Jesse Freeston

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Full Name	Jesse Freeston
Occupation	Canadian Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 18, 1985(1985-02-18)
Age	39
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jesse Freeston Biography

Jesse Freeston is one of the most popular and richest Canadian journalist who was born on February 18, 1985 in Canada. Jesse Freeston (born February 18 in 1985) is an Canadian film journalist from the country and a film maker. He was a student at Hillcrest High School, where his strengths were in chemistry and volleyball. While at Hillcrest he met his soon-to be mentor the late Ms. Taguchi. Jesse along with the Mr. Taguchi would spend their evenings wandering around Alta Vista. Alta Vista area talking about the universe and interesting science experiments. In the wake of watching Bowling For Columbine Jesse thought it was fun to create Youtube videos. His current work is focused on the social movements of North as well as Central America, but he has also conducted research in areas such as the military-industrial complex, world economic downturn, as well as illegal migration. Prior to that, his intention was to create humorous video clips for Youtube. Freeston is most well-known for uncovering fraud during the Honduran elections of 2009 and also for his reporting for the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto in which Freeston himself was slapped by a police officer of Toronto Police Service. Toronto Police Service before having his microphone removed from his hands by a different officer. The videojournalism work he has done together with The Real News Network, that is licensed copyleft and has been published by various outlets, such as The Huffington Post, Common Dreams and Le monde diplomatique. The year 2012 was the time he created three documentaries of 30 minutes in Spanish language for TeleSUR. He is currently working on an feature-length documentary about the plantation occupation within Honduras’ Lower Aguan Valley.

Following the 2010 Honduran coup d’etat of 2009, Freeston has created around 30 mini-documentaries about the coup as well as the development of the National People’s Resistance Front. He has documented the post-coup struggles of a variety of groups like teachers and students and feminists, as well as the musicians and Zelaya’s return as president of Honduras. His main interest has been the land war within the Bajo Aguan part of Honduras’ Aguan River Valley following the occupation in December 2009 of more than 10,000 hectares palm oil plants by the Aguan United Campesino movement. In the words of Devlin Kuyek of GRAIN, Freeston’s documentary on the burning that took place in Rigores, a village Rigores in Honduras by Honduran officers “vividly illustrates the courageous struggle for land and food sovereignty that peasants in Honduras are waging against the ruthless combined force of agribusiness and national and foreign governments.” Freeston is currently working for a feature-length documentary about the land dispute within the Aguan Valley.

Resistencia finished in second place at the Cuban Hat Pitch Contest at the 2012 Montreal International Documentary Festival. The film raised $21,210 through a crowdfunding campaign on the website Indiegogo. It is expected to be released sometime in 2013.

In 2012, Freeston made three 30-minute documentaries for the Latin American television network, TeleSUR. Informar y Resistir en Honduras details the repression of critical journalists in post-coup Honduras, and includes interviews with numerous survivors. ¿Un sueño aplazado? is a look at activism in the United States following the Occupy Wall Street movement. Also in the U.S., Todo está bien argues that the two major political parties deny the true nature of the ongoing economic crisis, the film focuses on the regions of Detroit and Central Appalachia, alongside interviews with Noam Chomsky and Richard D. Wolff.

In November 2009 in November 2009, The Honduran coup regime conducted elections which, according to Freeston’s words, “laundered a military coup”. In a report from December 6th, 2009 report of the Honduran capital city of Tegucigalpa, Freeston provided evidence that the vote was more of a show than a democratic process. Particularly, he pointed out the Honduran Supreme Election Tribunal’s own internal statistics regarding voter turnout did not actually reach the 65% that election winning candidate Pepe Lobo or Western media stated, but in reality 49 percent. The conclusion he came to was that nobody could be able to know exactly how many Hondurans were voting, considering that the election was conducted under the military who toppled the president elected just five months prior and that the international monitoring organizations (including The UN, Organization of American States, Carter Center, and the EU) did not observe the elections. On the 22nd of December in 2009 Freeston appeared by Honduras’ Radio Globo alongside exiled Honduran the Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and American University Anthropologist Adrienne Pin, who the two discussed fraud in the electoral process.

Jesse Freeston Net Worth

Jesse Freeston is one of the richest Canadian Journalist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jesse Freeston 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 2009 was the time that Freeston reported on in 2009 the El Salvadoran elections from the nation’s capital city, San Salvador. He covered the historic ascension to power of the former militant faction FMLN and their president candidate, reporter Mauricio Funes. According to Freeston it was one of the very first times in the past 500 years that an individual that was not backed by the tiny Salvadoran elite would assume an office of power within the country.

in 2008 Freeston was a reporter on behalf of El Salvador on Canadian mining Pacific Rim’s efforts to establish an industrial mine of gold in El Salvador, a Central American country. Freeston documented how the company hired “promoters within communities that opposed mining, a decision that resulted in violence, the communities, a situation that known as what the Salvadoran social movement was beginning to refer to as “social contamination”. The video reports he made on behalf of The Real News document the widespread opposition to mining as well as the lawsuit worth $100 million Pacific Rim launched against the government of El Salvador itself for alleged losses that occurred when, following many months of exploration, the company was refused a mining permit. In a November 15th 2009 article in The Real News, Freeston interviewed Tom Shrake, the CEO and president Pacific Rim. Pacific Rim about the lawsuit. Shrake stated that Pacific Rim followed El Salvador’s mining investment, environmental, and zoning laws, and therefore was refused a mining permit for illegally. Freeston’s investigations of San Isidro discovered the contamination of the country’s hardly accessible water sources during the exploration phase as well as the inflamation of conflict caused by the promoters for the company and the belief that the tax of 2% that Pacific Rim would pay on its profits, and other environmental and social concerns have been the driving force behind opposition against the mining plan. The journalist also documented cases of the murder and torture of anti-mining activists like the case which occurred to Gustavo Marcelo Rivera. The Rivera family believes that Rivera was murdered for his protest against the mining project and the local government who support the project.

During the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto, Freeston published a series of video stories for The Real News. Most of his stories focused on police brutality and repression against activists before, during, and after the Summit. Freeston was himself the target of police violence when he was attacked during one of the demonstrations. He spoke about the event in a CTV interview after the incident. “I was taken back by my collar, I was thrown against bikes and then one officer punched me twice in the mouth.” In another CTV interview he added, “I then had my mic stolen from me by one of the officers as you’ll see in the tape, and it was only after a few other journalists gathered around and put pressure on them that they returned my mic within a few minutes.” When asked whether he believes he was targeted, he answered, “there’s a pattern here, we’ve seen numbers of journalists that have gone through similar things. I wasn’t detained, but there are numerous journalists who were detained and we see a real pattern here throughout the weekend of journalists being denied access.” Freeston filed an official complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, but as of June 2011, he had received no response.

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Jesse Ranked on the list of most popular Canadian journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Jesse Freeston celebrates birthday on February 18 of every year.