The Amandla! Film That Matter Series, 2012 Here is a taste of just some of the films we’ve got lined up for the first quarter of the year. These films are screened every fortnight at the AIDC. Check out our Facebook page for more information @Amandla! Media. TAC:...
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The too-many-people myth | by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
As the number of humans on the planet reaches 7 billion, Ian Angus and Simon Butler, authors of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis, look at the persistent idea that overpopulation is the major cause of environmental destruction. The...
What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1% ? | by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% This article, published today on the environmental website...
What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1% ? | by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% This article, published today on the environmental website...
Occupy Wall Streeters are right about skewed economic rewards in the United States | by Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel
The Occupy Wall Street movement has captured much the nation’s attention with a clear message: A U.S. economy driven by the interests of business and the wealthy has generated increasingly unequal economic outcomes where the top 1 percent did exceptionally well but...
Interview with Khalid Shamis | by Andre Marais
The documentary Imam and I by Khalid Shamis was screened at the beginning of June at the Encounters Film Festival in Cape Town. Shamis is the grandson of the film’s protagonist, Imam Haron. He talks here about this six-year-long project, his portrait of the Imam and...




