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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSuEVYcixA
Posted on YouTube: January 08, 2007
By YouTube Member: SamRubinPictures
Views on YouTube: 5026
Posted on DU: January 09, 2007
By DU Member: StrictlyRockers
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This is quite good. It's very enjoyable. It is 13-year old Sammy's first documentary - surprisingly well done, imho. You will like this one, a lot. You should read Brad's latest mass-email to the volunteers. Brad sent this along with the link to YouTube. It tells the whole story of the video. Here is his latest sending:
THESE TOPICS BELOW:
UNFORGETTABLE FOR ME
GREAT SONG
I PROMISE: No email tomorrow
SPECIAL VIDEO
SEND MONEY TO PEACE TRAIN, PLEASE
POSTCARDS
TWO TOUCHING EMAILS I’VE RECEIVED
UNFORGETTABLE: If you had been sitting in my seat for the past 48 hours, with
amazing emails and phone calls bombarding you from all over the country and even
other countries, and seeing yourself leading a crowd on tv and all of that good
stuff (today I’m told we were on Democracy Now, Air America, Michael Moore’s
website, and on a smashmouth conservative site littlegreenapples – so you KNOW
we’ve hit a nerve)… if you had been sitting here, you would be convinced –
as I am, and increasingly so every minute – that BUSH WILL BE GONE BY APRIL
FOOLS AT THE LATEST.
GREAT SONG: Listen to this song that was just sent to me by the artist, Yikes
McGee, and tell me if you don’t just feel it – the change of administration
– coming, and propelled by the gentle spirit that was present at the beach
Saturday:
http://www.yikesmcgee.org/Pelosi.htmI PROMISE: No mass email tomorrow. I’m getting up early, going hiking deep
into the woods somewhere, and I’m going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh
and laugh and laugh hysterically and then lie down and take a nap… and then
I’m coming back home and we’re going to FINISH THIS THING OFF! BUSH AND
CHENEY GONE BY APRIL FOOLS!
SPECIAL VIDEO: Saturday morning I arrived at the beach about 8:05, got all my
equipment out of the van, dragged it down to the beach, and was bent over in the
sand trying to unravel a knotted 300-foot tape measure when I heard the voice of
13-year old Sam Rubin of Oakland call hello from up on the sea wall. Sam’s mom
Sally had emailed me the night before, wondering if it would be ok if Sam and
his friend Otto shot their first video documentary at our event, and of course I
said of course. Sam and Otto are an incredible pair – these two are going
places when they’re older. They touched me, and Sam's is the ‘first’
footage shot that day. There is a lot of great Beach Impeach footage up on
youtube, but for some reason when you enter “beach impeach” Sam’s
doesn’t come up. Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSuEVYcixAOK, OK – HERE’S WHERE YOU CAN SEND YOUR MONEY! Dozens of people have asked
me how they could help with the event expenses. (Just so you know, as I would
want to know, this whole two-month, once-in-a-lifetime experience cost me less
than $2,500, including supplies, permits, insurance, tape measures, tools, and
both the November and January helicopters – January’s helicopter was up
there 1.4 hours at $463 an hour. If I got this kind of return on every
investment, I’d be filthy rich, which, by the way, I am starting to feel!) I
have suggested that people please donate to one of the established impeachment
groups – they all struggle for money – and everything we did Saturday was
accomplished by standing on the shoulders of all the hard work they’ve done
over the last few years. Then, this afternoon, I got an email from Working
Assets, the good people who put together the volunteerforchange event management
tool (it’s the site where you folks registered, and from which I’m sending
this one email to all 1,100 of you) and without which we simply couldn’t have
pulled this thing off. Working Assets asked that if I could help get the word
out about the coast-to-coast Peace Train that Democrats.com is sending from
Sacramento to Washington DC on Jan 23. Democrats.com and Afterdowningstreet.org
were the two organizations whose mailing lists made the crucial difference in
getting people to know about Beach Impeach. Democrats.com needs about $5,000 to
help finance the California portion. I sent them $100 today, but I’ll bet that
a donation bucket at the beach would have wound up with $5,000. If any of you
still want to make a financial difference in the impeachment movement, please:
the Peace Train. Details at
http://www.peacetraintodc.com or from Tim at
916-225-5176.
POSTCARDS: I want to have about 25,000 high-quality postcards printed up using
John Montgomery’s photos. Does anyone know how to do that, or how to get me a
quote?
TWO OF THE EMAILS I’VE RECEIVED:
“I was the guy in the maroon sweatshirt. That sweatshirt belongs to my son.
He's in Iraq right now on his second tour of duty. He's a machine gunner on a
humvee at… 25 miles north of Bagdad.
“He's also loosing faith in his government. He has 10 months left there, then
he gets out of the army 6 months later. When he enlisted, he was pretty gung ho,
going to retire from the army and all that. It has taken longer to permeate
through the brainwashing that he's been through, but he's beginning to see
things as they really are.
“So lying on the beach, carrying a sign in a parade, or anything else I can
do, helps to keep me busy and helps to keep me from losing my mind from
worry.”
(Name withheld)
And this one:
"Brad,
"Thought I'd drop you a congratulatory email for the success of the beach
impeach project. Wonderfully done! My brother was there… I'm very sorry I
missed it.
"I was surprised when I saw your name.... I wondered if this was the same
Newsham who wrote one of my favorite books, All The Right Places…
"I read your book around 1990 while poking holes in the Pacific in a nuclear
sub. Your book is important to me because it marked a turning point in my life
from conservative, local boy to liberal, travel junkie. In fact, your book got
passed around on the sub and contributed, I'm sure, to a travel bug that
infected many crew members. Several went on 1-year walk-abouts after leaving
the Navy.
"Anyway, congratulations again and keep up the good work.
"Bryan Adamson”
GOODNIGHT: Ten days ago I was afraid I might be heading over the cliff of yet
another massive embarrassment, and I just kept driving, and my goodness – YOU
incredible folks… I KNEW your were out there… but to see you actually SHOW
UP and lie down and do the thing with me and to then be hit by this blast of
humanity and approval – NO ONE should be allowed to have this much fun! THANK
EACH OF YOU FOREVER!
Love,
brad
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Big smiles!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
:yourock::yourock::yourock::yourock:
SR
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