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Rio+20: demonstration against eviction
Posted: Aug 22, 2012
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Because of the coming Soccer World Championship in Brazil, many people are about to loose their homes - cheap housing next to the city for which they will not be adaquately compensated. The anti-eviction movements in Latin Amercia - concerning the eviction at the countryside as well as in the cities is gaining strength though. The video shows a demo at the UN-conference in Rio to the concerned Vila Autodromo. Read more…
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Toxic_tour2
Posted: Aug 22, 2012
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The population of Santa Cruz on the outskrits of Rio de Janeira is heavely suffering from the pollution caused by the steel plant run by Thyssen Krupp The allergic reactions of especially children are very severe, since there is not really a filter used to produce more cheaply. The CO2 emissions have risen in all Rio for over 70 % since the stellplant was inaugurated in 2007. Read more…
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Tord Björk on 40 years of Rio process
Posted: Aug 12, 2012
02:06
Tord Björk from Friends of the Earth Sweden was at the first UN conference on environment in Sweden in the 70ties and on all the following conferences and evaluates the actual conference from this perspective Read more…
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Rio+20: Resumée from Beverly Keens
Posted: Aug 22, 2012
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Beverly Keens from Jubilee South talks about the perspectives and conclusions from the Rio+20 conference Read more…
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Rio+20: Resumée and perspectives
Posted: Aug 22, 2012
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Margarita Aguinaga talks about the successes and failures of the Rio+20 conference from a soical movement perspective Read more…
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Rio+20: Resumée and demonstration
Posted: Jul 01, 2012
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The clip shows images and statements from the main demonstration of the Cúpula and analysis of Margarita Aguinaga and Pablo Solon about the perspectives of the movement. Read more…
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Critics of the green economy,"green" energy and agrobusiness
Posted: Jun 22, 2012
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Three activists and scientists are commenting about the green economy and the so defined green agriculture and energy path Read more…
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Rio+20:La Campaña de Justicia Climática
Posted: Jun 22, 2012
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Carolina Amaya from the Climate Justice Campaign in El Salvador comments on the green economy and on the situation in El Salvador Read more…
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Rio+20: Two students from Guiné-Bissau state their point of view
Posted: Jun 22, 2012
03:36
Two students from Guiné-Bissau comment on the human rights and environmental situation in Guiné-Bissau Read more…
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Rio+20: Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Dévelop. Altnernatif
Posted: Jun 22, 2012
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Camille Chalmers from the Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Développement Alternatif (PAPDA) is commenting about the develpment path that Haiti could take and that is breaking with capitalist models Read more…
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Rio+20: Jubilee South
Posted: Jun 22, 2012
04:31
Sandra Quintela is commenting on the green economy and the agenda of Jubilee South for recompensation for ecological damage and for putting an end to debt Read more…
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Rio+20: The case of Itaipú
Posted: Jun 22, 2012
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Daniel Borado de Coordinadora Nacional por la Integración y la Soberanía Energética (CONISE) from Paraguay is stating the case of the mega dam Itaipú and the campaign for recompensation Read more…
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World Social Forum in Dakar: Struggle for Another World
Posted: Apr 07, 2011
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Kontext TV (www.kontext-tv.de) was at the WSF in Dakar. This is the first part of the documentation on the forum, its history and its future prostects with Samir Amin (Third World Forum, Dakar), Nnimmo Bassey (Vorsitzender von Friends of the Earth International, Nigeria), Nicola Bullard (Focus on the Global South, Thailand), Susan George (Transnational Institute/Attac France), Wangui Mbatia (People's Parliament, Kenia), Pat Mooney (ETC Group, Kanada), Jai Sen (CACIM, Indien), Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, USA), Chico Whitacker (Co-founder of the WSF, Brazil) and many others. The complete broadcast is available here: http://www.kontext-tv.de/node/66 Read more…
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Posted: Jan 16, 2008
German Social Forum
Interviews and images from German Social Forum Read more…
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Via Campesina Action Day Berlin
Posted: May 26, 2010
03:35
This is a video about the 17th of April 2010 - celebrated as Via Campesina Action Day in rememberance of the massacre committed on Via Campesina activist farmers in Amazonia. In this year the activists in Berlin organized a number of discussions and film viewings and finally this meeting in a formerly squatted vegetable garden in the center of Berlin. "Another world is plantable" is written on the wall in this garden and the garden collective "Ton Steine Gärten" is planting food here since a year now. Also there is a small interview with an activist from "Reclaim the fields" a group which was formed in the last ESF in Sweden and is now squatting fields and planting food in various places in Europe. But see for yourself! Read more…
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Global Action Day Berlin
Posted: Jan 27, 2008
03:18
The clip shows a performance at Alexander Platz against the privatisation and the pollution of the elements - such as water - for the sake of profit. The clip also shows the screening of clips in the Red Saloon at Rosa Luxemburg Platz about the local groups from a Video DVD made for the Global Action Day. Read more…
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Global Action Day participant groups in Frankfurt (Oder/ Germany)
Posted: Jan 27, 2008
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Round Table of Unemployed at the German Social Forum (engl. sub)
Posted: Jan 19, 2008
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The clip shows the demo at the German Social Forum in October 2007 in Cottbus and an interview with a woman from the Round Table of the Unemployed in Germany, describing their work and networks. Read more…
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Women against War
Posted: Jan 19, 2008
02:54
Performance at a demo in Berlin in October 2007. The demo was a nationwide peace demo against the war in Afghanistan and the German involvement in it. Read more…
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Anti Hartz IV Demo Berlin 2007
Posted: Jan 19, 2008
02:59
Since the change of the German welfare and dole money system, there have been a lot of protests. The unemployed are e.g. forced to take any kind of work for one EUR an hour to not loose their welfare. Also the poverty numbers, especially of children, have plummeted. The wages have dropped, but only of the lower incomes groups, while the top level has severly increased their incomes. Read more…
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