Articles by Abby | Films For Action

Majestic Scorn: a City Aflame Fights Fire and ICE

Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE...

Abby Zimet · 897 views

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when everything seems hopeless, read this to get your hope...

Abby Brockman · 15,616 views

Censoring American War Crimes

After years of hating the iconic photo, Kim Phuc came to embrace it as a powerful tool to teach peace.

Abby Zimet · 12,287 views

No One Leaves Home Unless Home Is the Mouth of a Shark

A broken Abdullah Kurdi buried his two toddlers and his wife in their hometown of Kobani, Syria even as thousands of his fellow refugees continued on their harrowing quest for safety -

Abby Zimet · 490 views

Occupation, Schmoccupation: And Propaganda Shall Cover For Everything (Except the Ugly Truth)

As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank...

Abby Zimet · 1,927 views

"Oh My God, They Use You As Target Practice." Literally.

In your weekly, admittedly rhetorical WTF-is-wrong-with-this-country turn, it seems cops in South Florida have been using real photos of real black men - bullet-riddled, obviously, when...

Abby Zimet · 4,624 views

Making/Selling Christmas: Where Your Baubles, Tinsel, Santa Hats and LED Reindeer Come From

Just so you know: Those trinkets of Christmas proclaimed to bring joy to the world - wreaths, lights, stockings, mistletoe, shiny stars and snowflakes and other glittering marvels of...

Abby Zimet · 6,961 views

Holocaust Survivors On Gaza: Genocide Begins With the Silence of the World

History turns: Even as Israel's onslaught in Gaza continues - in the latest insanity, obliterating an apartment building housing 44 families to punish one alleged combatant - over 300...

Abby Zimet · 8,665 views

'Human Shield' Propaganda Used to Justify State-Sponsored Massacres for Decades

It’s been three weeks since Israel launched its bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of the Gaza strip. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, over 1,500 Palestinians have...

Abby and Robbie Martin · 12,264 views

Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives

A quiet revolution is rumbling through New York's municipal offices as they retool to support the creation of worker cooperatives as a way to fight poverty.

Abby Scher · 2,271 views

Just Eat It: Big Money Spends Millions to Convince Washington It's None of Our Business What We Put In Our Mouths

9 November 2013: A disheartening but predictable loss for GMO labelling in Washington, where Monsanto, DuPont and other big corporate interests jumped in and spent millions, sometimes...

Abby Zimet · 3,694 views

Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" For Everything

Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of Justice filed a

Abby Zimet · 12,302 views

Simply Despotic: UK Detains Greenwald Partner

In an act of blatant escalation against press freedom, UK officia

Abby Zimet · 1,911 views

30 Years, One Earth: The Planet As Digital Flip Book

Astonishing timelapse pictures of a growing, changing, withering, clearly finite planet have been unveiled from Landsat, a satellite project launched in 1972 by NASA, Google, the U.S...

Abby Zimet · 5,272 views

Hey Idiots: Taking On the "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey Trolls" Over Al Jazeera

With Al Jazeera America launching in a couple of weeks, Current TV's John Fugelsang decides to address the

Abby Zimet · 4,750 views

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