Coolies: How Britain Reinvented Slavery
June 3, 2008
Another exceptional documentary from the BBC. The documentary follows the recruitment of Collies (Indians) from Calcutta India to the Caribbean (Guyana and Fiji) and then to South Africa. Slavery was officially abolished, yet the Empire where the sun never sets found a way to work around the horrors of Slavery with another shameful practice, Indentured Servants. Read more
Slavery: A Global Investigation
May 19, 2008
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this there are more slaves in the world today than ever before. In the four hundred years of the legal slave trade around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Read more
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
May 15, 2008
Jim Jones, the dark cloud.
“I represent divine principle, total equality, a society where people own all things in common, where there’s no rich or poor, where there are no races. Wherever there are people struggling for justice and righteousness, there I am.” - Jim Jones, founder, Peoples Temple Read more
Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority
May 15, 2008
Almost everyone we know have something or the other to say about the issue of Israel/Palestine occupation. Often times this story of struggle is reported from credible and persuasive sources as an age old struggle between two religious groups that will continue for centuries to come. The story is told from such an angle to exclude participation from those outside of the conflict. One of the issues the documentary examine is the history of the three major religious groups occupying the land. Read more