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The Corporation -Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?”
WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics – including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore – plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change. It also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
After Federal Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson announced that a nuclear waste dump would be built in the Northern Territory, few realised it was being built on indigenous land without the consent of the majority of Traditional Land Owners. As Ferguson refused to travel from his office in Preston, Melbounre to Muckaty N.T to talk to the Traditional owners, a few representatives from the Muckaty community decided to pay him a visit.
WANT MORE? – Watch out for : ‘Muckaty Voices’ on youtube.
GET INVOLVED
Join Friends Of The Earth’s Anti-nuclear & Clean Energy (ACE) Campaign – Email ace@foe.org.au to join and get updated.
Also email Natalie Wasley (Arid Land Environment Centre N.T) to get updates & news on the Muckaty dump site Campaign natwasley@alec.org.au
PROTEST FERGUSON’S NUCLEAR DUMPING PLANS - Friday April 30, 9.00-10.00am Where: Martin Ferguson’s office: 159 High St, Preston, (just south of Bell St). Bring banners, instruments, placards, family & friends. For more info check out http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/nontdump/announce
From Muckaty to Melbourne
An evening focused on bringing the voices of Muckaty in the Northern Territory to the inner city suburb of Northcote, to create awareness around the issues of Radioactive Waste Management in Australia. People living in the Darebin electorate have a special connection to this issue and the people of Muckaty, as their local Minister; Martin Ferguson is the Federal Minister for energy, resources and tourism, and has recently proposed a new Bill. The proposed bill, The National Radioactive Waste Management Bill, gives Minister Ferguson huge powers in deciding upon the site for the first Radioactive Waste dump in Australia. Site selection would be at his discretion, and assessment methods would also be at his discretion. This is a huge responsibility and power and a site for a radioactive repository needs to be taken extremely seriously.
Indigenous people and the environment will not be dumped upon to deal with this radioactive issue. The nomination of Muckaty, as a potential radioactive waste management site was not carried out with the proper consultation required and the site is not even environmentally viable as a suitably safe and secure site.
“All along we have said we don’t want this dump on our land but we have been ignored. Martin Ferguson has avoided us and ignored our letters but he knows very well how we feel. He has been arrogant and secretive and he thinks he has gotten away with his plan but in fact he has a big fight on his hands. We won’t be letting that dump go ahead on our land because our duty is to look after that special place for future generations and that’s exactly what we plan to do.” – Dianne Stokes, Muckaty Traditional Owner
From Muckaty to Melbourne was held on
21st April 2010
Home - With aerial footage from 54 countries, Home is a depiction of how the Earth’s problems are all interlinked. To watch click here
“Stunning, eye opening, moving. One of the most important films ever made” – The Vagabond
FROM THE FILM MAKERS:
“This movie has been inside my head for 15 years now. All that I saw and learnt whilst flying over the Earth has transformed me. Today, I want to share all that I have gained. This movie should be both magnificent and intelligent but, above all, it should be steadfastly constructive. To give you an example amongst many others: what is important is not the 50% of the forests which have disappeared, but the 50% which remain. What is important today is that we are 6 billion intelligent beings who can take action.
Through the quality of its images and reflections, this movie should make people aware that we ALL have a responsibility and that we can all take action at our own level. As my friend Albert Jacquard says, “being conscience that tomorrow will come and that I can have an effect on it is peculiar to Man.”
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“I have always been a lover of the Planet, and I have tried to show people its most beautiful aspects through my movies Le Grand Bleu, Atlantis and Arthur and the Minimoys. It was thus natural for me to join Yann in the production of this magnificent project.”
FLOW - Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. ‘Flow’ confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
“An astonishingly wide-ranging film. An informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.”
- New York Times
“Lively and engaging…Smartly Done”
- Los Angeles Times
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
Killerbean, a documentary that tells the story of how eating meat in Europe is connected to deforestation, land theft, agrochemical intoxication and slavery in Brazil. It shows how the soybean, used as a cheap source of protein for feeding cattle and food stock is creating enormous social and enviromental impacts. The documentary tells the story of an indigenous leader that was tortured for trying to protect his village from destruction. It tells the story of a freed slave, exposed to poisons while spraying fields of soy with agrochemicals. From the green deserts of soy in Northern Brazil to the virgin rainforests of the Amazon now threatened by the soy industry, Killerbean takes you on a journey following the dirty trail of gunwielding pistoleiros, corporate greed, poisonings and suffering leading right back to your dinner table.
A film by Emiliano Beer Techera, Emmanuel Castro Skött, Stina Lundkvist, Gonzalo Peña Rojas, Leo Stolpe Thörneman, Johanna Suhonen, Antonio “Carlinho”Costa Luz. chitecture.
After learning that Peter Batchlor, Minister for Energy & Resources was planning to build yet another Coal-fired Power Station, a group of concerned citizens took matters into their own hands. Set deep in the Latrobe Valley during a conference that attracted Coal company CEOs from near and far… and one politician.
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A small but spirited demonstration greeted the 2010 Coal and Energy Conference outside Melbourne in Traralgon, Victoria on Tuesday 30th March. The meeting was a $3000 ahead networking opportunity for brown coal industry executives hoping to greenwash their deadly product. Two protestors were arrested and charged with Trespass after they gained entry to the Conference and interrupted State Energy Ministers Peter Batchelors speech.
Protestors arrived early in the morning to greet the executives and Peter Batchelor as they arrived. Calling for an end to the Australian Coal Industry and demanding answers from the Minister for Energy & Resources regarding his attendance at this event and his plans for a new coal fired power station to be built in the Latrobe Valley.
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of “Earthship Biotecture” by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and function converge in eco-harmony. However, these experimental structures that defy state standards create conflict between Reynolds and the authorities, who are backed by big business. Frustrated by antiquated legislation, Reynolds lobbies for the right to create a sustainable living test site. While politicians hum and ha, Mother Nature strikes, leaving communities devastated by tsunamis and hurricanes. Reynolds and his crew seize the opportunity to lend their pioneering skills to those who need it most. Shot over three years and in four countries, Garbage Warrior is a timely portrait of a determined visionary, a hero of the 21st century.
Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials 2. thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills.
Biotecture n. 1. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their sustainability. 2. A combination of biology and architecture.
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Australian Comedians Join Forces with Tigers to say “Don’t Palm Us Off”!
Claire Hooper (Network Ten’s Good News Week), Josh Thomas (Network Ten’s Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation) and Tom Ballard (triple j’s Tom & Alex) joined forces with Melbourne Zoo’s Tigers Ramalon and Binjai to raise awareness about the impact of palm oil on Sumatran Tiger habitat. If you want to join them visitzoo.org.au/palmoiland tell us you want palm oil labeled. It’s your choice!
Don’t Palm Us Off
Let FSANZ know you have the right to choose whether your food purchases push Orangutans towards extinction. Tell FSANZ Don’t Palm us Off!
The food we are buying could be pushing Orangutans to extinction.
Palm oil is found in about 40 percent of the food products on our shelves and its rampant cultivation is destroying the Orangutan’s habitat at an alarming rate. The United Nations has warned that Orangutans could be extinct within a generation if we don’t act quickly.
The simple fact is that you can’t tell whether you are contributing to this crisis because palm oil is not labelled on most food products. Most of the palm oil that ends up in our food is unsustainably harvested. In fact, only eight percent of the global supply of palm oil comes from sustainable RSPO certified sources. A sustainable palm oil industry that does not destroy anymore virgin rainforest is a reality. The industry just needs to use land that has already been cleared. But right now there isn’t the demand for palm oil that is produced this way. Once palm oil is labelled, consumers can actually drive a market for proper certified sustainable palm oil because they can demand it of manufacturers (as we’ve seen with Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance products). You have a right to know whether the products you buy contain palm oil. However without legislation change, palm oil will remain unlabelled and you just won’t know if the food products you are buying are pushing orangutans to extinction.
Globalisation and the Media
A documentary exploring how the mass media shape public opinion and economic Globalisation. Offers a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, alternative media activists, and news editors.
Includes a shocking report on state suppression of alternative media in Europe. Discover how new technology, such as the internet and camcorders, is challenging the role of the traditional news gatherer.
Director, Paul O’ Connor said
“Aided by its powerful military resources, alongside the IMF, World Bank and the World Trade Organisation, the rules of global trade have been largely imposed to serve its own interests. This documentary explores the role of the media in this corporate led take over of the Planets natural resources.”
Interviews and Contributions from
Chris Cramer- President CNN International news
George Monbiot- Investigative reporter
Katharine Ainger- Editor New Internationalist
Mark Covell- Indymedia.org
Rick Rowley- Big Noise Films (USA)
Sonali Fernadez- Media Workers against the War
Jesse Jackson- Black Civil Rights Activist
Danny Schecter- Director, Mediachannel.org
Emmanuel Goldstein — Editor of 2600 The Hackers Quarterly
Amy Goodman- Producer Democracy Now
Natalie, Mick, Zoe, Kieran, Blue King Brown, Pauze, Paulie, Rainbow, Bort, Robbo, Didi, j [studios], Hanna (promotional attack), Vegetable Man, Norrie, Amanda, Nat, Blueprint, and all those who have been passing on The Vagabond near and far.
