activist media
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Read More: CAA: Truth or DareI got to be on one of those panels that really works. Well curated (by Julie Wyman) with people whose projects bounce off each other so that everyone learns. The…
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Read More: Milk ‘n Che: The Avant Docs
This is more of a shout out then I usually perform. Simply to say: hey guys, there are some great docs about these revolutionaries to keep in mind. They came…
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Read More: Faking The FunkyI’ve wanted to write on Be Kind Rewind for awhile (its retro-futurist dreamings of a soft-n-sweet hand-made people’s media revolution), and I did get to do so a little bit…
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Read More: Mother Rites
Two CA mother/media events/projects of note: A blurb I wrote for one: “Birthright” carefully and lovingly engages a diverse group of mothers who collectively narrate the many joys, burdens, and…
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Read More: The Revolutionary Roads Less Travelled“Revolution is, in many people’s minds, more about ideals, wild hopes, romance; too many facts, and the world looks impossible to change. Che Guevara was literally the embodiment of the…
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Read More: Feminist Movement Media: Thoughts? (see previous post)Feminist Movement Media The second wave of the American women’s movement was an outgrowth of progressive organizing of the 1960s, including the civil rights, youth, and anti-war movements. Betty Friedan’s…
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Read More: Encyclopedia of Activist MediaShould I have said “Yes. Sure! I’ll write two entries”? Easy to say with so many months between me and the deadline. Then, I put them off to the last…
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Read More: Learning from Revolutionary Film
To the Editors, New York Times, I am currently teaching a course, Media Praxis, on the histories and theories of revolutionary cinema. While I greatly appreciate Terrence Rafferty’s Sunday, December…
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Read More: Resolutions 3: Thinking Context, Place, and GenderI had the pleasure of attending 2/3 days of this impressively large and diverse symposium organized by my friends and colleagues, Ming-Yuen Ma and Carol Stakenas from LACE. This post…
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Read More: DIY Dilemmas
I went to an inspiring talk by Ian Mackaye, of long-time punk and more recent Fugazi fame. Since the 1980s he’s quite successfully run an underground record label, played in…