THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM FESTIVAL
Our jury has chosen 16 innovative shorts on the burning topics of today: Civic Engagement, Justice, Sustainability and more.
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Battleground Minnesota
- Register to vote through Rock the Vote.
- Join the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network to learn about upcoming Hip-Hop summits and campaigns near you.
- Get the facts on young voters from the Youth Vote Coalition.
- Explore the American Civil Liberties Union’s Congressional scorecard to see how your elected officials vote on today’s pressing issues.
All That I Can Be
- Learn about recruitment practices from the National Youth and Militarism Program of the American Friends Service Committee.
- Read personal accounts from troops in Iraq via Operation Truth.
- Need help for college but want an alternative to joining the military? Get alternatives from Military Free Zone.
Pizza Surveillance Feature
- Learn how the Patriot Act impacts your rights from the American Civil Liberties Union’s interactive guide.
- Help safeguard the privacy of reading records by signing the Campaign for Reader Privacy’s petition.
- Opt out from having your personal information shared or sold through the Center for Democracy and Technology.
- Sign up for updates from UnRealID.com to get updated news and campaign information about USA national ID cards.
The News Is What We Make It
- Learn about media reform and media policy issues from the Media Access Project.
- Discover who owns the media through Free Press’s interactive media conglomeration chart.
- Download the Media Policy Action Directory from the Center for International Media Action.
- Sign the Media Carta demanding media democracy through Adbusters.
- Sign the Bill of Media Rights and join over 20 million Americans in support of a diverse, independent, deconsolidated media.
Laptop
- Get 10 tips for donating a computer from Techsoup.
- Find your local library and get connected through the Library Index.
- Learn more about the digital divide from the Digital Divide Network.
- Take free computer tutorials in English and Spanish from GCF Global Learning.
A Girl Named Kai
- Sign up for Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gay weekly alerts and find a PFLAG chapter near you.
- Learn more about comming out in communities of color from the Human Rights Campaign.
- Get a roadmap to implement a better sex education program in your school from Sex, Etc.
- Help end discrimination and violence based on gender by donating to the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition.
Homecoming
- Start a Gay Straight Alliance group in your school.
- Demand that your elected officials support the arts and arts education.
- Join the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network’s Teach Respect Campaign to help end bullying and harrassment in schools.
Bad Choices
- Learn your legal rights as a juvenile through the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
- Volunteer as a Big Brother or Big Sister or enroll as a Little Brother or Little Sister.
- Make an impact with your digital story or film through the Youth Media Distribution Toolkit.
- Create your own digital story with help from the Digital Storytelling Cookbook from the Center for Digital Storytelling.
Happy Ending
- Get information on drug and substance abuse from Partnership for a Drug Free America.
- Learn how to cope with substance abuse in your family from the Phoenix House.
- Take a substance abuse quiz through Freevibe.com to learn if you or your friend has a drug problem.
- Make an impact with your youth produced film with the help of YMDi’s Youth Media Distribution Toolkit.
System Failure
- Support Books Not Bars in their efforts to redirect California's resources away from youth incarceration and towards youth opportunities.
- Learn your legal rights as a juvenile through the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
- Explore the prison industrial complex through the Corrections Documentary Project’s interactive map.
Fast and Reliable
- Learn more about Dexter’s messenger service, B&L Bike Messenger, by calling 212.560.0771 or by sending an email to bandlcouriers@yahoo.com
- Get the latest news on disability rights from CiviliRights.org
- Learn the 10 Commandments for Better Bicycling.
- Take part in World Car Free Day: September 22, 2005.
- Ride in Critical Mass, an ‘unorganized coincidence’ that happens on the last Friday of every month in hundreds of cities around the world. Find a ride near you.
Neglected Sky
- Calculate your carbon emissions with SafeClimate’s Carbon Footprint Calculator.
- Learn about global warming and the Kyoto Protocol through Citizens for Global Solutions.
- Test how your consumer choices effect the environment by playing the Great Green Web Game.
- Contact your elected officials about environmental issues through the Sierra Club.
- Get tools on climate change for your classroom from ClimateChangeEducation.org
Young Agrarians
- Support the Farm to School Program by signing the Community Food Security Coalition’s petition.
- Search the Local Harvest map for farmer’s markets, family farms and locally grown produce in your community.
- Read “10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food for You and Your Family” from Farm Aid.
- Learn 10 things you can do today for food, media and living democracy from the Small Planet Institute.
World On Fire
- View the entire list of recipient charities from the World On Fire video.
- Support the ONE Campaign Declaration to fight global AIDS and poverty.
- Get the facts on debt, AIDS and development crisis in Africa from DATA.
- Sign up for Response, the Action Against Hunger newsletter that will keep you informed on news and campaigns in the fight to end hunger.
The Luckiest Nut In The World
- Join the Big Noise Campaign and add your voice to millions around the world who are calling for decision makers to make trade fair.
- Purchase fair trade products through Transfair.
- Make trade fair through Oxfam America.
Something Other Than Other
- Discover your hidden biases through Tolerance.org
- Support the Mavin Foundation in their efforts to empower the mixed-race community.
- Get the facts on the 2010 census and its implications for the multiethnic community through Swirlinc.org
- Join The National Association for Multicultural Education’s listserve to discuss multicultural education, share resources, announce conferences and ask questions of educators and activists around the world.
