The Future of Drones

Who says that drones have to fly thru the air?  Why not float?  Why not drive?  Why not walk?  Or better yet run!  Or how about little tiny drones the size of a cricket?  Maybe we could put a small camera and microphone on one?  Maybe put some weapons on another?  The possibilities are nearly endless...what will this police state look like in 10 years? [Click to Listen]

How to Survive a Plague (2012)

Activist Cinema Episode 4 - How to Survive a Plague (2012) is a time capsule documentary that uses archival footage and interviews to take the viewer back to the late 1980's and early 1990's when ACT UP took to the streets (including Wall Street) to protest the insanely slow response from the Government, pharmaceutical companies and the medical community to the AIDS/HIV epidemic. [Click to Listen]

The Manipulation of Our Fear

Way back in 1987 a government funded study, Perception of Risk, was published in the journal Science.  While the study is officially a look at how the general public evaluates and perceives risk, it also reads as a manual for the manipulation of the public's fear and the unrealistic desire to live in a "zero risk society". [Click to Listen]

Reasons to Not Protest

Mickey Z has written a fine column over at World News Trust in which he asks “With the stakes never higher than they are now, why aren't activists ramping up the pressure and looking beyond tactics that are allowed by those in power?”.  He answers that question with 5 fantastic observations about protests in the United States. [Click to Listen]