This Land Is Our Land - Trailer - Available on DVD

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This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons
A Film by the Media Education Foundation
Featuring David Bollier

For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.

David Bollier
David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who has spent the past ten years exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He has pursued this work in collaboration with a variety of international and domestic partners. He speaks widely about the commons, and recently co-founded a new international organization, Commons Strategies, dedicated to developing and promoting commons-based public policies and initiatives. In 2010, Bollier taught a course on the topic as the Croxton Lecturer at Amherst College.

Bollier's latest book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (2009), describes the rise of free software, free culture, and the commons-based movements seeking to advance open business models, open science and open educational resources. His first book on the commons, Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (2002), is now widely used in colleges around the world. It surveys the many market enclosures of people's shared resources, from public lands and the airwaves to public spaces, plant and animal genes, and knowledge. Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (2005) documents the vast expansion of copyright and trademark law over the past generation.

Bollier has worked with American television writer/producer Norman Lear since 1984, and is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is also Co-founder and board member of Public Knowledge, a Washington policy advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the information commons. Bollier lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Visit David Bollier's site at http://www.bollier.org.

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• MEF
• Media Education Foundation
• Media Literacy
• Commons
• David Bollier

[blackiron60]

If people knew about how they are getting robbed like this every day they would resist, the problem is that most people have no clue what's at stake. If they had the historical memory to recall what the enclosure movement did to people during the industrial revolution, they would know how devastating privatization is for ordinary people.

[megacumbe]

thank you

[befranklintoo]

it is always a joke to hear the european americans complain about the lands they stolens.

[neurocrater]

would be interesting if it wasnt a polemic. does he even interview other academics, politicians, experts, businesspeople etc or does he just sit in front of a camera spouting his opinions about everything with highly selective TV soundbites in the background edited to fit his narrative?

[dexterriley]

looks interesting enough, hope the dvd comes with extras

[blankcanvasgirl]

@LfunkeyA cool,i guess i never thought of it that way

[LfunkeyA]

@blankcanvasgirl

the world is not yours, you are the world's

[blankcanvasgirl]

this makes me feel like my world as it is,is no longer mine but,stock shares to merely be divided by advertisors