http://www.engagemedia.org Channel for Water on EngageMedia daily 1 2008-02-04T18:47:38Z http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/zoe/videos/ifiwatchtv-promo.mpg/view IfIWatch.TV - Whose Story Do I See? This site networks critical documentary, meeting and protest reports, animations, feature films, music videos, expert interviews and more about what massive and opaque public bodies really do with our money, our neighbours and our planet. EngageMedia zoe International Financial Institution video World Bank resistance IMF 2008-09-02T17:04:23Z Video video/mpeg http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/mien/videos/harga_cinta.mp4/view Aini lives with her mum in an urban poor village in the city. her mum works in a factory that packaged mineral water bottles. In this place and time, water has been privatized and cost too much for them to afford it, so her mother takes the water from the well, in hope of having some savings for Aini to buy a computer. One day, her mother falls ill and Aini rush off to buy her clean water. She realized she doesn't have enough money to buy the water, then Joshua came. EngageMedia mien 2008-05-14T10:06:56Z Video video/mp4 http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/vjicandy/videos/the_drain_maidens.mov/view Three homophobic suburban stoners enter a storm water drain, unsuspecting of the horror that lies in store. EngageMedia vjicandy pop culture drain cave clan horror black comedy the Hobby Whores 2008-04-18T00:31:41Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/cebrigoli/videos/Bagong_silang.avi/view A short documentation of how people in Bagong Silang, a community in the Philippines, cope with their "waterlessness". EngageMedia cebrigoli txap 2008-04-05T23:55:24Z Video video/x-msvideo http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/Nat/videos/20March08_LakeCowal_Aerial.mov/view Neville 'Chappy' Williams, Wiradjuri Traditional Owner of the Lake Cowal area, recently took an aerial flight over Barrick's gold mine in Lake Cowal. He describes his feelings as he witnesses the destruction and desecration of his Peoples sacred sites by the world's largest gold mining company. EngageMedia Nat mining Barrick Gold activism indigenous environmental protest cyanide Lake Cowal sovereignty solidarity 2008-07-23T09:22:45Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/absurdresponse/videos/FringeOpen.mov/view Friends of the Earth's Radical Cheerleader Squad took their vision sustainable food and agriculture to the streets of Adelaide as part of the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Festival Opening Night Party. Roving through a crowd of over 40,000 people, the guys and gals shook, shimmied and shouted about the benefits of local, urban food growing and food sovereignty to diners and revellers in Adelaide's East End. Keep an eye out for a special appearance by Friends of the Earth's Edible Taxi! For more information, visit http://www.adelaide.foe.org.au EngageMedia absurdresponse food radical sovereignty community cheerleading 2008-03-26T05:44:00Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/biozid/videos/Unity_at_work.wmv/view This movie is capture to setup a tube well in the south of Bangladesh. The whole process is 20-30 days. EngageMedia biozid 2008-07-22T07:09:40Z Video video/x-ms-wmv http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/IPTsecretariat/videos/arundhati2.mp4/view Arundhati Roy's initial findings of the Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India that took place in Delhi at the end of September 2007. EngageMedia IPTsecretariat India Arundhati Roy World Bank International Institutions 2008-02-06T02:30:45Z Video video/mp4 http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/anotherdom/videos/waterHD.mov/view Some facts about bottled water and why its a con job. EngageMedia anotherdom bottled water 2008-02-06T00:59:33Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/heidid/videos/3.mov/view Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland, north of Cairns, is one of the last great wild places on Earth. But its wild rivers are unprotected. These magnificent rivers are the lifeblood for the Cape's communities and a huge diversity of wildlife. EngageMedia heidid wilderness society queensland featured cape york wild rivers 2008-01-22T00:52:21Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/IPTsecretariat/videos/water.mp4/view Convenor of the first Independant people's tribunal on the World Bank group in India, Arvind Kejriwal, describes how the World Bank was involved in the Delhi Water privatization project. EngageMedia IPTsecretariat neo-liberalism IMF India International financial institutions capitalism mobilisation, World Bank 2008-01-09T06:24:54Z Video video/mp4 http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/shivanii/videos/when-the-plantations-came.divx/view A moving 30 minute documentary produced in 2001, showing how people's lives are affected by the woodchipping plantation industry in Tasmania. Interviews with those living on the land - organic farmers, retirees and others - about how the clearing and poisoning of land affects them directly, and with people such as eco-tourism operators who tell how sustainable industries are put under threat by the destructive practices of large forestry corporations. Images of the incredible beauty of wild forests in Tasmania are contrasted by the devastation and plantation monocultures that threaten the bio-diversity of this region. EngageMedia shivanii Lens woodchip forestry featured Productions Moving forest plantations Tasmania woodchipping 2007-11-28T10:27:18Z Video video/x-msvideo http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/shivanii/videos/clean-green-atrazine.divx/view A short video about aerial spraying of Atrazine, a hormone disruptor, in Tasmania. EngageMedia shivanii aerial facial cancer frogs platypus ulcer Atrazine tumour devil infertility Lens Moving oyster Tasmania water spraying chemicals breast plantations St Helens herbicide auto-immune toxins reproductive George River Clean, Green Tasmania abortion Australian Drinking Water Guidelines Productions Gunns 2007-11-27T04:41:17Z Video video/x-msvideo http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/bettina/videos/acqua-a.mov/view Voices around the planet at the World Social Forum talk about water. EngageMedia bettina world social forum WSF 2007-11-16T01:38:08Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/pc/videos/waw-11nov07-engage.avi/view Scenes from the second annual Walk Against Warming in Melbourne, starting with a rally at the State Library, followed by a very leisurely stroll down Swanston Street to the Alexandra Gardens. There was an astonishing range of placards, costumes, banners, props, not to mention age groups and affiliations - all demanding action from politicians on the burning issue of climate change. EngageMedia pc climate Nuclear uranium Melbourne sustainability featured 2007-11-13T22:59:34Z Video video/x-msvideo http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/nicfit/videos/meander_final.mov/view In July 2006 two paddlers set off at daybreak to paddle the upper section of the Meander River knowing that it may be their last chance to see this free-flowing river before a dam is constructed. However it was already too late - dam construction had commenced and as the paddlers emerge from the dim light of dawn they find the river turns into a construction site where workers - already busy early on a saturday morning - evict us from the river due to safety concerns. EngageMedia nicfit river dams forests featured Tasmania Meander 2007-10-19T05:20:49Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/robbie/videos/castle-on-the-sand.avi/view Graham has built the most fantastic castle on the beach but the tides's rising... and he's not going to give up without a fight. A short-fiction-comedy tackling climate change and a rather uncanny response to a warming planet. EngageMedia robbie featured Comedy 2007-10-04T07:37:38Z Video video/x-msvideo http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/shivanii/videos/forest-gardeners.divx/view A seven minute documentary about two guys in Brisbane who create forests using the 'chunky pizza' technology. EngageMedia shivanii soil recycling biomass community permaculture urbanForest timber living micro-organisms harvest swayle compost forest life garden food mulch fungus fruit cardboard chips grow renewable Brisbane tree fungi post-consumer sustainable biological decompose 2007-08-16T09:28:40Z Video video/x-msvideo http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/heidid/videos/footsteps_master_2007_01.mov/view Australia 2000, Year of Reconciliation: five hundred thousand people walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to support reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. In Central Australia Indigenous elder Kevin Buzzacott begins a 3060 kilometre walk carrying a sacred fire from Lake Eyre to Sydney. He leaves behind the original sacred fire at the Arabunna Going Home Peace Camp on the shores of Lake Eyre. Without his protection however those left to tend to the fire are soon the target of attempts by WMC Uranium mine to evict the camp. Walking the land he passes through Adnyamathanha country similarly threatened by mining interest. This is a journey into active reconciliation and genocide of people deeply connected to the protection of the land. EngageMedia heidid over the bridge buzzacott uranium 2000 adnyamathanha aboriginal featured genocide sydney harbour arabunna lake eyre roxby downs south australia reconciliation walk 2007-08-15T08:45:35Z Video video/quicktime http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/heidid/videos/tas_pulpmill_tws_01.mov/view Gunns Ltd’s proposed pulp mill will affect the future of all Tasmanian families. This film explains the environmental, economic and health impacts of the proposed pulp mill that Gunns, the Tasmanian State Government and the Federal Government have so far ignored. EngageMedia heidid pulp mill wilderness wilderness society forests featured tasmania destruction 2007-06-21T06:06:31Z Video video/quicktime