Social Action + Cinema Videos of the Day:

1) National Hispanic Institute LDZ 25th Anniversary (2007)

For the Cinema YouTube Video of the Day, Click here >>>

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If you read our blog regularly you know I love movie trailers - they’re fun and can get you all pumped up about the movies. With this I’ve decided to implement a new series here on TakePart called “New Trailer Alert” - so those of you that are like me can always keep up to date on the first glimpses we get at awesome new films.

Hot off their Academy Award winning film No Country for Old Men, the Coens are ready with another film called Burn After Reading and while the trailer isn’t up on YouTube (meaning I can’t post it), I recommend you immediately go here :

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/burnafterreading/

and download the trailer as fast as you possibly can! It looks to me like the Coens are working with Big Lebowski-esque material again..

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It’s almost X-Files time again - the new trailer is out!

I have always been a big X-Files fan, I even went to the first the screening on opening day of the first movie back in high school. It may not be the most overt show about social action - but one thing is for sure, The X-Files (while being fun, creepy and entertaining) does encourage folks to look beyond the obvious and to seek out the truth. And more often then not, the first step in political action is to look past what’s in front of you to see the reality of a situation. So watch the new trailer below:

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