Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Philanthropy is activism.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.