June 2013, peaceful protests over the massive costs of bringing the World Cup to Brazil are met with violent repression by the state. Mirroring recent events in Turkey, what had started as relatively small protests turned into massive mobilizations as a result of police brutality. Brazilian photographer Michel de Souza takes us into the heart of the protests - or eye of the storm as he puts it...
Are the Department of Homeland Security are operating outside the law by violating the Fourth Amendment with their questionable warrantless stop and search procedures?
FRONTLINE reveals 9/11's unprecedented yet largely invisible legacy: the creation of a vast maze of clandestine government and private agencies designed to hunt terrorists and prevent future attacks on the U.S.
The source behind the Guardian's NSA files talks to Glenn Greenwald about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation.
Jon Lavoie lends his voice to a video documenting the police violence against Montreal residents during the student protests. SUBSCRIBE and check out our other videos! http://www.operationmaple.com http://www.facebook.com/operationmaple http://twitter.com/#!/operationmaple Music by Jon Lajoie http://www.youtube.com/user/jonlajoie?feature=fvst
In this installment of Peter Joseph's public access parody, the subject of Security and True Safety will be investigated. The evil terrorists are revealed to be at it again with a new airline scare; our Guy In A Tie reminds us of who is in control and a special award show finds a very special recipient in the Gun Control Debate.. Special guest appearances by Chad Fisher (Alex Jones)...
How did two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention? Better This World follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) from political neophytes to accused domestic terrorists with a particular focus on the relationship they develop with a radical activist mentor in the six months leading up to their...
Birgitta Jonsdottir, is a member of the Icelandic parliament who helped WikiLeaks edit and produce Collateral Murder. April 5, 2013, is the third anniversary of the release of that Video. Collateral Murder shows the brutal killing of innocent civilians and journalists by a US Military in Iraq. Birgitta Jonsdottir is visiting the U.S. to help raise awareness of our governments poor treatment of...
This controversial documentary about the stand-off between an unorthodox Christian group - the Branch Davidians, under the leadership of the young, charismatic David Koresh - and the FBI and ATF in Waco, Texas, from February to April 1993 presents a different spin on the events from that of the United States government, which held that the Branch Davidians set the fire that destroyed their...
A documentary about the current state of the Central Asian Republics in 4 chapters (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) styled after travel-shows: unguarded Anthrax factories, dried up seas, radioactive grazing grounds, and heroin-dealers' flats are among the many destinations on host Simon Reeve's itinerary features.
First-person testimony of the police brutality around the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, in 2001. Told by Lena, Niels, Chabi, Mina, Dan, Michael and Muli - who experienced the violence in the raid on the Diaz school and the torture at the Bolzaneto detention center - this film is a testament to them all and a damning indictment of a system that talks about freedom and democracy but that is...
It's pretty messed up! The United States locks up more people than any other country, but that hasn't made us safer. The drug war jails thousands of nonviolent addicts. Taxpayers and poor communities lose as states slash social programs to pay for prisons. There's a better way -- compassion, not punishment; restoration, not isolation. Part 2 is Broken On All Sides. Part 3 is...
Democracy Watch's Tyler Sommers discusses how the Canadian Conservative Government is muzzling federal scientists from releasing reports and talking to the media. SUBSCRIBE and check out our other videos! http://www.operationmaple.com http://www.facebook.com/operationmaple http://twitter.com/#!/operationmaple
Smart and provocative young veteran, Wray Harris, unlocks the sufferings served by the Iraq war. Truth is, the military is full of Harrises, eager patriots irrevocably transformed by meaningless combat. In an overnight conversation between two who met at a demonstration (at which Harris was speaking) Authority and Expectations walks the wiretapped road to Wray's apostasy. Fourteen months...
In 2010 thousands took to the streets to protest the governments plan to treble tuition fees for higher education. Whilst on these demonstrations people were subjected to a host of violent police tactics: they were charged by horses, beaten and held on mass for hours in the cold. News reports however presented a narrative of the police as struggling to contain a mob bent on violence. Images of...
Free Bradley Manning is a video of a rally which took place Feb 23 2013 in Union Sq., New York City. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned and tortured by our government for revealing war crimes committed by our military.
VIGILANTE SUPPORT ANONYMOUS WITH NEW SINGLE "IT'S OUR TIME". "When Internet activists are getting longer prison sentences than rapists you have to wonder what kind of world we're leaving for our kids" (Anonymous). In a world where we see every day how goverments, banks and corporations strip away our privacy and freedoms in the name of greed, power and...
50 states. 365 Days. Stop the NDAA by December 31st, 2013. This is Operation Homeland Liberty. Learn more about the NDAA here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokcwMm2wjo Join the movement: http://www.pandaunite.org/join-us
Moms Against Climate Change believe that our children will pay the greatest price if the world's political leaders fail to take urgent and decisive action on global warming.
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.
In the face of state repression and international indifference West Papuan activists have been locked in a life or death struggle for independence. People & Power (Al Jazeera) finds out what is behind one of the most forgotten conflicts in the world.
Aaron Swartz NYC Memorial Service, took place on January 19,2019, in The Great Hall at Cooper Union. Aaron is one more in a long list of people who have been silenced by our government. Aaron was not simply a political activist, he was an extremely gifted and intelligent person.
Cops and former cops who have put in decades fighting the war on drugs speak out against prohibition.
Carl Miller is an expert on the constitution and the bill of rights. He has studied law for 25 years and has a courtroom win-loss rate of over 90%. He is not an attorney; Carl prefers to represent himself in pria persona, and he delights in tying legal prosecutors in knots, often winning the praise and respect of the judges at the same time. Carl is a highly decorated hero of the...
The project began as a way to explore, educate about, and advocate change around the overcrowding of the Philadelphia county jail system. The documentary has come to focus on mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of race and poverty within criminal justice. The feature-length documentary is available for activists and educators to use in...
If there is one city in the world where you might expect to find happiness, it is Anaheim, California. It is the home of Disneyland, the second most popular amusement park in the world. From Anaheim Disney has for decades been selling an image of phantasy to millions of visitors every year. To me it just looked like our happiest place on earth had just turned into Afghanistan. Amber...
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years. Part 2 is the trailer. Part 1 has Deutsche subtitles but most of the film has English speakers. Let us break the...
In May 2011, hundreds of thousands of Greeks swarmed into Syntagma Square in Athens to protest against the firesale of their country, their labor rights and their livelihoods to corrupt domestic elites and foreign financial interests. In a matter of days, a protest camp was set up – organized on the principles of direct democracy, leaderless self-management and mutual aid &ndash...
Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2008 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete. The movie was created by animal-rights lawyer Shannon Keith, who owns Uncaged Films and ARME (Animal Rescue, Media & Education).
Protesters and activists in the face of an oppressive and armed government speak out and take a stand, and after being denied permits for demonstrations they repeatedly clashed with the Chicago Police Department at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The police waged a week-long terror campaign that resulted in riots witnessed live by a television audience of over 50 million. The events had a...
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...
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...
September 2012 rocks around with some crucial developments in the ongoing struggle over the future of the internet. Will it remain the one open frequency where humanity can bypass filters and barriers; or become the greatest spying machine ever imagined? The future is being decided as we type. Across Oceania, States have been erecting and installing measures to legalise the watching...
Visions of Abolition is a documentary about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement. - Part I, "Breaking down the Prison Industrial Complex" weaves together the voices of women caught in the criminal justice system and leading scholars of prison abolition, examining the racial and gendered violence of the prison system. (39 mins). Part II, "Abolition: Past, Present...
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.
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.
Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment provides a detailed, critical analysis of the current legal and justice system generally in operation across the planet whilst also providing potential solutions which work on preventing crime and creating a much more socially sustainable society. Original interviews with: DR. DAVID SCOTT, Criminologist, University of Central Lancashire PROFESSOR JOE...
Scott Noble, who also produced Lifting the Veil, pulls together a combination of internet and original footage to create the first feature-length documentary on Occupy Wall St, telling the story and motivation behind the movement in its own words. It is a treatise to the beautiful awakening of human heart and hope that has arisen in the American people, capturing the imagination and dreams...
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...
The inside story of Mark Kennedy, the police officer who spent eight years undercover as a dedicated activist, having infiltrated the environmental movement and Europe's left-wing extremist political groups. Now, with his cover blown, Kennedy has lost his wife and children, and the friends he made during his time with the protesters have labelled him a traitor. In this Cutting Edge film, he...
Can the 99% prevail? Occupy The Movie will interweave viral vignettes - documenting each event that shapes the movement - with candid interviews of leading figures around the movement - academics, politicians, philosophers, economists - to answer this historical question. Like the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy The Movie is dynamic, diverse, and still growing. Follow us on...
The Democracy Now! team rushed down to Zuccotti Park in the middle of the night to report on the police crackdown on Occupy Wall Street. We were there until the early hours of the morning, witnessing the arrests in the streets in Lower Manhattan and the dismantling of the encampment — and the hauling away protesters' belongings. "They can't pull one over our eyes. They can't put nothing...
Wall Street Occupation, was a video of the 8Th day of the occupation of Wall Street, in New York City, which took place on Sept 25, 2011. 99% of the people are going to take back our Media, Military, Courts, and our Government, which have been taken over by the wealthy 1%. The message of the occupation is that America belongs to all the people. Power to the People. In unity we will win...
The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were were run by those who followed the rules.
This powerful clip explains some of the reasons the Occupy Wall Street movement is so needed. Featuring Elizabeth Warren and others, with excellent music and production quality.
United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement. Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran (2 tours in Iraq), he currently plays amateur football and is in college. Thomas...
October 15, 2011 customers at the Citibank branch at 555 La Guardia Place in New York were locked inside the bank and then 23 of them were subsequently arrested for trespassing after trying to close down their bank accounts. At least one of the people was not an Occupy protestor, but a regular customer who was completely caught of guard by her arrest.
From Local News Station W-RAL in North Carolina. Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby's bedroom in his mother's Granville County, North Carolina home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere on the bed, on the floor, on the wall. But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held with new powers granted by The Patrot Act.
Meeting Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday Meeting Satan on Easter Monday Out and about in Cambridge with Jon from We Are Change Birmingham and showing Associated Press how we do things - of course they edited down the interview for maximum drama and juxtaposition See the AP piece here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mui_M1ii2w0 If anyone wants to join the Love Police come to Soho Square at 10am...