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some of you will remember Jason and Leigh Morfoot (aka Kinobserver) from their "Capital" film project, centered on the IMF conference and protests in DC many years ago.

for the past few years, thy've been working on a documentary film about copyright, how it's changing in light of digital/networked technologies, and the implications for our culture. from their web site: "CITIZEN 3.0 explores the relationship between media, technology, culture and democracy through the lens of copyright law."

recently, i helped them publish the entire film on their web site. check it out!

i'd never heard of him or his book before, but David Korten spoke some salient sanity on Democracy Now! today. the book is called Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth and at first glance it sounds great.

from today's DN:

i've been reading an incredible book called The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler. the subtitle is "How social production transforms markets and freedom". the title is obviously a reference to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which is the original "liberal" in "neoliberal" -- the bible of modern free-marketism.

[img_assist|nid=244|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=350|height=233]A video I collaborated on with classmates Charlie Chester and Chuck Moss dealing with GW Bush's presidency. Footage included from October 26th anti-war demonstration in D.C.

Watch the video

it's been ages (months) since i read this one, but i've been meaning to give it a quick write-up...

the book was written in 2002 by Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank, and president Clinton's chief economic advisor. i thought it would be a good way to get an alternate view of "globalization", one from an establishment perspective. i was surprised, then, that the book read like 250 pages of IMF-bashing.