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The laws of capitalism have elevated the interests of the few above that of the many, but we can rewrite the code and restore balance to society. In this series, Professor Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) breaks down the history, process, institutions, and participants...
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"The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983." - Edward Snowden
"Please watch this detailed explanation from former CIA analyst Frank Snepp about how the newspapers and magazines you were taught to regard as mainstream and reliable have always eagerly served...
17 min
I am a black woman in America.
I am a woke black woman who has been woke before woke was cool.
I also love America.
Valerie Elverton-Dixon
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...
47 min
Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak...
39 min
Peoples of the world, this is your time and reality. If you are to prevent war and the breakdown of human civilization, you must build and restore the world—the ground beneath your feet, the clarity of your waters, the clarity of your air, the richness of your soil. You will...
35 min
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the...
85 min
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
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Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism.
46 min
If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again. Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large...
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Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to deal with the urgent...
25 min
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
80 min
The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved...
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In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...
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The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the U.S. judicial system. The mainstream media could no longer ignore it, but how would they...
50 min
What distinguishing feature do the world's healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the answer is simple: they have far less income inequality than other societies. In this new film based on his international...
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Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food to bogus educational products and the family car.
66 min
This guide is for people who are ambivalent about voting in elections. It directly addresses the objections of the "don't vote" position while finding common ground. To summarize the position of this guide: "Year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the...
Hi all. I'm thrilled to announce a new partnership with the legendary nonprofit film studio, the Media Education Foundation.
Tim Hjersted and Films For Action
Activism today, call it engaged citizenship, ought to have more humility than it often does, and perhaps a bit more compassion and curiosity, too.
No matter how great our understanding, we'll always have something valuable to teach and something valuable to learn.
In all 50 states and around the world, Campaign Nonviolence has been building a culture of active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. We share skills and tools with which people can practice nonviolence toward themselves, one another...
Campaign Nonviolence, Rosie Davila
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Kantara & Ancient Indian Culture || Project SHIVOHAM
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Apex Predator - The King of the Cats | Wildlife Documentary Watch 'Cheetahs: Fastest Hunters in Africa' here: https://youtu.be/psPj_hqxp0I There are 41 members of the cat’s family, all are the embodiment of grace and power! Spectacular top predators that command our respect...
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Since the Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated considerably. Afghanistan remains the world's largest producer of opium and the country also has high rates of addiction. The Taliban is trying to rid the country of heroin addicts...
25 min
Immersion in North Korea, the most closed country in the world, about to become a nuclear power. At the head of the country, Kim Jong-un, an unpredictable leader.
58 min
#abortion #roevwade #roevwadeoverturned #spokenword #spokenwordpoem #prolife #prochoice Synopsis:
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Corbyn sets the record straight.
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Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house...
54 min
How corporate news inherently supports the status quo and prevents dissident perspectives through 'concision'.
6 min
Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, explains the ongoing war between Antifa and the proudboys.
11 min
Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion shines a light on Covid-19 vaccine injuries and bereavements, but also takes an encompassing look at the systemic failings that appear to have enabled them. We look at leading analysis of pharmaceutical trials, the role of the MHRA in...
56 min
What if you were FORCED by your government to give birth? Men commit to registering to vote, voting pro-choice to fully stand with women (sisters, aunts, friends, daughters) to control their own body, to make their own personal choices, to have the freedom to control their...
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What if you were FORCED by your government to give birth? Men commit to registering to vote, voting pro-choice to fully stand with women (sisters, aunts, friends, daughters) to control their own body, to make their own personal choices, to have the freedom to control their...
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Adam Conover breaks down why billionaire "charity" is terrible for the planet, and why we should stop swallowing their myths.
21 min
An epic documentary by British director Adam Curtis illustrating in seven parts state and decline of the Soviet Union and the development in Russia 1985–1999 using material from the BBC archives.
350 min
Southern Discomfort is a documentary film that examines white southerners' love affair with the Confederacy. It also examines the role that state governments in the south play in maintaining a distorted and racist mythology about the Civil War.
79 min
This little video was made in 2004 to simply encourage people to think about the rhetoric of war, militarism, imperialism, and who we are as a nation.
19 min
Shanice and Hind are Diaspora Babes. Born and raised in Europe to African parents, their identity has always been in a state of limbo as they have been exposed to conflicting cultures and have had to navigate black and brown womanhood in a white world. This experimental...
30 min
The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used...
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For marketers who wish to reach the lucrative youth market, the relatively uncluttered medium of the school environment represents the final frontier -- access to a captive audience of millions of students. Meanwhile dwindling federal, state, and local funding for education...
45 min
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...
57 min
Blood and Oil, featuring Michael Klare, a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington D.C. and the defense correspondent for The Nation, offers a riveting look at how U.S. efforts to control the global flow of fossil fuels has led to endless war...
52 min
Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the producer and writer of the award-winning Dreamworlds series.
47 min
A journey away from the rat race..
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Filmed over three years, the documentary charts the extraordinary creation of charity a in the UK and The Gambia. WYCE was the single shared dream of Hilary and Keith Walker, who used every avenue to feed the growth of their education project in the Gambia, including selling...
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We are on a mission to speed up UK government action on the climate and nature. Will you join us?
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'Growing Pains' is the title for a short edit (47min) of the award-winning documentary 'System Error'. A look at the global and political obsession with economic growth and the ecological and humanitarian consequences.
47 min
The library has been a long-standing institution in our society, but what if we applied its philosophy more broadly? Let's imagine what it would mean to realize the possibilities of this proto-socialist concept and reintroduce free access to the commons through a library...
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Help us to get our sixth site – Maesgwyn Isaf - up and running. With your support we can make this farm ready to welcome new entrant farmers to work this land in an agroecological way, building on the legacy of Jenn and Stuart Carter who gifted this farm to us.
Maesgwyn...
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This beautiful and timely animation speaks to the spiralling levels of anxiety and depression the UK and other rich nations are experiencing by revealing the often silenced links between these mental health crises and the current economic system, including not only the...
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Welcome to Oligarch Island
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Ever wonder how I make my videos? Here's a good starting point! – Second Thought
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In this video essay, I look at why billionaires won't save us from climate change. Specifically, I look at how the elite philanthropy of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk function as more of a billionaire preservation of wealth and self than as an act of altruism.
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Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
34 min
”A refreshing perspective on what it means to be wealthy” – Don Smith, Kiss the Ground
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Acclaimed journalist Dave Zirin of The Nation magazine tackles the politics of manhood, militarism, nationalism, and race in the NFL, America's most popular and influential sports league.
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Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
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