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I've been feeling a bit discouraged lately, with the sheer amount of stuff that it seems to me that so many people just don't care about...even when it directly or indirectly affects them! So I'm interested in ways of inspiring activism. What do you think?

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Some short thoughts on recent push by animal activists to make polar bears "uplisted". These are not the ONLY thoughts I have on this subject and are not at all comprehensive -- but mostly I was just thinking about how divorcing animal rights activism from human rights activism is actually a specious concept.

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I had a solo protest in solidarity with the Nunavut (and Ottawa...and anywhere else that was doing it) protestors. My sign isn't particularly funny or snappy, but it is true, and it did get a lot of people asking me questions, or at least frowning and reading it. One lady who was getting signatures on a petition for women's rights shouted, "Wooooo! Right on!" 

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The protests on food prices that happened on June 9 were a revolutionary step towards bringing awareness of what's going on in Nunavut to people in the South. And the most common resopnse I heard was, "Well if you don't like it, you should move!" So I just wanted to share a few thoughts about that...and how stupid it is.

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IsumaTV Trailer 1. IsumaTV website hosts video, audio and text files as well as unique digital multimedia projects. info@isuma.tv. This Trailer's clips:… Read more

The six aboriginal Australian Warrell sisters are part of the generation of stolen children who were taken from their parents and raised in a Benedictine mission to alienate them from their indigenous culture in an attempt to better assimilate them into white society.

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A mini-documentary on Aboriginal representation in the mass media, particularly in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Produced by myself, Robin Booker and Tiffany Cassidy as part of an assignment/project for our Journalism (JRN) 306 Intermediate Broadcast class, School of Journalism University of Regina.

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In the beginning, when the world was soft, Creation beings lifted the earth out of the sea. Then the world became hard — Colonisation, slavery, mining booms. This is the story of the Aboriginal people of Roebourne — their Law, their tribal voice, their survival.

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Multi award-winning feature documentary in two parts. Made with the Yindjibarndi, Ngarluma, Banyjima and Gurrama people of Roebourne, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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Madeline Ivalu, Susan Avingaq, CArol Kunnuk , filmmakers from Igloolik, meet Alberto Cortes, Mexican filmaker in Mexico City. They discuss the process of filmaking. Alberto's film Corazon del Tiempo, is taking place in a native community of Chiapas. Also contributing to the discussion are Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Nancy Wachowich.

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In the isolated arctic community of Pitaqangittuq (Nunavut), the climate is warming at an alarming rate, but it’s inhabitants are determined to adapt to their changing world by utilizing their ancestral survival skills and creativity.

Production year: 2010

Format: HDV

Directors: Guillaume Ittukssarjuat Saladain, Félix Pharand D., Nicolas Tardif

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Video project about the Calabash International Literary Poetry Festival, in Jamaica 2007

Movie 46:00 minutes

Language: English (english subtitles)

The festival takes place every year in May in the beautiful Treasure Beach on the southside of Jamaica.

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