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S11: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!
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A documentary of the September 11, 2000 blockade of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Melbourne. 20,000 protesters gathered together to blockade the Crown Casino where the WEF meeting took place. For three days Australians expressed their opposition to the policies of corporate globalisation and the so-called 'Free Market' which result in the exploitation of the poor of the Third World and the First World alike. Policies of privatisation, education and health services and the exploitation of the resources without environmental controls and penalties allow for the super exploitation of the world's majority and even greater riches for the ruling elites of the world. This video captures the spirit of the three-day blockade. |
25mins |
2000 |
APEC: THE ACTIVIST FILM
Wherever, US President, George Bush visits in the world, he is met with demonstrations of thousands of people who oppose his government’s policies of war, militarism and the domination and exploitation of poor countries. In Australia, people gathered from all over and a number of protests and meetings were held to protest Bush’s visit. This is the activist side of the story from the alternative media, ARTV. |
35 mins |
2008 |
CAMBODIA
SEX, DRUGS & LIES Cambodian Sex Workers Fight for their Rights  
In 2004, U.S. pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences, along with research departments from the University of California and the University of NSW and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were involved in setting up a HIV/AIDS drug trial on 960 sex workers in Cambodia. This is the sex workers story.
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48 mins |
2008 |
CAMBODIA WOMEN CHANGE THE AGENDA
Twenty six years after the end of the genocidal Pol Pot regime and with United Nations intervention in 1991, Cambodia is today one of the poorest countries in the world, with a gross annual income of $350 a person. In the context of this situation of poverty and hardship, the Cambodian NGO, Women’s Agenda for Change runs programs involving rural communities, garment workers and sex workers to raise their awareness about free market capitalism. |
25 mins |
2008 |
NEW ZEALAND SuperSize My Pay.com
This documentary shows young workers in New Zealand taking on the Multinational fast food corporations for better wages and conditions. The film documents the activities of UNITE, the union organising workers to fight for dignity and respect. It includes the world's first McDonald's strike.
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64 mins |
2006 |
INDIA Revolution
This is a documentary produced by Actively Radical TV called Inquilab:Revolution about the Communist Party of India’s (ML) activities in Northern India. The documentary talks to workers and activists that are fighting poverty and seeking a better future for the millions of Indian people that live in abject circumstances.
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30 mins |
2004 |
ITALY Another World is Possible
A documentary produced by Actively Radical TV based around the November 2002 European Social Forum held in Florence, Italy and attended by 60,000 people from across Europe. Florence with a population of 700,000 held a demonstration where one million people marched against the war on Iraq and corporate globalisation. This video contains footage from this remarkable action. |
27 mins |
2003 |
| Palestine Under Occupation |
30 mins |
2000 |
Under Occupation is a documentary produced by John Reynolds from Actively Radical TV who went to Palestine to interview a range of community workers and Palestinians. The documentary looks at the day to day lives of Palestinians in the West Bank and the reality of their life under Israeli Military Occupation. |
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M1 People Resist Corporate Globalisation
- Part 1 - International Capital and Financial Institutions This two part documentary details the role of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation and the impact of their policies on governments around the world and on the lives of ordinary people. Activists talk about the rise of the anti-globalisation movement as a movement of change in response to the way rich corporations rule the world.
- Part 2 - Australian Capital The 2nd part of this documentary details the role of Australian capitlaism and its effects exploitation in this region. It also documents the rise of the anti-globalisation movement of ordinary people willing to take on the corporate rulers.
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45 mins
45 mins |
2001
2001 |
INDONESIA IN REVOLT Democracy or Death
This documentary was produced in 1998 and covers the events surrounding the downfall of President Suharto, Indonesia’s military dictator who ruled Indonesia for 33 years.
With interviews from student activists, left academics, journalists and writers, political activists who had disappeared and had been tortured as well as political prisoners including an interview with Dita Sari, a trade union activist and leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PRD) who was jailed for leading a strike of 20,000 factory worers in Surabaya, East Java. Dita's interview was filmed on a secret camera in jail under the noses of the guards. These people tell the story of the brutal rule by Suharto’s military with actual footage of the rise of the student and left movement.
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54 mins |
1999 |
