Since March 2015, a Saudi-Emirati led coalition has relied on U.S. support and participation in its airstrikes and blockade against Yemen. Barrages of bombardment targeting civilian infrastructure, plus a paralyzing air, sea and water blockade have exacerbated suffering as Yemenis face near-famine conditions and widespread diseases, including cholera. Author, speaker, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Other Voices Other Choices – Ground Beneath Our Hearts 2249
A day of art and music to express not just how it hurts to live with the constant assault of mineral extraction, but how immense is people's love for their home place. That was the focus of The Ground Beneath Our Hearts, a community-generated spectacle that unfolded in ten places around the world on September 12, 2015. This video tells the story of what happened.
Other Voices Other Choices – Environmental Harms of Pipelines
Energy Justice Shale Convergence Wyoming County, PA March 13 - 16, 2015 Presented by Faith Zerbe Water Watch Director, Delaware Riverkeeper Network This presentation was part of the Community Enforcement & Legal Strategies workshop. Per the organizers: "Participants will explore an array of legal strategies and issues pertaining to shale gas development, including community monitoring projects, eminent domain, permit appeals, local ordinances, and more." This particular presentation focuses on community monitoring of pipeline projects related to shale gas development in Pennsylvania. However, the techniques presented are effective in a variety of other contexts.
Other Voices Other Choices – Women in Hebron 5930
Laila Hasan is a Palestinian from a village in the Hebron District in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. She is the co-founder of the Women in Hebron embroidery and sewing cooperative. Laila will tell of some of the obstacles Women in Hebron faced when they opened a shop in Hebron's Old City at the height of the second intifada. She will also share stories of life in the villages around Hebron. Translator and Assistant: Jawakin Kamil Introductory remarks by Jim Clune, Broome County Peace Action.
Other Voices Other Choices – Resisting the Constitution Pipeline 5900
A Family's Fight to Protect Their Land Catherine & Megan Holleran take viewers on a tour of their family's property, currently under eminent domain threat from the Constitution Pipeline, which will carry fracked gas from the wells of Pennsylvania to upstate New York. They are joined in the second half of the video by Alex Lotorto of Energy Justice Network.
Other Voices Other ChoicesKathy Kelly – Let Yemenis Live 5930
Syracuse, NY; July 16, 2018 ENDING U.S. COMPLICITY IN THE WAR AGAINST YEMEN Since March 2015, a Saudi-Emirati led coalition has relied on U.S. support and participation in its airstrikes and blockade against Yemen. Barrages of bombardment targeting civilian infrastructure, plus a paralyzing air, sea and water blockade have exacerbated suffering as Yemenis face near-famine conditions and widespread diseases, including cholera. Author, speaker, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org), a campaign to end U.S. military and economic wars. Event sponsored by the Beyond War and Militarism committee of the Syracuse Peace Council and CNY Solidarity Coalition.
Other Voices Other Choices – Clare Grady – Kings Bay Plowshares Activist 5830
Clare Grady is one of seven Catholic plowshares activists who entered Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares”.
Other Voices Other choices – Middle East 5900
The Middle East: U.S./NATO Plan Video from the No Foreign Bases conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. Presenters: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK; Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center; Bahman Azad, Organizational Secretary, U.S. Peace Council
Other Voices Other Choices – Genetically Engineered Foods – A History of Deception 5830
Steven Druker is a public interest attorney who founded the Alliance for Bio-Integrity and, as its executive director, initiated a lawsuit that forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods — which revealed that the agency had covered up the warnings of its own scientists about the risks and has been consistently misrepresenting the facts. His influential book, Altered Genes Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public, was released in 2015 with a foreword by Jane Goodall hailing it as “without doubt one of the most important books of the last 50 years.”
Other Voices Other Choices – Sane Energy Project 2500
Sane Energy Project's goal is to replace shale gas infrastructure with renewable infrastructure. We oppose the development, transport, and export of fracked shale gas ("natural gas"). We support a rapid switch to renewable energy and the goal of zero fossil fuel dependence by 2030, as outlined by the 2009 Stanford University Study. Sane Energy Project is a grassroots group, formed in January of 2011 to oppose the Spectra Pipeline, the first of several high-pressure, large diameter shale gas pipelines slated to enter New York City. Today we have enlarged that mission to include shale gas infrastructure statewide and regionally. We stand in solidarity with activists fighting all forms of extreme extraction and nuclear energy.
Other Voices Other Choices – Chris Hedges – Empire of Illusion 2900 1 of 2
Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig.org every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
Other Voices Other Choices – OVOC NFB Opening Session 5530
The Opening Session of the ''No Foreign Bases'' Conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. This video features a presentation by David Vine, entitled ''History and Economic Costs of U.S. Foreign Military Bases.''
Other Voices Other Choices – Remembering Past Wars P2 SD 5930
An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech against war. A new movement to end all war is growing. Maria Santelli, executive director of Center on Conscience and War, founding director of the New Mexico GI Rights Hotline. Jarrod Grammel, conscientious objector.
Other Voices Other Choices. – Getting To Net Zero 5930
We have so many new energy technologies that it is now very possible, and maybe even easy, to stop using fossil fuels. The beauty of many of these technologies is that the individual building owner can do them incrementally and affordably. Heat pumps, electric cars, bicycle commuting, net-zero homes, free energy audits, special financing opportunities -- Gay Canough of ETM Solar, and Joe Keyes of Heat Tek will touch on all these and more.
Other Voices Other Choices – Environmental Impact 5900
Video from the No Foreign Bases Conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. The Environmental and Health Impact of U.S. Foreign Military Bases Panel Chair: Nancy Price, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Other Voices Other Choices – An Evenign with Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, often referred to as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," spoke in Syracuse, NY on May 11, 2011. His wide-ranging talk touched on U.S. foreign policy and wars, corporate media, the globalized economy, and popular pressure for democracy, among other topics.
Other Voices Other Choices – Mickey Z – Food Justice GMOs Vegan Option 2800
Mickey Z. draws the connections between our everyday food choices, genetically modified organisms, animal cruelty, and the corporate power structure. His workshop immediately followed the New York City March Against Monsanto. This edit contains no profanity. From Wikipedia: Michael Zezima (known as Mickey Z) is a writer, editor, blogger and novelist living in New York City. He writes a bimonthly column, "Mickey Z. Says", for VegNews magazine and he has also appeared on the C-SPAN network's Book TV program. He is also a regular contributor to Planet Green, ZNet, CounterPunch, and other websites.
Other Voices Other Choices – South America and Guantanamo 5800
Video from the ''No Foreign Bases'' conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. This plenary was moderated by David Swanson (World Beyond War), with presenters Cheryl LaBash (National Network on Cuba), James Patrick Jordan (Alliance for Global Justice), and Berta Joubert-Ceci (International Democratic Federation). Episode Short Description: Video from the ''No Foreign Bases'' conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
Other Voices Other Choices – Chris Hedges – Empire of Illusion 5630
Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig.org every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
Other Voices Other Choices – 2018-01-012 NFB Public Meeting
Video from the Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases (aka No Foreign Bases Conference), held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
Other Voices Other Choices – NGV Africom – Invasion of Africa
Plenary 6 from the Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases (aka No Foreign Bases conference), held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
Other Voices Other Choices- Reforming the Energy Vision
Other Voices, Other Choices promotes non-corporate political, social, economic, and environmental news and commentary. It is a blog, a YouTube channel, and an hour-long cable access TV series.
Other Voices Other Choices – Left Forum 2017 – Reality Check SD 5830
The converging crises of fascism, endless war, climate change, mass migrations, and economic/racial/gender oppression create unprecedented urgency for united, radical action – in the street and in the voting booth. At previous Left Forums – and over the past many decades – progressives have debated the merits of working to “reform” the Democratic Party versus building a united independent radical political front.
OVOC Earl Dotter – At All Costs
Earl Dotter began his photographic career after completing his studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1968 he joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) and was assigned to the Cumberland Plateau Region of Tennessee. Over time, he was welcomed into the homes of coal mining families. He came to know and respect their culture and struggles — a relationship that continues to this day. After his VISTA assignment concluded, he remained in the area to photograph the rank-and-file movement to reform the United Mine Workers Union, then under the corrupt leadership of Tony Boyle.