Casting - Badass Female Activists (tags)
We're currently casting a new documentary series about women living outside the norm and breaking stereotypes. Currently we're looking for women in the LA area who are on the front lines of activism, going to extremes for their cause. Please email us asap for more details, and address inquiries to Rebecca.
Get Ready for the 2014 Trade Tsunami: Lori Wallach (tags)
2014 could be Fast Track’s Waterloo. But between this prospect and reality lies a knock-down drag-out battle that will be quickly engaged with the dawn of the new year. Get ready.
Who Is An Objective Journalist? (tags)
In a recent New York Times article article David Carr questioned whether someone could be both a journalist and an activist, a question that was prompted by the role of Glenn Greenwald, a writer for The Guardian and a political activist, in reporting on Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks.
Eroding Free Expression in Israel (tags)
freedom
Intifada Activism Needed (tags)
Israel
Berkeley's Free Speech Movement (tags)
freedom
Corporate Media Fails to Separate Fact from Fiction at GOP Convention (tags)
Interview with Peter Hart, activism director with the media watch group FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, conducted by Scott Harris
Bahrain
Medical Self Defense & the Black Panther Party --An interview w/ Alondra Nelson (tags)
Alondra Nelson, the author of 'Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination' writes that “the Party’s focus on health care was both practical and ideological.” On a practical level, the BPP provided free community health care services. Simultaneously, the BPP railed against the medical-industrial complex, declaring that health care was “a right and not a privilege.”
Simple but POWERFUL activism idea! (tags)
A simple but powerful suggestion to enhance the impact of "occupy" and similar activism events.
Carlos Montes Arraignment and Protest in Alhambra, California (tags)
Six More Felony Charges are filed against the Los Angeles Peace Activist while demonstrations occur across the U.S. Citing FBI Harassment Policies Photo Set 2 of 2
Carlos Montes Arraignment and Protest in Alhambra, California (tags)
Six More Felony Charges are filed against the Los Angeles Peace Activist while demonstrations occur across the U.S. Citing FBI Harassment Policies Photo Set 1 of 2
Political Prisoner Ameer Makhoul Update (tags)
persecution
AF3IRM/GABNet/Mariposa Alliance Statement: 16 DAYS OF RAGE; 365 OF ACTIVISM (tags)
Nov 25-Dec 10: AF3IRM/GABNet to participate in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence to affirm that women's' rights are human rights!
Peace activism = climate activism (tags)
"Militarism is the way corporations maintain their access to their food supply — the planet." --Steve Martinot, Militarism and Global Warming
Truth Action in October (tags)
Contrary to some rumors, racism and right-wing propaganda are UNWELCOME at truthaction.org.
WHY KERALA,GRAMPA? is a recently completed 87 minute documentary about one of the most progressive communities on the planet.
Gabnet/Mariposa Alliance proudly affirm our participation 16 days of activism (tags)
November 25, 2008
LOS ANGELES - Gabnet/Mariposa Alliance proudly affirm our participation in the international feminist movement's 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence campaign. Along with over 2,000 organizations in 154 countries who have participated in this campaign since 1991, Gabnet/Ma-Al launches our own 16 days of activism, beginning on November 25th, the International Day Against Violence Against Women, with a nationwide Speak Out Against Violence, and ending on December 10th, International Human Rights Day.
Don White - La Lucha Continua! (tags)
Don White, PRESENTE!
Ludacris was forced to talk about our protest! (tags)
Last night, in the rain, we stood outside of the Ludacris concert in protest. Our information flier read, "We believe strongly in the right to free speech; we're not trying to shut down the concert. But we also believe in activism and education as a means to bring about a more just and egalitarian society."
Must See: Truth Revolution (tags)
911 Truth Activism
ACT UP Photo Show- official opening 06/16 (tags)
The ACT UP reunion and pre-opening opening was lovely. The actual official opening will be even better. Chuck Stallard's photo exhibit.
"Silence = Death: Los Angeles AIDS Activism 1987–2007″ (tags)
ACT UP Reunion Party and Press Preview Chuck Stallard's Retrospective
An Evening w/Marv Davidov: 55 Years of Grassroots Activism (tags)
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!! (tags)
Submit an article/letter on your views of the 1960s for our book!
The Activist Support Circle: Dealing with Activist Fatigue and Other Problems (tags)
Organizers and participants discuss this monthly gathering in Santa Monica.
submissions call for book on US activism (tags)
Submissions Wanted for a book about Amerian DIY groups and Radial Activism (Please Repost) We're looking for essays, comics and interviews with and by people involved in creative resistance and radical groups and DIY scenes in the US.
New, Creative not-for-profit Speaker's Bureau for community leaders (tags)
New, Creative not-for-profit Speaker's Bureau for community leaders like yourself.
Announcing Activism 101 (tags)
Announcement
Thoughts on Chomsky's advice about activism (tags)
Thoughts on building a modern movement...
BTL:Pagan Priestess Starhawk Draws Connection Between Spirituality and... (tags)
...Political Activism ~ Interview with Starhawk, pagan priestess and nonviolent direct action organizer, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Call for Artists-Moveon.org/Adbusters fundraiser-SITUATIONAL AWARENESS LA (tags)
Call for artists and party people: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: an evening of audio/visual activism 8/28/04 produced by perceptioncollective.org to benefit the Adbusters Media Foundation and MOveon.org's PAC. Help us spread the word about this one night political awareness show.
CALL FOR ARTISTS: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: an evening of audio/visual activism (tags)
Call for artists: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: an evening of audio/visual activism 8/28/04 produced by perceptioncollective.org to benefit the Adbusters Media Foundation and MOveon.org's PAC. Help us spread the word about this one night political awareness show.
Indybay Nominated for Activism Webby (tags)
Indybay was nominated for a Webby award in the Activism category. Cast your vote in the People's Voice contest! Voting ends May 7.
vrsn.NET_WORKS An online exhibition of digital arts and activism http://versionfest.com/default/archives/000193.html
LIFE AFTER BUSH Conference Updates! (tags)
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Activism tool, generously donated by the Bu'ushists! (tags)
Activism tool: http://www.georgewbush.com then click “action center” and you can hit the media wherever you like. Your hometown, swing states, whatever.
Those Freaks on the "Left Coast" (tags)
Those freaks on the "Left Coast" and their wacked out elected officials. Those idiots on the 9th circuit court couldn't judge a little league baseball game if their lives depended on it.
A Personal Chronicle of a Season of ‘Better to Laugh than Cry” Antiwar Activism. (tags)
Here is one NY-RTS' memories of the recent past- a memory of the particular groups anti-war activism.-- To be published on-line in the Journal of Aesthetics and protest. (print issue #2 to be released in late June, early July)
Antiwar Activism: Queers & Veterans Unite! (tags)
Note about upcoming Veterans for Peace convention in San Francisco.
This Will Make You Angry (tags)
Article about anger is the fuel for activism and social change. Focuses on prison issues and hip-hop activism.
New Online Progressive / Activist Forum Launched (tags)
This is to introduce and announce a new website called Progressive Forum. The Progressive Forum aims to provide an online political community for progressive political activists.
Spiritualism of Activism: Alan Clements Interview on KPFK (MP3) (tags)
1 hour interview with Clements on freedom, spiritualism and social activism
Put the words into Bush's mouth! (tags)
Have some fun and get rid of some of your angst and enter some gags in this week's caption contest. Gags could relate to the environment, war, neoliberalism or just about anything given Bush's track record!
Victimized UPS Worker - Please Make Calls!! (tags)
**PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE** WHAT'S HAPPENING: On June 21st, in the middle of contract negotiations, United Parcel Service in Williston, Vermont fired Dawn Stanger for the crime of "stealing one minute."
New Web Site For Activism (tags)
The cause of freedom wants YOU!
Anarchists Steal "News" Award at the Webby's (tags)
Anarchists stormed the stage at the Webby's, stealing an award for online "News" reporting. Indymedia had been nominated for an award in "Activism" ( many comments at sf link)
The Ecological Crisis and Finance Activism as the Achilles Heel (tags)
The planet is in a state of crisis. We are shredding the interlocking web of life on which we depend. This post is dedicated to examining finance activism as the strategic lever to transform the landscape of an unaccountable, unsustainable and fundamentally perilous global system that is destroying lives and land. In fighting such a system, we need targets that help us connect local struggles and global struggles.
Biojustice Activism Panel Gives Hope (tags)
One of the most compelling parts of the Biojustice/Beyond Biodevastation V rally at the Starlight Bowl in San Diego June 23 was the panel on grass-roots activism. Nine speakers from various countries came together and told audience members what's being done or can be done to stop the marketing of genetically engineered food and other products.
The Horror of Mass Violence April 29,1992 Los Angeles Citizens and Residents (tags)
The Los Angeles Riots of 1992 left a death toll of nearly 51 and material damages of at least $463.7 million dollars and up to $1 Billion US Dollars. Estimates were made from Shinyodo Marketing and Helen Zia a Chinese-American woman with experience in auto assembly and with Ms. magazine.
As some of you may know I've been composing a "flyer" to distribute concerning the activities of the state in regards to political activism.
Wired.com on R2K brutality! PhillyIMC hacktivism. R2K Updates. D2K activism. (tags)
Please forward widely. D2K activists should pay particular attention. After you read these R2K articles you may never look at activism (or hacktivism either) as you did before. To get to a version of this with banners, and where all the link URLs are clickable, click this link: http://cann.com/b1/messages/28/28648.shtml