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. 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. This online exhibit was created Fall 2006 by Glenda Insua and Teresa Hebron, graduate students at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Wall of Films! | 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. 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. And all of this knowledge and introspection, dreaming, questioning, and discovery is essential for a cultural transformation that addresses root causes. So take this library of films and use it. Activism - Animal Rights - Big Ideas - Big Media - Climate Change - Corporations
Burning Man 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. “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. AirBnB changed the landscape for travel accommodation, giving people the opportunity to stay in other people’s homes rather than impersonal and expensive hotels. Many of these startups are based in San Francisco with a user base primarily comprised of “California hipsters.” The economy of disownership is social, local, and often mobile.
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.