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Public Access provides a vital forum for the Lawrence community to communicate and share ideas. In March of 2007, Films for Action launched a weekly program on our local Public Access station that airs independent documentaries that address a variety of important issues not being covered by the mainstream news. We hope that over time this public access medium will become an increasingly useful resource as people seek out alternative forums to stay informed and learn more about the important issues that you rarely hear about elsewhere.
Films for Action TV airs on Channel 99, and is available to Sunflower Cable Television subscribers in the Lawrence, KS area. The films repeat each week on the day listed, with new films appearing each month. Public Access programs are also available on Sunflower On-Demand Channel 1.
Community television vs. corporate media...as explained by the guys from "I'm a Mac / I'm a PC."
Public Access Information & Resources For more information about Public Access TV check out the articles below.
PublicAccessTV_Alternative_Views.pdf - Public Access Television: Alternative Views
Community_Media_Report.pdf - What's Going on in Community Media
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Class Dismissed
Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people.
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Local Futures
A sequel to the Ancient Futures video, giving examples of ISEC's systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. Challenges the commonly-held belief that globalisation is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to be reducing the distance between consumers and producers to strengthen local economies and communities.
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The Great Energy Revolution
This lively and optimistic presentation on "practical solutions to climate crisis and peak oil" is full of illustrated solutions that are do-able here and now -- from conservation, efficiency and proven technologies.
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Big Bucks, Big Pharma
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Ultimately, the film challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being.
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Toxic Sludge is Good for You
While advertising is the visible component of the corporate system, perhaps even more important and pervasive is its invisible partner, the public relations industry. This video illuminates this hidden sphere of our culture and examines the way in which the management of ?the public mind? has become central to how our democracy is controlled by political and economic elites. Toxic Sludge Is Good For You illustrates how much of what we think of as independent, unbiased news and information has its origins in the boardrooms of the public relations companies.
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War Made Easy
War Made Easy brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages us to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors - messages which are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of the "war on terror." Based on the book by the same title.
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Zeit Geist
Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. Three parts, covering: Religion, 9/11, and the Federal Reserve banking system.
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Constructing Public Opinion
The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible film, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used by the media to not just reflect what Americans think but instead to construct public opinion itself. Exploding the myth that most Americans are moderate or conservative, Constructing Public Opinion demonstrates the way in which political elites help to promote the military industrial complex and how the media sustains belief in an electoral system with a built-in bias against the interests of ordinary people.
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Our Energy Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
"If world oil supply were a six-pack, we just popped the top on the fifth can," Steve Andrews says in a thoroughly-illustrated presentation on the coming global peak in oil production. Andrews is the co-founder of ASPO-USA (Association for the Study of Peak Oil).
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy
If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
Through numerous examples, McChesney, and media scholar, Mark Crispin Miller, demonstrate how journalism has been compromised by the corporate bosses of conglomerates such as Disney, Sony, Viacom, News Corp, and AOL Time Warner to produce a system of news that is high on sensationalism and low on information. They suggest that unless citizen activism can reclaim the commons, this new corporate system will be characterized by a rich media and an ever impoverished, poor democracy.
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Paradise with Side Effects
A documentary following two women from Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', a remote region in the Himalayas, on a 'reality tour' of London to see what life in the West is really like. The tour, sponsored by the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), exposes the women to aspects of modern urban life - homelessness, old-age homes, massive garbage dumps - that contrast sharply with the idealized media and advertising images that colonize people's minds in the 'less-developed' parts of the world.
With stunning footage of Ladakh, this is a valuable resource for anyone concerned about the spread of Western consumer culture and the ensuing destruction of the planet's cultural diversity.
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Bush Crimes Commission Hearings Pt 1
The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States documents the evidence on wars of aggression, detention and torture, destruction of the global environment, sabotage of global health programs, and the abandonment of New Orleans.
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Bush Crimes Commission Hearings Pt 2
The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States documents the evidence on wars of aggression, detention and torture, destruction of the global environment, sabotage of global health programs, and the abandonment of New Orleans.
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Turning Defense Into Offense - Thomas Linzey
This is a presentation given by Thomas Linzey at the annual Bioneers conference in California. Entitled, Turning Defense Into Offense: Challenging Corporations and Creating Self-Governance, he brings up essential thinking for advancing the environmental-democracy movement in the U.S.
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Beyond Framing - Thom Hartmann
In a Bioneers presentation entitled, Beyond Framing: How Deep Neuro-Linguistic Programming Communicates, Hartmann addresses how our ability to frame the fundamental stories of our social movements in our own terms will ultimately determine our success.
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Static - Amy Goodman
A Bioneers presentation given by Amy Goodman entitled Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back.
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Fed Up!
Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials, and activists, Fed Up! presents an entertaining, informative, and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it.
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War Made Easy
War Made Easy brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages us to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors - messages which are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of the "war on terror." Based on the book by the same title.
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The Future of Progress
A 30-minute video compilation of interviews with Edward Goldsmith, Martin Khor, Vandana Shiva, and Helena Norberg-Hodge. A concise and powerful challenge to the prevailing theories of development.
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Toxic Sludge is Good for You
While advertising is the visible component of the corporate system, perhaps even more important and pervasive is its invisible partner, the public relations industry. This video illuminates this hidden sphere of our culture and examines the way in which the management of 'the public mind' has become central to how our democracy is controlled by political and economic elites. Toxic Sludge Is Good For You illustrates how much of what we think of as independent, unbiased news and information has its origins in the boardrooms of the public relations companies.
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The Overspent American
In this powerful new video, Juliet Schor scrutinizes what she calls "the new consumerism"--a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system. Drawing on her academic research, Schor explains the cultural forces that cause Americans to work longer hours and spend more than they can afford in order to participate in a consumption competition with others.
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