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"Millions of Americans will lose access to life-saving programs because the GOP gave $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich."
Jake Johnson · 17,804 views
Hollywood celebrities and respected journalists span the globe to explore the issues of climate change and cover intimate stories of human triumph and tragedy.
In this first episode, we’re taken across the world to get various climate-related answers from experts, as well...
60 min · 17,792 views
Michael Moore investigates the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. He looks into the causes for such violent crimes, focusing on guns as a symbol of both American freedom and its self-destruction.
2 min · 17,784 views
Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his...
223 min · 17,781 views
Addressing the countless "Sandy Hook was a hoax" videos that have been spreading, in 3 parts. Our apologies for the swearing and insulting tone of part 1. If you want a more moderate tone see part 3. But it's worth mentioning that part 1's insulting dismissal of "conspiracy...
18 min · 17,777 views
Howard Zinn reflects upon social activism in an excerpt from the film ReGENERATION.
2 min · 17,770 views
RE-LEARNING THE LAND is the story of a Blackfoot community in southern Alberta, Canada, and how they have re-taken control of their education system within Red Crow Community College. The film traces the decolonization of their learning and the development of an innovative...
68 min · 17,757 views
In our interview with NSA-whistleblower, activist and human rights advocate, Edward Snowden, we talk to him about the history of intelligence agencies, notable whistleblowers, the role of politicians and whether he thinks that Donald Trump will misuse the power of the...
22 min · 17,753 views
You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.
Jay Cassano · 17,741 views
I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are spending far too much money on schooling, not too little. I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up — and that all this money and all these people...
John Taylor Gatto · 17,738 views
Dairy is scary. Please share this video with anyone and everyone who still thinks dairy is just fine!
5 min · 17,735 views
On Saturday 31st October 2015, at 1.30am, my 22-year-old eldest daughter Polly was killed when she lost control of the car she was driving and hit a tree. She was alone in her VW Beetle, no one else was hurt and, I am told, it was instant.
John Darvall · 17,734 views
When talking about refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who - just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals... Only when you sit down...
5 min · 17,719 views
Stefan Molyneux receives some wisdom from somebody who actually understands what Anarchism means.
US libertarianism =/= Anarchism
Anarcho-Capitalism =/= Anarchism
Voluntaryism =/= Anarchism
3 min · 17,718 views
On March 26, without much fanfare or attention from U.S. media, the Spanish government ended freedom of assembly. In the face of popular opposition (80 percent of Spaniards oppose it), the upper house passed the Citizens’ Security Law. Under the provision, which goes into...
Willie Osterweil · 17,712 views
Since Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election a short video has circulated around social media, in which the fictional news reporter Jonathan Pie delivers one of his typical ‘off the record’ pieces to camera, expressing his anger following the result. In...
Jack Kellam · 17,710 views
The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week’s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller
Daniel Hopsicker · 17,709 views
Our national attachment to dominance models of manhood is a major reason why we have so much violence.
Amanda Marcotte · 17,694 views
How to Be There for the People who Need you Most.
2 min · 17,689 views
To murder several runners using bombs at a sporting event is terrorism.
Earth First! News · 17,685 views
People have lived many different ways on this planet, but about ten thousand years ago there appeared one people who believed everyone in the world should live a single way—their way, which they considered the only "right" way.
Daniel Quinn · 17,672 views
'For the first time in Native American history, they heard our voices.'
Nika Knight · 17,661 views
The US Government just released this tourism ad for Hawai'i and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
2 min · 17,654 views
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and...
Pete Brown · 17,648 views
Dear family and friends,
Greg Hanscom · 17,643 views
When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological world—the world of life. The world of life, strangely enough, is not in danger (though thousands and perhaps even millions of species are). Even...
Daniel Quinn · 17,637 views
Those Condemning Syria Have Themselves Recently Used Chemical Weapons
We condemn all use of chemical weapons.
But the U.S. used chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq in 2004. Evidence here,
Washington's Blog · 17,623 views
I once read a Dear Abby column responding to a letter from a girl who, as I recall, was in middle school. She was asking for advice about an awkward incident that happened to her at school: a boy asked her out with her peers watching, and she turned him down. She was...
Samuel Granger ·
17,525 views
We've been saying this for years. There's no need for formal conspiracies when all of these economic and political elites share the same ideology, which they learned from their environment growing up in similar positions of privilege within the
1 min · 17,522 views
In this broadcast we look at the controversial subject of immigration. Mass exoduses of people - refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers - are taking place all over the planet, causing tensions and tempers to rise. But are these really the kinds of immigrants we should...
7 min · 17,469 views
In 2011, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan announced a lofty goal: make the country’s agricultural system 100 percent organic by the year 2020. If it succeeded, it would be the first country in the world to achieve the feat.
Bhutan — nestled in the Himalayas between India...
Natasha Geiling · 17,450 views
Burning Eye Books' Carpool Poetry presents: The Fuck Off Account by Agnes Török.
3 min · 17,445 views
Asking this waiter "how the streak comes" meets with an unexpected answer.
3 min · 17,440 views
“The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations” by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom is still one of my favorite books on organizational theory and complex systems.
Patrick Meier · 17,434 views
Quite a bit changed for me over the first couple of years I started testosterone.
James St. James · 17,433 views
This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...
65 min · 17,429 views
I never cease to be astounded by the way that some people react to stories of harassment in the street. Just yesterday, we shared a story about a woman who taped herself walking aroun
Kat George · 17,404 views
With this film, I'm trying to tell a wider story about what is happening to my city through the inspiring words and passion of Vanessa Garrett, owner of Food For Thought in Covent Garden, London. I first visited the restaurant with my mother in the 80's and it has remained...
8 min · 17,347 views
Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and challenges the assumption that capitalism seems inescapable. Transcript below via Parker Higgins.
6 min · 17,343 views
Sarah goes to drastic measures to avoid the wage gap.
Help working women close the gap at:
4 min · 17,334 views
From the author: When I was given a DVD of a protest rally in the small town of King, near where I live, I was shocked by the sight of five thousand people waving Christian Flags and cheering one of the speakers when he said that everyone there should “encourage” those who...
126 min · 17,326 views
Waiting for political change to come about once every few years at election time is not only frustrating, but is an almost sure-fire way of ensuring that the changes you really want don’t get delivered within the time frames that are necessary.
If we really want to see...
SHIFT · 17,324 views
Ever heard the term "compassionate bigotry"? Learn what it is in this powerful talk, featuring Tai Amri Spann-Wilson and Caleb Stephens at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lawrence, Kansas - August 7th 2016. Part 2 is the poem "Healing" by Adam Lawrence Dyer, spoken...
45 min · 17,318 views
Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains how the connectedness of every living thing to every other living thing is not just an idea but a way of living. This way includes all beings as part of a vast family and calls us to...
6 min · 17,311 views
The following is an excerpt called A Slave World taken from a passage from Sacred Economics.
Chris Agnos · 17,304 views
"The real revolution is the revolution of values". - Peter Joseph
3 min · 17,299 views
A few years ago, I got into an argument with my now mother-in-law over my supposedly “backwards” ways. My transgression? I did not attend a party of my now husband’s (then merely boyfriend’s) distant relatives, none of whom I knew, while he was out of town. Why didn’t I want...
Cat Elz · 17,256 views
What is this thing we call... nationalism, really?
6 min · 17,246 views
For as long as most Americans can remember the car has been the embodiment of the American dream. But with more than 250 million cars and trucks on the road, Americans have become slaves to this freedom. How can we reverse the ravages of suburban sprawl?
2 min · 17,230 views
Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions.
2 min · 17,228 views
Seeding Fear is a short documentary Executive Produced by Neil Young that tells the story of Michael White, a fourth generation farmer, who went toe to toe with Monsanto.
10 min · 17,225 views
"It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Story—the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it—sustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted · 17,217 views
Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you’re not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren’t being...
Jon Gold · 17,216 views
In 1833, William Miller predicted the second coming of Jesus Christ in the year 1843. Only after his fourth failed prediction, each of which saw hundreds of thousands of followers turn out, did his followers abandon him. By this time, Miller had already absconded with copious...
Nolan Higdon · 17,207 views
The world is a pretty screwed up place. So how do we fix it when we ourselves are broken? This is the question that rarely gets asked — and it is a keystone piece of the solution to all the global crises in the world.
Global Warming? Can’t fix that and create healthy...
Joe Brewer · 17,183 views
Despite what the media tells you, the Democrats will not take the House in November. Here's why.
David Daley · 17,181 views
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh · 17,179 views
As I have been called to action, more from Earth and Spirit than from world events, I found myself drawn into a deep exploration of my own Nature as an integral part of finding a compass in these times.
Pat McCabe · 17,173 views
"The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most bloodthirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization." - John Trudell
At its most basic...
53 min · 17,165 views