars that held the swings upright. "Don't you dare ever do that again" his mother said when he told her about the feeling. He thought, "You should talk," knowing how she'd be propped up reading in a sheer nightgown in her chair bed while he and his brother went to bed on a fold-down sofa in the same room.

Coming out of Dinks, Enoch saw the fog was dissipating. If he could only disappear with it, he thought.

ENOCH'S DECISION

2009-08-28T17:45:00.000-07:00

ENOCH’S DECISION:

Enoch wondered why he never ran away. Sitting on the city park swing, he knew he had to go home soon, a couple of blocks away, a small house near his high school, where he and four others lived in a three-room flat on the second floor.

His brother would probably be home already. They rarely spent time together. His mother would be arriving shortly after a subway and bus ride from Manhattan, where she worked on animated cartoons. His grandmother would be making supper, maybe roll-em-ups from flank steak, bacon and parsley, with egg noodles, after a day of playing solitaire, drinking beer and reading romance stories. It was payday, so his grandfather would be at a tavern in the poorest part of Bayside, downing shots with beer chasers.

On payday, sometimes Enoch would have to ride his ancient bicycle to the tavern to tell his grandfather that dinner was ready. Drunk, his grandfather was unpredictably violent, so it was a daunting task. Enoch, isolated but maturing at age 12, would use the bike so he wouldn’t have to ride home in his grandfather’s old Dodge. “Gramps, it’s time to come home,” he’d say softly, to the still powerful and bulky figure seated at the bar. The answer would be a cackling laugh, sarcastic and angry at the interruption.

Enoch knew his grandfather’s violence well, having been punched hard enough to slam into a refrigerator so it would rock, and picked up and thrown against a wall. He also knew the man, now in his late 50s, had a sweetness to him, a contradiction Enoch tried hard to reconcile. But over and over he wanted to escape, to flee, sometimes taking the same route into Manhattan his mother used, riding subways into the Bronx, into Brooklyn, uptown and downtown, walking streets in “the city,” or pedaling his decade-old second-hand bike to Crocheron Park, to walk along the Little Neck Bay waterfront.

Another occasional escape was early morning bus rides to a city golf course, where he would take his small bag of clubs, a gift from Jared, his deadbeat father, and find some duffers to play with at a dime a hole. Enoch usually left the links with a dollar more than he arrived with, the other golfers surprised. He could break a hundred and probably should have stayed with the game but didn’t. The little bit of money he got from this, from shagging golf balls at a private course, and from schoolyard knock-rummy helped fund his forays, including his special solitary trips to a midtown Horn & Hardart’s Automat in “the city” to buy a pot of beans, a hotdog, a piece of pie and coffee, most all enclosed in compartments behind little glass doors that opened when you inserted coins. Enoch was a frequent truant from school.

On the park swing, Enoch said to himself, “Time to go home.” The swing, rocking slightly, stopped and he stood up and walked past Joe, the parkman, closing up shop, past the crabtrees he had climbed while younger, down the slope to the sidewalk where he learned to ride a bicycle, across the street where the Q28 bus was parked so he knew his mother was home, and down the working-class street of closely clustered houses, some two-family like his. Running away would be put off for another day.

His grandfather’s old Dodge was not parked on the street, so he hadn’t arrived yet. Sometimes Enoch, out after dinner, would return to see the sedan there and feel the radiator to detect whether it was still warm, which would mean his grandfather, drunk, would still be up and seated at the kitchen table, ranting. Enoch probably wouldn’t be doing the same thing this particular evening.

“Enoch,” his grandmother said as he climbed the stairs to the second floor. “Go get your grandfather.” He looked at his mother, at the kitchen table in a pastel blue knit dress, drinking tea, and heard his brother in the living room where all three slept, and said “OK.”

WIDOW OF POISONED NUCLEAR WORKER WANTS JUSTICE

2009-08-11T08:01:00.000-07:00

Interview with Jan Lovelace, widow of poisoned nuclear complex worker Harry Lovelace, details the trials both have gone through to try get help through the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) administered by the U.S. Dept. of Labor. Jan also describes the extreme personal difficulties of Harry's illness, attributed to his work as a fireman at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Ten-minutes, filmed by Wes Rehberg, music by Paul Page, ©2009 Wild Clearing

Widow of Poisoned Nuclear Worker Wants Justice from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

Cherokee Forest Sketch: The Bald River Wilderness Area

2009-07-19T04:47:00.000-07:00

This video sketch is from a few hours filming with Jeff Hunter, wildlifer from Tennessee Wild and the Southeast Appalachian Forest Coalition, for a documentary he's fostering on wilderness preservation throughout the Appalachian region. 5-minutes -Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing ...

Janine Anderson Dies After Championing Sick Nuclear Worker Cause

2009-07-19T04:44:00.000-07:00

Janine Anderson died four days after launching hers and other sick-nuclear fuel plant workers campaign on April 28, 2009 for a National Day of Remembrance of those still ill from contaminants and those who passed on. She worked at the nuclear fuel gas diffusion K-25 plant in Oak Ridge TN. She was among several sickened workers I've interviewed in the past year - to view their stories and events, visit theexposed.net - This is a draft video © 2009 Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

"I Want His Justice" - Jan Lovelace - 18 seconds

2009-07-08T14:34:00.000-07:00

Draft introductory segment of interview with Jan Lovelace regarding her husband Harry's death after working at the Oak Ridge TN nuclear complex, where thousands have won claims for toxic and radiological poisoning - 18 seconds

"I Heard a Tweet: Chattup at the Hunter" a video tweet

2009-03-02T03:18:00.000-08:00

This is a 3-minute video sketch of a Hunter Museum of American Art event in Chattanooga TN called "I Heard a Tweet: Chattup at the Hunter." It was sponsored by Hunter, Chattaratti and Juncture. Persons marked their presence by tweeting on Twitter. This is my tweet.

An Ex-Prisoner's Predicament: No Job, No Home

2009-01-14T08:10:00.000-08:00

A 10-minute video sketch of an interview with Terriun Harris, who talks about the difficulty of finding a job and housing with a felony conviction on his record. Brother Ron Fender speaks about CHANGER, an intervention economic human rights program for Terriun and others in his predicament. Filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing.

TVA Coal Ash Spill: Video Sketch of River Damage

2009-01-03T11:57:00.000-08:00

A video sketch of coal ash spill damage to the Emory River in Tennessee, result of a coal ash slurry pond dam break from the Kingston Coal Power Plant that spilled into the river and surrounding community ... also an encounter with a local deputy who tried to stop filming -- filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN BATTLE ARE APPALLING

2008-12-29T08:41:00.000-08:00

I am appalled that civilians' casualties are merely regarded as "collateral damage" in battle instead of civilian lives being valued and protected.

Facebook video and photo posts

2008-12-11T06:18:00.000-08:00

I've added on Facebook photos and videos from various activism actions ... Facebook| Wes Rehberg

MEMORIAL FOR MEMORY

2008-11-20T18:32:00.000-08:00

An 9-minute experimental film/video on memory, its reliability, abstraction and feeling. Filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

"THE HEARTLAND SPEAKS" -- 7-minute video of gathering, rally, arrests at military air show in Salina, KS

2008-11-11T08:03:00.000-08:00

The video is from the Salina, KS, Heartland Speaks gathering, rally and arrests -- see post below for details -- this is the YouTube version, which may be more accessible.

2008-11-11T07:52:00.000-08:00

This is a test of how photo works on blogspot .. the photo is of a Skype webcam chat between Mike Havenar, big picture, and me, inset, him in Louisiana, me in Chattanooga ... Mike's blogspot blog is titled "Orogenesis."

Heartland Speaks: Rally and arrests at military air show

2008-10-20T12:59:00.000-07:00

Heartland Speaks: Rally & arrests in opposition to military air show from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

Eight from "The Heartland Speaks" arrested at Kansas A-10 Warthog air show

Eight of us were arrested Wednesday at the site of the Salina, Kansas "bombing and strafing" air show after "crossing the line" during a demonstration against increased U.S. militarization and the use of depleted uranium munitions. Five of the jailed were over age 70.

The arrested were part of a three-day gathering of about 40 activists from throughout the U.S. called "The Heartland Speaks," which included presentations on militarization and the environment, impact of the use and production of depleted uranium munitions, the lethal use of the A-10 Thunderbolt (Warthog) military jet, the face of warmaking, and nonviolent peacebuilding.

Arrested and jailed for criminal trespass were Janie Stein, 50, and Martin Bates, 53, conference organizers in Salina; Sister Agnes Caroline Teter, 79, of Salina; Frank Cordaro, 57, of Des Moines Catholic Worker; Ralph Kresin, 71, of the Salina peace community; Gerald Paoli, 48, of Voices of Creative Nonviolence in Chicago; Sister Margaret Rourke, 80, of Salina, and Wes Rehberg, 72, of Wild Clearing in Chattanooga, TN. Sisters Caroline and Margaret are connected with the Sisters of St. Joseph.

The A-10 Warthog competition was called "Hawgsmoke," and jets were taking off and landing in practice runs during the demonstration. The military jets,can fire up to 60 30mm rounds a second in their bombing and strafing attacks, including DU rounds, and have been deployed extensively in recent U.S. military incursions.

The local media lauded the "Hawgsmoke" competition with headlines like "They're Heeeere ..." and "Successful Takeoff," but also covered the demonstration and arrests. About 50 persons were present at the demonstration, which included a three-mile march to the site of the air competition, live music and talks by participants.

Attending the conference and demonstration as well were activists from Veterans for Peace, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance in Baltimore, Christian Peacemaker Teams, the Land Institute, the Manhattan, KS, peace community, and an activist musician from Australia.

Filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

WILD CLEARING'S MOBILE HOME PAGE ...

2008-10-05T10:08:00.000-07:00

We now have a mobile home page ... It's viewable by iPhone, cell phones and mobile devices at http://www.wildclearing.com/mobile ...

"What We Make Disappears..." (Between the Ice Ages)

2008-10-02T10:29:00.000-07:00

What We Make Disappears ... (Between the Ice Ages) from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

In this 5-minute experimental video, I reflect on how temporary things are ... that all we create eventually disappears in a universe that changes, a solar system that will vanish. This is part of Between the Ice Ages, tone poems and found objects.

BETWEEN THE ICE AGES ... FAITHFUL ... to the creative spirit

2008-09-28T12:08:00.000-07:00

Between the Ice Ages: ... faithful ... from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

This is a 3-minute 47-second video reflection on how faithfulness to the creative spirit within is the prime sensibility and responsibility in film and art. -- Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

BETWEEN THE ICE AGES: HUMMINGBIRDS

2008-09-25T12:36:00.000-07:00

Between the Ices Ages: Hummingbirds from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

This is a two-minute film tone poem of hummingbirds in the midst of fragile life on a fragile planet. Filmed by Wes Rehberg, score by Max Ruehl. Also ... We've reworked our site to include a new category, "Tone Poems and Found Objects," on the theme of Between the Ice Ages, with several film sketches ... links to these are found at wildclearing.com/mother-forest/index.html ...

THE EXPOSED: ATTY LISTS PROBLEMS IN US HELP FOR SICK NUCLEAR WORKERS

2008-09-23T02:09:00.000-07:00

THE EXPOSED: Atty lists problems in US help for sick nuclear workers from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

Attorney Frank Gerlach details problems in the U.S. program to help sick nuclear workers under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness and Compensation Program, in this preliminary video clip for the documentary exposed. He spoke at a meeting of the Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security in Ohio -- co-founded by Vina Colley, a sick former worker at the USEC Portsmouth nuclear enrichment plant. Gerlach represents sick workers in their efforts to obtain compensation and medical aid from nuclear plant contamination through the program administered by the U.S. Dept. of Labor. Filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

THE EXPOSED: INTERVIEW WITH MIKE DRIVER, SICK NUCLEAR WORKER

2008-09-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

THE EXPOSED: Interview with Mike Driver, sick nuclear worker from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

This continues our series of preliminary video clips from interviews with sick nuclear plant workers, here with Mike Driver, who worked at the Paducah, KY, gaseous diffusion nuclear fuel enrichment plant. The preliminary clips are from filming for our documentary in process, "The Exposed," produced by Wes & Eileen Rehberg of Wild Clearing. See www.wildclearing.com for our work.

AFTER "THE EXPOSED," IT WILL BE 'FINIS' - on the road reflection

2008-09-09T07:14:00.000-07:00

   This is a reflection on direction for me, and for our documentary film work. Cost has been a factor but so has been reception to what we've been up to, both related. Realistically, we just eke by with this and can't sustain more debt for these feature-length media-activist productions. Sales don't make up for expenses and festival reception has been low, both indicators of how well what we're doing is received.

   Our documentary enterprise has basically been one person filming on location without a crew, that person now age 72, with some skill and journalistic acuity, but essentially only filming documentaries for 2 1/2 years, beginning with "Chattanooga's Homeless Challenge," through "Contaminated Forever," and now filming "The Exposed," about poisoned nuclear workers, an enterprise scaled back from its original nationwide intent.

   With all this in mind, "The Exposed" will be our last production of this kind. Without decent reception for what we put our money and ourselves into, we can't justify its costs both to us personally and to our livelihoods. My heart is in this, and the power of each person's story is compelling and powerfully moving to me, and the devastating nature of their exposure to contaminants is real and criminal and needs to be brought out, but I'm apparently not getting this across well enough. The limited reception to "Contaminated Forever," on the deadly aftermath of the use and production of depleted uranium weapons, suggests this.

   Hopefully, "The Exposed" will have some impact. Scaled back, it may be more intimate, perhaps shed of some of the things that may be problematic in "Contaminated Forever," and stylistically improved. But it will be our last.

Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing

THE EXPOSED: SICK OAK RIDGE NUCLEAR WORKERS DETAIL FRUSTRATIONS

2008-09-06T07:46:00.000-07:00

During an interview for our documentary "The Exposed," three former Oak Ridge nuclear workers spoke of their frustrations with obtaining medical help and compensation through the U.S. Department of Labor, charged with helping such workers through the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) -- working video clip filmed by Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing ...

THE EXPOSED: INTERVIEW WITH SICK URANIUM WORKER VINA COLLEY

2008-07-31T10:03:00.000-07:00

The Exposed: Vina Colley, sick uranium worker from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

Above is a 14-minute video of an interview with sick worker Vina Colley, who was an employee at the Portsmouth/Piketon Ohio uranium enrichment and gaseous diffusion plant, now operated by United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC). Colley details her illnesses, workplace problems, her employment and her efforts to obtain medical help and monetary compensation. She is president of PRESS, the Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security, and co-founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice.

The interview is connected with a documentary were filming called "The Exposed." -- Wes Rehberg, Wild Clearing, http://www.wildclearing.com ...

"CONTAMINATED FOREVER" -- INTRODUCTORY SCENES FROM A DOCUMENTARY ON THE HAZARDS OF DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS

2008-07-28T17:40:00.000-07:00

"CONTAMINATED FOREVER" - the documentary --
... exposing the ongoing impact of the use of depleted uranium weapons

Filmmaker Wes Rehberg and artist and social policy analyst Eileen Rehberg have produced and filmed "Contaminated Forever," a 1-hour and 45-minute documentary to help in the effort to expose the terrible consequences of the use of depleted uranium weapons (DU) for test purposes and in the battlefield.
These weapons were used in Iraq, the Balkans, on testing grounds throughout the United States and territories, and possibly in Afghanistan, Panama and Lebanon, with their poison dust afflicting soldiers and civilians. Their nanoparticle fallout, in the earth, has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, ready to be inhaled or ingested, where, inside the body, they pass through cell walls to begin their radioactive and toxic damage.
You may view the home page for "Contaminated Forever," as well as a high-bandwidth flash video draft of this segment, at this web page. A DVD of the documentary is also available for purchase there. A Vimeo version is below. -- Wes Rehberg

"Contaminated Forever" - introductory scenes: a documentary on DU weapons contamination from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo..

OUTLINE OF DOCUMENTARY:

PART 1: Introduction
PART 2: CPT actions at Aerojet Ordnance in Tennessee
PART 3: Vieques activists speak out about bombing range contamination
PART 4: Doug Rokke, maligned military whistleblower
PART 5: ICBUW conference at UN Plaza in NYC
PART 6: NL industries victims of contamination
PART 7: Anti-DU rally in Jonesborough, TN
POSTLUDE: Iraq veteran Herb Reed at home

THE EXPOSED: VIDEO - RALLY FOR POISONED NUCLEAR WORKERS IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE

2008-07-28T17:29:00.000-07:00

THE EXPOSED: Nuclear Workers rally for illness compensation in Oak Ridge, TN from Wes Rehberg on Vimeo.

Posted here is a 14-minute video of a rally in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, organized by the Coalition for a Healthy Environment, whose organizers have been working since the mid-1990s for compensation, care and recognition of nuclear weapons worker contamination. Many among this group are sick from the poisons as well.

The rally, on June 25, 2008, was among others that day in Cleveland, Ohio, organized by Bethlehem Steel former workers in Buffalo, New York, in Denver, Colorado, organized by Rocky Flats former workers, and in Hispañola, New Mexico, by Los Alamos workers. The video can also be viewed in a higher-resolution version at this site: http://www.wildclearing.com/ice-ages/the-exposed.html

We're now developing a documentary on nuclear workers who have become poisoned by heavy metals, radiation and other contaminants and who are also struggling for adequate compensation for their illnesses for those who are yet alive but sick, and for acknowledgement that those who have died did so as a result of limited or no recognition that their illnesses were caused by exposure to contaminants, flawed human safety procedures and limited care.

Can art document reality?

2005-05-16T19:38:00.000-07:00

This is the basic question ...