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If we are willing to work minimum wage at a dumb job that kills our soul, why not do our art instead, charge minimum wage or $10 an hour for it, gain a following and increase the prices as the art's popularity grows. This plan worked for me, I was tired of my sewing business...
28 min
Abby Martin interviews Chris Hedges on American myths, war and revolt. Hedges explains the 'folly of Empire,' the dangers posed by right-wing extremism and the urgent need for a new system.
Chris Hedges is a former New York Times journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
3 min
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely
Nick Cohen
11 min
What is Globalization? In the 20th century the human race was confronted with such a natural phenomenon as globalization. Globalization can be defined as the process of concentration of power over all the mankind in one person or a small group. This process has been under way...
3 min
Berber Rafting is an exciting white water rafting and adventure company with European standards, which can make your trip to Morocco a memorable one! Most of the visitors come for the famous Sahara desert, the ancient cities or for a surf on the coast.
8 min
Watch a tiny house get built with a lead lighting geodesic dome window! The 10 square metre tiny house cost around $2500 to build and was mostly made from recycled materials.
I wrote this 14 years ago, when I was a senior at Free State High School, just a couple days after September 11th, 2001. Somewhat unbelievably to me now, I actually stood up in front of my civics class and read this aloud in front of my teacher and the rest of my classmates...
George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised. The information age is a...
John Pilger
Ten people were killed and seven wounded recently in a mass shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. Such shootings are more than another tragic expression of unchecked violence in the United States, they are symptomatic of a society engulfed in fear, militarism...
Henry A. Giroux
Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.
Matt Bruenig
4 min
Uploaded by tkf57 on 2015-04-22.
27 min
Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it.
6 min
A young cleaning girl's day turns upside down when she finds the gripping journal of a refugee. How a shared story can change peoples attitude. Heartwarming.
The following is excerpted from The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path by Jay Michaelson, published by Ben Yahuda Press.
In the 1990s, a prominent teacher of what’s called “New Thought”—a/k/a The Secret, the Law of Attraction, the Teachings of Abraham—told a group...
Jay Michaelson
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships.
Dieter Duhm
American scholar and Theravada monk Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi might not receive the same high-profile press coverage as the Roman Catholic Church’s charismatic standard-bearer Pope Francis, but it is becoming evident to Buddhism watchers and commentators that his message is...
Raymond Lam
From the anthology Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love
I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compel you with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather...
Charles Eisenstein
“I am a woman. I am thankful for that, for I like being a woman.” Already this statement, if spoken in full truth, requires a fundamental shift in the worldview of women, reconnecting them with their true and most beautiful sources.
Sabine Lichtenfels
I want to live in a community with men and women, with children, animals and plants so that I am not continually forced to hide my actual being from the others. Perception and contact are forces of life that are as elementary as breathing. If these are possible, then I love...
Sabine Lichtenfels
5 min
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
We are in the process of burning ourselves and many of the beings on Earth right out of existence. Overwhelming. Unbelievable. Wildly inconvenient. Weirdly difficult to take in. But true. We are.
David Goldstein
My new home of West Asheville is in the news. A local coffee shop, Waking Life Espresso, closed its doors after its owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens were outed for hosting a misogynistic blog. In addition to repulsive and degrading comments about women and details of...
Charles Eisenstein
First of all I would like to remind you if I may, this is not an intellectual entertainment nor some kind of romantic ideological rubbish. We are dealing with our daily life, with our relationship with each other, and also what is happening in the world, and the turmoil, the...
J. Krishnamurti
This unexpected alliance between slaves and natives is a great model for social change
Jacob Devaney
15 min
Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion — built...
71 min
Director Ray Kocur leads you through a thorough (and accessible) study of current climate change research, speaking with a dozen of Canada's foremost climate scientists as well as historians and civil rights activists to gain perspectives on the past, present and future of...
53 min
'Roots of Rescue' is a documentary featuring the culture of animal cruelty in Alabama. The narrative is provided by a vast network of animal rescuers who struggle every day to save abused and neglected dogs. Due to a lack of stiff animal cruelty penalties and animal...
31 min
Full episode - 1. Bill Maher told his Real Time with Bill Maher audience recently that the homemade clock that got 14- year old Ahmed Mohamed handcuffed and arrested from his school actually "looked like a bomb" and because called for us to "have some perspective," asserting...
The world is your canvas, use it.
14 min
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, October 1. According to Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, the shooter was a 20-year-old male, and was killed by officers who...
4 min
With the rest of the mobile phone industry beginning to look into supply chain ethics, Fairphone has launched their second handset as the first fully modular smartphone to try and stay one step ahead
The first batch of the Fairphone 2 – which aims to lead the way in more...
While the refugee crisis is being debated, pundits have used the crisis to plead for and justify new wars, and war plans are already being announced.
Jelle Bruinsma
It isn’t just poor people’s lives which differ from rich people’s lives – it's poor people's thoughts that differ from everyone else's.
Carmen Rios
94 min
The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience is a documentary focused on showing each of the dimensions to the experience we call life. The documentary does this by addressing exactly who we all are, and why we are here. It further delves into each of the key pieces that...
16 min
Uploaded by Mick Rubusisi on 2015-10-02.
'People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,' says film's director Avi Lewis
Jon Queally
69 min
A timely and emotional debut documentary that celebrates Hawaii's most cherished social values, Ola challenges us to rethink what it means to be healthy. Ola (Hawaiian for "life" or "well being") explores the widespread social factors that affect our ability to create...
2 min
The United States exports more weapons than any other nation - which means American companies profit from other countries' wars.
What this year’s poultry apocalypse means for the future of food
Sandra Upson
More people lately are identifying capitalism as the underlying cause of our current global troubles and crises. That’s certainly positive: the first step toward cure is a proper diagnosis. But most of the approaches being offered to treat the problem are placebos, an endless...
Stephanie McMillan
4 min
A concert to save the world! That won't save the world! Beyonce, Coldplay and Pearl Jam are joining forces for a music festival in the name of achieving Sustainable Development Goals- but really, they just like to hear the sound of their own voices. Lee Camp explains on...
2 min
Satirical take on the exploitation of whales and dolphins. For more serious info visit Whale and Dolphin Conservation.
One of the electric car’s biggest criticisms is its lack of range and the need to frequently recharge the battery at designated supercharge stations. But the British government has a
Lauren C. Williams
15 min
NNIMMO BASSEY: award-winning African climate activist and poet: please help us make a film about his work and how it connects with austerity, refugees and our wider realities.
The model takes the idea of farm-to-table to the next level.
Joseph Erbentraut
The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial processes can put pollutants in the air that increase public health costs, but the public...
David Roberts
New finding is clear example in humans of the theory of epigenetic inheritance: the idea that environmental factors can affect the genes of your children.
Helen Thomson
Usually when we talk about climate change and what we can do to mitigate its impacts, we talk about ways to cut back carbon emissions through alternatives, policy actions or efficiency measures. We usually don’t think about the role that forests play in this equation.
RP Siegel
The sharing economy is definitely on the move, with people sharing their beds, cars, food,
Amiad Soto
In his book Derailed, about his fall from academic grace, the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel explained his preferred method for manipulating scientific data in detail that would make any nerd's jaw d
Julia Belluz
I just spent several hours down a rabbit hole. The topic was the "electric universe," an unconventional cosmological theory that emphasizes electromagnetism rather than gravity as the primary structuring force of the universe. It offers alternative explanations of redshift...
Charles Eisenstein
Two years ago when he was 14, my son Matthew grew six inches. Last year he only grew two inches, and this year he has only grown half an inch. Should I be worried?
Charles Eisenstein
While we marvel at Nasa’s discoveries, we destroy our irreplaceable natural resources – so we can buy pre-peeled bananas and smartphones for dogs
George Monbiot
Thinking of a joke after the masses have trampled a subject is a bit like looking for your contact lenses just after the Battle of Agincourt. It seems that everyone’s a topical comedy writer when the PM puts his willy in a pig’s mouth. Where were the general
Frankie Boyle
Despite research telling us it’s a really bad idea, many of us end up working 50-hour weeks or more because we think we’ll get more done and reap the benefits later. And according to a study published last month involving 600,000 people, those of us
Bec Crew
The ballot initiative aims to block a convoluted water deal handing over water rights to both the state of Oregon and Hood River County to Nestle, resulting in the company selling the county’s water. The ballot initiative could stop the deal in its tracks and sound a warning...
Ben Forstenzer
While it is unclear whether this figure represents a distinct rise or fall in the number of American Jews living in the occupied West Bank, the number of West Bank settlers has risen from 110,000 to around 400,000 since the Oslo Peace Accords were signed in 1993, a 264% increase.
Newsweek
11 min
Louisiana is currently losing around a football field's worth of land every hour to the encroaching ocean. The erosion is due to an array of factors, from an ill-conceived historic levee system, the legacy of oil and gas drilling and, of course, the area's susceptibility to...
11 min
Trevor shows his appreciation for the show’s former host and discusses Speaker of the House John Boehner’s recent resignation.
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To be a great filmmaker, you don’t need to go to film school, have access to the latest gear, or have been born a creative genius. The most important ingredients for mastering the craft are time and dedication. To set yourself up for success then, the trick is to focus on the...
Story & Heart
13 min
A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. The 1 acre property has been developed into a productive permaculture farm that is currently feeding around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas...
3 min
Drugs in America: America has been fighting a War on Drugs for decades, but getting high is nothing new. From coffee to marijuana, here's how Americans have gotten their fix.
Last year, Gregg Marcantel, the secretary of New Mexico's Corrections Department, voluntarily placed himself in solitary confinement for 48 hours. He was one of a rare few who could choose to do such a thing, and it was a very Gregg thing to do—dramatic, physically demanding...
Maurice Chammah
The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness
Jonathan Davis
25 min
Land of corn is a documentary film about four environmental and land rights defenders from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras who work in an extremely dangerous environment and risk their lives, their freedom and the safety of their families because of the work they do...
1. When the people you love hurt you
Yasmine Amin
In his new book “How to Raise a Wild Child,” Dr. Scott D. Sampson argues that the current disconnect between kids and the natural world is a threat to their physical, mental, and emotional health.
Shannon Hayes
3 min
In the 1990's the Nuxalk Nation engaged in a campaign of direct action, to stop logging on their traditional lands, also known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Nuxalk Hereditary Chief Qwatsinas, was at the forefront of this struggle.
Streaming giant Netflix recently launched Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a 90-minute documentary financed via the crowd-funding site Indiegogo and executive-produced by Hollywood star Leonardo di Caprio. It is the latest in a short line of factual features promoted by...
Alison Homewood
5 min
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
An independent probe into the work of the Waller County, Texas, officials in charge of closing the case on Sandra Bland’s July 13,
Kenrya Rankin Naasel
7 min
This sequence comes from the feature documentary Baraka.
24 min
The Unist’ot’en camp in North-Western British Colombia, Canada, is front and centre in a global battle for climate and energy justice.
Since 2011 they have been maintaining a check-point controlling access through their territory to stop government and industry plans to build...
This article is probably not what you think. Read on to find out more.
Aaron Bleyaert
3 min
Woman learns to like herself even when others don't always act like they like her.
Why does anyone care if students don’t go to class?
When talking about the potential of a student strike, people come back with this question again and again. We’ve tried to
Josh Berlyne and Callum Cant
“How much of the ugly does it take to substitute for a lack of the beautiful? How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one’s greatness? How much...
Chris Agnos
In the pursuit of the perfectly behaved child, we have created conditional environments of reward and punishment which lack empathy, connection, and unconditional love.
Dawn Agnos
4 min
Les journées Court-Bouillon et le manifeste du beau du bon du vrai ont pour objectif de connecter des personnes de differents horizons qui ont envie de participer à des initiatives créatrices de lien grâce à l'alimentation.
The first person I talked to after arriving on the Greek Island of Lesbos was an Afghan refugee and former U.S. interpreter who fled after he had received death threats from the Taliban. I was surprised.
Hagar Shezaf
5 min
We meet five Christian families, each with a gay or lesbian child. Parents talk about their marriages and church-going, their children's childhood and coming out, their reactions, and changes over time. The stories told by these nine parents and four adult children alternate...
Corporate data from numerous sources, including annual reports directly from the companies themselves, has been merged and matched and managed into two spreadsheets that reveal state-by-state corporate tax avoidance. The results show how people all over America are being...
Paul Buchheit
1 min
This is a clip from the 3-part documentary HUMAN. Watch it here. You can watch the full 10 minute interview with José via Part 2.
18 min
Millions of migrants seeking asylum in Europe face hostility, racism, and red tape. John Oliver does one admittedly tiny thing for one of them.
In my first year of college, I stopped calling myself an activist.
Kai Cheng Thom
4 min
A fun song for when someone keeps making offensive "jokes," with some excellent post-song commentary calling for the need for more empathy and compassion in the world.
Using haunting aerial photographs of the Negev Desert, American artist Fazal Sheikh challenges the notion that the desert was an unpopulated land before Zionism made it bloom.
Tom Pessah
It’s a cliché of feminist media to bemoan the “time bind” that keeps women tied to the double duties of working and parenting. The solution offered to this problem, however, often boils down to simply working more. “Don’t lose sight of your goals!” “Lean in!” As if liberation...
Madeleine Schwartz
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
NASA
Two new elements in the government’s legislation programme are a real threat to free speech, campaigners tell Dominic Smith
Dominic Smith
Why should you only have sex with the person you are in a relationship with?
Tauriq Moosa
5 min
Saul Williams, the "poet laureate of hip-hop," is troubled by society's rising reverence for ignorance and prestige. This is a stark departure from pop culture and music from the past, which laid more focus on rooting for the underdog and questioning authority. It's this...
I’ve been really angry and depressed for the last few months. I’ve finally pieced together why.
Derrick Lemos
8 min
The time has come to turn our focus onto the very medium which allows us to connect: The Internet. As we know it today, it has only been around for a short time: it's still an adolescent; still changing and growing. But even as we speak, powerful forces and interests are...
Pope Francis’ September 2015 visit to the US will doubtless reinforce his reach to the new audiences he has attracted beyond the Catholic Church with his strong positions on such issues as the environment, poverty, migrants – and Palestinian rights to freedom and...
Grace Said and Joanna Springer
84 min
To mark The Nation's 150th anniversary, John Nichols was joined in conversation by the eminent radical intellectual Noam Chomsky at the Tucson Festival of Books in Arizona on March 15. Discussing issues ranging from media accountability and voter participation, to money in...
9 min
Noam Chomsky on Gar Alperovitz' book "America Beyond Capitalism".