THE DROWNING

A shock finding of facts, figures and reports that unfold the controversies surrounding the Bakun dam in Sarawak (malysian borneo).
Voices of the indigenous people whose homes will be flooded are heard.

INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP

Special guest presenter Kaye Sere from GIRL TALK presents, international activist updates from the access news e-mail box.

MONDAY
23.aug.99

D.S.F.

Recently released political prisoner from indonesia, dita, talks in melbourne about her experience and the indonesian struggle for democracy. She speaks at a local workers rally about the importance of unionizing and forging international links.

CHAINS OF DEBT

The Jubilee 2000 campaign calls for the cancellation of debts to the IMF/world bank for the world's poorest countries for the year 2000. This video highlights the issues of 3rd world debt.

WWW.GODLOVESFAGS.COM

christian anti-gay-and-lesbian group, the westboro baptist churh from the USA, have been picketing gay and lesbian events for the last few years, including the funeral of matthew shepherd (who had been kidnapped and murdered by gay-bashers late last year). Their hate-site, godhatesfags.com on the internet got a free lavender redecoration by queer cyber-activists and godlovesfags.com

SPECIAL REPEAT screening on beat t..v monday 6th september

MONDAY
16.august.99

THE END OF THE WORLD

Musical look at some of Greenpeace's actions over the years cut to the tune of 'It's the End of the World as we know it' by R.E.M.

REITH'S 2nd WAVE

Interviews with Karen Batt the Victorian Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union and Greg Combet the assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions about Peter Reiths proposed second wave of industrial legislation. Legislation that will further erode workers wages and conditions.

CAFE SHOWDOWN

An animated metaphor as to what happened to Pauline Hanson at the last election.

JUBILEE 2000

50,000 protesters form a human chain around the 1998 G8 meeting in Birmingham. And plead for the worlds richest leaders to DROP 3RD WORLD DEBT for the year 2000!

MONDAY
9 august.99

J-18 PROTESTS !

see what melbourne did as part of the j-18 global protests:
kim beazley with cream pie on his face.
the snuff puppets, at the jubilee 2000 protest,
dead native animals at the melbourne stock exchange,
nike store paint bombed plus, an in depth interview with a local police officer, using a banana.

WASHES WHITER

Whats wrong with da world bank ?
This doco explains how the world bank kills people.
Witness anti-IMF anti-GATT and anti-WORLD BANK protests
from around the world.
-a global insights presentation

MONDAY
2.august.99
* special

FACING THE FIRE

The Karen are one of the largest ethnic groups in Burma, and have been fighting for autonomy from the Burmese military dictatorship for over 50 years.
This video was produced by local people whose homes and families have been destroyed by Burmese soldiers.
They have fled to refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border, near Mae Sot.
Made with no experience and scant resources, this documentary is a unique testament to the will of the Karen people to have their story heard.

MONDAY
26.july.99
* special

DEAF PRESIDENT NOW!
and
never before seen in australia!

from america - the actual events as they unfolded - the students takeover of the university and their demands for a deaf president.

when the students at gallaudet uni, the world's only university for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduate students, learned that the board of trustees had appointed a hearing president, they went on strike.

on monday 6th 1988, they closed the campus shouting and signing to the world their cry " DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! ".
# emmy-award winning

MONDAY
19.july.99
* best of access news

1996 ACTIVIST AWARDS OPENER

A moving 10 minutes of activist footage from 1996 set to classical music

SHUT UP AND WATCH

Montage of melbourne graffiti with, a secret interview with shut up and shop discussing third world debt, shopping and world hunger

MINEWATCH PHILIPPINES

22 different indigenous groups from all over the Philippines meet at the government Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Manila to demand a halt to destructive mining practices on their lands - some of the biggest mining companies are australian-based.

They shaved their heads to symbolize the denuding of their natural environments, dumped toxic waste from the mines at the DENR and staged a sit-in until the new head of department met them to hear their concerns.

MONDAY
12.july.99
* special

HONEYMOON URANIUM MINE

As people around the world take a stand against nuclear weapons in the early eighties, a group of Australians take the fight to the South Australian outback. This story documents their protests against, and their occupation of the Honeymoon Uranium Mine in South Australia in 1982. Produced by Friends of the Earth and featuring a young Gary Foley (pictured) and Benny Zable.

MONDAY
5.july.99
* special

Mc LIBEL

The doco the bbc were too scared to show