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Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
Climate Change, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, May 17th, 2011,
Back in the 80s Morrissey wrote the lyrics to the Smiths song “Meat is Murder”, while KRS-1 called meat eating suicide or “self-murder” in the BDP track “My Philosophy”. These thoughtful musicians were talking about cruelty and spirituality. They were coming from emotional and philosophical standpoints, but today their words ring true in ever more complex ways. Doctors, dieticians, climate and environmental scientists, and researchers from across the gamut of the physical, natural and engineering sciences are discovering more and more how the human diet affects the health of not only our bodies, but that of our planet. Factory farming,…
Tags: climate, dairy, documentary, film, meat, meat is murder, planeat, trailer, vegetarianism
Conservation, Nature, Politics, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 4th, 2010,
This week marked the beginning of the annual Dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan. Taiji is where the award-winning documentary, The Cove, was filmed. Approximately 20,000 Dolphins are brutally slaughtered in a tiny cove there every year. This year, the Dolphins were herded inside the cove, as usual. A number of them were selected for captivity/training purposes. Then, the bloodbath would begin, but not this time. This time, all of the remaining Dolphins were set free! Could this mean a turn for the better, or are the hunters simply biding their time until the protesters leave? Yes, in case you haven’t…
Tags: activists, Blood Dolphins, Conservation, documentary, dolphin hunt, dolphin slaughter, dolphins, dolphins set free, japan, petition, protest, Taiji, The Cove
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 30th, 2010,
‘The Performance’ is a disturbing, but important film about animal abuse in China’s zoos, circuses and animal parks. In conjunction with a new report by Hong Kong-based Animals Asia, ‘The Performance’ exposes the cruel treatment of animals such as black bears, big cats, monkeys and elephants for the entertainment of live audiences, who are unaware of the suffering they are supporting. The film is part of an effort to get animal welfare legislation laws – of which there are none in China – drafted and passed. Beaten throughout its life, declawed, de-toothed and kept in unsanitary conditions – this is…
Tags: abuse, animals, Asia, bears, China, Chinese, circuses, cruelty, documentary, film, monkey, park, The Performance, zoos
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 3rd, 2010,
London-based Tenner Films is an independent documentary film company concentrating on subjects of environmental degradation and global justice. Their project, entitled ’13 short films about nuclear power’ brings together art, poetry, animation and documentary filmmaking around the nuclear question. The goal of Tenner Films is to encourage debate about nuclear power through social and human stories – in their own words, ‘to challenge, entertain and inform’. Some of the films – namely ‘Fifty Years’ and ‘Beyond’ – seem like they’d fit right in at an art exhibition, while ‘A Modest Proposal’, featuring poet Danny Chivers, is both humorous and informative….
Tags: documentary, film, human, minister, nuclear, power, project, Tenner Films, Tony Benn
Green living, Health, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, May 4th, 2010,
On May 24th, HBO will air the documentary ‘The Lazarus Effect’ by director Lance Bangs. The film follows four HIV positive people in Sub-Saharan Africa in an attempt to show the effects of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) on patients with HIV and AIDS. From a review on Shockya.com: These people include Bwalya, an 11-year-old orphan; Paul Nsangu, a young man who is married and has a daughter; Concillia Muhau, who has a daughter that is virus-free; and Constance (Connie) Mudenda, an HIV Peer Education Supervisor. Nearly 30 million Sub-Saharan Africans live with HIV/AIDS, many of whom cannot afford antiretroviral drugs. ARVs…
Tags: Africa, AIDS, antiretroviral, Bono, documentary, Effect, HBO, HIV, Lazarus, Sub-Saharan
Videos & Documentaries, Weird Stuff, Feb 23rd, 2010,
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Tags: documentary, floods, Lines, Machu Picchu, Nasca, National Geographic, Nazca, Peru
