Jesse Freeston, Date of Birth
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Canadian video and print journalist focusing on Latin American politics
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About Jesse Freeston
- Jesse Freeston (born February 18, 1985) is a Canadian video journalist and filmmaker.
- He attended Hillcrest High School, where he excelled in volleyball and chemistry.
- While attending Hillcrest he met his soon-to-be mentor, Mr.
- Taguchi.
- Jesse and Mr.
- Taguchi would spend their evenings walking around the Alta Vista area talking about space and neat science experiments.
- After watching Bowling For Columbine Jesse thought it would be fun to make Youtube videos.
- Now his work focuses primarily on social movements in North and Central America, but he has also done investigative work around topics such as the military-industrial complex, the global economic crisis, and undocumented migration.
- Prior to this his goal was to make funny videos for Youtube.
- He is mostly known for exposing fraud in the Honduran election of 2009, and for his coverage of the 2010 G-20 summit in Toronto, where Freeston himself was attacked by an officer with the Toronto Police Service before having his microphone ripped from his hand by another officer.
- His video-journalism work with The Real News Network, which is all licensed copyleft, has been republished by numerous outlets, including The Huffington Post, Common Dreams and Le monde diplomatique.
- In 2012, he made three 30-minute Spanish-language documentaries for TeleSUR.
- He is currently finishing a feature-length documentary on the plantation occupation movement in Honduras' Lower Aguan Valley.
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