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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.

American Autumn: an Occudoc

2012-08-02T20:44:56.797Z

more at www.Occudoc.org
written, directed & produced by Dennis Trainor, Jr
Associate producer, co-editor, graphics & titles, Aj Russo: https://vimeo.com/ajrusso

The Occupy movement goes on. It is growing and developing. But even many within it talk about it as existing only when it’s on television.

What’s missing is purely the will to actually think as if a revolution can go untelevised and be a revolution.

That’s it. Don’t blame something else.

We have the capacity to communicate . And that capacity just expanded dramatically. Because we now have a film of our own.

This is not amateur hour. This is a movie as well made, in technical terms, as any Hollywood blockbuster with Pentagon funding. But this is a movie with us in it. I don’t mean our little group of activist friends. I mean us, the people of this country, our stories, our hardships, our triumphs, our injustices, our tragedies, our humor. This is radically different from what you’ll see at your local movie theater.

Outside of this country, people view us through our military bases, through their local news, and overwhelmingly through the slime that oozes out of the movie studios of the 1%. Imagine if the world viewed us through an honest filter. It can do so right here: http://occudoc.org

This movie is terrific for the people of the United States to see as well. While we occupiers call ourselves the 99%, only a fraction of a percent have participated in a major way. The rest have learned about a movement aimed at including them — through a communications cartel aimed at disempowering them. The inactive 99% of the 99% should see the solidarity shining through this film. They should feel the power that comes from being active, and being active together. They will get beyond the notion that “those activists” are different from them if they see us in this movie with its diversity of voices all gathering around a common theme. And they will get beyond the question of whether activism will succeed quickly or at all, replacing it with the question, “What power on earth is going to keep me from joining in something this incredible?” Anyone and everyone, including 1%ers grown curious about the rest of the species, can take a look right here: http://occudoc.org

We ourselves, of course, have to ask the right questions too. This is, more than anything else, a movie for us to see. It will inspire you to jump back into the streets if you’ve been out of them. And it will provide a substantive explanation of why, through the stories and actions shown, and through Dennis’ extremely well-done commentary, inserted in just the right quantity. You’ll see things you remember and probably things you never knew about. You’ll hear the music, not of a movie soundtrack, but the music produced live in the occupations, music that could give life to the deadest of defeated dreamers. You’ll see the arts and props of the Backbone Campaign and many others who’ve contributed to this ongoing struggle in creative ways. You’ll watch the power of nonviolence and see reinforced the need to maintain and expand it. Take a look: http://occudoc.org

The film takes on not only the need for election reform, but the virtual uselessness of elections under the current system, the corruption of Obama, and the evil of lesser-evilism. Imagine, as this film does, what would happen if everyone paying attention to the great Romney-Obama battle were paying attention to what needs to change and where hope lies. They can get a start at http://occudoc.org

Democracy 101 - Effective Protest

2011-12-14T16:13:49.280Z

Author and activist Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf discusses the elements of effective protest.
:: produced by Danielle Holke ::

Topics cover; going up against municipal restrictive permits; constitutional 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech and to peaceably assemble; peaceful disruption; effective non-violent protest; agent provocateurs (known-unknowns);

Ten Point Guide

1. Peaceful disruption of business as usual -sitting, parking cars to block streets, long-term (not short sharp shocks), lifestyle,
2. Sign up your lawyers -local CLU(ACLU.org), National Lawyers Guild (NLG.org), Center for Constitutional Rights (ccrjustice.org)
3. Make the protest happy -joyful, life affirming, positive.
4. Don't cover your faces and all members need to use camera and document what is happening. "The whole world is watching."
5. Reclamation of public space -seated and linking arms. Donate to NLG and use their services to help with court fights.
6. Use visuals like colors to unify. use flags, dress up
7. Build infrastruture -build relationships, engage face to face, get started in person, local email list,
8. Register voters 30-100 minimum, show proof, send agenda to the district offices, Curtis Ellis, congressional elections are critical
9. Be your own media, blog, send op-eds to op-ed editors at NYT, WSJ, WPost, LATimes, send dramatic video footage, call local producers and send video clips, Who, What, Where, Why, How, send still photos, create your own documentaries on your own websites, send to freelance media editors and producer, build relationships
10. All successful protest movements have spokespeople. -circular rotating, surrogates who speak on behalf of movement with talking points. Good communicators.

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