Action against Citizens United which gives corporations rights to personhood.

"The Court's blinkered and aphoristic approach to the First Amendment may well promote corporate power at the cost of the individual and collective self-expression the Amendment was meant to serve. It will undoubtedly cripple the ability of ordinary citizens, Congress, and the States to adopt even limited measures to protect against corporate domination of the electoral process.

 

Everyday Rebellion

The Art of Change What does the Occupy movement have in common with the Spanish Indignados or the Arab Spring? Is there a connection between the Iranian democracy movement and the Syrian struggle? And what is the link between the Ukrainian topless activists of Femen and the anti-government protests in Egypt?

EVERYDAY REBELLION
The Art of Change

Everyday Rebellion is a cross-media documentary about creative forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience worldwide.

What does the Occupy movement in New York have in common with the Spanish Indignados protests or the Arab Spring? Is there a connection between the struggle of the Iranian democracy movement and the nonviolent uprising in Syria and what is the link between the Ukrainian topless activists of Femen and an Islamic culture like Egypt? And to top it off, what do Serbia and Turkey have to do with all this?

The reasons for the various people’s uprisings in these countries may be diverse, but the creative nonviolent tactics they use in their struggles are strongly connected to each other. So are the activists who share these strategies, new ideas and established methods. Everyday Rebellion is a story about the richness of peaceful protest, acted out everyday by passionate people from Spain, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, USA, UK and Serbia. These methods are inventive, funny and sometimes even aggressive. And the activists who use them believe that creative nonviolent protest will win over violent protest – and they are right. Nonviolence has scientifically been proven to be more effective and successful than violent protest. And the users of nonviolence are feared because they are rapidly changing the world and challenging dictatorships as well as global corporations.

Everyday Rebellion is a tribute to the creativity of the nonviolent resistance. The project studies the consequences of a modern and rapidly changing society where new forms of protest to challenge the power of dictatorships and sometimes also global corporations are invented everyday. Everyday Rebellion wants to give voice to all those who decide not to use violence to try changing a violent system. Because, as Ghandi said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 

IDEA, SCRIPT AND DIRECTORS
The Riahi Brothers

PRODUCTION
Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH

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facebook.com/everydayrebellion www.everydayrebellion.com "Everyday Rebellion" is a documentary about the power of the peaceful protests and the new forms of civil disobedience in a time of global upheavel. The film by Arman and Arash T. Riahi is currently in production and is expected to be shown in cinemas end of 2013. The accompanying webseries "Creative Resistance" by ARTE Creative presents every week methods of peaceful protest that are presented by icons of the movements, activists, artists but also by creative users. "Everyday Rebellion" is a production of the Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices and Mira Film, in coproduction with ORF, ZDF in collaboration with ARTE, Schweizer Fernsehen and with the support of: MEDIA, FILMFONDS WIEN, BUNDESAMT FÜR KULTUR, ZÜRCHER FILMSTIFTUNG, INNOVATIVE FILM and Pixel Lab. "Everyday Rebellion" ist ein Kinodokumentarfilm mit Cross-Media-Plattform über die Macht des gewaltlosen Widerstands und neue Formen des zivilen Ungehorsams in einer Zeit des globalen Umbruchs. Der Film von Arman und Arash T. Riahi ist zur Zeit in Produktion und wird voraussichtlich Ende 2013 ins Kino kommen. Die begleitende Webserie "Creative Resistance" bei ARTE Creative stellt schon jetzt jede Woche einige kreative Methoden des gewaltlosen Widerstandes vor, die von internationalen Aktivisten vorgetragen werden. "Everyday Rebellion" ist eine Produktion der Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices und Mira Film in Koproduktion mit ORF, ZDF in Zusammenarbeit mit ARTE und mit Unterstützung von MEDIA, Schweizer Fernsehen, Filmfonds Wien, Bundesamt für Kultur Schweiz, Zürcher Filmstiftung, INNOVATIVE FILM und Pixel Lab. "Everyday Rebellion" est un film documentaire et projet cross-media sur le pouvoir de la résistance non-violente et sur les nouvelles formes de désobéissances civiles qui sont apparues ces dernières années. Le film d'Arman et Arash T. Riahi est actuellement en cours de production et sera diffusé sur ARTE fin 2013. Décliné sous forme de websérie hebdomadaire pour ARTE Creative, "Creative Resistance" propose en avant-goût une fois par semaine une rencontre avec les protagonistes du film. Icônes de mouvements non-violents, activistes et artistes nous initient aux nouvelles méthodes d'opposition créative. "Everyday Rebellion" est une production de Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices et Mira Film en coproduction avec ORF, ZDF en collaboration avec ARTE et avec le soutien de MEDIA, Schweizer Fernsehen, Filmfonds Wien, Bundesamt für Kultur Schweiz, Zürcher Filmstiftung, INNOVATIVE FILM et Pixel Lab.
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