Monthly Archive for October, 2011

Support Radical Media

Published on 2011/10/31 in the fuckin show. 1 Comment

Dear subMedia supporters,

It’s been a whirlwind of a year for me. I started touring with END:CIV almost a year ago so far I’ve personally shown it over 100 times. Yep, that’s more than 100 Q and A sessions in four countries and in four languages. I’ve traveled over 40,000 KM by foot, bike, boats, van, buses, jets and trains. Online views of END:CIV are close to 80,000 on multiple platforms and grassroots screenings keep popping up every month. So far I’ve posted 9 translations on the website with a few more in the coming weeks including Turkish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Indonesian. All in all I consider this 5 year project a success.

My newest project has the working title of Stop the Flows. Over the next five years I will document resistance movements that are working towards stopping the flows of hydro carbons, mineral extraction, natural resources and capital, through grassroots and underground organizing. I will publish the dispatches as I complete them with the goal of compiling them into a feature length documentary to be released on 2016.

The first dispatch took me to Central BC where Unis’toten nation are pre-empting the construction of 4 oil and gas pipelines through their traditional territories. You can watch that here. The next dispatch will focus on the growing opposition to an oil pipeline expansion right here where I live in Vancouver. In December I will compile the hours of interviews and footage I gathered while in Japan, for a dispatch spotlighting the growing grassroots anti-nuke movement. In January I hope to travel to Australia to continue touring and gathering material for Stop the Flows and ditto goes for Europe in the spring.

So this is my pitch and appeal for financial support. As you may or may not know, subMedia does no receive money from foundations, corporations or governments. This fact has kept our media truly independent and rogue, videos that don’t mince words or tap dance around the issues. I feel the this type of unfiltered media is crucial in these times, when we are witnessing increased suppression of dissent, but also the birth of a global revolutionary movement.

With that said, consider donating a few bucks to subMedia. The goal is to raise $10,000 by the end of the year to push these projects through the winter.

Thanks again for supporting radical media!

frank

Crisis in Greece

Published on 2011/10/30 in the fuckin show. 0 Comments

Crisis in Greece from brandon jourdan on Vimeo.

Produced by Brandon Jourdan

Greece has become ground zero of the Eurozone’s fiscal crisis. The austerity measures promoted by the IMF/EU/ECB, otherwise known as the troika, are at the core of the social crisis in Greece. This short documentary looks at the current crisis in Greece and social reactions to structural adjustment measures.

SubMedia TV …….. + Aviation Justice, the Climate Crisis and the Suppression of Dissent

Published on 2011/10/28 in Events. 0 Comments

Daytime:

Location: Black Tent, Occupy Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery – intersection of Georgia and Howe www.occupyvancouver.com

Time: Saturday, October 29th, 1.00- 2.00pm

Evening:

Location: Spartacus Books, 684 East Hastings Street Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, BC V6A 1R1, www.spartacusbooks.net

Time: Saturday, October 29th, 5:00-7:00pm
FREE

On October 29th, British and US environmental organizers Debi Wagner, John Stewart and Dan Glass will make a visit to Vancouver as part of the Aviation Justice Express tour, sharing the story of one of the most important climate victories of the past decade. They will explain how an unlikely coalition of local residents, environmentalists, and fiscal conservatives stopped plans for a third runway at London Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport. The tour is a culmination of a month long speaking tour and exposure of campaign strategy across both Canada and the United States, connecting struggles for environmental justice.

The victory at Heathrow was the result of a clear strategy and the ability to forge an incredibly diverse coalition, with environmental direct action activists working right alongside conservative politicians. Even David Cameron, the new Conservative Prime Minister of the UK, was convinced to shut down the project. Glass and Stewart will describe the behind-the-scenes story of the coalition, which focused on climate change, noise, community destruction, and economics. Partly in response to their work, the new British government has moved away from the path of aggressive aviation growth. American aviation activist Debi Wagner will relate her experiences organizing to halt aviation expansion of Seattle’s Bellingham airport, and how her struggle connections with the countless other communities threatened by 3000+ airport expansion plans underway in the US.

John is appearing virtually rather than in person due to their being barred from entry into the United States. On September 29, John, who does not have a criminal record and meets the requirements for the US Visa Waiver program, had his visa waiver rescinded mid-flight. He was questioned by the FBI, the Secret Service, and immigration for six hours at New York’s JFK Airport before being put back on a plane to London. This unwarranted behavior on the part of the government raises important issues regarding the suppression of political dissent.

Please join us for this exciting event!

Share our Facebook invite at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=310757522271792

More information is available at www.spartacusbooks.net

More information is available at http://www.AviationJustice.org/

We are the 99%

Published on 2011/10/24 in the fuckin show. 3 Comments


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This week:

1. Worldwide Occupations
2. Romanarchists fight back
3. Storming Athens
4. Chile’s Paco Assault Unit
5. Support the G20 prisoners
6. The new code of the streets
7. Japan’s anti-nuke movement

Dear Auntie Civ: You’ll just have to die

Published on 2011/10/23 in Auntie Civ and the fuckin show. 1 Comment

Auntie Civ

Ask Auntie Civ -- the world's first anti-civilization advice columnist!

Dear Auntie Civ,

I am wondering how a post-civilization society will be able to handle chronic illnesses like Crohn’s disease. You see, I have Crohn’s disease and the only treatment that works for me requires me to go to a hospital every few weeks to get a 2 hour IV treatment.

Of course, my situation is kind of a Catch-22. Crohn’s is most likely caused by some kind of environmental factor in so-called developed nations (my guess is it’s the food, but who knows). So it looks like civilization gave me Crohn’s, but I can’t survive without civilization.

I’ve met a lot of Primitivists who have flat-out told me I’ll have to die for their utopia, to which I’ve quickly replied, “fuck you.” Surely there must be some kind of way to do away with civilization without asking me and comrades with similar sicknesses to die.

Thanks,

– Chronic Illness

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