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Reframe: Bringing Together Vital Media Arts
In Fall 2007, Renew Media, in partnership with Amazon and with major support from the John D. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, ...
Posted on July 12

Tickets to the Media That Matters Film Festival Premiere (May 30) Available Now!
Join us for the World Premiere of the seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival. Be among the first to see ...
Posted on April 19

VICTORY: POM Promises to End Deadly Animal Tests
Last year, PETA discovered that POM was funding outrageous experiments on animals in order to make health claims about its products. It's ...
Posted on February 1

Chinese Regime Admits To Organ Harvesting From Prisoners
CHINA—In the middle of January, 2007, the BBC Chinese website published an interview regarding organ harvesting in China. For the first time, ...
Posted on January 23

The Dem Congress Must Save the Internet
As much as anything, last Tuesday's vote was also a call for Congress to end "business as usual" and return to governing ...
Posted on November 20

Blueprint for an American Empire
By Greg Grandin, AlterNet Posted on September 27, 2006, Printed on September 27, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/41972/ Editor's note: This is an edited excerpt from Greg ...
Posted on September 27

Biography’s Unnatural Women
On and off TV, men get better political roles than women. By Sarah Laskow, Yale University Wednesday September 6, 2006 The names are already familiar: ...
Posted on September 8

Mexico Court Declares Calderon Winner of Disputed Election
TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Mexico Court Declares Calderon Winner of Disputed Election, Lopez Obrador Vows to Form Parallel Gov't * On Tuesday, Mexico's top ...
Posted on September 8

New Report Calls on World Leaders to Protect Human Rights of Female Migrants
Women Make Up Half of All Migrants But their Contributions Often Overlooked September 2006 LONDON/NEW YORK — Today, half of all international migrants—95 million—are ...
Posted on September 8

Car Trouble: New Pollution Studies Show Which Autos Are Driving Earth Into the Breakdown Lane
Summer is the season of the car, and though sky-high gas prices may be shifting vacationers into a lower gear, we’re still ...
Posted on August 24

Serious Games Initiative
Founded at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. (USA), the Serious Games Initiative works to help forge productive ...
Posted on August 24

Citizen Action Can Combat Climate Crisis
"A march happens on one day, and then it's over. We wanted to enable lasting, long-term engagement on this issue, so we ...
Posted on August 24

Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes in Lebanon
Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes for deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon. In a report released yesterday, the ...
Posted on August 24

Film festival cancels cockfighting movie
The Edinburgh International Film Festival canceled the screening of a movie about cockfighting after being told it might be illegal to show ...
Posted on August 24

"When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina"
A year has passed since Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into the closest thing this country has seen to Pompeii. Although FEMA ...
Posted on August 24

You Call This Reform?
A decade after welfare reform, most former recipients still live in poverty. But now they have crappy jobs, too. Read the full story at ...
Posted on August 24

80 Military Recruiters Disciplined for Sexual Misconduct Over the Past Year
The Associated Press has revealed that more than 80 military recruiters have been disciplined over the past year for sexual misconduct. Women ...
Posted on August 24

Is it Possible to Solve Social Problems with a Video Game? Activist Gamers are Betting on it.
Video games have become ever more popular in recent years and have surpassed Hollywood in box office revenues. As the technology matures, ...
Posted on August 23

Student Debt Crisis: Are There Any Solutions?
A look at what's behind the ever-increasing cost of college and potential solutions offered by activists and government. ...
Posted on August 23

Where Bush's Arrogance Has Taken Us
This month's Hightower Lowdown offers a handy poster that lists all of the Bush administration's lies, mistakes and missteps on the road to an ...
Posted on August 23

President Bush Admits Iraq Had No WMDs and 'Nothing' to Do With 9/11
On Monday, President Bush admitted that the Iraq war is "straining the psyche of our country." But he vowed to stay the ...
Posted on August 22

Arrest Warrants Issued for Over 50 Grassroots Leaders in Oaxaca, Mexico
We go to Oaxaca in southern Mexico where over 50 arrest warrants have been issued for grassroots leaders staging a peaceful encampment ...
Posted on August 22

Three Ways (Out of 100) That America's Screwing Up the World
On everything from the lack of body counts in Iraq, to drug wars to torture, the United States is making the world ...
Posted on August 22

DCTV's "Baghdad ER" Documentary Wins Four Emmys
The documentary film, "Baghdad ER" was awarded four Emmys at the Prime Time Creative Arts awards ceremony on Saturday. The documentary chronicles ...
Posted on August 22

The Loose Cannon of 9/11
How a 23-year-old Army grunt-turned-film producer is undermining the 9/11 Commission Report with $8,000 and a laptop. Find out more about the film at MediaRights.org: ...
Posted on August 22

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