Sections

You are here: Home → Browse Videos → Video Topics → Activism

Personal tools

Log in
Join

Document Actions

Activism

Up one level

Channel for Activism on World Social Forum TV

Next 9 items »

[1] 2

Africa Social Forum Memory : Bamako 2006 - Le Coton

Posted: 2008-06-19 Video duration : 5 minutes 0 seconds

During the world Social Forum In Bamako-Mali 2006 one of the big issue was the Cotton. Ibrahim Coulibaly President of CNOP Mali , Quedraog Seydou, UNPCB Burkina Faso e Mariam Dem from Consad Senegal give theirs point of you. Read more…

Categories

Global Day of Action- the Final Installment

Posted: 2008-06-16 Video duration : 6 minutes 37 seconds

WSF Global Day of Action, the FINLAND solidarity! Read more…

Categories

Activism

“Empty Policies for Empty Plates”

Posted: 2008-06-09 Video duration : 2 minutes 0 seconds

“Empty Policies for Empty Plates” International representatives of small farmers, fisherfolks, indigenous peoples, pastoralists and Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) have expressed their disappointment with the poor outcome of the High Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome. “The final declaration will not fill any plate. The recommendations for more liberalisation would lead to more violations of the right to food”, criticised Maryam Rahmanian from the Iranian organisation CENESTA. During the official conference, the social movements held their own Forum “Terra Preta” to voice their demands to realize food sovereignty and the right to food of the millions of hungry people. Read more…

Categories

Activism

Social Movements speakers at the FAO Summit conclusive plenary

Posted: 2008-06-05 Video duration : 11 minutes 0 seconds

Speakers: Mr Benjamin Victor Powless- Indigenous Enviromental Network ( Mohawak Nation ) Mr Henry Saragih - General Coordinator Via Campesina ( Indonesia) Read more…

Categories

Activism

Terra Preta Forum press conference inside the FAO Summit

Posted: 2008-06-05 Video duration : 11 minutes 4 seconds

The High Level Conference on Food Security is looking for a political answer to the severe hunger crisis, which has been manifested in more the 40 food riots over the last three months. It seem however that the FAO Summit will conclude by proposing the same recipes that are partly responsable for the crisis, such as more food aid, more liberalisation and more biotechnology. I mportant aspects like speculation are completely ignored, while on agrofuels, the draft declaration contains a very specific invitation for “dialogue”. The speakers are: Michael Windfuhr ( Germany), Brot fur die welt. Henry Saraghi ( Indonesia) Via Campesina. Greetha Fernando ( SriLanka) Fisherman World Forum. Read more…

Categories

Activism

Distribution of seeds by farmers in front of Cerere temple in Rome.

Posted: 2008-06-03 Video duration : 3 minutes 32 seconds

At the opening of FAO Summit in Rome the activists and partecipants at Terra Preta Forum gather in front of Dea Cerere Temple to riaffirm the the Food Sovregnity. Read more…

Categories

Activism

Action at FAO Summit against the coorporation of agrobusiness.

Posted: 2008-06-03 Video duration : 3 minutes 7 seconds

Paul Nicholson from Via Campesina and other activists belongs international NGO and Association were stopped by the security during and informal press conference at the openig of the FAO Summit in Rome. Read more…

Categories

GDA India

Posted: 2008-04-08 Video duration : 2 minutes 0 seconds

Mumbai Floating Parade for Global Day of Action 2008 . Meena Menon from Focus South, P.K. Das from Nivara HAKK and a young activist give us some topic of the 26 january in Mumbai. Read more…

Categories

Activism

Toronto Social Forum: Cultures of Resistance

Posted: 2008-03-17 Video duration : 9 minutes 0 seconds

As part of the WSF Global Day of Action the Toronto Social Forum sponsored a cultural evening that featured a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada, a stunning victory of the women's movement. Read more…

Categories

Toronto Social Forum Cultures of Resistance

Posted: 2008-03-17 Video duration : 9 minutes 0 seconds

The Toronto Social Forum Global Day of Action was an evening of culture with a focus on celebrating the anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Canada. Read more…

Categories

In Ramallah and Around the World: Gaza at the Heart of Global Day of Action

Posted: 2008-02-06 Video duration : 3 minutes 52 seconds

Events in Ramallah kicked off with a demonstration organized jointly by the Palestinian National Initiative and the Stop the Wall Campaign. Hundreds of protestors - mostly young people, women, and families from Gaza's origin - marched peacefully through Ramallah's central square carrying banners reading "Stop Israeli War Crimes in Gaza" and "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" with the logo of the world social forum. This Global Day of Action offers Palestinian democratic movements the chance to urge the world to intervene and stop what Nelson Mandela has defined 'the new Apartheid of our century,'". Read more…

Categories

Activism

Inaguració FSCat

Posted: 2008-02-05 Video duration : 9 minutes 38 seconds

Inaguració del Fòrum Social Català en Barcelona. Read more…

Categories

Activism

Seul S.Korea- Act Together for an Other World wsf2008

Posted: 2008-02-01 Video duration : 1 minute 16 seconds

* venue: Seoul Station * chanting saying: Let's globalize our hope! abolish(?) precarious working! Down Down FTA! etc. * pickets when performance at the stage: Human, not profit! * English speaker at the stage: Steal worker - some union memeber from Finland. Filmed by Sungmi and Dongwon from MediaCultureAction . Seoul, S.Korea). Read more…

Categories

Activism

We're Making Noise

Posted: 2008-01-30 Video duration : 5 minutes 8 seconds

The People's Caravan rocked and rolled thru Atlanta January 26 on the Global Day of Action. The caravanistas confronted the familiar local faces of global oppression in the "city too busy to hate." They told the World of Coke "another world is possible." They told the city jail to "tear down the walls." They posted eviction notices on the doors of the Atlanta Housing Authority, which has been demolishing public housing." The Capitol steps usually frequented by reactionary Georgia legislators and lobbyists became the People's Plaza and the polling site for the People's Ballot. AND ALL THIS WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT, thanks to people's music by Cakalak Thunder Drum Corps and the Atlanta Sedition Orchestra. Read more…

Categories