The Corporation
If you haven’t seen The Corporation yet and you’re keen, Google Video has the entire film available streaming on-line.
More info on Mark Achbar and The Corporation.
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CitizenShift
Updates from the basement, courtesy of the CITIZENShift team.Archive of December, 2005
49 small steps for (hu)man kind…one large step for food security
Forty-nine activists who are opposed to genetically modified crops in France beat out Monsanto, the multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation, who took them to court for the destruction of GM maize crops. Published on Yahoo News on December 9th, this is a great victory for those battling against the spread of GM crops, and fighting for farmer´s rights to save seed. More on the issue of food security can be explored on CitizenShift in the Diversidad dossier.
Seeing that Monsanto can’t keep grassroots activists and farmers out of court…check out also, an audio interview with Percy Schmeiser on CitizenShift.
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Ziggy, coffee and homosexuality
It´s Sunday, 10:30 am, and I´m home with my canine buddy, Ziggy, after a beautiful walk (I walked, he ran) at the Maisonneuve park facing our beloved Olympic stadium. Is that thing still up for sale?
Now, post coffee, I was thinking about the filmmaking/ videomaking workshop I gave to a young group in Kingston Ontario a couple of weeks ago. Their task – to make a short video on the topic of ‘homophobia and/or bullying´ which will be viewed at the Reelout film festival. It was fascinating to see how images of ‘suicide´ factored into three out of the four videos made. I was disturbed that so much violence was on the minds of these young people… and then it occurred to me that I too made a ‘suicide´ film at that age!
Clearly, no matter how far we have come with our openness toward homosexuality, the struggle of living with homophobia (internally or socially) is still an issue that needs to be addressed and taken very seriously.
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Video Blogger vs. veteran bloggers
A bunch of us from CITIZENShift went to find out what a face-to-face meeting about videoblogging would be all about. It was held at La Cabane, a local bar on St. Laurent… turns out it involves a little bit of inebriation and a lot of in-your-face cameras.
Brett Gaylor showed us his videoblog Etherworks while Ile Sans Fil founding member and local technovangelist (Brett’s description - and quite accurate!) Michael Lenczner used his 1-minute video camera to videoblog himself.
In the meantime, the Montreal bloggers YULBLOG filed in - veterans of beer and blog, ready to make fun of the newbies, joking ‘Are you Web 2.0?’ Their claim to fame is that they’re the first bloggers in the world to meet up in real life. They say they’ve been drunkenly talking about their blogs for years (Can’t remember how many - guys, can one of you fill me in? - Can’t find the info on your blog.)
Anyhow, the night was fun.
Find out more about videoblogging at Wikipedia. - And watch for videoblogging coming to CITIZENShift soon!
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the yukon
i was recently blessed with the amazing opportunity to visit Whitehorse in the Yukon to do some outreach ‘work’ for CitizenShift.
you see, soon i will be ’shifting’ out west (vancouver) and will be continuing my work with the project out of the Pacific & Yukon branch. so, this was a grand chance to meet the northwesterners, both from vancouver and the Yukon film community.
the event that brought us all together was organized by the NFB Pacific Yukon Centre and the Yukon Film & Sound Commission, for the Filmmakers Forum and 2nd Northern Sights competition.
more to come soon. for now i will leave you with an image of a caribou, at the yukon wildlife preserve
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CITIZENShift in Montreal Mirror
Undue process Canada´s alarmist post-9/11 legislation will be given another careful look coast to coast, and it´s all starting here. Measuring Security Measures, presented by überculture collective and the National Film Board´s CitizenShift, is a nationwide series of screenings and talks that aims to give a detailed and human account of the effects of Canada´s so-called “anti-terrorism” legislation. “Everybody is thinking of civil liberties in times like these,” says Patricia Kearns, coordinator of outreach and marketing for CitizenShift. “I think what happens is we forget that these kinds of practices and policies are here to stay. They´re put into place and then they become the rule of law.” The inaugural event will be held October 17, 7 p.m. at Concordia (1455 de Maisonneuve W., H-110). After the screenings, issues of media and legislation will be explored by panelists Yasmin Jiwani, a Concordia professor of Communication Studies, and Julius Grey, a Montreal lawyer and McGill law professor. The event will be introduced by Adil Charkaoui, who will leave promptly thereafter because of the curfew conditions of his security certificate. For more information, check out: citizen.nfb.ca and www.uberculture.org. — Jason Gondziola
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About this blog
Updates from the basement, courtesy of the CITIZENShift team.
Blog Authors
Eve B. St-CyrMontrealer in her mid-twenties. Freelance journalist and photographer, with an interest in human rights and sustainable living. Has a cheerful disposition.
KathleenKathleen Jayme is a film production student at the University of British Columbia and is currently interning at CITIZENShift in Vancouver.
Laura GlowackiFrom Winnipeg, I now live and study in Montreal. I really, really like sci fi television and tobaggonning. I intern here at CitizenShift.
ryanRyan Spence is a Montreal based filmmaker/editor working primarily in documentary and independent fiction.
timTim McSorley is CITIZENShift's podcast coordinator and freelance journalist. He's also a contributor to CKUT radio and The Dominion newspaper.
TyneshaTynesha is CITIZENShift's summer intern from Concordia University's Communication department (Mtl., QC). Brimming with interests, she states "I enjoy school, I sing in a choir and I am also involved in community radio and volunteer work with youth. In the future, I look forward to developing a company that merges my three great passions in sound, community engagement, and music."
widgeDavid Widgington was the event coordinator for the Citizen Media Rendez-vous 2010 (http://citizen-media.ca). He is a mobile journalist (MoJo) who is well-versed in community radio, video and print and web-based media practices. He has a particular interest these days with diaspora communities returning to Southern Sudan since the end of the war. He is script-writing a documentary project on the subject. (http://southsudaninfo.net).
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