Curated Video
CHINA: WIFE OF ACTIVIST PREVENTED FROM MEETING MARY ROBINSON
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Chinese security guards removed the wife of a veteran political activist from a Beijing hotel to prevent her from meeting U-N human rights chief Mary Robinson.
Chu Hailan, the wife of labour activist and novelist Liu...
Curated Video
Climate activists use performance art to spread their message
Environmental activists in Egypt are using performance art to try get their message heard.
They've put on a night time light show in Cairo as part of a worldwide day of climate change protests.
About 20 climate activists gather with...
Curated Video
BRAZIL: AIDS PROTESTORS RALLY AGAINST GOVERNMENT HEALTH CUTS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 1 December 1998
1. Wide shot protesters with taped mouths holding posters with red ribbon
2. Pull out from girl with taped mouth holding sign reading: 'Protect yourself against the AIDS virus...wear a condom.'
3....
Curated Video
Attorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke is sounding dire warnings at the Democratic National Convention on a range of health issues if the GOP wins the White House
HEADLINE: Women's activist sends alarm on health issues
CAPTION: Attorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke is sounding dire warnings at the Democratic National Convention on a range of health issues if the GOP wins the White...
Curated Video
The effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker has been so all-consuming in Wisconsin that the upcoming presidential primary election here is attracting little interest among voters or political activists.
HEADLINE: Presidential primary barely registers with Wis.
CAPTION: The effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker has been so all-consuming in Wisconsin that the upcoming presidential primary election here is attracting little...
Curated Video
UK: PINOCHET LATEST
English/Nat
Anti-Pinochet campaigners - led by Amnesty International - have formally challenged the British government's decision that the former Chilean dictator is too ill to be extradited to Spain on torture charges.
Ominously for the...
Curated Video
Activists joined members of New York's City Council in Zuccotti Park Monday to complain about police tactics. On Saturday, police started detaining people after Occupy supporters gathered in the park to mark six months since the start of the movement.
HEADLINE: Council Member: NYPD 'brutal' in arresting OWS
CAPTION: Activists joined members of New York's City Council in Zuccotti Park to complain about police tactics. On Saturday, police started detaining people after Occupy supporters...
Curated Video
US envoy condemns North Korean threats as 'grossly disproportionate'
1. Glyn Davies, US Special Envoy for North Korean policy approaching media
2. Cutaway of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Glyn Davies, US Special Envoy for North Korea:
"It is important to underscore the dangerous situation created by...
Curated Video
Protest at Standard and Poor's office against credit downgrade
1. Wide shot of demonstrators from Left Front (far left political coalition) protesting in front of the Paris headquarters of Standard & Poor's
2. Tilt down to set up shot of Jacques Genereux chanting in front of the S&P...
Curated Video
Israel/West Bank - Shooting/Protest clashes
A Palestinian who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday (9/6). The dead man was shot on the edge of the Jewish settlement of Morag in the southern Gaza strip. Israeli officers said soldiers guarding the settlement opened fire on...
Curated Video
Daughter of jailed former Ukranian PM says her mother is calling for mass turnout at protests on Sunday
The daughter of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said her mother is calling for a mass turnout for planned protests by opposition supporters on Sunday, December 15.
Rallies on the previous two Sundays drew hundreds...
Curated Video
UK: SHELL OIL COMPANY DENY ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE IN NIGERIA
English/Nat
The giant oil company Shell on Friday denied allegations that its own security personnel arrested and tortured two Ogoni campaigners in Nigeria.
The two are among 19 members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni...
Curated Video
Facebook adds option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender
Social media giant Facebook on Thursday introduced further gender options to its users, beyond the conventional male or female.
The social media giant is adding about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender, as well as...
Curated Video
Mother visits site where son shot by Israeli army
1. Wide shot Rafah street
2. Jacqueline Hurndall with Palestinian children saved by her son, Thomas Hurndall
3. Jacqueline Hurndall with Israeli tank in distance
4. Parents of Thomas Hurndall with British embassy officials
5. Crowds...
Curated Video
Activists and health industry workers rally against free trade pact with EU
1. Protesters walking and chanting, poster reads (English) "Europe! Hands off our medicine"
2. Mid of a protester shouting into a megaphone (Hindi) "We don't want - European Commission"
3. Various of protesters chanting (Hindi) slogans...
Curated Video
Interviews with US activists camped outside Guantanamo Bay
Havana - December 13, 2005
1. Wide shot exterior Martin Luther King (MLK) Centre in Havana
2. American activists walking in the centre
3. Activists with journalists inside church at MLK Centre
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jackie Allen,...
Curated Video
Carter Centre to observe Nepali elections planned for later this year
1 Former US President Jimmy Carter arriving at news conference
2. Mid shot Carter seated with officials from the Carter Centre
3. Wide shot news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:
"I have been...
Curated Video
SERBIA: BELGRADE: POLICE STOP ACTIVISTS PAINTING FOOTPRINTS
English/Nat
Belgrade police on Thursday prevented young Democratic Party activists from painting red footsteps in front of the Federal parliament building.
It would have been a bold attempt to show a way for Yugoslav President Slobodan...
Curated Video
Hundreds protest against violence toward women and children
1. Low angle of protester in bloodied clothes lying in street near prime minister's house to protest against violence against women and children
2. Close of protesters
3. Various of protesters acting out different acts of violence...
Curated Video
PHILIPPINES: ACTOR MARTIN SHEEN POVERTY FACT FINDING MISSION
Tagalog/Eng/Nat
American actor and activist Martin Sheen on Thursday urged the Philippine government to respect the rights of slum dwellers and halt violent evictions.
Sheen is in Manila as head of a fact-finding mission looking into...
Curated Video
In one of his last speeches, Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Federal Reserve's willingness to make "tough but necessary decisions" was one of its greatest assets over the last 100 years. (Dec. 16)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus002592
Joined by his two predecessors, Ben Bernanke marked the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve by reflecting on the bold actions past chairmen have had to take in the best interest of the...
Curated Video
Bush comment, with new OAS chief, Venezuela politician
1. Wide exterior White House entrance
2. Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza entering White House
3. Insulza with officials after leaving White House
4. Bush entering presser
5. Pan from reporters...
Curated Video
Activists dump vodka outside Russian consulate in protest new anti-gay laws in Russia
New York, US - 31 July 2013
1. Pan of protestors pouring vodka into the street outside Russian Consulate
2. Mid of vodka being poured into the street as seen from a ground level view
3. Pan from Russian Consulate to protestors
4....
Curated Video
Anti-globalisation protest by Far Right disrupted by feminist activists
1. Mid of policeman and far right protesters clashing
2. Mid of policeman arresting protester, zoom out
3. Wide of FEMEN activists hanging a banner from the Hotel Regina reading (English) "Sextermination for Nazism"
4. Various of...