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'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals
In most state legislatures today, "off the wall" has become the political center, and bizarre bills are no longer unusual.
Jim Hightower
Rocky Mountain Views Interviews Films For Action
Rocky Mountain Views Interviews Films For Action
We had a rare opportunity to meet with the co-founders of Films For Action, Tim Hjersted and Matthew Toplikar. Their amazing and free site is informative, educational, and on the cutting edge of a new type of news media. It's honest, innovative, and a leader in social...
28 min
War of words: The new Chechen terror
War of words: The new Chechen terror
For years the US and its intelligence services have championed the Chechen cause – legitimizing terrorism as righteous resistance. But after news that the two alleged Boston bombers were of Chechen origin, the story took on a new political dimension.
Eric Draitser
CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked
CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked
Yesterday, the US House prepared for the debate on the privacy-invading "cybersecurity" bill called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The rules committee hearing was the last stop before the bill is voted on by the full House.
Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman and Mark Jaycox
Evangeline Lilly Speaks Out on Media Reform: "Let's Make the Truth as Entertaining as the Lies"
Evangeline Lilly Speaks Out on Media Reform: "Let's Make the Truth as Entertaining as the Lies"
Lost actress Evangeline Lilly speaks out at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 2013. Her keynote tells the story of how she woke up and got involved in the media reform movement.
16 min
Amy Goodman: Corporate Media Isn't Mainstream; it's ‘an Extreme Media Beating the Drums for War’
Amy Goodman: Corporate Media Isn't Mainstream; it's ‘an Extreme Media Beating the Drums for War’
Journalist Amy Goodman made the case for independent media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver on Saturday, saying the pro-war views of the corporate media networks were firmly entrenched.
20 min
Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media
Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media (2012)
Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.
50 min
Programming the Nation? The History of Subliminal Messaging and Propaganda in America
Programming the Nation? The History of Subliminal Messaging and Propaganda in America (2011)
PROGRAMMING THE NATION  takes an encompassing look at the history of subliminal messaging in America. According to many authorities, since the late 1950s subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all forms of mass-media including Hollywood filmmakers Alfred...
100 min
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (trailer)
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.
5 min
An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg
An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mark, I hope this letter reaches you, and finds you well.
Sergio Toporek
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
The documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay. Share it with the world! Support the filmmakers of this free film here www.tpbafk.tv A film by Simon Klose
82 min
The Disease of Objectivity Is Killing The News
The Disease of Objectivity Is Killing The News
Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of editors who stand between the reporter and the reader. The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the...
Chris Hedges
Rap News 18: The Great Gun Debate
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
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
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
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 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'
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
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 si
Free Press
Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Jenny Nazak
Top 25 Censored Stories Of 2013 and a List of Independent Alternatives to the Corporate Media
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.
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 Whit
2 min
Miss Representation
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
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
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
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
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
'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
Award-Winning Journalist Amber Lyon reveals CNN Lies and War Propaganda
Award-Winning Journalist Amber Lyon reveals CNN Lies and War Propaganda
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both delivered two of the most controversial speeches at the latest session of the United Nations General Assembly. And while the Israeli's speech was aired in full on CNN, the Iranian's...
10 min
Exit Through the Gift Shop (trailer)
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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