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No More War! No More Troops to Afghanistan! 12/19/2009

In Burlington, Vermont over 100 people gathered on Saturday December, 12 to say "No more war in Afghanistan" and to denounce Barack Obama's 30,000 person troop surge to Afghanistan. Dozens of similar demonstrations took place across the country on Saturday. Thousands of people spoke out against the troop surge and the escalating war in Afghanistan. The event was organized by local activist Jonathan Leavitt.

National News- Announcement of Obama's Win 11/04/2008

Sam Mayfield interview Senator Bernie Sanders on election night 2008 at the Democrat headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.

Interview with Senator Patrick Leahy at Democractic Headquarters, Election night 2008 11/04/2008

Sam Mayfield interview senatorPatrick Leahy on election night 2008 at the Democrat headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.

House of Lemay at the Democrat headquarters on election night 11/04/2008

Sam Mayfield interviews the League of Drag Queen voters, of the House of LeMay on election nigth 2008 at the Democrat headquarters in Burlington, Vt.

Senator Patrick Leahy: Senator Patrick Leahy on Community Access Television 11/04/2008

Senator Patrick Leahy on what community access television means to him.

Election night 2008, Democratic Party headquarters, Burlington, Vt.

Senator Bernie Sanders: Senator Bernie Sanders on Media Consolidation 11/04/2008

Sam Mayfield interviews Senator Bernie Sanders at Democrat headquarters on Elecition night 2008.

Here Bernie speaks to the role of media in this election and on media consolidation

Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders at Democractic Headquarters, Election night 2008 11/04/2008

Sam Mayfield interview Senator Bernie Sanders on election night 2008 at the Democrat headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.

Central Florida Election Issues 11/04/2008

Sam Mayfield went to Central Florida to cover voter mobilization and election issues two weeks before election day. Since Florida was a tipping point in the 2000 election and is still a swing state, the organization The UpTake positioned videographers in key states around the US to document various tactics used by both campaigns to turn out voters. While in Florida Sam filmed Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton at a rally in Orlando, she saw heavy lines of early voters turning out to cast early ballots and she interviewed staff and volunteers at both Obama and McCain headquarters. Here is her commentary with some of that footage along with an unexpected encounter by a hostile McCain staff member who threatened to have Mayfield arrested for talking to volunteers.

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!