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Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (2022) (trailer)
BUFFALO SOLDIERS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS, explores the often-contradictory role played by Black soldiers throughout American history, with particular emphasis on the settling of the American West and colonialism abroad. A film by Dru Holley.
2 min
The Media Bias Nobody is Talking About | Robert Reich
The Media Bias Nobody is Talking About | Robert Reich
Robert Reich breaks down how the mainstream media draws a false equivalence between the right and the left and misleads the public about what's really at stake.
6 min
American Fascism And The Groomer Panic
American Fascism And The Groomer Panic
We've seen a number of moral panics over the decades, and this one is no different. Come learn how the same old tropes are being recycled to animate this latest strain of American fascism. - Second Thought 
27 min
Do We Really Live Under Capitalism?
Do We Really Live Under Capitalism?
One of the most common objections to critiques of capitalism is "we don't have real capitalism, we have corporatism" or "crony capitalism" or even "techno-feudalism." These claims are often well-intentioned, but they miss the point. Let's talk about capitalism, corporatism...
15 min
What Red Pill Philosophy Gets Wrong
What Red Pill Philosophy Gets Wrong
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40 min
Who Is Attracted to Policing Jobs? | Brian Klaas
Who Is Attracted to Policing Jobs? | Brian Klaas
Brian Klaas argues that the key to police reform is changing who wants to be a cop.
5 min
How "Woke Racism" Hurts Black People | John McWhorter
How "Woke Racism" Hurts Black People | John McWhorter
"Just because someone claims to be helping you, doesn’t mean they actually are."
5 min
There Is a Diversity of Thought in the Trans Community | Zander Keig
There Is a Diversity of Thought in the Trans Community | Zander Keig
"Within any community, people think differently.  To think that a group all thinks alike is called stereotyping. This is a particular issue within minority communities. Large majority groups are often assumed to have differences of opinion within them. But in smaller...
6 min
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Portland, Oregon to talk with architect Mark Lakeman, founder of Communitecture Architecture and the City Repair Project. Mark initiated a movement in Portland to transform the homogenous neighborhoods of the city into...
17 min
The First Step to Fixing the Electoral College | Robert Reich
The First Step to Fixing the Electoral College | Robert Reich
Swing state voters will have more say over the 2024 election than the 80% of Americans in other states. Does that sound like democracy to you? Here's how we fix the Electoral College. If you want to know more or get involved, click the link below to read about the National...
6 min
10 Minutes Matter
10 Minutes Matter
70% of children experiencing mental health problems do not receive intervention early enough. That's why 10 minutes to talk to a child in your life could really make a difference.
2 min
The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed | Robert Reich
The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed | Robert Reich
Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country. They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.
5 min
Why I Don't Care About Your Flight Emissions
Why I Don't Care About Your Flight Emissions
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at climate hypocrisy and carbon guilt. Specifically, I dig into why I don't care about your flight emissions, and how our attention to individual carbon footprints and worries about being seen as hypocritical...
24 min
Are You Paid What You’re Worth? | Robert Reich
Are You Paid What You’re Worth? | Robert Reich
The idea that everyone is "paid what they're worth" has proven to be a cruelly effective way to put the blame on workers for not getting ahead — while giving the rich and powerful cover to rig the game for their own benefit. Don't buy it. 
5 min
6 Black Men vs 1 Secret White Guy
6 Black Men vs 1 Secret White Guy
WHO IS JUBILEE? We believe in the power of empathy for human good. Ultimately, we aim to inspire people to EMBRACE EMPATHY.
20 min
Why You Can't Ignore This Far-Right Trend
Why You Can't Ignore This Far-Right Trend
In this video, I look at the rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the world gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable there are now glimpses of two trends within the far right that are a reaction to climate change. Ecofascism and fossil...
25 min
Gratitude Revealed
Gratitude Revealed (2022)
Gratitude Revealed is a remarkable cinematic documentary that has been forty years in the making.
82 min
How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses
How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses
How do we add mixed uses in single detached neighborhoods? People have some ideas… - About Here
9 min
How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World
How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World
In this video, we explore the concept of the 15-minute city, debunking common misconceptions and conspiracy theories surrounding it. We'll reframe the discussion to focus on the true intentions behind the idea, emphasizing its potential to create sustainable and thriving...
13 min
The Most Sustainable City In America
The Most Sustainable City In America
Over the last few weeks, I reached out to sustainability experts around the world, crunched a bunch of numbers, and asked all of you for help finding the most sustainable city in America. Here's what I learned. - Distilled
12 min
How Consumerism Ruins Our Planet and Finances
How Consumerism Ruins Our Planet and Finances
Consumerism is destroying our earth and our wallets - here's how. In this video essay, we're discussing the advertisement-driven world we live in, the ways consumerism impacts personal finance, mental health, and the environment, and what we can do to combat consumerism.
10 min
Our Obsession with Economic Growth is Deadly
Our Obsession with Economic Growth is Deadly
We are surrounded by stuff. We buy and buy and buy - it’s the foundation of how our economies run, how they grow. But all this buying, all this economic "growing", is devastating people and our planet. We are in a dangerous spiral of out-of-control resource use. In the third...
26 min
Online Activism: What's The Point?
Online Activism: What's The Point?
Is Online Activism Useless? Online activism has been heralded as the future of expanded freedoms, a cesspool where meaningful action goes to die, and everything in between. But when we “agitate” via Twitter, or call for revolution on Instagram, are we really contributing to...
19 min
Here’s How We Escape Climate Apocalypse
Here’s How We Escape Climate Apocalypse
A look at the importance of speculative climate fiction, sci-fi, and utopias for political movements, from Our Changing Climate.
22 min
Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves
Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves
Modern males are struggling. Author Richard Reeves outlines the three major issues boys and men face and shares possible solutions. 
16 min
The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves
The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves
Why friendships are becoming rarer in America, explained by author Richard Reeves. 
9 min
The Great Disconnect
The Great Disconnect (2020)
We are living in a time that has been described as the age of loneliness. Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are isolating ourselves from one another, and because of this, facing a health crisis that affects...
60 min
Water Has a Memory
Water Has a Memory (2023)
Matriarch and Environmental Ambassador for the Ponca Nation, Casey Camp-Horinek takes us through the occupied territory of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Through the ancestral teachings of her Ponca culture, Casey has been protecting the Water, Mother Earth and Father Sky through the...
12 min
CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method
CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method (2023)
Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA mass murder in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against socialists and accused leftists in 22 countries during the Cold War. 
68 min
How Dangerous are Microplastics?
How Dangerous are Microplastics? (2023)
Microplastics have only recently become an issue outside the scientific world. A pioneering researcher in this field, Christian Laforsch is primarily interested in the long-term hazards they pose - something that could assume critical importance for us in the future...
29 min
A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City
A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City
Londoners are rising to the challenges of climate change, food poverty, entrenched inequality and our nation’s mental and physical health crises by reviving one of the oldest human activities of all- sowing, saving and sharing seeds.
9 min
Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden
Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden
This video is of Tim and Maddy Harland's beautiful no-dig permaculture kitchen garden in Hapmshire UK. Tim and Maddy are the founders of the fantastic @PermacultureMagazine and have a tranquil vegetable garden, meadow and food forest at their home that has been maturing for...
11 min
Abby Martin & Immortal Technique: Civil War
Abby Martin & Immortal Technique: Civil War (2023)
Legendary rapper Immortal Technique joins Abby to discuss the escalating tensions of the post-Trump era, the duopoly playing Americans, right-wing cooptation of conspiracy theory and deep-state critique, teaching real history and much more. 
63 min
How Your Attention is Stolen
How Your Attention is Stolen
This video is a masterpiece. 
28 min
Briahna Joy Gray Examines the Role of Race and Authoritarianism in Police Violence
Briahna Joy Gray Examines the Role of Race and Authoritarianism in Police Violence
Every minute of this is fantastic commentary, from CRT in schools, to why police violence should be framed more often as authoritarian, to the censorship and school defunding campaign being led by Republicans under the guise of fighting CRT, when such "excesses" include...
19 min
Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency
Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency
Is Instagram fueling eating disorders in teenagers? Does TikTok harm your mental health? Are Facebook groups encouraging people to take part in offline violence? The answer is… we don’t know for sure. And that’s a serious problem.
13 min
Eating Our Way to Extinction
Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)
Narrated by Kate Winslet, Eating Our Way to Extinction is a cinematic feature documentary, taking audiences on a journey around the world and addressing the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. This powerful documentary sends a simple but impactful message by...
82 min
Remembering That Life Is Good
Remembering That Life Is Good
As humans, we are always trying to control everything. We think we have the ability to change anything that crosses our path and believe we have the capability to handle it to our perfect satisfaction every time.
14 min
This "I Trust You" Social Experiment Shows a More Beautiful World Is Possible
This "I Trust You" Social Experiment Shows a More Beautiful World Is Possible
Karim Sulayman is an Arab-American tenor from Chicago. Ten days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger to perform a trust experiment. Watch this silent video (set to Sulayman singing Sinead O'Connor's "In this...
4 min
The Truth About Corporate Subsidies | Robert Reich
The Truth About Corporate Subsidies | Robert Reich
Who else is sick of our government subsidizing the health care industry when millions can’t afford insurance, subsidizing Big Oil while they destroy the planet, and bailing out Wall Street when they crater our economy? 
5 min
Should We Move To A 4-Day Work Week?
Should We Move To A 4-Day Work Week?
Our mindset surrounding work is stuck in the 20th century. With massive improvements in technology and productivity in the last few decades, it's time to reassess what work could look like. Is it time to move to a four day workweek? - Second Thought
13 min
The Pluralist Commonwealth: A Vision of Economic Democracy
The Pluralist Commonwealth: A Vision of Economic Democracy
Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and real sustainability would look like.
5 min
What Is the Next Story? | Charles Eisenstein
What Is the Next Story? | Charles Eisenstein
Inspired by a Charles Eisenstein essay, crafted by Tonika Todorova and narrated by Charles. 
15 min
Reconsidering Reparations | Olufemi O. Taiwo
Reconsidering Reparations | Olufemi O. Taiwo
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project—either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present, or they focus on the...
60 min
I Have Arrived, I Am Home: A Documentary about Thich Nhat Hanh
I Have Arrived, I Am Home: A Documentary about Thich Nhat Hanh (2023)
Made specially for the first anniversary of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, "I Have Arrived, I Am Home" is a new documentary from filmmaker Max Pugh (A Cloud Never Dies, Walk With Me).
42 min
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Amy Goodman speaks with philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, who has recently written two widely acclaimed books, the latest being "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)". He says identity politics is a concept that was stripped of its...
13 min
How To Deal With Hatred | Zander Keig
How To Deal With Hatred | Zander Keig
"I first came out as a lesbian when I was 13. When I was 18, I went to my first gay pride parade. It was an incredible experience, witnessing the joy of people being themselves. That was in 1984. I have been to hundreds of pride parades and festivals since then and...
6 min
Black People Are Not a Monolith | Erec Smith
Black People Are Not a Monolith | Erec Smith
"If a white professional were to announce that, whenever she speaks, she does so as a representative of all of white America, I imagine that—from New England to Palm Springs—we would hear the response that no one person can speak for all America’s 197 million white people...
5 min
Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo
Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo
"All I’ve ever wanted was to be Superman. Growing up, I did what all kids do: I ran around wearing a cape, I dressed up for  Halloween, I played with the action figures, I watched the movies and TV shows. But I  also picked up on more important things.
6 min
Why Corporate America Hates Unions
Why Corporate America Hates Unions
Unions are having a bit of a moment right now - countless stores under brands like Amazon, Chipotle, REI, Starbucks, and many more are winning victories left and right, and corporate America is pulling out all the stops to crush them. Why is the US so antagonistic towards...
19 min
Why You Should Be Kind To Everyone | Daryl Davis
Why You Should Be Kind To Everyone | Daryl Davis
One person’s kindness has the power to change the world. Let me prove it. - Daryl Davis   "I’ve been to 57 countries on every continent except Antarctica. I’ve played music in every state except Alaska. I’ve gotte
7 min
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
Urban noise is a common problem, and the vast majority of it is created by motor vehicles. Noise is far too often dismissed as a minor nuisance, rather than the legitimate health issue that it is. The book "Curbing Traffic" has a chapter about the health impacts of noise...
18 min
Marvel Movie Heroes: Defenders of The Status Quo
Marvel Movie Heroes: Defenders of The Status Quo
Superheroes usually manage to roll back the various apocalypses but rarely use their powers to build a better world. The villains are the ones constantly dreaming up big audacious schemes to transform the universe. - Pop Detective
22 min
Why Work Is Killing Us (and the Planet)
Why Work Is Killing Us (and the Planet)
This video looks at why work is killing us and the planet. Specifically, I unpack how wage work under capitalism is inherently a system of exploitation of people and planet. In order to truly forge a zero-carbon world, we must do away with wage work and transform our...
19 min
David Graeber on the Meaning of Work and the Rebellion of the Caring Classes
David Graeber on the Meaning of Work and the Rebellion of the Caring Classes
Does the world really need neuroadvertisers, PR researchers and branding consultants? Renowned academic and coiner of the ‘we are the 99%’ slogan, David Graeber was a passionate advocate for meaningful work. After famously condemning the 21st century phenomenon of ‘bullsh*t...
5 min
Why Americans Can't Debate Politics Anymore | The Chris Hedges Report
Why Americans Can't Debate Politics Anymore | The Chris Hedges Report
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new book, Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy.
32 min
The Age Of Consequences
The Age Of Consequences (2021)
An examination of the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity and migration through the lens of national security and global stability.
66 min
What Is (and Is Not) Anti-Fascism?
What Is (and Is Not) Anti-Fascism? (2022)
Anti-fascist activity has existed for about one hundred years. Yet, many people, particularly in the United States, have little to no idea about what it really is.
112 min
The Shadow of Righteousness | Ayishat Akanbi & Anthea Lawson
The Shadow of Righteousness | Ayishat Akanbi & Anthea Lawson
This was a brilliant dialogue about the shadow of righteousness in progressive circles, between the cultural commentator Ayishat Akanbi and the author of the Entangled Activist, Anthea Lawson.
31 min
Why Serious Play Is Transformative
Why Serious Play Is Transformative
We shouldn't reduce all play to entertaining play. Some play is the serious play that engages fundamental transformative processes for us. Rafe Kelley in conversation with John Vaervake.
5 min