Articles by Films for Action
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Films For Action ·
The human journey is at a crossroads. Authoritarianism is on the rise, the biosphere is destabilizing, and the capitalist global order is driving us towards the cliff with its head stuck in quarterly profit reports. From everything...
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Tim Hjersted and Films For Action ·
Hi all. I'm thrilled to announce a new partnership with the legendary nonprofit film studio, the Media Education Foundation.
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Films For Action ·
Films For Action hosts the largest collection of free films related to social change online. Started by a few friends in 2006, we're a home-grown media library dedicated to empowering citizens with the knowledge essential to creating a...
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Films For Action ·
Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.
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Films For Action ·
In this round-up, you'll find the links to watch 19 documentaries we wanted to highlight this summer.
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Films For Action ·
Why we took it down. Why we ultimately decided to put it back up (including this note). Plus our critiques and thoughts on the film.
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Films For Action ·
We wanted to put all our Coronavirus coverage in one place, as a resource to share with friends and loved ones. The quality of our response is only as strong as the quality of our k...
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Films For Action ·
Films For Action's $5/mo+ supporters can watch all of the films below for free. Visit our Patreon page for details.
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Films For Action ·
Thanks to the filmmakers we've partnered with, our $5/mo+ supporters can instantly watch the 12 pay-per-view films below for free, and we plan to add more to this support tier over time. Check out the video below to watch the trailers...
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Films For Action ·
There are over 4,500 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potential to inspire action and raise awareness of just about every topic related to making the world a better place. You've probably already seen our top 100...
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Films For Action ·
Hello fellow travelers, explorers, pioneers and visionaries!
First I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has thrown their support behind us in the first few months since we launched our Patreon campaign!
I can't say how much...
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Films For Action ·
For all our supporters who haven't heard yet, last month we decided to make a major change to how Films For Action operates.
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Films For Action ·
Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that Films For Action has launched a
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Films For Action ·
Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world.
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Films For Action ·
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around since 2006. From our early years focusing on local film screenings in Lawrence, Kansas to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social...
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Films For Action ·
Now that there are thousands of films on Films For Action, we realized the very best gems have really become buried all across our library, and for people new to this information, we needed a more guided way to dive in. Spread across 15...
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Films For Action ·
Films For Action is a library for all the best social change films on the internet, cataloged in one place. But because there is so much to cover, and films can’t cover it all — we also curate a ton of articles too.
So this is our...
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Films For Action ·
This collection of 123 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active...
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Films For Action ·
Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and...
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Films For Action ·
Pachamama, our dear Mother Earth, is 4.5 billion years old. She is home to an estimated 8.7 million species of life! This wondrous web of relationships is truly a gift to be a part of, and we can thank our growing and evolving Mother...
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Films For Action ·
This guide will help you start your own Films For Action city chapter.
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Films for Action ·
Providing a hub for progressive voices, groups, news, and events. Connecting our individual passions and interests to amplify and expand our reach, connect with others, learn and grow, and speak truth to power.
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Films For Action ·
This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.
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Films For Action ·
Vote defensively. Vote offensively. Vote when there is someone worth voting for. Vote locally where we have more agency over the outcomes. Reject the ideology of our oppressors. Not voting says nothing to the ruling elite. It doesn't...
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Films For Action ·
Here are 50 documentaries, short films and other videos that focus on women's issues, perspectives and struggles. We're hoping to expand this list over time so feel free to share links to anything we missed via our contact page. Thanks!
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Films for Action ·
We're excited to announce that Films For Action is planting roots in Oakland, California! Angela Sevin is kick-starting the local chapter. For those that are new to Films For Action, we're a local and international organization...
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Films For Action ·
A Post-Growth economy is not only necessary for planetary survival, but will make our lives way better, too. These films explain why.
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Films For Action ·
A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!
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Films For Action ·
Here are some of the websites we like to visit to discover awesome articles to read.
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Films For Action and The Bloom ·
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Films For Action ·
Hey everyone, after two years planning, developing and taking our sweet time to get this ready, we are excited to announce the launch of our pay-per-view (PPV) section of the website. This section will feature films hosted by Vimeo...
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Films For Action ·
This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.
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Films For Action ·
Tired of watching scary movies that all end up disappointing when you realize they're not actually real? Try some of these documentaries. They will frighten you. They will shock you. They will give you chills as your mind realizes...
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Films For Action ·
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
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Films For Action ·
We hosted a lot of film screenings back in the day. Since we've been focusing on the growth of our international website over the last few years, our screenings have slowed down significantly, but we hope to get back into it...
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Films For Action ·
We've got our next event booked for Monday June 10th at 7pm at Liberty Hall.
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Films For Action ·
The purpose of true journalism is to say what needs to be said, when so many refuse to say it. By this measure, true journalism is virtually nonexistent within the establishment media. The corporate press and the talking heads on TV...
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Films For Action ·
We've been covering the debate on climate change for a while now, and we've noticed there's about a dozen or so common responses that we get on Facebook and here on the site.
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Films For Action ·
In the spirit of the popular Wall of Films we created back in 2012, we wanted to roll out a series of visual walls each crafted around a unique theme. Our first is dedicated to the rights of mother Earth and all our relatives.
Check...
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Films For Action ·
"I cannot believe the fantastic selection and must sees of this week. What a fantastic thing to have available to us.
Thank you - Mary
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Films For Action ·
We've had a few video submissions lately where the member added 4 videos that are all separate parts of the same video.
Video part 1
Video part 2
etc.
I wanted to write this note to let people know that our video submission...
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Films For Action ·
Woo! If you've visited the site today you may have noticed a few changes. After about a month of working on new changes to the website behind the scenes we finally launched the new updates today, which involved switching to a new...
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Films For Action ·
Our Recommended Independent Media Links:
Adbusters
Aljazeera
AlterNet
Black Agenda Report
Boiling Frogs Post
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Films For Action ·
December 5 2012, a new independent media project was launched on Facebook.
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce that Films For Action is planting roots in Boston, Massachusetts. Jeanne Dasaro is kick-starting the local chapter.
For those that are new to Films For Action, we're a local and international organization...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce that Films For Action is planting roots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Katie Felten is kick-starting the local chapter.
For those that are new to Films For Action, we're a local and international organization...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce that Films For Action is planting roots in Columbus, Ohio. Marcus Erridge is kick-starting the local chapter. For those that are new to Films For Action, we're a local and international organization dedicated...
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Films For Action ·
It’s a long drive from Florida to Denver, but Leonel Perez and his colleagues at theCoalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) don’t mind. In fact, they arrived in the Mile High City three weeks early for Cultivate, a food, beer, and music...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce that Films For Action is planting roots in Dallas, Texas. Jon Burroughs is kick-starting the local chapter. For those that are new to Films For Action, we're a local and international organization dedicated...
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Films For Action ·
Having met Speed Levitch at a party last year, it was awesome to see he is the star of a new show on Hulu where he takes on the history of a new locale each week commenting with the zany, sometimes poetic, often philisophical...
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Films For Action ·
Detailed information from the families of those killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and from local sources on strikes that have targeted mourners and rescue workers provides credible new evidence that the majority of the deaths in the...
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Films For Action ·
This summer Troy Karlin started a radio show on the local Lawrence, Kansas AM station KLWN 1320 called "On the Brighter Side." As Troy put it, "I turned off my television over two years ago...the news was getting so negative I couldn't...
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Films For Action ·
By Edward Flentje
Reporters from Reuters, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal descended on Kansas in the last few weeks to cover a political contest they view to be of national significance, that is, a battle for the heart...
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Films For Action ·
With excellent independent media sites like Common Dreams, Truth Out, Grist, and others providing progressive news and perspective in written form, Films For Action has dedicated itself to filling in the progressive video niche.
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Films For Action ·
That's right, Films For Action is lucky to be presenting the Midwest premier of the finished documentary film "Within Reach" here in our very own Lawrence, KS! We're also pleased to have one of the film-makers - Ryan Mlynarczyk - in...
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Films For Action ·
Several items today relate to the issue of gross U.S. media propaganda and Obama’s national security policies:
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Films For Action ·
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would give states the power to label genetically modified food.
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Films For Action ·
U.S. cable companies have become the subject of a wide-ranging antitrust probe launched in secret by the Department of Justice, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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Films For Action ·
A little over 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav "Molai" Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in northern India's Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife. Not long after, he decided to dedicate his...
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Films For Action ·
Environs, Films For Action and the Learning for Life Center in Topeka are all collaborating to bring you a film screening of Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action. We'll be very lucky to have the director of the film, Velcrow Ripper...
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Films For Action ·
File-sharers, beware: By July 12, major US Internet service providers (ISPs) will voluntarily begin serving as copyright police for the entertainment industry, according to Cary Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry...
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Films For Action ·
The U.S. military has unveiled its newest approach to crowd control, the Active Denial System, a heat ray that sends out a high-frequency electromagnetic ray. People hit with the ray feel an intense, unbearable heat. The military touts...
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Films For Action ·
Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. By hosting community film screenings and sharing them online, they offer a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We...
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Films For Action ·
WikiLeaks has released the first 200 of a cache of 5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence firm.
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Films For Action ·
Films For Action recently released a Facebook App that features a top-100 compendium of documentaries made to change the world...
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Films For Action ·
"Scott Noble's film Rise Like Lions takes the people, actions, and words from the camps and streets of Occupy Wall Street and provides a radical, compelling and inspiring account of what the movement is about. Watch it. Share it. Do...
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Films For Action ·
In the midst of the students and conservative stalwarts in business attire at CPAC, Howard Wooldridge stands out like a sore thumb — but not because of his cowboy hat and big belt buckle. It’s his T-shirt, which loudly proclaims “COPS...
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Films For Action ·
Two summers ago, at the U.S. Social Forum, I attended a panel discussion about ways to expand the use of credit unions as alternatives to the “too big to fail” banks whose risky investments had helped tank the economy. Each of the...
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Films For Action ·
While much has been made of the $535 million loan guarantee made to the failed Solyndra Corporation in 2009 to encourage alternative energy, you may have missed the court decision this week, halting expansion plans for a Kansas coal...
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Films For Action ·
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.
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Films For Action ·
REMIX : To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new.
If you’ve seen it, you’ll probably have guessed that here at The Crisis of Civilization we love Remix films – and we want you to have a go too.
We would like to...
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Films For Action ·
As students, we are told that we are being made into an “informed citizenry” capable of maintaining a vibrant democracy. Indeed, we are told that we must give up most of our constitutional rights in the name of achieving this goal. We...
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Films For Action ·
Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Catholics,” GOP contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, to stop using divisive rhetoricabout race...
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Films For Action ·
Occupy Phoenixville is expanding into film, launching their own Films For Action chapter representing the Phoenixville area. We're hitting the ground running with two film screenings coming up in January (more details coming soon)...
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Films For Action ·
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...
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Films For Action ·
This is from the City of Lawrence:
"Common Ground is an urban agriculture and community gardening program of the City of Lawrence and Douglas County
Applications due: Friday, December 16, 2011
The City of Lawrence and Douglas County...
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Films For Action ·
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst...
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Films For Action ·
9/11 has always been one of the most difficult subjects for news organizations to cover with integrity. The majority of media has forced the debate into two black and white extremes: either Osama bin Laden did it and the government is...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our ninth Films For Action city chapter representing Taos, New Mexico! Below is our mission, goals and vision for the chapter, as well as several ways to get involved. Join us!
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Films For Action ·
Via our local chapter, Films For Action SF aims to provide a definitive online space where people can find out what's happening in the San Francisco bay social change community. In these times of great change, we believe the role of...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our eighth Films For Action city chapter representing Toronto, Ontario Canada! Below is our mission, goals and vision for the chapter, as well as several ways to get involved. Join...
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Films For Action ·
Pachamama's and Films For Action present a film screening of The Vanishing of the Bees, with the director of the film coming to speak before and after. Free State beer will also be on tap. Doors open at 6. Film starts at 7.
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Films For Action ·
Via our local chapter, Films For Action Eugene aims to provide a definitive online space where people can find out what's happening in the Eugene social change community. In these times of great change, we believe the role of media must...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our seventh Films For Action city chapter representing Eugene, Oregon! Below is our mission, goals and vision for the chapter, as well as several ways to get involved. Join us!
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our sixth Films For Action city chapter representing Wichita, Kansas! Below is our mission, goals and vision for the chapter, as well as several ways to get involved. Join us!
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Films For Action ·
Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close.
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our fifth Films For Action city chapter representing Durham, North Carolina. There are so many forward-thinking, innovative groups in Durham that are doing amazing things, we can't wait to see...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our fourth Films For Action city chapter representing the San Francisco Bay Area, California. There are so many forward-thinking, innovative groups in San Francisco that are doing amazing...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our third Films For Action city chapter representing Indore, India. There are so many forward-thinking, innovative groups in Indore that are doing amazing things, we can't wait to see the vision...
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Films For Action ·
Via our local chapter, Films For Action KC aims to provide a definitive online space where people can find out what's happening in the Kansas City social change community. In these times of great change, we believe the role of media...
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Films For Action ·
We're excited to announce the launch of our second Films For Action city chapter representing Kansas City, KS/MO. There are so many forward-thinking groups in KC that are doing amazing things, we can't wait to see the vision of this...
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