STWR - Share The World's Resources

Made to coincide with the launch of ‘Megaslumming’, a publication by Share The World’s Resources, this film vividly portrays some of the realities of poverty for the residents of Kibera – Kenya’s most notorious shantytown.

Share The World's Resources campaigns for essential resources to be shared internationally to secure basic human needs. This striking presentation captures some of the key messages of our organisation.

The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. This documentary paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

What should be the right dynamic between farmers and consumers in maintaining agricultural diversity, self-reliance, and food grown with locally-sourced seeds? A sixty minute video presentation by Dr. Vandana Shiva.

Susan George calls for a convergence of the global justice, environmental and peace movements to exert democratic control over international politics - which is currently dominated by an un-elected minority from the corporate sector.

Edward Goldsmith, the grandfather of the modern environmental movement, argues that the planetary crisis facing us today cannot be solved by further economic progress and technological innovation, but only through the cooperation of ordinary people.

Scientific consensus now widely accepts the reality of global warming, but it has not always been this way. Dr Iain Stewart charts the history of climate science, dispelling the myths of climate change skepticism and making a prognosis for the future ahead.

In politics and business the triumph of the self is often seen as the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Adam Curtis'  Century of the Self tells the story of mass-consumer society in Britain and the US to question whether we really are in charge.

Orginally produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, this documentary analyses the origins of the developed world's political understanding of freedom - a concept so blinkered that  it has left us in a trap of our own making and is compounding global inequality.

This documentary analyzes the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against economic globalization.