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A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms

2013-05-01T20:43:53.427Z

A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as "mini Chernobyls." In the U.S. and elsewhere, the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed.

ALEC Rock

2012-08-27T20:32:54.864Z

The brilliant Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, Mark Fiore, does it again with another cartoon video skewering the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The video focuses on how a bill becomes a law ALEC-style. Warning: this is not School House Rock. This is Fiore's second video on ALEC. Previously he shined a light on the NRA's Stand Your Ground" legislation implicated in the Trayvon Martin slaying that ALEC deemed a model bill and helped get it passed in over two dozen states. Many folks may remember the original School House Rock! version of how a bill becomes a law.

Inside Job - Complete film with Spanish subtitles

2011-07-29T01:02:25.540Z

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Inside Job is a documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010 and won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Ferguson has described the film as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption."[3] In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis. Inside Job was well received by film critics who praised its pacing, research, and exposition of complex material.

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Max Kaiser Report: Markets! Finance! Scandal! And David DeGraw

2010-03-05T05:26:11.000Z

This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind: 'the owner of Great Britain' bouncing a $54 million check for a pile of dirt in the Persian Gulf; a currency speculator in Monaco moving currency markets with an 'accidental Jim Rogers press release' while Colonel Gaddafi calls for jihad against Switzerland and receives zero market impact; and Alan Greenspan wins major award for causing up global financial markets to explode. Keiser also talks to David DeGraw about his new book, "The Economic Elite versus the People of the United States of America."

Transparency International: Dr. Peter Eigen's Holistic Approach to Corruption

2009-06-15T00:38:05.000Z

These videos are not Hollywood action or even indy documentary but more of a slow paced intimate conversation with Peter Eigen, a clearly experienced leader and visionary whose successful efforts are changing the global arena of corruption and how it is played.

Available at http://www.Netflix.com

This is A Preview of Peter Eigen: Civil Society in Global Governance -- one of 16 DVDs created by Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Peter Eigen, creator of Transparency International, is a strong advocate of civil society as a major global force for social change. He describes how, in a world of globalization, civil society members can -- and must -- fill a vacuum on behalf of ordinary citizens. He describes how members of civil society can work together -- and with the business community, governments and academia -- to change their world decisively. To buy films, go to dvd.ashoka.org.

--Ethical corporations want transparency and a level playing field where they can all participate without corruption--

“Global governance must be more responsive to the interests of the poor. Global governance right now is tilted to the powerful and the rich and therefore a way has to be found to give a voice to the billions of people who live with without proper resources. The way one can do this is only by giving a stronger say to the representatives of these people. As long as their governments are corrupt and don’t have compassion for their own poor people, which we very often see by the tremendous wealth amassed by the governments and politicians in very poor countries. There has to be some other way and I believe this is where Civil Society Organizations have tremendous responsibility.

Civil Society Organizations have to live up to this responsibility. They have to become more competent to understand the complexities of the areas in which they want to take on responsibility. This is why I believe strongly that our universities have to train and educate more leaders for society. Research has to focus more on questions posed by civil society and civil society leaders themselves have to be much more open to interact and formulate questions to, for instance academia, to get this point. Civil Society Organizations have to be much more open to cooperate with the traditional actors of governance so they should not be too one sided condemning the World Bank or major multi-national corporations, they should rather try to understand their interests and their strengths and cater to these in order to form compromises which will lead to change. Civil society organizations have to work on their own integrity, transparency and decision making processes, which have to be open and participatory. So in a way, civil society organizations in the final analysis have to stand the competition, which they have for ideas and interests, and they have to make it in a market of good ideas. This is eventually the source of their legitimacy, and in that sense basically it’s the rule of the market which decides which Civil Society Organizations and its particular approaches will have impact or not.”

Peter Eigen

This is Peter Eigen: Champion for Accountability (preview)