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Becoming Mr. Roger's Neighbor
Becoming Mr. Roger's Neighbor
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a hugely important kids' show, but for more than you may think.
2 min
Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"
Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"
DETROIT—The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journa
Chris Hedges
Daniel Ellsberg vs Chelsea Manning ("The Post" movie interviews)
Daniel Ellsberg vs Chelsea Manning ("The Post" movie interviews)
I went to the theatre to talk to people who saw the movie, “The Post”. It’s about Daniel Ellsberg’s famous “Pentagon Papers” leak that exposed the US Government’s lies about the war in Vietnam. I was curious now that people consider Daniel Ellsberg a hero, what do they think...
7 min
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck
Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck. Will...
8 min
Films for Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters
Films For Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters
Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that Films For Action has launched a
Films For Action
Livin' the Screen Life
Livin' the Screen Life
Important official legal disclaimer: This is a short work of fiction. Any resemblances to real people, people you may know, people you think you may know, etc., is entirely deliberate.
John Savage
Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit
Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit
When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Motherboard met with the members of the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a group that is building their own wireless...
13 min
Films for Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world.
Films For Action
Does Films for Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values
Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around since 2006. From our early years focusing on local film screenings in Lawrence, Kansas to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a...
Films For Action
Why the Documentary Must Not Be Allowed to Die
Why the Documentary Must Not Be Allowed to Die
I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny.
John Pilger
Predatory Romance in Harrison Ford Movies
Predatory Romance in Harrison Ford Movies
Harrison Ford has played some of the most iconic male heroes ever to appear on film. Many of his most popular characters antagonize women, disregard basic ideas of consent and ultimately force themselves on their love interests. Although each movie attempts to frame these...
17 min
Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die
Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die
"This video essay is about a gendered trope that has bothered me for years but didn’t have a name, so I gave it one: Born Sexy Yesterday. It's a science fiction convention in which the mind of a naive, yet highly skilled, girl is written into the body of a mature sexualized...
18 min
The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory
The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist. Adorkable Misogynists are male characters whose geeky version of masculinity is framed as comically pathetic yet still endearing. Their...
22 min
This Incredible Animated Short Film Says So Much Without Saying a Word
This Incredible Animated Short Film Says So Much Without Saying a Word
Embark on a visionary journey through the fragmented unconscious of the West, and with courage face the Shadow. Through Shadow into Light.
13 min
Deliver Us From Venus and Mars: Why Aren’t We Free From Gender Stereotypes Yet?
Deliver Us From Venus and Mars: Why Aren’t We Free From Gender Stereotypes Yet?
Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes, because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.
Gavin Evans
Trump Impersonators hold mock press conference on beach
Trump Impersonators hold mock press conference on beach
40 performers in donald trump masks unveil a new australian flag and hold a mock press conference to wipe out the PARIS AGREEMENT on climate change. Complete footage including aerials of this extraordinary public art performance. At Australia's coal capital, Newcastle, 4th...
4 min
The Miseducation of Dylann Roof
The Miseducation of Dylann Roof
How did Dylann Roof go from being someone who was not raised in a racist home to someone so steeped in white supremacist propaganda that he murdered nine African Americans during a Bible study? The answer lies, at least in part, in the way that fragile minds can be shaped by...
6 min
Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?
Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?
Even though Creative Commons licenses have been around for more than a decade, I am always surprised to learn that many progressive-minded activists, artists and academics – the people who should be most enthusiastic about the licenses – know nothing about them or at least...
David Bollier
Struggling Against All Odds: A Review of Plutocracy III: Class War
Struggling Against All Odds: A Review of Plutocracy III: Class War
Tim Goulet reviews the third installment of the radical working-class history documentary Plutocracy by filmmaker Scott Noble.
Tim Goulet
John Oliver Dedicates an Entire Episode to Exposing Alex Jones as a Charlatan
John Oliver Dedicates an Entire Episode to Exposing Alex Jones as a Charlatan
Too easy? Definitely. But understanding how Alex Jones uses his "info warrior" persona to sell products offers a great lesson in media literacy.
22 min
Fred Perry, Proud Boys, and the Semiotics of Fashion
Fred Perry, Proud Boys, and the Semiotics of Fashion
Over the past week the Proud Boys, a self-described "Western chauvinist" organization whose members are tired of apologizing for "creating the modern world", have garnered media attention. Along with the disruption of an Aboriginal ceremony in Halifax by Proud Boy servicemen...
Anya Simonian
Al Jazeera Responds to the Qatar-Gulf Crisis
Al Jazeera Responds to the Qatar-Gulf Crisis
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain want Al Jazeera - including AJ+ - to be shut down. Here’s what Al Jazeera journalists think of that.
5 min
100 Days Of 45
100 Days Of 45 (2017)
A mesmerizing compilation of clips from every single day of the 45th President's first 100 days. Like the films Alex is forced to watch in A Clockwork Orange - this breakneck, experimental documentary is a barrage of the media chaos that reshaped our reality. Each day ticks...
63 min
Behind the Media Surge Against Bernie Sanders
Behind the Media Surge Against Bernie Sanders
It’s routine for right-wing outlets like Fox to smear progressive activists under the guise of “news” coverage. But why the New York Times? And why the special venom for Bernie Sanders?
Norman Solomon
Venezuela Economy Minister— Sabotage, Not Socialism, Is the Problem
Venezuela Economy Minister— Sabotage, Not Socialism, Is the Problem
Today in the corporate media, Venezuela’s economic problems are used to paint the country as a failed state, in need of foreign-backed regime change. To get the Bolivarian government’s side of the crisis, Abby Martin interviews Venezuela’s Minister of Economic Planning...
28 min
Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'
Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'
Does your phone, the TV and advertising demand your attention everywhere you look? All this stimulation is triggering a social crisis, says writer Matthew Crawford. He talks to Ed Cumming about how to reconnect with reality
Ed Cumming
Epic Rant Against Rupert Murdoch Perfectly Captures UK Election Result
Epic Rant Against Rupert Murdoch Perfectly Captures UK Election Result
I see you, Rupert Murdoch. I see your whispery head, your hangdog expression, the malevolent balls of obsidian that function as your eyes. I see you shaking your head as you watch the exit polls come in, your flaccid jowls dangling, flapping about like the labia on a jogging...
Sam Gore
Films for Action — A Social Change-Oriented Alternative to Medium
Films For Action — A Social Change-Oriented Alternative to Medium
Films For Action is a library for all the best social change films on the internet, cataloged in one place. But because there is so much to cover, and films can’t cover it all — we also curate a ton of articles too. So this is our invitation to all of the social change...
Films For Action
Films for Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
This collection of 122 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active participants in designing the transition...
Films For Action
Journalism's Next Frontier: Crossing the Threshold From Having to Being
Journalism's Next Frontier: Crossing the Threshold From Having to Being
A personal journey
Nafeez Ahmed
Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s...
John Pilger
Privacy, Control & the Darknet
Privacy, Control & the Darknet
Out of the periphery of most online users, there’s a vast, hidden space used by people who want to remain anonymous, which filmmaker Alex Winter explores in his documentary Deep Web. The film focuses on the Silk Road, a black market hosted on the Darknet using bitcoin...
27 min
Pressed Into Silence: West Papua, Indonesia and World Press Freedom Day
Pressed Into Silence: West Papua, Indonesia and World Press Freedom Day
As Indonesia hosts World Press Freedom Day, accusations of hypocrisy are growing louder. The Indonesian government is notorious for restricting journalism within the occupied territory of West Papua – something that West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor and Cyril Payen of...
Victor Mambor, Cyril Payen
What Does It Take for Activists to Get Your Attention?
What Does It Take for Activists to Get Your Attention?
For major protests today, it is standard to have a media strategy. For example, there can be individuals assigned to media liaison. The location and timing of an action can be chosen with an eye toward media schedules. Some actions are designed specifically to attract media...
Brian Martin
Wikitribune - A New Crowd-Sourced News Platform
Wikitribune - A New Crowd-Sourced News Platform
The news is broken and we can fix it. We’re bringing genuine community control to our news with unrestricted access for all. We’re developing a living, breathing tool that’ll present accurate information with real evidence, so that you can confidently make up your own mind...
2 min
We Need to Talk About VICE
We Need to Talk About VICE
Clip taken from A Very Heavy Agenda Part 3: Maintaining the World Order
12 min
NYT Mocks Skepticism on Syria-Sarin Claims
NYT Mocks Skepticism on Syria-Sarin Claims
The New York Times and other major media have ruled out any further skepticism toward the U.S. government’s claim that Syrian President Assad dropped a sarin bomb on a town in Idlib province, reports Robert Parry.
Robert Parry
The Uncurious, Continuing, Stubborn Refusal to Grasp Bernie Sanders
The Uncurious, Continuing, Stubborn Refusal to Grasp Bernie Sanders
The Democratic establishment and those in the media who support them keep making the same mistakes on Sanders and his movement.
Liam Miller
A Hacker Explains the Best Way to Browse the Internet Anonymously
A Hacker Explains the Best Way to Browse the Internet Anonymously
While it may seem difficult these days to remain anonymous online, it's not impossible. We spoke with Kevin Mitnick, author of "The Art of Invisibility," who told us the one tool you should be using if you want to protect your identity.
2 min
THE BIG IDEA (Basic Income Guarantee)
THE BIG IDEA (Basic Income Guarantee) (trailer)
Hi, I’m Matt Orfalea and for 3 years I’ve been writing and making videos about the BIG idea of a Basic Income Guarantee (aka Universal Basic Income)
3 min
Five Paradoxes About the State of the Media
Five Paradoxes About the State of the Media
We are living in a time full of threats – and unprecedented possibilities, especially when it comes to the state of the media. Let’s consider five paradoxes, in no particular order.
Vanessa Baird
Tucker Carlson Interviewing Bill Nye Is Like Watching a Turkey Trying to Operate an iPad
Tucker Carlson Interviewing Bill Nye Is Like Watching a Turkey Trying to Operate an iPad
Bill Nye is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News to talk about climate change and research to identify the cause of the cognitive dissonance in those who deny the evidence that the current rate of climate change is man-made. What happens is an object lesson in media...
9 min
5 Short Films, 5 Profound Lessons in Media Literacy
5 Short Films, 5 Profound Lessons in Media Literacy
Now more than ever, we cannot take news media at face value – we need tools to read media critically, strategies to discern how information works. This is what inspired The Listening Post’s project: Media Theorised. We’ve taken key works of five thinkers from around the...
The Listening post
Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News
Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News
Palestinian academic Edward Said’s (1935-2003) book ‘Orientalism’ showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ - while at once leaving them voiceless.
2 min
Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message
Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message
In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. His name was Marshall McLuhan and you've probably heard his most quoted line: "The...
2 min
How to Read the Signs in the News
How to Read the Signs in the News
Roland Barthes The work of French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is difficult, slippery, whimsical - it calls on us to read the world around us as a series of texts. He would have seen the TV screen as a cultural text - there to be read, interpreted, decoded.
3 min
Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News
Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News
Known as the ‘Godfather of Multiculturalism’, Stuart Hall (1932-2014) gave us tools to understand how representation is always imbued with ideology - and how to resist.
3 min
Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
For decades, Noam Chomsky has been the agent provocateur when it comes to critiquing the US mainstream media. He co-authored ‘Manufacturing Consent’, a seminal work on mainstream journalism and its role in the mechanics of power.
5 min
Jon Stewart Returns to Urge the Media to Break Up With Trump
Jon Stewart Returns to Urge the Media to Break Up With Trump
Worried that the mainstream media's breakup with President Trump has reporters feeling blue, Jon Stewart stops by with relationship advice.
10 min
Want to Make Films for Action? Here are Some Handy Video Guides to Get You Started
Want to Make Films For Action? Here are Some Handy Video Guides to Get You Started
Videos are a fantastic tool for activism and advocacy. Here are a few video guides to creating films of your own. Produced by Witness, you can find many more helpful videos and written materials on their website.
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First They Came for the Immigrants - And NYT Said People Should Anonymously Inform on Them
First They Came for the Immigrants - And NYT Said People Should Anonymously Inform on Them
As Donald Trump issued an executive order intended to single out Muslims for immigration restrictions, many Americans searched their consciences for the right way to respond to this act of discrimination by their government. “First they came for the Communists/And I did not...
Jim Naureckas
Celebrity Is Not Just Harmless Fun – It’s the Lieutenant of Exploitation
Celebrity Is Not Just Harmless Fun – It’s the Lieutenant of Exploitation
Our failure to understand the link between fame and big business made the rise of Trump inevitable
George Monbiot
Fake News: Sensibly Navigating the Information Highway
Fake News: Sensibly Navigating the Information Highway
Many people are telling us who to believe and who not to believe using lists of “fake news” outlets that  inevitably encourage censorship, yet there is a much more sensible way to approach the issue. Humans live their lives based on stories, we make choices based on beliefs...
Jacob Devaney
Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites
Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites
We still don’t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting “The List” -- the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper’s fawning coverage on November 24. The project of smearing 200 websites with one broad brush...
Norman Solomon
All the News Is Fake!
All the News Is Fake!
Jonathan Pie finds nothing new in the idea of fake news.
3 min
Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited 'Fake News' Blacklist?
Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited 'Fake News' Blacklist?
The Washington Post (11/24/16) last week published a front-page blockbuster that quickly went viral: Russia-promoted “fake news” had infiltrated the newsfeeds of 213 million Americans during the election, muddying the waters in a disinf
Adam Johnson
The Orwellian War on Skepticism
The Orwellian War on Skepticism
Official Washington’s rush into an Orwellian future is well underway as political and media bigwigs move to silence Internet voices of independence and dissent, reports Robert Parry.
Robert Parry
Who's Really to Blame for Fake News? Look in the Mirror, America.
Who's Really to Blame for Fake News? Look in the Mirror, America.
Consider for a moment the oxymoronic concept of “fake news,” which we have been hearing so much about lately. This isn’t your typical disinformation or misinformation — generated by the government, or foreign adversaries, or corporations — to advance an agenda by confusing...
Neal Gabler
Upcoming Event Trailer with Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Paul Jay, Richard Wolff & Srećko Horvat
Upcoming Event Trailer with Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Paul Jay, Richard Wolff & Srećko Horvat (trailer)
EVENT VIDEO TRAILER: Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Paul Jay, Richard Wolff & Srećko Horvat On the 15th of January 2017, acTVism Munich is hosting an event called “Freedom & Democracy – Global Issues in Context” at the Muffatwerk in Munich. The video...
2 min
The 'Washington Post' 'Blacklist' Story Is Shameful and Disgusting
The 'Washington Post' 'Blacklist' Story Is Shameful and Disgusting
The capital's paper of record crashes legacy media on an iceberg
Matt Taibbi
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