rabble.ca - Rabblevision Episodes - | On the Farm with Percy Schmeiser | Play in Popup. | Recorded in May 2006 during the Healthy Mind Body Planet Tour. Angela Bishoff talks with Percy Schmeiser on his farm near Bruno, Saskatchewan. He highlights potential dangers of eating GMO's, the politics of research into this technology, and the results of chemical farming in his area for the past 60 years. '...they'd (farmers and consumers) rather not hear about it until it's over, and once you introduce GMO's it's over.' read more |
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| Activists Without Passports | Play in Popup. | Canada scuppers global climate talks, Canadian journalists take unprecedented action amidst their international colleagues. November 2006 isn't the first time Canada takes an international lead thwarting progress towards global greenhouse gas reductions. In November 2000 the UN climate talks' fall apart due in large part to Canada's loop-hole lobbying by Canadian representive, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy. Turns out this was his final political act before leaving office. read more |
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| Corporate Control | Play in Popup. | HMBP Series / Episode 7 Why modern medicine is killing us? During the Healthy Mind, Body, Planet multi-media tour, boilingfrog presented two video Modules, ?Corporate Control? and ?Communal Health?. These modules used excerpts from a variety of audio, visual and printed mediums. Many of these excerpts represent fabulous pieces of work that should be experienced in their entirety and are listed below. Other excerpts that are not identified below have been taken from tv news and corporate messages. These divergent media sources have been woven together to reflect our awakenings. Albeit overwhelming at times, we?ve tried to be fast-passed and entertaining, to expose the dilemma of the conscious mind, close your eyes and stay happy or dig deep, take action and avoid burnout.read more |
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| Halifax Abridged | Play in Popup. | HMBP Series / Episode 3: In Halifax, the Healthy Mind Body Planet Tour organizers, Angela, (Tooker's widow) Kelly and Bridget, spend time on the bridge where Tooker Gomberg breathed his last. Angela visits with the Justice Ministers staff and the Chief Medical Examiner asking for an inquiry into the role that anti-depressant drugs played in Tooker's death. She hopes that the inquiry will bring about systemic changes in health care so that others to avoid a similar tragedy.read more |
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| Asking for Solutions | Play in Popup. | Together with GENEaction, we attended the 25th annual Guelph Organic Farmers Conference, January 2006, where we interviewed: Corrine McGowan - volunteer, Arnold Taylor - Saskatchewan Organic Directorate, Jason Freeman - Fair Deal, Chris Plant - New Society Publishers, Titia Posthuma - Bio-Dynamic Farming, Sha Sha - Sha Sha Bread Co., Tom Lavrih, Kate Green - Ban Termintor and read more |
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| A Robot in the Townships | Play in Popup. | Disturbing fantasy footage from The Embassy Visual Effects Inc. in Vancouver, British Columbia. A computer-generated robot prowls black neighbourhoods in South Africa.This footage is getting raves from special effects fans on the web. The aggresive android seems to be patrolling a South African shantytown, footage for which was shot is Johannesburg by the film's director Neill Blomkamp. |
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| The Ungrateful Dead: In Search of International Justice | Play in Popup. | This rabblevision feature includes an interview with the filmmaker and an excerpt from the film. Watch Ungrateful Dead this Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7pm EST on History Television. Filmmaker Judy Jackson's thought-provoking documentary traces the evolution of international law and justice from the tribunals of the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, through the arrest of General Pinochet in London, to the opening of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The documentary focuses on Canada's contributions since the campaign for global justice began. The Ungrateful Dead: In Search of International Justice A Judy Jackson film Director?s Notesread more |
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| Flushing the Forests | Play in Popup. | Greenpeace argues that Kimberly-Clark is turning ancient, boreal forests into disposable products. The Canadian boreal forest is 10,000 years old and stretches across northern Canada, from the Alaskan border to Labrador. The environmental group wants Kimberly-Clark to stop purchasing virgin fibre from endangered forests. To learn more about how the boreal forest is under threat visit www.kleercut.net. |
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