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05/09/2025

For those in the USA: URGENT: Help Save 20 Million Acres of Wild Lands!
The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is Congress's most powerful conservation bill—but it needs YOUR voice now. It protects grizzlies, wolves, salmon, elk, and more across 5 states.

📢 Tell your legislators: Co-sponsor NREPA NOW!
Nature can’t wait.

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is the most comprehensive and ecologically defensible legislation currently before Congress. The Act was f

03/24/2025

18 March 2025, we remembered President F.W. de Klerk, one of the few deserving Nobel Peace Prize Winners, on what would have been his 89th birthday. In 2015, we were privileged to explore de Klerk’s complicated legacy in a feature documentary as the last apartheid leader who led the dismantling of his own white minority regime in South Africa. His 4 years of bringing South Africa to a multiracial democracy with equality for all is a lesson in conflict resolution and diplomacy.
At a time when historical revisionism is at its peak and threatens to distort the past, it is more important than ever to seek an informed understanding of the challenges de Klerk and Mandela faced as they worked to rectify centuries of injustice.
This is a crucial documentary to start with if you want to educate yourself on their struggles and achievements.

We are proud of our new partnership with Villon Films Vancouver to make this film available for world educational distribution.






What people have said:

“Riveting...A fascinating account of the man who lead with Nelson Mandela South Africa’s complex transition to democracy”. “- Justice Richard Goldstone, Head of the Goldstone Commission
“Astutely compelling historical biography - Highly Recommended !”Caron Knauer - Educational Media Review Online
Brilliant..effortlessly and brilliantly tells of a story many overlooked. President FW de Klerk played an important role in the undoing of Apartheid in South Africa.”
- John Cole-Morgan, The South African
“Extraordinary...powerful...fascinates. His teaming with Mandela unleashed a wave of right-wing violence”
- Ernest Hardy, The Village Voice

03/24/2025

18 March 2025, we remembered President F.W. de Klerk, one of the few deserving Nobel Peace Prize Winners, on what would have been his 89th birthday. In 2015, we were privileged to explore de Klerk’s complicated legacy in a feature documentary as the last apartheid leader who led the dismantling of his own white minority regime in South Africa. His 4 years of bringing South Africa to a multiracial democracy with equality for all is a lesson in conflict resolution and diplomacy.
At a time when historical revisionism is at its peak and threatens to distort the past, it is more important than ever to seek an informed understanding of the challenges de Klerk and Mandela faced as they worked to rectify centuries of injustice.

This is a crucial documentary to start with if you want to educate yourself on their struggles and achievements.

We are proud of our new partnership with Villon Films Vancouver to make this film available for world educational distribution.






What people have said:

“Riveting...A fascinating account of the man who lead with Nelson Mandela South Africa’s complex transition to democracy”. “- Justice Richard Goldstone, Head of the Goldstone Commission

“Astutely compelling historical biography - Highly Recommended !”Caron Knauer - Educational Media Review Online

Brilliant..effortlessly and brilliantly tells of a story many overlooked. President FW de Klerk played an important role in the undoing of Apartheid in South Africa.”
- John Cole-Morgan, The South African

“Extraordinary...powerful...fascinates. His teaming with Mandela unleashed a wave of right-wing violence”
- Ernest Hardy, The Village Voice

03/13/2025

Frightening!
"Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data"

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

03/08/2025

I love London!

02/13/2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-walls-combat-urban-biodiversity.html

Plant-covered facades help cool urban areas and provide habitats for plants, birds, insects and other organisms. An international team of researchers has drawn this conclusion after systematically comparing green walls, bare walls, and natural cliffs.

02/12/2025

My reaction to Sisi canceling his visit to the WH because of Trump's Gaza statements. Sisi is pulling a power move that Trump wasn’t expecting. If more leaders took a stand like Sisi, Trump would think twice before taking reckless decisions. Trump knows his Gaza plan is ludicrous but he's testing the waters. What can I get away with? It's a funny "bully first and see" game for him. He has no respect for those who always agree with him. Imagine if MBS, Erdogan, and Sisi (and others) said no is no, let's
work for a comprehensive peace plan instead? He would agree with them. Masha Gessen’s recent article, “The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump,” discusses the dangers of complacency and the normalization of Trump’s actions. She points to all the CEOs (Zuckerberg, etc.) who acquiesced in advance to Trump's extreme ideological shift without even being forced to take any action, but also to foreign leaders, seeking favorable relations with the U.S while overlooking and/or excusing Trump’s undemocratic actions (Panama, Gaza, Canada, Greenland etc.).
A must read!

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

02/10/2025

Exactly 25 years ago this month, FW de Klerk stood before the South African Parliament and made history. His speech on February 2, 1990, unbanned the ANC, announced the release of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, and set South Africa on an irreversible course toward democracy. It was the start of the end of apartheid—a brutal system of racial oppression—and a bold step toward the inclusive, diverse nation the South African nation is continuing to build today.
We made a short film (from The Other Man) about this famous historic "quantum leap" speech. (see video on our YouTube channel).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-BHuP5zEw

As we reflect on this pivotal moment, some voices seek to undermine South Africa's progress for more equality and humanity. Musk and President Trump have recently launched attacks against an amazing and courageous nation, questioning its diversity and fueling divisive narratives. They are doing the same now in the US and Europe. For them, diversity is weakness. They ignore SA's resilience, its triumph over a racist past, and the reality that its diversity is not weakness but its greatest strength. Klerk's speech was a recognition that oppression could no longer stand. Today, South Africa must reaffirm that sentiment in the face of those who stoke fear and hate. No country is perfect. There are issues. No roads are without potholes.
South Africa should not let itself be influenced by external forces trying to rewrite its history or doubt its achievements.
The spirit of unity that ended apartheid is the same spirit that will push it forward. South Africa is a nation that has risen from division and built something extraordinary. And no amount of external nasty rhetoric should change that.

This short piece is taken from our feature-length "The Other Man," about the political legacy of F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last white presi...

01/17/2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/how-netanyahu-misread-trump-before-gaza-ceasefire/681330/

The cease-fire in Gaza reflects another triumph for Donald Trump and shows Benjamin Netanyahu who’s boss.

01/05/2025

Rip
A good man has left us !

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18xgJ4ge56/?mibextid=wwXIfr

09/25/2024

https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/why-is-trump-obsessed-with-haiti-hes-not-the-only-one/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0S1jK1B5aB3XiCi5jVySyMgdJ68rrqGTd6sBQg0aSFO-SY0CH1HXVAbsM_aem_3ytMz6UvnNKGm5sNe1inzg