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The Top 10 Films That Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists
The Top 10 Films That Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists
One of the most entertaining yet unsurprising aspects of Occupy Wall St has been the response from traditional media. Whether intentionally playing dumb or genuinely clueless, the mainstream media has failed to inform the public and substantially address the key issues. But...
Tim Hjersted
End Industry Handouts to Big Media
End Industry Handouts to Big Media
Television and radio broadcasters get to use our public airwaves for free. It’s a great deal … for them, at least. For the rest of us, it’s just another corporate giveaway.
Free Press
Films for Action Is Ready to Hit the Tipping Point in 2012
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. O
Films For Action
Bring "Democracy Now!" to a Station Near You
Bring "Democracy Now!" to a Station Near You
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is
Matthew Toplikar
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (trailer)
Based on the book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. Featuring interviews with media analysts...
7 min
PIPA / SOPA Breaks The Internet
PIPA / SOPA Breaks The Internet
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/?pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name...
4 min
Governments are ordering Youtube to Censor Protest videos
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...
Anonymous
Save the Internet: Senator "Whiplist"
Save the Internet: Senator "Whiplist"
A handful of corporate hardliners in the Senate are introducing a "resolution of disapproval" that would give phone and cable companies unrestricted power over the Internet. We need your help to ensure your senators don't support this free speech-killing resolution.  The...
Free Press
The People Are the Media
The People Are the Media
Shifting Power from Corporate Interests Requires us to be Expand Our Media Power
Kevin Zeese
Films for Action's Public Film Screening Guide
Films For Action's Public Film Screening Guide
This guide will give you step by step instructions on how to host Films For Action sponsored film screening events in your city. It is intended primarily for people who have started or want to start a local Films For Action chapter, with the goal of hosting several screenings...
Tim Hjersted and Matt Toplikar
Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
Ryan Singel
Al Franken Exposes Misinformation On Net Neutrality
Al Franken Exposes Misinformation On Net Neutrality
Senator Al Franken explains why net neutrality is important to both the American citizen and the American business owner by dispelling the misinformation claiming net neutrality is a government takeover of the internet.  Instead, net neutrality is exactly how the internet...
20 min
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful
While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media. Purchasing ReportersFamed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says the CIA has already b
Washington's Blog
Another Historic Victory for Media Justice
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...
Prometheus Radio
The Elephant on Campus | Dennis Littky
The Elephant on Campus | Dennis Littky
a snippet of michael's interview with radical educator dennis littky.
2 min
Control Room
Control Room (trailer)
A 2004, award winning documentary about news coverage of the Iraq War.  The film compares the bias of the Al Jazeera network with that of American news outles-- as well as the official story coming from the American military.
2 min
Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model?
Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model?
Chris Hedges’ new TruthDig column, Huffington’s Plunder, raises a topic that seems to provoke a lot of uneasiness in the liberal blogosphere. It points a spotlight on the business model pioneered by one of the country’s most prominent progressive voices, Arianna Huffington.
Stan
50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media
50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media
Such a powerful speech by one of our all-time heroes.
37 min
Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus/Nation Books) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a...
45 min
In bin Laden killing, media -- as usual -- regurgitates false Government claims
In bin Laden killing, media -- as usual -- regurgitates false Government claims
Virtually every major newspaper account of the killing of Osama bin Laden consists of faithful copying of White House claims. That's not surprising: it's the White House which is in exclusive possession of the facts, but what's also not surprising is that many of the claims...
Glenn Greenwald
NCMR 2011: The Heart of the Movement
NCMR 2011: The Heart of the Movement
Megan Tady
Rick Karr at NCMR 2011
Rick Karr at NCMR 2011
Journalist, educator and correspondent for Blueprint America Rick Karr spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 10, 2011. Karr was introduced by Free Press Incoming President Craig Aaron.
10 min
Barbershop Punk
Barbershop Punk (trailer)
In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero...
2 min
Amy Goodman at NCMR 2011
Amy Goodman at NCMR 2011
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, delivered a rousing speech about the power of the people to change the media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10, 2011.
18 min
Malkia Cyril at NCMR 2011
Malkia Cyril at NCMR 2011
Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice Malkia Cyril spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 8, 2011. The conference was presented by Free Press. For more information, go to conference.freepress.net.
14 min
Craig Aaron at NCMR 2011
Craig Aaron at NCMR 2011
Free Press incoming president Craig Aaron spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 9. To find out more about the conference, go to conference.freepress.net
13 min
PirateBox: an "Artistic Provocation" in Lunchbox Form
PirateBox: an "Artistic Provocation" in Lunchbox Form
Nate Anderson
Wait, Who’s Greedy?
Wait, Who’s Greedy?
Jon Stewart
6 Threats to Free and Open Access to the Internet
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...
Activist Post
Start a Films For Action Chapter in Your City
Start a Films For Action Chapter in Your City
Films For Action
Beautiful Losers (2008) (trailer)
Beautiful Losers (2008) (trailer)
Beautiful Losers follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world. Free spirited approach to life. Not seeking just doing their thing.
3 min
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Exit Through The Gift Shop (trailer)
The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous...
2 min
The Garden at the End of the World (trailer)
The Garden at the End of the World (trailer)
Gary Caganoff's 'captivating and gutsy' film on Afghanistan.
3 min
The War You Don't See
The War You Don't See (2010)
A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to Afghanistan and the disaster in Iraq.
98 min
Enemy Image
Enemy Image (2005)
When Baghdad exploded under bombs, television chose to bring us fireworks. But does this distant and spectacular image tell us what is really happening on the ground, how it feels or what it means? Television has the means to take us anywhere and show us anything. It can...
92 min
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Dear Citizens of the United States of America,
Anonymous
Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model
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...
Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion
Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion
Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies...
83 min
Blackout-Proof the Protests
Blackout-Proof the Protests
Across the Middle East -- in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, and more countries every day, autocratic regimes are trying to crush unprecedented peaceful protests with brutality and blackouts. Avaaz is working urgently to "blackout-proof" the protests -- with secure satellite modems...
Films For Action
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Rich Media, Poor Democracy (trailer)
If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which...
5 min
Huffington’s Plunder
Huffington’s Plunder
I was in New York City on Thursday night at the Brecht Forum to discuss with the photographer Eugene Richards his powerful new book “War Is Personal” when I was approached for an interview by a blogger for The Huffington Post. I had just finished speaking with another...
Chris Hedges
The Root Problem Is the Root Solution: How We Can Fix Our Democracy and Create a Sustainable Future
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.
Tim Hjersted
Empire: Social networks, Social Revolution
Empire: Social networks, Social Revolution (2011)
Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?
26 min
RiP! A Remix Manifesto
RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
80 min
The Leaked Campaign to Attack WikiLeaks and Its Supporters
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
Glenn Greenwald
Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Arianna Huffington has betrayed us, so let's huff and puff her house down.
Micah White & Tim Hjersted
Adbusters: The Left Built Huffington, and We Can Tear It Down Too
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.
David Edwards
Films For Action Launches New Website, a "Learning Library for People Who Want to Change the World"
Films For Action Launches New Website, a "Learning Library for People Who Want to Change the World"
Lawrence, KS -- After 12 months in development, Films For Action has launched its new website - a head-to-toe redesign that lays the foundation for a vibrant community-powered news site dedicated to inspiring positive social change. At the heart of the new site is a...
Films For Action
Tell Congress: No Internet Kill Switch
Tell Congress: No Internet Kill Switch
A million people took to the streets of Egypt on Tuesday to protest the Mubarak regime and call for democratic reform. The Egyptian government responded, again, by cutting off Internet access and plunging the nation into digital darkness.
Films For Action
Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology
Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology
One of the most frequent criticisms leveled against the sustainable agriculture movement is that its proponents want to send farmers back to 19th-century hard labor, with hand weeding and harvesting. Here's an incredibly cool group of eco-minded "farmer-scientists" who aren't...
Bonnie Azab Powell
Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet
Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet (2009)
In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United's FA Trophy Semi-Final match against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other fans are doing the same thing, because together, they own and...
60 min
Filmmakers Propose Online "Swarm Offensive" Against Climate Change
Filmmakers Propose Online "Swarm Offensive" Against Climate Change
This beautifully animated short video argues that grassroots efforts to deal with climate change can be more effective if they adopt the tactics of open source technology, using databases and social networks to "tap into our collective genius" to tackle the toughest of global...
15 min
Tell Congress: Investigate Egypt's Internet Crackdown
Tell Congress: Investigate Egypt's Internet Crackdown
Egypt's Mubarak regime today shut down Internet and cell phone communications before launching a violent crackdown against protesters.
Films For Action
Egypt Turns Off Internet Amidst Protests
Egypt Turns Off Internet Amidst Protests
Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes...
James Cowie
Starsuckers
Starsuckers (2009) ($5)
Starsuckers is a documentary about our celebrity-obsessed media. It uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid off the corporations and individuals who profit from it.
72 min
South of The Border
South of The Border (2010)
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing...
77 min
Comcast/NBC Merger Approved: You Should Be Afraid and Mad as Hell
Comcast/NBC Merger Approved: You Should Be Afraid and Mad as Hell
Today, the Federal Communications Commission blessed the merger of Comcast, the nation's largest cable and residential Internet provider, with NBC-Universal. The Justice Department immediately followed suit, removing the last obstacle to the unprecedented consolidation of...
Josh Silver
Trends Analyst Predicts Global Youth Uprising, ‘Progressive Libertarians’ in 2011
Trends Analyst Predicts Global Youth Uprising, ‘Progressive Libertarians’ in 2011
An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression.
Stephen C. Webster
The Making of 'The Age of Stupid'
The Making of 'The Age of Stupid'
In this documentary, ''Team Stupid' reveal the lengths they went to - from kidnap threats in Nigeria to 'crowd-funding' in London - to make 2009's most talked-about climate change film starring Pete Postlethwaite.
54 min
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You (trailer)
While advertising is the visible component of the corporate system, perhaps even more important and pervasive is its invisible partner, the public relations industry. This video illuminates this hidden sphere of our culture and examines the way in which the management of "the...
6 min
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