Jesse Freeston, Author at Toward Freedom

Video – Arizona: State of Fear

Jesse Freeston August 12, 2010 Jesse Freeston

Fear in the state’s Latino community is not a side-effect, it’s the stated goal of those in power.

‘Attrition by enforcement’ is the name of the game in Arizona. The goal is to dissuade undocumented immigration by making life unbearable for the undocumented already living in Arizona. Desert tent jails and arbitrary checkpoints are two of the tactics used to strike fear into the undocumented with the goal of deterring others from coming. Ecuadorian filmmaker Oscar León, who has been covering this issue from Arizona for the past three years, points out that the undocumented can’t possibly be separated from the documented Latino population without a police state, and Arizona has been developing it’s own version long before the controversial SB1070 law was on the map. read more

US Nurses Rising Up

Jesse Freeston July 28, 2010 Jesse Freeston

Nurses around the United States are standing up for themselves and their patients, both through local labor disputes and the strengthening of a new national union. The Real News looks into the new union, a labor victory in Philadelphia, and a looming strike in Washington, DC.

Produced by Jesse Freeston.

Report From Honduras: Elections As Coup Laundering

Jesse Freeston November 30, 2009 Jesse Freeston

The Honduran Coup regime rode police state repression into the November 29 elections hoping for clean slate. Only the governments of Taiwan and the United States sent international observers, and the delegation funded by the US State Department arrived at the Electoral Tribunal at the same time the leaders of all six independent human rights monitors in Honduras were delivering their request that the elections be suspended.