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2) F.T.A
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
“The Show the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop!” In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. It was directly engaged with and inspired by veterans against the war and, naturally, it upset U.S. military higher-ups. The F.T.A. tour was highly controversial and was a huge success among stationed soldiers. In spite of positive reviews and business, director Francine Parker’s...
Publisher
Participant Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
עברית
Description
Please note that this Film is only available through participating public libraries. Legendary activist Arna Mer Khamis married a Palestinian Arab and spent her life campaigning for justice and human rights in her homeland of Israel. She founded an alternative education system and opened a theatre group for Palestinian children. Five years after Arna’s death, Juliano returns to the camp to discover what happened to ARNA’S CHILDREN.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK: A RUSTBOWL FANTASY is as eccentric a picture of America as has emerged in the last two decades. Like Buba’s earlier short films, it chronicles the decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a hard-luck town which once flourished as “Pittsburgh’s shopping center.” It concerns a director (Buba, playing himself) trying, without much success, to make a movie with a crazy street hustler named Sal, who considers himself responsible...
5) Unchained
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the activism of Carol Buckley with elephants in captivity and how they are trained, forced to long working hours and living in a clearly improvable conditions.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Albert Einstein, the most famous scientist of all time, was a world renowned celebrity, greeted like a rock star when he appeared in public. An anti-war firebrand, Einstein also spoke out on issues ranging from women's rights and racism to immigration and nuclear arms control. But today, his image has been neutered into that of a charmingly absent-minded genius. He was, in fact, a powerful force for social change and a model for political activism.
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...7) The Falconer
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Rodney Stotts is one of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, and a local celebrity of sorts. He’s also a former drug dealer, inmate, single father, drive-by-shooting victim, and survivor of the crack epidemic in Southeast, Washington DC- the most dangerous neighborhood in what was then the murder capital of the U.S. A self-proclaimed animal junkie, Rodney has relied on the healing power of nature throughout his life. In this...
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin, using her beauty and brass to stand up against an oppressive juggernaut— the Chinese communist government. Drama, danger and fear follow Anastasia as she becomes the darling of the human rights community, traveling the globe to bring the world’s attention to an increasing list of China’s atrocities, including the persecution of prisoners of conscience and live forced organ harvesting. An...
9) Yellow Fever
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
YELLOW FEVER follows Tina Garnanez, a Navajo veteran returning from duty with the U.S. Army who realizes that her home on the Navajo Reservation has become a battleground in a protracted war over nuclear proliferation. As she seeks to learn about her own family history and its relationship to the uranium mines, we witness her evolution from curious family member to environmental justice activist.
10) The Paw Project
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
THE PAW PROJECT chronicles the David and Goliath story of a tiny grassroots movement taking on big veterinary corporations in an effort to ban the de-clawing of cats.
12) Feminista
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
FEMENISTA is a lively and inspiring feminist road movie that explores the largely unrecognized yet hugely vibrant pan European feminist movement. Filmmaker Myriam Fougère joined an international group of young feminists who were traveling across twenty countries – from Turkey to Portugal, by way of the Balkans, to Italy, Spain and Portugal – to make connections and unite forces with other women. She witnessed these determined activists participating...
13) Save the Farm
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
SAVE THE FARM tells the story of the largest urban farm in the United States, a 14-acre organic farm sitting right in the middle of South Central Los Angeles. Over 350 families cultivated this farm, which fed a community of thousands through a farmer's market, and created an urban oasis for more than 14 years. But when the city sells this public tract of land to a developer in a closed door session, activists and celebrities stage an 11th hour tree-sit...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Transform your yoga practice into a force for creating social change with this concise, eloquent guide to social justice tools and skills. Skill in Action asks you to explore the deeply transformational practice of yoga as a way to become an agent of social change and work toward a just world. Through yoga practices and philosophy, this book explores liberation for ourselves and others, while asking us to engage in our own agency-whether that manifests...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Being a good citizen means standing up for what's right-and here's just the way to start. From the author of The Gutsy Girl comes a book for those with a fierce sense of justice, a good sense of humor, and a big heart. This guide features change-maker tips, tons of DIY activities, and stories about the kids who have paved the way before, from famous activists like Malala Yousafzai and Claudette Colvin to the everyday young people whose habit changes...
Author
Series
Miranda and Maude volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Princess Miranda is horrified when her parents insist she attend public school, especially because Maude, who sits next to her in 3B, is everything the princess finds most offensive.
17) Speak up
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text encourage the reader to speak up about everything from their own name being mispronounced to someone bring a weapon to school. Includes author's note about real people who have found their voices, when to speakup, and how to express oneself without speaking.
Publisher
Smart Street Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Episode 3: Gary Foley - Australian Black Panther High profile Aboriginal activist Gary Foley was a member of the Black Panthers and a leader in the fight for land rights and social justice. ASIO saw this struggle as a front for violent world communism. Suspected of conspiring to commit acts of terror and subversion his extraordinary life was recorded in detail. Professor Foley gives us a hard hitting and at times hilarious analysis of his intelligence...
Publisher
Smart Street Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Episode 4: Frank Hardy - But The Dead Are many Author Frank Hardy was the most outspoken and well known Communist in Australia. He was a gambler, larrikin and for 45 years a target for ASIO. His story is the story of the left itself as he struggles with misplaced faith. It’s also the story of the Australian intelligence services and the future of surveillance.
Publisher
Smart Street Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Voted documentary series of the year by the Australian Film Critics Circle, PERSONS OF INTEREST lifts the lid on the Australian Intelligence & Security Organisation’s (ASIO) secret war on dissent. In each episode a person of interest is given their previously secret intelligence file and asked to explain the allegations it contains. Using never before seen ASIO surveillance films, photographs and the actual files this is a unique insight into the...
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