Terra para Rose (1987), por Tetê Moraes

A história de Rose, agricultora sem-terra que, com outras 1.500 famílias, participou da primeira grande ocupação de uma terra improdutiva, a fazenda Annoni, no Rio Grande do Sul. O filme aborda a sensível questão da reforma agrária no Brasil, no período de transição pós-regime militar, retratando o início de um polêmico e importante movimento social, o MST. Rose deu à luz o primeiro bebê que nasceu no acampamento e foi morta em estranho acidente. (e-Pipoca)

Symptoms of a Police State?

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Put aside any assumptions about guilt or innocence or whether you believe that Manning is a traitor or a hero. An American citizen has the right to a speedy trial and to not be held in a punitive detention for long periods of time.

The focus of this video is not the protest itself, but rather the government's overwhelming response to the protest and the unfolding of a darker subtext evolving in our society.

TalkingStickTV - Chris Hedges : Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

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Interview with Chris Hedges co-author of "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt"

Roots of Correa's Ecuador

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A big grassroots movement shaped this South American Republic's new policies.

May 1st and an Independent Workers Movement

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Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin: Occupiers and union activists should build class organizations that challenge for power

More news stories at http://therealnews.com

United States vs. Manning & Assange

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Michael Ratner: Army is trying to pressure Manning into implicating Julian Assange so that he too can be charged and extradited to US

Michael Parenti - No War But the Class War

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http://www.tucradio.org/parenti.html#Parenti

Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Some of his writings have been translated into Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

"... this tough, hilarious, right-on mix of scholar and street." KPFA-Pacifica, 1994

Pequeno Grão de Areia - Granito de Arena - Grain of sand (2005) LEGENDADO PT

http://www.corrugate.org/granito-de-arena.html

"Um documentário que todos os professores do mundo deveriam ver. "Grain of sand" fala sobre a luta dos professores de Oaxaca no México, país governado há mais de 70 anos pelo PRI, famoso pela corrupção e alinhamento aos interesses dos EUA . O filme trata de como a destruição da educação é um projeto articulado a partir de diretrizes internacionais. Há poucos anos, alunos, pais e professores fizeram passeatas contra a privatização das escolas técnicas, exigência do Banco Mundial e FMI. O Governo respondeu fechando-as de imediato. Quando os professores e alunos ocuparam estas escolas, foram presos e torturados em prisões de segurança máxima. Centenas de professores estão mortos ou desaparecidos no país. As políticas implementadas na educação mexicana são as mesmas que muitas vezes vemos travestidas de "modernas" em muitos Estados do Brasil. O filme proporciona excelentes discussões sobre o que representa a educação na sociedade capitalista neoliberal. O baixo nível das escolas para a população não é um produto da incompetência, mas sim da conivência para formar um geração de semi-escravos, de mão-de-obra barata. Nas palavras de Eduardo Galeano, "Este é um sistema que arrebenta tudo o que toca: destrói em pedaços; e que nos ensina que se vive para TER e que se vive para trabalhar, em vez de viver para SER"
(Comentários originais: docverdade)"

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"Tudo que o homem não conhece não existe para ele. Por isso o mundo tem, para cada um, o tamanho que abrange o seu conhecimento."
(Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche)

Dignity and Defiance - Desafiando la Globalizacion

This video accompanies the book "Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization". For more information, check out the website: www.democracyctr.org/

Este video acompaña el libro "Desafiando la globalización: Historias de la experiencia boliviana"

Glenn Greenwald: Civil Liberties in the Age of Obama

Glenn Greenwald at Brown University
Sponsored by Brown Antiwar Action, International Socialist Organization, Rhode Island Mobilization Committee, Brown ACLU.
Filmed by Paul Hubbard

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

http://www.mediaed.org

 

Narrated by Ed Asner

Based on the book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.

Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants -- stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy.

Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people.

Featuring interviews with Stanley Aronowitz, (City University of New York); Nickel and Dimed author, Barbara Ehrenreich; Herman Gray (University of California-Santa Cruz); Robin Kelley (Columbia University); Pepi Leistyna (University of Massachusetts-Boston) and Michael Zweig (State University of New York-Stony Brook). Also with Arlene Davila, Susan Douglas, Bambi Haggins, Lisa Henderson, and Andrea Press

Occupation 101 | Full Documentary

http://www.occupation101.com/

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.

The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.

The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.

Featured Interviews
Occupation 101 features a leading list of some of the most credible Middle East scholars, historians, peace activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers.

Dr. Albert Aghazarian
Director of Public Relations at Bier Ziet University. He is the most prominent Palestinian Armenian figure -- Headed press centre during Madrid conference.

Ambassador James Akins
Former (1963-1965) Attache at the US Embassy in Baghdad; Former (1973-1975) US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights - an organization of Israeli rabbis committed to defending the human rights of all people in Israel and in the territories under Israeli control.

Dr. William Baker
Former Professor of Ancient History and Biblical studies. Founder of Christians and Muslims for Peace.

Bishop Allen Bartlett, Jr.
Assisting Bishop (2001-2004) of the Diocese of Washington. The Episcopal Diocese of Washington comprises 93 Episcopal congregations in the District of Columbia and the Maryland counties of Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles and Saint Mary's.

Phyllis Bennis
Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. An author, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues. Helped found and co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation.

Peter Boukaert
Director of Emergencies at Human Rights Watch -- the largest human rights organization based in the United States. He has conducted extensive fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in the West Bank (Israeli Occupied Territory).

Sharon Burke
Former Advocacy Director with Amnesty International -- a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave human rights abuses worldwide.

Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An Author and Analyst of Global Affairs including, US foreign Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Author of "The fateful triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians."

Noam Chomsky: The Stony Brook Interviews Part One

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World-renowned linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Bill

Paul Mason on Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global

The Census Bureau’s latest report shows that the numbers of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance have skyrocketed. 43.6 million people—about one in seven—lived below the poverty level of $22,000 for a family of four in 2009, pushing the national poverty rate to a fifteen-year high of 14.3 percent. We speak with British journalist Paul Mason about his new book, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global.
http://www.democracynow.org/ 

http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Live-Working-or-Die-Fighting

The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America’s Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I.

It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book.

About the author

Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).

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http://www.heartspeakproductions.ca / http://www.elizabethfry.ca/

Kim Pate, B.A., B.Ed. (P.D.P.P.), LL.B, M.Sc (in progress) Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. Kim is an advocate, activist and ally of women and girls in prison in Canada. She has worked with and on behalf of marginalized, victimized, criminalized, and imprisoned youth, men and women for more than two decades.
In addition to exploring the current trends toward the increased marginalization, victimization, criminalization, and institutionalization of women, especially poor and racialized women, as well as those classified as having disabling mental health and intellectual challenges, Kim discusses the historical and global tendency to further such oppression in prisons.

Poverty Scholars Program Hosts Chris Hedges

Poverty Scholars Program Hosts Chris Hedges from Poverty Initiative on Vimeo.

The Poverty Initiative's Poverty Scholars Program hosted Chris Hedges on Saturday, April 10th in James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary. He addressed the assembled low-income organizers, religious leaders and media makers from around the country who had convened from April 8-11th for “Strategic Dialogues” on the topics of the role of religion, media and communications in building a movement to end poverty. Chris Hedges' remarks were in dialogue with Poverty Scholars Dan Jones with the Philadelphia Student Union, Ron Blount with the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance and others.

Emma Goldman - An exceedingly dangerous woman

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movie by Mel Bucklin

Emma Goldman (18691940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.

For more information see:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

CrossTalk: 'Blackwater' goes global

RussiaToday
Peter Lavelle asks his guests discuss whether governments around the world are succumbing to the 'Blackwater effect' the privatization of state power.

Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts

Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called "Recorded Future" that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. The news comes amidst Google’s so-called "Wi-Spy" scandal, that refers to revelations that Google’s Street View cars operating in some thirty countries snooped on private Wi-Fi networks over the last three years.
http://www.democracynow.org/

A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY - a film by Kevin P. Miller

A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY - a film by Kevin P. Miller from Kevin P. Miller on Vimeo.

In this patriotic and sentimental film, international award winning Writer/Director Kevin P. Miller (GENERATION RX, WE BECOME SILENT) exposes how Canadians are being stripped of their personal sovereignty by government agencies — and how free trade deals and other international agreements imperil Canadian democracy.

Quietly, over a period of many years, unconstitutional legislation encompassed in Bills C-51, C-6, and the current Bill C-36 have placed not only basic civil liberties and freedoms at risk, but Canada's national sovereignty as well. The film shares how entangling alliances with groups like the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, Codex Alimentarius, the United States and even multinational corporate interests have become so powerful that they literally threaten to make elected officials in Parliament irrelevant.

A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY discusses why this dramatic shift in the balance of power puts the nation and its people at a vital crossroad early in the 21st century — and why some of the past giants of Canadian politics may hold the answers to Canada's future.