All stories Outfoxed Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know. It is made
Activism Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war This is a great documentary about Venezuela. See also The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/]
All stories Network Here are some clips from the amazing 1976 film, Network. A truly brilliant film about media that also touches on the realities of oil and money. The classic “Mad as Hell” speech is repeated a bit below, because I wanted to include the first clip that includes what happened beforehand,
All stories The Corporation Another must see documentary that we’ve screened [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-corporation-zapatista-space-hijackers-and-lab-of-ii/] a couple of times. Watch it now! (and considering buying the book or original DVD, or just donating, at https://www.thecorporation.com/ )
Activism The Revolution Will Not Be Televised This is a must see film. We’ve screened it [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-screening] a few times, but if you’ve still not seen it, please watch it now.
Activism Inspiring Land, Money and Media Projects In my last post about Transition Towns [https://uniteddiversity.com/transition-towns/] I mentioned that Gloria and I decided to try and write a post a day throughout May about inspiring people and projects. She’s done a pretty good job so far, having covered Maya Angelou [https://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/
Agriculture David Korten – The Great Turning Last night, when I should’ve been asleep, I watched these video clips and was left totally inspired. 🙂 I strongly encourage you to watch them too. Its great stuff! You should also buy the book: [amtap book:isbn=1887208070] UPDATE: The book in bullet points from David Korten [https://davidkorten.
Activism Commons Creation meeting The first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting took place on Sunday 21st January: So far I’ve got some great groups signed up to the collective: Peace Not War: https://peace.fm [https://peace.fm/] The Synergy Project: https://thesynergyproject.org [https://thesynergyproject.org/] OneTaste: https://onetaste.co.uk
All stories Good Films I just made the following comment in City Hippy [https://cityhippy.blogspot.com] ‘s article about good films [https://cityhippy.blogspot.com/2006/07/feature-top-10-green-movies.html]: > I think The Take [https://www.thetake.org/] and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [https://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144&
All stories Recipe for a New World Order? Whilst up in Bedford visiting the farm [https://uniteddiversity.com/visit-to-yelnow-farm/], I discussed plans for my book with Shane. He thought that Recipes for a New World Order would be a good title; we could reclaim the phrase New World Order (like how I tried to claim Bush’s so-called
Activism Indymedia Film Festival 7th – 15th July Via Indymedia London [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/] > Not been invited to the G8 this year? Never mind, indymedia’s hosting an eight day film festival in London venues with no obligation to buy a gallon of Coke or a bucket of popcorn. Please note the
All stories Quotes of the day Treacle on relationships, and why Internet news is better. > “Wool sweaters are so warm and comfortable, but itchy. Relationships are wool sweaters. That or hair shirts, I haven’t decided.“ > “Newspapers are dull, lifeless things that always seem to leave my fingers ink stained and my face smudged.
All stories Sonia's media empire In her effort to try out all the best blogging tools (and steadily grow her presence in the blogosphere) Sonia [https://shorno.net/] has recently added a Pickled Politics journal, creatively called Sonia’s Diary [https://sonia.pickledpolitics.com/], a livejournal blog called The Desert and The Sea [https://soniaafroz.
All stories Tools for Change uniteddiversity started giving out Tools for Change cd-rom’s at our “Sessions of Spontaneity” events back in 2001. The latest version was produced as part of our project to help launch The Open Co-op. Look out for a new version coming out later this summer, Tools for Change 2.
All stories new economics foundation cd-rom uniteddiversity produced a cd-rom for nef (new economics foundation) to take to the 2002 Earth Summit in Johannessburg.
Activism We Will Not Be Silenced Rowly recently posted this link on the Synergy [https://www.thesynergyproject.org] list… Check it out: https://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/
Activism Invisible Children I came across this [https://www.invisiblechildren.com] via this [https://www.amoration.org/], though I’m not sure how I ended up there… It is a film about childen who are abducted from their homes to become soldiers in Uganda. Made me think Gloria [https://treaclestravels.blogspot.com/] (and
Activism The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Screening Thursday March 9th Film and Food @ The Synergy Centre Another World Is Blossoming Screening March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th from 6pm Entry by donation This month The Synergy Centre [https://www.thesynergyproject.org] is hosting uniteddiversity [https://uniteddiversity.com]‘s series of Another World Is Blossoming [https://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/
Activism Caracas Trollparty 2006: Part 1 Caracas Trollparty 2006 [https://caracas.trollparty.org] Wednesday 25th Janauary, Caracas. My first few days in Caracas have been quite an experience. On Saturday a couple of guys tried to snatch my camcorder at gunpoint, and on Tuesday evening I spoke live to the nation on Radio National Venezuela. It
