Environs, Films For Action and the Learning for Life Center in Topeka are all collaborating to bring you a film screening of Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action. We'll be very lucky to have the director of the film, Velcrow Ripper, in person to discuss afterwards. Ripper also made Scared Sacred and is currently working on his newest film, Occupy Love.Watch the trailer.
In April 2007, Films For Action screened The End of Suburbia to an audience of 180 people, and launched a campaign to have the Lawrence City Commission create a Peak Oil Task force, which would study the local impacts of peak oil and propose recommendations for the city to take action on.At this time, Films For Action mailed to every commissioner and many of the planning commissioners a copy...
November 13, 2011, Shannon Gorres gives a tour of the Cosmic Beauty School in Lawrence, KS . The CBS, now in its third year, is working to provide an urban demonstration site for radical sustainability, social justice, and holistic health.
This movie and website is making the rounds lately, so I thought I'd take a closer look. As a bioregionalist, I found myself asking a series of questions about what I found. So in the spirit of the website's admonition "not to take on, unquestioningly, a new set of beliefs," I share this review with the reader.
This from the City of Lawrence:Common Ground is an urban agriculture and community gardening program of the City of Lawrence and Douglas CountyApplications due: Friday, December 16, 2011The City of Lawrence and Douglas County are seeking applications for an Urban Agriculture/Community Garden land use program (Common Ground). This Request for Applications (RFA) is intended to assist...
This tutorial video offers step by step instructions on how to add an independent news headline. Headlines are news stories, editorials, or articles that are republished from other sources. Adding content to the site is easy and takes under 2 minutes once you're familiar with the process.
Pachamama's and Films For Action present a film screening of The Vanishing of the Bees, with the director of the film coming to speak before and after. Free State beer will also be on tap. Doors open at 6. Film starts at 7.
Today's LJWorld editorial about voter apathy got me thinking. I also find our abysmal voter turnout deeply troubling, and I think I may have a solution.If we want to inspire more people to go to the polls, they need something to get excited about. We're going to be facing some serious challenges in the coming years, and this can easily get pretty depressing to think about. Simply trying...
Films For Action is proud to present a screening of ‘The Economics of Happiness’, a documentary about the worldwide movement for localization.Both hard-hitting and inspiring, the film demonstrates that millions of people across the world are already engaged in building a better world – that small scale initiatives are happening on a large scale. The film shows that countless...
With the new site, Films For Action aims to provide a definitive online space where people can find out what's happening in the Lawrence activist community. Think of it as a Lawrence.com for events dedicated to changing the world. Film screenings, workshops, speaker presentations, demonstrations, direct actions, skill-shares, eco fairs, activist group meetings - if it's about making the...
Environs and Films For Action present a film screening of King Corn, with guest speaker Simran Sethi and co-director Curt Ellis.
A dangerous thing can occur when you start learning about what's really going on in the world. The problems start to seem so complex, and you're just one person, doubts begin to creep in. You sincerely want to help change the world, but from all this knowledge you start to believe that the world is too out of control and too big to change, so you end up not doing anything.What aspiring...
So, I was trying to get my friend to read a recent issue of Adbusters magazine."You've got to read this!" I said.
Amber, also known as Rebellyious of Chainsaw Shimmy Productions, adds a unique twist to traditional belly and gypsy dancing or what she calls tribal fusion. Tonight she is introducing the world, to what she believes to be the first belly-punk fusion performance in a small establishment called The Break Room, in Topeka's downtown. It will serve to exclamate the militaries dirty...
Rachel Maddow hosted her MSNBC show at Free State Brewery on Wednesday, discussing current national and state issues, such as union rights and abortion rights. Maddow said she has been following the ethics hearings of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.
A proposed amendment being debated in the Kansas Legislature would prohibit undocumented immigrants from being eligible for in-state tuition. This ammendment would deprive innocent children brought to the United States through no choice of their own the opportunity for higher education.
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.
Now that the new site has been up for a couple months, help us spread the word >>Our vision to provide a vibrant alternative learning library can only be achieved with your support and involvement, because this project is really about you, and all of us working together to change the media by becoming the media ourselves. Here are 6 ways you can amplify our impact:1. Regularly...
Oo-de-lally!! After twelve months in development, the site has finally gone live!! What started out as a simple plan a year ago to make a few minor visual tweaks and navigational changes ended up morphing into an over-the-top, head-to-toe redesign of the entire site. It's been an epic adventure of long nights, coffee, and dreams of the day we'll someday be done, but the day has...
On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld announced that an estimated $2.3 Trillion in Pentagon spending was missing -- and unaccounted for -- from the Pentagon. One day later, on 9/11, the story also disappeared, along with any semblances of governmental accountability and journalistic integrity. In the wake of 9/11 America was a traumatized nation where asking difficult questions was often...