The Dialogue Police
HUMAN RIGHTS: An experiment in protecting democracy and free speech, while maintaining public order, Sweden’s Dialogue Police mediate between protestors and regular police to reduce tension in public gatherings.
Extinction Rebellion
A squall before the storm
DISSENT: Following the development of radical climate action group XR from its founding in late 2018.
The three ecologies
CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?
Climate change: More serious than the coronavirus
CLIMATE: The CPH:DOX opening film portrays how young Danish activists are fighting for a greener future.
The spiritual significance of water
ECOLOGY: Fresh from a competition screening at DOK Leipzig, Violeta Paus’ short film is a haunting and lyrical look at water pollution and deprivation.
In our hands
ECOLOGY: Watch it and weep: Jennifer Abbott’s remarkable, poetic, and lyrical film about the profound urgency, grief, and gravity of climate change is deeply moving.
Hopeless endeavours down the supply chain
CAPITALISM: No justice in a world where Third World workers are as disposable as the cheap garments they make.
From ecological grief to rebellion
ACTIVISM: Extinction Rebellion is a rapidly growing climate protest movement, which seeks to convert love of nature, and the rage over political inaction, into collective action. But what is the political potential of grief?
Docs and de-powering
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
Out of control
EDITORIAL: While states eagerly invest in autonomous weapons and employ drones more frequently, we should ask ourselves if we understand the long-term consequences.
