Related News ItemsPolitics and activism take center stage at CannesFri, 18 May 2012 08:29:00 -0700
One doesn’t usually associate the Cannes Film Festival with politics and activism, but both were in the rainy air on Friday, when news hit the trade publications that Harvey Weinstein had acquired the documentary “The Oath of Tobruk,” French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy’s film about the fall of Muammar Qadaffi, as well as “Code Name Geronimo,” action filmmaker John Stockwell’s dramatic feature ...
Read More... Rinku Sen: What Fires Young Progressives' Activism? A New Study Asks ThemThu, 24 May 2012 10:56:16 -0700
Today, Colorlines.com's publisher, the Applied Research Center, released "Millennials, Activism and Race," a report on the motivations of young people who are active in progressive...
Read More... ‘Lizz Free or Die’ is Winstead’s latest chapter of social activism and commentaryMon, 21 May 2012 07:06:55 -0700
In 1991, Lizz Winstead produced and starred in her one-woman show “Don’t Get Me Started.” Turns out she just was getting started: Since her days on the stand-up comic scene in Minneapolis, Winstead has played stages all over the world, co-founded “The Daily Show” and Air America and wrote, produced and starred in the off-Broadway variety show “Wake-Up World.” Her first book of essays, “Lizz ...
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