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Democracy NOW! Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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# Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program # As UC Berkeley Investigates Police Brutality Against Students Protesting Fee Hikes, a Report From Inside the Takeover of Wheeler Hall # Portland’s Cannabis Cafe is the First Marijuana Coffee Shop of Its Kind in the Country # Two Former Bagram Detainees Held Without Charge Describe Torture and Wrongful Imprisonment * Death Toll in Philippines Massacre Rises to 46, Including 12 Journalists * Report: Obama To Announce Plans to Send 34,000 More Troops * Rep. Obey Calls For War Surtax * Study: Climate Change Will Result In More Civil Wars in Africa * 130 Climate Justice Activists Arrested At Australian Parliament * Britain Launches Iraq War Inquiry * D.C. to Pay Nearly $14 Million in Record Settlement to IMF Protesters * 2.1 Million Cribs Recalled * California Man Jailed For Illegally Housing the Homeless * Train Station Glass Shattered As Officer Shoves Passenger Into Window * Lou Dobbs Considers a Presidential Run in 2012 * Women of Zimbabwe Arise Honored At White Hosue
Seeders: 82
Leeches: 12

Columbia University - Student Revolt 1968

Category: Documentary
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The Columbia University protests of 1968 were among the many student demonstrations that occurred around the world in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatus supporting the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as their concern over an allegedly segregatory gymnasium to be constructed in the nearby Morningside Park. The protests resulted in the student occupation of many university buildings and their eventual violent removal by the New York City Police Department. Columbia Revolt is a 50 minute, black-and-white documentary film about the Columbia University protests of 1968. The film was made that year by a collective of independent filmmakers called Newsreel and mostly shot by Melvin Margolis. It features a number of off-camera interviews with unnamed students who were involved in the takeover of university buildings. According to Roz Payne, a member of the Newsreel collective who worked on the film: The students had taken over 5 buildings. We had a film team in each building. We were shooting from the inside while the rest of the press were outside. We participated in the political negotiations and discussions. Our cameras were used as weapons as well as recording the events. Melvin had a World War II cast iron steel Bell and Howell camera that could take the shock of breaking plate glass windows. This video was digitized and distributed to the Internet by the "Prelinger Archive". The Copyright of this video has expired so it is now in the Public Domain. see: http://www.archive.org/details/Columbia1969
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Naomi Klein - A Canadian Perspective on US Media

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Naomi Klein author of "No Logo" and producer of "The Take", an award winning documentary, addresses the US media. Interviewed by David Barsamian at the 2005 Media Conference in St. Louis.
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Leeches: 1

Democracy Now! Friday, May 15, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Health Industry Says Obama Overstated Pledge to Cut Costs Obama Questioned on Single Payer House Dems Propose Government-Run Health Plan House Passes $97B War Funding Bill Obama to Revive Military Comissions Pelosi Accuses CIA of Misleading Congress on Torture Insurance Firms to Receive Billions in Taxpayer Aid Foreclosure Notices Hit Record in April Chrysler, GM to Close Dealerships Nationwide Palestinians Mark 61st Anniversary of Al-Nakba Suu Kyi Faces Trial, Loss of Home Houston Spiritual Leader Freed on Bail NH Governor to Sign Gay Marriage Bill Chicago Window Factory Reopens with Occupying Workers Back on the Job Workers at Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors factory occupied their plant in December after the plant’s owners gave workers just three days’ notice of the plant’s closure. They won a settlement, and now the factory has remained open under new management. We speak to Armando Robles, a maintenance worker at the factory and local union president. Fire the Boss: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis on "The Worker Control Solution from Buenos Aires to Chicago" Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein and Al Jazeera host Avi Lewis discuss the workers who are taking over their factories and plants rather than lose their jobs, some to owners who owe money to bailed-out banks. They also address the latest news in the nation’s global economic collapse amidst the White House and Democratic-led Congress’s rejection of single-payer healthcare. [includes rush transcript] Argentine Journalist Sergio Ciancaglini on "Sin Patron: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories" Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein documented the struggles of Argentine workers occupying their factories in the 2004 film The Take. We play an excerpt of the film and speak to Argentine journalist Sergio Ciancaglini, co-author of Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories.
Seeders: 95
Leeches: 35

John Gibler - Mexico Unconquered

Category: News & Current Affairs
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/************************************************************ A Brand New Video from ** Pirate TV ** !!! Note: Please download the video at this link and help seed if needed. http://www.edmaysproductions.net/webvideo/gibler.wmv md5sum: 49a4101c87911af323f69ecf43cacf62 gibler.wmv Additional tracker: http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce *************************************************************/ John Gibler: Mexico Unconquered, Monday 3/2/09 8-9pm PST John Gibler: Mexico Unconquered. Recorded 2/19/09 When I heard that John Gibler was coming to give a talk in Seattle, I knew that it was going to be magnificent. I wasn't disappointed. Mexico’s President told the Associated Press Thursday (2/26) that more than 1,000 people were killed due to narco-violence in that country so far this year (8 weeks) but insisted that Mexico is not a “failed state” because he hasn't ''lost any single part -- of Mexican territory'' [sic]. It can be argued as to whether or not Mexico is a failed state, but it is most certainly the foremost narco-state in the world rivaled only by Afghanistan (currently under US occupation) and Colombia the third largest recipient of US “aid”. This is all driven of course by the “war on drugs”. You would be surprised how many US client states can be classified as narco-states. Goggle Narco-state and see what happens. Isn't that strange given that the US is the world's leading purveyor of prohibition? -Maybe not. If the US were to take the profit out of illegal drugs by decriminalizing and moving toward a harm reduction policy as opposed to the current mass incarceration policy, the economies of many of its best client states would immediately collapse. This would likely take what's left of the US banking system with it and cause great damage to weapons manufacturers, the people warehousing industry, and just about every other big industry. This would also rob the Empire of it's best tool for internal repression as well as covert external repression since drugs have always been the best source for large amounts of untraceable cash. Clearly the endless drug war is as essential an element of empire as is endless war itself. In fact just using the term “War on Drugs” may be a self defeating and unacceptable surrender of linguistic territory in the cognitive frame war. The invasion of Iraq was sold as a “War against Saddam”. Saddam is long gone but the illegal invasion and occupation that has killed over a million people still drags on and on. The Empire is unlikely to give up its hard fought new territory no matter what Obama says. Whatever the case may be, Saddam had very little to do with the actual reasons for the US intervention. The war was against the population of Iraq who stood in the way of the prerogatives of the US power structure. Calling drug prohibition policies a “War on Drugs” is a similar sort of ruse. If the aim was actually to stop drugs, US policymakers would have given up and tried something else decades ago. Drugs don’t go to prison, people [mostly poor and dark skinned ones] do. It is also their communities that are destabilized by gang and police violence that are a direct result of prohibition. These policies have the same effect in Mexico as they do here but the violence we are seeing in Mexico is the result of US drug prohibition policy writ large. Mexico is also a brutal police state in the swash buckling tradition of US sponsored Latin American neo-colonial fascist regimes. It’s a neo-con Friedmanesque paradise with all the classic elements: massive disparity in wealth topped by a corrupt oligarchic elite maintained by a corrupt military trained and equipped by the US. This military/police apparatus exists not for protection from any external threat but for repression of the “have-nots”. It is rife with torture and massacres done by death squads who kill at night and patrol the streets in police uniform during the day. Thanks to NAFTA –another neo-liberal wet dream come true, Mexico has the world's most exploited work force. It exports more of its labor than any other country. This is another clever neo-con ruse: First, they deliberately flood Mexico with cheap subsidized US corn emptying much of the rural area of its male population who are driven north to seek work. Next the US regime acting like they are trying to stop the migration pilfers the public trough building useless border walls and passing laws to criminalize the very same refugees that they themselves created. -Thereby robbing the migrants of any labor rights at all essentially making them slaves. This in turn drives down the price of labor in the US while their constituents (the haves and have mores) profit handsomely. There could be no clearer example of why John Gibler says that poverty creation is deliberate. To accept notions like these is truly radical because they go far beyond basic myths and assumptions that even many who call themselves liberal are afraid to part with. But the subject of this talk is not about despair. It's about hope. It's about the valiant rebellions by poor campesinos, indigenous people, students, and teachers against the massive economic and paramilitary violence as they struggle to take back their commons and build democracy. And mostly, it's about the media: First, the corporate media in the US that systematically ignores and distorts the realities exposed in John’s book. Second, the Mexican corporate and state media that is its mirror image which systematically lies to the Mexican population about the rebellions. Third and more importantly, the independent media composed of courageous alternative media producers from Mexico, the US and all over the world who daily risked their lives to tell the real story. John Gibler, a Global Exchange Media Fellow is one of these who has been living and writing from Mexico since 2006. This talk focuses largely on the Teacher Rebellion in Oaxaca of that same year. Seattle based documentary film producer Jill Freidberg, producer of This is What Democracy Looks Like was also on hand to share a clip from her international award winning documentary Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth) -Corrugated Films. Together they tell the story of the teacher’s strike which became a full blown rebellion and resulted in the take over of 14 radio stations and a TV station. I only wish that 10% of the US population had the courage and savvy of the poor campesinos of Oaxaca. The full title of John Gibler’s book is: Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt . He has reported for Left Turn, In These Times, Znet, Z Magazine, New Politics, Common Dreams, Yes! Magazine, Colorlines and Democracy Now!. Thanks to the Community Alliance for Global Justice http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/ Watch Pirate Television on SCAN Primetime in King County, Washington, USA channel 29 or 77 and streaming online at www.scantv.org Mondays 12-1 & 8-9 PM PST Pirate TV also streams several times a week on PSA See http://www.scantv.org/ Pirate TV is located here: http://www.edmaysproductions.net/
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Leeches: 1

In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Bursts XviD AC3 (www.mvgroup.org)

Category: Documentary
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In Debt We Trust: America before the Bubble Bursts (2006) Information Just a few decades ago, owing more money than you had in your bank account was the exception, not the rule. Yet, in the last 10 years, consumer debt has doubled and, for the first time, Americans are spending more than they're saving -- or making. This April, award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer Danny Schechter investigates America's mounting debt crisis in his latest hard-hitting expose, IN DEBT WE TRUST. While many Americans are "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a much deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands... with frightening consequences. IN DEBT WE TRUST reveals a hitherto unknown cabal of credit card companies, lobbyists, media conglomerates and the Bush administration itself, which has colluded to deregulate the lending industry, ensuring that a culture of credit dependency can flourish. In the film, Schechter exposes the mechanisms and machinations behind the hidden financial and political complex that allows even the lowest wage earners to indebt themselves so heavily that house repossessions have become commonplace. One expert in the film goes so far as to dub this "21st-century serfdom." Inspired by scholar Robert Manning - one of the films' key advisers' - and his seminal book "Credit Card Nation", IN DEBT WE TRUST showcases his insights about the impact of debt on young people and our society. It also suggests the kinds of practical efforts needed to empower the public with information to avoid the traps of debt dependency. The whole world depends on the economic stability of the United States. Yet, as its national and consumer debt escalates, our interconnected global economy is at incredible risk. IN DEBT WE TRUST, as timely and relevant as a film can be, delivers an urgent warning that can't be ignored. Produced, written, directed and narrated by Danny Schechter 1 hour, 29 minutes, English audio, 2006 Further Information The $700 Billion Bailout Discussion Thread Related Documentaries Life and Debt The Take The Debt of Dictators Technical Specs Video Codec: XviD Video Bitrate: 1560 Kbps Video Resolution: 720x400 Video Aspect Ratio: 1.8 / 9:5 Video Framerate: 23.976 Quality Factor: 0.23 Audio: English Audio Codec: Dolby AC3 Audio Bitrate: 192 @ 48KHz Audio Channels: 1 Runtime per Part: 1 hour 29 minutes Number of Parts: 2 Part Size: 1120 Mb (1/4 DVDR) Encoded by: PolarBear Release Notes I take it the bubble has just burst, so apologies for the 'before' and the 's' after 'burst' in the title. In.Debt.We.Trust.America.Before.the.Bubble.Bursts.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org.avi (1119.56 Mb)
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Alex Jones Collection

Category: Documentary
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A collection of movies that propagate the following thesis: - Attacks, recent and historical, against US targets were allowed by/organized from within US institutions, mostly connected to secret services. - The aim has been to make people accept more security legislation, and through it bring forth a transition from democracy to dictatorship. - The dictatorship plan is of global scope, of brutally violent nature, and the people that work towards it have been at it for decades. The movies have a lot of overlap, but hey, downloading them is for free.
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Leeches: 1

The Take (2004)

Category: Documentary
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(tracked over http://onebigtorrent.org/announce.php) In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale. With The Take, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller No Logo, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426596/ http://www.thetake.org/
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The Take (2004)

Category: Documentary
Description:
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale. With The Take, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller No Logo, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426596/ http://www.thetake.org/
Seeders: 20
Leeches: 6

9/11 Flight Recordings Declassified

Category: Misc
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Government Releases Detailed Information on 9/11 Crashes Complete Air-Ground Transcripts of Hijacked 9/11 Flight Recordings Declassified National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 196 Washington, DC - August 11, 2006 - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this week released full transcripts of the air traffic control recordings from the four flights hijacked on September 11, 2001, and meticulous Flight Path Studies for three of the flights, in response to a Freedom of Information request by the National Security Archive. The studies provide the most detailed technical information available to date related to the hijackings, and the transcripts of the aircraft-to-ground communications are the first complete government disclosure of each flight's air traffic control recordings. The documents are cited extensively in the 9/11 Commission Report to establish key facts and basic timelines for each hijacked flight. The NTSB Web site references the documents but does not provide copies, claiming "the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Safety Board provided requested technical assistance to the FBI, and any material generated by the NTSB is under the control of the FBI. The Safety Board does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket." The documents were released in their entirety to the National Security Archive and were received directly from the NTSB. The transcripts provide additional details to the information summarized in the 9/11 Commission Report. For example, the NTSB transcript differs slightly from the Commission's text of the warning that United Airlines Flight 93 received only minutes before the hijackers attacked. At 9:23am, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) shows a text message to Flight 93 reading: "BEWARE OF ANY COCKPIT INTROUSION [sic]. TWO AIRCRAFT IN NY, HIT TRADE CNTER BUILDS [sic]." Five minutes later at 9:28am Flight 93 was sending the message "***(mayday)*** (hey get out of here) ***" as it was being hijacked. The Flight Path Studies reconstruct the routes of American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 175. Complied from recorded radar data and information from the Flight Data Recorders, the studies' illustrations of radar ground tracks, maps and altitude profiles provide graphic guides to each hijacking and were used by the NTSB to determine the takeover points where the hijackers gained control of the planes. In addition to the Flight Path Studies and Air Traffic Control Recording transcripts, the NTSB released a February 2002 "Specialist's Factual Report of Investigation" on United Airlines Flight 93 based on the flight's recovered digital data recorder -- the only surviving recorder from the hijacked planes on 9/11. The report provides graphic analysis of the data recovered from Flight 93 and its subsequent crash in Shanksville, PA. According to the report, the flight recorder functioned normally.
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