Sam Castro is a lifelong activist, defender of the environment and mother of 3 children. She works for Friends of the Earth Australia which was recently been declared an "extremist organization" for its campaigns against coal and uranium mining companies. Sam tells us what changes pushed her to find time in a full and busy life to become involved with Occupy Melbourne and supporting Wikileaks. She also reflects on the revolutionary changes to the face of activism globally and the power shif occuring with the tools of social networking and Internet information creating novel coallitions around the need for political transparency and reform.
Samantha Castro - Wikileaks Party & Underground film
Sam gives an overview of her co-founding of the Wikileaks Citizens Alliance WACA explaing the world events that made defending Wikileaks essential. She (…)
19 April 2013
Claire Robinson - GMO Prop 37 & Seralini Study
Claire Robinson is research director at Earth Open Source, a platform for collaborative science and editor at GMWatch which tracks the global news about gmo (…)
23 November 2012
Mark Novitsky - National Security Whistleblower
Mark Novitsky is a National Security Whistleblower on Financial corruption and illegal government surveillance. In 2007 he was working with the Securities (…)
26 April 2013
Dennis P. McCann - Green Revolution Art, Activism & Anonymous
Dennis McCann is an artist and political activist living in Turkey. He interned with Andy Warhol and has had awards and exhibits worldwide. As an American (…)
15 December 2012
Stacy Phillips - Occupy Salem #OWS Anniversary
Stacey Phillips describes himself as a pragmatic activist wizened in the ways the wheels of commerce turn. He is an organizer of the Occupy movement in (…)
28 September 2012
Leah Bolger Veterans for Peace - Where the Bombs Land
Leah Bolger is a retired Navy Commander with 20 years of US Military Service, a full time Peace Activist and President of Veterans for Peace. Her (…)
20 October 2012
JD Nero - We Are Legion - Songwriter Rapper
J.D. Nero talks about the power of music and its place in educating the public. Nero is a life-long native of Brooklyn, N.Y. with a deep passion for music (…)
26 October 2012
Alexa O’Brien - Introduction to Wikileaks & Manning
Alexa O’Brein is a writer, researcher and activist. She was the founder of US Day of Rage that redefined the connection between social media and activism (…)
17 October 2012