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Climate Change

  • Our friend, photographer VLAD SOKHIN, was featured on CNN!

    by Mitko September 5, 2019
    September 5, 2019

    One of the photos from Vlad Sokhin Photography’s “Warm Waters” exhibition, which is accompanying our film Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia, was featured on CNN!

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  • our friend Nzaou Rob is a photographer from the Congo!

    by Mitko August 19, 2019
    August 19, 2019

    He is committed to documenting the treasures and beauty of his country. This photo series, called “Madia ya bwala”, showcasing the indigenous plants and food from the Congo. The work …

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  • AZERBAIJAN:

    by Mitko August 13, 2019
    August 13, 2019

    after all the chaos of sudden change of venue, due to crazy wind, people found the new place and successfully had our event in BAKU!!! all is well when it …

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  • Indigenous rights are under attack in Norway!

    by Mitko August 9, 2019
    August 9, 2019

    Indigenous rights are under attack in Norway, where the “most environmentally damaging project in country’s history” is being built in the Arctic! What can we do to stop it and …

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  • Arctic summers at hottest temperatures for 115,000 years, study reveals.

    by Mitko August 6, 2019
    August 6, 2019

    ‘The magnitude of warming is so high that everything is melting everywhere now’. Glacier collapse shows climate impact: https://www.independent.co.uk/…/arctic-summer-global-warmin… [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]  

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  • to all activists, organizations, individuals around the world who might want to organize a grassroots screening of our latest Cultures of Resistance doc – ‘WANTOKS: dance of resilience in Melanesia’

    by Mitko July 24, 2019
    July 24, 2019

    contact us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com! let’s bring more awareness on these pressing issues and engage more people in making a change!! ‘WANTOKS: dance of resilience in Melanesia’- directed by iara lee …

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  • Slowly but surely rectifying history’s erasure of groundbreaking women:

    by Mitko July 23, 2019
    July 23, 2019

    Do you know about the woman who discovered the cause of global warming? “Eunice Newton Foote rarely gets the credit she’s due. The American scientist, who was born exactly 200 …

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  • had a lovely screening of our new film “WANTOKS: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia” with our friends from the Barefoot College in Tilonia, INDIA!!!

    by Mitko June 26, 2019
    June 26, 2019

    the organization reported that the solar mamas were all very interested and that those women from Mali took the opportunity to share about their issues with climate change and how …

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  • check out my interview with suomen kuvalehti, and learn about my newest film WANTOKS: dance of resilience in Melanesia!!!

    by Mitko June 21, 2019
    June 21, 2019

    thank you so much for speaking to me Katriina Kontuniemi!! https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/…/iara-pitaa-tunteita-herattavi…/ [Photo courtesy of Cultures of Resistance Films.]

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  • World premiere of our new film WANTOKS

    by Mitko May 28, 2019
    May 28, 2019

    i was asked on stage, what unites the work i do in PALESTINE, SOLOMON ISLANDS, BURKINA FASO, WESTERN SAHARA, PAKISTAN. my answer: resistance ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽 to the tsunami of negative forces. lets globalize …

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Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder/director of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity and connects and supports agitators, educators, farmers, and artists to build a more just and peaceful world through creative resistance and nonviolent action!

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Iara LeeIara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder/director of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity and connects and supports agitators, educators, farmers, and artists to build a more just and peaceful world through creative resistance and nonviolent action! Read more here.

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  • today my new, scholar friends gave me a full lesson on Buryat Buddhism…

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