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Grow Heathrow blows raspberry at squat laws
Squatters at a grassroots community action group bordering London's Heathrow airport talk about their legal fight to stay on a previously derelict piece of land. Their aim is to show how resilient communities can salve the social injustices thrown up by global economic, ecological and democratic crises.
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Raising Resistance - agro-industry versus the rest
Bettina Borgfeld talks about Raising Resistance, the story of Paraguayan peasant farmers being swept aside by modern, industrialised agriculture. Is there an alternative to this age-old tale of poor and small being crushed by large and rich?
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What's the point of human rights film festivals?
The activist group Human Rights Watch has been running documentary film festivals around the world for a couple of decades now. HRW's Andrea Holley explains to visionOntv's Glenn McMahon how the 2012 edition highlights poverty and inequality.
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The Kitchen Sink Collective
The #realsocialnetwork film makers are part of the Kitchen Sink Collective. Here is Ling Lee, another member, about to start her first documentary film commission in China. http://kitchensinkfilms.com http://visionon.tv/headmix http://therealsocialnetwork.org.uk/ http://underkonstrukt.com
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QAM 2009: Subuhi Jiwani (Part 3)
On 2 July 2009 the Delhi High Court passed a landmark judgement. Sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex had long been criminalised under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
Many people continue to hate and fear '‘queers’. ‘Queer’ stands for all LGBTI people, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex, and for Hijra, Kothi, Panthi – all those who are not accepted by a society that recognises only two genders and considers only heterosexual relationships valid.
Besides, the Delhi High Court’s progressive judgement is being stridently opposed by religious fundamentalists of every hue, who proclaim that the queers lives and desires go against “Indian culture”, that they are “diseased”, and so on. Yet we have always been a part of society, and we have the same rights to equality and dignity that belong to every individual in this democracy.
The Queer wish to place our main demands before our government and our society:
* The 377 case will now be heard in the Supreme Court, hence our demand for this law to be read down continues.
* The Constitution must include provisions to deal with all discrimination on the grounds of sexuality or gender.
*Those amonst us who are transgendered are not recognised by society. Equal citizenship rights and opportunities should be extended to all who do not fit into either of the two categories of male and female.
* The medical establsihment must be made aware of the reality of our lives and our needs, and cease all insensitive and cruel attempts to ‘cure’ us.
* Every individual is under tremendous pressure to marry a person of the opposite sex, as marriage is seen as a must in our society. We are launching a campaign against all such forced marriages.
* We call for an end to homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. We want freedom from violence and hate within families, in educational institutions, at places of work and in public spaces. We especially demand that fundamentalist forces stop abusing us and poisoning people’s minds against us.
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