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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...
6 min
The Next Net
The Next Net
The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network -  its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation - is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them ...
Douglas Rushkoff
Jerry Mander Has 4 Arguments for the Elimination of TV. Could You Give It Up?
Jerry Mander Has 4 Arguments for the Elimination of TV. Could You Give It Up?
In this brief interview, Jerry Mander, author of "In the Absence of the Sacred" and "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television", describes the drawbacks of television. The reasons might not be what you'd expect.
9 min
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: “To Destroy This Invisible Government”
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: “To Destroy This Invisible Government”
“To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in...
Zunguzungu
Rap News 5: The War on Journalism (ft. Julian Assange)
Rap News 5: The War on Journalism (ft. Julian Assange)
Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war—the biggest leak of classified military documents in history—sending shockwaves across the Fourth Estate. Rap News marks the occasion by inviting into the studio the...
6 min
Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality: "Worse Than Nothing"
Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality: "Worse Than Nothing"
Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule. According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrow's FCC meeting, falls drastically short of...
Timothy Karr
Rap News 6: Wikileaks' Cablegate - The Truth Is Out There
Rap News 6: Wikileaks' Cablegate - The Truth Is Out There
December 2010 and Cablegate has burst open. With a steady trickle of Diplomatic communiques leaking out every single day, the Book of Revelations is expanding dramatically. In all the hubbub, the global community is forced to ask questions of its leaders. At the same time...
6 min
Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?
Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
Broadcast Blues (trailer)
Broadcast Blues (trailer)
Clear Channel neglects its emergency system, disaster strikes, and people die. Pentagon pundits profit from the same war they promote. Fox News gets a court ruling that news does not have to be true. And Radio Talkers rule. Media Policy is killing people in this country...
2 min
Brian Newman: How to Be Better Than Free
Brian Newman: How to Be Better Than Free
The Internet is a super-distribution machine that allows copies of digital media to flow in an almost frictionless way. As the wealth and survival of traditional media businesses are built on selling precious copies, the free flow of free copies is undermining the...
25 min
Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
Michael Moore
WikiRebels
WikiRebels (2010)
Exclusive rough-cut of the first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and...
57 min
The New Website is Live!
The New Website is Live!
Oo-de-lally!! After twelve months in development, the site has finally gone live!
Tim Hjersted
Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News
Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News
The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks -- Bruce E. Ivins -- died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top anthrax...
Glenn Greenwald - Friday, Aug 1, 2008
Why Assange and Wikileaks Have Won this Round
Why Assange and Wikileaks Have Won this Round
The odd thing about Wikileaks is that their success has been assured, not by what they leaked, though there is some important information there, but by their enemies.
Ian Welsh
LEAKED EMAIL: Republican Pollster Caught Influencing Fox News
LEAKED EMAIL: Republican Pollster Caught Influencing Fox News
At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News' controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network's journalists not to use the phrase "public option."
Ben Dimiero
Stop the Wikileaks Crackdown
Stop the Wikileaks Crackdown
The vicious intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks is wrong, dangerous and undermines the rule of law. Top US politicians have branded WikiLeaks a terrorist organization, and urged corporations to shut it down. Commentators have suggested assassinating its staff. The...
Films For Action
Hackers Take Down Website of Bank that Froze WikiLeaks Funds
Hackers Take Down Website of Bank that Froze WikiLeaks Funds
A group of Internet activists calling themselves Operation Payback have taken credit for shutting down the website of a bank that earlier Monday froze funds belonging to WikiLeaks.
Daniel Tencer
Support Real Journalism Over Junk News: Clicks Equal Votes.
Support Real Journalism Over Junk News: Clicks Equal Votes.
The future of the news is upon us!  Simply put, the internet has taken over.  With newspapers, magazines, television networks, and radio shows distributing their content online, you as a consumer now have a definite voice in the discussion of what content is favored by these...
Matthew Toplikar
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the "elitist theory of democracy" and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
99 min
Abandoning Net Neutrality: FCC Chair Backs Two-Tiered Internet Fees
Abandoning Net Neutrality: FCC Chair Backs Two-Tiered Internet Fees
The Federal Communications Commission is being accused of abandoning "net neutrality" rules that would ensure a free and open internet. On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled proposals that would allow internet service providers to charge higher fees for...
9 min
Glenn Greenwald: Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators
Glenn Greenwald: Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators
The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways:
Glenn Greenwald
Buy This Bankrupt Satellite to Share Internet With the Poor
Buy This Bankrupt Satellite to Share Internet With the Poor
Tim Hjersted
9/11 Family Group: Media Matters Should Apologize for its Irresponsible Coverage of Building 7
9/11 Family Group: Media Matters Should Apologize for its Irresponsible Coverage of Building 7
NEW YORK CITY  — Today, the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group of family members of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, issued the following statement:
the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
FCC Chair Proposes Garbage, Calls it Net Neutrality
FCC Chair Proposes Garbage, Calls it Net Neutrality
President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in DC of being a "tepid" regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's
Marvin Ammori: Law Professor/Advocate in Cyberlaw
Sen. Al Franken on Net Neutrality
Sen. Al Franken on Net Neutrality
Sen. Al Franken speaks up for Net Neutrality at a public hearing in Minneapolis on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. Video courtesy of TheUpTake.org.
13 min
Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk
Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk (2006)
The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Big corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the gateway to the Web into a toll road. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors where the future of democracy's newest forum is being decided.
86 min
NBC/Comcast Merger: Media Monopoly Taking Over?
NBC/Comcast Merger: Media Monopoly Taking Over?
Is television and entertainment media converging into a monopoly, dragging the Internet down with it and ultimately hurting you as the consumer? The proposed NBC Universal and Comcast merger has people saying just that. Sam Seder, former Air America Host says he doesn't see...
7 min
Internet petitions: Say No to the Comcast-NBC Merger!
Internet petitions: Say No to the Comcast-NBC Merger!
Comcast lobbyists are working the halls of Congress to pave the way for their big takeover of NBC. Unfortunately, the merger would mean more media consolidation and could be a serious threat to net neutrality.   When the same company owns both the production and...
Matthew Toplikar
Fox News Owner Buys Education Tech Provider, 3 Million-Student Audience
Fox News Owner Buys Education Tech Provider, 3 Million-Student Audience
Wireless Generation, a US education technology company, will become a subsidiary of News Corporation for about $360 million in cash as Rupert Murdoch seeks to expand his company into academia.
Eric W. Dolan
Study Shows Gays are the Most Targeted Minority
Study Shows Gays are the Most Targeted Minority
An  analysis of 14 years of FBI statistics shows that gay people are the most targeted minority.  Gays are almost twice as likely to be attacked in a violent hate crime as Jews or African Americans, and almost four times as much as Muslims.  Columnist Dan Savage, of the "It...
5 min
Health Insurance Whistleblower Explains Campaign to Discredit "Sicko"
Health Insurance Whistleblower Explains Campaign to Discredit "Sicko"
Wendell Potter apologizes to Michael Moore for the role he played in the insurance industry's public relations attack campaign against him and "Sicko", Moore's documentary about the increasingly unfair and dysfunctional U.S. health care system.
15 min
FCC Chief to move on Net Neutrality Proposal
FCC Chief to move on Net Neutrality Proposal
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is putting together a net neutrality proposal and plans to take action on the controversial issue as early as next month, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation. Details of the proposal...
Kim Hart
Bill Maher on the Dangers of The Rally to Restore Sanity
Bill Maher on the Dangers of The Rally to Restore Sanity
“If you’re going to have a rally where hundreds of thousands of people show up, you might as well go ahead and make it about something.”
6 min
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)
This groundbreaking 2006 documentary based on Jack Shaheen's acclaimed book of the same title critically examines a long line of degrading images of Arabs in Hollywood and U.S. popular culture -- from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding...
51 min
Rachel Maddow Explores Right Wing Lying Echo Chamber
Rachel Maddow Explores Right Wing Lying Echo Chamber
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow discusses the effects of right-wing media, which has become large enough and insulated enough that lies are self-reinforcing, fact-checking is thrown out the window, and disinformation is used for political gain and without regard to accuracy or...
6 min
Humanity Lobotomy (a short film about Net Neutrality)
Humanity Lobotomy (a short film about Net Neutrality)
The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connection. If big business starts to be selective about what can pass through it will be like when the FCC cracked down on early radio expression and...
10 min
Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20
Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20
"My feeling, when I went by the Convention Center after all the leaders had gone home, was that this was the real crime scene, not those shattered storefronts, but what actually happened at the summit on Sunday night, when the world leaders issued their final communiqué. And...
30 min
Now Hear This: Network Neutrality Is Critical
Now Hear This: Network Neutrality Is Critical
Graphic designer Michael Mahaffey, in collaboration with ill.gates, wants you to listen up with his activist video about Net Neutrality. Take action at http://www.savetheinternet.com/
2 min
The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content
The Impact Of Media Consolidation On News Content
A short film exploring the impact of media consolidation on news content and how this affects youth, both as viewers and media makers. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for...
11 min
Host a Film Screening (Quick Overview Guide)
Host a Film Screening (Quick Overview Guide)
Regularly watching the news over the years, and getting my news from a variety of sources, I’ve noticed that the mainstream news media does a pretty bad job of covering certain issues. A story about Paris Hilton takes the lead over a story about the Afghanistan war or a piece...
Tim Hjersted
Riz Khan - The Role of Media in the USA
Riz Khan - The Role of Media in the USA
Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with "junk news" and tabloidism?
22 min
DeFox America
DeFox America
FOX News is on a witch hunt. Their goal is simple: to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive movement. They've already forced Van Jones out of the White House. They've badgered Congress into passing unconstitutional measures to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually...
6 min
Bill Moyers Essay to Obama on Health Care
Bill Moyers Essay to Obama on Health Care
Bill Moyers, the longtime and multi-award-winning American journalist expresses his contempt with the current health care debate's corruption by extremists, and President Obama's lack of gumption towards Republicans and the health care industry.
5 min
GRITtv: The Future of Independent Media
GRITtv: The Future of Independent Media
Independent media is almost a household name these days. But in 1986 when Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) launched most people hadn't heard of anything like it. So what's changed in the last two decades? Has the stranglehold of corporate media been loosened? Today...
21 min
Tell Congress: Pass Net Neutrality Now
Tell Congress: Pass Net Neutrality Now
The phone and cable companies are scrambling to kill Net Neutrality so they can inspect and filter content, and overcharge you for using the Web in ways they don't like. Over the past six months alone, these companies have hired 500 lobbyists in Washington to try to stop this...
2 min