Activism and Organizing
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A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.More Information -
Palante, Siempre Palante!
The documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy.More Information -
El Pueblo se Levanta aka The People Are Rising (Newsreel #63)
Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.More Information -
The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.More Information -
Making the Impossible Possible
MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.More Information -
A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (52)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.More Information -
Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.More Information -
Sweet Sugar Rage
Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.More Information -
Up Against the Wall Miss America (Newsreel #22)
This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents.More Information -
Mill-In a.k.a. The Christmas Mill-In (Newsreel #6)
To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.More Information -
La Cocina de las Patronas
Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico, prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train.More Information -
Living Quechua
One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.More Information -
Berkeley Rebellion (Newsreel #20)
Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.More Information -
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)
During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement.More Information -
Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)
Felix the Cat goes on strike!More Information -
Anti-Draft in Boston: Boston Draft Resistance Group a.k.a. BDRG (Newsreel #7)
A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War.More Information -
Mohawk Nation
In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.More Information -
Yippie (Newsreel #)
Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves.More Information -
High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.More Information -
Resistance at Tule Lake
RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II.More Information -
Summer '68 (Newsreel #505)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
The Throwaways
THE THROWAWAYS is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black males in America. Recommended by Video Librarian Magazine.More Information -
Gideon's Army
Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.More Information -
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds, and Sovereignty
In Moloka’I, a group of Hawaiian residents oppose the biotech industry's use of their land to test genetically engineered seeds and work to restore ancient Hawaiian farming practices.More Information -
Three Tours
Three US. militaray veterans work to heal their wounds and battle with PTSD resulting from their deployments in Iraq.More Information -
Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)
In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.More Information -
Imelda Is Not Alone
Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.More Information -
War in Daechuri
Spurred by the U.S. government's plan to expand military bases in Pyeongtaek city, a war is being waged against the farmers of the South Korean village of Daechuri.More Information -
Drills of Liberation
In the wake of climate change, a new social movement emerges in Puerto Rico to protest austerity measures imposed by US colonial forces.More Information -
Either Or (Newsreel #)
A short newsreel showing the grassroots organizing efforts of the East Coast Panthers as they attempted to implement community-based social programs while simultaneously battling severe harassment from local and federal authorities.More Information -
A Meat-Cooperative a.k.a 6th Street Meat Club (Newsreel #11)
Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.More Information -
Catonsville Nine (Newsreel #18)
Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland.More Information -
Bobby Seale a.k.a. Interview with Bobby Seale (Newsreel #44)
Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.More Information -
A Song for Ourselves
A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima.More Information -
139X (Newsreel #22)
Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.More Information -
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Sanctuary: An Expression of Conscience
Refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War flee persecution and death only to be denied sanctuary under the U.S. Refugee Act.More Information -
Saints Rising
Saints Rising is a documentary presenting the voices of New Orleans years after Hurricane Katrina and the breech of the levees.More Information -
Rezoning Harlem: The Battle over Harlem's Future
A shocking exposé of how a group of ordinary citizens, passionate about the future of their legendary neighborhood, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process.More Information -
Radio Haiti
New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing.More Information -
Our Lady Queen of Harlem: A Portrait of Faith and Rebellion
On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community.More Information -
Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later
To mark the 15th anniversary of the 1998 student movement in Indonesia, filmmaker Tino Saroengallo interviews former leaders of the student movement.More Information -
Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing And The Fight For Fairness
A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.More Information -
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille
From Marseille come the stories of North African women making new lives for themselves in tense, complex, contemporary France.More Information -
Venceremos Brigade (Newsreel #)
A film shot in Cuba in 1970-1971 about two brigades of 500 Americans that went to Cuba in order to show support by breaking the blockade and to help with the sugar harvest of ten million tons.More Information -
Voices of Chinatown: Here to Stay
Fifth-generation shopkeepers Mei Lum and Gary Lum speak to how their work exists as everyday resistance to gentrification and creates sustained community in the heart of New York City.More Information -
Work and Respect
New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.More Information -
Hiphopistan: Representing Locality in a Global City
Young Turkish rappers, DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists creatively blend foreign cultural influences with their local cultural values and traditions.More Information -
Mother
MOTHER follows labor activist Lee So-seon, who for over 40 years organized for workers’ rights in South Korea.More Information -
Finding D-QU: The Lonely Struggle of California's only Tribal College
In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle, but its supporters fight to hold on to a dream that was never fully realized.More Information -
Finding Common Ground in New Orleans
Activist and poet Walidah Imarisha traveled to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. Through interviews with residents, activists and city officials, Imarisha succinctly captured the pain, loss and hope of the people of New Orleans.More Information -
Democracy in Dakar
This film explores the transformative role of Hip-Hop in politics in Senegal during the 2007 presidential election campaign.More Information -
Call For Change Series 2005
A series of 16 shorts on how NYC communities of color view their "State of America" and what they're doing to make changes.More Information -
Boom: The Sound of Eviction
In the early 2000s, San Francisco's dot-com boom brought a disastrous tidal wave of gentrification, which changed the city's landscape forever.More Information -
#Bars4Justice a.k.a. Bars4Justice
Hip-Hop activists give more than their talent when they come face to face with the justice system in Ferguson, Missouri.More Information -
...and Justice For Whom?
After the attacks on September 11th, 2001, new laws ostensibly geared towards domestic security will affect various communities in the United States and throughout the world.More Information -
COVER/AGE
Sickness does not discriminate. Why should healthcare?More Information
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