News footage from the Quadrant Homes action
News helicopters captured footage of the RAN and Grassy Narrows occupation of a Quadrant home in Bothell, WA. Quadrant homes are built with Weyerhaeuser lumber taken from the territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
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March 20th, 2007 at 9:31 am
what code do i use to post the video as an embedded object on livejournal, myspace, etc?
i “viewed the source” and when i copy the “embed” section it doesn’t work, any suggestions?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Some blogging tools might not let you use embedded media. I’m not sure what livejournal and myspace do with it … they might not allow the tag.
One thing: make sure, when copying the embed code, you pick up both the start and end tags:
Alternatively, just give a link to the file. Many browsers will act as a video player when people click on it, and others will prompt them to download the clip.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Brady, check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6k3Iwuph4
March 30th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
[...] Wednesday was definitely the most adrenaline-filled of the whole week! We woke up and got ready for the day’s events by waiting for a call from the action team. When it finally came, we raced out to a Quadrant Homes development in Bothell, about 20 minutes north of Seattle. We arrived to find two activists perched on the roof of a model home with a huge banner that read, “We’ll leave your home when you leave ours.” Nobody at the development had realized yet that a model-home takeover was just beginning! We got pictures of the representatives from Grassy Narrows standing by the house, under the banner and waited for the media and police to arrive. Over the next hour or so activists arrived to support the action, media streamed in to document the events, and police came to figure out what to do with us. The home takeover was entirely peaceful, and surprisingly calm. We were clear with our demands and our message – we wanted to hear from Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel. We wanted to know how Mr. Rogel plans to get Weyerhaeuser out of Grassy Narrows, and the activists on the roof weren’t going to leave willingly until we heard those plans. Toward the end of the afternoon, in an amazingly serendipitous moment, the fire trucks arrived just as two local-news helicopters started circling the model home – we were “Live at 5” on the news! Check out the great news coverage here-. [...]
March 30th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
[...] Wednesday was definitely the most adrenaline-filled of the whole week! We woke up and got ready for the day’s events by waiting for a call from the action team. When it finally came, we raced out to a Quadrant Homes development in Bothell, about 20 minutes north of Seattle. We arrived to find two activists perched on the roof of a model home with a huge banner that read, “We’ll leave your home when you leave ours.” Nobody at the development had realized yet that a model-home takeover was just beginning! We got pictures of the representatives from Grassy Narrows standing by the house, under the banner and waited for the media and police to arrive. Over the next hour or so activists arrived to support the action, media streamed in to document the events, and police came to figure out what to do with us. The home takeover was entirely peaceful, and surprisingly calm. We were clear with our demands and our message – we wanted to hear from Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel. We wanted to know how Mr. Rogel plans to get Weyerhaeuser out of Grassy Narrows, and the activists on the roof weren’t going to leave willingly until we heard those plans. Toward the end of the afternoon, in an amazingly serendipitous moment, the fire trucks arrived just as two local-news helicopters started circling the model home – we were “Live at 5” on the news! Check out the great news coverage here-. [...]
June 25th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
You people are mentally challenged, I’m convinced.