Activism

Did the AIDS Doc 'How to Survive a Plague' Force Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch to Have a Change of Heart About ACT UP?

When David France was in the middle of production of his film "How to Survive a Plague" (Sundance '12 and an IFC Films/Sundance Selects release), which looks at the AIDS activist group ACT UP from its creation and most robust years through to challenges launched by the Treatment Action...

PUMA & BRITDOC Name Most Impactful Doc; Give 50,000 Euro Award

Earlier this week in a gala event in Berlin, PUMA and BRITDOC have given the PUMA.Creative Impact award for Julia Bacha's "Budrus," recognizing it as the film released in the past two years that has made the most significant positive social or environmental impact.  "Budrus t...

Will You See This Movie? 'The Yes Men are Revolting'...and Are Starting Up an Activist Network

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are the Yes Men, two men who have sabotaged many a meeting or PR campaign of the world's most powerful transnational corporations and bureaucracies.  By impersonating leaders of the world's most powerful institutions, they've apologized for Dow Chemic...

Watch: The Video Mayor Bloomberg Needs to Respond To (Video)

Last month, The Nation uploaded a video to YouTube made by filmmaker Ross Tuttle, that explored New York City Police Department's controversial stop and frisk policy.  A few weeks later, the video has over 750,000 views.  The stop and frisk policy allows police officers to more easily ...

SUNDANCE 2012: Naomi Wolf Causes a Stir at Activist Media Panel

At the Sundance Film Festival's Moving the Masses panel, which considered how the media can best be utilized for progressive change, Naomi Wolf had a message for her fellow activists: Ur Doing It Wrong.

Cast members and director of the head smacking whatsit, DOGTOOTH

Activism: Food justice and FRESH, the movie

Video Clip: Howard Zinn's A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF AMERICAN EMPIRE read by Viggo Mortensen

The audience for PRESSURE COOKER