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Watch Part One - Part Two "Elections Under Threat" is a video documentary about the recent parliamentary elections in Iran. Produced for Aljazeera English, the documentary shows a side of Iranian politics rarely seen in the Western media. "Elections Under Threat" portrays the everyday people of Iran as well as the candidates running for Parliament as they debate and discuss the relevance of these elections, their economic conditions and the international pressures on their nation. The documentary offers a unique glimpse into the political dynamics of the struggles for participation and democracy in a nation facing increasing economic and military threats from the United States.
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Big Noise is excited to announce the release of four new DVDs - The Jena 6 - Black and Gold - Deserter - and - The War of 33.
The Jena 6 - Narrated by Mumia Abu Jamal - is the story of hidden racial inequality and violence becoming visible. It is a powerful symbol for, and example of, how racial justice works in America – where the lynching noose has been replaced by the DA's pen. (An expanded version of a film that originally aired on PRESS TV - http://www.presstv.ir/ ) Black and Gold - re-released by popular demand on DVD with previously unseen interviews with King Tone and Puerto Rican Revolutionary Richie Perrez. Deserter - is the journey a deserting soldier and his young wife as they flee across the country to seek refugee status over the Canadian border. The War of 33 - is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman - a mother living through the war in Beirut - carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. Jena 6 Trailer
Black and Gold Trailer
Deserter Trailer The War of 33 Trailer |
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Order - Watch Video Clip The elections dominate the headlines of American media. But elsewhere in the US, far from the glare of the media, another group are fighting daily for their lives - America's 3.5 million homeless people. Despite all the candidates' talk on the economy, helping working-class families, and pledges to fight poverty, the issue of the homeless has been largely removed from the campaign trails. While the majority of homeless people are men, 41 per cent are families, and more than 500,000 are children. But things could change, with a political movement led by a determined single mother, Cheri Honkala. |
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Watch Video Clip Part 1 - Part 2 Basra is Iraq's economy – its Rumeila oil fields tap one of the largest pools of petroleum in the world, and without its revenues the central government in Baghdad would collapse. This wealth makes Basra the site of a battle for political control between the three largest Shiite parties in Iraq – al-Hakim’s SIIC, Moqtada al-Sadr’s ‘Sadrist Current’, and the Islamic Virtue Party, which controls the Basra governorate and is linked to the Oil Workers' Union. The Battle For Basra explores the power struggle underway in Basra, and what it reveals about the larger battle for control in the new, Shiite-dominated Iraq. An investigation by Rick Rowley, Hiba Dawood and David Enders with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis reporting. Aired on Al Jazeera English. |
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Big Noise teams up with investigative journalist Greg Palast, travelling into Ecuador's Amazon rainforest to take a look at the biggest environmental case in history.
US Oil giant Chevron-Texaco versus the Cofan Indians. |
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From the front-lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville - once again, Big Noise takes you where the mainstream media can not go.
Volume 2 includes:
The Ghost of Anbar - a director's cut of this expose on the new American strategy in Iraq
The Jena 6 - a report on the legal lynching underway in Jena, LA, where 6 black students face life in prison for a schoolyard fight.
Homeless Power! - an extended director's cut of this report on the rise of a new poor people's movement in America.
Vulture Battle - a follow up to the piece with investigative journalist Greg Palast on 'Vulture Funds' |
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