Howard Monath, Former D:F/M Film Instructor, in the Heart of the Crisis
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Latest Update About the Show Down in Bangkok
Monday, May 3rd, 2010“The Bullets Are Zinging Around” – Howard Monath in Bangkok (Armed with a Slingshot)
Friday, April 30th, 2010Via facebook:
Picture Taken Before the Latest Bullets Zinging
— [To] Lucia Siposova: Hi Lucia! I’m in the middle of a revolution in Bangkok Thailand, ‘Red Shirt’ peasants ( they gave me a sling shot ) against the Thai army: the bullets are zinging around..how are you?
45 minutes ago · See Wall-to-Wall
In Bangkok, Howard Monath Shoots Compelling Pictures: The Blood Is Real
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Another Update From Filmmaker Howard Monath in Bangkok
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Via facebook about 9 minutes ago [about 11:55 p.m.].
Things are getting pretty rank at the Red Shirt encampment here in Bangkok. Seven weeks of garbage is piling up, portable toilets have backed up, and in the constant 100 degree heat the stench is becoming unbearable; people are getting sick. The Reds have doused their tire barricades with gasoline and vow to stay…
The Latest Update From Howard Monath in Bangkok
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Howard Monath in Bangkok & Reporting for the WORD
Reported via facebook. Well. The ‘Red Shirts’ here are no longer wearing their red shirts. Strategically this makes some sense, but you have to wonder if the ‘Reds’ are doing to themselves what the army and the Thai government so far haven’t been able to do to them.
37 minutes ago
Due to an editorial oversight, earlier posts by Howard Monath’s kickboxing friend were not included. Here is one.
Howard Monath Update From Bangkok
Sunday, April 25th, 2010Via facebook:
Howard Monath
” Oh, and I just got back from the center of all this; it was a very surreal day, the leaders of the Red Shirts, the guys you see on TV every day, were talking to each other; they came over and asked me what I thought was gong to happen! (bizarre, there were no other foreigners/journalists around ) the army has given them 48 hours to leave. the Red Shirts have completely taken over about two miles of downtown Bangkok, and are amazingly organized, pretty good for a bunch of illiterate farmers.
Howard Monath, An Inadvertent Correspondent Reporting on the Crisis in Bangkok for the WORD
Sunday, April 25th, 2010Via Facebook:
Hello Hunter Word, I’ve been in Thailand on and off since Nov sort of following my friend Chantal Ughi, who is a champion Muay Thai boxer. She, as you can see has a different opinion about this, makes for an interesting dynamic. 12 minutes ago, April 25, 10:38 p.m.Howard Monath