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From the chaos of Bombay to the Space Age of Singapore by cargo ship. The two cyclists then leave by cargo ship and cross the equator for the first time. Australia here we come....
Cycling into the Himaylas to see the Dalai Lama.We find out how the Chinese have forced thousands of Tibetans into exile by violence. Then we jump on the bicycles for a trip to polluted Dehli. We escape to Taj Mahal and eat yummy swee...
Cycing down through India via Pushkar to spend Christmas in Mumbai then hopping on a cargo ship to head to Singapore and away from the pollution on India.http://www.bike2oz.com ...
Amazonails are strawbale pioneers, recently building the UK's largest strawbale building. Their revolutionary eco-construction methods inspire scores of women from all over the world to build their own superbly insulated homes....
How to get across the world by not flying.The young couple who successfully cycled the 12,000Km from Oxford (UK) to Sydney (Australia). Rather than damage the climate by flying, they chose to travel from one side of the world by bicycle...
Lowanna and Kevin pedal across hot Pakistan, camping in the woods, eating food from street vendors and ontowards the stage show at the Indian border. http://www.bike2oz.com...
Describing herself as a ?wee small Irish woman', solar panel installer, Corgi plumber & house builder Dee McCullough, is rarely daunted by much. Trying to get work experience, though, almost put paid to her dreams....
Teams of protectors staged direct action protests at the Foss Y Fran mine in the Welsh village of Merthyr Tydfyl as part of the 2008 Fossil Fools Day....
Cycling through Iran, eating honey sweets, getting arrested and escaping into Pakistan. Then Lowanna gets hasseled from Pakistani men everywhere. All this to avoid flying the 12,000km from England to Australia. more on http://www.bike2o...
Cycling duo make their way through Eastern Turkey, getting ill, being forced to hop on a train to get to the border of Iran and then cycling past the mountain where the Holy Grail is supposed to be.Iran next stop on this epic cycle from...
Trying bricklaying, plumbing and carpentry at a taster day, many young women start off by moaning ?it's not girl's work'. At the end they're cheering, captivated by the building skills they've learnt....
Becky was a single parent in debt and desperate. A life-changing construction course got her an apprenticeship with the Council. Now she's an electrician and as happy as ?a pig in muck'....
Pedaling across Turkey to discover the 'fairy' houses of Goreme made from volcanic rock. Going up in a hot air balloon then planning on how to get to Iran.Follow the trip on http://www.bike2oz.com ...
Catching the Giro D'Italia bicycle race, pedaling through Greece and the Olympics and then into Turkey After nearly 5000km, Lowanna gets her first puncture. Full details of the cycle trip from England to Australia on http://www.bike2Oz....
The people in Lammas ecovillage want to build their own houses and grow their own food. But will the planners let them?...
Cycling over the Swiss Alps into Italy and rain. We discover Car Free day in Genoa and head south to enjoy the hot sun and vineyards. Our final destination is sydney, 18months away and 12,000km. Come join us. http://www.bike2Oz.com...
When the oil runs out- how do we live with nature? During an A-Z of Bushcraft you will learn to live comfortably in the natural environment with the minimum of modern equipment.www.azbushcraft.com ...
Choosing to pedal rather than fly the 12,000km from Oxford to Sydney. Lowanna & Kevin cycle past the luxury airliners at Schiphol airport into strong headwind, through storm damaged forests onto the Swiss Alps and the ferry over to Ital...
Cycling 12,000km rather than damaging the climate by flying. Lowanna a school teacher and Kevin, a train driver choose to pedal from Oxford England to Sydney Australia. Travelling by bicycle,ferry,train and cargo ship the couple try to ...
All-women property maintenance. Sick of being let down or patronised by male builders? Check out Home Jane ? a crew of tradeswomen who pride themselves on working in a friendly, professional way....
Cass, former boxer and ace bricklayer, inspires apprentice, chilled Simone. The other brickies on London building sites give due respect to Cass's skill, saying why they want to see more women in the workplace....
Inspiring stories about women working in the building industry. Part 1 asks why, when in the UK no less than 30,000 women a week seek out information about working in this field, are there fewer women in the manual trades than 30 years ...
A Welsh Community rise up to stop an open cast mining corporation from destroying their environment. Direct action on the bulldozers, tree houses, evictions all to save the trees....
GEO Group makes profit from the imprisonment of people who have committed no crime. Since they took over Campsfield Detention Centre near Oxford UK, conditions have worsened, and inmates have responded with riots and hunger strikes....
2007 UK Climate Camp direct action against Carmel Agrexco Ltd. Protestors claim the fresh produce the company imports by plane is from stolen land in Palestine....
For the forthcoming full-length Smash EDO campaign movie. Tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative direct action campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement. Look out for the Smash Edo Tour near you- begin...
An Oxford squat with a difference holds out against the property developers banging on their door. The difference? They live on boats....
Despite massive support from local residents, the Jericho community boatyard is invaded by bailiffs....
The boatpeople of Oxford have taken back their boatyard from corporate interests and now are turning it into a community village........
When Jericho Boatyard in Oxford was evicted to make way for a luxury housing development, boaters occupied the yard to keep this vital local resource open....
Produced & Directed by Dominic Allen Production Company Scarab Studio Duration 0 minutes 30 seconds...
Glasgow KISS, batallion of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, launch operation AWOL (Armed With Outrageous Laughter)....
A doctor speaks out about the problems Israel's ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip is coursing the health system there....
Tree-sitters in Bonn Square (Oxford) opposing the massive expansion of the nearby Westgate shopping center. Since last Thursday one of the large trees in Bonn Square has been occupied in an attempt to save it from the chainsaws. It is one o...
More than thirty climate activists and local residents took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain?s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. Climate campaigners from all over Wales joined with local...
More than thirty climate activists and local residents took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain's biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. Climate campaigners from all over Wales joined with l...
Tree-sitters in Bonn Square (Oxford) opposing the massive expansion of the nearby Westgate shopping center. Since last Thursday one of the large trees in Bonn Square has been occupied in an attempt to save it from the chainsaws. It is ...
How can cream pies, sitting on top of an airliner, singing on a runway or squatting a crane stop climate change? How do cheap flights increase sea levels? How did British activists stop an airport from destroying a beauty spot?...
Anarchism in America is a colorful and provocative 1983 documentary that attempts to dispel popular misconceptions about anarchism in the United States. It includes interviews with influential anarchists Murray Bookchin, Paul Avrich, Jello ...
So, this is absolute, final, final cut of SchNEWS At Ten - The Movie. That's ten years of reporting the news each week from the direct-action front line. It's a big, bad world out there and thanks to camcorder activists a lot of it has been...
A new verite/essay film by Eamonn Crudden in association with Revolt Video.
The film documents the emergence of the various Irish anti-war movements after 2002, when it became a national scandal that the Irish government were facilitating ...
The great photojournalist Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." James Nachtwey, a committed, shy man, considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, has been close ...
In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in Worl...
Tells the story of DRM. The life and death, the rise and fall, the here today, gone-tomorrow story of DRM.
So we start with a heartbeat and a bird, and tell as much as we can. If you think there?s more to say, add to the story. We?ll be po...
Business Owners, Workers Charge Israel Deliberately Targeted Lebanon's Economy
Aristide and the Endless Revolution offers a moving testimony to the Haitian peoples' struggle against oppression and exposes the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that brought the world's first black republic to its knees...
Climate Camp direct action against Carmel Agrexco. Protestors claim the fresh produce they import by plane is from stolen land in Palestine....
EDO Summer Action Camp, Brighton, August, 2007
Rough edit of the entire Smash EDO Peace camp being seized by Sussex police and carted away... Despite all of this, actions on the Brighton war factory continued and a presence was still maint...
What is Cheat Offsetting?
When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere.
Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain an...
A seven minute documentary about two guys in Brisbane who create forests using the 'chunky pizza' technology.
It's about community gardening, growing forests that can be harvested sustainably for cabinet species, food, whatever you get out...
It's more than just somewhere to dump your load. These toilets are a way of working together!
there have been so many good photos on the news wire that we thought it would be good to do a video of the photos to musick - the light and the dark.
This is for the kids out there - or just tern the sound down and talk over it....
earlier this week, a fitwatch supporter was arrested for 'obstructing a police officer in the course of their duty'. but what exactly is the duty of the harassing, invasive forward intelligence team photographers and officers? do they get o...
his is a song sung to the arriving mainstream journos and climate campers. Complete with drunk pilot the performers are rocking it out here in a retro jet style....
his is a song sung to the arriving mainstream journos and climate campers. Complete with drunk pilot the performers are rocking it out here in a retro jet style....
This video shows a video activist talking to the mainstream media at the Climate Camp. But it looks like there's a bit of lost paperwork!
You can believe everything you read now can you!...
This video shows a video activist talking to the mainstream media at the Climate Camp. But it looks like there's a bit of lost paperwork!
You can believe everything you read now can you!...
It happened within minutes of warnings that the police were threatening to send on their Forward Intelligence Teams and that resistance would not be accepted. However they appeared to have misjudged the situation based on the general camp t...
It happened within minutes of warnings that the police were threatening to send on their Forward Intelligence Teams and that resistance would not be accepted. However they appeared to have misjudged the situation based on the general camp t...
It happened within minutes of warnings that the police were threatening to send on their Forward Intelligence Teams and that resistance would not be accepted. However they appeared to have misjudged the situation based on the general camp t...
It happened within minutes of warnings that the police were threatening to send on their Forward Intelligence Teams and that resistance would not be accepted. However they appeared to have misjudged the situation based on the general camp t...
Media mash-up on climate change.
It may be the beginning of the end of the world, but wa-hey, let's get down to the beach! Imagine it's August 2003, during Europe's worst ever heatwave, and you're stuck at home and can't move off the sofa. ...
Camps for refugees and migrants - across Europe there are these places, that cannot be found on regular maps: from Italy to great Britain, from spain to Germany and even beyond the borders of schengenland: in Romania, Ukraine, lybia and mor...
To celebrate a day to buy nothing, groups in Glasgow got together for the first time since the G8. Soarsa Social center, Clown, Critical Mass and more joined forces to call attention to mindless consumerism....
One of the oldest squats around - Forte Prenestino is a 19th-century fortress complete with moat and a warren of underground tunnels leading to the central area or 'Cathedral'....
The Newsreal for July.
Baden Gehen Parts 1 & 2
Producer: less than ten minutes TV
www.g8-tv.org
Cesar Turning in His Grave
Producer: George and Maia Ballis
www.sunmt.org
G8 Day of Action for Migration
Producer: Steev Hise
arizona.indymed...
What is it like to teach in a school where pupils simply vanish without trace? How do you feel about losing your best mate at school, something you never thought could happen? 'Those left behind ? speaks of Glasgow's 'disappeared'.
The Vuca...
Episode Work/Organize examines the condition of the worker under global empire, where it's every worker for himself. We'll take you to Bangalore, India call centers; meet workers from Immokalee, Florida forced-labor camps and find out what ...
Charley has the workings of the National Health Service explained to him. NHS. National Health Service Act. National Health Service Scheme...
Surrealist trailer exhorting people to save energy by watching their meters, featuring Richard Massingham. Fuel rationing. Wasting energy. Energy shortage. Fuel crisis...
A 3D animated film about a man stuck in hell.
Directed By: Ruairi Robinson
Dublin Shell to Sea escalated its campaign against Shell?s command centre at Corrib house on Leeson Street with a blockade of all three entrances. After two hours only four Shell employees had been pushed through the blockade by the large f...
by enmassefilms
A dynamic story of how students and immigrant janitors took on?and defeated?one of the most powerful corporations in the world, Occupation documents the historic three-week sit-in by the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. The Ca...
Celebrate Blair's exit by seeing him humiliated! The Hutton Report whitewash was a fudge too far for the Oxford Citizens for Truth, who found the perfect response........