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Benjamin Ree's The Remarkable Life of Ibelin nominated for an Emmy award in the Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking category.

16.07.2025 10:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Benjamin Rees Ibelin er nominert til Emmy Norske Benjamin Rees kritikerroste dokumentarfilm Ibelin er nominert til en Emmy-pris. Ibelin ble sett av mer enn hundre tusen på kino her hjemme, og fikk mye internasjonal oppmerksomhet etter at [&he...

Norske Benjamin Rees kritikerroste dokumentarfilm IBELIN er nominert til en Emmy-pris:

16.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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EFTA-domstolen om klimasøksmål: Staten må vurdere klimakonsekvensene EFTA-domstolen gir miljøorganisasjonene rett i en sentral del av deres klimasøksmål mot staten. Flere spørsmål gjenstår, sier Regjeringsadvokaten.

Hurra! Ny miljøseier, ny refs til olje-Norges lemfeldige klimapraksis:

EFTA-domstolen slår fast at det er ulovlig å godkjenne nye olje- og gassfelt uten å vurdere klimaeffektene av utslippene som oppstår når oljen bores. Selvsagt. Bravo! www.nrk.no/klima/efta-d...

21.05.2025 09:43 — 👍 39    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
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This is what a digital coup looks like “We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...

Listen to Carole Cadwalladr – it’s a must.

06.05.2025 07:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Planlagt hyttebygging truer naturskogen Over 300 kvadratkilometer av den mest verdifulle skogen vår kan forsvinne. For første gang vet vi hvor det er naturskog som er planlagt utbygd.

Nå vet vi hvor den verdifulle naturen er, og da må vi gjøre noe med det. Vi har ikke råd til å fortsette å ødelegge norsk natur i det tempoet som vi har holdt på med.
www.nrk.no/innlandet/pl...

30.04.2025 10:54 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

16.04.2025 23:00 — 👍 10498    🔁 2619    💬 304    📌 186
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Trump Launches Trade War With Penguins, Not Putin The president’s new tariffs hit economic allies and Arctic waterfowl, but not Russia for some reason
03.04.2025 00:51 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Global Filmmakers call for the release of Hamdan Ballal

Members of the global film community urgently appeal for the immediate release and safety of filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, the recipient of this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

25.03.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

So the Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal was attacked by masked Israeli settlers while at home on the West Bank and then arrested by the IDF. The film community should condemn this with one voice
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

25.03.2025 05:48 — 👍 75    🔁 48    💬 1    📌 1
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Trump's Cultural Coup Artists remain defiant in response to the president’s hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center

Trump's Cultural Coup .. fascinating and witty piece on the intersection of politics and art... our speciality at The Contrarian open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

19.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 190    🔁 36    💬 9    📌 3

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