97% Owned investigates behind the scenes of the ever changing financial system, to uncover how the monetary system provides the foundations for international dominance and national control. Fresh thinking, new ideas and answers to simple questions are squeezed into this powerful expose.
The time is ripe to take the shaping of social life into our own hands.
Peter Joseph builds on the previous Zeitgeist movies demonstrating why now is the time for radical, systemic change. He then moves forward and outlines how to bring this about and what might follow.
‘Business as usual’ has been broken on the wheel and dragged to the depths of hell. The Four Horsemen run a mock while the planet burns.
A global journey across countries and continents in a search for humanity’s most elusive emotion. Plus free tickets for London screening!
If not now, when?
If not you, who?
With a few exceptions, the story of each host city remains the same. Once selected, a city expends vast amounts of public revenue to begin a program of forced displacement, rental speculation, urban renewal, demolition of public housing and gentrification. In fact, if there is one thread that runs through almost every Olympic event it is that the poor of each subsidize their own violent dispossession.
The nature of environmental change on a shrinking planet is such that all human actions are interconnected and interdependent; hosepipes in England link to parched lands in Africa.
Plan B evaluates the governments response to the riots.
To the hegemonic military-industry of the West, we are made to believe that the black children of Uganda, like the women of India, or the gay and lesbian activists of Palestine, remain voiceless, visible but silent, waiting to be liberated by the very forces that have entrenched, subsidized and exacerbate their historic oppression.
If saving human life is the game then you have to wish P-Diddy, Rihanna and the other legion of Kony Phonies would direct their formidable energy and talents towards halting the war machine causing the most harm globally. Lets see American kids addressing the misdeeds of their own government before demanding it sends in the troops to blow up MORE poor, brown people.
Be brave. Watch this incredible and devastating presentation. The intelligent presenter breaks down as he describes humanity’s deranged lunging at death, converting a last great wilderness into a toxic hell hole.
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” – Arundhati Roy
After twenty years, as this global phenomenon continues to grow, the riders are more determined then ever to congregate in the name of fun, friendship and freedom, spontaneously collaborating to create streets without cars.
A free online documentary created by The Venus Project.
