G'Day All --

BRAVO !! to the increasing number of non-profit anti-poverty Community Action Agencies across the USA that are beginning to develop useful, informative film clips, and making them available to the general public by means of YouTube, Google, or other similar services.

We look forward to more such productions -- especially those providing documentary-type summaries of projects as they are carried out -- from identifying a community need, planning, funding, organizing, staging, and implementing, to outcomes achieved.

Agencies that possess high quality video films from previous years that are not significantly outdated may want to look into the possibility of having such material digitized, so that it can be uploaded to the 'Net without the cost and effort needed to re-create the content from scratch.

You will find the new Community Action Film Festival page in the following section of The Civic Action Free University:

Item 15 on the Site Navigation Panel, i.e.: "Community Action: National Organizations, The Virtual CAP, and On-Line Agencies Across the USA," at:

http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/yourturf/civactnet.htm#On-Line_CAAs

Or, you can access the Film Festival page directly, at:

http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/yourturf3/CommActionFilmFest.htm

Two items of special interest -- as seen in the top section, just beneath the LBJ / Great Society clips -- are:

1.  "The Shopping Bag Lady," that, as you will recognize, is a poignant dramatic production (not an actual case study) providing insight into the world of a homeless person.

2.  "Before the Mountain Was Moved" -- an outstanding award-quality 1969 film about Community Action in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

I hope this material will be of interest.  If you have questions or comments, please feel free to share them with the rest of us.

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Civic Action Options for International Impact

You are cordially invited to visit and explore our "Options for International Impact" Page, at:

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/yourturf4/internatimpactoptions.html

If you have suggestions for the further development of this page's contents, we would be very glad to receive them !!  Just drop a note to the Facilitator, at the e-mail address at the end of this post.

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>>>  If you would like to forward this material to others, the correct URL is:

http://civact6.tigblog.org/post/1816391

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Best wishes to all,

Dave Matthews,  Facilitator
The Civic Action Free University
http://www.tcafu.net
"Nation-Building:  Are You Serious ??"
E-Mail Address:  civact6@yahoo.com


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