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Boycott | Hot Docs
Showing with closed or open captions From countries refusing to send their national teams to Olympic Games, to consumers not buying baby formula, soda and gasoline from specific multinational corporations, boycotts are a basic tool of protest and activism. But what happens when choosing to boycott can legally cost you your job?
Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence
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Gianfranco Rosi's "Notturno": Encounters at the Borders of Lebanon, Syria, Kurdistan & Iraq
THE SHOW MINUS ONE Hosted by, Bassam Haddad Dec 08, 2015 Transcript Noura Erakat (NE): Welcome to Status Hour. My name is Noura Erakat and I am here now with Naima Grace Shalhoub two days after a very special performance in the San Francisco County Women’s Jail in a Mother’s Day performance. I will let Naima tell us a little bit more about what the performance was and what led up to it. Naima Shalhoub (NS): Sure. Thank you Noura. It is so good be here with you and talking with you about this.
Gender, Protest, and the Politics of Film: A Discussion with Julia Bacha on "Naila and the Uprising"
THE SHOW MINUS ONE Hosted by, Bassam Haddad Dec 08, 2015 Transcript Noura Erakat (NE): Welcome to Status Hour. My name is Noura Erakat and I am here now with Naima Grace Shalhoub two days after a very special performance in the San Francisco County Women’s Jail in a Mother’s Day performance. I will let Naima tell us a little bit more about what the performance was and what led up to it. Naima Shalhoub (NS): Sure. Thank you Noura. It is so good be here with you and talking with you about this.
Naila and the Uprising: The women who drove the First Intifada
Filmmaker:Â Julia Bacha During the first Palestinian Intifada - or uprising in the occupied territories - courageous female activists took a full part in the movement, building self-sufficiency for Palestinians under Israeli occupation and collectively blazing a trail of resistance. This film tells the story of Naila Ayesh, a student organiser in Gaza at a time when nearly every political activity was punishable by the Israelis.
Why documentaries still have the power to change the world
What does drug policy reform in Brazil, immigration rights in the United States and non-violent resistance in Palestine have in common? Over the past few years, these movements have all been impacted by powerful documentary films.
The problem with fMRI |
On TV and in movies, we’ve all seen doctors stick an X-ray up on the lightbox and play out a dramatic scene: “What’s that dark spot, doctor?” “Hm…” In reality, though, a modern medical scan contains so much data, no single pair of doctor’s eyes could possibly interpret it. The brain scan known as fMRI, for functional magnetic resonance imaging, produces a massive data set that can only be understood by custom data analysis software.
Julia Bacha: How women wage conflict without violence
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A proven way to fight Chicago’s murder epidemic |
American cities are getting dangerous again. After a two-decade decline in murder rates, many large cities saw a sharp increase in murder in 2015, along with other crimes such as rape, robbery, assault and non-fatal shootings. Not surprisingly, popular concern with crime is at a 15-year high; a March 2016 Gallup poll suggests that 53% of Americans say they personally worry about crime and violence “a great deal.” Some cities are suffering more than others.
Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighbourhood
Editor's note: This film is no longer available online. Filmmakers: Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighbourhood follows the story of Mohammad al-Kurd, a Palestinian teenager growing up in the midst of a remarkable nonviolent struggle at the centre of one of the world's most contested cities.
Control Room (2004) ⭐ 7.7 | Documentary
Awards Director Writers All cast & crew Production, box office & more at IMDbPro Quotes Lt. Josh Rushing: It makes me hate war, but it doesn't make me believe that we're in a world that can live without war yet. Review Somewhere Betwixt East and West Lay the Truth It's pretty tough to review and rate a documentary like this. Mainly because it's taken almost solely from an Arab perspective: an Arab news media, living in a deeply Arab culture, and run by Arab men and women.
Control Room Reviews
It is easy to point out gaps in Noujaim's account. (What, for instance, about the rebuilding that tries to go forward in Iraq?) But the prime importance of this film, I'd say, is that it is not an eye-opener. Of course this change in reporting, this bilateralism, has occurred so far only in wars where the U.S. was the overwhelming superior in force. Read More
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