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Tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida are asking Publix Supermarkets for fair wages and to take a stand against slavery practices in the fields.

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Reclaim the Fields: food sovereignty, local production and consumption, urban gardening, self sufficiency and more.

Video from Copenhagen, December 2009 during COP15. Shot by Kelly Benjamin ~ Download

Audio recorded 12.14.09 in Christiania, Copenhagen.
Pictures and video by Kelly Benjamin

Discussion of tactics of dissent and the reason that some of the delegates will be walking out of the conference.

Two days before a major action to shut down disastrous UN climate
negotiations in Copenhagen, Naomi Klein addresses a large crowd of
climate justice activists in Christiania.

Vandana Shiva delivers an important message about the lies we are being told by the coprorations and what we can do to improve our fucked lives at COP15 Climate Justice March Copenhagen 12.12.2009 ~ DOWNLOAD

Vandana Shiva at COP15 Climate Justice March Copenhagen 12.12.2009

Video for Tampa's Then And Than originally screened with live soundtrack at the Sleep of Reason Film Series @ 5Art. Shot and Edited by Kelly Benjamin.

MY GLENN BECK PIE TOSS FLOP

I knew attending an event that subjects one to being surrounded by hundreds of half-witted, hate-filled, raving lunatics would be an exercise in masochism. That's why I got high on the way over. Before picking up the cream pie. Because, if I was going to smush a cream pie into the face of the leader of a batshit crazy angry mob in the middle of that batshit crazy angry mob, I might as well be stoned. Some people operate better that way, especially when faced with the enormous stress of knowing that whenever their idiotic hero, their savior from such scourges as healthcare for the poor, mysterious "czars", and intelligent dialogue gets a cream pie to the face, someone was most certainly going to get their ass kicked.

But it was worth it I kept telling myself. Because if there is any son of a bitch in this country that deserves to get a pie tossed in his ugly, racist, fear mongering, hate-spewing mug, it's Glenn Beck. I was shocked no one had done it sooner. This is a guy whose made a career out of scaring the hell out of people, lying to them, and playing on their lowest emotions. A guy who feeds on the bigotry, ignorance, and xenophobia of poor American couch potatoes and whips it into a reactionary bloodlust. A guy who occasionally has to remind his followers NOT to go out and kill people (just yet) out of ...

Footage from the G20 protests in Pittsburgh, PA, September 2009. from the cameras of Kelly Benjamin, Nigel Parry, GInfinity, Glass Bead, and other independent video folks. The views expressed are the artist's alone and are not meant to condone violence against law enforcement. RIP J Dilla!