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First, you'll hear from Koby Bluitt talking about her father, Leon Benson and his struggle for release after 23 years in prison, 10 of which was in solitary confinement, for a murder charge in 1998 that he has consistently claimed to have not committed. More on Leon at freeleonbenson.org or leonbenson-freeleonbenson on facebook. The Mass Release & Clemency for Leon rally in Indianapolis is July 25th at Tarkington Park. [00:04:44] Then, youll hear from Landis Reyonolds, a founder of IDOC Watch currently held in Westville Correctional Institution and whos been in since he was a juvenile, and Ray, an outside organizer with the South Bend, Indiana chapter of IDOC Watch. They talk about their work to start study groups in prison, promote Prison Lives Matter, support jailhouse lawyers and recruit outside lawyers through the Prison Legal Support Network alongside the NLG and more. More info at IDOCWatch.Org or find them on twitter, instagram or fakebook. You can support them via their patreon as well! [00:38:08] PLSN contact info If you are or know an incarcerated paralegal in IDOC: Please send a letter to: IDOC Watch P.O. Box 3322 South Bend, IN, 46619 or leave us a voicemail at (423) 281-5009 with your name, DOC #, a brief introduction, and legal training/experience. We will contact you by GTL. If you are an abolitionist-minded lawyer, law student, paralegal, or have legal expertise and would like to assist: Email Ray (PLSN outside facilitator) @ RaddishGreens@protonmail.com Prison Lives Matter: Visit us at www.supportprisonlives.org Write to us at PO Box 9383, Chicago IL, 60609 Sean Swain on Texas abortion laws at [01:19:58] Announcements Abolitionist BBQ in Richmond Join abolitionists on June 5th, 2021 at Chimborazo Park from 2-6pm for an Aboliton Assembly & BBQ, hosted by the VA Prison Abolition Collective and Prison Lives Matter. You can find that and more events across Turtle Island at ItsGoingDown's Upcoming Events page. Drop The Charges in PDX The Portland Anti-Repression Defense League, or PADL, is launching a campaign to demand all charges from the 2020 BLM protests get dropped. You can find a link to the press release in the One Year Rebellion post of the IGD column, In Contempt. And you can contact the organizers at pdxadl@protonmail.com. International Solidarity with Palestinians Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement and the Muslim-Jewish Anti-Fascist Front have called for weeks of actions in support of the people of Palestine under the title “International Solidarity Is The Weapon of the People.” We'd like to remind you that while occupied Palestine is no longer in the news as Hamas and Israel signed a ceasefire: the everyday brutality of the blockade on Gaza has been going since 2007 Israeli courts, cops, military and settlers continue to displace and ethnically cleanse Palestinian Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists and others from the occupied territories as they have since the Nakba began the US government ok'd more weapons sales to Israel during this recent assault that left dozens of Palestinian adults and children dead, destroyed water treatment, housing, media, medical and other infrastructure Eric King & CLDC Are Suing BOP The Civil Liberties Defense Center, on behalf of incarcerated antifascist, vegan and anarchist prisoner Eric King has filed a lawsuit about the ongoing cruelty and torture Eric has faced since he was incarcerated in 2014 for an act of sabotage in solidarity with the then-Uprising in Fergusson, MO, after the brutal murder of Mike Brown, Jr, by police. Eric cannot be abandoned or forgotten, notably since he's in the crosshairs of the state and white supremacists for his anti-racist and anarchist views. You can find an announcement of the lawsuit at the CLDC website, you can find a great writeup on the situation by Natasha Leonard on The Intercept, and you can hear our interview with Eric and his partner from 2019 at our website. Skelly of CLE4 In A Halfway House Joshua “Skelly” Stafford, a part of the Cleveland 4, 4 young anarchist men recruited out of Occupy Cleveland and entrapped by a paid FBI informant into a conspiracy, was released to a halfway house recently. We are excited to see Skelly on his way to full release. Keep an ear out for more details and possible ways to support Skelly post-release. . ... . .. 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Features Tracks: Printmatic (Instrumental) by Soul Position from 8 Million Stories Innocent by Leon Benson / EL BENTLY 448 · MeachThaGod Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk (instrumental) by Cypress Hill from Cypress Hill
When Vickie Claiborne became the head lighting programmer for the opening and closing ceremonies during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, she was just getting started. Over the course of her distinguished 25 year career, she has programmed lighting and media for shows – and trained lighting & media programmers – all over the world. Join us as we discuss how she went from a small theater in Branson, Missouri to the Rock In Rio festival earlier this year, how thoughts on training & education, and how a lighting programmer can get into media programming. Vickie was Programmer and Training Manager for High End Systems until 2006, where she handled hundreds of shows and trained thousands of programmers on Wholehog 2 and Hog 3 products. In 2008, she joined PRG Las Vegas as a Product Specialist, where she is responsible for supporting every control system PRG provides as well as the Series 400 Power & Data Distribution System. She also continues to program and design shows, including the massive New Years Eve event at the Aria resort in Las Vegas. Vickie's passion for education and helping others led her to write her first book, Media Servers For Lighting Programmers, published by Focal Press. In the book, as she does in her many other roles, Vickie calls on her vast experience in lighting and media to explain, clarify, and teach. Vickie is also is a contributing writer for PLSN magazine, covering digital media topics. If you're attending LDI this year, you can catch Vickie on the four Art Of Programming panels, all taking place on Thursday, 10/22. She's also on Twitter at vickieclaiborne. Thanks for checking out our latest episode!
In order for us to go through the process of creating lighting for theatricals, events, broadcasts, films, and performances, any number of other creative processes needed to happen first – including the specification, design, and engineering of fixtures and control consoles. We dive into some of those in the second half of our interview with Brad Schiller, and discuss his time as a product manager for High End Systems and Philips Vari*Lite, and his current job as Business Development Manager for Lighting Rental & Touring at Martin Professional. For more Brad, check out the first half of our interview when we talked about his work as a lighting director, programmer and writer, including his book The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook and monthly PLSN column about programming. If you're attending LDI this year, you can catch Brad on the four Art Of Programming panels, all taking place on Thursday, 10/22. Brad also writes In The Know, an insider blog about Martin Professional. Thanks for listening to our latest episode!
Brad Schiller was there as the job of Automated Lighting Programmer emerged, and he has influenced the job's evolution over the last 25 years as he moved from freelance to High End Systems to Philips Vari*Lite to Martin Professional. We sat down with Brad and discussed his remarkable career, but the interview was so packed with information that we decided to present it as two episodes. In this episode, we discuss his philosophy on programming and how he's seen the programmer's role evolve, his work on the 2000 Sydney Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies, his time with the band Crystal Method, and how he became part of the High End Systems programming department at a critical time for both he and they. Brad is also a writer – we discussed Brad's book The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook, which has helped many programmers along their way, including your host. Brad also has a monthly PLSN column about programming, Feeding The Machines. If you're attending LDI this year, you can catch Brad on the four Art Of Programming panels, all taking place on Thursday, 10/22. Brad also writes In The Know, an insider blog about Martin Professional.
The webinar we hosted last week is [now on Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DL3Cjl8aus) and on the CSL podcast feed. Thanks again to Justin Lang from iSquint and PLSN for taking the time to...
Hosts: George Tucker & Mike Postupak Guests: Mike Fahl, Micheal Bridwell, Mike Postupak & Justin Lang Record Date: 03/19/2012 On this the very first episode of Live Life host George Tucker, Mike Fahl of Dataton SE, Micheal Bridwell of Digital Projection, Mike Postupak of Perspective and Justin Lang of PLSN discuss the dramatic changes Media Servers and [...]
tracklist: 1) Untold - original 2) Pearson sound - PLSN 3) TRG - everythign we stand for 4) LD – shake it 5) Matt U – omerta 6) D1 - missin' 7) Mujava - Funky town (TRG rmx) 8) Von D - echolow 9) Ramadanman - dayrider 10) mr lager - tell me 11) mr lager - tell me (distance rmx) 12) Distance – jungle fears 13) Tunnidge – 7 breaths 14) Seven – siren 15) Seven – dial up 16) benny ill & J.King - cosmic 78 17) Mala – eyez 18) Benny page – pipes 19) Benga – one million 20) Sully – flash back 21) Icicle - xylophobia
CSL’s Kevin Loretto, PLSN’s Richard Cadena, and lighting designer Howard Ungerleider discuss energy efficiency in touring productions. Thanks again to Richard and Howard for their participation. #### Preview #### Links...