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About Films for Action At an International Level:
We created this website to provide a portal to the best activist-issue videos and independent news we find online. We've cataloged over 300 videos so far, and we add new films regularly that cover a wide variety of subjects, with an emphasis on information and perspectives not covered by the mainstream media.
With hundreds of videos scattered across the internet on various websites, both obscure and mainstream, we wanted to create a site that catalogs the best of these films all in one place. We've spent hours watching all sorts of videos, researching the issues they cover, and have done our best to include the best we've watched, while importantly, not including any films that are misleading, contain disinformation, or are simply not that great.
We hope this website provides a resource for getting informed on so many of the issues that are ignored by the mainstream media, and a way to raise awareness and spread the word to your friends. Just tell them, "Films For Action dot org."
At the Local Level:
On the ground, Films for Action is working to create information channels in Lawrence, KS that will inform, connect, and inspire action at a community level.
We screen documentaries at Liberty Hall regularly throughout the year. With each film we launch an accompanying educational and action-oriented campaign to address the issues presented by the films. We air films on our local public Access TV channel, Sunflower Cable channel 99. And over the last two years we've bought over 50 educational films, which we make available to everyone in Lawrence to watch and screen in their own neighborhoods for free. People can browse what films we have in our Lending Library section.
All in all, through the screenings, public access TV, this website, and our Lending Library, we hope to provide an information and resource network that will reduce the Lawrence community's dependence on corporate media, providing more meaningful and reliable ways to stay informed on the issues that matter.
What we're about:
We believe a healthy, independent media is essential to a healthy democracy, and that today it is clear we have neither. But the problem of the media affects every issue we care about. Whether we're working to address corporate harm, government corruption, peak oil, environmental collapse, the war in Iraq, or the war on working class people here at home - the corporate consolidation of the mass media in our country will always impede any efforts we take to create and find solutions. By creating our own communication channels we can break the bottleneck they have on the flow of information and cut right to the root of the problem.
With a robust, independent, and diverse local media network, we'll be able to launch more ambitious campaigns and win them more effectively. We'll be able to organize our community's latent collective power into a powerful movement for social and environmental justice. And we'll finally see the tipping point where our energies spark a creative and widespread renaissance of sustainable innovation, new thinking, and new ways of life.
At its essence, we'll be able to make real change happen for ourselves and for the earth. It all starts with an independent media.
Public Film Screening History | Attendees | Date | | Uncounted | 152 | June 02, 2008 | | Black Gold | 083 | May 19, 2008 | | Crude Impact | 105 | April 21, 2008 | | War Made Easy | 121 | March 19, 2008 | | What a Way to Go: life at the end of empire | 177 | November 05, 2007 | | Oil, Smoke & Mirrors | 258 | September 11, 2007 | | Go Organic! | 261 | August 23, 2007 | | Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price | 165 | August 6, 2007 | | Sir! No Sir! | 160 | June 25, 2007 | | The Future of Food | 405 | June 05, 2007 | | The End of Suburbia | 180 | April 23, 2007 | | Weapons of Mass Deception | 087 | March 14, 2007 | | Loose Change: 2nd Edition | 360 | September 11, 2006 | | Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price | 340 | June 05, 2006 | | |
