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Gloucester Road
The Battle for Gloucester Road is symbolic of the global fightback against the corporate takeover of all aspects of our lives. We don’t have to surrender to big business and see the world turned to shit. There is another way.
Recycling Recycling
I’m not saying we shouldn’t… but it does suck ass.
Breaking The Taboo
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman talks us through the hell of the war on drugs arriving at the only sane conclusion. That addiction is a health problem not a legal one and that repression inevitably makes the situation worse. Legalize!
The Intruders
“Trespassing scum” — Robert Venables QC
The End of Green
Jeremy Heimans at TEDx Sydney
Black Magic?
“There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal.” James Lovelock
Come Together, Right Now, Over Energy
When we rebel against the notion that we are powerless individuals, we can see an opportunity: by linking together, we can do better.
What I have to Offer is Me
Wow. Short except from Charlie Kaufman’s final lecture in BAFTA’s 2011 Screenwriters’ Lecture Series.
Move Move Move Your Money!
The big banks represent a huge barrier to positive change in society. They invest OUR money in arms companies and Big Oil; whatever will give them the biggest profits. In the mean time they overcharge us, destabilize the global economy and reward their senior management with obnoxious bonuses – take it personally!
Best Before Official Trailer
A short documentary about the food system, and alternative food sources in London.
Revolutionary Situation
“Given this hard math, we need to view the fossil-fuel industry in a new light. It has become a rogue industry, reckless like no other force on Earth. It is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization.”
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein – A Short Film
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.
Urban Growth
An urban farming renaissance is budding green shoots in the lifeless backwaters of the world’s metropolises
Seeds of Freedom
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity-rich farming systems across the world into a powerful commodity used to monopolise the global food system.
Glencore Blimey
Glencore provides a text book example of how deregulated, laissez-faire capitalism gives rise to out-of-control corporate monoliths that sidestep national laws to maximize their concentration of wealth whilst reducing the well being of millions of people and decimating the planet’s ecology. Small is beautiful.
