Category: Video Release

New Video Releases by B Media

La Cultura Underground– A B Media Collective Original

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Underground Culture follows independent street musicians through the subway system of modern day Venezuela. Focusing on their effort to unite and form a collective to legally play on the Metro cars, it discusses their project within the context of a society 10 years after the socialist revolution of Chavez. Through improvised songs, discussions with Metro officials, and interviews with Metro passengers and rappers alike, the film provides insight into the nature of modern day Venezuela and the pockets of independent underground culture that have developed in recent years.

Revolutionizing the Revolution– A Bmedia Original

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It’s official! Tiuna el Fuerte: Revolutionizing the Revolution, a Bmedia original we shot in Venezuela is here on your very own computer… So check check it!

Revolutionizing the Revolution is a documentary short following the hip-hop collective Tiuna el Fuerte, a local community collective that uses art, music and culture to transform the barrio of El Valle in Caracas, Venezuela. Situated on an old parking lot they developed into a cultural park using reclaimed materials, Tiuna el Fuerte now hosts a hip-hop school, a youth orchestra, a mobile community radio, and serves as an example for an alternative space for the community. The space is a “nucleus of endogenous cultural development,” exemplifying the concept of local development of the people, for the people, by the people that finds its roots in modern day Venezuela.

Knowledge is Power- International Wave of Action Against Education Cutbacks.

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OUR DEMANDS FOR EQUITABLE AND ACCESSIBLE EDUCATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN MET.
—RALLY TOMORROW —
OCTOBER 7th @ PSU South Park Blocks, 10am-2pm.
BE THERE.

A Night With the Buffalo

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Buffalo Field Campaign, from Yellowstone National Park, are on a 2010 West Coast tour to raise awareness about the amazing Buffalo and their slaughter at the hands of government organizations backing the interests of the private livestock industry. There tour dates are listed here B Media ran into them at Laughing Horse Books, a local Read more about A Night With the Buffalo[…]

Ali Abunimah-Boycott: A Non-Violent Technology for Peace and Justice

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After much deliberation and debate, the Olympia Food Coop’s members came to the decision that it would boycott Israeli goods in light of the country’s continued attack on the Palestinian People. This symbolic action, part of the international Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) Campaign, will not hurt the economy of Israel (in the grand scheme Read more about Ali Abunimah-Boycott: A Non-Violent Technology for Peace and Justice[…]

Ali Abunimah On Community Media

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While in Olympia talking about the significance of the Olympia Food Coop’s decision to join the international boycott of Israeli goods in light of the country’s continued attack on the Palestinian People, Ali Abunimah spoke to B Media about the importance of independent media.

Detroit Incinerator Action

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On June 27th, community members, activists and environmentalists joined together to march against Covanta and the City of Detroit’s continued use of a toxic trash incinerator in residential areas. Highlights of the day included great street theater, a marching band, sun flowers and tree planting at Go Lightly Elementary school just blocks from the plant.