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It began in high school—actually before that—but my my first organizing effort was done senior year of high school. Speaking out against things that seemed unjust has always felt natural to me. I had this deep understanding of what I thought was fair or not fair, even when I...
Bulaong Ramiz
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WOW! We knew the system was bad, but this is just twisted beyond comprehension! Thank you Represent.Us for making this. More info:
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This incredible 2-minute animation by www.rightsinfo.org will tell you everything you need to know about your human rights and why they matter. Want to know more?
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Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
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The favelas of Brazil are some of the world's poorest urban slums. While the Brazilian government addresses the favelas through force, artists and activists have found ways to creatively resist state and criminal violence while lifting up ordinary people. From César López...
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The ever-expanding Israeli settlements of Palestinian land have created violence and discord – but also a burgeoning culture of art and resistance against occupation. From hip hop to animation, artists and activists are rising up to assert Palestinian self-determination.
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In the predawn hours of May 31, 2010, showing a terrifying disregard for human life, Israeli naval forces surrounded and boarded ships sailing to bring humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. On the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, Israeli commandos opened fire on...
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In the predawn hours of May 31, 2010, showing a terrifying disregard for human life, Israeli naval forces surrounded and boarded ships sailing to bring humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. On the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, Israeli commandos opened fire on...
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In the pre-dawn hours of Monday, May 31, 2010, showing a terrifying disregard for human life, Israeli naval forces surrounded and boarded ships sailing to bring humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. On the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, Israeli commandos opened fire...
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During Spring 2010, Iraqi rapper Lowkey and Palestinian lyricist Shadia Mansour joined scholar Norman Finkelstein on his book tour to tell the truth about the Israeli military's attack on the Gaza Strip. Cultures of Resistance was at a number of these performances, where the...
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The United States, and the international community at large, continues to pursue a strategy of belligerent threats and sanctions against Iran. With Barack Obama's election many Iran watchers breathed a sigh of relief, as the new incoming president had campaigned on a promise...
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Coal ash is the toxic waste created by coal-fired power plants and it is polluting communities all across America. This is the story of one of those places, La Belle, PA.
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Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi discusses the realities of life in Iran, from the political to the day-to-day. She pierces Western myths about ordinary Iranians while lifting up the work of Iranian peace activists and human rights defenders like herself.
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Some two million farmworkers grow and harvest our food each day, often working in fields sprayed with pesticides. Former farmworker Amelia Moran Ceja demonstrates that stewarding the land and your workers can be good for business. "Mindful Vineyards” features leaders and...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo's wealth of mineral resources continues to be a curse. Since militants from Uganda and Rwanda invaded the DRC in the mid-1990s, an ongoing war has claimed an average of 1,500 lives each day. The United States considers both of these...
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Hip-hop artist MV Bill calls out Rio’s heavy-handed approach to policing the favelas while promoting a more human alternative: engaging youth in the arts.
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Wolves once roamed the United States before decades of unregulated slaughter wiped them out. It wasn't until they were missing that people began to recognize the crucial role wolves play in maintaining the health of the natural world.
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The Turkish NGO IHH began in 1992 as a humanitarian mission to offer relief to victims injured and displaced during the Bosnian war. They have held Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2004. Since becoming a fully registered...
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Residents of the Niger Delta continue to struggle for greater benefits from oil extraction in their homeland.
Over the last two decades there have been ongoing conflicts over the exploitation and ownership of natural resources in the Niger Delta. This has resulted in a...
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A new generation of Iranian artists is breaking down stereotypes and challenging power relations between Iran and the West.
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Most people might think that helmets, kneepads, and skateboards are unusual tools for rebuilding a society, but not Oliver Percovich, who in 2007 founded Skateistan, Afghanistan’s first and only co-ed skateboarding school. Poor families will often dedicate their limited...
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With so many justifications for why the U.S. continues its occupation of Afghanistan, are there any that are legitimate?
By mid-2010, the war in Afghanistan had arguably passed Vietnam as the longest war in the history of the United States. At the war’s outset many U.S...
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Inside Afghanistan, young photographers are emerging to tell their own stories about life in a war-torn country.
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The 2007 uprising in Burma forced the international community to confront its duplicity in supporting a violent military regime.
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A bold political cartoonist demands freedom of the press in Afghanistan.
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In 2009, the United States government spent some $650 billion on its military. This is more than the next 46 highest-spending countries combined. Much of this treasure ended up in the hands of profit-driven weapons manufacturers. In the following short film, Cultures of...
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A Congolese illustrator believes that the collective work of artists seeking to expose injustice can produce revolutionary results.
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For the youth of the DRC, Papa Wemba was a model of free expression and defiance in the face of illegitimate power.
As a young man Papa Wemba left his rural home in central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the city of Kinshasa to pursue his musical career. In 1969...
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Africa’s brightest young thinkers and musicians come together at the Gatwitch Festival to discuss how the continent can overcome histories of violence.
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Wars in Afghanistan have ruined the country’s economy, but NATO continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on efforts to eradicate one of the only income-generating crops: opium.
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Afghanistan’s first female governor bravely stands up for women’s rights in her country.
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Guatemala: Foro Social Américas
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The election in 2016 decides our new president, but the one this year could determine whether many Americans will have healthcare.
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Racism is real but race is not. "Black" and "White" were labels invented in the 15th century - made up to divide us. Is it time to let these labels go? Prince Ea believes the answer is yes.
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Extreme inequality directly undermines human rights, and is a cause for shame for the human rights community.
Philip Alston
First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.
Claire Bernish
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This is the film Mermaid Moon Productions made for the Damien Center in Indianapolis. The Damien Center is a wonderful asset to the Indianapolis community.
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Clip from the documentary Visions of Abolition, which was designed as a teaching tool to expand knowledge about the history of the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement in the United States. Featuring Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Susan Burton...
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They're the farm workers who feed America, but migrant labourers remain underprivileged and exploited. Now, the newest generation of Mexican Americans are fighting back, and Donald Trump is in their sights.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best", said...
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"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion" ~ Paulo Coelho
Desiree Adaway
New World Summit recently started building a revolutionary public parliament in Derîk, open to all, and a true home for Rojava’s stateless democracy.
Jonas Staal
The UN climate talks in Paris (COP21) are right around the corner.
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
George Monbiot
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have access to leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization…?
Josh Jones
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With the UN and FBI suspecting that there are up to 750,000 people online at any one time hunting for children to exploit, how can the booming cybersex trade be policed effectively?
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'The Paris moment will be defined not by what happens in the negotiating halls, but in the streets of Paris and around the world.'
Deirdre Fulton
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The Jean-Quarré High School, renamed the House of Refugees, and evacuated the 23rd of October, just before winter, has provided a roof for several months to a couple of hundred of migrants in Paris.
Lycée Jean-Quarré, renommé la Maison des...
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Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the growing use of mercenaries by the United States government.
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A long-time veteran of the hip-hop scene in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lexxus Legal takes his influence on his community very seriously. Speaking in a way that sets his work apart from so much contemporary hip-hop, he says, “that in general rap without being...
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How music, dance, and sports are helping kids in the DRC overcome the trauma of war.
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo women are leading the campaign against violence and against the use of rape as a weapon of war.
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For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya. During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities...
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An interview with director Iara Lee about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
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Rumored to be the descendants of Alexander the Great, the Kalash people have in fact inhabited northern Pakistan's Chitral Valley since long before the legendary conqueror came to the region. They uphold a rich cultural heritage, with polytheistic beliefs, seasonal festivals...
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A decade after the death of the provocative and prolific musician known as Muslimgauze, author Ibrahim Khider has come out with a new book that revisits the artist’s impact on electronic music and his success in raising awareness about the struggle of the Palestinian people...
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Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds.
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Is reality obsolete? From low-tech function like body piercing and artificially-stocked fishing pools, to the latest in bionics and VR gaming, Iara Lee's 1995 cyber-age intellectual survey - call it a *.DOCumentary - downloads a Future Shockful of data and defines the...
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The Dawood Global Foundation, through its platform Ladiesfund, supports girls' education. The foundation provides scholarships and promotes the empowerment of women entrepreneurs through career support and business partnerships. With over 12,000 members - including...
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A story about the project which will hopefully change this screwed up world.
FREE videos on discrimination, domestic violence, pedophilia, organ donation, etc.
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An original, powerful, and thought-provoking piece about the impact of media influence on the individual. "I'm turning my tv off..."
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Since the '90s, cops are working in more and more schools. But are they really keeping students safe, or pushing students into the school-to-prison pipeline?
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"THE W WAR" is a join venture production by a group of creative people from South India who are working and residing in Brunei Darussalam.
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In March 2013, reports of a hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the US detention camp in Cuba, began to surface. Details were sketchy and were contradicted by statements from the US military. Using testimony from Shaker Aamer and four other detainees, this animated film reveals...
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My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out – I’ve thought about writing her one of those “Now I’m Dead, Here’s My Letter Of Advice For...
Caitlin Moran
Bolivia's national contribution to the COP 21 describes capitalism as "a system of death" that has to be destroyed to protect humanity and Mother Earth. EurActiv France reports.
Cécile Barbière translated by Samuel White
With the help of the BBC and Dr David Morrison, I carried out my own inquiry. The facts are devastating for Blair, for parliament and for all of us.
Peter Oborne
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Bob Marley talks about life's riches.
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A tour of Purple Pear Farm in New South Wales, Australia. This permaculture and biodynamic farm features rotating chicken tractor domes to prepare mandala garden beds.
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“We have never been able to understand the white man, who fools nobody but himself.” —Chief Plenty Coups, Crow
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The Syrian war has broken countless families apart.
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When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles.
Noam Chomsky
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A thirty-minute documentary film focusing on asexuality and the unique struggles and vulnerabilities attached to the sexual orientation.
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Monsanto has a lot of money invested in the genetically modified seed, farm chemical and many other industries, but they also have a lot invested the hearts and minds of the next generation.
Nick Meyer
There were several memorable moments during the GOP debate, mostly at the expense of the media. I don’t usually agree with the Republicans, but I do think they have a point on all the gotcha questions they faced in the first and third debates. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed them,
Scott Galindez
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10-year old Fatima is one of 400,000 school-aged Syrian children now living in Lebanon. Fatima loves to read and write-- she has all the talent, intelligence and ambition in the world, but like so many others, she is a victim of circumstance. I asked her what her dream...
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*Message of Context*: The film portrays a time when the opposition was just beginning to form, and the Free Syrian Army was still an amorphous concept. The Syrian people hoped that the FSA would be there to defend civilians and not wage an all-out war against the government...
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How a Caricature of Human Nature Leads Evolutionary Psychology Astray
Steve Taylor, Ph.D.
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Police Brutality gets a lot more attention nowadays, and that's a very good thing. But we are too focused on the individual cop. In most situations, these cops are victims too.
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The Environmental Litmus Test is a short film exploring some of the key issues relating to the UN Climate meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). It is a passionate plea for each and every one of us to get involved, The Environmental Litmus Test is a clarion call to action.
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No matter which way you swipe, misogyny comes from all angles on Tinder.
The Instagram account Feminist_Tinder is bringing these dudes into the limelight by highlighting the sexist messages
Alanna Vagianos
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RISEUPOCTOBER made history in bringing 100 families of police murder victims marching alongside Cornel West, Carl Dix, Eve Ensler, Jamal Joseph and Quentin Tarantino demanding that Police terror must stop and asking people to answer a simple question: Which Side are you on?
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Is This a Taboo? Or Should
I’M STANDING UP AND DON’T REMAIN SILENT
Tribute to an elder
Rebecca Roher
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Dear Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live,
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Michael Moore interviews NY Times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges for the special features section of his documentary 'Capitalism A Love Story'. Hedges explains how capitalism is consuming and destroying everything on the planet, including the planet itself, and a sort of...
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing but spent the first 18 years of his life in exile with his family. He now lives and works in the capital, far from the centre but under constant surveillance. In the first of this new series of short films, he offers a unique...
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The Hidden War: As Turkey heads towards elections on November 1st, fighting between the Kurds and state intensifies.
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Alex Scrivener explores why excessive optimism in the run up to the coming summit in Paris ignores the voices of those most affected by climate change
Alex Scrivener
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Defenders of the Dawn: Green Rights in the Maritimes' is a documentary following author Silver Donald Cameron as he visits communities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that are fighting for environmental protection rights.
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We polled 50 democrats and 50 republicans politically-charged questions. Check out how similar (and different) the two parties are.
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When you research how to donate your books to prisons, the same phrase comes up over and over again: that books are a lifeline for prisoners.
Becky Stone
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Cecília Berkes was a successful canoeing champion in Hungary. She participated in the Olympic Games in 1952 and 1956. Just in the time of the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, back in her Homeland the unexpected happened.
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