OceaniaNewsreal
Location: melbourne Australia
URL: http://oceania.indymedia.org/newsreal
Genre Interests : Documentary
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Posted: 19-Dec-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 5 seconds
CERES Environmental Park
CERES is the Centre for Education and Research into Enviromental Strategies, located in Melbourne, Victoria. This is a short piece outlining the centre's practical and positive activities towards community and environmental sustainability. Read more…
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Posted: 17-Dec-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 19 seconds
Pine Gap Protests 02
A demonstration was held over the weekend of October 5-7, 2002 at the gates of the US war base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs, Northern Territory. The message of the three day action was clear: that the Pine Gap base is being used now and will be used for any US war against Iraq and its presence in Australia is unacceptable. Read more…
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Posted: 14-Dec-2006 Video duration : 7 minutes 12 seconds
Where is Freedom
Interviews from June 2002 from behind the fence of the Woomera Detention Centre for refugees in South Australia. Read more…
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Posted: 13-Dec-2006 Video duration : 16 minutes 46 seconds
Whose News?
Whose News? is a half-hour documentary produced by Auckland Indymedia which looks at who owns New Zealand's major media outlets and why we should be worried about it. Read more…
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Posted: 13-Dec-2006 Video duration : 7 minutes 12 seconds
Happy Birthday Timor Leste
A critical look at the anniversary of East Timor's independence and the still dire state of many of its people. The film also looks at the under handed dealings of the Australian government in attempting to annex oil supplies from East Timor in the Timor Sea. Read more…
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Posted: 10-Dec-2006 Video duration : 10 minutes 19 seconds
Beyond the Factory Walls
Beyond the Factory Walls is a digital video production and multimedia theatre collaboration between an Australian community television group, Actively Radical Television (ARTV) from Sydney and a Jakarta based Factory Workers' theatre company, Teater Buruh Indonesia (TBI - Indonesian Workers Theatre). Read more…
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Posted: 09-Dec-2006 Video duration : 13 minutes 41 seconds
Tasi Timor
Tasi Timor documents the popular protests in Dili in 2004 against Australia's ongoing occupation of the Timor sea and exploitation of the vast oil reserves contained therein. Documenting a vast array of speakers and popular feeling Tasi Timor provides a Timorese view on the current state of the nation. Read more…
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Posted: 06-Dec-2006 Video duration : 9 minutes 15 seconds
The Tide is Turning
In 2004, Prime Minister Helen Clark and the New Zealand Labour government passed legislation declaring Crown ownership of the New Zealand foreshore and seabed. The indigenous people of Aotearoa / New Zealand - The Maaori people - having suffered the effects of land confiscation for over 150 years, recognised this legislation for what it was - land confiscation. Read more…
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Posted: 03-Dec-2006 Video duration : 5 minutes 28 seconds
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
On January 2002, while the Aboriginial Tent Embassy celebrated its 30th anniverary, Aboriginal Elders led an action to reclaim the sacred totems of the Kangaroo and Emu from the Australian Coat of Arms. Ceremonies were then held to celebrate its return to Aboriginal peoples, and the coat of arms placed on public display in front of the ceremonial fire. Read more…
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Posted: 30-Nov-2006 Video duration : 10 minutes 54 seconds
Kia Tupato
Kia Tupato (Be Careful) features the late Sir John Turei as he presents Maori views on Genetic Modification with reference to the land and the teaching of his Grandparents. Sir John was considered a bridge between the cultures of Maori and non-Maori in New Zealand, and received many honours from the Government including a Knighthood. Kia Tupato presents the teachings of Sir John and his people and includes footage from the protest movement against Genetic Modification in New Zealand. Read more…
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Posted: 25-Nov-2006 Video duration : 9 minutes 41 seconds
Climate Justice Tour
In 2004 Friends of the Earth hosted a tour of the east coast of Australia by three representatives of some of the countries worst affected by the West's large scale use of fossil fuels. They are: Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria), Fiu Mataese (Samoa) and Suila Toloa (Tuvalu). Kim Stewart went with them... Read more…
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Posted: 25-Nov-2006 Video duration : 5 minutes 34 seconds
Surviving in an Asian Megacity
With a population of over 10 million, Indonesia's capital Jakarta is one of Asia's mega-cities. Like similar cities, there is increasing tension between an expanding elite population and a growing urban poor. The mayor of Jakarta has a solution to this problem - evict the urban poor. This video looks at life in three poor communities in Jakarta, highlighting their strategies for survival in very uncertain times. Read more…
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Posted: 22-Nov-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 15 seconds
State of Emergency
In May 2004 over 500 people attended a conference for four days in a reclaimed warehouse in inner city Melbourne. State of Emergency was a series of workshops, forums, parties and film screenings that attempted to come to grips with the new forms of state power, war and neo-liberalism that pervade everyday life. Read more…
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Posted: 17-Sep-2006 Video duration : 5 minutes 6 seconds
Baxter 2003
Baxter Detention centre is located 12km from Port Augusta in South Australia. It is the Australian government's latest initiative in detaining asylum seekers and refugees without charge or trial. Over Easter 2003 people from around Australia coverged on the centre to highlight the injustices against detainees and to let them know that not all Australians support the Federal government's policy of mandatory detention. Read more…
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Filmmaker Collective Profile - Plug-in TV
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