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Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages
Ignoring the Cause of Welfare: Not Laziness but Low Wages
Numerous US media outlets recently uncritically echoed a methodologically flawed report by an anti-immigration organization with ties to white supremacist groups (FAIR.org, 9/4/15). Beyond this serious problem, however, lies a larger and more endemic issue in media: an...
Ben Norton
What 'The Wall Street Journal' Gets Totally Wrong About Bernie Sanders' Agenda
What 'The Wall Street Journal' Gets Totally Wrong About Bernie Sanders' Agenda
 The Journal wants to shock and awe voters with big numbers, but Sanders’s proposals would save America big bucks.
Joshua Holland
This Is Kobane
This Is Kobane (trailer)
This is a documentary of the struggle to survive and heal in war while bringing to life a better society. Kobane has had about 80% of its infrastructure destroyed and has been largely cutoff from aid and supplies. While struggling to cope with the military and civilian...
7 min
The Tao of Bill Hicks: “Chomsky with Dick Jokes”
The Tao of Bill Hicks: “Chomsky with Dick Jokes”
Mark Kernan argues that the late comedian was a shaman of our times
Mark Kernan
Not Quite All Things Considered: Why the Mainstream Media Discounts Bernie Sanders
Not Quite All Things Considered: Why the Mainstream Media Discounts Bernie Sanders
Recently, on All Things Considered—you know, that bastion of liberal media—Mara Liasson, talking about the prospect of Joe Biden running for President said: There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because she'd have a serious opponent, and it...
John Atcheson
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Televangelists
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Televangelists
U.S. tax law allows television preachers to get away with almost anything. We know this from personal experience. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption will not be able to accept donations from Church supporters from the states of Mississippi, Nevada, Pennsylvania, or South...
20 min
Vaccine Injury, Disability and Death: Making Space for Difficult stories
Vaccine Injury, Disability and Death: Making Space for Difficult stories
The stories of families suffering serious injuries are too often ignored, discredited, used to further anti-vaccine campaigns, or quietly accepted as a type of collateral damage in our noble war to eradicate the scourge of infectious disease from the planet.
AMY WRIGHT GLENN
Bernie Sanders Explains Why Elites Don't Want You To Vote
Bernie Sanders Explains Why Elites Don't Want You To Vote
In an excerpt from the 2006 documentary "American Blackout" Senator Bernie Sanders Explains Why Elites Don't Want You To Vote.
1 min
Why Big Media Shouldn't Get Bigger: Bill Moyers Interviews Bernie Sanders
Why Big Media Shouldn't Get Bigger: Bill Moyers Interviews Bernie Sanders
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of American media. Now that number is six. And Big Media may get even bigger, thanks to the FCC's consideration of ending a rule preventing companies from owning a newspaper and radio and TV stations in the same big city.
22 min
10 Compelling Reasons You Can Never Trust The Mainstream Media
10 Compelling Reasons You Can Never Trust The Mainstream Media
A poll in 2012 showed that trust in the mainstream media is increasing, which should worry all of us who value truth, integrity and press freedom.
Sophie McAdam
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
A Psychologist Explains Why People Don't Give a Shit About Climate Change
"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."
Bill Kilby
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!
Tim Hjersted
Big Brother, eh?
Big Brother, eh?
This week we break Bill C-51, down Klanada's sinister new law, that would give the Canucks increased spying powers over its population. On the break, long standing hip-hop act Onyx, returns with "Fuck The Law." We wrap things up with an interview with Antoine, a computer...
16 min
The Feudalism of Facebook: New Pay-to-Play News Feed as Indy Media Killer
The Feudalism of Facebook: New Pay-to-Play News Feed as Indy Media Killer
The Facebook empire of 1.4 billion users just conquered new territory, unrolling a "partnership" to host articles from some of the most well-known news publications in the world, in a venture that critics warn poses a direct threat to independent media outlets—and the future...
Sarah Lazare
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paid Family Leave
Many American companies do not offer paid leave after the birth of a child, which means they probably shouldn't run sappy Mother's Day ads.
12 min
Facebook's Internet.org Isn't the Internet, It's Facebooknet
Facebook's Internet.org Isn't the Internet, It's Facebooknet
This week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Internet.org, its marquee project to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” is now inviting any website or service to join the program. According to Zuckerberg, this change—which follows...
Josh Levy
Radical Film-Making and Digital Paradox: the Case of The Fourth Estate
Radical Film-Making and Digital Paradox: the Case of The Fourth Estate
Digital media technologies are full of paradoxes. On one hand they are said to open up new opportunities, a “democratisation” of media, but on the other they are said to consolidate not just media power, but also the ideological frameworks that constrain critical creative...
Elizabeth Mizon
Obama's Anger Management Translator Speaks the Truth
Obama's Anger Management Translator Speaks the Truth
Comedian Keegan-Michael Key plays his iconic character Luther at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
4 min
Interview with Tim Hjersted of Films For Action
Interview with Tim Hjersted of Films For Action
As research for a panel on the subject of ‘audiences’ at the Radical Film Network‘s inaugural conference earlier this year, I spoke to a number of media organisers and radical filmmakers about their work and how they survive while doing it. This is the second of two...
Elizabeth Mizon
The Fourth Estate
The Fourth Estate (2015)
Following a 9 month long international screening run, the independent UK documentary The Fourth Estate is now online for all to view, download, and share for free.
80 min
There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday morning. The group, which allowed ANIMAL to exclusively document the installation on the condition that we hide their identities, hauled the...
3 min
Films for Action Is Launching a Pay-Per-View Section of the Website
Films For Action Is Launching a Pay-Per-View Section of the Website
Hey everyone, after two years planning, developing and taking our sweet time to get this ready, we are excited to announce the launch of our pay-per-view (PPV) section of the website. This section will feature films hosted by Vimeo, Youtube and others as well as our own...
Films For Action
If Politics Is Dead, Is The Election Its Funeral?
If Politics Is Dead, Is The Election Its Funeral?
In this episode, I look at the recent collapses within the political parties in the US and UK and work out is this the death of politics?
9 min
Free Hugs on St. Patrick's Day (Inspirational Video)
Free Hugs on St. Patrick's Day (Inspirational Video)
What happens when you take some Free Hugs signs downtown on St. Patrick's Day? Watch to find out. We are changing the world...one hug at a time.  Be a Part of the Shift.
6 min
The Gulabi Gang
The Gulabi Gang
In this week's show an homage to women everywhere, a look at the trolls from the Men's Rights Movements and how the Gulabi Gang in India who are beating down rapitsts with big ass sticks. On the music break, Bambu with "The Queen is Dead."
15 min
MSNBC Is Moving "Away From Left-Wing TV" to What?
MSNBC Is Moving "Away From Left-Wing TV" to What?
The executives at MSNBC are doing some shifting around of its network schedule. A source from the network
Ring of Fire
Filmmakers Behind "The Corporation" Launch Campaign to Donate Film to 1,000 Schools
Filmmakers Behind "The Corporation" Launch Campaign to Donate Film to 1,000 Schools
Get up off the couch! The filmmakers of "The Corporation" are raising money to launch a shorter, downloadable and affordable version of the film with a license for unlimited school and community screenings. If they make their goal of $50,000, they will gift the film to 1,000...
The Corporation
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2014
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2014
This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.
Films For Action
State of Female Justice: What Makes You Rise?
State of Female Justice: What Makes You Rise?
In LA, February 6, Flanders hosted a live public event, bringing together women from the movements for racial, economic, environmental and media justice to discuss creating gender justice in our world. This State of Female Justice event is part of a series, developed by...
147 min
Watch: Russell Brand's Brilliant Takedown of Toxic Fox News Rant in Wake of Hebdo
Watch: Russell Brand's Brilliant Takedown of Toxic Fox News Rant in Wake of Hebdo
"Violence and killing are the consequences of this hateful programming . . . And look who profits." In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Fox News has gone on a hate-spree of invective about all Muslims being to blame for the actions of a handful of criminals. The tirade...
Janet Allon
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism pulls back the curtain on Fox News, revealing how it built a media empire on spin, fear, and partisan propaganda. Through insider accounts and damning footage, the film exposes how "fair and balanced" was always a marketing...
78 min
What the Torture Report Isn't Telling You
What the Torture Report Isn't Telling You
Why is the corporate media turning torture into a debate? Abby Martin discusses the media's reaction to the Senate torture report and why torture has suddenly turned into a partisan debate.
4 min
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
John Pilger
Words That Start With F
Words That Start With F
Watch more reports from the streets of resistance subMedia.tv
3 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery
State lotteries claim to be good for education and the general wellbeing of citizens. But are they? (Spoiler alert: No.) Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
15 min
Taking Down the Daily Show with Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein
Taking Down the Daily Show with Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein
Abby Martin interviews co-founders of Citizen Radio and authors of the new book, #NEWSFAIL, Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein, about the biggest flaws in corporate comedy news and why topics like feminism and climate change are covered so poorly by cable news.
17 min
Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?
Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?
“Kill the Messenger” tells the tragic tale of journalist Gary Webb who revived the Contra-cocaine scandal in the 1990s and saw his life destroyed by the mainstream media. The question now is: Will the MSM continue its cover-up of this sordid part of Ronald Reagan’s legacy or...
Robert Parry
The Radicalization of Phil Donahue
The Radicalization of Phil Donahue
Mr. Donahue says he believed he was blessed, living in the greatest country on earth - but through hosting his show, speaking to people like Chomsky and the Black Panthers, he came to question what he had thought was true.
63 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Miss America Pageant
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Miss America Pageant
The Miss America Pageant...how is this still a thing? They claim to give more scholarships to women than any other organization, and, unfortunately, they're right. To illustrate these problems, John Oliver stages his own pageant with the help of Kathy Griffin. Connect with...
16 min
Ferguson: Chronicle of an Insurrection
Ferguson: Chronicle of an Insurrection
An in depth look at the events that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri following the police murder of Michael Brown, a black teenager. Also features an exclusive interview with former Black Panther, Ashanti Alston, about the state of black "America", abolishing penile power and...
20 min
Westminster Fear & Media Bias Shafted Scotland: Russell Brand The Trews (E150)
Westminster Fear & Media Bias Shafted Scotland: Russell Brand The Trews (E150)
Russell Brand The Trews (E150). Reaction to the referendum in which Scotland votes to stay in the United Kingdom. But were the odds stacked against independence?
8 min
Wayward Nation: The New American Dream Is Working Overtime
Wayward Nation: The New American Dream Is Working Overtime
The Wayward Nation crew heads off to Denver next, to team up with pioneer Ricky Padilla for the launch of his new company, Brown Water Coffee. The stakes are high, for right now Ricky and his young employees are less than four days to launch.
8 min
#SaveTheInternet: Web Giants Rally against FCC proposal
#SaveTheInternet: Web Giants Rally against FCC proposal
American web companies took on the government Wednesday, displaying messages to millions of users warning about the dangers of the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed changes to net neutrality. The government agency is looking to approve a new plan that critics say...
5 min
Wayward Nation: The New American Dream is Censored
Wayward Nation: The New American Dream is Censored
Eric Rusch
Russell Brand: Who's More Dangerous, Me Or Fox News?
Russell Brand: Who's More Dangerous, Me Or Fox News?
The Fox News Five are still angry with Ol' Russ. But who wants us to live in fear and hate - me or Fox News? You decide.
13 min
Thousands of Canadians Stand for Love and Unity - Powerful Indy Media Journalism
Thousands of Canadians Stand for Love and Unity - Powerful Indy Media Journalism
Between August 21st and 24th,  thousands of Canadians gathered in Ottawa to take part in the countries first Peoples' Social Forum - an event of workshops, education, network, and conscious evolution. As part of the event a unified march was organized towards parliament hill...
6 min
What's So Special about Storytelling for Social Change?
What's So Special about Storytelling for Social Change?
A new world requires new stories, but people will only listen to them when they themselves are included in the storyline. This requires a ‘gear-shift’ in conversations about radical action.
Simon Hodges
Fox News Objects When Boots Riley Speaks Truth to Power
Fox News Objects When Boots Riley Speaks Truth to Power
When Boots Riley from the Coup was asked to go on Fox News as part of a segment about a local music festival, the producers clearly hadn't really thought about what they were doing. When asked to describe the band he starts by saying "We're a punk funk communist revolution...
1 min
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives Be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives Be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
There have been increasingly vocal calls for Twitter, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporations to more aggressively police what their users are permitted to see and read. Last month in The Washington Post, for instance, MSNBC host Ronan Farrow demanded that social media...
Glenn Greenwald
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The corporate media loves to talk about violent protesters, while the biggest forms of violence in our society go unchallenged.
Mickey Z.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization
In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America's local police forces.
15 min
Films for Action: We Share Breaking Knowledge
Films For Action: We Share Breaking Knowledge
A lot of media organizations focus on breaking news. We're focused on breaking knowledge.
Films For Action
Common Arguments Against Anarchism Explained, and Rebuked
Common Arguments Against Anarchism Explained, and Rebuked
We don't need brutalising hierarchies of power to survive. There's nothing 'natural' about the world we're living in, we are not all inherently evil for no reason, and there is no justification for the domination that we experience in everyday life.
19 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: News & Advertising
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: News & Advertising
The line between editorial content and advertising in news media is blurrier and blurrier. That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste.
11 min
How TV Ruined Your Life
How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)
Comedy series in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television.
120 min
Subverting Media: A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism
Subverting Media: A Low Tech Guide to Information Activism
From stencils to ‘zines to graffiti and poster art, “Subverting the Media” takes us on a trip through the alternative media scene. East Harlem muralist James De La Vega, anti-patriarchal poster collective “Sister Serpents”, Bronx-based graffiti group, “Tats Cru” and Sabrina...
24 min
Wouldn't It Be Great If Tabloids Had Any Value to Society at All? These Images Imagine If They Did.
Wouldn't It Be Great If Tabloids Had Any Value to Society at All? These Images Imagine If They Did.
Waiting in line to pay for groceries, it’s hard not to notice all the ridiculous tabloid headlines: So-and-so wore shorts yesterday! Who's cheating on who? People are on diets! As entertaining as it all may be, shouldn’t *real* stories get the kind of attention the pointless...
Morgan Shoaff
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told
The corporate media isn't just distorting the facts on the Gaza assault, they're flat out covering them up.
9 min
Comedy Vs. Anti-Science: 10 Videos That Show How Humor Can Make a Difference
Comedy Vs. Anti-Science: 10 Videos That Show How Humor Can Make a Difference
From Colbert and Oliver to Sarah Silverman and Louis CK, comedians are torching anti-science activists with aplomb  In the latest version of America’s long-running culture wars, conservatives (and even some liberals) have zeroed in what once might have seemed like an...
Sarah Gray
Raucous Crowd Stifled in Net Neutrality Debate at Latest FCC Event
Raucous Crowd Stifled in Net Neutrality Debate at Latest FCC Event
Albuquerque, NM -- Frustrating.  This is the best way to describe the first public FCC question and answer session since Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed his “Open Internet” rules in May.   It wasn’t just Wheeler’s dodging of straightforward questions, or the recurring technical...
Matthew Toplikar
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