November 2009
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Watchgaza:
Rory Peck Awards 2009
Freelance cameraman Mahmoud El Ajrami was a finalist in the Rory Peck Award for News. Ajrami filmed the terrifying footage of the IDF’s white phosphorous attack on the UNRWA Beit Lahia School — clip and interview from BBC’s ‘The Firing Line’, above.
Channel 4’s Dispatches did well at the Awards having screened three of the nominees, the heart-rending Features...
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WatchWar School - Opting for a short based around war + peace, Ben Newman came up with one of the most popular entries, gaining praise across the board by re-creating a military training camp for child soldiers in a British school. It was described by Riz Ahmed as a great idea, simple, communicating a direct message. The teacher at the beginning is played by Kate Ashfield from Shaun of the Dead.
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Amazing video, insightful information, but a very unsettling message. A must watch.
H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are changed as they come up against the largest industrial project in human history.
Blackwater Approved $1 Million in Iraqi Payments... →
azspot:
Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
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WatchNo Way Through highlights mobility restrictions imposed in the West Bank, that are limiting its inhabitants’ access to health care, thus violating a fundamental human right.
Written and Directed by: Alexandra Monro + Sheila Menon Mentor: Jim Threapleton Music: The Thirst
Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a movement for a new generation fighting social and global injustice. These films were made by members of...
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WatchNoam Chomsky: “Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework.”
The Palestine societies at UCL, SOAS, Goldsmiths, LSE, Imperial and Kings, in association with the Imperial Political Philosophy Society, proudly present one of the greatest political philosophers of all time…
Other events from the UK tour for his upcoming book Hope and Prospects [uk|us]:
LSE: Human Rights in the...
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Watch“10 Tactics for turning Information into Action” shows how rightsadvocates around the world have used the internet and digital technologies to create positive change. The 50 minute film will be launched at the Front Line Club in London, in December 2009 with a series of screenings worldwide. It is accompanied with a dec…k of cards featuring tools, tips and advice to help you plan...
The UN World Food Programme are looking for...
—via @documentally & vruz
They hold the competition every year in partnership with Youtube. It’s open to all but you have to be 18 to claim the prize of a trip into the field to witness the work that’s being done to help chronically hungry people. (Last year 3 girls travelled to Ethiopia and visited one of the agency’s largest food assistance operations.
If you feel you can create a hard...
Swine Flu -- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in... →
A Must Read / Watch (there’s many parts but it’s INCREDIBLY worth it).
[via newworldordersucks]
Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry From Africa”
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. Corpses are scattered through a paradise. Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries: “Waste no compassion on these separate dead!” Statistics justify and scholars seize The salients of colonial policy. ...
“We are destabilizing the world by violating international law. International law...”
– Jonathan Turley, professor of Constitutional Law, George Washington University Law School, on whether the Drone Attacks in Pakistan are legal in international law (they’re not.) [on the Rachel Maddow Show]
Watchunburyingthelead:
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Victims of drone attacks - is that terrorism?
Or people being killed in a marketplace in Peshawar - is that terrorism?
In the United States, do you perceive both victims as acts of terrorism?
CLINTON: No, I do not. I do not.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: United Nations committee has just ruled or suggested that drone attacks may constitute a violation of...
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Ongoing U.S. efforts to protect and coddle Israel →
unburyingthelead:
The latest Haaretz column by the outstanding and courageous Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, is entitled “America, Stop Sucking Up to Israel,” and it highlights one of the most bizarre political facts: criticism of Israeli actions is far more tolerated and permitted in Israeli political discourse than it is in America’s. […]
Even worse, the U.S. Congress appears poised — yet...
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American Intifada — Shaking Off Six Decades of... →
“During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to the theaters to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic featuring romance, handsome freedom fighters and the triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab evil—all set against a Yuletide backdrop of Biblical prophecy as heroic Jews returned to their promised land.
Many moviegoers failed to realize that Exodus was not fact but fiction adapted from a 1958...
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“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that...”
– Muhammad Ali
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“Top 10: Influential Men Of The 1960s
No.7 - Muhammad Ali
A three-time World...”
– (via madadmen)
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