NY Times Article

Freespeak Media NY Times article

Today Freespeak Media and Executive Producer: Jerah Plucker were quoted in the NY Times concerning the 1st day of the National Republican Convention.  Jerah Plucker, Kari Koehler and Maria Anderson were rounded up along side approximately 500 onlookers and activists by the St. Paul Police on September 1st while capturing a demonstration below the Wabasha bridge.  After being detained for four hours and told they were being arrested the police recognized our crew as press and they were thankfully released.  

Interviews

(in Order of Appearance in the Film)
JOHN WOLF - St. Paul Business owner
DOUG HOLTZ - St. Paul Police Commander
JENNY SIKES - Texas Delegation Organizer
MIKE DEWINE - Former Ohio Republican Senator
PAUL HOOKE - Alaska Delegation guest
WAYNE JANOE - Oklahoma Delegate
AUDREY BRODIMORE - RNC guest
JESS SUNDIN - Anti-War Coalition organizer
STEPHANIE SOLBA - Ron Paul supporter
VINCENT CAMPOS - Texas Delegate
SCOTT BARBER - Texas Delegation guest
MARJORIE WATSON - Delegate guest
CHLOE DERBY - St. Paul resident
WES DAVEY - Iraq Veterans Against the War
DAN DOBSON - National Lawyers Guild observer
MIC KELLY - political activist
BRUCE NESTOR - President of the MN Lawyers Guild
WILLIE J.R. FLEMING - Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
KAROLYN KIRSCHGESLER - RiverCentre Convention & Visitors Bureau
LAURIE RADOVSKY - Seeds of Peace medic
WILL SNOW - Northstar Health Collective medic
BOB FLETCHER - Ramsey County Sheriff
STEVE HIRSCH - St. Paul resident
SARAH COFFEE - St. Paul resident
ANDY FAHLSTROM - RNC Welcoming Committee
JANET SLISINSKI - Delegate guest
HEATHER BROWN - WCCO News correspondent
TOM WALSH - St. Paul Police Spokesman
SHAMAKO NOBLE - Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
COLEEN ROWLEY - Former FBI Agent
DAVE THUNE - St. Paul - Ward 2 Councilmember

These interviews are based around how these people are expressing
their rights to free speech at the
2008 National Republican Convention.

Freespeak Media

Freespeak Media has begun principle photography of a multi-media documentary film project that explores the methods people use to exercise their free speech rights and the impact these techniques have on others.