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What is democracy? Freedom, equality, participation? Everyone has his or her own definition. Across the world, 120 countries now have at least the minimum trappings of democracy—the freedom to vote for all citizens. But for many, this is just the beginning not the end. Following decades of US-backed dictatorships, civil wars and devastating structural adjustment policies in the South, and corporate control, electoral corruption, and fraud in the North, representative politics in the Americas is in crisis. Citizens are now choosing to redefine democracy under their own terms: local, direct, and participatory.

In 1989, the Brazilian Worker’s Party altered the concept of local government when they installed participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, allowing residents to participate directly in the allocation of city funds. Ten years later, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was swept into power with the promise of granting direct participation to the Venezuelan people; who have now formed tens of thousands of self-organized communal councils. In the Southern Cone, cooperative and recuperated factory numbers have grown, and across the Americas social movements and constitutional assemblies are taking authority away from the ruling elites and putting power into the hands of their members and citizens.

Featuring interviews with: Eduardo Galeano, Amy Goodman, Emir Sader, Martha Harnecker, Ward Churchill, and Leonardo Avritzer as well as cooperative and community members, elected representatives, academics, and activists from Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, United States, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, and more

Beyond Elections is a journey that takes us across the Americas to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is democracy?

Extras include video, audio, and resource materials on participatory democracy.

Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye to our mounting crises, and a cynical one to the people who stand up against them.

Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity.

• The Battle For Basra: An inside look at the battle between Iraq’s three largest Shiite parties over control of the city that taps most of Iraq’s oil wealth. (16 min)
• New Orleans: Man-Made Disaster: The hundreds who died here were not killed by the storm—they were left for days to drown as floodwaters rose around them. And today, the storm isn't what's keeping most of the city's former residents from returning home. (26 min)
• Iran: Elections Under Threat: A unique glimpse into the political dynamics of the struggles for participation and democracy in a nation facing increasing economic and military threats from the United States. (21 min)
• Chevron/Texaco Vs. The Rainforest: Big Noise teams up with investigative journalist Greg Palast, traveling into Ecuador's Amazon rainforest to take a look at the biggest environmental case in history. (13 min)
• Winter Soldier: 5 years into the war in Iraq, there is no end in sight. 200 US soldiers meet outside of Washington DC, sharing first-hand accounts of the war on the ground and the growing GI resistance movement. (30 min)

Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity.

Dispatches 01 collects 72 minutes of radical investigations, analysis and on the ground video from the Big Noise team working on four continents.

• Reconstructing Jihad: Israel’s July War destroyed 130,000 homes and created 1 million refugees but failed to defeat Hezballah. The next phase of the struggle is Hezballah’s race to rebuild its southern stronghold. (14 min)
• The Other Campaigns: Multibillionaire Carlos Slim and the guerrilla leader Subcomandante Marcos are facing off in the struggle between the Mexico above and the Mexico below. (15 min)
• Goldfinger: Big Noise and investigative reporter Greg Palast unmask “Vulture Funds”—debt speculators who are taking millions from the world’s poorest countries. (12 min)
• World Bank Famine: 800,000 children face starvation in Niger, but activists say the famine is not caused by drought—it was caused by 20 years of structural adjustment programs. (5 min)
• It’s The Oil Stupid: Big Noise and investigative reporter Greg Palast meet with President Chavez in a look at Latin America’s Oil Superpower and the “New Latin America.” (11 min)
• Mexican Election Fraud: Big Noise and investigative reporter Greg Palast uncover blatant fraud in the right wing’s come-from-behind presidential victory. (15 min)

Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye to our mounting crises and a cynical one to the people who stand up against them.

Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this time of violence.

• Return of the Warlords
  Afghanistan’s most notorious warlord is back—at the invitation of the president. Karzai hails his warlord allies as national heroes, but what does their return to political prominence mean for Afghan democracy? (21 min)
• Curveball
  Six years into a disastrous war in Iraq, stories have emerged about a staggeringly incompetent pre-war intelligence effort that got nearly everything wrong. . . but the truth is much more troubling. (21 min)
• Broke Down in Motor City
  Detroit was once the epicenter of American industry. Today, it is a city in crisis. Broke Down in Motor City is the story of this crisis, and of the people fighting to save their homes and their city. (21 min)
• The Continuing Occupation
  As the American occupation grinds on, Iraq remains in ruins, with over 1 million dead and 4 to 6 million refugees who have not begun to return home. How did the occupation turn into this, and what went wrong? (10 min)

From the front lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville—Dispatches 02 takes you where the mainstream media cannot go.

• The Ghost Of Anbar: The US military is creating and funding Sunni militias in Iraq. Are they “freedom fighters,” or sectarian war criminals arming themselves for a Sunni-Shia civil war? (20 min)
• The Jena 6: Big Noise news report from the legal lynching in Jena LA, where six black students face life in prison for a schoolyard fight. (12 min)
• Homeless Power!: While the economy unravels and the gap widens between rich and poor, we look at the rise of a new poor people's movement in America. (12 min)
• Vulture Battle: Big Noise teams up once again with investigative reporter Greg Palast, following up on their report on debt speculators who are taking millions from the world's poorest countries. (10 min)

Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in Iraq to convention protests and election fraud in the US.

The reports from Iraq were made with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and originally aired on Al Jazeera English.

• Beyond the Wall: Inside the Sadr Movement in Iraq
  After a US and Iraqi military campaign, the armed Shiite resistance melted away from the street. We go behind the wall is Sadr City to discover the fate of the Mehdi Army, and the state of the fight for Iraq’s future. (21 min)
• Re-Awakening Saddam’s Tribal Strategy
  The US is reconstituting the tribal elite Saddam used to run the country. But will it be able to maintain the delicate balance between the Sunni “Awakening” militias and the Shiite government? (21 min)
• The Detention Imperative: An Inside Look at the US Detention System in Iraq
  Few American institutions affect the lives of ordinary Iraqis more directly and profoundly than the US detention system. But once Iraqis are swept up in the system, there is no clear way out. (21 min)
• Breaking with Convention
  Quick, ragged clips produced for Democracy Now!'s daily coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions. (65 min)
• Election Suppression
  Big Noise teams up with journalist Greg Palast on this BBC investigation of the suppression of the vote in the 2008 elections. (14min)

Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye to our mounting crises and a cynical one to the people who stand up against them. Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this time of violence.

Jeremy Scahill investigates Blackwater's role in the Nisur Square massacre, Greg Palast tracks American debt speculators to Liberia, Big Noise goes inside the resurgent white power movement in America, and we visit East St. Louis.

• Blackwater's Youngest Victim
  Jeremy Scahill's exclusive report on the last man standing between Blackwater and impunity for the mercenary company's role in the massacre of Iraqi civilians in Nisur Square, Iraq. (22 min)
• Vulture Funds Attack Liberia
  Greg Palast travels to Liberia to uncover a scam by American debt speculators to take millions from one of the poorest countries on the planet. But when we showed up to ask them about it at their office in New York, it seemed to have. . . disappeared. (7min)
• White Power USA
  From skinheads to border militias to the right wing of the "Tea Party Movement", Big Noise takes a disturbing inside look at the resurgence of white nationalism in America. (22 min)
• East St. Louis
  Can residents of East St. Louis save their town? Or has it become obsolete - a warning to all American cities facing de-industrialization? (26 min)

Wars crush our humanity. Defeats splinter our movements. Corporate media turns a blind eye to our mounting crises and a cynical one to the people who stand up against them. Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this time of violence.

Inside reporting from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq; and domestic stories on the stepped up military recruitment of Latinos and the FBI’s use of paid informants to entrap Muslims.

• COIN's Last Stand
  The Marjah offensive was supposed to demonstrate that victory is still possible in Afghanistan. Instead it has revealed a counterinsurgency campaign in crisis. (7 min)
• Enduring Presence
  The U.S. celebrates the end of combat in Iraq, but has no plans to withdraw its thousands of Special Operations Forces and mercenaries or its “Enduring Presence Posts.” (5 min)
• Yo Soy El Army
  The U.S. military is stepping up its recruitment of Latinos. Latinos enter into the lowest and most dangerous ranks, and have been disproportionately killed in America's latest wars. (26 min)
• Million Dollar Militia
  Will America’s new tribal strategy in Afghanistan bring stability, or is it building “Million Dollar Tribal Militias” that will further undermine a weak Afghan state? (22 min)
• Entrapped
  A Democracy Now! investigation with Anjali Kamat into the use of paid informants in high profile "homegrown terror" cases. Is the FBI foiling terror plots or targeting and entrapping Muslims in America? (34 min)

In 1994, the Latin Kings—the largest and most powerful street gang in New York—became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.

With over 3,000 members in New York, some saw the Latin King and Queen Nation as the most important political voice to rise from the streets in decades. The NYPD did not agree, calling them a vicious gang with a PR campaign. One thing is certain, the City was never the same after the Nation went downtown.

In 1997 Big Noise films became the only media group ever given unrestricted access to the Nation. For two years they ran with the Kings and Queens in New York City, filming on the front lines of their everyday struggle for survival. Black and Gold explores a reality that is too often reduced to a stereotype or a slogan. Its unblinking lens puts you at the center of a complex and controversial movement.

The Nation was one of the major forces that made police violence and the prison system political issues in New York City. But from the beginning the NYPD has questioned the sincerity of the Nation’s political involvement, and has systematically worked to dismantle what they see as the most dangerous street gang in the City. Their efforts culminated in a spectacular midnight raid on May 15, 1998 when over 1,000 Federal and City agents simultaneously raided homes across the city making over 100 arrests in what was the largest coordinated FBI action since prohibition.

Black and Gold lets you feel the tension inside the movement as it comes under fire from midnight police raids and assassination attempts. In the end it shows us both the black and the gold—both the fear and violence of the street and the fierce love inside the most dangerous movement in the City. Extras include full length interviews with King Tone and Puerto Rican revolutionary Richie Perez.

Two documentaries about punk-ska band Citizen Fish who live in South West England and spend large chunks of life playing their one-off brand of music to people who don’t. Bassist Jasper takes his video camera in and out of tour vans and people’s faces along the way—and this is what it looks and sounds like: clips of interviews, scenery, gigs, people, music and ‘things that happen’, meshed together to give a wide-angle picture of a band on (and off) tour.

Underwater Overground is the new film (2008) about the further adventures of the band as they tour in the UK, the USA and Europe. Jasper has been busy again with his video camera as the band toured England and Wales, the USA (four different tours), the Czech Republic and Poland, with other bands including Leftover Crack, Sainte Catherines, Witch Hunt, Intro5pect, Prague Ska Conspiracy, MDC and Subhumans. (63 min)

Gaffer Tape was the original film (2000). Using footage from throughout the band’s history, it includes Poland in 1994, Australia and New Zealand in 1997, America, from New York to San Francisco, in September 1999 and Winchester to France in 1999–2000. (48 min)

Extras Include:

• 10 live songs from 1990–2008 (32 min)
• 2007 Broadcast from BBC Radio 1 Punk Show with Mike Davies (8 min)
• Gaffer Tape trailer (2 min)
• Underwater Overground trailer (2 min)
• Citizen Fish Oddities! (4 min)

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the U.S. government in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELligence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government’s crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand and with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for present and future movements.

Interviews in the video include:

• Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford), Founder of Revolutionary Action Movement, author of We Will Return In The Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960–1975.
• Bob Boyle, Attorney representing many activists and political prisoners targeted by COINTELPRO.
• Kathleen Cleaver, former leader of the Black Panther Party, now Professor of Law at Emory and Yale Universities, and co-editor of Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy.
• Ward Churchill, co-author of The COINTELPRO Papers and Agents of Repression.
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Native American activist and author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960–1975.
• Priscilla Falcon, Mexicana activist and professor whose husband was assassinated for his leadership in the Chicano struggle.
• Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt, former leader of the Black Panther Party who was falsely imprisoned for 27 years in a COINTELPRO case.
• Jose Lopez, Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago and long-time advocate of Puerto Rican independence.
• Francisco “Kiko” Martinez, Chicano/Mexicano activist and attorney.
• Lucy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican Independentista and former Political Prisoner
• Ricardo Romero, Chicano/Mexicano activist and Grand Jury resister
• Akinyele Umoja, African American History scholar at Georgia State University.
• Laura Whitehorn, radical activist and former political prisoner who was targeted by the federal government.

Subtitles in Spanish by Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity.

On September 15, 2008, the United States fell into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The same day, we set out on a trip around the country to ask the American people what they had to say about it. In 2010, we went back to see how things had changed. The financial forecasters say the recession is over, but the reality is otherwise.

Their stories reveal desperation, indignation, hope, dreams and a disastrous economic breakdown; chaos generated by a system of inequality. But the financial meltdown is just one of several human rights crises now shaking the United States—in housing, education, health care, etc. The solutions to “Crossing the American Crises” are in the hands of the people.

Featuring the Vermont Worker’s Center, LA’s Bus Rider’s Union, Santa Fe’s local business Alliance, Oakland’s Green Jobs Now, Baltimore’s United Workers, New York’s Poverty Initiative, the U.S. Social Forum, and American workers, truck drivers, farmers, homeless, ex-felons, minorities, natural disaster survivors, indigenous, immigrants, and residents from coast to coast—covering nearly 40 states across the nation.

The talk was sponsored by the Brecht Forum and cosponsors included the Education Ministry of the Riverside Church, Mission and Social Justice Commission of the Riverside Church, Theatre of the Oppressed at the Riverside Church, the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, and Bluestockings Books.

More than 2,000 people attended the lecture captured here, in which Chomsky offered a powerful analysis of the current economic crisis and its structural roots, the continuity in U.S. foreign policy under the Barack Obama administration, and the class interests driving U.S. domestic and foreign policy. He also speaks at length about the tradition of worker self-management as a concrete alternative to the business-as-usual approach of corporations and the government during the current crisis. The DVD also features an introduction by Amy Goodman and an exclusive one-on-one interview with Chomsky.

Deserter is the journey of Ryan and Jen Johnson--a deserting soldier and his young wife—as they flee across the country to seek refugee status over the Canadian border. As they move from safe house to safe house, we get to know Ryan and Jen—two, shy, small-town kids from the Central Valley who joined the military because there were no jobs, and find they must make a heroic stand in order to escape an illegal and immoral war. Deserter is a political road movie with one of the few happy endings that this war has given us.

Special Feature: Discussion with Amy Goodman and US Army Deserter Ryan Johnson at the North American premiere of Deserter.

Industrial civilization is devouring the planet and the future. The oceans are acidifying, whole mountains have been laid to waste, and the climate is teetering into chaos. Every biome is approaching collapse. And fifty years of environmentalism hasn’t even slowed the rate of destruction. Yet environmentalists are not considering strategies that might actually prevent the looming biocide we are facing.

Until Earth at Risk.

Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet is an annual conference featuring environmental thinkers and activists who are willing to ask the hardest questions about the seriousness of our situation. The conference is convened by Derrick Jensen, acclaimed author of Endgame, who has argued that we need a resistance movement against civilization itself.

The seven people in this film present an impassioned critique of the dominant culture from every angle: Thomas Linzey gives a fiery call for community sovereignty; Aric McBay discusses historically effective resistance strategies; and Stephanie McMillan takes down capitalism. One by one, they build an unassailable case that we need to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. These speakers offer their ideas on what can be done to build a real resistance movement, one that includes all levels of direct action—action that can actually match the scale of the problem. Earth at Risk includes Derrick Jensen, Arundhati Roy, Thomas Linzey, Waziyatawin, Aric McBay, Stephanie McMillan, and Lierre Keith. This collection is sure to inform, engage, and inspire.

Produced by Jai Jai Noire.

END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”

The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don’t have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system—it seems to be coming apart already.

But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.

Backed by Jensen’s narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen’s poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.

END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan, Steven Best, Aric McBay, George Poitras, Shusli, Zoe Blunt, Dru Oja Jay, Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, Shannon Walsh, Macdonald Stainsby, and Mike Mercredi.

First Earth is about a massive paradigm shift for shelter—building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over four years on four continents, it proposes that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, we must transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages.

First Earth is not a how-to film, but a why-to film. It establishes the appropriateness of earthen building in every cultural context, under all socio-economic conditions, from third-world communities to first-world countryside, from Arabian deserts to American urban jungles. In the age of collapse and converging emergencies, the solution to many of our ills might just be getting back to basics, for material reasons and for spiritual reasons, both personal and political.

First Earth features curving art-poem dwellings in the Pacific Northwest in Canada and the US; thousand-year-old apartment-and-ladder architecture of Taos Pueblo; centuries-old and contemporary cob homes in England; classic round thatched huts in West Africa; bamboo-and-cob structures now on the rise in Thailand; and soaring Moorish-style earthen skyscrapers in Yemen. Featuring appearances by renowned cultural observers and activists Derrick Jensen, Daniel Quinn, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Heinberg, Starhawk, Chellis Glendinning, and Mark Lakeman as well as major natural building teachers Michael G. Smith, Becky Bee, Joseph Kennedy, Sunray Kelly, Janell Kapoor, Elke Cole, Ianto Evans, Bob Theis, and Stuart Cowan.

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led the FMLN into the historic peace pact of 1992. Skirting bullets and mortar attacks, recounting a childhood of poverty and abuse by government troops, suffering the tragic loss of her daughter to enemy fire, and spending precious moments with her husband and surviving daughters, Maria brings viewers to the heart of the fight for a more just society.

This critically acclaimed and award-winning film first aired on the PBS Documentary Series, P.O.V. in 1991. Revolutionary in its making, Maria’s Story broke ground as one of the first documentaries to use small format video. Traveling with only backpacks and solar powered batteries and living on the run with the guerrillas for two months, the filmmakers were able to capture otherwise unattainable footage. The resulting intimate portrait of Maria and her compatriots reveals a universal tale of love and survival in times of war.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the film is available for the first time on DVD. Included is an update of Maria Serrano and her family twenty years after the end of the civil war.

DVD contains both English and Spanish versions

Produced by Pamela Cohen and Catherine M. Ryan, Directed by Monona Wali and Pamela Cohen, Camera John Knoop, Featuring English Voiceovers by Alma Martinez and Edward James Olmos.

In this glorious 2 DVD set, Britain’s finest living songwriters are captured live (on tour in Berkeley, CA), presenting two nights of their original songs, words, and inimitable performance.

Turning Silence into Song (Disc One) showcases a pair of career-spanning “greatest hits,“ with a suitable sprinkling of new and previously unreleased material. All introduced and contextualized with a large helping of trademark wit and dry irony.

The Liberty Tree (Disc Two) tells the story of Tom Paine’s extraordinary life, interweaving Paine’s own words, from his letters and the pamphlets which made him one of the most influential and dangerous writers of his age, with extracts from newspaper reports, diaries, letters, and other documents of the times. The songs of Robb Johnson and Leon Rosselson add another dimension to the story, reflecting Paine’s radical ideas and evaluating them in the context of the 21st century. This unique blend of words and music challenges received opinion in the same way Paine’s writings did.

Together, herein you’ll find over four hours of the finest contemporary songs, stories, humor, and observation from the greatest practitioners of the craft.

Punk activist collective Positive Force DC emerged in 1985, rising from the creative, politically-charged ferment of DC punk’s Revolution Summer. Born in a dynamic local scene sparked by Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and Rites of Spring, a handful of young activists also drew inspiration from UK anarcho-punks Crass and the original “Positive Force” band Seven Seconds to become one of the most long-lasting and influential exponents of punk politics.

This feature-length film by Robin Bell skillfully mixes rare archival footage (including electrifying live performances from Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Nation of Ulysses, Anti-Flag, and more) with new interviews of key PF activists including co-founder Mark Andersen (co-author of Dance of Days) and Jenny Toomey (Simple Machines, Tsunami) as well as supporters such as Ian MacKaye, Jello Biafra, Dave Grohl, Ted Leo, Riot Grrrl co-founders Allison Wolfe and Kathleen Hanna, and many more. Covering a span of 30 years, More Than a Witness documents PF’s Reagan-era origins, the creation of its communal house, FBI harassment, and the rise of a vibrant underground that burst into the mainstream amid controversy over both the means and the ends of the movement.

Through it all, Positive Force has persisted, remaining deeply rooted in their hometown, reaching out to those in need and building bridges between diverse communities, while regularly bringing punk protest to the front doors of the powers-that-be. Encompassing an ever-evolving cast of characters, the all-volunteer group has helped to nurture several generations of activists. In the best punk fashion, PF has applied creative DIY tactics and radical critiques to issues of homelessness, hunger, racism, corporate globalization, sexism, homophobia, war, gentrification, and animal/earth liberation, while struggling to constructively address conflicting dynamics and visions within the group itself.

The filmmakers’ portion of the proceeds from the sale of the DVD will benefit the We Are Family senior outreach network.

Run time: 69 minutes.

Extras:

Wake Up! A Profile of Positive Force DC (28 minutes, 1991, a film by David Weinstein) A powerful snapshot of Positive Force at its early 90’s peak, just before the eruption of Riot Grrrl and “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with a special focus on the role of the PF communal house.

Green Hair, Grey Hair (28 minutes, 2008, a film by Katrina Taylor and Rachell Williams) Award-winning short documentary that spotlights the unlikely - but transformative - alliance between inner-city seniors and young punk rockers fostered by PF’s work with the “We Are Family” senior outreach network.

Punks, Votes, Riots (21 minutes, 2014, outtake from More Than a Witness)

Live at Positive Force (33 minutes) Bonus performances by Fugazi, Seven Seconds, Chumbawamba, Anti-Flag, Soulside, The Evens, and Beefeater.

Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico. The film engages student activists, the effect of police repression, and how issues of identity, land, and community still resonate in the Chican@ struggles of today. Through interviews with those who shaped the movement and rare historical footage, Symbols of Resistances offers a window into a dynamic moment in history and movement building.

Interviews include prominent Chicana leader Priscilla Falcón, activist lawyer Francisco “Kiko” Martínez, Mexican Liberation organizer Ricardo Romero, former director of El Pueblo History Museum Deborah Espinosa, and veteran reporter, photographer, and newspaper editor Juan Espinosa.

Closed captions and with Spanish subtitles.

“You can’t reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.”
— Angry Brigade, communiqué.

Between 1970 and 1972, the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqués accompanied the actions, explaining the choice of targets and the Angry Brigade philosophy: autonomous organization and attacks on property alongside other forms of militant working class action. Targets included the embassies of repressive regimes, police stations and army barracks, boutiques and factories, government departments and the homes of Cabinet ministers, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. These attacks on the homes of senior political figures increased the pressure for results and brought an avalanche of police raids. From the start the police were faced with the difficulty of getting to grips with a section of society they found totally alien. And were they facing an organization—or an idea?

This book covers the roots of the Angry Brigade in the revolutionary ferment of the 1960s, and follows their campaign and the police investigation to its culmination in the “Stoke Newington 8” conspiracy trial at the Old Bailey—the longest criminal trial in British legal history. Written after extensive research—among both the libertarian opposition and the police—it remains the essential study of Britain’s first urban guerilla group.

This expanded edition contains a comprehensive chronology of the “Angry Decade,” extra illustrations and a police view of the Angry Brigade. Introductions by Stuart Christie and John Barker (two of the “Stoke Newington 8” defendants) discuss the Angry Brigade in the political and social context of its times—and its longer-term significance.

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. This feature length movie explores their extraordinary struggle for justice while incarcerated in Angola, a former slave plantation where institutionalized rape and murder made it known as one of the most brutal and racist prisons in the United States. The analysis of the Angola 3’s political work, and the criminal cases used to isolate and silence them, occurs within the context of the widespread COINTELPRO being carried out in the 1960’s and 70’s by the FBI and state law enforcement against militant voices for change.

In a partial victory, the courts exonerated Robert King of the original charges and released him in 2001; he continues the fight for the freedom of his two brothers. The ongoing campaign, which includes a civil case soon to come before the Supreme Court, is supported by people and organizations such as Amnesty International, the A.C.L.U., Harry Belafonte, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, Ramsey Clark, Sen. John Conyers, Sister Helen Prejean, (the late) Anita Roddick, Bishop Desmond Tutu and the ANC. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have now endured as political prisoners in solitary confinement for over thirty-five years.

Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Angola 3 features interviews with former Panthers, political prisoners and revolutionaries, including the Angola 3 themselves, and Bo Brown, Geronimo (ji Jaga) Pratt, Malik Rahim, Yuri Kochiyama, David Hilliard, Rod Coronado, Noelle Hanrahan, Kiilu Nyasha, Marion Brown, Luis Talamantez, Gail Shaw and many others. Portions of the proceeds go to support the Angola 3. Features the music of Truth Universal written by Tajiri Kamau.

Extras include: ”Angola 3“ music video for a song written and produced by Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) in support of the A3 featuring Saul Williams, Nadirah X, Asdru Sierra, Dana Glover, Tina Schlieske and Derrick Ashong. Directed by Robin Davey. Plus a trailer for the film which features outtakes not in the feature.

From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.

While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human story of this global conflict remains untold. The Fourth World War brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist.

The product of over two years of filming on the inside of movements on five continents, The Fourth World War is a film that would have been unimaginable at any other moment in history. Directed by the makers of This Is What Democracy Looks Like and Zapatista, produced through a global network of independent media and activist groups, it is a truly global film from our global movement.

Narrated by Michael Franti and Suheir Hammad

Jena, LA - In a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives.

Two nooses are left as a warning to black students trying to integrate their playground, fights break out across town, a white man pulls a shotgun on black students, someone burns down most of the school, the DA puts six black students on trial for attempted murder,and the quiet town of Jena becomes the site of the largest civil rights demonstration in the South since the 1960s.

The world’s most influential living intellectual, Noam Chomsky, holds forth on the root causes of the conflicts in the Middle East and talks about hopes for future social change. The renowned foreign policy critic and linguist brings the full force of his rapier-like mind and deadpan wit to bear in slicing through mainstream misconceptions—many of them intentional—about the internal and external politics of Iran and Israel/ Palestine. Chomsky eloquently contextualizes the power of the Israel lobby and the centrality of the U.S. in resolving the underlying antagonisms in the Middle East, as well as weighing in on how U.S. public opinion has shifted over the past several decades and addressing various positive directions for activism.

The Mafia Principle of Global Hegemony includes the hour long DVD extra of Noam Chomsky conversing with Larry Bensky about the media, class, and right wing populism.

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism features Naomi Klein explaining the ideas and research behind her bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In this riveting lecture and interview, Klein challenges and exposes the popular myth of the free market economy’s peaceful global victory

Around the world there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally implement their policies. They are the shock doctors. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.

The author’s portion of the proceeds from the sale of the DVD are going to the UK non-profit organization War on Want.

The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman—a mother living through the war in Beirut—carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with—the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday Lebanese, struggling to maintain their sanity and their humanity during a time of war.

The War of 33 is more than a document of a particular historical experience. What emerges is a universal story—a complex picture of love, pain, resistance and survival in the face of uncertainty and violence.

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a co-production of the IMC and Big Noise Films, weaves the footage of over 100 videographers into a gripping document of what really happened on Seattle’s streets. The film cuts through the confusion and tear gas to paint an intimate, passionate portrait of a week that changed the world. With narration by Susan Sarandon and Spearhead’s Michael Franti, and with a driving soundtrack including Rage Against the Machine, DJ Shadow, DJ Musaka, and Company of Prophets, This Is What Democracy Looks Like is the first documentary to capture the raw energy of the WTO protests, while clarifying their global and historic significance.

The Independent Media Center provided a production infrastructure for over 450 media activists during the WTO protests in November 1999. With autonomous, volunteer-run media centers operating in four continents, ten countries and twenty-one cities, the IMC represents a new and powerful emerging model for independent media.

Special features include complete interviews with Subcomandante Marcos and Noam Chomsky, additional video shorts, action guide and photo slideshow.

Two of the most venerable figures on the American Left—Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky—converse with Sasha Lilley about their lives and political philosophies, looking back at eight decades of struggle and theoretical debate. Howard Zinn, interviewed shortly before his death, reflects on the genesis of his politics, from the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements to opposing empire today, as well as history, art, and activism. Noam Chomsky discusses the evolution of his libertarian socialist ideals since childhood, his vision for a future post-capitalist society, and his views on the state, science, the Enlightenment, and the future of the planet.

Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out is a voyage into Latin America’s most exciting experiment of the new millennium, exploring the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of its participants, from academics to farm workers and those living in the margins of Caracas. This introduction to the “revolución bonita” (“pretty revolution”) offers in-depth interviews, unforgettable images and a lively soundtrack that will open new vistas onto this hopeful human project.

As he totes his camera on bus and car trips all over Venezuela, director Clifton Ross becomes our tour guide through the Bolivarian Revolution. He sweeps us through its history and takes us to its works-in-progress on the ground. These schools, rural lending banks and cooperatives weave the fabric of Venezuela’s “Socialism of the 21st Century.” They show its failures and successes, its warp and woof. Through it all runs the frayed but unbreakable thread of a people in struggle.

Extras Include: Meeting Chavez (10 minutes) and Message to the North American People (12 minutes).

Featuring: Dr. Steve Ellner, Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz; José Sant Roz, Universidad Socialista del Pueblo, Mérida; Jutta Schmitt, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida; Christene DeJong, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Roger Burbach, Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas, Berkeley, CA.

Visions of Abolition is a new feature length documentary about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement.

Part I, “Breaking down the Prison Industrial Complex” weaves together the voices of women caught in the criminal justice system and leading scholars of prison abolition, examining the racial and gendered violence of the prison system. Our film features the work of Susan Burton, a formerly incarcerated mother who established A New Way of Life, a group of transition homes for women coming home from prison in South Los Angeles (39 mins).

Part II, “Abolition: Past, Present, and Future” documents the recent history of the prison abolition movement through the organizing efforts of Critical Resistance and explores the meaning of abolitionist politics. By focusing on the collaboration between Critical Resistance and A New Way of Life, (known as the L.E.A.D. Project) the second half of the film unfolds a vision of abolition in practice (48 mins).

Interviews in the video include: Melissa Burch, Susan Burton, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Dylan Rodríguez, and Andrea Smith

Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history. Wisconsin was a testing ground for the nation in 2011 as big money attempted to undo basic workers’ rights when newly-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped collective bargaining power from the state’s public employees.

Wisconsin Rising catapults the viewer into the days, weeks, and months when Wisconsinites fought back against power, authority, and injustice. Happening months before the Occupy movement, Wisconsinites spontaneously occupied their state Capitol for weeks as never before seen in American History.

As the story unfolds, democracy itself is at stake. The government in Wisconsin looks like a circus, as Republicans invent new laws daily, restricting citizens’—and even elected officials’—access to the State House. Our cameras are rolling on March 9th, 2011, when Republican Senators attempt to vote on the bill with no public notice as over 10,000 people pour into the Capitol, occupying its halls overnight. Dramatic footage shows Republican Senators fleeing the state capitol on a secret shuttle as thousands of Wisconsinites fill the State House and Capitol grounds in protest.

Collecting more than one million signatures, the people attempt to oust Scott Walker in a recall election. He is only the third governor in American history to face a recall election and is the first to survive.

What will the people of Wisconsin do in the face of these perceived injustices? How will the citizens rebuild and reorganize, and what can the rest of America learn from their actions?

DVD extras include interviews with Dennis Kucinich and Tom Morello.

January 1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico, several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).

Zapatista is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a first world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a stand still and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever.

Narration by: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Darryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos and Geronimo Pratt.

Featuring interviews with: Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky, Comandante Tacho, David and Zebedeo, Mayor Insurgente Ana Maria, Javier Elorriaga, Zach de la Rocha and more.

Music by Rage Against the Machine.

Special features include complete interviews with Subcomandante Marcos and Noam Chomsky, additional video shorts, action guide and photo slideshow.

Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome!

A new feature documentary about the most inspirational scientist in America.

Complementing the book Being the Change, this feature documentary film delves into the life of Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory atmospheric scientist Peter Kalmus, showing how a change in life philosophy and mind frame enabled Kalmus to cut his fossil fuel use to 1/10th of the average American. All while boosting his happiness and raising a family in a typical California suburb.

In the film, Kalmus reveals how he stopped trying to convert climate change deniers with facts and figures and instead embarked upon a mission to become the change he wanted to see in the world. Along the way, Kalmus shows how he brought together his head (the science), his hands (food growing, bicycling, and lifestyle change), and heart (meditation and community building), to find new direction in his life.

Inspirational, hopeful, and doable by anyone, the message is clear: we can all change our minds and actions and live happier, more satisfying lives while reconnecting with ourselves, our communities, and the biosphere that sustains us all. And in the process we might just spark a climate revolution that truly changes everything.

Peter Kalmus is an atmospheric scientist at Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. He lives in suburban Altadena, California with his wife and two children on 1/10th the fossil fuels of the average American. Peter speaks purely on his own behalf, not on behalf of NASA or Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mary Grandelis and Dave Davis, producers of El Cap Report and Allegheny Stories, have been making films together for over 20 years. They produce, write, direct, edit, and score all of their work. Recently they made the decision to align their work with their personal values and beliefs, leading them to pursue projects that serve as tools to help create a more just, equitable, and sustainable society.

A fun workout for kids, with training tips for students, parents, and teachers

Kung Fu for Kids is an instructional program that teaches children the basics of traditional Kung Fu in a fun and exciting way. It starts with a simple, follow-along workout that introduces calisthenics and the basic stances, blocks, punches and kicks of martial arts using a kid’s curriculum. The activities end with a short cool-down routine to help children improve their balance, breathing, and mental focus.

This video features Kung Fu instructor Ben Warner, leading a group of children of different skill levels. Master instructor Nicholas Yang offers corrections to the students while they perform the varying routines.

Kids viewing the program at home get to follow along, see the corrections, and make their own adjustments.

Parents or older siblings are encouraged to join the workouts and help reinforce the simple corrections.

Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming makes a cameo appearance to explain the meaning of the Shaolin sun-and-moon greeting.

A detail section is included with advanced students demonstrating the techniques in greater detail for refined study.

Later sections offer training tips for older students, parents, and teachers, including:

• Safety precautions to follow when practicing Kung Fu.
• Benefits and purpose of Kung Fu training for Kids.
• Appropriate time and place to use what has been learned.

The discipline and focus achieved through training Kung Fu extends to everyday activities in life, including academics, sports, music, and literature.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Easy follow-along workout
• Cartoon interludes starring Shing (star)
• Interviews with Teachers and Parents About the Benefits of Kung Fu for Kids

This program is a real favorite for 7 - 12 year old kids, and parents of all ages too!

Also available: Kung Fu for Kids 2 DVD (young teens and tweens) a next-level workout.

A deeper conversation about improving immunity

Modern science shows that qigong exercise is good medicine for maintaining health and promoting healing.

Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming teaches us how qigong exercises can directly support the immune system, how to enhance immunity, and qigong for immediate and long term immune health.

In this candid and personal video, Dr. Yang explains a crucial key of protecting your health by increasing your wei qi, also known as guardian energy or aura. He posits that many experiences we have in daily life can affect your bioelectric circulation, including the energetic properties of various foods and how the changing seasons can affect the quality of our immune response.

• Learn various breathing techniques that stimulate immunity

• Understand the importance of the girdle vessel for expanding energy

• Discover the function of your hormones in immunity

• Increase and store qi (energy) for boosting immunity

Master Yang discusses the importance of mind-body exercises for maintaining strong immunity health, and provides exercise examples from traditional healing arts, all filtered through the lens of the latest science.

Contents Include:

Introduction

How to Expand & Contract Your Qi

Qi Structure: Pumps, Chambers, Polarity

Two Minds: Conscious / Subconscious

Qi Network: 12 Meridians and 8 Vessels

Girdle Vessel and Dan Tians

Understand the Foundation / Q & A

Summary of Qigong Theory

Abdominal Breathing Details

Reverse Abdominal Breathing

Recognize Three Crucial Gates

Abdominal Circles

Bone Marrow and the Immune System

Boost Your Immune System – Short Term

• Turtle Shell Breathing

• Stimulate Skin

• Martial Fire / Belt

Condition Your Immune System – Long Term

• Reverse Abdominal Breathing

• Scholar Fire

• Embryonic Breathing Meditation

Qigong for Immune Health Q & A.

DVD comes with online streaming access. 

Improve Your Balance and Prevent Falls

In Tai Chi Fit Over 50 Balance Exercises, master teacher David-Dorian Ross leads you through a simple tai chi lesson. This follow-along routine is shown in a mirror-view format with nothing to memorize. Just follow the moves, and you’ll enjoy the health benefits of tai chi, with a focus on improved balance, strength, and stability.

Perfect for seniors, those with limited mobility, or anyone looking to improve their balance and prevent falls, the OVER 50 balance routine combines basic tai chi moves for an easy, whole-body workout. You’ll feel relaxed and energized afterward.

Tai Chi Fit Over 50 Balance Exercises includes

• Mirror-view tai chi moves to the left and right.
• Low-impact, whole-body exercises to improve balance.
• A beginner-friendly follow-along workout—no experience needed.

Improve Your Health with Tai Chi

Tai Chi for Women is a simple follow-along workout for beginners. Using exercises that target women’s most common health issues, Master Helen shows you how to stay healthy, flexible, and youthful at any age.

You will learn natural ways to relieve stress, improve your balance, feel energetic, and strengthen your bones. Tai chi uses low-impact moves to stimulate your circulation and cardiovascular system, and can be used to relieve arthritis. The gentle stretching and deep breathing within tai chi help you to feel calm and relaxed

• Easy-to-follow step-by-step instruction
• Mirror view demonstrations from side to side
• Effective ways to heal and prevent the most common ailments

Tai Chi for Women will empower you to lead a healthier and more balanced life.

Content Includes:

• Introduction
• Relaxation Warm Up
• Energy Exercises
• Tai Chi Stepping Exercises
• Tai Chi Form Instruction
• Tai Chi Form - Front View
• Tai Chi Form - Rear View
• Keys to Success
• Conclusion
• Follow-along Workout

Follow-along Workout is a DVD chapter you can use after you’ve watched the whole video lesson a few times. You can instantly practice the follow along exercises with Master Helen, and skip the more detailed instructions when you have limited time.

Tai Chi Health in 6 Minutes

Simplified Tai Chi 24 for Beginners DVD is the perfect way to experience the amazing health benefits of a shortened Tai Chi form, no matter your current fitness level. The ancient art of Tai Chi is often described as “moving meditation” because it stimulates your mind, body, and spirit.

The simplified 24-posture form is taught and demonstrated in detail by Master Helen Liang in short, easy-to-follow sections. This popular form is shown clearly from multiple angles, with step-by-step instructions.

With this 6-minute Tai Chi form, you’ll feel stronger and more energized. Tai Chi is known for improving balance and keeping the mind sharp and positive. This Tai Chi form is excellent for beginners at any age, those who want a low-impact whole-body exercise, and those with limited time.

• Easy-to-follow step-by-step instruction
• Front and rear view demonstrations
• The most popular Tai Chi form in the world

The Tai Chi 24 form takes only 6 minutes to practice but offers benefits for your entire life.

Enjoy Tai Chi At Any Age

In Tai Chi Fit: OVER 50, Master-Teacher David-Dorian Ross leads you through a simple tai chi lesson. Perfect for any age, this follow-along routine is shown in a mirror-view format with nothing to memorize. Just follow along, and you’ll enjoy the health benefits of tai chi, including improved mobility, balance, strength and flexibility.

Perfect for seniors, those with limited mobility, or anyone looking for some gentle exercise, the OVER 50 workout combines basic tai chi moves and energizing qigong exercises for an easy, whole-body workout. You’ll be relaxed and breathing deep in no time.

Tai Chi Fit: OVER 50 includes:

• Mirror-view tai chi moves to the left and right.
• Low-impact, whole body exercise done sitting or standing.
• No experience needed; beginner-friendly follow-along workout.

Tai Chi Fit: OVER 50 allows anyone to experience the wonderful feeling and benefits of tai chi without the stress of needing to memorize the movements. Just follow along, have fun, and keep smiling!

A deeper conversation about qi

Understand the art of qigong, energy work, with insight from ancient Daoist tradition and modern science.

This four-hour video lesson is a rare front row seat experience with qigong master Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming. Everyone can benefit from learning why self-regulating is so important and how to adapt this into your lifestyle. You may improve your health, your business, and your life journey by regulating your body, mind and spirit.

Master Yang explains qi energy regulation through a disciplined science-focused study of your body's energetic circulatory system. You'll experience in meaningful way how qigong works, and what it means to regulate your qi energy.

• Experience how to build and store life-giving qi within your ‘bio battery’

• Learn how physical and mental energy depletes from the body

• Understand how leading the qi feels in every area of your body

• Explore the connection between the Dao De Jing (Book of Changes) and qigong

• Follow-along qigong exercises with Master Yang

DVD comes with online streaming access. 

Learn simple Qi Gong (energy work) for beginners with the most popular teacher in America.

Qi gong combines stretching, strengthening, flow, mindfulness, breath, and energy into one simple practice. Qi Gong 30-Day Challenge is the easiest way to gradually build up your qi gong practice and improve your health and well-being.

This simple series of 30 short daily routines is designed to cut your stress levels and boost your energy as efficiently as possible. Anybody can find a few minutes each day to practice qi gong, and that’s long enough to shift you out of that “fight or flight” stress mode and help you relax deeply.

After 30 days, you’ll have built a healthy habit that helps you improve your mood, clear tension, and recharge quickly every day. This series is also a perfect way to introduce someone you care about to qi gong.

You’ll feel better on day one, and as you continue to progress and revitalize your mind, body, and spirit, you’ll find that wonderful things happen in all aspects of your life.

Contents Include:

• 30 short daily qi gong workouts
• Week 1: Build your foundation of self-discipline
• Week 2: Enliven your Mind, Body and Spirit
• Week 3: Feel abundant Qi (energy) and great health
• Week 4: Express positive energy in all areas of your life

A deeper conversation about tai chi

Delve deeply into tai chi chuan theory with insight from ancient Daoist tradition and modern science.

This four-hour video lesson is a rare front row seat experience with tai chi master Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming. You will watch Dr. Yang's hands-on demonstrations of the many facets of tai chi principles and theory. Master Yang provides breakthrough insights using his physics background to explain the connection between energy (qi), power and relaxation.

Understand the cellular and atomic vibrational nature of the physical body and the spirit (shen) within your practice of tai chi. Master Yang reveals the boundaries between yin and yang through a fresh understanding of the connection between quantum physics, dark matter and his unique revelation of spirit.

• Explore the ancient root of tai chi chuan, ‘grand ultimate fist’

• Understand the distinctions between tai chi philosophy and martial arts

• Study the origin of tai chi styles and the influence of the Book of Change (Dao De Jing)

• Understand the secrets within the fundamental 13 Postures of Tai Chi

• Follow-along tai chi exercises with Master Yang

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Stay active with a new Tai Chi Fit workout every day and get an energizing workout.

The Tai Chi Fit DVD series with David-Dorian Ross includes his very best four bestselling video programs.

1. Tai Chi Fit FLOW
2. Tai Chi Fit STRENGTH
3. Tai Chi Fit TO GO
4. Tai Chi Fit OVER 50.

All Tai Chi Fit moves are shown in mirror-view, repeated to the left and right before a simple transition takes you to the next step in a  follow-along routine with nothing to memorize.

In Tai Chi Fit – FLOW, David-Dorian gently guides you through a simple Tai Chi workout with an emphasis on continuity, connection, and your feeling of FLOW.  This is the absolute best starting place for tai chi beginners who just want to experience the moves and the deep feeling of tai chi for the first time. Tai Chi Fit - FLOW is also an excellent form of tai chi for seniors, as well as those with common medical conditions such as Parkinson’s, fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, hemophilia, diabetes, or obesity. 

The invigorating STRENGTH gradually strengthens the entire body, increases your bone density, and boosts your cardiovascular performance. The workout combines tai chi, qigong and yoga to improve your qi (energy) circulation and your physical endurance. 

Tai Chi Fit: TO GO helps you to find time for your tai chi practice with three different 20-minute workouts. These workouts are portable, ""pocket-sized"" sequences that you can do anywhere.

Tai Chi Fit: OVER 50 is perfect for any age. Just follow along, and you’ll enjoy the health benefits of tai chi, including improved mobility, balance, strength and flexibility. You’ll be relaxed and breathing deep in no time.

Enjoy a Great Seated Tai Chi Workout

In Tai Chi Fit Over 50 Seated Workout, master teacher David-Dorian Ross leads you through a simple tai chi lesson. This follow-along routine is shown in a mirror-view format with nothing to memorize. Just follow the moves, and you’ll enjoy the health benefits of tai chi, including improved circulation, strength, and flexibility.

Perfect for seniors, those with limited mobility, or anyone looking for some seated exercises, the OVER 50 seated routine combines basic tai chi moves for an easy, whole-body workout. You’ll feel relaxed and energized afterward.

Tai Chi Fit: OVER 50 Seated Workout includes

• Mirror-view tai chi moves to the left and right.
• Low-impact, whole-body exercise done while sitting.
• A beginner-friendly follow-along workout—no experience needed.

Tai Chi Chuan is a kind of moving meditation with ancient roots in Chinese martial arts.

In this video, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming teaches you the complete traditional Yang-style long form step-by-step, while explaining the meaning of each movement.

Yang Tai Chi is the most popular style in the world, and it is practiced by millions of people every day. By practicing Tai Chi, you relax the mind and body deeply, which is the key to maintaining and improving your health. When you are calm and centered, your body's natural restorative abilities are most efficient.

Regular practice can benefit your strength, flexibility, bone-density, and muscle mass. The low-impact exercise has been shown to improve symptoms of depression and insomnia, and promote the healing of chronic conditions. Tai Chi is an excellent way to relieve stress, lower your blood pressure, and develop a positive attitude toward life. Tai Chi will increase your circulation of blood, nutrients, and energy throughout the body, resulting in improved vitality and longevity.

Master Yang instructs the complete Tai Chi form from the front, and shows each movement one-by-one from multiple angles. There is also a rear view of the form that you can simply follow-along with once you're familiar with the movements.

Tai Chi will develop your mind's alertness, awareness, and concentration. Most importantly, as you practice, pay attention to the feeling within the movements, so you may appreciate the profound essence of Tai Chi Chuan.

• Learn the form step-by-step
• Low-impact movements; good for all fitness levels
• Every movement explained in detail

Dr. Yang's tai chi lineage can be traced back to the Yang family through Grandmaster Kao, Tao (高濤) and his teacher Yue, Huanzhi (樂奐之), an indoor disciple of Yang, Chengfu (楊澄甫).

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi says: "regular practice leads to more vigor and flexibility, better balance and mobility, and a sense of well-being. Cutting-edge research from Harvard Medical School also supports the long-standing claims that Tai Chi also has a beneficial impact on the health of the heart, bones, nerves and muscles, immune system, and the mind."

Learn simple Qi Gong (energy work) for beginners with the most popular teacher in America.

Qi Gong is a time-honored practice that focuses on health, relaxation, energy, and vitality.

Described as the art of effortless power, Qi Gong is easy to follow and effective for improving your health. Combining gentle stretching, energy-activating exercise, simple movements for strength, and flowing movements, Qi Gong gives a complete body/mind workout.

As part of an ancient medicine that focused on prevention, Qi Gong was often used to treat our most common ailments, like stress, pain, fatigue, depression, insomnia, and much more.

Qi means energy. Every system in your body needs energy. Your nervous system and spine conduct a tremendous amount of energy communicating mind to body and body to mind. When the Qi in your body is blocked, the systems don’t run smoothly. This practice will help to insure that all parts of your body have a fresh supply of energy.

Practice these routines and see for yourself how wonderful and enlivened you can truly feel. You will learn:

• Simple stretches for improved flexibility
• Release stress, tension, and tightness
• Activate internal energy
• Flowing movements for deep relaxation and a calm clear mind

Release Your Body's Own Medicine through Movement, Massage, Meditation, and Breath

Activate your natural powers for healing, endurance, and longevity with pioneering author Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and co-founder of the National Qigong Association (NQA). Dr. Jahnke has dedicated his entire professional life to sharing powerful ancient healing traditions.

For over 40 years, Dr. Jahnke has taught a simple four-part daily practice self-healing program to thousands of people worldwide. This program includes

•       Gentle qigong exercises

•       Acupressure ‘self-massage’ methods

•       Health-giving breathing practices

•       Relaxation and meditation methods to calm and focus the mind

You will learn to release your body’s own healing power with Dr. Jahnke’s expertly guided step-by-step instruction. These simple yet powerful self-healing methods are easily adaptable to various lifestyles, many can be practiced almost anywhere—in a car, standing in a line, sitting in a chair, walking, and even on a bed.

Self-care is made easy with Dr. Jahnke’s guidance

•       Feel better right away and enjoy long-term health improvement

•       Select short or longer techniques for a personalized daily routine

•       Experience powerful results from effective exercises, self-massage, and meditation techniques

Dr. Janke also includes a fascinating explanation of our qi (energy) physiology. He uses detailed animations of the body’s interrelated systems and circulations, bringing to life what happens inside each of us every time we move or breathe.

"Practical and inspiring."" — Deepak Chopra, M.D

Tai Chi for Beginners at Any Age!

According to experts, including Harvard Medical School, one of the most effective and comprehensive forms of exercise is the ancient Chinese art of tai chi. But how do you begin? What are the moves and exercises you need to know when you are a beginner? And is it important to get all the moves right to avoid injury and receive the benefits? David-Dorian Ross answers these questions and more with this simple TaijiFit routine.

Many people believe tai chi is difficult to learn. In reality, a main point of tai chi is to discover how effortless your movements can be. With tai chi, the less effort you apply, the more benefits you’ll receive—quite a bit different from the fitness philosophy of “no pain, no gain.” Ancient Chinese medicine says that when you exert yourself too much, you build up physical tension and mental anxiety. These create a blockage to the circulation of your life energy, known as qi, which is responsible for your health and well-being.

There is nothing to “learn” in this program. You won’t have to memorize a complicated routine or perfect any movements. Just smile, relax, and enjoy this simple tai chi workout.

Relieve Joint Pain and Feel Better by Learning Easy Tai Chi

Learn tai chi movements to relieve pain in your joints and increase your range of motion and stamina. Joint pain causes you to move less to avoid the irritation. But moving less means that soon you lose your range of motion, which makes you more likely to get hurt or sick. Joint pain also makes you weaker and more likely to injure yourself from normal daily tasks.

If you’re new to tai chi, this is an excellent introduction to its moves and its inner experience. David-Dorian will guide you to the health benefits of tai chi without any routines or sequences to learn or memorize. TaijiFit programs use an easy format designed for you to simply follow along without worrying about getting anything right. Just mimic what you see, and don’t even worry about which direction you’re facing.

By using this short program just a few times per week, your joint health will gradually improve, and you’ll feel stronger and more balanced.

Experience the Tai Chi 24 Form the Easy Way

Experience the most popular tai chi form in the world with master teacher David-Dorian Ross. His unique teaching method allows you to simply follow the mirror-view movements from side to side and gradually become familiar with the 24 Form without having to memorize anything.

David-Dorian’s teaching emphasizes the pleasant and relaxed feeling of tai chi, leading to a calm, peaceful, and balanced practice.

This format is also an excellent way for those with tai chi experience to work on their symmetry by training to both the left and right, refining
transitions, and getting into the flow. Over time, as the tai chi movements become more familiar, you may choose to transition into practicing the
traditional 24 form. David-Dorian guides you through this tai chi experience while you are immersed in a beautiful and relaxing Hawaiian paradise.
Tai Chi Fit: 24 FORM includes:

• Unique beginner-friendly teaching method
• Easy-to-follow mirror-view instruction
• The basics of all 24 moves

Imagine a pain free, relaxed upper back and neck.

Most people experience pain and discomfort in this area at some point in their lives. Living in an age of repetitive motion and inactivity causes tension to accumulate in the upper body. Qi Gong teaches basic stretches and exercises to compensate for muscular tension, nerve irritation, or injury to this area.

Qi Gong, for thousands of years, has helped people alleviate stress, clear tension, and calm the mind. Through gentle stretching, deep breathing and flowing movements, Qi Gong clears areas where we chronically hold stress.

Get to the source of the problem and release tightness and pain naturally. Learn the skills and resources to take care of your body from the inside out. Use these Qi Gong practices for a tension free body, a relaxed upper back and neck, and a calm clear mind.

Join Qi Gong teacher and PBS favorite, Lee Holden, in a simple and easy to follow routine that increases circulation and energy to the upper back and neck.

• Release tension in the upper back and neck
• Clear chronic stress caused by repetitive movements
• Release tightness and pain naturally
• Take care of the body from the inside out

Blend the Flow of Tai Chi with the Flexibility of Yoga

Master teacher David-Dorian Ross has studied both tai chi and hatha yoga for over forty years. Tai Chi Fusion: BAMBOO is the blending of these two ancient mind-body practices, which perfectly complement each other.

Bruce Lee once said, “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo survives by bending with the wind.”

The Bamboo workout is the blending of water and wood. The water element will help you discover a deeper level of flow, giving you a delicious infusion of qi energy. The wood element is expressed by the flexible movements of hatha yoga.

Filmed in a beautiful bamboo forest in Hawaii, this workout will make your body supple, and your tai chi movements relaxed—just like bamboo trees waving in the wind.

Growth in tai chi can’t be forced; you must learn to let go. In this workout, you will experience the principle of surrender. This will help you extend and stretch your body and mind, like a bamboo tree reaching for the sky.

Discover the superhuman potential of your energy

Join David Verdesi and Lee Holden as they seek the world’s greatest masters to discover how far human potential can go.

Ancient cultures have discovered many secrets of unlocking human potential to transcend suffering and achieve unwavering inner peace. There is an ongoing revival of these powerful mind/body teachings made relevant for modern times.

We’ve all heard of legendary masters doing incredible feats, cultivating tremendous energy in the body, and using astonishing mental abilities and psychic powers. Imagine being able to generate energy like an electric eel or move someone without touching them.

In Searching for SUPERHUMANS, you will see for yourself all of this and more. The docuseries is interspersed with meditations and techniques to help you tap into your own abilities and explore your inner potential.

• Transform stress, fear, and anxiety into personal power.
• Open your mind and enliven your body to live a healthier, happier life.
• Use breathing exercises and meditation to cultivate your higher consciousness.    

Searching for SUPERHUMANS is about igniting the human spirit, raising our collective vibration, and motivating humanity to shift toward our highest potential.

Includes complete interviews with Deepak Chopra, Rev. Deborah Johnson and Robert Peng. 

Discover the superhuman potential of your mind

Join David Verdesi and Lee Holden as they seek the world’s greatest masters to discover how far human potential can go.

Ancient cultures have discovered many secrets of unlocking human potential to transcend suffering and achieve unwavering inner peace. There is an ongoing revival of these powerful mind/body teachings made relevant for modern times.

We’ve all heard of legendary masters doing incredible feats, cultivating tremendous energy in the body, and using astonishing mental abilities and psychic powers. Imagine being able to generate energy like an electric eel or move someone without touching them.

In Searching for SUPERHUMANS, you will see for yourself all of this and more. In addition to the docuseries, you’ll learn the meditations and techniques to tap into your own abilities and explore your inner potential.

• Transform stress, fear, and anxiety into personal power.
• Open your mind and enliven your body to live a healthier, happier life.
• Use breathing exercises and meditation to cultivate your higher consciousness.

A three-part docuseries, Searching for SUPERHUMANS is about igniting the human spirit, raising our collective vibration, and motivating humanity to shift toward our highest potential.

Includes complete interviews with Wim Hof (the Iceman), Tami Simon (Sounds True), Ian Baker, and Amanda Feilding. 

Imagine having pain-free hands, wrists, elbows, and arm joints

We live in an age of repetitive motion. From texting to typing, from cooking to working in the garden, the hands often get overworked and strained. With the correct stretches and exercises, we can clear tension, tightness, and pain through the lower parts of the arms.

The arms, wrists, and hands are the most frequently used parts of the body. It’s no wonder that these areas hold so much tension and are easily injured. From arthritis to tendinitis, the hands are prone to lots of problems.

Qi gong is often referred to as the art of preventing disease and prolonging life. Through gentle stretching, flowing movements, and improved circulation, qi gong can help bring healing energy to the arms, wrists, and hands, and it can benefit the energy channels in each arm.

In this video you will learn

• Energy-activating exercises for the neck, upper back, and arms
• Gentle stretches for the arms, wrists, and hands
• Flowing movements for deep relaxation
• Key pressure points for improved circulation

Qi gong is often referred to as the art of preventing disease and prolonging life. Through gentle stretching, flowing movements, and improved circulation, qi gong can help bring healing energy to the arms, wrists, and hands, and it can benefit the energy channels in each arm.

Discover the superhuman potential of meditation

Join David Verdesi and Lee Holden as they seek the world’s greatest masters to discover how far human potential can go.

Ancient cultures have discovered many secrets of unlocking human potential to transcend suffering and achieve unwavering inner peace. There is an ongoing revival of these powerful mind/body teachings made relevant for modern times.

We’ve all heard of legendary masters doing incredible feats, cultivating tremendous energy in the body, and using astonishing mental abilities and psychic powers. Imagine being able to generate energy like an electric eel or move someone without touching them.

In Searching for SUPERHUMANS, you will see for yourself all of this and more. In addition to the docuseries, you’ll learn the meditations and techniques to tap into your own abilities and explore your inner potential.

• Transform stress, fear, and anxiety into personal power.
• Open your mind and enliven your body to live a healthier, happier life.
• Use breathing exercises and meditation to cultivate your higher consciousness.

A three-part docuseries, Searching for SUPERHUMANS is about igniting the human spirit, raising our collective vibration, and motivating humanity to shift toward our highest potential.

Includes complete interviews with qigong masters Mantak Chia (Universal Healing Dao), Marisa Cranfill (YOQI), and researchers Bruce Lipton and Dan Siegel.

Author, historian and keen cultural observer Phyllis Tickle invites us to join her in examining the changing face of Christianity and culture. Phyllis surveys 2000 years of Western history, identifying the great upheavals that occur in Western culture and Christianity every 500 years. The last was the Great Reformation of the 1500’s; the next is happening now. What are the implications of this “Great Emergence,” both culturally and spiritually? What are the key questions and issues that need to be addressed? Where might we be headed next? And, perhaps most importantly, where are you, at this moment? Might you be an emergence Christian?

The six sessions are: 1) Emergence 101, 2) Where Now Is the Authority? 3) The 20th Century and Emergence, 4) Gifts from Other Times, 5) How Then Shall We Live? and 6) Hallmarks of Emergence

There are six sessions on the DVD. Each session begins with a video presentation by Phyllis
Tickle, lasting from 10-15 minutes. Ms. Tickle’s presentation is followed by filmed interaction with a small group. The Participant Workbook then helps your small group “join the dialogue” in your own setting.

PARTICIPANTS GUIDE SOLD SEPARATELY
The Participant’s Workbook contains all the material needed for use by class participants as well as notes for the class leader to facilitate each session; leadership can be shared among members of the group.

Phyllis Tickle, founding editor of the religion department of Publisher’s Weekly, is frequently quoted in print sources like USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, and NY Times as well as in electronic media like PBS, NPR, Hallmark Channel and innumerable blogs and websites. She is an authority on religion in America and a much sought after lecturer and workshop leader. In addition to lectures and numerous essays, Tickle is the author of over two dozen books in religions and spirituality.

Embracing Interfaith Cooperation is a 5- to 10-week study for adults, young adults and high school teens.

Join interfaith commentator Eboo Patel as he explores what it means to be “literate” about other faiths, how interfaith cooperation “works” and why, the skills needed for interfaith cooperation and the significant role that our institutions, including colleges and faith communities, can play in this process. The study's appealing video-journal format invites engagement and response.

The Five Sessions: (10-15 minute presentations each by Eboo Patel, including Patel interacting with a small, diverse group of adults and young adults as they respond and discuss interfaith issues.

1. Interfaith Cooperation in American History
2. Interfaith Literacy
3. The Science of Interfaith Cooperation
4. The art of Interfaith Leadership
5. The Role of Colleges, Seminaries and Houses of Worship

Participant's Workbook sold separately.

Walter Brueggemann, arguably America’s leading Old Testament scholar and theologian, takes us on a wild ride through the poetic prophecy of the Hebrew Scripture, identifying cultural contexts, putting a framework to Israel’s history, and, most significantly—and at times challengingly!—drawing connections between Israel’s sociological, economic and spiritual status and that of America today.

Session 1: Moses, Pharaoh, the Prophets and Us Session 2: The Prophets as Uncredentialed Purveyors of Covenant Session 3: Moral Coherence in a World of Power, Money and Violence Session 4: The Shrill Rhetoric that Breaks Denial Session 5: The Grief of Loss as Divine Judgment Session 6: The Promissory Language that Breaks Despair This DVD contains all video content needed to conduct this six-session study. Each session begins with a 10-15 minute video presentation by Brueggemann followed by filmed interaction with a diverse small group.

SOLD SEPARATELY. Embracing the Prophets in Contemporary Culture Participants Guide.

A 5- to 10-week study for adults and young adults with appealing video format that prompts engagement and response.

Each program in this series features two components sold separately: (1) A DVD with five 10-15 minute presentations (one per group), in this case showing Fr. Richard Rohr interacting with a small group of adults, and (2) a participant workbook containing all the material needed by class participants as well as for the facilitator (one each). In this edition, Richard Rohr explores five topics central to Franciscan theology and practice:

1. Atonement Theory
2. Eco-Spirituality
3. The Christ who Existed before Christianity
4. Orthopraxy vs. Verbal Orthodoxy (Living Like Jesus)
5. Mysticism over Moralism

Bestselling author Kathleen Norris provides a unique viewpoint of "what matters most."

Each of the five DVD sessions begins with a 10-15 minute video presentation by Kathleen Norris followed by filmed interaction with a diverse small group of adults. Sessions are the following:

Belief Matters: Why does belief matter? To what do we give our hearts? What is the core message of what we believe—creeds or commitment? To what extent is to believe also "to belove"?

The Bible Matters: The Bible is our collective story. How is that story reflected in our daily lives? What is it about the Bible that always seems to address our present moment?

Community Matters: In community, individualism and imperfection meet grace and acceptance. What is our part in the Body of Christ?

Place Matters: In what ways is faith set within the physical space of home, church, land and people?

We Matter: What it means to remain in God's image and to counter our selfishness by embracing the world and its needs?

Ideal for adult and young-adult small groups, Christian educators, clergy, chaplains and campus ministries.

This exciting six-session DVD study invites small groups and individuals to explore the lives of six Christian “saints” who risked all for the sake of the gospel.

Like Jesus, each of the featured leaders were change agents in their times: the Subversive Bridge-Builder, Barnabas; the Lovable Rebel, Francis of Assisi; the Tightrope Walker, Thomas Cranmer; the Persevering Prophet, Sojourner Truth; the Idealistic Realist, Dorothy Day; and the People’s Voice, Oscar Romero. Each session concludes with three possible endings, one for adult study groups, one for individuals, and one for vestries and other gatherings of church leaders. Illustrative slides promote conversation starters and interaction. It also includes a bonus resource: A Simple Prayer Liturgy for Use by a Small Group.

The program calls for one study guide per participant and one DVD for the individual or group, each sold separately.

Join popular speaker and author Barbara Crafton as she explores forgiveness in the newest Embracing study.

Like other programs, it features two components, purchased separately: (1) A DVD with five 10-15 minute presentations, followed by a video of the guest lecturer interacting with a small group as they discuss the issues, and (2) a participant workbook containing all the material needed by class participants as well as for the facilitator.

The Newest Embracing series study features Diana Butler Bass as the latest in this best-selling series known for world-class authors and commentators.

Best-selling author, speaker, scholar, and "cultural observer" Diana Butler Bass explores what Christianity may look like "beyond religion and beyond the church." In this engaging and provocative study, Diana leads a small group of diverse adults, young adults, and youth in s fascinating discussion of how, both culturally and spiritually, we are in the midst of another of history's "great awakenings."

Session Titles:

1. Waking Up
2. Believing
3. Behaving
4. Belonging
5. Awakening

Beginner-Friendly Qigong Designed Especially for Women

Qigong master Daisy Lee guides you through an easy series of healing qigong exercises for women. Qigong (energy cultivation) has been used for centuries to relieve stress, cultivate peace of mind, and improve health. These time-tested methods will rebalance your hormones and organ systems to help you to feel great.

Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong has helped thousands of women around the world to energize their immunity and vitality. Perfect for beginners and women at all stages of life, these follow-along routines are like a master class in your living room. The movements are simple to follow and can be done sitting or standing.

This 3-disc series includes:

• Shaking and Cupping for Enhanced Immunity
• Self-Massage to Release Stagnant Qi (energy)
• Tibetan Vibrational Sound Healing
• Anti-Aging Medical Qigong Series for Longevity
• 16-Movement Lotus Rises Through the Water Form
• Kwan Yin Closing Meditation and prayer
• Daisy Lee Interview

Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong was created by Daisy Lee after years of study with several Qigong masters specializing in women’s health.  This medical qigong supports holistic self-care and healing of menstrual and hormonal imbalances, benign breast and uterine tumors/cysts, fibrocystic breast disease, emotional ups and downs, menopausal symptoms, memory loss, and numerous other women’s health issues. Revitalize your radiant health and positive energy using these empowering self-healing tools with Daisy Lee.

Wudang Sword Revealed

Learn the legend and history of Wudang sword, conditioning drills, the Tai Yi Daoist Sword sequence and martial applications.

Since ancient times, Wudang martial artists have earned prestige for their mastery of the sword. Wudang-style sword uses flowing, circular movements to neutralize incoming attacks and redirect the opponent's power. This program comprehensively instructs Wudang Sword for the first time in both English and Chinese.

The sword is the king of all weapons, and to wield it requires an unparalleled level of skill. Unlike other weapons which use brute force to clash and overpower, your sword techniques must be precise, and your movements light and quick. Wudang Sword training will make your body stronger and more flexible and will increase your speed and endurance. Regular practice increases and refines your Qi (energy) and develops a calm and focused mind.

This program begins by discussing the legend and history of the Chinese sword. Next, it offers practical information on sword care and safety. The principles of Wudang sword are discussed and fundamental conditioning drills are presented. The Tai Yi Daoist Sword sequence is demonstrated in detail, making it easy for the viewer to learn. Each posture is then instructed separately with martial applications.

Tai Chi Class Specifically for Women

When you look at the balance of fitness routines recommended for health and longevity, it turns out that most of them were designed for men. They fit men’s personalities, muscle structure and physique. Fitness programs for women have often just been watered down men’s workouts. But women have different needs when it comes to health and fitness. In this program, David-Dorian Ross guides you through a Tai Chi workout designed especially for women.

Women, more than men, need a workout that both strengthens the bones and calms the immune system. Women are far more susceptible to autoimmune diseases than men, including

• multiple sclerosis, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and psoriasis
• osteoporosis, or thinning bones, which affects your hormones

This short Tai Chi routine can be a perfect daily workout for women. It promotes balance, coordination, and strength, supports the immune system, and raises your spirit. The best news is that there is nothing to “learn” in this program. You won’t have to memorize a complicated routine or keep working to perfect any movement. Just follow us for fun, and you’ll experience the healing benefits of Tai Chi.

Learn reality-based self-defense from easy to advance with Master Joe Varady PhD.

This 2-DVD set provides you with a condensed system of distilled self-defense skills and techniques, each carefully selected for its reliability in a high-stress environment. Topics include situational awareness, avoidance, and how to take action, should you need to physically defend yourself.

Martial arts, combat sports, and self-defense are different realms; although interconnected, they are not entirely the same. This video can help bridge that gap.

This curriculum is streamlined and divided into nine logical stages of training that allow martial artists as well as those with no formal fighting experience to learn and develop reliable skills for self-defense quickly and methodically.

While training in the martial arts or competitive combat sports can aid you in a self-defense situation, it does not prepare you for those aspects that are unique to actual self-defense.

The video begins with the basics, upon which everything else relies—awareness, avoidance, and anticipation skills—before moving on to building a reliable arsenal of self-defense techniques. You will progress through a series of carefully selected actions for high-stress situations. The aim of this curriculum is to improve confidence and skills in a structured and logical way.

Topics include

• Awareness skills, including situational, spatial, and environmental
• Avoidance skills to deal with fear, escape, and de-escalation
• Anticipation skills for being approached, posturing, and reading body language
• Action arsenal, including targeting, striking, yelling, evading, and countering
• Advanced arsenals for dealing with ground fighting, weapons, and multiple attackers

Whether you are just starting out or have been practicing martial arts for years, there are important self-defense skills in this video for everyone.

DVD 1: Introduction, Awareness, Avoidance, De-escalation, Anticipation, Building an Arsenal, Action!, Dirty Tricks

DVD 2: Takedowns, Ground Fighting, Weapons, Multiple Attackers, Conclusion

Develop Internal Power with Martial Arts Qigong

This 2-DVD set contains the traditional Chinese art of nei gong, the key to developing more qi (energy) and maximizing your circulation. Nei gong (also spelled neigong) means “internal skill”. By coordinating your movement and breathing, using traditional Daoist and Buddhist techniques, you may experience incredible benefits for your health and martial arts practice, including:

• Faster recovery and a stronger immune system.
• Deep relaxation and improved meditation.
• Increased stamina and long-lasting energy.
• Ability to hit with more force.
• Improved rooting and balance.
• Refined mind-body awareness and coordination.
• Enhanced ability to store and release qi.

Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming teaches comprehensive theory so you may understand how nei gong can be trained correctly to gradually develop substantial internal power. Then you will begin your own practice with a follow-along nei gong workout.

DAY OF OUTRAGE: JANUARY 6: THE REAL STORY (DVD) is a powerful film that details the events related to the Capitol siege of January 6, 2021. 

Unbridled violence was sweeping the nation, a disputed election had Americans pitted against each other, and trust of the mainstream media had been lost. The stage was set and events were in motion that would forever change our great nation. 

This film presents powerful video footage of the protests and riots that took place on that fateful day, as well as a careful examination of the events that led up to it. 

Award-winning director and producer, Jack Thomas Smith, takes a unique look at what happened before, during, and after the events that shook America, revealing what some have described as cruel and unusual punishment against some protesters following their arrests.

Watch exclusive interviews with Greg Kelly, host of “Greg Kelly Reports”; Sebastian Gorka, former strategist to President Donald Trump; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.; Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; retired Marine gunnery Sgt. Jessie Jane Duff; Ashli Babbitt’s mom, Micki Witthoeft; Babbit’s husband, Aaron; Jan. 6 detainee Kenneth Harrelson’s wife, Angel; former detainee Chris Worrell’s fiancée, Trish Priller; and business owner Roberto Minuta.

Unedited. Unchanged. Unlike ever before.

The latest of the four-part film series which, word for word, recreates the gospels in their entirety through the most authentic portrayal to-date.

Breaking the cinematic tradition of Jesus being played by a white, English speaking actor, the Lumo project pours its efforts to create the truest account of the four Gospels as possible. Using the very latest digital technology to create seamless miracles and realistic re-buildings of Jerusalem, as well as other towns and cities, the four-part series is able to do more than was ever possible before.

Not only with computers do the people behind the Lumo Project create a tangible 1st century Holy Land. Using the latest research in history, theology, and archaeology, they are able to create a series filled with a rugged authenticity.

Despite all the technological wizardry and thorough research, there is one thing that is always kept at the heart of these adaptations:

The Gospel.

Each film present's the text of its Gospel unedited. No words changed, added, or taken away.

They are simply narrated in both NIV and KJv by famed actors David Thelfall (Master and Commander) and Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart) as the film's population all speak in the correct, era-appropriate, Hebrew.

Word-for-word becomes frame for frame.

The Gospel of John faithfully re-creates the stories of John's gospel with narration from veteran actors Brian Cox (Troy, the Bourne films) and David Harewood (Blood Diamond, Homeland).

Shot on location in Morocco, this first film in the Lumo Project series uses on location filming in Morocco and a multi-million pound budget to create the most authentic bible portrayal so far.

All the actors speak in the original Aramaic language, and wear costumes in line with the period. The movie uses the 'latest theological, historical and archaeological research' to show with authenticity the fourth gospel.

The Lumo Project's goal is to film all four of the gospels in the most realistic and authentic way possible. Sharing the gospels for a visual age is the Lumo Project's mission and goal. Told with cutting-edge computer generated settings, the latest historical findings, and a beautiful cinematic scope, this series aims to redefine how we see the Gospels in the visual age.

Accurate and cinematic, The Gospel of John is the first of four new films to recreate fully the life of Jesus.

Winner of UK Christian Film Festival Awards 2015: Best Series and Best of British.