Mondialisation - Quand Le FMI Fabrique La Misère - Documentaire [HD]

Autour du Monde Diplomatique

Lundi investigation a diffusé un excellent reportage sur l’origine de la misère qui sévit en Afrique et plus particulièrement au Ghana.
Le système est simple : Le Fond Monétaire International (FMI) octroie des crédits aux états africains, les taux sont évidemment exorbitants, si bien que les gouvernements doivent privatiser dans tous les secteurs afin de rembourser (temporairement) la dette … Les secteurs touchés sont les hôpitaux, le système de santé en général, l’eau potable, l’extraction de minerais, de pétrole, etc …. Au Ghana, la quasi totalité de la production agricole part désormais à l’exportation et le pays importe du riz d’Amérique alors qu’il en exportait il y a seulement 10 ans, les agriculteurs Ghanéens ne comprennent plus le fonctionnement de leur propre pays !

Il y a aussi les entreprises étrangères qui ne sont pas soumises à une réglementation contraignante, si bien qu’elles polluent sans états d’âmes, déchargent leurs rebus sur les terres agricoles, tout est fait afin qu’elles soient le plus rentable possible et ce, au détriment de l’environnement et des populations locales.

C’est là qu’est la formidable arnaque du FMI, car la majorité de la population croient que le FMI vient en aide aux pays pauvres, mais, dans les faits, on observe exactement l’inverse …

Source : http://www.notre-ecole.net/quand-le-fmi-fabrique-la-misere/

Le bien commun - l'assaut final

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L’eau, la santé, les gènes humains et végétaux, les connaissances anciennes et nouvelles, plus rien aujourd’hui ne semble pouvoir échapper au destin de marchandise. Face à la voracité des marchands, qu’adviendra-t-il de la notion de bien commun qui est à la base de toute vie en société ? Le marché peut-il être le garant du bien commun ?
Différentes histoires, tournées au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en France, au Brésil, en Inde, et racontées à la manière de la Genèse, témoignent des conséquences de la soumission du monde aux intérêts privés.

Source : http://www.voiretagir.org/BIEN-COMMUN-LE.html

La double face de la monnaie

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La double face de la monnaie est un documentaire, réalisé en 2006 par Vincent Gaillard et Jérôme Polidor, portant sur l'argent et ses alternatives dans le domaine de la consommation, des systèmes d'échanges et de travail. Le site officiel du film : http://lamare.org/

La double face de la monnaie nous propose de démystifier l'argent et de reconsidérer notre perception de la richesse. Il donne la parole à des hommes et des femmes qui n'ont pas la visibilité médiatique de leurs homologues libéraux : le philosophe Patrick Viveret, l'économiste belge Bernard Lietaer, le président du Conseil scientifique d'Attac Dominique Plihon, la sociologue argentine Héloïsa Primavera, le Canadien Michael Linton, inventeur des systèmes d'échange locaux... Et il interroge les utopies concrètes que sont les monnaies complémentaires et les systèmes d'échange locaux.

L'argent est devenu la valeur centrale de nos sociétés. Comme une drogue, les individus, toujours à sa recherche, craignent d'en manquer. Beaucoup sont prêts à faire n'importe quoi pour s'en procurer.

La monnaie n'est pourtant pas naturelle, c'est une création humaine censée favoriser l'échange et la création de richesse. Son émission, sa circulation, sa distribution en font un outil de domination et d'asservissement d'une partie de plus en plus grande de l'humanité, au profit d'un nombre de plus en plus réduit d'individus.

Depuis la fin des années 90, des systèmes d'échanges complémentaires sont mis en place par des citoyens un peu partout dans le monde. La monnaie redevient un outil social, au service de l'homme. Le Chiemgauer allemand, la Banque du temps anglaise et les Systèmes d'Échange Locaux français, sont des preuves concrètes que la monnaie peut redevenir un sujet de débat dans la société occidentale.

Le film part d'une volonté simple : démystifier l'argent et reconsidérer notre perception de la richesse. L'argent est au coeur des préoccupations de notre société : tout le monde l'utilise, chacun s'emploie à s'en procurer, mais qui s'interroge sur sa nature ?

Poser la question du bien-fondé de la prédominance de l'argent sur toute autre richesse, conduit à une remise en question de beaucoup de nos valeurs, souvent profondément ancrées.

Aujourd'hui, toutes les décisions politiques sont justifiées par des « contraintes » économiques, présentées comme inéluctables, voire « naturelles ». Toute activité humaine doit dorénavant être rentable. Dérégulation, exploitation de l'homme, de la nature, sont ainsi acceptées fatalement avec un sentiment d'impuissance, sous prétexte de réalisme économique.

La monnaie n'est pourtant pas naturelle, c'est une création humaine sensée favoriser l'échange et la création de richesse. Son émission, sa circulation, sa distribution en font un outil de domination et d'asservissement d'une partie de plus en plus grande de l'humanité, au profit d'un nombre de plus en plus réduit d'individus.

Consommateurs pris au piège

Guillaume DEBLOCK

Dans la grande distribution comme dans n’importe quelle boutique, les commerçants ont le même objectif : vendre à tout prix.

Pour inciter à acheter, il existe des méthodes redoutables mises en place à notre insu. Sans que le client le sache, les magasins n’hésitent pas à manipuler ses sens : musique, visuels ou parfums...

Tout est minutieusement étudié pour déclencher l’acte d’achat. De nos jours, des technologies médicales sont détournées pour décrypter le comportement du consommateur et étudier ses désirs réels. Il s’agit de capter son regard ou même, plus incroyable encore, de lire directement dans son cerveau.

C’est ce que l’on appelle le neuro-marketing : deviner ce que veut le client sans même qu’il ait à le dire ! Un business florissant venu tout droit des Etats-Unis, que les industriels français commencent à assimiler.

Jusqu’où les marques sont-elles prêtes à aller pour vendre leurs produits? Comment ces stratégies marketing sont-elles conçues ?

Source : http://documentaires.france5.fr/documentaires/consommateurs-pris-au-piege

Le Tube - Un film de Peter Entell

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"Une petite fille pique une crise lorsqu'on éteint la télé. Que se passe-t-il ?
Tout le monde semble accro, hypnotisé, comme transformé en légume par le tube. Son père, un journaliste de télévision, décide d'en avoir le cœur net. Existe-t-il des preuves de ce qu'on soupçonne depuis des années ? Un indice mène à un autre, de foyers européens aux laboratoires américains, en passant par les studios d'une chaîne japonaise. Son but : pénétrer au cœur même de l'industrie de la télévision. Que nous cache-t-on ?
Vous ne regarderez plus jamais la télé comme avant..."
Peter Entell.

Source : http://www.film-documentaire.fr/Le_Tube.html,film,10468

Le Temps de Cerveau Disponible [FR]

Monsieur Consommation

Cruauté, violences psychologiques et sexuelles, humiliations : la téléréalité semble devenue folle. Son arrivée au début des années 2000 ouvrait une nouvelle ère dans l'histoire de l'audiovisuel. Cinquante ans d'archives retracent l'évolution du divertissement : comment la mise en scène de l'intime, dans les années 80, a ouvert un nouveau champ, comment la privatisation des plus grandes chaînes a modifié le rapport au téléspectateur. A l'aide de spécialistes, dont le philosophe Bernard Stiegler, ce documentaire démontre comment l'émotion a fait place à l'exacerbation des pulsions les plus destructrices.
(Diffusé sur France2 en 2010)

Le Cerveau en miroir

Mehdi Hamsa 

Une plongée au cœur de nos neurones qui risque d'entamer le sentiment de supériorité de l'espèce humaine sur le monde animal.

Que savons-nous de notre cerveau, cet organe aussi complexe que l'univers, censé abriter notre conscience ? Il y a une vingtaine d'année, on imaginait qu'à chaque zone du cerveau correspondait une fonction : l'audition, la vision, la mémoire. Les avancées des neurosciences ont fait voler cette idée en éclats. Aujourd'hui, les chercheurs découvrent l'extraordinaire plasticité du cerveau, cette capacité à se déformer puis à se reformer à l'identique, chez le bébé comme chez l'adulte. Ils traquent la formation d'une pensée et explorent les relations complexes entre le corps et le cerveau : qui commande ? Guidé par quelques-uns des meilleurs neuroscientifiques internationaux, Le cerveau en miroir propose une synthèse des recherches les plus avancées dans ce domaine. Jusqu'à présent, la conscience n'a été abordée que d'un point de vue philosophique ou psychanalytique. Grâce aux prouesses technologiques, les neuroscientifiques peuvent désormais observer un cerveau qui pense. D'où vient la conscience ? Est-elle liée au corps et à l'environnement physique et social ? Quelle est la part de la biologie et la part de la culture ? Et si le cerveau était un organe comme les autres, juste un peu plus complexe ? Et s'il était finalement assez proche de celui d'une mouche ?

Source : http://www.artevod.com/cerveauenmiroir

Le cerveau et ses automatismes 2/2 - Le pouvoir de l'inconscient

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À 90 %, les actes que nous entreprenons au quotidien se déroulent à notre insu, avec un cerveau en pilotage automatique... La conscience ne serait ainsi qu'une sorte de clap de fin qui se manifeste lorsque tout est déjà joué - un tour de passe-passe de notre cerveau pour nous faire croire que nous avons encore notre mot à dire.

L'amour est le domaine dans lequel nous sommes le plus assujettis à des automatismes inconscients, mais selon les individus, ce sont quatre cerveaux différents qui président au choix de l'élu(e).
Les ballets que dansent dopamine, sérotonine, testostérone, oestrogènes, endorphine et ocytocine dans notre tête ne peuvent que nous la faire perdre. La grande distribution qui, elle, a les pieds sur terre, a sollicité les neurosciences pour comprendre et faire fructifier nos humeurs "acheteuses".

D'autres experts étudient la part d'intuition qui intervient chez des personnes en état de stress devant une table de casino ou chez des pilotes devant un simulateur de vol.

Source : http://www.arte.tv/fr/le-cerveau-et-ses-automatismes-22-le-pouvoir-de-l-inconscient/4308806.html

Le cerveau et ses automatismes 1/2 : La magie de l'inconscient

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Des séquences animées en 3D prouvent que notre capacité de raisonnement atteint vite ses limites et peine à influencer nos comportements. Des objets banals tels que des allumettes et des chaises permettent des expériences surprenantes quand ils sont manipulés par des chercheurs.

Pour prouver le bien-fondé de leurs thèses, ces derniers n'hésitent pas à s'élancer sur une planche de surf ou à étudier les méthodes des prestidigitateurs. Autant de raisons de s'inquiéter parfois, notamment quand nous apprenons que notre cerveau prend les décisions sept secondes avant que nous en ayons conscience !

Un fascinant périple aux quatre coins du monde, de l'Australie à l'Allemagne en passant par les États-Unis et la Suède, pour observer nos neurones dans tous leurs états.

Source : http://www.arte.tv/fr/le-cerveau-et-ses-automatismes-12-la-magie-de-l-inconscient/4308804.html

Tony Weis : Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming.

TransnationalInst

Public lecture: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming. Today, a billion people live in hunger. Peak oil and environmental degradation threaten the food security of billions more, particularly with half the world's population living in urban environments where they are dependent on industrially produced and imported food. A transition is urgently needed, but how? What alternative policies can enable communities to realise their own food security in the face of environmental challenges, while also improving livelihoods, building resilience, and conserving ecosystems? Many food-related movements have already emerged around the world, but what ongoing challenges do they face?

Tony Weis gave this talk at the University of Amersterdam in the Netherlands, on Tuesday 13 December 2011. The event brought together three prominent radical thinkers each with a long background of experience in activism and academic research on transdisplinary but interconnected themes such as conservation, agro-ecology and sustainable farming, political economy and the social sciences:

Tony Weis, (Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Western Ontario and author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming), who addressed the economic and environmental problems of the dominant chemical-industrial food system; Miguel Altieri (Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture), who looked at the alternatives offered by ecological, small scale, local and urban farming; and Eric Holt-Giménez (Executive Director of Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy, and author of Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to transform our food systems) discussed the emergence of food movements from a global perspective, as well as the divisions between North and South, urban and rural.

This event was co-organised by the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and the Real World Economics Group at the University of Amsterdam.

To receive updates and news about upcoming events and new publications, you can sign up the TNI's e-newsletter here: http://www.tni.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1989)

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Noam Chomsky explains "the Propaganda Model", the central theme of his book, co-authored with Edward Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Noam Chomsky spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin on the evening of March 15, 1989. The lecture was sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate's Distinguished Lecture Series for the 1988-89 academic year.

Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) is a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Created by two Canadian filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky's earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.

The film presents and illustrates Chomsky's and Herman's thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination of the history of The New York Times' coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media's unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite.

Until the release of The Corporation (2003), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history, played theatrically in over 300 cities around the world; won 22 awards; appeared in more than 50 international film festivals; and was broadcast in over 30 markets. It has also been translated into a dozen languages.

Chomsky's response to the film was mixed; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn't communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join. In the same conversation, he criticizes The New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message for being a call for voter organizing rather than media critique.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media

Noam Chomsky - On Anarchism

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"[M]any commentators dismiss anarchism as utopian, formless, primitive, or otherwise incompatible with the realities of a complex society. One might, however, argue rather differently: that at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to--rather than alleviate--material and cultural deficit."

This essay is a revised version of the introduction to Daniel Guerin's Anarchism: From Theory to Practice. In a slightly different version, it appeared in the New York Review of Books, May 21, 1970. Transcribed by rael@ll.mit.edu (Bill Lear). Typeset in LaTeX by ol2144@columbia.edu (Ori Livneh).
For more context: http://archive.org/details/NotesOnAnarchism

Interview with Will Potter

We are are excited to post our interview with our good friend Will Potter. Will runs the very informative blog Green is The New Red (http://www.greenisthenewred.com/) and is also the author of the recent book ‘Green Is the New Red: An Insiders Account Of A Social Movement Under Siege‘. Will focuses on how the animal rights, and earth liberation movements have been targeted by the Government and labeled as ‘eco-terrorists’ and how dangerous this is for all social justice movements, present and future. After watching the interview, we would love it if you shared it with comrades, friends and family!

Michael Hudson : Money & Debt

ModMonPubPurpose

Wall St. Financial Analyst & Economics Professor Michael Hudson on the history of debt and economic imperialism.

From the first seminar of the "Modern Money and Public Purpose" series at Columbia Law School.

To watch the full seminar, including Q&As, and for a list of suggested readings, please visit the Modern Money & Public Purpose website:
http://www.modernmoneyandpublicpurpose.com/seminar-1.html

SPEAKER BIO:
Michael Hudson, Ph.D. is a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET). He has authored over ten books on international finance, economic history and the history of economic thought, including Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003) and Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009). Dr. Hudson acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including Iceland, Latvia and China on finance and tax law.

Web conference with Michael Hudson

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Our web conference with Michael Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond, and one of the few people to predict the financial crisis.

Caution: Tinfoil Hat Area !!:!! Derrick Jensen & Charlie Veitch (Eco-Conscious Eye Films edit)

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This is a prerecorded episode of aution: Tinfoil Hat Area !!:!! with Kevin Tilsner from June 28th, 2011. Kevin interviews Derrick Jensen and Love Police founder Charlie Veitch and discuss the destructive dominating culture and share ideas on what people can do to change it.

Tempos Modernos - LEGENDADO

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Modern Times, 1936 - Nesse filme não há meio termo, Chaplin realmente quis passar uma mensagem social. Cada cena é trabalhada para que a mensagem chegue verdadeiramente tal qual seja. E nada parece escapar: máquina tomando o lugar dos homens, as facilidades que levam a criminalidade, a escravização. O amor também surge, mas surge quase paternal: o de um vagabundo por uma menina de rua.

Um trabalhador de uma fábrica...Chaplin) tem um colapso nervoso por trabalhar de forma quase escrava. É levado para um hospital, e quando retorna para a "vida normal", para o barulho da cidade, encontra a fábrica já fechada. Vai em busca de outro destino, mas acaba se envolvendo numa confusão: ao ver uma jovem...Paulette) roubar um pão para comer, decide se entregar em seu lugar. Não dá certo, pois uma grã-fina tinha visto o que houve e entrega tudo. A prisão para ele parece ser o melhor local para se viver: tranqüilo, seguro e entre amigos. Mesmo assim, os dois acabam escapando e vão tentar a vida de outra maneira. A amizade que surge entre os dois é bela, porém não os alimenta. Ele tem que arrumar um emprego rapidamente.

Consegue um emprego numa outra fábrica, mas logo os operários entram em greve e ele mete-se novamente em perigo. No meio da confusão, encontra uma bandeira...vermelha), que julga ter caído de um caminhão e chama pelo dono, enquanto acena com ela. Um grupo de militantes surge atrás dele, e "junta-se" ao vagabundo. A polícia chega e o toma como líder. Vai preso ao jogar sem querer uma pedra na cabeça de um policial.

Paulette consegue trabalho como dançarina num music Hall e emprega seu amigo como garçom. Também não dá certo, e os dois seguem, numa estrada, rumo a mais aventuras.

Eric Holt-Giménez : Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming.

TransnationalInst

Public lecture: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming. Today, a billion people live in hunger. Peak oil and environmental degradation threaten the food security of billions more, particularly with half the world's population living in urban environments where they are dependent on industrially produced and imported food. A transition is urgently needed, but how? What alternative policies can enable communities to realise their own food security in the face of environmental challenges, while also improving livelihoods, building resilience, and conserving ecosystems? Many food-related movements have already emerged around the world, but what ongoing challenges do they face?

Eric Holt-Giménez gave this talk at the University of Amersterdam in the Netherlands, on Tuesday 13 December 2011. The event brought together three prominent radical thinkers each with a long background of experience in activism and academic research on transdisplinary but interconnected themes such as conservation, agro-ecology and sustainable farming, political economy and the social sciences:

Tony Weis, (Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Western Ontario and author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming), who addressed the economic and environmental problems of the dominant chemical-industrial food system; Miguel Altieri (Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture), who looked at the alternatives offered by ecological, small scale, local and urban farming; and Eric Holt-Giménez (Executive Director of Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy, and author of Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to transform our food systems) discussed the emergence of food movements from a global perspective, as well as the divisions between North and South, urban and rural.

This event was co-organised by the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and the Real World Economics Group at the University of Amsterdam.

To receive updates and news about upcoming events and new publications, you can sign up the TNI's e-newsletter here: http://www.tni.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe

Genetic Roulette - Eating GMO Poison Agenda 21 Monsanto Roundup

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Wide Screen Would you feed poison to your pets, what about your kids, Genetic Roulette - The Gamble of Our Lives (http://geneticroulettemovie.com/) has audiences rushing home to clear out their cupboards of dangerous genetically modified (GM) foods. The evidence presented in the film makes the best case yet for why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are linked to disorders such as allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, infertility, autism, and cancer, to name a few. One health practitioner, Mary Tobin, L.Ac., said the film "provides abundant evidence that eating a GMO-free diet is the single most important change Americans can make for their health.

That evidence not only includes doctors and patients testimonials, but also veterinarians and farmers who describe dramatic health improvements in animals that switched to non-GMO feed. The categories of diseases that improve in humans and animals are the ones found in lab animals fed GMOs. And these are many of the same categories, e.g. immune, reproductive, and gastrointestinal disorders that have been on the rise in the US population since GMOs were introduced.

Earth Days (2009) - Full Movie

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It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower–era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities of groundbreaking eco-activism.

Source : http://robertstoneproductions.com/film/earth-days/

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

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http://localfuture.org

The collapse of complex societies of the past can inform the present on the risks of collapse. Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the book The Collapse of Complex societies, and featured in Leonardo Dicaprio's film The Eleventh Hour, details the factors that led to the collapse of past civilizations including the Roman Empire.

2010 International Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy, and Environment organized by Local Future nonprofit and directed by Aaron Wissner.

The Conversation - Episode 19 : Joseph Tainter

Dr. Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who has studied collapse in numerous ancient civilizations and penned The Collapse of Complex Societies. This is our first deeply historical episode and Dr. Tainter begins by offering his definition of complexity and taking us through the story of Western Rome’s collapse. Extrapolating from the past, Dr. Tainter paints a dark scene of our possible future. In our conversation, he critiques the primitivism of John Zerzan, the transhumanism of Max More, and rains on the technological optimism heard in Ariel Waldman, Colin Camerer, and Gabriel Stempinski’s conversations. What are we left with? Not optimism, that is certain, but not pessimism, either. Perhaps Ragnarok? Interestingly, Dr. Tainter finds a ray of hope in education (which would probably peeve Andrew Keen and please Lisa Petrides) and speculates that teaching children to think on larger spatial and temporal scales might be our best way to evade collapse. Alexander Rose would almost certainly agree.

Source : http://www.findtheconversation.com/episode-nineteen-joseph-tainter/

UO Today #492 : David Korten

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David Korten, author of "Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth," discusses his views about the U.S. economic system. He also comments on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

UO Today, the Oregon Humanities Center's half-hour television interview program, provides a glimpse into the heart of the University of Oregon. Each episode offers viewers a conversation with UO faculty and administrators as well as visiting scholars, authors, and artists whose groundbreaking work is shaping our world.

Operación Diablo / The Devil Operation

http://www.guarango.org/diablo/

July 5th, 2012

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." Henry David Thoreau

Dear Friends,

This July 4th, while executives of Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corporation celebrated America’s Independence Day, a priest was beaten and detained by police for protesting an expansion plan at the company’s Peruvian mine.

Father Marco Arana was sitting peacefully on a bench in the city’s main square when about 30 police commandos approached and pushed him to the ground. Videos and photos taken on the scene show police punching and kicking the priest, hitting him with clubs and dragging him off by the neck. Surrounded by a squadron of officers in riot gear, the renowned environmentalist was taken to a police station where he was again beaten and refused communication with his lawyer for several hours.

The incident brought to mind Thoreau’s famous phrase, written 170 years ago, when the father of Civil Disobedience went to jail to protest slavery.

Today’s ‘just men’ (and women) are still being thrown behind bars, but they’ve picked up a few new tools of the trade. Marco managed to send a Twitter message from inside the station before contact was cut off and the news of his assault quickly circled the globe. Lawyers from human rights organizations intervened on his behalf, and Marco was released 13 hours later.

His departure from the station was delayed somewhat, because - true to form - Marco refused to leave until police also released 8 people who were arrested for trying to help him.

Marco is now receiving medical care for his injuries, including a broken jaw, internal bleeding and a head wound.

Why did this happen?

A month ago, Father Marco and other regional leaders in the state of Cajamarca declared an indefinite strike against the proposed 'Minas Congas' gold mining project, which would destroy 4 sacred lakes.

On July 3rd, the evening before Marco was attacked, Peru's government declared a state of emergency in the region, suspending civil liberties. The pronouncement came shortly after a violent encounter between police and protesters that resulted in the death of 4 civilians, including a 17-year-old boy and at least 36 wounded. Two days later a fifth person was killed during a clash with police.

Since the conflict exploded last year, over 100 leaders, including Marco Arana, have been charged under Peru’s draconian criminalization of social protest laws.

'Minas Congas' is a massive expansion project owned by Yanacocha, South America's largest gold mine, located in Cajamarca province. Yanacocha is controlled by Newmont of Colorado and Peru's Buenaventura with minority shares held by the World Bank. Farming communities accuse Yanacocha of contaminating their water supply and the mine was responsible for a mercury spill that poisoned over 900 people -- the focus of a documentary I co-directed with Peruvian film maker Ernesto Cabellos: guarango.org/choropampa

Ernesto and I met Father Marco during the filming of ‘The Price of Gold’ 12 years ago. In the aftermath of the spill, Marco visited the affected villages and published the first independent study on the devastating impacts. But he insisted on remaining behind the scenes and doesn't appear in the film. "The farmers are the real heroes of this story," he told us.

Over the years, Marco and his group of young activists known as GRUFIDES continued their defense of farming communities affected by the mine and we kept filming them and helping out with media advocacy and training. In 2004, Marco was awarded Peru's most prestigious human rights award and in 2009 he was declared an 'Environmental Hero' by TIME magazine.

Marco's defense of farming and indigenous communities has also earned him powerful enemies. In 2006, he and other Peruvian activists were victims of a spy-ring called 'The Devil Operation'. One of Marco's farming allies was assassinated and the priest and other activists were harassed, photographed and filmed.

Determined not to be victims, the activists launched a counter-espionage campaign and obtained valuable evidence that became the basis for ‘The Devil Operation.' This real-life suspense documentary has won 5 international awards, including the 'International Human Rights Film Award' sponsored by Amnesty International and given by the Cinema for Peace Foundation at an event parallel to the Berlin film festival.

In solidarity with Marco during this new assault on his safety and liberty, we have put 'The Devil Operation' on YOUTUBE, and hope you will help us spread the word.

You can also sign the petition against the Minas Congas project at Avaaz :
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_the_Conga_mining_project_2/

Thank-you,

Stephanie Boyd

Director/Producer 'The Devil Operation'
Asociación Guarango Cine y Vídeo
Quisca Productions
sboyd@guarango.org

DVDs, Press kit, photos and guide for educators and activists available at: guarango.org/diablo

"Operación Diablo" documental completo, con Marco Arana.

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Miércoles 4 de julio de 2012
"Nuevo Hostigamiento en contra Marco Arana, protagonista del documental"
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La Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos, en representación de 79 organizaciones de defensa de la vida y los derechos fundamentales de la persona, exige la inmediata libertad del líder ambientalista Marco Arana, y condena firmemente la golpiza de la que ha sido víctima por parte de las fuerzas del orden en la ciudad de Cajamarca.

Marco Arana se encontraba sentado en una banca de la Plaza de Armas de Cajamarca, sentado, cuando un número de aproximadamente 40 efectivos de la Policía Nacional del Perú lo intervino violentamente, con golpes en diversas partes del cuerpo. Luego de ello condujeron al líder ambientalista a la comisaría, donde volvieron a golpearlo.

Marco Arana cuenta con medidas cautelares de la CIDH, y en ese momento se encontraba junto a su custodio, miembro de la Policía Nacional del Perú, Elmer Díaz. La declaratoria del Estado de Emergencia no es una carta abierta para la vulneración del Estado de Derecho. Si bien los derechos a la libertad y a la reunión estan limitados, estos no se convierten en delitos, ni mucho menos justifican una detención arbitraria.

El líder ambientalista, en su cuenta de twiteer, señaló: “Me detuvieron em golpearon mucho, dentro de la comisaro mw volvieron a gfolpear, puÑetes en la cara, rinons, insultos” (sic), donde evidencia el momento por el cual ha tenido que pasar.

Marco Arana se encuentra delicado de salud, convaleciente de un proceso fuerte de neumonía. Por ello, nos preocupa más el estado actual de salud, y el lugar donde se encuentra recluido. Responsabilizamos a las autoridades del gobierno causantes de esta arbitrariedad.

Marco Arana no ha cometido ningún delito por el cual haya tenido que ser detenido de la forma descrita. Por lo que, demandamos su inmediata libertad.

Fuente : http://derechoshumanos.pe/2012/07/cnddhh-exige-inmediata-libertad-de-marco-arana/

Operación Diablo (http://guarango.org/diablo/) 69min, Perú

Official Selection IDFA 2010
International Human Rights Film Award 2011
Cinema for Peace, Berlin, Germany

SINOPSIS
El padre Marco Arana, un humilde párroco de los Andes peruanos, está siendo seguido.

Una empresa privada de vigilancia graba en video y fotografía cada movimiento del sacerdote; sus informes meticulosos están bajo el nombre clave de Operación Diablo.

Nosotros seguimos al Padre Marco a través de una prueba documental de suspenso político y misterio que apunta a la minera de oro más grande de Sudamérica. En la década pasada, el sacerdote y su grupo de activistas han defendido a las comunidades agrícolas contra los abusos de la minería, ganando el sacerdote el apodo de "El Diablo".

Este real y escalofriante relato expone la nueva ola de persecución enfrentada por activistas de los derechos humanos en Latinoamérica.

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

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Talk by Chris Hedges, co-author of the book "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" given June 29, 2012 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, WA.

Galapagos : Born Of Fire (BBC Documentary)

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Broadcast (2007) With spectacular cinematography from land, sea and air, and blending rugged volcanic landscapes with intimate animal behaviour, this ambitious series from the BBC's Natural History Unit brings this remarkable archipelago to captivating life. This opening episode chronicles the many fascinating stages of the island chain's existence, and reveals how creatures have developed enterprising ways of dealing with life on this restless Pacific outpost. Witness the dramatic eruption of the largest of all the Galapagos volcanoes, Sierra Negra, blowing smoke and ash seven miles into the sky; marine iguanas, the worlds only seagoing lizards, leaping off lava cliffs into treacherous surf; Galapagos giant tortoises, the largest on Earth, being groomed by Darwin's finches, and the magical courtship display of the waved albatross. Tilda Swinton is the narrator.

Against a backdrop of smouldering volcanoes, brittle lava fields, fields of giant cactus and wave pounded shores, witness blue footed boobies plunge diving in to treacherous waters, sea lions surfing, the beautiful courtship dance of the waved albatross, Darwin's finches as crafty tool users and hawks hunting marine iguanas. Galapagos is unlike any other place on Earth. The archipelago is made up of thirteen main islands, they sit astride the equator, almost a thousand kilometres off the coast of South America, and are connected directly to the heart of the planet. The product of a volcanic hotspot, from the moment they are born, the islands are carried on a remarkable millenia long journey before sinking back beneath the waves.

The Galapagos islands are a fascinating microcosm of our planet and home to some of the most astonishing creatures found anywhere on Earth: iguanas swim the sea like dragons, short eared owls stalk petrels by day and 500 pound giant tortoises bellow over lava fields. One thousand kilometres due west of Ecuador, where four major ocean currents unite, vast undersea volcanoes break the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Early explorers described these otherworldly islands as "Las Encantadas" "the Enchanted Islands". In time they became known as Galapagos, the islands of the Tortoises. Darwin described them as a "world within itself".

Using spectacular HiDefinition cinematography from land, sea and air, and blending dramatic landscapes with intimate animal behaviour, drama reconstruction and stunning satellite imagery, this ambitious series presents the most complete portrait ever of these fascinating islands. Galapagos reveals how wildlife has found the most enterprising ways to get to grips with this restless volcanic outpost, why these islands are such a fascinating showcase for evolution, and the profound forces that influence the delicate balance of life.

Darwins nightmare - Winner Best European Documentary 2004

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Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world.

Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo... Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent.

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This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world's biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.
http://www.darwinsnightmare.com/

Jonathan Moreno : Mind Wars - Conversations from Penn State

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Super soldiers equipped with neural implants, suits that contain biosensors, and thought scans of detainees may become reality sooner than you think. Find out how neuroscience is changing modern warfare, and discover the ethical implications with guest Jonathan Moreno.

http://conversations.psu.edu/episodes/mind_wars

V.S. Ramachandran - Art, Reality, and the Brain : The Quest for Aesthetic Universals

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Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program at the University of California, San Diego at the San Francisco Asian Art Forum for Museum Directors at the Asian Art Museum (November 8-9, 2011)

The Tell-Tale Brain : A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

http://thesciencenetwork.org/

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at UC San Diego. A former BBC Reith Lecturer, he wrote Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (with Sandra Blakeslee), and is the author of A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers. His latest book, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human explores human uniqueness and illustrates how we can better understand the normal by studying the abnormal. Called "The Marco Polo of neuroscience" by Richard Dawkins and "The modern Paul Broca" by Eric Kandel, Ramachandran has also been celebrated in the epidemic of medical melodramas: in the episode "The Tyrant" of the television show House, MD., Dr. House cures phantom limb pain using Ramachandran's mirror box.

A World Without Water

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The world is running out of water
All of us will face it soon, some of us are facing it now.

As the highest water bills ever land on doormats across the UK this April, this film investigates the future of the world's water, and paints a disturbing picture of a world running out of the most basic of life's essentials.

8 year old Vanessa and her parents have to walk almost a mile down the cliffs of El Alto in Bolivia to collect water from an unreliable well every day. Yet, they live just a few hundred metres from their city's main water treatment plant and can see millions of gallons just beyond the barbed wire fence. They are victims of waters increasing commodification.

In 2000, the members of of the United Nations committed to halving the number of people in the world without access to water, by 2015. But within our lifefime over half of the world's population will be living without access to safe water and sanitation.

The struggle for this precious resource and the battle for its ownership is explored through compelling stories of families living in Bolivia, Detroit, Dar Es Salaam and Rajestan. As the background to these stories we explore the conflicts over the future of water and see how even those living in the relatively water-rich UK hold the survival of the planet in our hands.

http://truevisiontv.com/films/details/80/a-world-without-water

Eric R. Kandel : Mapping Memory in the Brain

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Eric R. Kandel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, probes into the mind to demonstrate how it is much more complex than just a series of processes carried out by the brain. The brain produces our every emotional, intellectual and athletic act. It allows us to acquire new facts and skills, and to remember them for as long as a lifetime. Memory exists in two major forms, each located in different brain regions. Explicit memory is for people, places, and objects. In contrast, implicit memory serves perceptual and motor skills. In concert, these two memory systems help make us who we are.

Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law : A Book Conference

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Despite cultural progress in reducing overt acts of racism, stark racial disparities continue to define American life. This conference considers what emerging social science can contribute to the discussion of race in American law, policy, and society. The conference will explore how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive. This new evidence reveals how human mental machinery can be skewed by lurking stereotypes, often bending to accommodate hidden biases reinforced by years of social learning. Through the lens of these powerful and pervasive implicit racial attitudes and stereotypes, the conference, designed to coincide with the launch of the book “Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law”, examines both the continued subordination of historically disadvantaged groups and the legal system's complicity in the subordination.

The conference will bring together scholars, judges, practitioners, and community leaders to explore the issues surrounding implicit racial bias in law and policy. It will begin with a compelling overview of the social science. What does science teach us about automatic biases? And what do we still not know? Leaders in the areas of criminal justice, housing law and policy, education, and health care will then present overviews of the impact of implicit bias in their fields. Attendees will hear federal judges’ and leading scholars’ perspective on implicit bias claims in the courtroom and hear experts’ assessment of the future of implicit bias in the law. A lively afternoon session will include simultaneous break-out sessions and roundtable discussions of specific implicit bias related topics. Audience participation will be welcomed and encouraged. The conference will close with a discussion of setting a forward looking and collaborative implicit bias agenda.

Source : http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Events/Event.aspx?id=100159

Inside the Psychologist's Studio with Mahzarin R. Banaji and Rebecca Saxe

Like its quasi-namesake (that would be Inside the Actor's Studio), the Inside the Psychologist's Studio series traditionally has focused on more senior luminaries who look back at their accomplishments. In a departure from that format, we bring you a fascinating, wide-ranging forward-looking, intergenerational conversation that promises to leave you even more confident about the future of psychological science.
Rebecca Saxe is a scientist at MIT, where she got her PhD in 2003. Already, she has made exciting contributions to our understanding of how infants become social beings, what goes wrong in brain development to produce autism, and how we make moral decisions.
Mahzarin Banaji is scientist at Harvard, and APS's President this year. She got her PhD in 1986. She studies how our minds unconsciously think about self and other, us and them. People like Rebecca inspired her to extend her work to include the study of young children.
In their laboratories, Banaji and Saxe share an interest in understanding how children and adults navigate the social world. But they also share an interest in speaking about what science has taught us about ourselves to non-academic audiences in the hope that we can create more just and peaceful worlds for the future.
In this session of "Inside the Psychologist's Studio" they will converse with each other and quiz each other about how they run their labs, what drives them these days, and why young people starting out in psychological science should be excited about the research they're doing.

23rd APS Annual Convention
Washington, D.C. -- 2011

Joshua Aronson : The Nature and Nurture of Human Intelligence

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Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University, talks about the impact of stereotypes on how we perform on a day-to-day basis and on tests, and on how we learn.

Hosted by BU Women in Science and Engineering on March 3, 2008.

Janet Tavakoli : Understanding Derivatives and Their Risks

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Global financial markets are awash in hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of derivatives. By some estimates, the total amount exceeds one quadrillion.

Derivatives played a central role in the 2008 credit crisis, as they had a brutal multiplying effect on the magnitude of the carnage. As a bad asset was written down, oftentimes there were derivative contracts written against it that resulted in total losses 10x greater than the initial write-down.

But what exactly are derivatives? How do they work?

And have we learned to treat these "weapons of mass financial destruction" (as Warren Buffet colorfully coined them) any more carefully in the aftermath of the global financial crisis?

Not really, claims Janet Tavakoli, derivatives expert and president of Tavakoli Structure Finance.

But the danger behind derivatives doesn't lie in their existence, she stresses. They play and important and constructive role in a healthy financial system when used responsibly.

But when abused, derivatives can create massive damages. So at the root of the "derivatives problem", Tavakoli stresses, is control fraud - the rampant unchecked criminal action by influential players on Wall Street. (This is the same method of fraud we've explored in past interviews with Bill Black and Gretchen Morgenson). Derivatives contracts are too often constructed in favor of these parties, who if they end up on the losing side of the trade, are able to socialize their losses. Until we address this root problem of corruption, says Tavakoli, derivatives (as well as other securities: stocks, bonds, etc) will continue to subject investors and our makets, overall, to unacceptable risk.

TEDxStudioCityED - Daniel Siegel : Mindfulness and Neural Integration

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Exploring Relationships and Reflection in the Cultivation of Well-Being.

Daniel Siegel, MD, is Clinical Professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of Mindful Awareness Research Center, Executive Director of Mindsight Institute, author, and recipient of numerous awards and honorary fellowships.

This talk examines how relationships and reflection support the development of resilience in children and serve as the basic '3 R's" of a new internal education of the mind.

Leonard Mlodinow - "Subliminal : How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior"

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Every aspect of our mental lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us. Over the past two decades researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the unconscious, or subliminal, workings of the mind. This explosion of research has led to a sea change in our understanding of how the mind affects the way we live. As a result, scientists are becoming increasingly convinced that how we experience the world--our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment--is largely driven by the mind's subliminal processes and not by the conscious ones, as we have long believed.

Subliminal : The new unconscious and what it teaches us about ourselves

Watch academic and bestselling author Leonard Mlodinow as he unravels the mysteries of the unconscious mind, and shows its remarkable and unexpectedly powerful effect on all aspects of our lives.

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A: thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/subliminal-the-new-unconscious-and-what-it-teaches-us-about-ourselves

RSA Animate : The Truth About Dishonesty

Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world's leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment.

Taken from a lecture given at the RSA in July 2012 .

Watch the longer talk here : https://vimeo.com/47645113

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A :
thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/free-beer-the-truth-about-dishonesty

The Emerging Mind : How relationships and the embodied brain shape who we are

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Renowned academic, author, and director of the Mindsight Institute Dan Siegel, visits the RSA to reveal an extremely rare thing -- a working definition of the mind.

Find out more about the Mindsight Institute : http://mindsightinstitute.com/

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A :
http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/the-emerging-mind-how...

Balanced Lives | Juliet Schor

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Juliet Schor (Boston College)
Leading the Plenitude Life: Work, Consumption and Ecology for the 21st Century

Balanced Lives Symposium
http://ppc.uiowa.edu/balancedlives

Josh Farley : Rethinking Economic Growth

Joshua Farley is an ecological economist and Associate Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration. Josh holds degrees in biology, international affairs and economics. He has previously served as program director at the School for Field Studies, Centre for Rainforest Studies, as Executive Director of the University of Maryland International Institute for Ecological Economics, and as adjunct faculty and licensed examiner at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He recently returned from a Fulbright fellowship in Brazil, where he served as visiting professor at the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Bahia (UFBA). .

Peter Victor : Ecological Economics

Dr. Peter Victor of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University speaks with us about the history and development of economic growth as the primary policy directive of the last few decades.

Juliet Schor : Working Less

Juliet Schor (http://www.julietschor.org/) is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts.

In Depth : Chris Hedges

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Chris Hedges is the author of nine books:
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (2002); What Every Person Should Know About War (2003); Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America (2005); American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007); I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008): Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians (2008); Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); The Death of the Liberal Class (2010); The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress (2011).

Chris Hedges is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. A former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, he was part of the team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of global terrorism. He also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Mr. Hedges is author of "Losing Moses on the Freeway" and "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School.

Source : http://www.booktv.org/Program/13110/In+Depth+Chris+Hedges.aspx

Juliet Schor : Plenitude

At Town Hall Seattle, May 24, 2010

Gar Alperovitz - Our Time in History : The Possibility of Fundamental System Change

 

Saturday, June 9th at the Strategies for a New Economy 2012 Conference

James Gustave Speth - "Building the New Economy : Ten Steps We Can Take Now"

 Friday, June 8th at the Strategies for a New Economy 2012 Conference

Juliet Schor - Economics for the 99%

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Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Occupy Harvard Teach-In #1 12/7/2011

Sustainability Summit : Unleashing Our Creative Genius with Keynote Speaker, David Korten.

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Saturday, April 14, 2012, South Puget Sound Community College, Minnaert Center for the Arts.

UO Today #492 : David Korten

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David Korten, author of "Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth," discusses his views about the U.S. economic system. He also comments on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

UO Today, the Oregon Humanities Center's half-hour television interview program, provides a glimpse into the heart of the University of Oregon. Each episode offers viewers a conversation with UO faculty and administrators as well as visiting scholars, authors, and artists whose groundbreaking work is shaping our world.

David Korten - The Great Turning

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David Korten (http://www.davidkorten.org/) speaks at the StoryField Conference on August 27, 2007 about "The Great Turning", an evolution of spirit that is transforming humanity and its relationship to the earth.

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Producer: Bruce McConnell

Pots, Pans and Other Solutions with Portuguese subtitles (legendado PT)

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This documentary was idealized, conceived and produced by Miguel Marques, Yolanda Rienderhoff, Pedro Bruno Carreira and LIGHTS ON(E). We had no sponsors whatsoever.

If you liked it and you have the means, feel free "to pay your ticket". You can make a bank transfer of 1 to 5 euros to:

International Bank Account Number: PT50 0035 0549 0005 4403 9005 4

Portuguese Account Number: 0035 0549 0005 4403 9005 4

We also have the film available on DVD. Just write an email to potspans2012@gmail.com with your name, postal address and a proof of the bank transfer -- 10€ (europe) or 12€ (rest of the world) to cover expenses.

Your donation will make it possible for us to go on working.
Feel free to make public exhibitions of the documentary. You can ask for the film poster by email.

http://potspansdocumentary.wordpress.com/

Synopsis

In Iceland, the first European country to wake up to an economic crash, people became aware that they could and should intervene in society and started demanding more democratic participation.
The payment of bank debts by citizens went to referendum. The government was forced to create a Council to write a new constitution: a citizens' group - without politicians, lawyers or university professors -- who opened the discussion process to everybody and managed to approve by consensus a draft proposal.

In Iceland, many citizens are now organized in associations and have substantial proposals for a society where everyone can participate.

Let's meet the Icelanders that the media refuse to talk about.

Steve Keen at the Just Banking conference on 20th April 2012 (with slides)

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Steve Keen is a major contemporary economist who predicted the global Financial Crisis of 2008. Highly critical of neo-Keynesian economics, Steve is a follower of Hyman Minsky who has built a reputation for explaining the global economic crisis in a way that not only makes sense, but which also helps people anticipate what will happen next.
http://debunkingeconomics.com/

Benny Tetteh-Lartey - YOU CAN'T HIDE re-edit.

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Video re-edit of original track from the album "See the Wonder"

http://bennytetteh-lartey.co.uk/

Mary Mellor at the Just Banking conference on 20th April 2012

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Mary Mellor at the Just Banking conference on 20th April 2012.

"What does the current banking system mean for sustainability?"

Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University. Her current research focuses on the financial crisis, money systems and financial exclusion. Her research interests include the social economy and alternative economics; co-operatives and other alternative economic structures; ecofeminist political economy, ecological political economy and feminist economics; ecologically sustainable and social just 'sufficiency' economics.

One of her research projects is focused on the development of ecologically sustainable and socially just economies. This project explores how the money system can be used to develop a needs-led economy that could enable the circulation of goods and services without requiring constant economic growth.

Mary is a founding member of the World Economics Association and was founding Chair of the University's Sustainable Cities Research Institute. Her most recent book is 'The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource'.

www.justbanking.org.uk
#JustBanking on twitter

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OutFoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)

"Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.

Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.

This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

Director/Producer Robert Greenwald has produced and/or directed 53 television movies, miniseries and features. He is the director of Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Uncovered: The Iraq War and the Executive Producer of the UN series - Unprecedented, Uncovered and Unconstitutional. His new media company, Brave New Films, recently distributed The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress and produced two new TV series - the “ACLU Freedom Files” and “The Sierra Club Chronicles” – which can be seen on Link TV and via the internet.

Source : http://www.outfoxed.org/OutfoxedSummary.php

Michael Parenti - No War But The Class War

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Originally uploaded years ago on my previous channel. My old username was "Freshtymer"
http://www.michaelparenti.org/
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

Michael Parenti has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the city of Santa Cruz, New Jersey Peace Action, the Social Science Research Council, the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and other organizations. In 2007 he was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Barbara Lee.

During his earlier teaching career he received grants or fellowships from the Louis Rabinowitz Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Brown University, Yale University, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois. For several years he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.

He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation; as well as the advisory editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society and Thought. He also served for some 12 years as a judge for Project Censored.

He is the author of twenty-three books:

The Face of Imperialism (Paradigm, 2011)
God and His Demons (Prometheus Books, 2010)
Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth, 9th edition, 2011)
Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (City Lights Books, 2007)
Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth, 8th edition, 2007) The Culture Struggle (Seven Stories Press, 2006)
Superpatriotism (City Lights Books, 2004)
The Assassination of Julius Caesar (The New Press, 2003)
The Terrorism Trap (City Lights Books, 2002)
To Kill a Nation (Verso Books, 2001) History as Mystery (City Lights Books, 1999)
America Besieged (City Lights Books, 1998)
Blackshirts and Reds (City Lights Books, 1997)
Dirty Truths (City Lights Books, 1996)
Against Empire (City Lights Books, 1995)
Inventing Reality (Wadsworth, second edition, 1993)
Land of Idols (St. Martin's, 1993)
Make-Believe Media (Wadsworth, 1992)
The Sword and the Dollar (St. Martin's, 1989)
Power and the Powerless (St. Martin's, 1978)
Ethnic and Political Attitudes (Arno Press, 1975)
Trends and Tragedies in American Foreign Policy (Little, Brown, 1971)
The Anti-Communist Impulse (Random House, 1969)

Some 320 articles of his have appeared in scholarly journals, political periodicals and various magazines and newspapers.

He appears on radio and television talk shows to discuss current issues and ideas from his published works. Dr. Parenti's talks and commentaries are played on radio stations and cable community access stations to enthusiastic audiences in the United States, Canada, and abroad.

He lectures on college campuses and before a wide range of community audiences, peace groups, labor organizations, scholarly conferences, and various other venues. His books are enjoyed by both lay readers and scholars, and have been used extensively in college courses. Among the many topics he treats are:

Theocracy and Other Religious Sins
Democracy and Economic Power
Imperialism and U.S. Interventionism
Empires, Past and Present
Political Perceptions and Deceptions
Ethnic-Class Experience
Terrorism and Globalization
Political Bias in the U.S. News Media
Ideology and History
Race, Gender, and Class
The Overthrow of Communism
Fascism: Past and Present

Michael Parenti on imperialism, wars, crisis , politics and bailouts

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About the Lecture:
Speech by Michael Parenti, award-winning historian, author and lecturer, on "Empire and Veterans: Who Pays and Who Benefits from Global Wars".
Sponsored by the California Regional Coalition of Veterans and Military Families. Filmed at Pierpont Inn, Ventura, CA on April 17, 2010

Lannan's Readings & Conversations 2010 : Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and their family, set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s, when Communism rattled the age-old caste system. Roy received the Booker Prize for this book in 1997. She has written several nonfiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. In addition to writing, she has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary "Dam/age," which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. Her newest book, published by Haymarket, is Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Roy last read in Santa Fe in 2002, when she received the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.

Avi Lewis is an award-winning Canadian television journalist and documentary filmmaker. His productions include The Take, an emotional story of hope and resistance in the global economy that follows Argentina's worker-run business movement, which the New York Times called, "a stirring, idealistic documentary." In the early 1990s, he hosted City TV's landmark music journalism show The New Music, interviewing hundreds of musicians, from David Bowie and Leonard Cohen to The Rolling Stones and The Spice Girls. In 2008, Lewis served as host for the series Inside USA on Al Jazeera's English television network, examining the issues at stake in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Currently, Lewis co-hosts the network's Fault Lines, a bi-weekly show that investigates the forces that drive the big news stories of today. Lewis was last in Santa Fe to interview Arundhati Roy for Lannan's Readings & Conversations in April, 2010.  

fraude. por qué la gran recesión (documental oficial)

La gran recesión no ha sido culpa del libre mercado. Por contra, su causa debe buscarse en la profunda intervención del estado y los bancos centrales en la economía, provocando, de manera fraudulenta, ciclos recurrentes de expansión artificial, burbuja y recesión económica que terminan pagando todos los ciudadanos.

La producción de este documental se ha llevado a cabo con mucho trabajo y una importante inversión de dinero.
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"fraud. why the great recession" (official documentary)

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"Fraud. Why the great recession" is a crowdfunded documentary.
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synopsis:

Free markets are not to be blamed for the Great Recession. On the contrary, its origins rest upon the deep government and central bank intervention in the economy. Through fraudulent mechanisms, this causes recurrent boom and bust cycles: bad policies create phases of irrational exuberance, which are then followed by economic recessions, a result that every citizen ends up suffering from.

Salud en Venta

La raza humana puede sobrevivir perfectamente sin un interminable repertorio de fármacos nuevos, pero la industria farmacéutica no. Las diez compañías farmacéuticas mayores, formar el conglomerado Bigpharma que controla en mercado farmacéutico mundial Investiga el problema del acceso a medicamentos esenciales en los países en desarrollo, teniendo en cuenta aspectos económicos, políticos, médicos y perspectivas sociales. ¿Por qué quince millones de personas mueren de enfermedades fácilmente curables en el hemisferio sur cada año?

Addictions & Corrections with Gabor Maté

"What is it that the correctional service actually corrects? In my view very little...and...the justice system is completely criminal and it should be studied..." So begins a provocative presentation by trauma and addiction treatment expert, Gabor Maté, M.D. While working for two decades on Vancouver's Downtown East Side, Gabor saw how the purely medical model of addiction theory fails to take into account the effects of trauma and the biopsychosocial conditions of human beings as they live in relationship with others. He argues that current Canadian social and criminal policy exacerbate and entrench addiction, criminal behaviour and human suffering. He calls for social policy, medical training and criminal justice to become more fully aligned with the current science and understanding of addiction and healing. Ting Forum on Justice Policy co-sponsored by The School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the Correctional Service of Canada, and the Department of Criminology at Douglas College Buy the DVD at http://www.heartspeakproductions.ca


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Part Two : Dr. Gabor Maté is joined by Ray Corrado (Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology), Tim Veresh (The John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland, BC), and Sav Bains (The Correctional Service of Canada [CSC]), to continue the dialogue on addictions and corrections. Underlying the discussion of the treatment of addictions in the prison environment is an awareness that new and impending crime legislation will result in increased federal and provincial prison populations. To implement these changes, the federal government has committed Canadians to spending 11 billion dollars for expanded prison infrastructure.
Tim Veresh and Sav Bains estimate that eighty percent of those incarcerated in Canada suffer from some kind of substance abuse problem. Yet, Sav notes, CSC earmarks a maximum of 2.8% of its budget for basic cognitive-behavioural intervention programs, its main vehicle for delivering correctional and rehabilitative programming. CSC policy allows them to address an addiction or substance abuse problem only if the problem was deemed to be directly linked to the crime that led to incarceration. Consequently many people leave prison without addressing the problem of addiction or its root cause.
Sav projects that CSC will need to rely more heavily on volunteers and chaplaincy, not only to deal with the deeper psychological issues and effects of addiction, but also to assist with rehabilitation and reintegration.
Ray Corrado suggests that, short of a full revolution, piecemeal work in integrated diagnostics and delivery systems hold the most promise, especially if focused on health, education, early social interventions and information sharing across agencies.
Dr. Maté points out that virtually all the social problems associated with illegal drugs are a result of criminalizing drug use, and that where decriminalization of drug use has been instituted, there are marked decreases in crime and social problems generally associated with drug use.
The key to addressing social and personal effects of addiction is to practice compassion, Maté insists. If social institutions overlook this fact, they foster ongoing suffering rather than healing.