The Center for Community Change, from which the Movement Vision Project emerged, celebrates its 40th Anniversary. What are the Center's roots and what is its future?

This film by MVL Film Fellow, Paul Brewster, shows us the current state of our educational system, then flips it on its head by showing us what our schools could POTENTIALLY be.

Immigration is a daily reality in border towns of Arizona. But the anti-immigrant hatemongers don't speak for everyone in the state.

This video, a clip from the forthcoming documentary "Arivaca: Life on the Border," was the first-place winner for the first-ever Movement Vision Lab video contest.

Check it out, share it with your friends, and visit BuildingAmericaTogether.org to sign the pledge for policies that work for all of us, immigrants and citizens alike.

For more on immigration issues, check out A DREAM Deferred. 

This hilarious video received the "Breakthrough Performance" award from the first-ever Movement Vision Lab video contest.

Check it out, share it with your friends, and go to www.BuildingAmericaTogether.org to sign the pledge for just and fair immigration reform and a better America for all of us!

Juan may be undocumented, but that doesn't make him unAmerican.  Learn more about Juan's inspiring story and sign the pledge at Building America Together to create a better future that works for all of us.

See more accounts like Juan's at A Dream Deferred.

Opponents of universal healthcare are trying to derail reform by scapegoating immigrants. On Feb 12, 2008, immigrants and allies joined at a rally in front of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, to demand health for everyone in America.

The rally included stories from Americans affected by the lack of affordable, universal health care in our country. And they demanded that health care reform where everyone is in and no one is left out.

The video ends with a call to action to sign the pledge for a better America for immigrants and citizens alike:

www.BuildingAmericaTogether.org

Sign the pledge today!

Brought to you by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and the Campaign for Community Values.

We're excited to announce our first-ever video contest at the Movement Vision Lab on Community Values and Immigration.

We know that, as a country and as a world, we're all in it together and we're more than the sum of our parts. That goes for both sides of the border. What would it mean to value everyone equally, no matter where they come from and how they got here? How would you tell America that immigration is about Community Values?

TO ENTER

Create a short video under three minutes (3 mins) in length and submit it through You Tube as a VIDEO COMMENT to the Community Values & Immigration Video Contest. Your video can be fictional or documentary, live action or animation, any form you want it to take. Just make sure it tells a positive story about the immigration and Community Values. To learn more about Community Values, check out this short film.

The deadline for entries is 5:00pm EST on February 29, 2008.


CRITERIA & PRIZE

The winner will be selected by the staff of the Movement Vision Lab (with no right of appeal) and announced on the Movement Vision Lab website and You Tube. The winning film, as well as runners up, will be shown on the Movement Vision Lab website and distributed to immigrant rights organizations across the United States. The winning filmmaker will receive a check for $1000 from the Center for Community Change.

We reserve the right to remove from the contest videos that contain defamatory or obscene content or that invade the privacy of third parties or that contain racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable content according to the sole opinion of staff of the Center for Community Change.

ELIGIBILITY

The Movement Vision Lab Community Values and Immigration Contest ("Contest") is open only to individuals who are legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, who are 18 years of age or older, and who have a valid user account with YouTube. The following individuals are not eligible: employees, contractors, directors and officers of Center for Community Change ("Sponsor"), Google, Inc., YouTube, LLC and each of their respective parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, distributors, web design, advertising, fulfillment, judging and Contest agencies involved in the administration, development, fulfillment and execution of this Contest (collectively, "Contest Parties"), and the immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling and spouse or "step" of each) and those living in the same households of each such individual.

DISCLAIMERS

By submitting your video, you are promising that you own all rights to all material in your video, including the music, images, script, and rights to include all persons, places or organizations included or depicted. Include your name, year and copyright on your work, as you will retain all rights to your entries. While you maintain distribution rights, by submitting your video to the Movement Vision Lab at the Center for Community Change, your grant distribution rights to the Center for Community Change for non-profit use. You also agree to allow the Center for Community Change to use your name, or your organization's name, identification, and likeness to use, promote or publicize your video in any manner, without limitation, and without compensation. You agree to indemnify the Center for Community Change, including for legal costs, against any challenges to the ownership, use of, or rights to material in your video or any other claim based, in whole or in part, on the content of the video. Contest is void where prohibited by law.

Any questions? Email lab@communitychange.org.

We look forward to seeing your video on Community Values and Immigration!

ENTER TODAY!

We're all in it together. It's always been that way, worldwide, and it always will be. Don't believe the right wing hype that we have to fear and hate each other. We all do better when we ALL do better!

A sexy but embarrassing film we made to recruit folks to the Movement Vision Lab blog (http://www.movementvisonlab.org)

What are the values that you and the people around you hold dear? In this film, community leaders from across the United States talk about what matters most to them --- the community values we all share.

A film from the Campaign for Community Values, connecting grassroots communities across the United States to build a society where we're all in it together.