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An Inside Look at the NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Policy

October 10, 2012 3 Comments

Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets. On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the [...]

WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists (Leaked)

October 1, 2012 13 Comments

WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, and then moves to Anonymous’ own raucous and unruly beginnings on the website 4Chan. Through interviews with current members – some recently returned [...]

Tales From the G20

September 10, 2012 No Comment

In June 2010, leaders from the twenty largest economies met in Torontowith representatives of corporate interests to discuss the policies that would shape the world for everyone else. Exclusion zones, overlapping layers of security fencing and an estimated 25,000 police and military personnel transformed the downtown area into an armed camp. Over 1.3 billion dollars [...]

Sex, Lies and Julian Assange

August 21, 2012 5 Comments

He had just humiliated the most powerful nation in the world, heading one of the most controversial cyber operations in history. So when Julian Assange arrived in Sweden in August 2010 he was greeted like a conquering hero. But within weeks there was a warrant out for his arrest and he was being investigated for [...]

SHADE the Motion Picture ‘Trailer’

August 6, 2012 2 Comments

Note: Feel free to help us get the world out by reuploading the trailer! The only thing we ask is you keep the same description intact! Full-scale depopulation procedures have been implemented as Population Reduction, Geoengineering, Land Grabs, and Criminal Banking Scams rule the populace. All human activity will soon be under surveillance and the [...]

Pots, Pans and Other Solutions

July 20, 2012 1 Comment

In Iceland, the first European country to wake up to an economic crash, people became aware that they could and should intervene in society and started demanding more democratic participation. The payment of bank debts by citizens went to referendum. The government was forced to create a Council to write a new constitution: a citizens’ [...]

Propaganda

July 15, 2012 10 Comments

Here is the formal statement I gave to Federal Police on 16 June 2012: On a trip to visit family in Seoul in April, I was approached by a man and a woman who claimed to be North Korean defectors. They presented me with a DVD that recently came into their possession and asked me [...]

American Autumn: an Occudoc

July 3, 2012 No Comment

Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012 American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement. With interviews and insight from key organizers, thinkers and activists including Medea Benjamin, [...]