Matthew Toplikar
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Aug 14, 2023
Noam Chomsky - Values, Abortion, and Preserving Life
In an edited interview from the Tony Kaye documentary "Lake of Fire", Chomsky is asked about decisions regarding the morality of abortion, and how individuals and society must take a hard look at specifics when discussing topics that...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Aug 24, 2021
Johnny Harris: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
A story about Johnny Harris, propaganda and misinformation on YouTube.  We also very briefly touch upon the notions of "shareholder capitalism" and "stakeholder capitalism" which Harris discusses in his "How China Became So Powerful"...
Matthew Toplikar rated Can't Get You Out of My Head 3.5 stars on Mar 5, 2021
Matthew Toplikar rated Just the Way You Are 5 stars on Oct 27, 2020
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 13, 2020
The Blood is at the Doorstep
After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a quest for answers, justice, and reform as the investigation unfolds. Watch now at...
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jun 13, 2020
Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group
SUQUAMISH TRIBE DESCENDANT JEANETTA RILEY, A 34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR, LAY FACEDOWN ON A SANDPOINT, IDAHO, STREET. One minute earlier, three police officers had arrived, summoned by staff at a nearby hospital. Her husband had sought...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 13, 2020
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 12, 2020
Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 parts (ch. 2)
This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s  “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 12, 2020
Black Lives That Still Matter:  The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 Parts
This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s  “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Stranger Fruit:  An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown
On August 9th, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson stopped Michael Brown in the street. 95 seconds later Officer Wilson killed this 18-year-old recent high school graduate in cold blood. After killing Mike in the street, Ferguson police then...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Peace Officer:  The Militarized State of American Police
Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of "Dub" Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state's first SWAT team only to see that same...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Copwatch:  An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police
COPWATCH follows WeCopwatch, an organization dedicated to filming the police. Among its members are the individuals who captured the original videos of the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Freddie Gray in Baltimore that...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Whose Streets?  An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
The Talk:  Race in America
The Talk – Race in America is a two-hour documentary about the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Show Me Democracy:  Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson
Amidst the uprising in Ferguson, 7 St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Dispatches From Cleveland
Dispatches from Cleveland is a feature-length documentary in five parts that closely examines the early 21st century, rust-belt city of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the most racially divided cities in America. The film follows ordinary...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 11, 2020
Out of Omaha
OUT OF OMAHA is an award-winning, intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, young black men coming of age in the divided city of Omaha, Nebraska. Directed by Clay Tweel and Exec Produced by J. Cole.
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jun 9, 2020
Activists Catalog Nearly 600 Videos of Police Violence Against Protesters
"This kind of documentation serves as a counter-narrative to repeated denials of responsibility from the police, who are routinely claiming protesters were the ones to grow violent first."
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 8, 2020
James Baldwin's "Black Lives Matter" Speech
James Baldwin makes a heartfelt plea for racial justice and equality at Cambridge University.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 8, 2020
How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It
Almost every quantifiable indicator of white supremacy— all lead back to the government-sanctioned policy of redlining. Here's how the racist legacy of redlining still works today.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 8, 2020
Bayard Rustin:  An unsung hero of the civil rights movement
Learn about the life of Bayard Rustin, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a gay rights activist, and one of Martin Luther King’s closest advisors. -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 6, 2020
The Atlantic Slave Trade: What too Few Textbooks Told You
Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jun 6, 2020
Notes of a Native Son: the World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer
James Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic whose essays in “Notes of a Native Son” explored race, sex and class distinctions. -- In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000 documents in an investigation into one of...
Matthew Toplikar rated Fantastic Fungi 3.5 stars on May 5, 2020
Matthew Toplikar rated Planet of the Humans 1.5 stars on Apr 27, 2020
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Mar 8, 2019
Jennifer Lawrence talks with Trevor Potter at Unrig 2018
Last year at Unrig Summit, Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Trevor Potter, a Republican and the forrmer commissioner of the U.S. Federal Election Commission to learn how to legally bribe politicians.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Mar 6, 2019
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis
Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Aug 14, 2018
BLACKkKLANSMAN
A Spike Lee joint. From producer Jordan Peele. Based on some fo’ real, fo’ real sh*t. Watch the #BlacKkKlansman trailer now - in theaters August 10. https://www.facebook.com/blackkklansman https://www.instagram.com/blackkklansman/...
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jan 27, 2017
We the People, Resist (Howard Zinn)
We won't let anyone destroy what generations of Americans have built. History has shown that people like YOU are the driving force behind change. Now is the time to fight for what you believe in. We will rise, we will resist, we will renew.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Feb 16, 2016
Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Presidential Election and the Rise of Islamophobia
Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the 2016 US presidential election and the...
Matthew Toplikar rated Food Matters (2008) (trailer) 0.5 stars on Jan 27, 2016
Matthew Toplikar added an article on Jan 21, 2016
11 of the Most Sacred and Iconic Trees From Around the World
Originally published at Garden Buildings Direct.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jan 17, 2016
Paws of War
This short film highlights the non-profit organization "Paws of War" which rescues dogs and pairs them with U.S. Veterans.
Matthew Toplikar added a video on Jan 16, 2016
Noam Chomsky Interview:  U.S. Terrorism, Hypocrisy, and Morality
Noam Chomsky discusses his book "9/11" and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th Century in moral terms in this 2002 interview with CBC Hot Type's Evan Solomon.