Duración:07:01 Vistos:139462 veces
Descripción:Leonard Cohen's official music video for "Democracy" from his album 'The Future'.
Duración:02:07 Vistos:5247336 veces
Descripción:Private Stewie and Brian try to get discharged from the army.
Duración:05:27 Vistos:34670 veces
Descripción:http://www.mediaed.org
If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
Through numerous examples, McChesney, and media scholar, Mark Crispin Miller, demonstrate how journalism has been compromised by the corporate bosses of conglomerates such as Disney, Sony, Viacom, News Corp, and AOL Time Warner to produce a system of news that is high on sensationalism and low on information. They suggest that unless citizen activism can reclaim the commons, this new corporate system will be characterized by a rich media and an ever impoverished, poor democracy.
Duración:02:15 Vistos:97599 veces
Descripción:The War On Democracy is a powerful new documentary from award winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger. It was released in UK cinemas from Friday June 15th 2007 and is out on DVD now
Duración:08:36 Vistos:13198 veces
Descripción:URLs for Parts 2 to 9 Below
Hacking Democracy 1 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPXer7946E
Hacking Democracy 2 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eopnvw7mh_8
Hacking Democracy 3 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxGSXYUkplA
Hacking Democracy 4 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ9UuXF1hkA
Hacking Democracy 5 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7fqoGUfS0
Hacking Democracy 6 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3zp80H3pN0
Hacking Democracy 7 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VoEVvR60Sg
Hacking Democracy 8 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvhnXtogQ4
Hacking Democracy 9 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36Jfkxd1vA
Duración:08:31 Vistos:58387 veces
Descripción:"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale... and I won't have it!
Is that clear?
You think you merely stopped a business deal.
That is not the case.
The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country... and now they must put it back!
It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance!
You are an old man... who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.
There are no nations. There are no peoples.
There are no Russians. There are no Arabs.
There are no Third Worlds. There is no West.
There is only one holistic system of systems!
One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multinational dominion of dollars!
Petrol dollars, electro dollars, multi-dollars.
Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels!
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.
That is the natural order of things today.
That is the atomic, and subatomic, and galactic structure of things today.
And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature!
And you will atone!
Am I getting through to you?
You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.
There is no America.
There is no democracy.
There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and Du Pont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon.
Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx?
They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.
The world is a college of corporations... inexorably determined by the... immutable bylaws of business.
The world is a business, Mr. Beale."
Duración:09:56 Vistos:27993 veces
Descripción:Despotism & Democracy
Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946
Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?
Duración:09:59 Vistos:18371 veces
Descripción:This 10 minute video is a summary of the top ten reasons to oppose the two worst trade agreements in Canadian history, TILMA (the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement) and the SPP (the Security and Prosperity Partnership). It is the first chapter of the documentary 'Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule', and it describes 10 areas and issues that will be impacted by these agreements. Several experts voice their concerns and send an alarming message to Canadians that it is time to put an end to undemocratic trade deals that are developed with input from only the largest corporations.
Duración:04:41 Vistos:39389 veces
Descripción:The National Initiative for Democracy is a proposed law developed by The Democracy Foundation, over the past decade, along with a plan to get it enacted by the people (not by the government) creating, for the first time, a government "by you, the people."
This video is the result of many months of work by many people, in cooperation with the Democracy Foundation and its staff.
Make sure to visit http://www.ni4d.us for more information on the National Initiative.
Written by:
Michael Grant
Music (Used with Permission)
Simon Mahler
http://www.fotone.net/
Voiceover:
Dan Connor
http://www.danconnor.com
Video Production:
J. Skyler McKinley
http://www.skylermckinley.com
Duración:04:56 Vistos:99974 veces
Descripción:NO MORE WAR
Duración:57:14 Vistos:328 veces
Descripción:Dorothea Lange was the countrys most influential documentary photographer in the period 1930-1950. She worked for several state and federal government agencies documenting the social issues of this period: the Great Depression, FDR and his New Deals war against the depression crisis, Californias World War II defense industries, the Japanese internment, and the 1945 inaugural meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. In Professor Linda Gordons lecture on Langes vision of American democracy, she suggests how visual images helped shape our political ethics. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [8/2004] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8594]
Duración:06:50 Vistos:14877 veces
Descripción:Don Henley singing Leonard Cohen's Democracy at President Clinton's Inaugural Ball in 1993
Duración:08:57 Vistos:33191 veces
Descripción:21. A coup is no longer necessary for the corporation to dominate governments. Capitalism's protagonists and players are the new high priests of our day. Industry and government have become intertwined to the extent that it's hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. But citizens are resisting and protesting their dissent to the centralization of power in corporate hands. The corporation has responded by enacting programs of corporate social responsibility. Are they just a tactic responding to market pressure?
For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87
Duración:04:25 Vistos:4655 veces
Descripción:Call it Democracy" is perhaps the only song ever written about the International Monetary Fund, which Cockburn accuses of fostering "insupportable debt" in Third World countries. Typically not pulling any punches, Cockburn charges that the IMF doesn't "really give a flying fuck about the people in misery." That earned it a few bleeps on radio and video channels, but no one seemed to notice the chorus, "IMF, dirty MF." We won't spell out here what "MF" stands for, but it can easily be imagined.
Also....
That song came from the time of neo-conservatism, when governments supported business at the cost of lives and nobody gave a shit. We have since moved on to neo-liberalism, when governments support business at the cost of lives and nobody gives a shit; and I see we're moving on to neo-feudalism, that's the service economy coming at you. We will all serve. I'm not quite sure who we're serving. There's a sort of mystery there; are we serving Bill Gates? I think not, he's too visible. Somebody else? Maybe you're sitting right here (in the audience). Are you out there? Fuck off, if you are. (positive audience response) And if you're not, well we missed a grand opportunity to level with each other."
Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
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Descripción:Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan.
Duración:05:39 Vistos:22437 veces
Descripción:School of Americas.
Our good friend Duane Clarridge shows his true colours once again in this clip
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Descripción:Footage shot by Democracy Now! producer Nicole Salazar during her arrested on Monday, September 1st 2008 while covering the anti-RNC protests in the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. Show host Amy Goodman and producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous were also arrested, detained, and charged with conspiracy to riot.
Duración:08:54 Vistos:23806 veces
Descripción:This is the first episode of African Underground: Democracy in Dakar - an online documentary series about the role of hip-hop in the 2007 presidential election in Dakar Senegal.
Featuring interviews with:
Keyti (classic Senegalese MC from groups such as Rapadio and the Dakar All-stars)
Eye Witness (underground MC from the Wa Geble crew)
Tigrim Bi (underground hip-hop crew from Pickine)
Birima Fall (Senegalese journalist/academic)
Baat Sen (Griot/Reggae singer)
For the press release download:
http://www.nomadicwax.com/dl/Dakar-Press-2007.pdf
Duración:11:47 Vistos:13993 veces
Descripción:More at http://www.theuptake.org
A live stream from The UpTake's Chuck Olsen as police in St. Paul conduct preemptive raids on people planning to protest at the Republican National Convention this week.
Note: this is a recording of a live video stream.
Elizabeth Press is a producer with "Democracy Now" and is in St. Paul to help the group "iwitness Video" document any police abuses during the Republican National Convention.
She was staying in a house on Iglehart in St. Paul (949 Iglehart)
She says a Federal agent came to the door this morning and asked for someone named Fred who was involved with a bike ride a few months ago and they wanted to question him. He said it wasn't related to the Republican National Convention. He then left.
The iwitness video group decided then to move from the house because they felt their meeting wasn't safe.
Around 1pm about 20 St. Paul police officers surrounded the house. A few of the group went outside and were handcuffed. They had to wait for the search warrant to arrive. When the warrant arrived, it was not for their house. It was for the apartment next door. Police went into that other apartment and then busted through the attic into where the journalists were.
"They came in with pistols drawn" said Press " I was pointing my video camera back. They said 'St. Paul Police, put your hands on your head' and then we were all detained for the next several hours in the back yard.
Police then searched the journalists' belongings, unhandcuffed them and let them go.
"I feel like these are intimidation tactics. iwitness video has been in the news recently, in the New York Times and all over the internet. Their video work has gotten over 400 people's charges dropped from the National Republican Convention in New York City and they are going to be here today and through out the week to document police behaviors at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
Three members of the group were biking away from the home at the time of the raid and were detained by police on the sidewalk. All of their belongings were searched. They went through their maps, their notes and wrote things down after viewing the notes. The police had riot gear and tasers.
One of the group members said she asked the St. Paul police how far they have to be away from somebody to shoot a taser. The police officer told her they can be any distance. She had heard that if you're too close they can be fatal or cause heart attacks.
She also said she doesn't know if they were targeted because they are with iwitness or because of the house they are staying in, or something totally different.
Duración:07:04 Vistos:43083 veces
Descripción:America is not a democracy, nor was it intended to be.
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