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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0105 · Item · 2006
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              This documentary tells the story of how our civilization's addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. The film visits with the world's top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion - our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. You needn't be a conspiracy theorist to see a connection between America's current obsessions with the Middle East and national security, and the world's looming oil crisis. The frenzied search for alternative sources of energy now being pursued by the largest multinational energy corporations makes it clear they also believe a crisis is fast approaching...

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              Breaking the Bank
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0044 · Item · 2000
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Breaking The Bank is a remarkable independent account of the April 2000 protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Drawing on the hard work of eight activist production groups and scores of volunteer videographers, this documentary is filled with dramatic, inspiring footage from the streets of D.C. Breaking The Bank goes beyond the activists' slogans and corporate media's sensationalism to achieve an in-depth examination of the issues behind the protests.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0080 · Item · 2009
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown. By placing the crisis within this larger historical and systemic frame, Wolff argues convincingly that the proposed government “bailouts,” stimulus packages, and calls for increased market regulation will not be enough to address the real causes of the crisis - in the end suggesting that far more fundamental change will be necessary to avoid future catastrophes.

              China Blue
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS007-0034 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              “China Blue” paints a nuanced, tender and ultimately moving portrait of the daily lives of the young workers who make our clothes. It also brings an updated and alarming report on the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences.

              Lockdown USA
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S006-SS002-0005 · Item · 1996
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The distorting and paranoid role of the mass media in the USA. In the United States the penitentiary system is a business, and the media act as "laundering" agents, concealing the financial speculation surrounding the prison industry.

              Marcos on Media
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S006-SS001-0002 · Item · 1996
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Statement by Subcomandante Marcos in the Lacandona jungle, the role of neo-liberalism and the mass media. Such statements constitute a landmark document in that they were important to confirm the ability of coordination between media and independent platforms of resistance.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0029 · Item · 2002
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              The 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.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S010-SS007-0068 · Item · 2003
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Street 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.

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              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S013-SS007-0033 · Item · 2004
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow?

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