The Baffler, New Inquiry, and Jacobin magazines The dark side of the Internet has been under increasing scrutiny. Can the Internet be used to produced publications that are intelligent, sophisticated, radical, and relevant? This edition of “Media Review” looks at three on-line publications that fit the bill, with three common features: they are non-profit and depend largely on donations; their design is bold and artistic; and they have a feminist edge. These magazines are The Baffler, New Inquir...
Nov 14, 2014
To Change Everything (Trailer) Help CrimethInc. print To Change Everything , a full-color 48-page booklet introducing radical ideas and values to a broader audience. In fresh, accessible language, To Change Everything explores the virtues of self-determination, illuminates why authoritarian power structures cannot resolve the crises they produce, and discusses how to weave our personal revolts together into a collective struggle for liberation. Find out more at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projec...
Oct 22, 2014
The Century of the Self Runtime: 3 hours 55 minutes The Century of the Self is an award-winning British television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It focuses on how the work of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments analyzed, dealt with, and controlled people in the 20th century. Includes all 4 episodes: 1. Happiness Machines (17 March 2002) 2. The Engineering of Consent (24 March 2002) 3. There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Mus...
Oct 20, 2012
La Educación Prohibida (Spanish with English subtitles) La Educación Prohibida is a documentary film that questions the logic of modern schooling—and our very understanding of education—by highlighting different and unconventional educational experiments that suggest the need of a new educational paradigm. La Educación Prohibida is a learning project that was created by a group of young people who interviewed more than 90 alternative education teachers in 8 countries. The film was financed colle...
Sep 08, 2012
Revolution Nina Simone LIVE at the Harlem Cultural Festival 1969 Filetype: mp4 Size: 68.6MB Download: Revolution—Nina Simone
Sep 02, 2012
The NSA Domestic Spying Program William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency turned whistle-blower, explains how the program he created for foreign intelligence gathering was turned inward on the United States of America. He resigned over this in 2001 and began speaking out publicly in the last year. He is among a group of N.S.A. whistle-blowers, including Thomas A. Drake, who have each risked everything—their freedom, livelihoods and personal relationships—to warn Americans...
Aug 25, 2012
On The Verge In 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in disgust of their part in the Iraq war. This has grown into the Smash EDO campaign, which has cost the company millions, been the subject of large scale police operations and has tested the right to protest in the UK. Using activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persis...
Aug 23, 2012
Controlling the Web 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 the US government to speak out against SOPA, and the anti-online piracy bill was effecti...
Aug 14, 2012
Occupation Nation An hour-long movie of remixed shorts that explore the philosophical roots of the recent movement of the 99%. As zombie banksters threaten to consume all that’s left of our spectacular society, B Media ‘s fifth video variety show showcases the mycelia network of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Deeply rooted in historical and international precedents that have the potential to turn toxic assets and discarded derivatives into new communities where shared vision and collective dec...
Aug 02, 2012
The Extreme Center The Julian Assange Show Season 1 : Ep. 11 (26:48) Jun 26, 2012 Reporting from lockdown in the UK, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange interviews professor Noam Chomsky and author Tariq Ali about the convergence of mainstream politics into an all-encompassing and dangerous middle. Assange also invites these two intellectual heavy weights to give their thoughts on the Arab Spring and where the global movement might strike next. Filetype: mp4 Size: 744.7MB Download: The Extreme Center...
Jul 27, 2012
WikiLeaks...Priceless Original Title: How Much Does it Cost to Save the World? What do MasterCard, Visa, Bank of America, Paypal and Western Union all have in common? They help you pay for what you want? Well, yes… that is unless you want to help WikiLeaks make the world a better place. To see the shocking details, please go to wikileaks.org/Banking-Blockade.html A screencast of the English version of http://www.wikileaks.org/Donate.html recorded on 2012.07.06 has been added to the end of the or...
Jul 07, 2012
WikiRebels In WikiRebels, Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist follow WikiLeaks’ development, from back when its founder Julian Assange was a teenager, hacking into the army’s mainframe computers, up until the present. Along the way, the documentary recounts how WikiLeaks has posted millions of classified documents on the web and blown the whistle on everything from corrupt African presidents to swindling Swiss and Icelandic bankers. wikileaks.org/ wlcentral.org/video-archive Filetype: mp4 Size: 210....
Jun 09, 2012
paleycenter panel Key members of the OWS media team speak after a screening of #whilewewatch at the Paley Center for Media in New York. Panel Members: Kevin Breslin, Director, Filmmaker Alan Capper, President, The Foreign Press Association Jesse LaGreca, Writer, The Daily Kos, Journalist Priscilla Grim, Occupy Wall St Journal, Journalist Tim Pool, TimCast.tv, Livestream Journalist Justin Wedes, Occupy Wall Street Social Media Team Moderator: Pete Fornatale, New York DJ and Author The Occupy Wall...
May 30, 2012
whilewewatch A gripping portrait of the Occupy Wall Street media revolution, #whilewewatch is the first definitive film to emerge from Zuccotti Park with full access and cooperation from masterminds who made #OccupyWallStreet a reality. The #OccupyWallStreet media team had no fear of a critical city government, big corporations, hostile police, or a lagging mainstream media to tell their story. Through rain, snow, grueling days, sleeping on concrete; they pump out exhilarating ideas to the world...
May 18, 2012
OWS Global Revolution LIVE Oct. 14, 2011 news clip from Russia Today: http://rt.com/ Anti-Corporate protests go global. View LIVE videostreams of the global Occupied movement from more than 70 countries at http://globalrevolution.tv/ Democrat and Republican parties in the U.S. are accused of marginalizing the protest. Filetype: mp4 Size: 22MB Download: OWS Global Revolution LIVE...
Oct 17, 2011
Black Flags and Windmills When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans in the Fall of 2005, scott crow headed into the political storm, co-founding a relief effort called the Common Ground Collective. In the absence of local government, FEMA, and the Red Cross, this unusual volunteer organization, based on ‘solidarity not charity,’ built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution, and created community gardens. They also resisted home demolitions, white militias, police brutal...
Oct 07, 2011
TPB AFK Fund Drive Documentary filmmaker Simon Klose has more than 200 hours of unedited footage that he plans turn into a feature-length film, “The Pirate Bay — Away From Keyboard (TPB AFK)”, but he needs your financial support to finish it. The TPB AFK project was launched on the evening of August 27, 2010. To date, 1,304 different backers have pledged more than $38,315 through Kickstarter . Funds continue to be pledged and will be accepted through September 27, 2010. The documentary aims to c...
Sep 06, 2010
Collateral Murder 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two y...
Apr 13, 2010
Capitalism: A Love Story Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general. Topics covered include Wall Street’s “casino mentality”, for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs’ influence in Washington, DC, the poverty-level wages of many airline pilots, ...
Mar 13, 2010
How to Make Your Own Radio Station Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley gives a quick overview of how you can build your own micropower radio station with a range of 3-5 miles at a cost of about $500. Current FCC regulations in the U.S. mandate a minimum broadcast power of 100 watts for non-LPFM stations and require such a high cost of entry that only the rich and well-endowed can have a voice. Micropower broadcasting is helping to restore grassroots democracy, bringing back the concept of ope...
Jul 15, 2009
Manufacturing Consent Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, “Manufacturing Consent” explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a dynamic collage of biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick’s award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news. Available ...
Jun 18, 2009
Pulling Kuwaiti Babies From Incubators? 10 minutes of headlines from “Democracy Now!”, December 2, 2003, followed by: A Debate on One of the Most Frequently Cited Justifications for the 1991 Persian Gulf War: Did PR Firm Hill & Knowlton Invent the Story of Iraqi Soldiers Pulling Kuwaiti Babies From Incubators? “Democracy Now!” spends the hour with Lauri Fitz-Pegado, the woman who ran the PR campaign for Hill and Knowlton, and John Stauber, co-author of “Weapons Of Mass Deception.” On Decembe...
May 11, 2009
Zeitgeist Addendum (2008) “Zeitgeist: Addendum” (2008) is the sequel to “Zeitgeist, The Movie” (2007). It attempts to locate the root causes of pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. The solution that if offers is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which...
Dec 15, 2008
Steal This Film 2 (2007) Steal This Film 2 has some very interesting views on file sharing from a neutral point of view. The League of Noble Peers are delighted, after more than a year, to release Part II of STEAL THIS FILM. In this film, we have tried to go beyond the current discussions around file-sharing to look at what kinds of social change are precipitated by massive changes in our capacity to communicate. We think the changes wrought by networked, peer distribution are historical on the ...
Aug 13, 2008
Steal This Film (2006) In 2006, a group of friends decided to make a film about filesharing that we would recognise. There have been a few documentaries by ‘old media’ crews who don’t understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively, and no capacity to represent it lucidly. We wanted to make a film that would explore this huge popular movement in a way that excited us, engaged us, and most ...
Aug 13, 2008
Why We Fight WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise...
Jun 26, 2007
The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers This sequel to The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade explores post-911 issues within Mordor (aka United States). To contact us, write to: LordRings at riseup dot net You can also check out The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade, which started this Lord of the Rings Remix trilogy at: http://indybay.org/news/2002/12/1553281.php Coming soon: “Rejecting the King” Download: The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers...
Nov 12, 2006
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade Unknownst to many readers, The Lord of the Rings – once thought to be merely a story of archetypal struggle between good and evil – has been found to contain astute prophetic messages about the impending crisis of capitalist modernity. Now, for the first time ever, the hidden prophecies of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic epic, The Lord of the Rings, are decoded in this accurate re-edit of Peter Jackson’s blockbuster motion picture. Unknown...
Nov 12, 2006
Globalisation and the Media From www.undercurrents.org. “Globalisation and the Media” (2002) explores how the mass media shape public opinion on the ?War on Terror? and economic Globalisation. Offers a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, alternative media activists, and news editors. We investigate the bias of Television news during the protest blockades of the IMF and the G8 summits. Download: Globalisation and the Media...
Mar 25, 2006
Li2U News During street protests after the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq in March 2003, police in Portland, Oregon, became brutal in their treatment of activists on the street. Furious about the unfair, pro-cop, pro-violence coverage of these events by the local corporate media, media activists put together a video showing the real story and gave it to the corporate media. Corporate media was very selective in what it chose to air, however, and this video exposes how they still told lies ev...
Mar 20, 2006
