Over 400 Social Change Documentaries on 1 Page. Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above.
Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves. Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover. From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible.
But most of all, we need to see the promise of the alternatives - we need to be able to imagine new exciting ways that people could live, better than anything that the old paradigm could ever dream of providing. So take this library of films and use it. HOME - The Bloom Series. Disownership is the new normal: the rise of the shared economy (infographic) “You don’t own me” is not just an idea for 1960s ballads.
“Disownership” is a national trend in America right now, as Internet startups transform the way people consume goods and services. Consumer attitudes and behaviors surrounding renting, borrowing, and leasing items, versus ownership, are shifting around the country, according to a study conducted by Sunrun and Harris Interactive. The survey of 2,252 adults found that 52% of Americans have chosen to rent, borrow, or lease items instead of buy them in the past two years. Twenty-four percent of Americans are more likely to engage in disownership now than five years ago, and 49% plan to “disown” traditionally-owned items in the next two years.
“These results show we’ve entered an age in which Americans recognize they can get more value by owning less,” said Sunrun cofounder and CEO Lynn Jurich. Part of this shift is due to the desire to save money and cut down on maintenance and storage. Local Lawmaking: A Call for a Community Rights Movement. A little over 10 years ago, a small, rural township in central Pennsylvania banned corporate factory hog farms from their community.
A couple of years later, several New Hampshire and Maine towns banned Nestle and other corporations from extracting water for bottling operations. In November 2010, the City of Pittsburgh adopted a law which prohibited fracking for shale gas within its boundaries. And just two months ago, at the start of May, Mora County, New Mexico, banned all drilling for oil and gas within the county. While on their face these issues may appear to be different – ranging from corporate agribusiness to energy extraction – the communities on the receiving end of things all have at least one thing in common: they’ve given up hope that their state or federal government will act to protect them. And so, they’ve stopped waiting – for new laws that will protect them, or for newly elected officials to act differently than ones who have been in office for decades. A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at the University of Michigan in the 1960s.
A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at the University of Michigan in the 1960s Introduction Students gather on the University of Michigan's Central Campus to protest the Vietnam War.
From UM News & Information Services collection, Box E-5 During the 1960s, college campuses around the country became sites of fervent change. Universities were no longer insular ivory towers but rather hot spots of student political activity. John F. The exhibit will concentrate mainly on the late sixties, the time period when most of the student protests occurred at the University of Michigan. Beat Generation. Knowledge of Today. Peaceful Uprising. Burning Man.