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3:55 The Suffering Grasses Official Trailer CulturesofResistance 4,355 views 9 months ago Over a year and a half later, with thousands dead and counting, the ongoing conflict in Syria has become a microcosm of political tensions in the Middle East and an unsavor...
4:45 Hands Off Gaza CulturesofResistance 449 views 1 year ago The Israeli military's Operation Cast Lead, a three-week assault on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, was a display of indiscriminate force against the entire civilian popu...
3:08 Tehran Ratz: Graffiti for a New Iran CulturesofResistance 7,259 views 1 year ago Like any undemocratic government trying to stifle dissent, the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran has tried to repress controversial artists. Given that those who display their art...
4:40 Saffron Revolution: A Nonviolent Army for Democracy CulturesofResistance 1,763 views 1 year ago In 2007, thousands of Burmese monks joined in a massive uprising against their country's authoritarian military regime. The Saffron Revolution, as it came to be known, brou...
4:01 Militarism, Mutilation, and Minerals: Understanding the Occupation of Afghanistan CulturesofResistance 637 views 1 year ago By mid-2010, the war in Afghanistan had arguably passed Vietnam as the longest war in the history of the United States. At the war's outset many U.S. citizens supported the...
1:13:35 Modulations CulturesofResistance 49,177 views 1 year ago "We are not entertainers, we are sound scientists." - Kraftwerk Modulations is a feature-length documentary produced by George Gund and directed by Iara Lee which captures...
3:03 The Courage of Neighbors: Stories from the Rwandan Genocide CulturesofResistance 1,988 views 1 year ago According to Human Rights Watch, the Rwandan genocide resulted in the death of at least 800,000 people. In a matter of months in early 1994, Hutus slaughtered the majority ...
5:10 Fire in the Delta: The Struggle Against Shell in Nigeria CulturesofResistance 1,578 views 1 year ago Over the last two decades there have been ongoing conflicts over the exploitation and ownership of natural resources in the Niger Delta. This has resulted in a variety of r...
5:08 Sierra Leone Rising CulturesofResistance 5,682 views 1 year ago For 11 years, starting in 1991, a civil war raged in Sierra Leone that left more than 50,000 people dead and two million displaced. While no one was entirely shielded from ...
3:43 Picture Afghanistan: Teaching Photojournalism in a War-Torn Country CulturesofResistance 501 views 1 year ago Photojournalists from around the world have been sent to Afghanistan to capture the human toll of the war there. However, we rarely see the work of Afghan photographers who...

About Cultures of Resistance

Guerilla filmmakers and illustrators, vanguard gardeners and gourmands, insurgent musicians and writers of the world unite! The Cultures of Resistance Network was established to identify and support diverse initiatives in film, photography, music, food, and more. We believe that cultural insurgency is a powerful tool for supporting and embodying resistance to war, injustice, and oppression.

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