The days of the Gulf War seen from the window of a television in Brooklyn.
Modelo Global
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During the protests against the WTO in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw people from many different cultures and ideologies, united with a strength and an energy that has not been seen for decades in this country.
The film traces the doctrine’s beginnings in the radical theories of Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, and its subsequent implementation over the past forty years in countries and situations as disparate as Pinochet’s Chile, Yeltsin’s Russia, Thatcher’s Britain, and most recently the neo-con invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It exposes the darker side of Friedman’s ideology, which was so unpopular that it could only be implemented through the use of torture and repression. Based on the book by Naomi Klein.
UntitledStreet vendors work in the cracks of globalization. They sell the fetishes of commercial globalization - Hulk statues, 7-Up, national and international currencies - but not on the official market, from which they've been left out. It's a persistent, daily effort, Sisyphean and heroic at the same time, for despite the artfulness of the work, the jingles, the heckling,the sweat, nothing much happens (compared to the profits made by the crusaders of globalization), the world just streams by, and at the end of the day you pack up your things and leave and in your absence the world keeps on going without you.
UntitledThe fictions-performances inside and outside of Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores often end with the Reverend being arrested. He calls it stepping into somebody's imagined box. The police call it illegal trespassing. The Reverend claims that social change always begins with civil disobedience and includes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements.
UntitledThis documentary gives an overview of the origins of the financial crisis in the United States, and how the solutions proffered in response to it have set the scene for the next crisis. This documentary directed by Martin Borgs for European and US television includes interviews with Vernon Smith, Peter Schiff, Robert Van Order, Megan McArdle, Gerald Celente and former US comptroller general David Walker.
UntitledIn November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and public services like health care, education, and water, and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diversity across North, Central, and South America. Against Capital's model of paramilitary oppression, information warfare, and corporate rule, we offered models of grassroots resistance, creative action and solidarity.
UntitledDocument on the transnational and about those who succumb on the border of dreams. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Jamaica – a tropical, beautiful land, rich in milk and... banana's, But, at best, a prime example of the impact of economic globalization on a developing country. This startling and award-winning feature-length documentary provides a shocking insight into a Jamaica that we don't normally see as a tourist, and guides us through the film as though we were a visitor to the country. It portrays a troubled nation, robbed of its natural resources and dependent like a small child on the West.
UntitledConversations With the Earth is a global indigenous-led multimedia initiative that is amplifying indigenous voices in the global discourse on climate change and enhancing local capacity for action. CWE conveys local accounts of the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities, stories of the unintended consequences of imposed mitigation efforts on local livelihoods, and examples of traditional knowledge and its value in developing appropriate responses to climate change. CWE is a way of listening closely to traditional stewards of the Earth in order to formulate a viable global response to the challenges of climate change.