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Adbusters: The Production of Meaning
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Here is the challenge of media democracy: to change the way information flows, the way we interact with the mass media, the way meaning is produced in our society. This short video – a collection of television spots and video clips produced over the years by regular culture jammers – is proof that anyone can seize the media reins and begin producing real meaning.
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Buy Nothing Day
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Saturday November 28th is international Buy Nothing Day (It's Friday, November 27th in the U.S.). It's a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from shopping and anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!
Shop Less Live More
Everything we buy has an impact on the environment. Buy Nothing Day highlights the environmental and ethical consequences of shopping. The developed countries - only 20% of...
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The Cost of a Coke
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Coca Cola, we’ve found out, has actually been cooperating with paramilitaries in Colombia to execute workers in their own bottling plants that are trying to form unions and trying to demand better working conditions. So we’ve been able to bring this to the attention of Universities and say ‘if Coca Cola doesn’t stop doing this and if Coca Cola doesn’t adopt different practices, then our University is no longer willing to have anything to do with Coca Cola.
In the world of the Coca-Cola Company, whenever there’s a union there’s always a...
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The Advertising Age and the Human Ego
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Intercutting thousands of contemporary and classic television commercials with insights by Stuart Ewen, Jean Kilbourne, Sut JhalIy and others, this film scrutinizes late 20th century American society and its prime inhabitant, Consumer Man. You will never look at an ad the same way again after viewing what critics are calling "the first comprehensive documentary on the cultural impact of advertising in America."
The opening quote reads: "A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for...
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Teenage Affluenza! What Can You Do To Help?
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Are you suffering from teenage affluenza? Do you know anyone that is? This video takes a satirical look at the modern and very serious problem of Western affluence, and how the consumer-oriented values and culture of Western economies are having detrimental effects on our children's ability to feel empathy, to realize what's really important in life, and to care about the "we" more than the "me." Despite the complaints we, in the Western world, have about our ailing economy, by relative standards most of us all lead incredibly fortunate lives...
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No Impact Man (trailer)
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Follows the Beaven family as they abandon their high consumption Fifth Avenue lifestyle in an attempt to make a no-net environmental impact for the course of one year.
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What Would Jesus Buy?
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Religion aside for a moment, there’s a terrible addiction that has swept across this country, and it’s one of the nation’s best kept secrets. Mostly everyone will tell you that it’s a really bad thing, but nobody can seem to stop doing it. And it doesn’t come cheap, nearly sixty percent of us are in long term debt because of it. No, we’re not talking booze, drugs or overeating. It’s shopping. And over 15 million Americans may in fact be addicted to it.
Rob VanAlkemade’s ‘What Would Jesus Buy?’ is a rousing, irreverent and simultaneously...
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Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (trailer)
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CONSUMING KIDS throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience...
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The Good Consumer
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We funded the boom. We funded the bank bailout. Now we're expected to fund the recovery. But we cannot shop our way out of the long term problem: Over-consumption contributes to almost all global challenges. As nice as our luxury lifestyles are, we cannot ignore the elephant in the room much longer. Green capitalism and green consumerism isn't going to cut it. We have to consume less. Visit www.BonfireTheBrands.com for more.
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The Future of Your Skin Is In Your Hands
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The guarantees that cosmetic companies give on their miracle beauty cures are as useless as the products themselves.
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Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers
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Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth? Erik Gandini's approach through Surplus is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective. Shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. Surplus is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg.
George W Bush's famous...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Rails Against the Culprits of Our Economic Crisis
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This is a FANTASTIC speech given by Bernie Sanders on income inequality here in America. Important graphs and images have been added for those that need a little more stimulation to get them through a political speech. The music is from the amazing Cinematic Orchestra album. I hope you enjoy and hate every minute of it.
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Civilization! - *Some Restrictions Apply
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Civilization, the one-size-fits-all way of life that's right for everybody - whether you like it or not! Don't like the cradle to grave security you get from tribal cultures? Try "civilization" - it's great! See side-bar for product details. Civilization is not intended to cure, treat, or prevent any disease.
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Hipster Olympics: A battle of Apathetic Grandeur
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A double, triple (?) dose of irony is used to capture the essence of the hipster in the yearly "Hipster Olympics" - quite a tee off of champions - the kind who don't stand for anything. Pretty funny stuff. I can't help but want to say to these people, "Hey! Haven't you heard? Caring is the new apathy!" I don't think they'd get it.
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Logorrhea
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Cool, animated short inspired by the books NO LOGO by Naomi Klein and CULTURE JAM by Kalle Lasn.
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A Students' Guide To University Part 1
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This ongoing trilogy cartoon series explores commonly overlooked areas, relationships and politics of the education industry. Chapter one exposes the relationships of product placement and exclusive corporate contracts within the university environment.
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Toxic Mimics
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Toxic mimics take a very real, necessary, creative, life-affirming, and most of all relational urge and turn it -- pervert it -- until it does not further any mutual relationships at all but instead superficial relationships based on domination and control. Toxic mimics can cause people to forget those original relational urges, to forget mutuality is possible, to forget depth is possible, to eventually believe control is natural and desirable.
~Derrick Jensen
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A One Planet Life
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This Earth Day, don't just live green, live a One Planet Life. It's possible. Find out how at www.Care2.com/oneplanet
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A Killer Bargain (trailer)
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"A Killer Bargain" is powerful investigative journalism with a worldwide significance. A brave work which researches the way in which some big companies have goods cheaply produced in India but sold for large profits in European markets. The cost to many Indian factory workers and their communities includes pollution, illness and death. The program proves its case in a compelling forensic narrative and challenges both globalized economic interests, as well as its viewers as consumers of cheap goods.
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Going Big Box Vs. Going Local
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Going Big Box vs. Going Local pushes purchasing power to its extreme. In this hilarious docu-drama, the every-woman Hannah rejects sweatshop labor, embraces buying local, and finds much more than what she's shopping for — with the help of the know-it-all narrator.
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