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From www.uctv.tv:

The Dark Side of Globalization is the webcasts of the presentations made at the forum on trafficking of humans and human organs organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA.

The Dark Side of Globalization - part 1 56 min

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Link:The Dark Side of Globalization _Trafficking & Transborder Crime to, through, and from Eastern Europe - part 1

From Gromkov’s software:

You can convert avi to mov using free multiconversion tool S.U.P.E.R. (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer).

Step 1. Download and install SUPER: click here to download SUPER [26 MB].

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Step 2. Launch SUPER.

Select the Output Containter: mov. Select the Output Video Codec: H.264/AVC. Select the Output Audio Codec: AAC.

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Step 3. Select the Audio Sampling frequency to 44100 as shown below:

Step 4. Right-click on any area of this tool. Menu will pop up. Click Add Multimedia File(s).

Find your AVI file(s). Select file(s) using combinations of standard keys Shift + Up/Down Arrows or using mouse, and click Open.

Step 5. Right-click on any area of this tool again. Choose Specify the Output Folder Destination. Select any folder where you want to save your MOV file(s). Click SAVE changes button.

Step 6. Finally, click the button Encode (Active Job-List Files).

Done! Your avi file(s) will be converted to mov file(s) and saved in the folder you have specified.

From The Heretic posted by David Raffi:

http://freedocumentaries.org/ offers many documentaries as free downloads, including:

Votergate | Fahrenheit 911 | Control Room | PBS Frontline’s The Choice 2004 | Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death | CBC’s Dick Cheney Bio | Going Upriver: re John Kerry | CBC: Conspiracy Theories | Deadline Iraq | Unprecedented: 2000 Election in Florida | BBC: Bush Family Fortunes | Uncovered:The war on Iraq | Outfoxed | Le Monde Selon Bush | True Islam

From Fair Trade Center:

SANTA’S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China’s toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organise trade unions risk imprisonment.

Low labour costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment[...]

Watch video 33 min.

Link : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6733564947664645042

Note:

• Produced by Fair Trade Center and LottaFilm, with the support of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation’s cultural fund, the Study Promotion Association
• The research for the film is published in the report Easy to Manage and can be downloaded for free here: Easytomanage.Toyreport.pdf (568.81 kB)

[From Wikipedia] Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is a 2005 documentary film by director Robert Greenwald.

The film presents an unfavorable picture of Wal-Mart’s business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Wal-Mart executives. The film intersperses statistics between the interviews to provide large-scale examinations beyond personal opinions. The documentary was released on DVD on November 4, 2005. [ read more here]

Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices 1 hr 38 min

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External Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3836296181471292925

Review:

From Rotten Tomatoes:

[New Yorker]For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn’t have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box. [read full]

From Ide@s website:

What is globalization? Is it the integration of economic, political, and cultural systems across the globe? Or is it Americanization and United States dominance of world affairs? Is globalization a force for economic growth, prosperity, and democratic freedom? Or is it a force for environmental devastation, exploitation of the developing world, and suppression of human rights?

Globalization101.org is dedicated to providing students with information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Our goal is to challenge you to think about many of the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers.

Link: http://www.globalization101.org/

From Ide@s website:

Resource Type: Teacher Resource/Reference
Subjects (Level One): Social Studies, Business and Information Technology
Subjects (Level Two): Global Studies, International Business
Grade Levels: Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Higher Education, Adult / Continuing Education
Creator: CSIS
Keywords: Globalization, trade-offs, market economy,
Duration: unlimited
Format: Web page
Languages: English

From Ideas Website:

Selected PK-16 educators from Wisconsin work in teams to identify, evaluate, catalog, and align to the state education standards resources that are already on the internet such as lesson plans and reference materials.

These resources are then made available from the ide@s search engine. Now, you don’t have to look through dozens of online listings to find the resource you need.

The ide@s search engine allows you to tell it specifically what you need to find then it searches the database for you. You can read teacher reviews of the resources and see exactly which state standards they address. ide@s saves you time while focusing instruction and technology on Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards. Plus, you know you’re getting a quality resource that other Wisconsin educators have recommended.

Link: http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu/about.cfm

[From Digital Media Minute]

Mark this in the very cool utilities category - Media Convert is a web based tool that will convert files from one format to another. The lists of files it can handle is impressive:

MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW WK1 MDB XLS VOB

… and that is to just name a few! So now when somebody sends you a file that you just can’t open, check this site to see if they can do something with it for you!

From Herbert Marcuse Official Homepage:

Herbert’s Hippopotamus is a 1 hr. 9 min. documentary video made by UCSD film student Paul Alexander Juutilainen in 1996. It is a wonderful film about Herbert’s traces at UCSD, with great documentary footage from the 1960s and 70s and follow-up interviews from the 1990s. One reviewer wrote: “This Emmy award-winning documentary explores the historical background for the cultural encounter between European Critical Thinking, the Third World, Feminist and Anti-war movements, as well as the political turmoil and institutional pressures in reaction to these coalitions.”

Herbert’s Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise 57 min

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Review:

[From reviewed by Steve Rhodes]

HERBERT’S HIPPOPOTAMUS is not kid’s show, no matter how silly the title sounds. (The derivation of the title is less interesting than you might suspect.) The film is a serious documentary that examines radical Professor Herbert Marcuse’s fight against the University of California system…..

The documentary is set in the late 1960s and early 1970s with videos of several different University of California campuses, but with most of the film set in San Diego where Professor Marcuse taught. …. [ read full review]

Link:

Herbert’s Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise, biographic documentary on google video