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South of the border - Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone’s controversial documentary South of the Border is up for download.

The film examines the free-market economic policies pushed by the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund over the last several years, and how they have largely failed to alleviate Latin America’s chronic income inequality. The film suggests that financial calamities such as the Argentine peso collapse of 2001, combined with Latin suspicions of U.S. drug-eradication efforts and resentment over the selling off of natural resources through multinational companies, also have contributed to the rise of socialist and social-democratic leaders across the region. Tariq Ali who collaborated with Stone to make the film has remarked that”  “These changes that are taking place are not coming about through armed struggle or guerrilla warfare or Che Guevara. All these changes have come about through democratic elections. And that makes it a very, very significant development in that continent.”  According to the Associated Press, “Stone said he didn’t see it necessary to present the opposition’s case in his film. ‘He is a democrat and there is opposition to him, and he’s not perfect. But he is doing tremendous things for Venezuela and the region.‘“  US economist Mark Weisbrot advised Stone on the documentary and was credited as one of the writers alongside Tariq Ali.

From: http://www.resistnetwork.com/
on 08/09/10 | Read More

Living without Money: a timely new doc from Germany

Heidemarie Schwermer goes penniless in “Living without Money”
The new documentary by director Line Halvorsen, Living without Money (LWM), couldn’t have come at a better time. It won’t be released until Feburary 2010 but one assumes we won’t be out of this current global economic mess we are in now. And if I can be sure of one thing, it’s that radically alternative visions and philosophies of the planet’s economic system will still be shut out of the public discussion when LWM is relesaed. Turn on the news or pick up a paper and it’s the same: we need to get back on track, we need to stimulate the economy, get people shopping again, get manufacturing moving at break neck speed, etc, etc. With this myopic worldview of economics has come massive bail-outs for the corporate crust at the top of humanity’s cake. And as was said by Mary Walsh on This Hour has 22 Minutes some years earlier, “everyone knows the upper crust is really a bunch of crumbs held together with dough.”

From: Art Threat
by Ezra Winton on 06/05/09 | Read More

The Yes Men Fix The World 2009 - trailer

Trailer for The Yes Men Fix The World (dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno 2009), the sequel to The Yes Men (Christ Smith, Sarah Price, Dan Ollman 2004).

From: http://www.resistnetwork.com/
on 21/02/09 | Read More

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