An Injury to One provides a glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little. Butte's history was entirely shaped by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of WWI, produced ten percent of the world's copper from the town's depths. War profiteering and the company's extreme indifference to the safety of its employees (mortality rates in the mines were higher than in the trenches of Europe) led to Little's arrival. “The agitator” found in the desperate, agonized miners overwhelming support for his ideas, which included the abolishment of the wage system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth.
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Video of the 1967 meeting in London of the “Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence”, organized by R.D.Laing, with Allen Ginsberg, Paul Sweezey, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, etc. An important record of the spectrum of leftwing politics and personalities during the turbulent Sixties.
UntitledJuly 1st, 1997. An elderly man arrives in Italy on a flight from Paris. The special forces of the Carabinieri immediately arrest him. Antonio Negri had voluntarily returned to his home country after 15 years in exile. The newspaper Liberation hails it as, “The return of the Devil”. Over the years, few intellectuals have experienced as much admiration and hatred, or as much praise and rejection, as Antonio Negri. His book “Empire”, a critical analysis of the new global economy, was hailed as a bold new manifesto for the 21st century and overnight it turned Negri into a leading spokesperson for the international anti-globalization movement.
UntitledVarious activist documentaries reporting on and responding to an extreme situation. The 'legal' sacking of a country. www.argentinaarde.org
UntitledEvery year, more than 25,000 workers are enslaved by landowners in rural Brazil, mostly in the Amazon region. This video tells the story of men who set out in search of work and are taken to isolated ranches, only to find that they have been lured into debt bondage. Forced to do backbreaking work and to live in overcrowded shacks with no running water, they are treated like animals. “A bullet from my shotgun is what you have a right to here”, one worker was told. With no way out, they toil in the hope of buying back their freedom.
UntitledTV Lata is an experience on education, creation and communication with young people of the community of Alagados in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. The contents published in this experimental television: texts, images, musics and films, have been produced by the adolescents and the collaborators of the project.
The clash between the State and the social movements in Spain in 2011 laid bare the true nature of power. The police crackdown was a response to the largest protest to date. Three hundred thousand demonstrators were faced with the most violent side of democracy. Using images of these events taken from various sources, this film reflects on democracy, power and its symbols, the role of the media and violence, as well as questioning the language of film and the scope of its possibilities.
UntitledThe left front government in West Bengal (India) proposed acquiring 1,000 acres of agricultural land to set up a chemical hub in Nandigram. Villagers across Nandigram rose in revolt against this decision. The government decided to crush the people's rebellion through force, resulting in a massacre on March 14th, 2007. Ultimately, the government decided to withdraw its decision to acquire land in Nandigram.
UntitledMOVE first emerged in Philadelphia (USA) in the early seventies. This documentary traces the most important events in the history of the organisation during the seventies and eighties, when MOVE was at the centre of brutal repression that ended with the majority of its members killed or in jail. Eight of them remain in prison to this day. “The work of MOVE is the revolution. MOVE works to stop industry from poisoning the air, the water, the soil, and put an end to the enslavement of life - people, animals, any form of life... The revolution begins with the individual. It begins when a person commits to doing the right thing. You cannot turn somebody into a revolutionary by making them shout slogans or wield arms. The revolution cannot be imposed on others, it must awaken within each person. Somebody may talk about the revolution, but if they still worship money or take drugs or abuse their partner, they are obviously not committed to doing the right thing. Revolution is not a philosophy, it is an action".
UntitledParallel testimonies of Youssoupha, a rap artist and Thomas. Evocation of rap as an object of censorship, often criminalised by successive governments, and as a weapon of political struggle, far removed from the clichés of commercial rap.
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