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Almost six years ago, Xela de la X, a local Los Angeles community activist and musician, organized the first Luna Ride, a nighttime bicycling event that takes place beneath the full moon. This event marked the founding of the Ovarian Psycos, a collective of brown and black...
Tasbeeh Herwees
Former advertising industry art director takes to the streets, recliaming space and chalenging the way women are portrayed in the media.
4 min
The world today is in crisis. Everybody knows that. But what is driving this crisis? It's a story, a story that is destroying the world. It's a story about our relationship to the world and to other humans, but we take this story for granted. We don't even see it as a story...
“I don’t know anything.”
Jory Mackay
Self-esteem holds us back and undermines our happiness; but it can be overcome
Joanne Stephens
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic...
170 min
There are two Democratic presidential primaries. One is almost over. The other is about to begin.
Rep. Alan Grayson
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months...
America claims to promote freedom and democracy abroad but does history really support this rhetoric?
US involvement in places like Vietnam or Guatemala indicate that the main factors motivating American foreign policy are economic concerns.
27 min
I’ve never been punched in the face. Not in an actual fight, at least. I’m not much of a fighter, I suppose… More of an “arguer.” I don’t think I’m “scared” to get into a fight, necessarily–There have been many times I have put myself in situations where a physical fight...
Chris Boeskool
Someone posted this amazing ad on Montreal Craigslist
Anon
Miami Beach could be underwater this century. The sea level around the tourist paradise has risen steadily in recent decades and flooding in the streets has become more frequent and severe. Most of the city sits just four to five feet above sea level, and on a foundation of...
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If the population of the world was only 100 people, what would society look like? How many people would have shelter? Clean water? Education? Watch this video and find out.
2 min
Strong encryption poses problems for law enforcement, is weakening it worth the risks it presents? It's...complicated.
18 min
I love the core spirit of anarchism. But like most philosophies, oftentimes the spirit gets lost as it gets codified into a religion.
The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees w
A song for all the better anarchists.
2 min
If you feel weird because you're not turned on all that often, stop worrying. Read more about this research here.
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To understand the dynamics underlying the Clinton-Sanders nomination contest, it's helpful to remember the old adage that Democrats are supposed to be the party of ordinary working people. As the nomination process plays out, the 2016 race might be remembered as the party's...
David Niose
A powerful new campaign wants advertisers to know that many consumers are fed up with how women are portrayed.
Women Not Objects, a project dedicated to calling out the objectification of women in commercials, magazine spreads and other forms of advertising, has released a...
3 min
This is a lesson in how change happens in America as told by our own recent history. It is a tale told with segregation era photos set over the "I Have A Dream" speech given by Martin Luther King Jr at the March on Washington, accompanied by the song, "Time" from Inception...
11 min
How We Are Collectively Improvising a 'New Story' About Learning
Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain
Desperate to escape conflict and poverty, thousands of migrants and refugees attempt the perilous journey to Europe each year, with many crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa in rubber dinghies and wooden boats.
In the wake of the decommissioning of Mare Nostrum...
31 min
Vignettes of some of the women, men and children journeying across the Aegean Sea, seeking refuge and lives of less precarity- and the reflections of those working in solidarity with them. Filmed in Lesvos, Greece.
47 min
Donald Trump uses a primary victory speech to defend his failed business ventures, which prompts Jordan Klepper to fact-check the magnate's claims.
5 min
Bernie Sanders endorsed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s close friend and civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte. Nina Turner, Cornel West, Killer Mike, Danny Glover, and millions more. Bernie Sanders for President. #FeelTheBern Edited by Matt Orfalea
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Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED. This unique series of short films candidly examines issues of race, education and equality. Produced by Loudspeaker Films, TEACHED will open your eyes to the ways America perpetuates injustice against youth of color through public...
3 min
Al contrario de lo que se suele creer, Charles Darwin no introdujo la idea de evolución. A mediados del siglo XIX, la evolución era un hecho que ya se conocía desde hacía mucho tiempo, y la mayoría de los pensadores de la época se contentaba con eso. La ausencia de una teoría...
Daniel Quinn / ishmael.org
REVOLUTION LA is a political discussion group and revolutionary grassroots movement dedicated to building class-consciousness from the bottom-up through community education, outreach and empowerment.As the struggle of disadvantaged populations continues to widen through mass...
REVOLUTION LA
Modern society — industrial civilization — is built on violence.
Max Wilbert
"Our planet, our society, and we ourselves are built of star stuff."—Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Peter Tyson
The Awakening of Humanity
Occasionally in the course of human events, a new worldview emerges that transforms society. It happened when Jesus’ disciples were inspired by his life to believe in radical transformation of the person and theworld through love. It occurred in the...
Barbara Marx Hubbard
“We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras” is the way Jan Rotmans from the University Rotterdam describes the structural changes impacting our societies. This is also the phrase Michel Bauwens chose to open his latest book yet to be published in English...
Commons Transition
Most of the pain and killing and suffering comes from the hands of men in my age group. If all of a sudden all the men between 25-35 did half of what was on this list. If all the men in this age group dropped their weapons, ceased to objectify women and were more accepting of...
Jordan Jacques Aboutboul
Are the ancient stories of the Native Americans coming true?
John Black
Flowers In the Rain
Cold, wet, and tired from the long morning rally, my eight year-old asks again why we are here. We are standing with about fifty other media people, organizers, and just your ordinary eccentrics, grandmothers and fathers, university professors, musicians...
Jeannine Parvati Baker
I'd like to share an excerpt of the book I'm working on. It is from the beginning... (It is a first draft so be gentle!)
Charles Eisenstein
When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...
Charles Eisenstein
In November 2015, 50 million cubic metres of waste was unleashed after a tailings dam collapsed in the Gualaxo River Valley. This report investigates what is being named the biggest disaster in Brazil's mining history.
A horror mudslide swept through the towns and villages...
43 min
If you look on a board game shelf, how many games will you see with actions based on collaboration, stewardship, generosity, and gratitude? Most likely, you’ll find mechanics like attacking, stealing, and backstabbing. Indigenous communities looking to facilitate...
Elizabeth LaPensée
Dora Meade on finding out how money is really created and why we prefer not to talk about it
Dora Meade
To watch cable news, one would think that Bernie Sanders is still in the Democratic primary race simply to send a message to Washington, be a thorn in Hillary Clinton's side, play trainer to her Rocky, or some combination of all of these. Bogus super-delegate totals have been...
Seth Abramson
Leftist: "If you think something will change if you vote for a different politician then you might not understand how the system works..."
In the most shocking upset of the 2016 presidential campaign to date, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary. Sanders won 50 percent of the vote to Clinton's 48. During the campaign, Sanders focused heavily on his opposition to what he...
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This video playlist compiles all of acTVism Munich's work that include a wide range of topics - privacy, democracy, economy, politics and social issues.
272 min
The moment Helen Steel confronts the former police spy who deceived her, before disappearing without a trace, is caught on camera at Sydney airport. The British social justice campaigner had flown from London to Australia to confront John Dines, finally seeing him...
3 min
In 2015, evidence of slavery on a massive scale surfaced in the remote islands of eastern Indonesia.
Illegal fishing in Indonesian territorial waters had risen to an extreme level, but many of the Thai fishing boats responsible harboured a much worse secret aboard.
In the...
24 min
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
Erik Olin Wright
Homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and the housing bubble are all rooted in privatized housing.
Jesse A. Myerson
Learn about the hidden negative psychological and sexual effects of circumcision and how these effects harm women in relationships with men. This article is based on research reports in the medical and psychological literature.
Ronald Goldman
An excerpt from his book "No Death, No Fear."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical depression within their lifetimes, and the rate is increasing with every generation.
Sara Burrows
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger
Kyle Cease explains why you should never lose your inner child.
4 min
Depression is the unavoidable by-product of not being who you really are
Nanice Ellis
Exactly how will the wealthy and powerful who are the political establishment in this country put out the fire that this campaign has ignited?
Donna Smith
It all comes back to you and the power you have to choose how you want to respond.
19 min
'The pundits might not like it,' Sanders said on Sunday night, 'but the people are making history.'
Deirdre Fulton
More than 60 groups sign letter calling for full investigation into government spying on protest groups
Lauren McCauley
In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunda
Adam Johnson