Three years ago the BC government sold Shell Canada drilling rights to explore for coalbed methane within Tahltan Lands, located in what’s now known as British Columbia, Canada.

The Talthan were never truly consulted in this business deal, hadn’t been informed of the dangers connected to Coalbed Methane, and in fact didn’t even known where Shell was planning to drill until they bulldozed an access road through a Tahltan trapper’s camp in the Sacred Headwaters region.

Once Shell completed drilling some test wells (in 2005), questions started to be asked …

Between 1910 and 1970, a massive campaign of assimilation was carried out in Australia. Up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their homes and families, creating the Stolen Generation

One of those Children taken was Bob Randall, an Yankunytjatjara Elder and Traditional Owner/Representative of Uluru (Ayers Rock)

In the following clip Bob talks briefly out his experience, but focuses more on his Peoples Traditional Relationship with the Land, a relationship that’s inverted in Colonial Society.

Bob was the main subject for the 2006 documentary film Kanyini, which discusses the consequences of colonizing Australia, and explores what needs to …

“The land is very important to us. It is very sacred to the Western Shoshone People. It represents life, and to take our land is to take our life. And I find it quote appauling that a country like the United States is legitimizing the theft of Western Shoshone land.”– Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone grandmother

The following 25 minute video focuses in on the struggles of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone Grandmothers who have since 1972 been working to protect their lands from the United States’ gradual encroachment and utter usurpation.

Their Nevada Territory—in fact two-thirds of the State …

Here’s an excellent “grab-you-by the throat” speech by Ghanaian economist George Ayittey, at a conference put together by TED.

George goes into the details and sources of corruption and economic exploitation in Africa—and moves on to explore Africa’s Traditional Governing systems, which he says are based on the Confederacy Principle: That most Africans view modern governing systems as inherently corrupt, and that they would traditionally take numerous steps to prevent corruption, for instance, create council upon council to ensure any governing authority could not become corrupt… And if they did, against the Peoples’ will, the leaders would be removed or the …

Synopsis: For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance…

Granito de arena is the story of that resistance — the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico’s public schools. A sixty-minute documentary, Granito de Arena places the Mexican teachers’ struggle in a global context, clearly spelling out the relationship between economic globalization and the worldwide public education crisis.

Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, …

After hearing the appeal presented by the defense team of the Suchitoto 13, activists who were arrested at the July 2 protest against water privatization in Suchitoto, El Salvador — the judges reiterated the charge that they committed acts of terrorism, and will be tried ‘accordingly.’

The big issue here, is that the charge of terrorism is completely absurd. The demonstration itself, led by the water workers union SETA, CRIPDES, and a number of other groups — was peaceful. Yes, they blocked the road leading …

This is a 7 minute film from the rally held in Melbourne on Saturday 14 July, as part of the International Day of Action in opposition to the government’s escalation of attacks on Indigenous communities and the denial of justice for Mulrunji and other Indigenous people who have been killed in police custody.

A statement from Black GST & Camp Sovereignty:

The Howard Settler Governments invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. This invasion is part of the neo liberal structural adjustment programme of Intuitions such as the World, Bank, the IMF & APEC to diminish and extinguish …

On June 1st, Global Witness published the report Cambodia's Family Trees,
which revealed that leading figures in Cambodia's government are involved in large scale illegal logging, and have been implicated in kidnappings and the attempted murder of atleast 2 activists.

Dubbed the forest mafiosi, one example of the illegal logging is the rampant exploitation of the Prey Long forest — which is critically important to the lives of some 256,000 people living in 340 villages.

Actively exploited, much of the remaining forest has been reduced to a mere 4 …

The Future of Food is a documentary film that delves deep into the globalized food industry, particularly focusing on gmos, or the so-called gene revolution.

Synopsis from Wikipedia - The film decries the cost of a globalised food industry on human lives around the world, and highlights how international companies are gradually driving farmers off the land in many countries. Potential global dependence of the human race on a limited number of global food corporations is discussed, as is the increased risk of ecological disasters (such as the Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)) resulting from the reduction of biological diversity due …

Citizens in rich Nations often take freedom of expression for granted, even though it’s often heralded by those same people to be a privilege which they hold in great esteem. Just don’t speak too freely, the saying goes.

Singapore, the often-cited economic miracle of the far East, holds this by law. Quite simply you are not allowed to speak against the government, or say or write or create films which could be viewed as upsetting to the deeply conservative Singapore majority. If you do any of these things, you will be silenced, investigated, financially ruined, imprisoned, and even compelled to banish …