A video document of the Student Housing Action Collective (SHAC) squatted housing co-op in Melbourne...
"Due to the campaign by Federal ALP politician Martin Ferguson to force a radioactive waste dump on ...
If the truth is everything
Operation Land Grab is a spoof on the australian governments racist Intervention laws.. this time ro...
In the foothills of the Himalayas lies the village of McLoud Ganj, home of the Dalai Lama and Tibeta...
This short film follows 1 day in the life of a Thai country girl who ends up wandering in Bangkok af...
Join Oj and Spudman on their dumpster diving adventures!! Featuring the puppetry skills of Carlos P...
Girls students hard to having a stuff that they needed every month. They want to have a cooperative ...
A tragedy of a magnitude never before seen in Malaysia had claimed 48 lives and shocked a nation. I...
Short film made by Victor de Sousa about the workshop led by Timorese artist Maria Madeira based in ...
Knua (Family Village) is one of the music tracks on the Perecua album from Galaxy, one of the few em...
Bass and Flinders have slashed the wages and conditions of their workers. The company has refused to...
West Papua Independence Day Melbourne
Our police howlah? A hip-hopping documentary on ear-squats plus allegations of corruption, abuse an...
A rubber tapper's quest to recover his rightful wages was stymied by a lengthy legal process. A true...
Dragonfly Animation's video clip to Australian political hip hop group Combat Wombat's song 'Police Brutality' is a mixture of animated stills and footage from the protests at Beverly uranium Mine and Pine Gap US Military Base in the central desert.
A video clip for Australian hip hop group Combat Wombat featuring MC Izzy, Elf Tranzporter and MC Seed. "We're on a qwest to communicate"Written/produced by Izzy
Syriana Style? is one of the outspoken tracks from the Panorama LP. Brains spits fire over one of the hottest beats that Louis Slipperz has produced!! up-tempo Bollywood samples and hard drums equalled with powerful rhymes.
The Re:transmission gathering was a chance for media activists and independent producers to work together to find ever more effective internet tools and strategies for distribution. This is just the start!!
Here it is - that 'crap arrest' moment we've been searching for for ten years - courtesy of a friendly copper at the 2005 Big Green Gathering...
The Cycle Circus comes to Glasgow in May. The critical mass and general bike culture is rising internationally. In this short film Glasgow contributes to the bike movements that take place around the world. Critical Mass in Glasgow happens every last Friday of the month at George Sq at 5:30pm
The Freedom To Protest March ends up with a mini siege outside Brighton nick to protest about the misuse of council bye-laws being used at EDO-MBM, the Brighton bomb making factory. Includes probably the best police helmet tipping in the world......
This is what happens when London Class War try to visit David Cameron's Notting Hill pad in a Bash The Rich demo. Includes Fit Watch's first action on Londons notorious Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT). For further demos and actions contact: www.classwar.org
On Halloween this year hundreds of folk got together on the ancient feasting ground of Tara to celebrate Samhain, the pagan new year. This was followed by digger diving 90's style and office actions on SIAC - the company partly responsible for the building of the M3 motorway, which is set to destroy part of Tara Hill, unless it can be stopped.
Two communities affected by one new global market – the trade in carbon dioxide. In Scotland a town has been polluted by oil and chemical companies since the 1940s. In Brazil local people's water and land is being swallowed up by destructive monoculture eucalyptus tree plantations. Both communities now share a new threat.
Just to get up the noses of EDO/MBM Brighton's premiere arms manunfactueres the Smash EDO campaign held a sing-a-long karaoke noise demo for a change. It soon became clear Sussex Police didn't want to join in....
Coverage of the first No Borders Camp in the UK. Cheekily situated near Gatwick Airport where yet another refugee detention centre is being built, the camp became a hub for activists to exchange ideas, swap tactics and keep the issue of Britain's draconian treatment of asylum seekers in the public eye.* For more info see www.noborders.org.uk
Short and quirky take on the march for the right to protest in Brighton. After massive police overkill on previous marches, this one went off without a hitch and with a low police presence. Perhaps they've got the hint! Defend the right to protest before it becomes history.
Rough edit of the entire Smash EDO Peace camp being seized by Sussex police and carted away... Despite all of this, actions on the Brighton war factory continued and a pr esence was still maintained on site. SchMOVIES will be posting more as soon as possible....
Friday saw a huge success for Animal Rights Activists as over 300 people turned out for the SHAC city Shakedown. A protest directed at the financial shareholders of HLS
by Sandokai at February 28, 2009 04:13 PM
The City of London trembled on Friday as Animal Rights protesters marched its streets in what has been one of the largest Animal Rights turnouts since some unlucky activists got 50 years.
by Sandokai at February 28, 2009 03:19 PM
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009 Marwan Fayed proposes alternative approaches to conventional urban design practices. In Fayed’s interventions, function is not dictated by design, but rather, is ascribed by city inhabitants who constantly reprogram the use of public space. Based on observations of public behaviour, his site-specific applications lend themselves adaptable to the spontaneity of a constantly mutating landscape.
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009 Mixed-use communities have been a traditional mode of urban habitation. Cairo's historic core is exemplary of such pedestrian environs. In the nineteenth century precincts of the city, people moved on foot, depending sometimes on horses and cattle for the circulation of goods. They resided in buildings that provided space for both domestic life and economic activity. The mixed-use pattern of development declined in Egypt during the mid 1950s in favour of large-scale single-function zoning, reflected in areas such as Medinat Nasr, al Mohandiseen and parts of Giza. Drawn by governmental and industrial job opportunities, people migrated from rural to urban areas. This mass influx of workers created a demand for housing. New single-use urban districts emerged; housing, industrial and governmental complexes separated; and reliance on automobiles and mass transit increased. The combination of poor regulations, mediocre urban design practices, and a rapidly growing population contributed to the proliferation of these single-use enclaves. Recent development patterns are changing this trend around Cairo. The rise in land-costs, along with the realisation of the benefits of high-density commercial, domestic, and entertainment habitats, is prompting development corporations and government institutions to revisit mixed-use planning strategies.
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Saturday, January 17th, 2009 The “new development paradigm,” integrating at once technical and human rights criteria, is not very new. The long development of human rights norms pertaining to adequate housing and corresponding state obligations dates back some 40 years. What urban technicians in both private and public sectors may discover as new in those norms is their relevance to project implementation. The housing rights norms in international law have developed over time through a process of trial and error in the field, as well as through jurisprudence. This presentation unpacks these criteria to show how state compliance with current treaty obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the human right to adequate housing, which include the corresponding regulation of private actors and markets, also coincide with both project success and achievement of the relevant Millennium Development Goal No. 7.
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Friday, January 16th, 2009 In the nineteenth century, French colonial city planning set up trade and industry ports all over the world. After the Second World War, this expansionist strategy drastically changed and, with liberation struggles against French colonial rule, it finally ended. Establishing a Fordist consumer society in the colonies and in Europe was a major goal of the colonial project, which, as Franz Fanon pointed out, had clear economic incentives. In the 1950s, the French urban planning office in Casablanca started to build scores of affordable housing estates for Moroccans in the frame of a large-scale extension plan for the city. The planning strategies varied from the re-ordering of slum settlements (restructuration), to temporary re-housing of the occupants (relogement), and finally to the creation of new housing estates (habitations à loyer moderé). The spatial organisation of the residential and urban planning projects was based on a standard hierarchical grid: the Moroccan population was divided into religious groups of Jews and Muslims, while the Europeans remained a universal category. The estates for the locals were built on the edge of the colonial European city in an empty intermediate area, known as the ‘Zone Sanitaire.’ This lecture focuses on the French urban planning office in Casablanca, while reflecting on contemporary urban developments at the peripheries of post-colonial Cairo.
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Friday, January 16th, 2009 For the last three decades, Cairo has been a battleground for competing urban orders manifest in incoherent planning policies, and often conflicting practices in public space. This presentation offers a historical perspective to the city’s long urban struggle, situating contemporary conditions within recurrent spatial and discursive paradigms of conflict and reconciliation. Structured around critical junctures, where the sharp juxtapositions of competing urban orders are most apparent, the discussion refers to the palatial Fatimid city, the dual urbanism of the nineteenth century, and the secular modernism of the twentieth.
Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo Friday, January 16th, 2009 The process of inhabiting the desert transgresses a fundamental interdiction of settlement. Market expansion and real estate construction has succeeded in invading a void, which had thus far resisted occupation. This achievement is a strong indication of the leverage of private development. Open to the world, the elite can afford to transcend their local boundaries and domesticate this hostile environment. But this privilege is not simply based on material and financial resources. It entails converting to a newer myth: the neoliberal dogma. Abandoning the social diversity of the city, the elite opt for a globalised milieu. The move to gated communities outside the city walls separates the elite from those who lack the means of such mobility. This presentation analyses the articulation between the emergence of new regulations, new narratives and the massive adhesion to the development of a new urban space.
Der Initiativkreis Mediaspree Versenken! vertritt die Interessen derjenigen, die ein Spreeufer als Grün- und Kulturfläche mit vielfältigen Nutzungen wollen. Wir fordern einen Mindestabstand von 50 Metern zum Spreeufer für sämtliche Neubauten, die Einhaltung der Berliner Traufhöhe von 22 Metern und den Brommysteg statt der Straßenbrücke. Dafür haben wir kürzlich das BürgerInnenbegehren „Spreeufer für alle!“ auf den Weg gebracht. Die Planung von MediaSpree verspielt die historische Chance, ein Spreeufer mit hohen Freiflächenanteilen zu entwickeln. Das, was den Investoren an Freiflächen abgetrotzt wurde – ein Uferwanderweg von wenigen Metern Breite und sog. Pocketparks – ist für eine Millionenstadt viel zu wenig. Es geht um Profit – um möglichst viele und teure Ufer(an)lagen mit privatisiertem Spreeblick. Im MediaSpree-Konzept wird nur in den Hochpreissektor investiert, der soziale Bereich fehlt völlig. Die geplante „Aufwertung“ führt zur Ankurblung der Mietspirale, die antisoziale Entwicklung Berlins wird vorangetrieben und Kultur vernichtet: der Oststrand, das Yaam und die Bar25 werden unter Bürokomplexen verschwinden. Auch wegen dem Grundwasserabfluss darf der Uferbereich nicht mit Hochhäusern bebaut werden, weil die Tiefgründungen zu einem riskanten Ansteigen der Pegel führen würde.
On February 26th, the day before what would have been Oscar Grant's 23rd birthday, No Justice No BART held a press conference at Fruitvale BART to announce a series of BART shutdowns to be staged if BART does not meet its demands for justice. The first BART shutdown will occur on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at Fruitvale BART during the evening rush hour. After the press conference, participants placed flowers in a chalk outline on the platform at the spot where Oscar Grant was shot in the back by BART officer Mehserle on January 1st.
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Liebling der Medien ist Barbara E., auch Emmely genannt, in den letzten Tagen geworden. Ihren Job ist sie trotzdem los. Sie arbeitete seit 31 Jahren als Kassiererin und möchte diesen Job auch behalten. Doch ihr war von dem Discounter Kaiser’s fristlos gekündigt worden, weil sie zwei Pfandbons im Gesamtwert von 1,30 Euro unrechtmäßig eingelöst haben soll. Nachgewiesen wurde ihr dieses „Vergehen“ nicht. Doch ein Nachweis ist für eine Kündigung auch gar nicht nötig, wie das Landesarbeitsgericht Berlin am vergangenen Dienstag noch einmal bekräftigte. - Blog Peter Nowak
Dictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008 ZOOM begins with a popular film from the 1970's that was said to define the "look of the 20th Century". We wonder about the powers of then, and the powers of now. The look acts at collapsable distances, and varying focal lengths. The captured subjects will not know whose eyes their bodies will receive, (even though they will imagine it), in which galaxies their images will wander, in blackholes of memory or as data-stamps of unique flesh. At various levels of X, equations emerge, governing the relationship between the subject/ actor and the explicit or phantasmic, but always-powerful "viewer". We take a closer look at some of these ratios and their registers of violence: in visual anthropology, CCTV, iris scans and more.
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Advocate against the death penalty and friend of Stanley Tookie Williams. Co-Author of books written by Stanley Tookie Williams http://www.stwlegacy.net/TributeTrailer.mov http://www.stwlegacy.net
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Berechnungen von Greenpeace auf Basis eines Inventarberichts zeigen, dass gut zwei Drittel der Radioaktivität in dem maroden Atommüll Lager Asse II auf das Konto der kommerziellen Stromerzeugung gehen. Offiziell räumen die Stromkonzerne bisher nur ein, für einen kleinen Teil der eingelagerten Strahlenbelastung verantwortlich zu sein. Mit der Argumentation geht es vor allem darum, die Milliardenkosten für die Sanierung des absaufenden "Versuchs Endlagers" auf die Steuerzahler abzuwälzen. - Ralf Streck, tp
Man gewöhnt sich ja an alles. Auch die Summen fallen inzwischen weniger auf. Nach einem halben Jahr Finanzkrise als medialem Dauerthema setzt leichte Müdigkeit beim Publikum ein. 18 Milliarden für die Commerzbank, 50 fürs Konjunkturpaket, 100 als Garantiesumme für die Hypo Real Estate. Viele Nullen und noch mehr Rauschen im Blätterwald - aber wenig Erklärungen. Woher nimmt der Staat das viele Geld? (Paul Schreyer - telepolis.de)
Am 23.2.09 besuchten einige Überflüssige einen Kaiser's Supermarkt in Berlin, um die anderen dort anwesenden Überflüssigen auf den Fall von Emmely aufmerksam zu machen und gerechte Arbeitsbedingungen für alle Menschen zu fordern. Die Kassiererin Emmely wurde von Kaiser's gekündigt, weil sie nach 31 Betriebsjahren Pfandbons für 1,30 Euro unterschlagen haben soll. Tatsächlich wollte Kaiser's Emmely loswerden, weil sie aktiv am ver.di-Streik 2007/2008 teilgenommen hat. Emmely wehrt sich gegen die Vorwürfe, musste die erste Instanz aber leider an einen reaktionären Richter abgeben. Am Tag nach der Aktion wurde das Urteil für die Berufungsverhandlung erwartet. Wenn Emmely verliert, will sie auf jeden Fall weiterkämpfen.
Die Arbeitsbedingungen im Kino Babylon (Mitte) machen mal wieder Schlagzeilen. Obwohl das Kino zu einem großen Teil aus öffentlichen Geldern finanziert wird und das Programm häufig sozial-kritische Filme enthält, sind die Arbeitsbedingungen miserabel. Kinochef Timothy Grossman stand für ein Interview nicht zur Verfügung. Timothy, wir bleiben dran! Die Belegschaft aus StudentInnen verdient am Einlass 5,50 EUR, an der Kasse 6 EUR und als Filmvorführer 6,40 EUR (Netto) die Stunde, angeblich der branchenübliche Mindestlohn (sh. Brancheninfo). Arbeitsverträge werden in Form von mündlichen Absprachen vereinbart. Auf diese Weise können Angestellte, die nach Lohn, Urlaub oder Lohnfortzahlungen im Krankheitsfall fragen, ganz schnell ausgetauscht werden. Quelle: http://freundeskreis-videoclips.de
At 6 am this morning there was a small picket in response to the lay off of 850 agency workers, outside two gates of BMW's mini car plant in Cowley, Oxford. We were expecting a mass picket of laid off temp workers. These workers have been self-organising against their bosses and the corrupt union leaders who've essentially sold them out.
by brum wobbly at February 23, 2009 05:40 PM
This article has been reposted because the original film wasn't entirely uploaded via ftp. The full film should now be viewable.
The occupation at the University of Birmingham ended on 20th January on the same day it started when the occupiers decided to leave after two shifts of university security and 30 police besieged the building that evening.
by brum occupier at February 23, 2009 11:33 AM
Es ist wesentlich später, als du denkst Es geht nun wirklich nicht mehr nur um Eisbären. Gerade jetzt schwebt das Schicksal der Zivilisation über dem Abgrund. Bisherige Berechnungen des Klimawandels haben einen sehr wichtigen Teil des Gesamtbildes ausgelassen. Das Weltklima ist jetzt gefährlich nahe an einem sogenannten "tipping point", einem Kipppunkt, nach dem wirklich katastrophale Folgen unvermeidbar sind.
„Es ging alles ganz schnell, und es kamen immer mehr von denen.“ Die schnell eingreifende Putztruppe hatte tatsächlich nicht lang gefackelt. Mit großen Mülltüten, Schürzen und Kitteln, Handschuhen und Kopftüchern ausgestattet kamen die 20 Reinigungskräfte aus den Toilettenräumen direkt zum Messebreich der Bundeswehr herüber und haben den ganzen Hochglanz-Bundeswehr-Werbemist einfach komplett eingesackt. (de.indymedia.org)
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