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Solidarity with the Syrian people
Stand in solidarity with the people of Syria calling and dying for their freedom and right to choose their leaders. The idea is very simple, but potentially very powerful: Imagine if a million people spoke the words "I Support The Syrian Revolution"?  Our aim is to collect as many videos as possible of people from all over the world declaring their support for the Syrian revolution...
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Films For Action Presents: The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm
Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. It offers a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media oursleves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries below. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how...
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Can Al Franken rebound after supporting PIPA?
by Mitchell Dahlhoff January 23, 2012 Minnesota's political image has been a bit tarnished as of late, what with Michele \"Crazy Eyes\" Bachmann and Tim \"Hockey Fight Blood Lust\" Pawlenty crashing and burning spectacularly in the County Fair Demo Derby that is the current Republican primary races.Except they went and done screwed up, too, considering both Franken and Klobuchar have been...
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WikiLeaks releases first 200 of 5 Million Stratfor emails
WikiLeaks has released the first 200 of a cache of 5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence firm.The emails originated not from a whistleblower, but instead from a series of hacking attacks against Stratfor in December 2011, carried out by the online activist collective Anonymous.Anonymous apparently passed the emails to WikiLeaks in the weeks...
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The Films For Action Challenge on FB: How Many of these 100 Activist Documentaries Have You Seen?
Films For Action recently released a Facebook App that features a top-100 compendium of documentaries made to change the world...Direct link: http://apps.facebook.com/ffachallenge/ Think you're a documentary buff? See how many you've seen and then challenge your friends to see how many they've seen! The list includes many well known docs as well as many lesser-known gems that you'd never be able...
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Films For Action Launches New Mobile Site!
January 25, 2012 - We've launched our new mobile site today, bringing the site's library of over 900 films, independent news and actions to the small screen inside your pocket.To check it out, simply go to www.filmsforaction.org like normal and you'll automatically be redirected to the mobile version. As you'll immediately see, we've remixed, loved, and simplified the site for full one-collumn...
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The Top 10 World-Changing Documentaries of 2011
2011 will likely be remembered in America as the year that the nation's youth finally started to wake up - all that bubbling knowledge of the world's problems, all the discontent and disillusion with our broken system finally burst into a flurry of creative action. Our understandings of the deep, structural flaws in our economy, politics and culture reached new heights of collective awareness...
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Films For Action is Ready to Hit the Tipping Point in 2012
It's been five years since the Films For Action project began in Lawrence, Kansas. It started with one simple idea: we can't depend on the mainstream media to inform us, so let's become the media ourselves by hosting documentaries on issues that the corporate media ignores. Over the years we've hosted over 30 film...
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Governments are ordering Youtube to Censor Protest videos
#ANONYMOUS has issued a warning that governments are ordering Youtube to censor protest videos to stop populist rage from spreading.Statement belowhttp://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/11697760542/urgent-government..."‎Forget copyright infringement, YouTube is now complying with removal orders from governments to stop populist rage going viral.In a frightening example of how the state is...
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The People Are the Media
Shifting Power from Corporate Interests Requires us to be Expand Our Media PowerWe have the power to be the media, to spread the word and tell vast networks of people the truth.  Media is being democratized and we can speed that process by recognizing we are the media. When you come to Freedom Plaza in October one of your roles will be to be the media.On Tuesday, October 13th the October2011...
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Another Historic Victory for Media Justice
PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its long-awaited verdict in Prometheus Radio Project v. the Federal Communications Commission, rejecting the FCC’s attempt to further deregulate media ownership. The Court threw out FCC rules that would have allowed one company to own a newspaper and broadcast stations in the same market. The Court also...
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NCMR 2011: The Heart of the Movement
“Change the Media, Change the World” was the theme at the National Conference for Media Reformin Boston last weekend. But if it didn’t sound like a self-help book from the bargain bin, we could have added “Change Yourself.”  Because we all walked away a little changed, didn’t we?So much of the work we do to change the media happens online, or in our...
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PirateBox: an "Artistic Provocation" in Lunchbox Form
When NYU art professor David Darts shows people his lunchbox, "a smile just starts creeping up on their face." Painted black with a white skull-and-crossbones, the metal box doesn't hold a pastrami on rye; instead, it's stuffed with networking equipment and batteries, and it hosts a Debian Linux install running a barebones Python-powered Web server. The goal of this "PirateBox": to create...
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6 Threats to Free and Open Access to the Internet
Many of us believe the Internet to be open and free for us to explore all known information.  Indeed, it is true that we currently can surf to any active website with our browser, and we can start a website or blog on any topic we wish to discuss.  And it is quite a profound concept that everyone with a smart phone literally has all of the world's knowledge in the palm of their hand.Ben...
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Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Dear Citizens of the United States of America,It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch--the billionaire owners of Koch Industries--have long attempted to usurp American Democracy. Their actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin are the final straw. Starting today we fight back.Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently...
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Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model
In Manufacturing Consent (1988; and updated in Herman,1996). Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly imbedded in the market system, it reflects the class values and concerns of its owners and advertisers. According to Herman and Chomsky, the media maintains a corporate class bias through five systemic filters: concentrated private ownership; a strict bottom-line profit...
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The Root Problem is the Root Solution: How We Can Fix Our Democracy and Create a Sustainable Future
So, I was trying to get my friend to read a recent issue of Adbusters magazine."You've got to read this!" I said. "There's an article about how the media today is owned by only a handful of corporations, and corporate consolidation is leading to fewer voices getting on the air and stifling the range of debate, which is stifling the health of our democracy. And corporations themselves are legally...
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The Leaked Campaign to Attack WikiLeaks and Its Supporters
There's been a very strange episode being written about the past couple of days involving numerous parties, including me, that I now want to comment on.  The story, first reported by The Tech Herald, has been been written about in numerous places (see Marcy Wheeler, Forbes, The Huffington Post, BoingBoing, Matt Yglesias, Reason, Tech Dirt, and others), so I'll...
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Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Arianna Huffington has betrayed us, so let's huff and puff her house down.She built a blog-empire on the backs of thousands of citizen journalists. She exploited our idealism and let us labor under the illusion that that the Huffington Post was different, independent and leftist. Now she's cashed in and three thousand indie bloggers find themselves working for a megacorp.But the...
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Adbusters: The Left Built Huffington, and We Can Tear It Down Too
The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home.Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former supporters of Arianna Huffington's flagship site by suggesting they use social media to promote alternatives."Socialite Arianna Huffington built a blog-empire on the backs of...
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