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Oldest Roma settlement in Istanbul under threat
One of the oldest Roma settlements in Europe is to be given a massive facelift before Istanbul becomes capital of culture in 2010.
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The new 'great game'
John D McHugh is embedded with US troops in Afghanistan on the highly porous frontier with Pakistan. In his latest film, he reports on the cross-border raids launched by the Taliban from inside Pakistan, and sees US troops respond with a campaign reminiscent of the 19th-century struggle for power and influence in the region. John D McHugh is embedded with US troops in Afghanistan on the highly porous frontier with Pakistan. In his latest film, he reports on... more
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Cupcakes & Same Sex Weddings Video by The 99 Cent Chef
Last week, The 99 Cent Chef celebrated California's historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing same sex marriage by baking a cake. And not just any cake, but Sprinkles Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting. The Chef filmed and fed many newlyweds in West Hollywood Park last Tuesday. This special video event includes a cupcake recipe, wedding bells, tears and cheers, wedding vows, councilman Zev Yaroslavsky and a Cupcake Throwdown between The 99 Cent Chef and another cupcake purveyor, Mrs. Beasley's. Last week, The 99 Cent Chef celebrated California's historic Supreme Court ruling legalizing same sex marriage by baking a cake. And n... more
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The $300 billion betrayal
The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal of enormous proportions that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials. But the biggest problem of all is that the people in Washington who could fix it continue to ignore The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a sca... more
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Girl in Green
She is waiting in line for her monthly food ration...she is only ten years old.
With 40% of the population under poverty line, Iran is ranked 27th on the 'list of countries by percentage of population living in poverty' and more and more underprivileged individuals in Iran are turning to private nonprofit charity organizations for help.
Due to the number of people in need, most charity organizations can only afford to give each person less than ten dollars a month, along with some rice and vegetable oil.
What adds to the problem is the number of orphans who rely on these charity organizations as their only source of income and food. Sometimes these young boys and girls, such as the girl in this documentary, also have to find a way to feed their younger siblings. She is waiting in line for her monthly food ration...she is only ten years old. ... more -
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead): The Road to Mictlan
A short documentary on the history, practices, and influences of the growing latino tradition of Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in America. A short documentary on the history, practices, and influences of the growing latino tradition of Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) ... more
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A Genius Outside the Academy
The Hip Hop Caucus tour featuring Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. Yearwood is a minister, community activist, military chaplain, and one of the most influential people in Hip Hop. A powerful and fiery orator. The Hip Hop Caucus tour featuring Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. Yearwood is a minister, community activist, military chaplain, and one of ... more
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Music Video--Kuze/Kibago Anglican Church Choir, Tanzania
The music Vipepeo qua Amani (Butterflies of Amani), the short documentary posted on my page, was provided by an amazing choir from a village a the foot of the Easter Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. Here is one of their songs in its entirety. The song is about taking care not to start fires in the forest. Many of the choirs songs have a conservation theme. The music Vipepeo qua Amani (Butterflies of Amani), the short documentary posted on my page, was provided by an amazing choir from a v... more
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Vipepeo qua Amani (Butterflies of Amani)
This short documentary tells the story of the Amani Butterfly Project in the Eastern Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. The forests there are world famous among ecologists for their high biodiversity, but they are threatened by human impacts. Local residents have begun farming butterflies as a way to provide much needed income while also providing an incentive for maintaining the high biodiversity of the forest. This short documentary tells the story of the Amani Butterfly Project in the Eastern Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. The forests ther... more
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"Housing not war"
Almost 200 organizations and thousands more individuals across Canada are demanding the Federal government end its war in Afghanistan and redirect funds from record-high military spending to peace, including affordable housing. This broad new alliance ranges from Canada's largest civil society organizations to grassroots community groups, and is growing daily. (Sign now: www.HousingNotWar.ca)
300,000 people experience homelessness annually in Canada, the only industrialized country with no national housing program. The UN recently reaffirmed the "devastating impact of this national crisis... including a large number of deaths" from homelessness during Canada's worst housing shortage since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, skyrocketing military spending is already at the highest level since WWII, and the government fights a war devastating some of the poorest people in the world in Afghanistan -- a war most people in Canada oppose, but Canadian Generals predict could last decades.
CURRENT FACTS:
-- Military: $18.2 billion/year // highest since WWII // 13th highest in the World // 8.5% of Federal budget // $100 million per month to fight the war in Afghanistan
-- Housing: $2 billion/year // just 1% of Federal budget // The ONLY industrialized country with NO national program // Worst housing shortage since Great Depression
-- Homelessness: 300,000 people annually // Very high death rate (people die every week) // Millions more in 'core housing need', enduring poor or insecure housing.
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The World's Hardest Working Shaman
Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the water
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lost in transition
a documentary of my familys move to china
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Street Pirate
This short documentary on Don Babcock. On the day he was going to commit suicide a man offered him fifty dollars for one of his drawings. Every day since then he has been drawing. It was the drawing that saved his life. This film opens a window into the life of Don who finds himself on the streets of Vancouver where he shares his experience for having lived another day. This film brings the viewer to an emotional state that ponders life itself, taking us further to the point of surrender where we are awakened to humanity. It is there that you ask yourself, "Just who am I in this span of life?" His is the nature of progress without inhibition, and Street Pirate is the point of reality that too many people have chosen to dismiss in an effort to place a comfortable spin on their self-righteous lives. Street Pirate is pure reality. This short documentary on Don Babcock. On the day he was going to commit suicide a man offered him fifty dollars for one of his drawin... more
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The Ghost Detective - Short Interesting Documentary About the Paranormal
Adrian Perkins - The Ghost Detecive. Follows Steve Burns on a journey looking for answers about ghosts and spirits. Includes a talk with Adrian, The Ghost Detective, Lewis, a parapsychologist, and an investigation at a haunted restaurant. Very well edited, interesting and informal. Adrian Perkins - The Ghost Detecive. Follows Steve Burns on a journey looking for answers about ghosts and spirits. Includes a talk wi... more
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Quality Assurance: The Consumer Revolution
There is a customer service crisis in America, and consumers are right on the front lines of the battle. It's a situation that's gone from frustrating to infuriating to intolerable. This piece explores customers' worst nightmares... and how they've begun fighting back. There is a customer service crisis in America, and consumers are right on the front lines of the battle. It's a situation that's gone... more
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Gulabi Gang ( The pink women of India)
In one of the most backward regions of India, the badlands of Central India, village women dressed in pink saris are getting togther to fight corruption and injustice and to raise their voices against the system. In one of the most backward regions of India, the badlands of Central India, village women dressed in pink saris are getting togther t... more
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World Peace Film Award Winner: One! The Garry Davis Story - - My Country is the Wo...
See the winning film in the World Peace Film Awards! The 5 minute video is posted on Current TV at:
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MY COUNTRY IS THE WORLD: A Citizen of no nation, World Citizen #1 travels on his W...
The extraordinary true story of one man who took on all the nations of the world -- and won!
In 1948, compelled by the pain of war, Garry Davis gave up everything -- a promising Broadway career (he stood-in for Danny Kaye and got 13 curtain calls!), his well-to-do show-biz family, even his nationality – to become the world’s first official world citizen. He embarked upon a bold adventure, crashing borders, scaling cliffs, escaping a concentration-camp and challenging border guards, prison commandants and warring armies on a one-man mission to heal the wounds of war and to prevent World War III.
“If I can show that it is possible for one man to live in a new global space, above the nation-states that divide us, and still survive, then I’ll prove that it is possible for all of us to choose to live in the higher reality that we are already one planet,” Garry declared in 1948.
With Albert Camus and others, he interrupted squabbling of nations at the UN in Paris, calling for world-wide elections to create a world parliament to outlaw war and make peace. 20,000 war-weary Europeans rallied with him to demand that the UN recognize the rights of humanity. The very next day the Soviet Union stepped aside and allowed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be passed unanimously.
Under the authority of that Declaration, and at the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt, Garry founded the World Service Authority in Washington DC, which has issued 2 million world passports, IDs, marriage licenses and other documents. (www.worldservice.org) While some nations reject the world passport, 150 Nations have stamped it with Visas. (www.eworldcitizen.com) Thousands of refugees and stateless people have used the World Passport to gain back their identity—and for many their freedom.
Today Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu, Jimmy Carter, and other Elders are calling on a billion people to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to make a personal pledge to protect the rights of our fellow global villagers. (www.theelders.org)
For 60 years Garry has lived as a citizen of no nation – only of the world. He’s 86 and still going strong! Now that he has blazed the trail to prove that world citizenship exists, we can each choose to add top level citizenship. We can be citizens not only of our cities, our states, and our nations, but also of the world! This 5-minute short, “One! The Garry Davis Story” was chosen as the 1st place winner from all the entries submitted from around the world for the World Peace Film Awards. (see www.onefilms.com) Please send a link to your friends, and post your comments and reactions on current TV.
“Garry Davis, has grasped the only problem which deserves the devotion of contemporary man, the problem to which I myself am determined to devote the rest of my life, up to my very last day: …the survival of the species. It is a question of…whether mankind – the very universe of man – will disappear by its own hand, or whether it will continue to exist.”
--Albert Einstein, quoted in the transcript of 10/4/1949 hearing before the 14th Court of Corrections in Paris, as translated by Richard V. Carter in Survival Meetings, Writers Club Press, 2001
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Zoopolis or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Cage
Is the City a Concrete Jungle or a Human Zoo?
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American Teens, Rwandan Truths
A group of Vermont high school students recently travelled to Rwanda to meet teenagers orphaned by AIDS. They share their photos, video, and their own words about their experiences in country.
Produced by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in association with Azimuth Media.
To learn more about this issue, visit www.pulitzercenter.org.
A group of Vermont high school students recently travelled to Rwanda to meet teenagers orphaned by AIDS. They share their photos, vide... more
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