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A SUMMER SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR THE TRUMP ERA [Video]
Here’s a summer survival guide, 10 ways to relax during the era of Trump.
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Act Out! [122] - We’ve Got 10 Years to Live, What’s Your Plan? + The U.S. is No More
This week on Act Out!, come with us as we dive into climate change nihilism, hope and why individual choices are the last thing we need to be focusing on as doomsday looms.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Nobody Speak" Tackles Free Press and Journalism in the Age of Trump
At its core, "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press" raises the question of where the line is between public and private, whether crossing it is “bad,” and whether the news men and women who do so ought to be held legally accountable.
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Act Out! [121] - Medicare’s Awkward Birthday + What Resistance Looks Like Worldwide
Organizers are gear up for 52 events to celebrate Medicare's 52nd, and Cultures of Resistance director Iara Lee talks about work as an activist, artist and filmmaker, how art is a catalyst for change, and what she's learned on the front lines.
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Occupy the Cinema: A Super Pig and Mankind's Future In Dystopian "Okja"
Okja is the story of corporate dream factories run amok. It is a tome on the real beating heart of capitalism and the implications of letting that system operate with little to no impunity.
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Act Out! [120] - It’s J20 Again, Rise Up + How To Use Able-Bodied Privilege
This week on Act Out! 6 months ago, people engaged in protests and blockades at Donald Trump's inauguration. Old news for some – perpetual nightmare for others.
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Occupy the Cinema: In "Rat Film," Humans and Rodents Claw for American Survival
Through all the invisible walls that it demonstrates are surrounding us, "Rat Film" seems to conclude that people will continue living and making due. People, in general, won’t be brought down. We’ll find a way.
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Act Out! [119] - G20: View from the Streets + A Pipeline Fight from the Tree-Tops
We take you to the streets of the recent G20 protests in Hamburg where hundreds of thousands of people stood, sat and protested as law enforcement once again made clear who it is that cops are meant to serve and protect.
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Act Out! [118] - Syria: Let the Kurdish Women Lead the Way + Team Internet & Israeli Arms
Given the ongoing wars, the refugee crisis and multiple players for profit such as the U.S., you might not think that in northern Syria, in what's known as the Rojava region, there is a revolution happening.
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Act Out! [117] - How Dem “Resistance” = Resistance to Change & Your Idea of Indigenous Art is Wrong
This week on Act Out! the Democrats are launching into a “Resistance Summer” – so we're launching into the history of their resistance and looking at present problems in this paradigm.