Rap News 18: The Great Gun Debate

Are guns there to stop tyranny? Is tyranny already here? Are there other ways of stopping it than stocking up on munitions? Welcome, Minutemen, to Rap News 18, where we take a few minutes to explore one of the great debates taking place in the Divided States of America.

4 min

MLK's Vehement Condemnations of US Militarism

His vital April 4, 1967 speech is a direct repudiation of the sophistry now used to defend US violence and aggression.

Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK

Greenlit (2009) ($2)

Miranda Bailey helms this wry documentary that follows the making of the film The River Why. The indie drama was intended to be an entirely green production, but Bailey quickly discovers that filmmaking is far from environmentally friendly. The River Why's Zach Gilford...

50 min

Why Sandy Hook and Related Conspiracy Theories Are a Detriment to Alternative Media's Credibility

The Sandy Hook conspiracy can no longer claim censorship by the mainstream media as one of its articles of evidence. Sandy Hook 'truthers' can now find their claims mentioned and addressed in dozens of articles online, and in some TV coverage. The best written response I've...

Ecology of Existence

In Memory of Aaron Swartz: Here are 14 Ways to Fight Back Against the "Intellectual Property" Racket

In your standard dictatorship, activists are brought out back and shot. In the United States' crypto-dictatorship, activists are bullied by the state until they go bankrupt, are buried under a mountain of legal woes, are publicly discredited or humiliated, or as in the...

Tony Cartalucci

Family of Aaron Swartz: Pioneering Internet Activist's Suicide 'A Product Of Prosecutorial Overreach'

Open democracy advocate and internet pioneer Aaron Swartz was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide, flooding the digital spectrum with an outpouring of grief. He was 26 years old.

Zach Carter

Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journalism? Think Again

The Federal Communications Commission is pushing a plan to gut its 30-year-old newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban. This proposal would allow one company to own a local paper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in a sin

Free Press

Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right

"What is keeping us from thriving?" asks the new movie, Thrive. The answer it gives is "the global elite," the people who control the financial system that in turn controls everything else. Operating through the power institutions of our society, this elite pursues a...

Charles Eisenstein

Journey to Rockmont: Three Days of Light - A Consciousness Shifting Story (2012)

Join gonzo journalist Brendon (aka Skull Babylon) as he sets off on a journey to reunite with long lost new found friends and spirit family at the Three Days of Light consciousness festival and retreat. Synopsis: Through this story we see first hand accounts of the youth and...

80 min

Slavery: A 21st Century Evil (2011)

Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his...

223 min

9 Key Facts about Media In America: Did You Know?

The free flow of news and information, accessible to everyone, is vital to the success of democracy. And today in America, that flow is in doubt. Our newspapers, traditionally the most reliable source of civic information and investigative reporting, are laying off reporters...

Common Cause

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012

2012 was another big year for break-out films in the social change genre. With most of the bases covered for all of the major problems we're facing, more and more films this year focused on the solutions side of the equation, giving a voice to the uplifting stories of people...

Tim Hjersted

The Electronic Storyteller: TV & the Cultivation of Values (trailer)

George Gerbner clearly and comprehensively outlines the way in which the universal story-telling function of human societies has been colonized by corporate media.

6 min

Films For Action's Recommended Independent Media

Our Recommended Independent Media Links: Adbusters Aljazeera AlterNet Black Agenda Report Boiling Frogs Post

Films For Action

Employee-Owned Businesses Ignored by Mainstream Media

A bold new threat to the economic status quo brings on a press blackout.

Gar Alperovitz and Keane Bhatt

War, Propaganda and the Media: A Detailed Primer on the Tactics of Modern War Propaganda

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. — Walter Lippmann Probably every conflict is...

Anup Shah

Reframing Discourse: the Emancipatory Power of Self-Told Stories

If indigenous and modern world views are going to inform each other to shift the trajectory of humankind toward a just, thriving, and sustainable future, an important step in this direction is for the modern world to better understand indigenous peoples’ stories, perceptions...

Dina Buck

Using Permaculture Media & Advertising to Incite the Good in People

We know that television's numbing effect is an unhealthy side-effect of our modern world, however Jenny Nazak argues that we individually have the power to incite people to goodness using the bounty of multimedia platforms available to each and every one of us. Jerry...

Jenny Nazak

Top 25 Censored Stories Of 2013 and a List of Independent Alternatives to the Corporate Media

Every year Project Censored puts together a list of the top 25 stories censored and ignored by the mainstream media. The recently published Censored 2013 covers the period between 2011-2012.

Tim Hjersted

9 Out of 10 Teenage Girls Haven't Given Up On This Idea. We Shouldn't Either.

While the chips are clearly stacked against today’s young girls, amazing women everywhere continue to rise above the stats. You or someone you know is probably one of them. Sources: Catalyst, The White

2 min

Miss Representation (2011) ($4)

Miss Representation is a powerful film that exposes damaging, sexist media messages that inhibit young women’s happiness, ambition, and leadership.

90 min

If You're Wondering If News Is Biased, Here's Proof

This made me do a double take. What about you?

Deepa Kunapuli

A Citizens Guide to Understanding Corporate Media Propaganda Techniques

Editors Note: A few decades ago, there were thousands of independent media outlets in the US. Today in America, six multi-national global media mega corporations run by six individuals control 96% of the content Americans see on TV and watch at the movies; read in books...

George Orwell

Sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom

Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come...

Free Press

Controlling the web (2012)

In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted...

24 min

'Voice for the Voiceless' - Marineland Animal Rights Demonstration, Canada

Oct 7th, 2012 - Animal Rights Demonstration. Marineland Amusement Park, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Brendon Culliton is a Neogonzo Journalist for Paradigm Shift Central - a collective of youth initiated communities that encourage open-mindedness, healthy living, and the...

8 min

Exit Through the Gift Shop (trailer)

This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous...

2 min

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists” is a documentary that takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical “hacktivist” collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores the historical roots of early hacktivist groups like...

92 min

The Tillman Story (trailer)

When Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002, he became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, than the caricature. And when...

2 min

Films For Action: Independent Media for a Better World

Films For Action is a local and international organization dedicated to providing you with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society. Along these lines we are many things.

Films For Action

Plant a Seed

To make a difference, one must be the difference. Get involved with the global project and help shift consciousness at http://ParadigmShiftCentral.com/plantaseed and https://facebook.com/events/373284992739951/

5 min

Anonymous Leaks Zuccotti Raid Footage Showing Police State Repression of OWS

We wanted a Tahrir moment, an American Spring, a new vision of the future, and they attacked us in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 in the dead of the night with military precision. The surprise raid began with a media blackout. Our movement's founding encampment was...

Adbusters, Anonymous

More Than 180 Arrested on Occupy Wall Street's First Anniversary

In the early morning hours Monday, Occupy Wall Street activists marked the first anniversary of the movement by protesting in the financial district. Hundreds gathered on Water Street and hundreds more in Zuccotti Park, the birth place of the movement, before marching through...

Allison Kilkenny

How to Film The Revolutions - Tutorial for Citizen Journalists

An introductory tutorial for aspiring citizen journalists to consider before next entering the field. You are needed more than ever, to bring the people direct truth, taking out the middle man in the archaic mainstream media. Each camera is a new set of eyes we all share in...

5 min

"Wiped off The Map" The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify A War on Iran

Global Research Editor’s Note

Arash Norouzi

Welcome to the Dialectic Revival

Here in the United States, whether we look to the language used amongst ourselves, in the media, or by politicians, we may find that our standard method of communication is based on rhetoric – a style of argument that relies on a set of distinctly isolated viewpoints, with...

Alyce Santoro

How Films For Action Began, and Where It's Headed

This is a little window into our strategy to help catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift

Tim Hjersted

Page One: Inside The New York Times (trailer)

Unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity.

2 min

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

Since it mysteriously appeared on YouTube on July 18, 2012, ‘Propaganda’ has been described as ‘1984 meets The Blair Witch Project’, ‘A mouthful of scary porridge’, and ‘Even better than Triumph of The Will.’

95 min

Films For Action: Providing a Go-To Resource for the Best Social Change Videos Free to Watch Online

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.

Films For Action

Free The Network (2012)

A documentary about the Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackerstrying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond.

32 min

Culture of Fear (2009)

This documentary details the epidemic of fear in our society, ranging from child predators to terrorism. It features interviews with Dr. Noam Chomsky, David Kucinish, and many other experts offering an in-depth exploration on various topics of fear.

41 min

Internet data caps targeted by antitrust probe

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.

Films For Action

What is Real Journalism? John Pilger Reviews His 50 Year Career

John Pilger says journalism is meant to be about truth. In this video he reviews his career over more than 50 years as a campaigning journalist, filmmaker and author. Journalism, he says, has a part to play on behalf of humanity. But too many journalists and journalistic...

28 min

The Big Fix: Documentary Exposes BP, U.S. Gov't on Gulf Disaster

One of the world's biggest environmental crimes has been more or less forgotten. This is part of our collective guilt as the world's ecosystem continues its accelerated collapse. But the new documentary film The Big Fix takes a detailed, daring look at what happened in the...

Jan Lundberg

May Day

This is a video about the celebration of May Day, by Unions, and Occupy Wall Street. A Rally, Demonstrations, and Parades took place on May 1, 2012, in New York City. It was in all parts of the city and it lasted all day.

13 min

Corporate FM (2012) (trailer)

The internet didn't kill radio. Commercial radio is killing itself.

1 min

Institutional Corruption and How we Can Fix It

Lawrence Lessig explains how institutional corruption has affected every aspect of our government.

54 min

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (trailer)

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 protests against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country...

2 min

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.

Saf Suleyman

Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War

As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension.

14 min

Major ISPs to turn into copyright police by July, says RIAA

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 Association of America (RIAA). The so-called...

Films For Action

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.

Films For Action

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...

Films For Action

Film review: Why ‘Thrive’ is best avoided

What do you do when you are the heir to the Proctor and Gamble fortune and you have spent years surrounding yourself with new agey thinking and conspiracy theories? You make a film like ‘Thrive‘, the latest conspiracy theory movie that is popping up all over the place. I’ve...

Rob Hopkins

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.

Films For Action

The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas

from the let's-walk-through-the-reasons dept There's been plenty of talk (and a ton of posts here on Techdirt) discussing both SOPA (originally E-PARASITE) and PROTECT IP (aka PIPA), but it seemed like it would be useful to create a single, "definitive" post to highligh

Mike Masnick

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan...

Glenn Greenwald

The Best Social Change 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...

Tim Hjersted

AT&T T-Mobile Deal Dropped After Fierce Government Backlash

AT&T Inc. is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that the deal would raise prices, reduce innovation and give customers fewer choices.

Associated Press

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