Ethics & Value Systems

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A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture synthesis of environmentalism - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years worldwide. It tells the story of the environmental movement from conservation to climate change. We focus on activism -- people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future. Our concerns are connecting causes, how the issues grew, exploring ideas and the evolution of a vision. The common theme is a struggle to save nature against the destructive impact of humanity – from halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization. Our thesis is that this is the time when mankind must learn to live with nature, move beyond the exploitation at the heart of industrial society and find a way based on biology, balancing human needs with the natural world that sustains us, creating a living planet. As Stewart Brand says in the film, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are Spaceship Earth. We are Gaia.”  

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From Emmy award-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz, CRISIS CALL 211 is a documentary film that will present a powerful portrait of the effects of America's prolonged economic recession, as well as the impact of billions of dollars in budget cuts to the country's social safety net, from the vantage point of families in crisis who are searching for help.

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Media has fueled our nation's deadly gun violence epidemic, so Beyond Bullets is using media to change the message about gun violence and become part of the solution. By putting cameras instead of guns into the hands of youth, Beyond Bullets distributes youth-created anti-gun violence videos and starts community conversations about ways to stop the carnage.

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Vamas a Hablar (Let’s Talk) is a bi-lingual video aimed at Latino/a youth and families to help them work together to prevent unwanted pregnancies and work towards reproductive health through open communication. The video is told from the perspective of Latino teen parents, Spanish speaking adults, some of whom were teen parents themselves, and professionals in the fields of education, health and psychology. It address issues such as information, self-esteem, consequences, culture and parenting styles.

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HOME COUNTRY  is a meditation on personal geography across the shifting meanings of home and identity in the 21st century.  

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The four-part public television series Standing on Sacred Ground tells eight compelling stories of indigenous people around the world resisting the destruction of their culture and sacred lands. 

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Rise of the Phoenix is a feature length documentary that examines how the unprecedented transformation of China's economy is changing the roles, rights and status of modern day Chinese women as witnessed by four or five women from very different social and economic backgrounds. These intimate and sometimes heart-breaking stories reflect a remarkable sexual revolution redefining one-fifth of the world's population despite a gender-biased tradition.