3 – The Free

via- thefreeonline https://wp.me/pIJl9-DI9

**Announcing a new media project, InterRebellium, from long-time anarchist film collective, subMedia. To support the project, go here**.

InterRebellium is an upcoming documentary project from subMedia about the historic wave of protests and uprisings that broke out around the globe between late 2018 and m

WATCH TRAILER HERE..https://kolektiva.media/w/jipJLsuANeULYQ2erZNqft

It is planned as a limited ten-part series, featuring interviews with anarchists, anti-colonial militants, and other front-line revolutionaries from:

Ecuador Chile Haiti France Hong Kong Lebanon Iraq Sudan Canada United States

Motivated by the principle and spirit of revolutionary internationalism, we plan to collaborate on the production of each episode with local and diasporic anarchist and anti-colonial filmmakers, artists, and content producers.

By doing so, we hope to amplify the voices of those most qualified to tell the stories of these uprisings, to increase the capacity and reach of anarchist media production from the global south, and to forge working relationships with new comrades and co-conspirators in order to pave the way for the further decentralization of the subMedia collective.

We also plan to translate the series into multiple languages, to help build solidarity across state-imposed borders.

The title of the series comes from the Latin for ‘between uprisings’. This speaks to what we see as the cyclical nature of revolt, and the critical need to prepare for the struggles ahead.

To this end, we plan to use this series as a vehicle to summarize the hard-won tactical and strategic lessons from recent uprisings, and to explore the social, political and military limits that participants ultimately ran up against – so that future movements will be able to learn from, and ultimately surpass them.

As we set out to begin work on this series, we are putting out a two-part call:

For participants of the revolts listed above, who would like to share their stories, or who are otherwise interested in collaborating on this project. We are particularly excited to connect with filmmakers, audio/podcast/radio producers, movement journalists, or other anarchist media collectives from each country.
For supporters willing to donate to make this project financially viable. We would like to establish a modest budget of $1,000 – $2,000 per episode to cover potential travel costs, to pay local videographers and/or purchase gear for local anarchist media collectives – particularly those in the Global South without access to quality video equipment. Any additional funds raised beyond our initial goal will go towards improving the overall quality of the series’ production value..

This is an ambitious project, and we are excited to start work on it. We hope that this excitement extends to our supporters and to future collaborators. Without you, it simply won’t be possible.

To donate to help launch this project, go to: https://gofundme.com/interrebellium

submedia.tv

subMedia.tv is a video production ensemble, which aims to promote anarchist and anti-capitalist ideas, and aid social struggles through the dissemination of radical films and videos.

Founded in 1994, subMedia.tv has produced hundreds of videos on everything from anti-globalization protests to films about shoplifting.

Our films have been screened around the world in social centers and movie theaters and have been watched by millions on the internet.

Filed under: Anarchist Movement, Announcement, Documentary, Video

Jun 17, 24

What Is Dual Power?

Video mini-documentary from subMedia.Tv on the anarchist concept of dual power. Dual Power, sometimes referred to as counter-power, is a stage in… Read Full Article

— submedia.tv

Feb 20, 24

Gaza is an Image of the Future

Long running anarchist media project subMedia presents a new short film on the use of high-tech weapons in Israel’s ongoing campaign of… Read Full Article

— submedia.tv

Dec 2, 23

The Two Decades of subVersion Riot Porn Jamboree

Anarchist media collective subMedia announces a winter tour across both the so-called US and Canada. Join the subMedia crew this December as… Read Full Article

— submedia.tv

Nov 7, 23

The State is a Racket: Repression in the Battle to Stop Cop City

New video from subMedia.Tv about the ongoing attempt by the state to repress the movement to stop Cop City in so-called Atlanta,… Read Full Article

— submedia.tv

Aug 13, 23

System Fail #25: The Urge to Destroy

sub.Media returns with a new episode of System Fail, which looks at world news from an anarchist perspective. As humanity reckons with… Read Full Article

More Like This

Anarchists in the Labor Movement #3

Final Straw: Reflections on Medical Conditions in Gaza by a Recently Returned Nurse

Kite Line: Shoving from All Sides

An Antifascist Analysis of Christian Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation

about:blank

The U.S. Government alone spends annually over $1.5 trillion on its military but hides much of that spending…

from thefreeonline on 20/6/ 2024 by Eric Zuesse at Eric’s Substack — (The Free on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline

The war in Ukraine is being fought on NATO’s (the U.S.) side with NATO weapons and ammunition, and on Russia’s side with Russian weapons and ammunition.
The majority of commentators say that, thus far, Russia has the advantage.
No one is blaming Ukraine’s soldiers for this.
On the NATO side, there is silence about whether its weaponry and ammunition are performing less effectively than Russia’s weaponry and ammunition — which cost far less.

The U.S. Government alone spends annually over $1.5 trillion on its military but hides much of that spending by paying for it in other federal Departments than the “Defense Department” so that the public won’t know that over half of all spending that the U.S. Government (President and Congress) authorize each year goes actually to its military —

Only less than half of it goes to pay for education, healthcare, and the other necessary goods and services to the benefit of the nation’s domestic population, America’s citizenry.

It is a military operation, even more than it is an operation to serve the citizenry. That’s a fact, not an opinion, about the U.S. Government — but it is a hidden fact (as that link above documents to be true).

The official U.S. Government spending on its military is only what is being paid out of its Defense Department, which is now around $900 billion per year (vastly more than any other nation’s).

However, over $600 billion more per year is spent, each year, on America’s military, that’s not being counted in the official ‘defense’ (actually aggression) figure (over and above that $900B amount).

No other country except possibly China now (in order to prepare for war with the U.S. so as to prevent a U.S. take-over of China’s Taiwan Province) hides its excessive military spending this way, because none needs to — none is so fat with sheer corruption in its military.

Even America’s colonies, such as England, Germany, France, Italy and the rest of NATO, aren’t that corrupt.

The U.S. population are gifted with a perfect national-security situation of more than 3,000 miles of ocean separating them from potential attack by a foreign power, plus only two bordering nations, both of which (Mexico and Canada) are on friendly terms with the U.S. Government.

On any rational consideration, therefore, America’s need for national-security expenditures isn’t $1.5T per year but at most only $100B ($100 billion) per year.

All the rest, above that sum, is imperial expense, in order to control the entire world for the benefit of its billionaires who control international corporations and who own controlling interests in the giant ‘defense’ firms (which receive the profits from this $1.5T+ of governmental spending each year.