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  • Harvey Milk: Movement and Movie

    December 12, 2008
    "I'm not the candidate, the Movement's the candidate" -- that's what San Francisco gay organizer Harvey Milk said as he ran for Supervisor not once but three times, finally being eleected in 1977. Milk fought for self-determination for gay, lesbian and transgendered people - but he also for all of what he called the marginalized "US'es -- workers, poeple of color, immigrants, the poor.

  • Crutchmaster

    December 8, 2008
    Filmmaker Nicolas Jenkins profiles artists who push barriers and break rules - like Bill Shannon, a.k.a. Crutchmaster - an amazing performance artist/break dancer. Find more of Jenkins work right here. Both hip-hop and skateboarding were radical youth movements. Both impacted Bill Shannon as an adolescent. A style rooted in disability, Shannon's art and

  • The Story of Stuff

    November 27, 2008
    From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

  • The Garden: The Fight for Community Agriculture in South Central LA

    November 25, 2008
    The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods.

  • Morristown: In the Air and Sun

    November 19, 2008
    "Morristown: In the Air and Sun," a film produced by Anne Lewis and Appalshop, tells the story of labor and immigration in Eastern Tennessee, what Lewis calls a working class response to globalization. To find out more about the film and to arrange a screening go to annelewis.org - it's available in both English and Spanish.

  • Slingshot Hip Hop

    November 13, 2008
    Jackie Salloum - maker of the award-winning Planet of The Arabs - has a new film: Slingshot Hip Hop. This one is starting to win awards too, at festivals all around the world. The film focuses on the stories of young Palestinians as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.

  • Terrorizing Dissent: Unlawful Arrests At The RNC

    November 7, 2008
    We have unlawful search and seizure. We have unlawful arrest without probably cause.... Mass arrest and detention without probable cause.... Then you have excessive force. Spraying people point blank range with mace who aren't resisting and who are peaceful is excessive force. Beating people in jail is excessive force... Those all should be criminal complaints.

  • Soldiers Speak Out

    October 26, 2008
    Soldiers Speak Out is a powerful, first-hand testament to the reality of the military experience told entirely in the words of American veterans who have been to war and are now opposing it. What you're seeing here is a short trailer for the project. We hear how they came to join the military, about their experiences in training and in war, and what led to the turning point when they decided

  • Agit Pop: Bail Out Mainstreet

    October 1, 2008
    The free markets are completely discredited. There is significant political space to build a broad consensus for a 21st-Century New Deal that would stop spending our tax dollars on war and Wall Street, and instead help struggling homeowners and build affordable housing; fund job creating projects for clean energy and rebuilding our infrastructure; and fund a universal health-care system that would help American families, while cutting the nation's long-term healthcare costs.

  • Split: A Divided America

    September 25, 2008
    We have a preview of Kelly Nyks’s Split: A Divided America a documentary film that takes a behind the scenes look at partisanship, rancor, and division in American politics.
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