Hair India

Where do celebrities get their pricey hair extensions? Some of the best are “temple hair” from India—long, luxurious tresses never subjected to harsh chemical processes or modern shampoos, sacrificed by humble devotees as a divine offering and then sold, surreptitiously, by the temple caretakers for money to maintain the shrines. The chasm between rich and poor is wide, never more so than when we see that the frivolous socialites who pay top dollar for a slum dweller’s beautiful hair lack the faith, love, and social connectedness that her impoverished family shares. If the poor woman knew the price put upon her hair, she could lift her family permanently out of poverty. But, this option is neither presented nor dreamed of, as devotion is valued more deeply than rupees.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

How does a deeply spiritual offering from Indias poor become a must-have accessory in the salons of Europe? As fashion and faith collide, religious sacrifice is fuelling a multi-billion dollar industry.
Every year millions of Hindus shave their heads in offering to the gods. Its called tonsuring, and its big business. On average we are getting in excess of five tonnes, says hair dealer Mayoor Balsara as he finalises his latest purchase from the temples. Its a classic globalisation story: the sacrificial hair is cheaply sourced in the developing world, and is lining the pockets of those in the west. David Gold is one of them. Each year his company turns over $150 million selling hair extensions sourced from Indias temples. He deflects questions of ethics, arguing that the temples pour profits back into local welfare projects. Its a dubious claim, and yet many Hindus seem happy for their hair to be spun into gold: We gave it to God, and its come back like this. Its beautiful.

The Virgin Daughters

 Cutting Edge explores the purity movement in America, where one girl in every six pledges to remain a virgin, or to save her first kiss, until her wedding day.

Award-winning documentary-maker Jane Treays investigates whether this decision is made by the girls themselves or their parents, and follows a group of fathers and daughters as they prepare to attend a `purity ball’ in Colorado Springs, run by Randy Wilson and his wife Lisa.

The Virgin Daughters (Full Documentary)

where white men fear to tread

RIP Russell Means (November 10, 1939 -- October 22, 2012)

The film uses footage from the film 'The New World' (2005), 'Lifeboat Hour' radio show with Michael Ruppert, Infowars' interview with Russell Means 'Welcome to the Reservation' and various videos of Russell Means, to present an outline of today's patriarchal society and solutions rooted in native American philosophy.

The title of this film was inspired by Russell Means' autobiography 'Where White Men Fear to Tread' amazon.com/Where-White-Fear-Tread-Autobiography/dp/0312147619
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imdb.com/title/tt0402399/ (The New World)
youtube.com/watch?v=-LA-S64QY3o (Welcome to the Reservation)
youtube.com/watch?v=OQI57thNjRU (Russell Means : Our Part of Worldwide Wreckage)
youtube.com/watch?v=acmBfigkVaI (Russell Returns Home)
youtube.com/watch?v=n7exNaHkO2I (Russell Means Interview)
prn.fm/2012/03/11/podcast-the-lifeboat-hour-031112 (The Lifeboat Hour with Michael Ruppert)
Cover design by Andy Johnson twitter.com/Kicksyy
Music by: The Grey - Into the Fray
Blackmill - Home
Yann Tiersen - La Valse d'Amélie (version orchestrale)
Robert Miles - Children (Blackmill Remix)
Coldplay - Paradise (Ianborg Remix)
Module Module-An Interlude
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FGM : Female Gential Mutulation

 The Cut

Short documentary about Mary (aged 14 years) and Alice (who is in her early 20's) from Kenya. Both are affected by the traditional rite of passage into womanhood: genital cutting. Mary and her community are preparing for her ceremonial cutting, and Alice is studying to be a social worker to work against female genital mutilation. As the first in her community to refuse the practice, Alice has paid a high price for her choice to break with tradition. Alice tells of the different myths she encounters in the community around her, as to why circumcision is practiced. Mary, on the other hand, has no voice. She just goes through the preparations and rituals in silence.

October 24, 2009 -- The Cut Documentary is a factual and informative short film, describing the effect on women's lives of FGM or female genital mutilation.

Film maker and writer Linda May Kallestein, made The Cut Documentary to spread worldwide awareness of the issues around this practice. Female genital mutilation is a huge problem that affects 120 - 140 million women all over the world. That is about the same amount of all the female population in the USA today. An additional 2 to 3 million girls from the age of newborn to 15 years old, are added to their ranks every single year. This means about at least 6000 girls today alone. Who feel their genitals being sliced off. By a razor blade. A knife. A piece of broken glass.

It happens in many African countries, some Middle Eastern and also some Asian. Traditionally, that is. Due to migration, it is also taking place in virtually every country that has immigrants from these countries. It might be happening closer than you think.

Kallestein says, "The topic is not pretty. We are talking about immediate suffering and death, and long term suffering and death. Despite the disgust we feel at the very thought of it, we should not look away. Young girls, who are unable to defend theirselves, are the vicitims. They suffer in silence. We can help by giving them a voice."

"The Cut" gives these girls a voice. Help spread it to make this voice heard all over the planet. Support the victims even more by demanding that female genital mutilation must stop. Unlike many other problems our world suffers from, where there is a lack of resources and much needs to be done, here the answer lays in the simple solution of not doing something anymore. It simply needs to stop.

You can be their voice. You can say, "Just Stop It"

 The controversial tradition at the heart of African culture has now reached the shores of Europe. Today, over 500 British girls are estimated to have undergone the procedure of female genital cutting.

Many young girls would get excited at the prospect of going on holiday but Jamelia knew that the plane she boarded was taking her to be 'circumcised'. Jamelia was cut in an empty mansion by an old woman, strangers held her down and a clean razor was only used when more money exchanged hands. "I remember the blood everywhere", Jamelia says, "one of the maids actually saw her pick up the bit of flesh they cut out." Miriam's womb was accidentally sealed when she was cut and now she cannot have children. "It will stay with me until the day I die." Now, the NHS confirms that cutters are flown over to the UK to cut girls in batches - a cheap alternative. The UK has more girls at risk of bring cut than any other European country and as yet no-one has been prosecuted for the crime.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/aug/01/big-issue-female-genital-mutilation