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PROJECTS: Free Speech TV

Water Wars
Writer (2005)

Who owns the rain? This 7-minute segment explains corporate and government efforts to privatize water and the suffering and violence that results for citizens of India, Bolivia, and Detroit, Michigan. Segment features interviews with Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow and Winona Hauter discussing greed vs. need and the giveaway of the commons.

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Where Are Your Rights?
Writer (2005)

7-minute segment about American citizens’ eroding human rights with interviews with Jim Hightower on Corporate Personhood, Richard Grossman on our civil liberties, Rachel Meerapol from the Center for Constitutional Rights, and John Graham who found himself on a terrorist no-fly list with no way out.

The Grassy Narrows First Nation has lived self-sustainably on their Northern Ontario land for generations, but imperialism and enterprise have made their indigenous way of life all but impossible. Their land has been leased by the Canadian government to logging giants Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi, who have clearcut the forests and poisoned the water with their paper mills. The Grassy Narrows community has tried nearly every avenue for getting the multinational corporations to leave their land, but all pleas have fallen upon deaf ears. Finally, this spring they decided to take the fight to the international level, rallying organizations from around the world to support their cause.

Bay Area Headwaters Coalition fights against Charles Hurwitz, who took savings and loan cash and bought up the redwoods. One woman makes saving the Headwaters Forest her mission.

If you look up the word “ruckus” in the dictionary, you will find it described as “commotion; the act of making a noisy disturbance.” That's exactly the principle upon which our country was founded 233 years ago, when the Patriots dumped 342 crates of British tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party was a powerful catalyst for change and signaled the birth of a new nation. Today, the Ruckus Society is continuing to teach powerful tactics of nonviolent resistance.

Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society flies the Jolly Roger as he rams Japanese whalers and takes on seal hunters in an effort to save the ocean's endangered wildlife.