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"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 it!" Ron Jacobs Journalist, Author The Co-Conspirator’s Tale "A treatise to the beautiful awakening of human heart and hope that has arisen in...
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 must expand - that there is a vitally underserved need for a local news and event hub that is dedicated to representing the voices of the people and groups that...
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 project start to take off. Below is our mission, goals and vision for the chapter, as well as several ways to get involved. Join us! Mission: Our Kansas...
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WED 22 MAY
The Center for Media Justice is offering a free 60-minute tele clinic. Ever faced tough times trying to do effective communications in...
Presentation - 11am
WED 22 MAY
Our next cut & paste session will be on Wednesday May 22nd at 6:30 PM. We will gather at the downtown Central Library in meeting...
Activity - 6:30pm
THU 23 MAY
Summer is here, school is almost out, there will be tons of kids on the streets with nothing to do. Communities are coming together to...
Meeting - 6:30pm
SAT 25 MAY
On May 25, activists around the world will unite to March Against Monsanto. Why do we march? Research studies have shown that...
March - 1pm
MON 27 MAY
PeaceWorksKC's Annual Memorial Day Remembrance Walk Route: http://goo.gl/maps/lzRUX Join us at the old nuclear weapons plant at the...
Demonstration - 8am
Newest Films Added
A little bit of political satire on systems of government. This just about sums it up doesn't it? :)
3 min - 3346 views
A three-year assessment from a team of international scientists will detail how the phenomenon dubbed “climate change’s evil twin” is shaping up to be a global problem. The rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean will have...
12 min - 475 views
The powder keg that is porn culture has exploded in the lives of North American children. From thongs and padded bras for 9-year-old girls to "sexting," 24-7 internet porn, and unfiltered social media, kids today are bombarded with...
46 min - 1217 views
This video sheds light into the nature of love, relationships, the "New Age" movement, reality-creation, quantum physics, objectivity vs. subjectivity and how it all relates to the topics of "conspiracy theories", psychopathy...
77 min - 276 views
The documentary shows how the lucrative soybean industry in Argentina has culminated in the death of a great number of residents suffering from cancer due to the overuse of chemical pesticides. PRESS TV Documentaries
50 min - 353 views
A modern Indigenous warrior. A Goliath industry. A new way forward. -- Filmmakers Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis document the journey of Caleb Behn to protect the health of his land and people from the ravages of Big Oil and Gas. Deep...
3 min - 649 views
This is Neil Degrasse Tyson's response when asked to describe the most astounding fact about the universe. Background music is the cinematic orchestra - To build a home.
3 min - 2173 views
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, discusses the human-animal connection from a scientific standpoint. Learn more: http://bit.ly/oxaKho
4 min - 2458 views
Infamous right-wing billionaires Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers are threatening to buy the Tribune Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Enough - let's buy the Tribune Company ourselves, and free the...
4 min - 671 views
Parodying the BBC's SpringWatch, wildlife presenter Bill Oddie investigates the banker species, venturing into the den of banking giant HSBC to expose the £100 million it provides in loans and services to some of the most destructive...
4 min - 789 views
The Money Lobby examines how Political Action Committees (PACs) and Super PACs have managed to monopolize the political discourse in the US in favor of a privileged class. PRESS TV Documentaries
25 min - 1212 views
College senior, Tim DeChristopher, Bidder #70, monkey-wrenched the out-going Bush administration's contentious oil and gas auction. He bid $1.8 million to save 22,000 acres of Utah's red rock wilderness with no intention to pay or drill...
3 min - 598 views
What is it about transition that is so cool? Well partially it's the attitude. As Isabela Menezes of Transition Granja Viana says in the video, "It's spreading with such speed primarily because it's a positive movement. A...
5 min - 683 views
This short film brings to life extracts from David Foster Wallace's commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. Subsequently published as This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about...
9 min - 1291 views
Jon Lavoie lends his voice to a video documenting the police violence against Montreal residents during the student protests. SUBSCRIBE and check out our other videos! http://www.operationmaple.com...
3 min - 452 views
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Corporate power is behind the politics of climate denial, Wall Street bailouts, union busting, and media consolidation, to name just a few. And policies advocated by the 1 percent are bankrupting the middle class. But real people have power, too. Here are some of their most...
THREE great (FREE) films at the Brecht Forum - Sunday April 21 at 4:00 PM Meetup.com and the Brecht Forum are being kind enough to allow us to screen three fantastic films on Sunday, 21 at 4:00 PM. Admission is FREE , as this is a 'fair use' screening...
Intercultural Communication Society was established in September 2011 in Radom. It was founded by a group of people interested in promoting and developing the idea of intercultural communication.
The economic collapse of 2008 came at the end of three decades of stagnant wages that resulted in record household debt and made it apparent that the economy does not work for most Americans. Even during the collapse the rich got richer and the poor got poorer as trillions of...
It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and resources out of capitalist civilization and putting them into building a new civilization. The...
One of the main causes of deforestation in Indonesia, and the greatest threat to orangutans in the wild, is the conversion of forests to oil palm plantations. As more and more forests fall, other critically endangered species, including Sumatran elephants, tigers and...
Donald Trump has declared war on wind farms! So why is the world’s biggest windbag in a flap? Well, if you were on the 12th hole of his golf course in Scotland and stood on your tippy toes and squinted out to sea you might just see some of the offshore wind turbines...
Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium's capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WW II, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor ( LFTR ) is the...
Local Groups
Occupy KC is a movement of citizens who have come together to reclaim our democracy from the 1% who have hijacked it. We engage in a horizontal, transparent, consensus-based process during our General Assemblies, and you are encouraged to...
We are a group of activists, grassroots and professionals, from communities around the world , working in solidarity, to build a just, sustainable, truly democratic, grassroots, inclusive movement for food, environmental and social justice.
The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. We are a grass-roots movement in avocation of a resource-based economy, as described in detail by The Venus Project. Our immediate intention is to generate awareness of the concepts involved...