"You'll never be the same after watching the mind-opening film
This Land is Your Land because you will see the diverse wealth -- the commonwealth -- that you own with other Americans, how it has been seized, despoiled and corporatized. But you all still own these immense public assets and you can regain control of them for now and for posterity. David Bollier has outdone himself once again!"
- Ralph Nader
"A great deal of what we all own we own together -- our world, our air, our water, our oceans, our environment. These and more form what we know as The Commons. No one understands this and conveys it to the rest of us like David Bollier. Your children do not have a greater advocate. I suggest watching this film as a family."
- Norman Lear
"'Enclosure of the commons' sounds like something fairly remote, a thing we have to look up in history books. But the reality is different. The commons are everywhere, so are the attempts to enclose and to control them. That is precisely what this documentary focuses on, without leaving us depressed, because it helps us to understand the great promise of the commons in rebuilding our world."
- Silke Helfrich | Commons Strategy Group
"An important and edifying documentary."
- Charlie Cray | Center for Corporate Policy
"While some works simply bemoan the corporatization of America and its accompanying materialism,
This Land is Our Land goes well beyond this on both fronts: it speaks to the whole world (not just the U.S.) and the human condition, and examines how the concept of ownership has permeated virtually all things... This is an exceptionally interesting and mind-bending film that accomplishes just what it sets out to do: stir the audience's outrage toward corporate heavy-handedness, and challenge the audience to rethink the very bases for existence of certain commodities and phenomena. It offers a diverse mixture of business discussion, environmentalism, philosophy, and a good measure of discussion on government deregulation."
- Michael J. Coffta | Business Librarian at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania |
Educational Media Reviews Online
"David Bollier is a great advocate and expert on the commons in all their diversity, writing great articles and book. But in our visual age, the availability of a good documentary is an important boost to spreading these important ideas. This documentary contains many great segments, such as the comparison of the successful eradication of polio through public domain vaccines, with the proprietary control of AIDS drugs that has resulted in thousands of needless deaths today. Such stories drive home the point that market enclosures are not just a minor problem; they can be devastating to real human beings. Don't miss this film as an essential part of your education as a commoner."
- Michel Bauwens, Founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives
"We need to reassert our claims to the commons, and we need to restore the concept of the public good. And one excellent way to start is to get hold of an insightful new DVD called
This Land Is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons."
- Matthew Rothschild | Editor of
The Progressive
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This Land is Our Land makes the case for reclaiming The Commons, and awakens audiences to what we are losing as ideas, and even the air we breathe and the water we drink, become the private property of corporations."
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Uprising Radio
"Sets out quite clearly the threats to the public good from the encroachment of commercial interests."
- Art Brodsky | Communications Director of Public Knowledge
Press Reviews
Educational Media Reviews Online | April 14, 2011
The Progressive | November 26, 2010
The David Pakman Show | November 11, 2010
P2P Foundation | November 11, 2010
The Valley Advocate | November 4, 2010
Uprising Radio | October 8, 2010
