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Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into giant landfills of waste. But there is hope. The German chemist, Michael Braungart, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food for the biosphere or the...
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Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas
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From Venezuela's Communal Councils, to Brazil's Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? Directed by Sílvia Leindecker & Michael Fox. Estreito Meios Productions, 2008. Distributed by PM Press.This video is part 1 of the full documentary, split into small parts. Click the red website link...
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Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama, Rebukes Republican Party
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Sunday former Secretary of State and Republican Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States. It was a stunning blow to the McCain campaign, and a repudiation of the failed politics and ideology of a Republican Party that has fundamentally lost its way. But, ultimately, Powell's endorsement of Obama was not the big news story of the day.
As Jason Linkins writes on the Huffington Post, "As it turns out, the most...
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City Repair - Permaculture for Urban Spaces
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What happens when citizens apply permaculture principles to a city grid? They create friendly places within the grid that invite people to come together. Mark Lakeman, co-founder of Portland, Oregon's City Repair Project describes these "creative intervention" projects as placemaking at its best. People learn to work together, build trust and have fun. The results, from painted intersections to cob benches and other organic structures, invite people "to inhabit the planet on our own terms" rather than the grid-locked culture imposed by the...
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Kucinich Sets Canadian Health Care Critic Straight
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U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich questions Dr. David Gratzer, a harsh critic of government funded health care
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Watch films. Spread the word. Take action.
Democracy Now! is a daily independent newshour broadcasting on over 500 radio and television channels. This video displays the most recent episode of Democracy Now!
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Project Censored compiles the top 25 news stories that weren't covered by the corporate news media in 2009.
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What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida's expertise in pulling off 9/11.
If we are to believe the U.S. government, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged al-Qaida "mastermind" behind 9/11, outwitted the CIA, the NSA, indeed all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies as well as those of all U.S. allies including Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, Airport Security four times on one morning, and Dick Cheney, and with untrained and inexperienced pilots pulled off skilled piloting feats of crashing hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, where a battery of state of the art air defenses somehow failed to function.
After such amazing success, al-Qaida would have attracted the best minds in the business, but, instead, it has been reduced to amateur stunts.
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Successful political movements do not spring fully formed. They require long-term, nuts-and-bolts organizing.
Since the summer of 2003, I've crisscrossed the country speaking at colleges and theaters and bookstores, first with The Weather Underground documentary and, starting in March of this year, with my book, Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (William Morrow, 2009). In discussions with young people, they often tell me, “Nothing anyone does can ever make a difference.”
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Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further? What forces have created a demoralized, passive, disCouraged U.S. population? Can anything be done to turn this around?
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The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some areas than others. But one essential question goes unasked: How much can any president accomplish against the wishes of recalcitrant power centers within his own government?
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. Like an orchestra conductor or perhaps a football coach, he can inspire or bludgeon and get what he wants. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned. The Pentagon and CIA are powerful and independent fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. They are full of lifers, who see an elected president largely as an annoyance, and have ways of dealing with those who won't come to heel.
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Okay folks, I promised everyone a docu-comedy for our next film and I'm a man of my word. It's an amazingly hilarious film that hits all the right levels. If you attend one more Films For Action screening this year, make it this one. :) It's not to be missed. - Tim
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Liberty Hall. 644 Mass St. Lawrence, KS - Only $3. 7PM.
We must rethink our policy toward Afghanistan. Congressional oversight hearings on Afghanistan would facilitate a substantial public debate on this war. What's more, these hearings would coincide with President Obama's effort to craft policy that represents the diversity in public opinion and the wide array of tools at his disposal. Help raise public visibility of this issue in Lawrence by attending this event and getting as many people you know to attend as well.
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Having just finished reading Black Elk Speaks, Leonard Peltier's recent letter brings the plight of Native Americans over the last two centuries into present focus. Someone reading the 1932 classic today might easily believe that while it is a tragic tale of America's bitter origins, it is a story firmly rooted in a past that we have long moved on from. This view, sadly, would be mistaken. As Peltier states in his letter, Barack Obama must now take on the burden of covering up the mistreatment and oppression of present-day natives.
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New Rule: If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute. I don't care about the president's birth certificate, I do want to know what happened to "Yes we can." Can we get out of Iraq? No. Afghanistan? No. Fix health care? No. Close Gitmo? No. Cap-and-trade carbon emissions? No. The Obamas have been in Washington for ten months and it seems like the only thing they've gotten is a dog.
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If you're keeping up with social trends, you've probably had a Facebook profile for some time now, and have ravenously become addicted to it as the socially anointed place to stay in contact with friends you care about, find out about events, and stay current with relevant news (having a lot of friends who post alternative news links at least gives it that function for myself personally).
In the last few months you may have even dabbled in the schizophrenic delight of Twitter, which again, for activists, has taken on a potentially transformative role in online communication and networking.
All together, social networking is abounds, and Films For Action has indeed joined the foray. Though oddly enough, in a paradox of the instant news paradigm of this generation, it's taken us about a year from the time we joined these networks to actually post this news bit here on the blog.
Alas, I've gone way past my 140 chr limit. If you'd like to follow us on any of these social networks, the links for that can be found below.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/filmsforaction
Twitter: www.twitter.com/filmsforaction
MySpace: www.myspace.com/filmsforaction
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The Big Brother State
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The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation. Since terrorism has been bolstered as a global threat, especially after 9/11, governments all over the world have started enforcing laws which, so
the governments say, should increase national security. These laws obviously aim at another goal: the states gaining more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and freedom.
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Peak Moment 160: A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living
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Rather than follow the customary American dream, Tammy and Logan sold their home and car, and moved to a bikeable/walkable neighborhood in Sacramento, California. After reading Derrick...
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Earth Hour 2010
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On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something...
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Jeff Rubin at The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009
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Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller built his reputation as one of Canada's top economists based...
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Haiti and the 'Devil's Curse'
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Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention. Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media...
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A Thousand Suns
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A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact...
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War Promises
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Millions of people believe that evidence proves that Western intelligence services organized the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. Even the mainstream media have stopped...
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Free Speech Should Be For People, Not Corporations
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Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to...
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Keith Olbermann: Freedom Of Speech Has Been Destroyed
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A special comment on the Supreme Court`s ruling in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Take action through the website link.
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The American Sucker
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A short film explaining the Federal Reserve System and its consequences on average Americans.
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Riz Khan - The Role of Media in the USA
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Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with "junk news" and tabloidism?
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
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1971--Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times, a daring act...
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Follow the Money
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Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? You're not alone: People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too. While we feel the...
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