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For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty
  As the 2007-08 presidential campaign cycle offered up the usual slate of Washington insiders, Ron Paul, an obscure Congressman from Texas brought an alternative voice that challenged the political establishment. Advocating a philosophy of sound money, a non-interventionist foreign policy, strict Constitutionalism, and individual liberty, Dr. Paul inspired a unique grassroots movement unmatched in American history - the repercussions of which continue to reverberate today and into the future of the American psyche. For Liberty: How the...
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115 min - documentary - activism, elections & democracy, human rights, politics 254 views - website
Free Speech Should Be For People, Not Corporations
  Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to support a constitutional amendment. Visit FreeSpeechforPeople.org to learn more and get involved!
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4 min - psa - corporations, elections & democracy, human rights, politics 399 views - website
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics
  From the Director, Jonathan Shockley: This film is largely based on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics. Many people appear in it, but it is based primarily on a 5 hour interview I conducted with Ferguson (with the help of 2 fellow youtubers), and on numerous appearances & interviews with Noam Chomsky. The film offers an in depth look at business influence on politics--analyzing social forces and events that the corporate media and mainstream scholarship has largely distorted or kept hidden. It also analyzes...
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78 min - documentary - business, elections & democracy, money & economics, politics 639 views - website
DeFox America
  FOX News is on a witch hunt. Their goal is simple: to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive movement. They've already forced Van Jones out of the White House. They've badgered Congress into passing unconstitutional measures to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually keeps an enemies list on a blackboard that's a regular part of his show. ACORN is just the beginning. FOX has an enemies list, and they're going to keep destroying progressive champions until we stop them. Tell your Congressperson: If you vote to extend the "Defund...
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6 min - psa - big media, elections & democracy, politics, social issues 473 views - website
The End of America
  Wolf's impassioned arguments prove totally compelling, and the filmmakers' accompanying illustrations transport her comparisons from the abstract to the historic- VARIETY Expertly crafted by award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Devil Came on Horseback and The Trials of Darryl Hunt) comes this provocative film, THE END OF AMERICA based on The New York Times best seller by the same name. In a stunning indictment of sweeping policy changes during the Bush years, author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) makes a chilling case...
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73 min - documentary - elections & democracy, empire, human rights, police state 955 views - website
Dear Oprah: Non-Voting America's Wildest Dream
  More than a hundred million Americans don’t vote. Even when they're electing their president and, with that, the most powerful political leader in the world. A year before the presidential elections of 2008 a crew of young European filmmakers goes on a journey all across the country in a little old motorhome to search for America’s missing voters. Who are they? Why don’t they vote? Can a young and fresh presidential candidate as Barack Obama make them vote? How would American politics change if more young people, single women, poor white...
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52 min - documentary - elections & democracy, social issues 698 views - website
Iranian woman killed in Protests
  GRAPHIC Two perspectives of a woman gunned down during protests in Iran --19:05 June 20th, 2009. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim's chest, and she died in less...
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1 min - video clip - elections & democracy, police state, war & peace 533 views - website
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas
  From Venezuela's Communal Councils, to Brazil's Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? Directed by Sílvia Leindecker & Michael Fox. Estreito Meios Productions, 2008. Distributed by PM Press.This video is part 1 of the full documentary, split into small parts. Click the red website link...
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104 min - documentary - big ideas, community, elections & democracy, solutions 447 views - website
How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy
  The Riz Khan show looks at how electronic voting could be manipulated to flip the outcome of the 2008 US presidential election. A great 12 minute synopsis of the issue, up to the minute. The Riz Khan show airs on Aljazeera, the world's first English language news channel to have its headquarters in the Middle East; covering the world, bridging cultures and covering issues that aren't covered by the U.S.
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12 min - tv clip - elections & democracy 613 views - website
Stealing America: Vote by Vote
  STEALING AMERICA unveils patterns of anomalies at every level of the electoral process. Controversial partnerships perpetuate a secretive environment, as relevant facts and figures remain hidden from view. As a result, most Americans have no real sense of the threat to free and fair elections. As seemingly unrelated pieces of the puzzle come together, a chilling picture emerges of widespread, artfully crafted "glitches" that, in the final tallies, have the capacity to alter election results.
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90 min - documentary - elections & democracy, politics 1101 views - website
American Blackout
  Whatever you think you know about our election systems or Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the news media fails to accurately inform the public. Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba, creator of Eminem's "Mosh" music video, American Blackout critically examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence voices of political dissent. Many have heard of the alleged voting irregularities that occurred during the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Until now, these incidents...
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89 min - documentary - elections & democracy, politics 648 views - website
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections (trailer)
  UNCOUNTED is a wakeup call to all Americans. Beyond increasing the public’s awareness, the film inspires greater citizen involvement in fixing a broken electoral system. As the film-makers look back on the last several elections (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006) UNCOUNTED will change how you feel about the way votes are counted in America.
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2 min - trailer - elections & democracy, politics 789 views - website
Voter Caging - one tactic in a long list of tactics used to steal elections
  The PBS program 'NOW' furthers the story Greg Palast first busted open for Britain's BBC Newsnight, the scheme to deny democrat voters the right to vote. And not only does the scheme target minority voters especially, they actually apply this tactic to American troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan as well. Is this what the Republicans always mean by "supporting the troops"? Now, you would think this kind of damning investigative reporting would get more coverage in the mainstream media... but no... Click the website link for part 2.
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9 min - tv clip - elections & democracy, politics 623 views - website
2008 Election Fraud Plans Exposed
  What happens when Karl Rove accidentally sends 500 emails to the wrong address? We get a small piece of the G.O.P.'s plans to rig the 2008 election. Stumble It!
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15 min - video clip - elections & democracy, indy media 762 views - website
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
  Embarrassed Diebold officials apologized after one of their electronic voting machines prematurely revealed the winner of our upcoming sham election.-- From The Onion.
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3 min - comedy - elections & democracy, politics 773 views - website
The Awful Truth Part 1 (Election Fraud)
  Michael Moore nominates a 'plant' FICUS in the 2000 congressional election and the FICUS wins! During this time of election season let us take a moment to remember the glory of American Democracy - the freedom to choose a candidate that truly represents you! Highly recommended hilarity ensues.
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8 min - comedy - elections & democracy 568 views - website
The Awful Truth Part 2 (Election Fraud)
  Michael Moore nominates a 'plant' FICUS in the 2000 congressional election and the FICUS wins! During this time of election season let us take a moment to remember the glory of American Democracy - the freedom to choose a candidate that truly represents you! Highly recommended hilarity ensues.
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8 min - comedy - elections & democracy 554 views - website
The Awful Truth Part 3 (Election Fraud)
  Michael Moore nominates a 'plant' FICUS in the 2000 congressional election and the FICUS wins! During this time of election season let us take a moment to remember the glory of American Democracy - the freedom to choose a candidate that truly represents you! Highly recommended hilarity ensues.
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8 min - comedy - elections & democracy 534 views - website
A Little Light'll Do Ya - Defending Democracy in America
  Blacked out or dismissed as 'conspiracy theories' by corporate news outlets, reports of massive vote fraud in the 2004 presidential election circulated on the internet and independent media. As the Jan. 6th, 2005 deadline for a challenge to the Electoral College vote drew near, a tiny village on the California coast raised funds to send a delegation of its citizens and an award-winning documentary team to Ohio and Washington, D.C. to get the facts.
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55 min - documentary - activism, elections & democracy 602 views - website
Hacking Democracy
  Hacking Democracy filmed over 3 years, first shown on HBO (a unit of Time Warner) in 2006 and released on DVD in 2007. The film reveals many strange facts about paperless (or e-voting) systems that established during elections in the U.S.A. in the last years. It focuses on the story of Bev Harris, director of nonprofit election watchdog group called Black Box Voting, and her investigations of potential security flaws inherent in electronic voting.
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80 min - documentary - elections & democracy, government, politics 604 views - website
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