Noam Chomsky explains "the Propaganda Model", the central theme of his
book, co-authored with Edward Herman, MANUFACTURING CONSENT: THE
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MASS MEDIA. Noam Chomsky spoke at the
Wisconsin Union Theater on the Madison campus of the University of
Wisconsin on the evening of March 15, 1989. The lecture was sponsored
by the Wisconsin Union Directorate's Distinguished Lecture Series for
the 1988-89 academic year.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
It Came From Kuchar - Official Trailer
Long before YouTube, there were the brilliantly insane, no-budget movies
of underground, filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. Ceating stars
out of their friends and family with just consumer-grade cameras, the
teenage Kuchar brothers went from the 1960's New York City underground
film scene of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger to become the twin maestros
of B-movie glamour and sleaze.
In a mesmerizing stream-of-consciousness style, IT CAME FROM KUCHAR effortlessly interweaves nostalgic footage of 1950's New York, a "greatest hits" collection of Kuchar clips and present day interviews of an all-star lineup of fans including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Wayne Wang, Bill Griffith, Gerard Malanga, B. Ruby Rich and Guy Maddin. Both outrageous and lovable, George and Mike will inspire you to pick up a camera and start making movies. IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a must see for lovers of film everywhere.
In a mesmerizing stream-of-consciousness style, IT CAME FROM KUCHAR effortlessly interweaves nostalgic footage of 1950's New York, a "greatest hits" collection of Kuchar clips and present day interviews of an all-star lineup of fans including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Wayne Wang, Bill Griffith, Gerard Malanga, B. Ruby Rich and Guy Maddin. Both outrageous and lovable, George and Mike will inspire you to pick up a camera and start making movies. IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a must see for lovers of film everywhere.
Legendary underground, low low budget filmmaker George Kuchar was in Boston for the Underground Film Festival. At Boston University (March 2010) he introduced himself to the startled crowd and screened new prints of his first two films from the 60's: Corruption Of The Damned (1965) which doesn't have sound and is in B&W and the oddly poetic (in color!) Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966).
Woman facing foreclosure arrested outside bank executive's home
A disabled woman facing eviction from her South Gate home was arrested Thursday night following a two-hour standoff between police and 80 protesters outside the home of Wells Fargo Bank Chief Financial Officer Tim Sloan.
The group also was challenging a San Marino ordinance requiring demonstrators to stay 150 feet from a protest target’s home or 75 feet from the curb, a law enacted by the San Marino City Council after a protest in front of Sloan’s home on Oct. 5.
Slavoj Žižek - Maybe We Just Need a Different Chicken ...
Sociologist and philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, discusses politeness and
civility in the function of contemporary ideology. Dr. Žižek spoke at
Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon, as part of the speaker tour
for his latest book, VIOLENCE.
pdxjustice Media Productions
Producer: William Seaman
pdxjustice Media Productions
Producer: William Seaman
and...
Slavoj Zizek on KUNG FU PANDA
Watch entire interview at:http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11966
The Importance of Being Sassy - How Occupiers, pranksters, and artists speak louder than money
Sven Eberlein writes for Yes! magazine:
Since long before Abbie Hoffman dropped dollar bills over the New
York Stock Exchange—unleashing hilarity as Wall Street traders scurried
to gather up cash—humor has been a potent political weapon. It can
expose the absurdities and inequities of consumer society. It doesn’t
need big bucks to be effective or contagious—Occupy has shown that
creativity and imagination can be powerful enough to build a national
movement. And the Internet and social networking can allow a
well-orchestrated prank to reach millions in minutes. Want to use your
wit to confront corporate power? Here are creative and inspiring
examples.
Truth in Advertising
“I’m driving to meet someone for breakfast … and I’m like, the hell with it, I’m running my corporation for Congress.” Corporations may try to influence our perceptions through advertising, but who’s to say activists can’t give their messages a little editing? San Francisco’s Billboard Liberation Front has been “improving” ads for clients ranging from Wachovia Bank to McDonald’s for more than 30 years. One recent campaign helped telecommunications giant AT&T refine its message from an obtuse “AT&T works in more places, like Chilondoscow” (Chicago, London, Moscow, get it?) to the more discerning “AT&T works in more places, like NSA Headquarters.”
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a documentary film that
premiered in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. It is a collection of
interviews and clips by and about the revolutionary artist Jack Smith.
It was directed by Mary Jordan and produced by Tongue Press Productions.
The Manifesto of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn
The revelation of the once-secret Hermetic symbols
and philosophies that are the foundation of the Golden Dawn's system has long
since occurred, yet we still see Lodges swearing their Aspirants to absolute secrecy
with mighty oaths of death and destruction, if they dare to reveal to the uninitiated
the "secret knowledge" which the uninitiated could buy cheaply at a
used book store. We see no reason to follow this defunct and even harmful approach.
Instead, following the demonstrably advantageous practice of the Open
Source Software movement, we build our Order on the sources of
knowledge that are accessible to anyone. Our sources are already open;
we simply affirm this obvious fact. We have no "secrets" to conceal, in
particular those that have already been revealed. And in any case, the
era of artificial secrecy is at an end. Ours is the Information Age, and
we embrace it fully. Therefore we ordain and establish our order as the
Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.
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