TPB AFK Fund Drive

Documentary filmmaker Simon Klose has more than 200 hours of unedited footage that he plans turn into a feature-length film, “The Pirate Bay — Away From Keyboard (TPB AFK)”, but he needs your financial support to finish it.

The TPB AFK project was launched on the evening of August 27, 2010. To date, 1,304 different backers have pledged more than $38,315 through Kickstarter. Funds continue to be pledged and will be accepted through September 27, 2010.

The documentary aims to chronicle the story of the world’s largest file-sharing site, and be an “observational, character driven film about three guys whose hobby homepage became the embryo of a global political movement.”

Upon completion, Klose plans to release “The Pirate Bay — Away From Keyboard” for free on The Pirate Bay and other sites.

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Collateral Murder

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.

After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own “Rules of Engagement”.

Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.

WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.

WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.

WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work.

http://wikileaks.org/

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Capitalism: A Love Story

Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general.

Topics covered include Wall Street’s “casino mentality”, for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs’ influence in Washington, DC, the poverty-level wages of many airline pilots, the large wave of home foreclosures, and the consequences of “runaway greed”. The film also features a religious component where Moore examines whether or not capitalism is a sin and if Jesus would be a capitalist.

The film was widely released to the public in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 9th, 2010.

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How to Make Your Own Radio Station

Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley gives a quick overview of how you can build your own micropower radio station with a range of 3-5 miles at a cost of about $500.

Current FCC regulations in the U.S. mandate a minimum broadcast power of 100 watts for non-LPFM stations and require such a high cost of entry that only the rich and well-endowed can have a voice. Micropower broadcasting is helping to restore grassroots democracy, bringing back the concept of open and free civic discourse among all citizens. Further, it is a direct challenge to a broadcast system based entirely on wealth.

Free Radio Berkeley IRATE (International Radio Action Training, Education) provides the latest micropower FM Radio broadcasting kits, UHF/VHF Television broadcasting kits, accessories, complete station packages, audio equipment, antennas, technical support, and training to ordinary citizens so that they can help liberate the airwaves and break the corporate broadcast media’s stranglehold on the free flow of news, information, ideas, cultural and artistic creativity. Most Free Radio Berkeley transmitters can operate directly from car batteries, thereby allowing the setting up of portable stations operating at strike lines, rallies, demonstrations, community events, fairs, and festivals — drive-by radio! A micropower FM broadcast station with a coverage radius of 12-15 miles can be put on the air for a cost ranging from $1000-$2000 — an affordable amount for any community desiring a voice.

Free Radio Berkeley IRATE is also involved in national and international outreach and organizing efforts. Their transmitters and other related equipment are being used by popular liberation struggle movements in a number of countries.

For more info, and to learn about their Summer Radio Camps and/or TV Broadcasting Workshops, visit:

http://www.freeradio.org/

Free Radio Berkeley
1442 A Walnut St
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-625-0314
xmtrman@pacbell.net

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Manufacturing Consent

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, “Manufacturing Consent” explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a dynamic collage of biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick’s award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news. Available for the first time anywhere on DVD, “Manufacturing Consent” features appearances by journalists Bill Moyers and Peter Jennings, pundit William F. Buckley Jr., novelist Tom Wolfe and philosopher Michel Foucault. This Edition features an exclusive ten-years-after video interview with Chomsky.

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Pulling Kuwaiti Babies From Incubators?

10 minutes of headlines from “Democracy Now!”, December 2, 2003, followed by:

A Debate on One of the Most Frequently Cited Justifications for the 1991 Persian Gulf War: Did PR Firm Hill & Knowlton Invent the Story of Iraqi Soldiers Pulling Kuwaiti Babies From Incubators?

“Democracy Now!” spends the hour with Lauri Fitz-Pegado, the woman who ran the PR campaign for Hill and Knowlton, and John Stauber, co-author of “Weapons Of Mass Deception.”

On December 19, 1990, Amnesty International published an 84-page report on human rights violations in occupied Kuwait. The report stated that, “300 premature babies were reported to have died after Iraqi soldiers removed them from incubators, which were then looted.”

This allegation, which was widely reported by the global media, became one of the most often cited justifications for the 1991 Gulf War. On January 9 1991, President George HW Bush cited Amnesty’s report in a letter sent to campus newspapers across the country. In the Senate, six senators specifically cited the story in their speeches supporting the resolution to give Bush authorization to use American forces in Kuwait. That vote ultimately passed by a mere half-dozen votes.

But the most dramatic moment in this story came on October 10, 1990, when a 15 year old Kuwaiti girl, identified simply as Nayirah testified in front of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus that she had personally witnessed 15 infants taken from incubators by Iraqi forces who she said, “left the babies on the coal floor to die.” California Democrat Tom Lantos explained that her identity would be kept secret to protect her family.

What was not said at the time is that Nayirah was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, Saud Nasir al-Sabah. By March of 1991, Amnesty International took the unprecedented move of retracting its report, saying it had become clear that the allegations were baseless.

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Contact Information: http://www.democracynow.org

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Zeitgeist Addendum (2008)

“Zeitgeist: Addendum” (2008) is the sequel to “Zeitgeist, The Movie” (2007). It attempts to locate the root causes of pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. The solution that if offers is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.

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Contact Information: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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Steal This Film 2 (2007)

Steal This Film 2 has some very interesting views on file sharing from a neutral point of view.

The League of Noble Peers are delighted, after more than a year, to release Part II of STEAL THIS FILM. In this film, we have tried to go beyond the current discussions around file-sharing to look at what kinds of social change are precipitated by massive changes in our capacity to communicate. We think the changes wrought by networked, peer distribution are historical on the scale of the printing press and here we try to explain why.

For many of you these argument will be familiar. These are strange times, in which to many of us the battle already seems to have been won. And yet we have to accept that all the time harsh laws are being enacted, lawsuits levied against innocent people, arrests made – all intended to destroy or delay what is an inevitable change in how we look at creative work. We hope STEAL THIS FILM II can be useful in bringing new people into the legions of those prepared to think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity.

It has been an exciting and demanding year for us and we really hope you will enjoy the work we have done. It would not have been possible without the the thousands of donations you have given us.

Thank you.
The League Of Noble Peers
December 2007

Producer: The League of Noble Peers
Production Company: http://stealthisfilm.com/
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Contact Information: http://stealthisfilm.com/

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Steal This Film (2006)

In 2006, a group of friends decided to make a film about filesharing that we would recognise.

There have been a few documentaries by ‘old media’ crews who don’t understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively, and no capacity to represent it lucidly.

We wanted to make a film that would explore this huge popular movement in a way that excited us, engaged us, and most importantly, focussed on what we know to be the positive and optimistic vision many filesharers and artists (they are often one) have for the future of creativity.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy the first part of STEAL THIS FILM (‘Stockholm, Summer 2006′). It achieves some, but by no means all, of our goals. To continue we need your help. This film is free for you to share, watch on your DVD player or on your iPod, or show in cinemas. But if you like the work we’ve done and want us to carry on, use our donate link to send us a couple of dollars or euros. We will start making the second part straight away, and release it on www.stealthisfilm.com and on major BitTorrent trackers, when it’s done.

Each part, we estimate, will take about 2 months to complete. The plan for the second part is on this wiki. Feel free to add suggestions.

The League Of Noble Peers
August 2006

À nous la liberté!

This item is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Producer: The League Of Noble Peers
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English

Download: Steal This Film (2006)

Anarchism in America (1983)

Anarchism in America is a colorful and provocative 1983 documentary that attempts to dispel popular misconceptions about anarchism in the United States. It includes interviews with influential anarchists Murray Bookchin, Paul Avrich, Jello Biafra, Mollie Steimer, Karl Hess, and poet Kenneth Rexroth. It also discusses the Spanish Civil War, the 1917 Revolution, the influence of Emma Goldman, and the case of executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.

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Why We Fight

WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.

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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush Administration’s false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force.

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The Land, The Street, The Square

Beginning with an overview of capitalist globalisation, the video covers the wide range of movements in struggle, from the highway blockades of the piqueteros to the direct democracy of the popular assemblies.

Producer: Argentina and Italy Indymedias
Contact Information:
http://italy.indymedia.org
http://argentina.indymedia.org

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The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers

To contact us, write to: LordRings at riseup dot net

You can also check out The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade, which started this Lord of the Rings Remix trilogy at: http://indybay.org/news/2002/12/1553281.php

Coming soon: “Rejecting the King”

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade

Now, for the first time ever, the hidden prophecies of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic epic, The Lord of the Rings, are decoded in this accurate re-edit of Peter Jackson’s blockbuster motion picture. Unknownst to many readers, The Lord of the Rings – once thought to be merely a story of archetypal struggle between good and evil – has been found to contain astute prophetic messages about the impending crisis of capitalist modernity.

Numerous scholars and linguists have already deciphered the main theme of The Lord of the Rings as being the freedom of ordinary people to be left alone from the ruling elites. However, Tolkien’s hidden messages about the disasters of capitalism and the insightful predictions about the current political climate have not been made public until now. The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade includes subtitles of the decoded dialogues in painstaking detail and the true identities that the story’s characters represent within the prophecy.
Hado i philinn!

“Mordor is in our midst.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

To contact us, write to: LordRings@riseup.net

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Globalisation and the Media

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Li2U News

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Fuck the Corporate Media

“Fuck The Corporate Media” analyzes the tactics, both subtle and blatant, employed by the corporate media to control your mind. This video covers just one day in the lies of the corporate media. See for yourself how they sell us out in this startling comparison between what really happened on August 21st, 2003 in Portland, Oregon, and what they say about what happened. Fuck the corporate media! Download: Fuck the Corporate Media