Category "Activism"

Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are not served by the current system... and fear in those who are pampered by it. Read more & Watch...

Dateline gets to the heart of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York and questions whether the financial world can ignore such a huge demonstration in its midst. "This isn't just a game, this is the future of this country. It's actually the future of the world", insists the economist Jeffrey Sachs. Lawyer Burt Neuborne took on many of the biggest civil rights era cases in New York. He feels that this movement, while in its infancy, has that kind of potential. "It is at the emotional outpouring stage and it hasn't matured yet, but it will. It will." The movement so far is an instinctive one, responding to the pain of recession and the deep inequalities in society Read more & Watch...

Fault Lines tells the definitive history of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement's rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities. Read more & Watch...

FIERCE LIGHT continues the quest for a fusion between spirituality and activism previously explored in Velcrow Ripper's award-winning feature documentary ScaredSacred (Special Jury Prize, Toronto International FIlm Festival). It was executive produced by Mark Achbar, (The Corporation -Audience Award, Sundance). Read more & Watch...

This is the modern-day story of a native peoples remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) – and won despite a military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than they bargained for. The islands people had enough of seeing their environment ruined and being treated as pawns by RTZ. RTZ refused to compensate them, so the people decided it was time to put an end to outside interference in the islands affairs. To do this they forcibly closed down the mine. Read more & Watch...

David Icke's 'ad lib' documentary at Occupy Wall Street - the peoples' voice and the agent provocateurs of the New York Police Read more & Watch...

Can the 99% prevail? Occupy The Movie will interweave short vignettes – documenting each event that shapes the movement’s evolution – and candid interviews with leading figures around the movement – academics, politicians, philosophers, economists, and many more. Like the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy The Movie is dynamic, diverse, and still growing. Follow us on Twitter for updates on new vignettes and interviews as they come in. Directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Corey Ogilvie (Nash: the Documentary, Streets of Plenty, Think Peace). Read more & Watch...

This documentary takes a critical look at the history and future of public space–from the Agora to shopping malls to NYC’s community gardens. The film unrolls the complicated relationship between public and private control over space. Featuring scholars, activists and community organizers, including Don Mitchell, Sharon Zukin, Galen Kranz, and Rob Robbins Read more & Watch...

Generation OS13: The New Culture of Resistance (2011) is an explosive insight into the attack on civil liberties occurring in western democracies and how artists, musicians, journalists and authors encourage the peoples right to resist against Banker occupation. Featuring Painter, poet & song writer Billy Childish, Harry Malt from Bare Bones, Luke Turner from The Quietus, journalist Huw Nesbitt, broadcaster Max Kaiser, author Nicholas Shaxson & Artists Anika, Comanechi, Gaggle’s & Saul Williams. Read more & Watch...

Votergate, an action documentary, follows a young team on their nationwide investigation of the current problems with our voting systems and elections procedures. Fast-paced and engaging, Votergate reveals the shocking story of how touchscreen voting systems are highly susceptible to hacking and how these systems are being implemented across the country without the proper checks and balances to insure accuracy and accountability. Read more & Watch...

The American biotechnology firm, Monsanto, has applied for a patent for pig breeding in 160 countries. The patent is for specific parts of the genetic material of pigs which Monsanto’s genetic researchers have decoded. If this patent is granted, pig breeding would be possible with the approval of the company. Farmers and breeders are naturally alarmed because these genes have long existed in the great majority of their pigs. Using DNA tests they can prove that there is no new invention in the patent applications but that, instead, granting this patent would be to allow a part of nature to fall into the hands of a single company Read more & Watch...

A documentary that looks into the events during the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN. Footage contains excessive use of force and questionable tactics used by police toward activists. It also includes interviews with citizens, asking them what they are fighting for. The footage used in this documentary was shot mainly by independent, non-profit, and volunteer citizens that have risked much to bring you this uncensored look into the Republican National Convention. Thanks to all of you that fight for truth. Read more & Watch...

“Zeitgeist Reloaded” was started by the German Chapters of the Zeitgeist Movement and is exclusively based on media research on the Internet. “Zeitgeist Reloaded” is understood as a compendium of science, technology and global activism. It is the intention of the movement to inform the global population about our positive possibilities for a sustainable future for all humans on earth. All important information gathered by Internet research and by voluntary activism will be implemented in this movie. Read more & Watch...

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest. It's witty, moving, alarming and quite a lesson in modern history. Read more & Watch...