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Documentary Gezi Park Chat With Filmmaker And Protesters

November 30, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Arts, Movies, Türkiye, Video

Tonight at 5pm eastern is 12am in Turkey. Come in & CHAT w/protestors & filmmaker @GeziDoc http://www.livestream.com/activistworldnewsnow … The Gezi Park protests which began on May 28th, 2013 was one of the biggest uprisings against neoliberalism and a conservative Turkish government that was encroaching on secularism. The protest began when plans were announced to develop the park, one of the last remaining green spaces in Istanbul. Sparked by an aggressive police action against the revolt, subsequently protests and strikes spread across Turkey raising a wide range of concerns, at the core of which were issues of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the government's encroachment on Turkey's secularism. Below are two movies on the Gezi Park revolt in Turkey.

Movie: Heritage Fight

November 18, 2013 Staff, www.heritagefight.com Organize! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Movies

The same battle extreme energy extraction is being fought throughout the United States, Canada, indeed all over the world. This is a movie about the conflict in Australia. There are still some clean places on earth, but for how long? Broome is located in the far remote Kimberley region, which is the last great Wilderness of Australia. This is where Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia, and the multibillionair oil & gas company, Woodside, decided to settle the second largest LNG precinct of the planet. Broome citizens and the traditional custodians of the land – the Goolaraboloo – united together to protect what is priceless to them… The movie website includes the following petition: Tell WA Premier Barnett, Minister for Environment Burke, and Senator Brown that you don’t want unwanted industrial development on the Dampier Peninsula wilderness.

Short Film: Enoughness: Restoring Economic Balance

November 10, 2013 Andrew Butler, www.filmsforaction.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Indigenous Rights, Movies, Video

ENOUGHNESS is a way to restore balance to the economy in the most awesome way ever. How we see the world determines how we act. Western thought sees us at war with each other over resources. In Indigenous philosophy, we are all related as individuals in balance with nature. Enoughness juxtaposes these two world views and delivers some startling facts. It is pointed out that "Indigenous peoples territory spans 24% of the earths land surface but is home to 80% of it's total biodiversity. This is not a coincidence." Well illustrated throughout, this short film is a powerful testament to living in harmony rather than in competition with each other and the earth.

John Pilger, Utopia

November 10, 2013 Andreas Wiseman, www.screendaily.com Educate! Arts, Australia, Indigenous Rights, Movies

John Pilger, who has reported discrimination against Australia’s first people since the 1970s, describes his new film as “a journey into a secret country” describing “not only the uniqueness of the first Australians, but their trail of tears and betrayal and resistance – from one utopia to another.” Interviewees include Aboriginal leaders, human-rights campaigners, academics and politicians, among them former prime minister John Howard. Never one to shy away from controversy, the film will be released in Australia on Australia Day (or ‘invasion day’, as Pilger also calls it) and will play at indigenous festivals including Sydney’s Yabun Festival. Executive producer Christopher Hird of Dartmouth Films, also producer of Pilger’s last documentary The War You Don’t See, praised the role of UK distributor Network Releasing in getting the film made: “Utopia would not have been possible without the very, very substantial support of Network.”

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