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Bright Spots - Stunning Animated Exploration of Island Conservation
A poetic portrait of scientist Nick Holmes and his work preventing extinctions on islands. Part nature documentary, part fairy tale and chock full of blindingly beautiful, big-hearted science. Narrated by Nick Holmes from Island Conservation.
4 Essential Self-Defense Moves Every Woman Should Know
Trish Hoffman has made it her goal to teach women how to feel safe and prepared, no matter what. In the video above, she demonstrates how a woman can defend herself against an attacker in three specific scenarios.  There's no way of knowing how strong your attacker may be...
Breaking Taboos Around Men's Mental Health
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. Jamal Edwards, founder of film-making company SBTV, asks why so many men are taking their own lives, and whether society's stereotypes of masculinity have stopped men from seeking help with depression.
Thousands Take to the Streets of London to Stand Against Racism
On Saturday 18th March, the UN day against racism, 30,000 people marched against racism in London.
Peggy Orenstein: What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure
Why do girls feel empowered to engage in sexual activity but not to enjoy it? For three years, author Peggy Orenstein interviewed girls ages 15 to 20 about their attitudes toward and experiences of sex. She discusses the pleasure that's largely missing from their sexual...
Tamera - Taste of a New Culture
Tamera is an extraordinary intentional community in Portugal. A model for regional autonomy in energy and food, it is focused on creating a truly peaceful society, working harmoniously with nature. This short film looks at the many projects that have transformed the arid...
How to Be a Friend to Yourself
The person we may find it hardest to be kind and sympathetic to is, surprisingly, ourselves. Yet being a friend to ourselves provides the only viable basis for living an emotionally fulfilled life.
Witness The Power of Film
Witness is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights. This short film documents some examples of how video has been effectively used to create change. You can view some video guides to help you make...
Kandi Mossett Explains the Intersectional Issues Around Standing Rock
Adapted from the feature documentary Not Without Us, Kandi Mossett from the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the health, environmental and social impacts of extractive industries on indigenous communities.
Fukushima: Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland
Fukushima residents are grappling with a choice: return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.
How Poaching Is Changing the Face of African Elephants
Elephants and their ancestors have roamed the African continent for millions of years. They are the largest land animals on earth and can live up to 70 years. Elephants are profoundly intelligent and social creatures. They have trunks that serves as their nose, arm, and...
George Monbiot on Neoliberalism: "A Self-Serving Racket"
An interview covering neoliberalism, migration, Brexit, Trump, community-building, climate change, democracy, power, globalization, and lots more.
Politica Recuperada.
Mientras las tecnologías digitales están cambiando todo, seguimos teniendo instituciones políticas del siglo XIX. Sin embargo, en los márgenes del poder actual, crece un movimiento que escapa de las trincheras ideológicas tradicionales, para dar cuerpo a otra forma de hacer...
Abby Martin Exposes Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon has been propelled over the last year from fringe media outlier to top propagandist of the U.S. Empire as Trump's Chief Strategist. From his Wall Street roots and apocalyptic film career to his cultivation of alt-right bigots at Breitbart News, Abby Martin...
Dear Europe - A Call To Vote for Unity, Against Authoritarianism
Dear Europe is a collaborative video about the upcoming European elections and how lessons gleaned from Brexit and Trump, might relate. The piece was made by artists who call the US and the UK home. Turn on closed captions for French, Dutch and German and Italian!
Ireland's Forgotten Mixed-Race Child Abuse Victims
Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She tells of the abuse and racist treatment she suffered, and returns to her school in Kilkenny...
How to Deal With a Racist Friend: Russell Brand the Trews
In today's Trews I respond to your comments on various subjects.
Moving the Giants - An Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
David Milarch is an arborist from central Michigan. In 1991, Milarch had a near death experience that inspired a personal quest – to archive the genetics of the world's largest trees before they're gone and to replant global forests to fight climate change. This is the story...
Trump’s 10 Steps for Turning Lies into Half-Truths (and What We Can Do About It)
Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief insisted that the Wall Street Journal wouldn’t label Trump’s false statements as “lies.” Lying, said the editor, requires a deliberate intention to mislead, which couldn’t be proven in Trump’s case. 
This is the Most Detailed Map of the Universe to Date
Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique...
What I Wish I'd Told You on International Women's Day
"I'm trying to find a way to translate my experience, so you can relate, but I'm waiting... waiting for the moment you stopped listening."
Richard Wolff Explains How & Why Bankers Want You to Stay Indebted Forever
In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff talks about bankruptcy protection, debt jubilee, students debt and the function that a credit system serves in our society today.
Life Inside Islamic State
In January 2014 a brutal new Jihadist group swept through Syria and set up its capital in Raqqa in the east of the country.
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children?
The proportion of women not having children before the menopause has reached a record high in the last decade. Here, women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of childlessness that they say comes from a dated societal structure - and celebrate International...
Austerity Is a Feminist Issue
Women are massively more affected by budget cuts than men, says the Labour peer. They are more likely to be single parents, earn less and work part time than their male counterparts. She argues the government must replace ‘gender-neutral’ budgeting with economic policies that...
Tucker Carlson Interviewing Bill Nye Is Like Watching a Turkey Trying to Operate an iPad
Bill Nye is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News to talk about climate change and research to identify the cause of the cognitive dissonance in those who deny the evidence that the current rate of climate change is man-made. What happens is an object lesson in media...
There's Too Many of These Crows - A Short Film About Aggression and Escalation
Humans and birds are having a difficult time co-existing, as a confrontation in an open field spirals out of control.
Israeli Army Vet's Exposé - "I Was the Terrorist"
In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine’s Hebron City. Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the...
‘World’s Happiest Man’ Has A Plea: Treat Animals With Compassion
Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard is asking for people to be more compassionate toward animals. 
Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News
Palestinian academic Edward Said’s (1935-2003) book ‘Orientalism’ showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ - while at once leaving them voiceless.
Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message
In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. His name was Marshall McLuhan and you've probably heard his most quoted line: "The...
How to Read the Signs in the News
Roland Barthes The work of French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is difficult, slippery, whimsical - it calls on us to read the world around us as a series of texts. He would have seen the TV screen as a cultural text - there to be read, interpreted, decoded.
Nine Legendary Activists Share Lessons On How To Win Social Change
Whether it's 1966 or 2016, one thing that hasn't changed much is how people organise and campaign for social and political advancement. Amidst rising political and social division, newsPeeks spoke with Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Cleaver, Devon Thomas, Angela Phillips, Erin...
The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism
In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is it possible that this much-loved...
Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News
Known as the ‘Godfather of Multiculturalism’, Stuart Hall (1932-2014) gave us tools to understand how representation is always imbued with ideology - and how to resist.
Edward Snowden on Donald Trump, Obama's Presidency, Activism & Liberty & His Life in Exile
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...
Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
For decades, Noam Chomsky has been the agent provocateur when it comes to critiquing the US mainstream media. He co-authored ‘Manufacturing Consent’, a seminal work on mainstream journalism and its role in the mechanics of power.
Hawaiians Tell the Story of U.S. Imperialism and Land Grabbing That Continues to This Day
This three-part series reports on native Hawaiians fight for land and the movement for sovereignty from the U.S.
Take a Tour of Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem
It's billed as the hotel with "the worst view in the world". The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem has opened its doors, packed with art works by Banksy.
Israeli Comedian Gets Serious in Final Monologue: Wake up and Smell the Apartheid
In Last Monologue, Israeli Comedy Show Host Implores Israelis to Wake Up and Smell the Apartheid. Asaf Harel's scathing indictment of Israeli society has gone viral. You can read more here.
'Worst view in the world': Banksy Opens Hotel Overlooking Bethlehem Wall
British street artist Banksy unveils his new Walled Off hotel on Friday. The 10-room establishment is situated next to the Israeli barrier wall at Bethlehem. Banksy hopes it will spark a dialogue and attract younger visitors from Tel Aviv while also creating jobs in the area.
Jon Stewart Returns to Urge the Media to Break Up With Trump
Worried that the mainstream media's breakup with President Trump has reporters feeling blue, Jon Stewart stops by with relationship advice.
Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss
"So much in society we are bombarded with a competitive approach and it is about reimagining that and reworking it!" A glimpse into the working lives of people from the Leeds Bread Co-op who can't imagine having a boss and are bringing the values of democracy, equality and...
Russell Brand Brilliantly Picks Apart Media Manipulation and Islamophobia
A look at Lindsay Lohan's recent appearance on Good Morning Britain and how she was quizzed about her faith.
Tulsi Gabbard Speaks Out Against the Regime Change War in Syria
There is no denying that interventionist wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering, have actually increased human suffering in those countries — many times over. We must understand the consequences of this destructive policy, end our counterproductive...
Bill Hicks Reminds Us Life is Just a Ride
Revelations is Bill Hicks' last special ever, taped in 1992, and features him at the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Bill Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us.
Sikh-American Valarie Kaur Offers a Powerful Reframing of This Moment in History
Sikh-American civil rights advocate Valarie Kaur's plea to her country in the times of Don
Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago
In 1991, Shell produced a public documentary on global warming called Climate of Concern. It warned that trends in global temperatures raised serious risks of famines, floods and climate refugees. But in the quarter century since, Shell has continued to invest heavily in...
How the BBC Makes The Most Incredible Wildlife Films in the World
A look at how technology has evolved to bring us the extraordinary scenes seen on Planet Eart II.
The West Was Built on Racism. It's Time We Faced That
Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilisation, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews. But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues – it...
Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
For the first time in modern history, a fringe wing of Christian extremists have obtained the highest seats of power in the US government—from Mike Pence to Betsy DeVos. This new development is coupled with the emergence of the Alt Right, the Trump movement, and the rise of...
Existing Is Resisting - How Farmers Are Resisting GM Crops
This animation illustrates the myriad practices of everyday resistance that have to be carried out by non-GM producers to try and avoid the spread of genetically modified (GM) maize and the burdens of GM contamination. It is based on the academic paper: Herrero, A....
4.1 Miles
Kyriakos Papadopoulos is a 41-year old local captain of the Greek Coast Guard. He has two wonderful young daughters Vivi and Melissa, and before the refugee crisis exploded in 2014, he had a “normal” life. Lesbos was a small peaceful island and is job involved routine border...
7 Signs of Tyranny
Consider yourself warned.
How to Be a Great Listener
There’s so much talking going on in the world with everyone trying to get their opinions and stories heard, but not a whole lot of listening. Yet, when we listen, we learn and we connect.  We discover new information and fresh things about other people.  Listening is a vital...
MLK Stands With Standing Rock (#NoDAPL)
Martin Luther King's words are as relevant as ever, highlighting the many parallels between the civil rights movement of the 60’s and the NoDAPL movement of the present. #NoDAPL 
Saramurillo, Justice for Peru's Amazonian Peoples?
This short film tells the story of the recent indigenous mobilization at Saramurillo in the Northern Peruvian Amazon and shares the voices of indigenous peoples who united in this ongoing struggle for their rights, and for the protection of the water, land and life itself...
The London Anarchist Group Squatting Mansions to Fight Homelessness
London squatting activists ANAL (Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians) are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.
Where the Term "Redneck" Came From
If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again.  This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the film Plutocracy by Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here (free).