Al Jazeera's English Live Stream is always on, featuring their latest coverage. They broadcast to more than 220 million households in more than 100 countries. Much has been said about the quality of their coverage, including dismissive attitudes that generally prefer the flag-waving state-friendly American news networks, while others (perhaps a majority) of international audiences have...
We had a rare opportunity to meet with the co-founders of Films For Action, Tim Hjersted and Matthew Toplikar. Their amazing and free site is informative, educational, and on the cutting edge of a new type of news media. It's honest, innovative, and a leader in social change. The interview was filmed after The National Conference on Media Reform, on April 7th, 2013, in Colorado...
Determined to break the grip that junk food news has on the American people, two California fathers uncover the Corporate media's true agenda.
Lost actress Evangeline Lilly speaks out at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 2013. Her keynote tells the story of how she woke up and got involved in the media reform movement.
A Wall Street whistleblower proves that money never sleeps . “Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker Paul Verge brings us a revealing interview with Wall Street whistleblower-turned-artist, Richard Andrew Grove; therein exposing the (Who, What, When, Where, Why, an
Patrick Chalmers, former Reuters journalist (environment and later precious metals/FTSE correspondent) and the author of " Fraudcast News: How Bad Journalism Supports our Bogus Democracies", presented at the 3rd annual Positive Money conference in London. More about the ' Modernising
Free hugs downtown on St. Patty's Day? You know it. ∞ Choose to be the change you wish to see. ∞ Who is Skull Babylon? - http://www.ParadigmShiftCentral.com/SkullBabylon http://www.ParadigmShiftCentral.com Paradigm Shift London - http://www.facebook.com/ParadigmShiftLondon Paradigm Shift Radio - http://www.facebook.com/ParadigmShiftRadio
How & why to implement public journalism - Communication systems evolved exponentially in the 20th century, it was monopolised for business & war but now almost everybody has access to a sound recording device. The public are the news are the strength of a community, for we are the common-unity.
Are guns there to stop tyranny? Is tyranny already here? Are there other ways of stopping it than stocking up on munitions? Welcome, Minutemen, to Rap News 18, where we take a few minutes to explore one of the great debates taking place in the Divided States of America.
Following CNN’s entirely non-ratings driven decision to allow Piers Morgan to debate radio host and noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the issue of gun control, we dove into the archives to find some other examples of Jones’ brand of reasoned and informed commentary. It would be malpractice if we did not share some of the gems we discovered down that rabbit hole...
A collage of dozens of social change documentary titles set to music. Most of these documentaries can be found in my Full Movies playlist or you can find a trailer for it in my Movie Trailers playlist plus many more. Inspiration came in many forms being the "Wall of Films" from Films For Action , a call to action song about doing exactly what I did "Make A YouTube Video" by Tatiana Moroz, my...
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to...
In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record labels. The online community rose up against...
Oct 7th, 2012 - Animal Rights Demonstration. Marineland Amusement Park, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Brendon Culliton is a Neogonzo Journalist for Paradigm Shift Central - a collective of youth initiated communities that encourage open-mindedness, healthy living, and the evolution of consciousness. http://facebook.com/marinelandanimaldefense http://savejapandolphins.org
This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly...
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists” is a documentary that takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical “hacktivist” collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores the historical roots of early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater and then follows Anonymous from 4chan to a...
To make a difference, one must be the difference. Get involved with the global project and help shift consciousness at http://ParadigmShiftCentral.com/plantaseed and https://facebook.com/events/373284992739951/ Sign Making Tools: Rastorbator programs- (print images on multiple pieces of paper then duct tape them together.)
An introductory tutorial for aspiring citizen journalists to consider before next entering the field. You are needed more than ever, to bring the people direct truth, taking out the middle man in the archaic mainstream media. Each camera is a new set of eyes we all share in near real time – no one can take this from us, so it is imperative we refine and develop new skills and strategies...
A documentary about the Occupy Wall Street , hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond. You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your information from Point A to Point B. Fire off an email or a tweet, broadcast a livestream or upload...
During the Quebec student protests against the tuition hikes, members of the press came under attack by the SPVM (Montreal Police). This video aims to raise the issue of press freedom in face of suppressive and brutal tactics by the SPVM to deny access of coverage to members of the media.
What is real journalism? John Pilger reviews his 50 year career John Pilger says journalism is meant to be about truth. In this video he reviews his career over more than 50 years as a campaigning journalist, filmmaker and author. Journalism, he says, has a part to play on behalf of humanity. But too many journalists and journalistic institutions see themsleves as expressing the ambitions...
This is a video about the celebration of May Day, by Unions, and Occupy Wall Street. A Rally, Demonstrations, and Parades took place on May 1, 2012, in New York City. It was in all parts of the city and it lasted all day.
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 protests against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country, physically or over the Internet.
Go to http://onecandleinthedark.blogspot.com and http://www.cbsyousuck.com for thousands of pages of evidence and links to the original source research on the Internet Wayback Machine.
The phrase Manifest Destiny was coined in the mid 19th century to put a smiling face on the westward expansion of the United States. This belief system served as justification for the slaughter of Native Americans, war with Mexico, and the employment of countless cartographers. While US foreign policy in the 21st century does not include any immediate plans to annex sovereign nations...
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/?pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to...
Feature on London Permaculture Zone at the London Green Fair 2011 http://www.londongreenfair.org Watch more videos from the London Green Fair htttp://www.earthmothernature.com http://www.myndzcommunity.com/blog Watch more from LGF 2011 http://www.earthmothernature.com
Panel Discussion on the way forward for Green Festivals: with Brig Oubridge, Dan Hurring and Shane Collins and attendees of the Green Gathering 2011.
a snippet of Michael's interview with author Anya Kamenetz. elephantoncampus.com diyubook.com
a snippet of michael's interview with radical educator dennis littky.
Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus/Nation Books) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50...
In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero of a landmark case whose outcome will affect the rights of every American citizen. Following one...
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, delivered a rousing speech about the power of the people to change the media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10, 2011. The conference was hosted by the national nonprofit Free Press. Find out more at www.freepress.net.
Free Press incoming president Craig Aaron spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 9. To find out more about the conference, go to conference.freepress.net
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" - a startling comment on the way that intellectual property law restricts creativity and expression of ideas. This provocative and amusing documentary explores the battles being waged in courts, classrooms, museums, film studios...
Beautiful Losers follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world. Free spirited approach to life. Not seeking just doing their thing. True, expressive freedom does not exist and its not given, unless you create it yourself and cultivate it. With a policy – don’t ask anyone for permission. DIY...
The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from...
Gary Caganoff's 'captivating and gutsy' film on Afghanistan. "A creative masterpiece of Human Rights film making". 50 min documentary and extras available on DVD only. Recipient of the WACC/SIGNIS Human Rights Award, 2010. http://www.thegardenattheendoftheworld.info/
Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The films central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper...
In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United's FA Trophy Semi-Final match against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other fans are doing the same thing, because together, they own and manage the football club. If distributed networks of people can run complex organisations such as football clubs, what...
'Coalition of the Willing' is a collaborative animated film and web-based event about an online war against global warming in a 'post Copenhagen' world. ‘Coalition of the Willing’ has been Directed and produced by Knife Party, written by Tim Rayner and crafted by a network of 24 artists from around the world using varied and eclectic film making techniques. Collaborators include...
In this documentary, ''Team Stupid' reveal the lengths they went to - from kidnap threats in Nigeria to 'crowd-funding' in London - to make 2009's most talked-about climate change film starring Pete Postlethwaite.
December 2010 and Cablegate has burst open. With a steady trickle of Diplomatic communiques leaking out every single day, the Book of Revelations is expanding dramatically. In all the hubbub, the global community is forced to ask questions of its leaders. At the same time, perhaps a stronger focal point for international attention is the Wikileaks leader, the elusive Julian Assange, whose...
The Internet is a super-distribution machine that allows copies of digital media to flow in an almost frictionless way. As the wealth and survival of traditional media businesses are built on selling precious copies, the free flow of free copies is undermining the established order. If reproductions of media are free, how can we keep on financing films and how can we find value in the media we...
Exclusive rough-cut of the first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new...
Sen. Al Franken speaks up for Net Neutrality at a public hearing in Minneapolis on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. Video courtesy of TheUpTake.org.
The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Big corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the gateway to the Web into a toll road. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors where the future of democracy's newest forum is being decided. In this feature documentary, renowned journalist Bill Moyers brings us the most in-depth summary on the issue of "network...
Robert D. Steele, former spy, the son of an oil man, blows the cover off the abject failure and insanity of present-day intellegence culture, the corruption in Washington, and calls on bloggers to keep reporting on these issues, to keep digging and exposing the truth, because the mainstream media clearly isn't. "You are the Paul Reveres and Patrick Henry's of our generation. You are the...
The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connection. If big business starts to be selective about what can pass through it will be like when the FCC cracked down on early radio expression and it wasn’t long before only commercial radio existed. The internet needs to stay neutral and not give certain...