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Mobile Showers for the Homeless in San Francisco. Lava Mae is a nonprofit with an interesting idea. They convert old donated city buses into mobile shower units for homeless people, bringing them health, hygiene and humanity.
94 min
Professor Wolff discusses that which the crisis has made possible in relation to Marxism during this lecture given at The Brecht Forum on July 29, 2012 as part of their Annual Intensive Introduction to Marxism.
127 min
After five years of deepening crisis, failed "solutions," and aborted "recoveries," millions see a capitalist system no longer serving most Americans. It's time to demand a cure big and bold enough to work. Richard Wolff spoke on to hear that cure presented, explained, and...
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ACLU SoCal, L.A. Progressive and Occidental College hosted Richard Wolff for a discussion on economic rights and reform, on February 10, 2015 at Occidental College.
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Warning: Some common sense required.
Having spent 6 months living and volunteering in a small jungle village in rural Belize, I kept noticing some issues related to poverty that I knew were universal in developing countries. After finishing my volunteering period I decided to follow up on the observations...
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The Republican party counts on poor voter turnout to win. That's how they won in 2014, and it's how they'd like to win in 2016. If you want to do your part to help the GOP and the billionaire class, STAY HOME. And whatever you do, don't get involved in politics in any...
As Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable suffering at the hands of Israelis, there are some old bromides that are constantly being hurled at an unsuspecting public by elected U.S. officials, in order to justify U.S. financing of that suffering. Let us look at just a...
Robert Fantina
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Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff powerfully debunks the myth that a so-called immutable 'human-nature' prevents our transition to a society of abundance and free-access for all.
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Kramer, teaching a lesson on how to see the bright side and keep on following our way.
Thich Nhat Hanh has published nearly 100 books and is one of the best-known teachers of Zen Buddhism in the world today.
Martin Doblmeier
By far the most intellectually and politically interesting thing about the recent "exposé" of Spokane, WA, NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal’s racial status is the conundrum it has posed for racial identitarians who are also committed to defense of transgender identity. The...
Adolph Reed Jr.
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This is a clip from the beginning of the 3-part film HUMAN, which was released for free online in 2015. You can watch the series here.
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We live in crazy times. A veritable clusterfuck of austerity, riots, and repression is playing out amidst a backdrop of growing inequality and global ecological collapse. In this era of uncertainty, we believe that independent media can play a crucial role in helping people...
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This week we look at the dire fuckin situation for people escaping war and abusive governments for the relative safety of the global north. On the break Rebel Diaz and Dead Prez remake the classic "Which Side Are You On?"
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Inspired by the "Dear Fat People" responses. I wrote an open letter to social media. [Subtitles Available] We often blame technology for a lot of the problems faced in society, such as cyber bullying, vanity, insecurity. However I like to argue that the fault lies in the...
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If life is kicking your ass and the general un-coolness of everybody on planet erf is making you want to off yourself, TALK to someone: 800-273-8255 (national suicide prevention lifeline). We are rooting for YOU. You're the greatest comeback story of all time.
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A film by THROUGH PYES EYES Recently my girlfriend and I had the privilege of traveling through Sri Lanka. We were blown away with how beautiful, friendly and hospitable the people were. This short film really captures how amazing and welcoming Sri Lanka is. Thanks Sri Lanka...
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Bernie Sanders talks about the one issue the billionaire class wants us to avoid discussing.
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Socialism, turns out the dirtiest word in U.S. politics is as American as apple pie. From the U.S. labor movement to the New Deal to corporate subsidies, America relies on a healthy dose of socialism.
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In the end, the lesson our culture needs to learn is simple. But before any meaningful change can happen in our world, we need to learn that lesson.
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Do you want to know about the main anti-eviction citizen’s movement in Spain? Comando Video invites you to view the documentary ‘SÍ SE PUEDE (Yes We Can), a daily account of Barcelona‘s Platform for People Affected by Mortgages that portrays what a common week, and its...
In these poignant words from Guantánamo (written in 2013), Shaker Aamer reveals the pain of being separated from his family
Shaker Aamer
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Biskopsgården in Göteborg, Sweden, has suffered several shootings resulting in deaths.
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Shot/directed/cut by www.thibautbuccellato.fr Music : Apparat - The Soft Voices Die * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Shot on 5D Mk3 Cut on Final Cut Pro
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and...
Pete Brown
Most of us are pretty busy, just about every day.
Leo Babauta
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"Empathy is not to bring comfort, nor to advise. It is not to judge or try to distract someone from their pain... It means being fully present with the other, to serve as a mirror of their feelings and needs, so that they may find relief and clarity through our attention."
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New information contradicts the Mexican government's claims about what happened to 43 Ayotzinapa students who disappeared in 2014. Here's a look at what we do know, and what we don't.
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Amber Rose takes pride in her stride. Don't let anyone call it a walk of shame!
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The planned Energy East pipeline threatens to lock us into decades of soaring emissions from expanding the tar sands. It would lead to emissions that equal adding 7 million cars to Canada's roads. Take action here.
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This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
USDA researchers have identified the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin as a likely contributor to monarch butterfly declines in North America. The USDA research is published in the journalScience of Nature and was published online on April 3rd (
Jonathan Latham, PhD
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Made to coincide with the third anniversary of conflict (in March 2014), let us stand #WithSyria features artwork from Banksy and is narrated by Idris Elba with exclusive music from Elbow.
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Docudrama around Yemen 2014. Early marriage, Al-Qaeda, hardship of poverty in general ... what can happen to mind fragile and weak intelligence left to itself? ... The generosity of Mohamed that helps young people to find the right path in life. (Still work in progress)
Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) was a German activist who is famous for speaking out against the Nazi regime. Scholl was a member of a protest group called The White Rose, which was formed by her brother Hans, and some of his university friends. The group mainly consis
Words by Sophie Scholl - Illustrations by Gavin Aung Than
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First public screening: September or October 2015 Twitter: @BurnabyMtnDoco #BurnabyMountainDoco #Kmface #cdnpoli #bcpoli
When CounterPunch published my essay “The Sanders Paradox: A Brief for Bernie” two weeks ago, I was hoping that it would trigger constructive, spirited discussion and debate on the left about the Sanders candidacy. With some 1,400 Facebook shares fromCounterPunch, and some...
William Kaufman
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Rest in Power, Gil Scott-Heron (1949 - 2011). Watch a music video of 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' via Part 2.
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A beautifully told tale of a couple living peacefully in the countryside until one day an explosion rocks their world.
Meet the neo-Malthusians campaigning against refugees and for child benefits to be scrapped.
Adam Ramsay
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In today's political world, idealism is seen as the enemy of realism and getting things done. But, argues Gary Younge, idealism is absolutely necessary for society to continue progressing into the world we want to see. It's what makes things that seem impossible today into...
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Clip featuring Dr Michael Klaper taken from the documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.
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Ditching The Fear tells the story of workers involved in a recent series of hard-won struggles for improved pay and conditions in the Italian logistics sector.
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How much power does the monarch really wield? How much does the Royal family cost us? These and many other questions answered in this video.
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Germany is taking a lot of refugees from Syria and elsewhere. Everybody seems pretty happy about this now, but the criticisms have already started, and they are sure to get louder. This counters those complaints by pointing out 3 ways Germany will benefit.
In case you haven’t heard, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called for political revolution. That’s gargantuan news, which poses an equally gargantuan paradox to wrap our heads around. Now, it’s not as if some civic-minded voice in the wilderness like...
Revolt Against Plutocracy
Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential for ordinary people to make radical change.
Noam Chomsky
'Using Sept. 11 as a justification for an unnecessary war, torture, drone strikes and civilian casualties compounds my grief and is wrong-minded and counterproductive.'
Lauren McCauley
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Beautifully edited by Roen Horn this slice of natural wonder is set to the music of Karen O.
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Retracing rare earth elements, which are widely used in high end electronics and green technologies, to their origins. The film, developed with photographer Toby Smith, documents their voyage from container ships and ports, wholesalers and factories, back to the banks of a...
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“We got sidetracked and diverted into these boxes, these cubicles in offices,” says Joe Rogan. “So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s...
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Last month a candidate named "Deez Nutz" managed to do surprisingly well in a poll in North Carolina. This guy clearly doesn't take the election process all that seriously. We shouldn't either.
As a congressman in 1999, now-Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), was the first member of Congress to lead seniors across the Canadian border to buy cheaper drugs. Now he wants to make that possible for all Americans. As a candidate for president, he has made the astronomical cost of...
Andrew Breiner
A former hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical businessman has purchased the rights to a 62-year-old drug used for treating life-threatening parasitic infections and raised the price overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750.
According t
Tom Boggioni
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Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about what’s possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
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The top 25 hedge fund managers make more than all kindergarten teachers in the country. Yet they pay a lower tax rate because of something called the carried interest tax loophole, which is basically a government subsidy for millionaires and billionaires!
If we closed this...
Why the lines of donated shoes at a train station in Budapest carry the opposite meaning of the line of bronzed shoes that now sit along the Danube
Dr. Zoltán Grossman
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The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
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Abby Martin examines the two major wars launched under the "Global War on Terror" – their historical development and their aftermath. Featuring former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, this episode digs into the tragedy of a region shaped by Empire.
1. Abbie
Abbie was rescued from a trailer park in North Carolina, where she was being kept without food or water. After Abbie gave birth to seven piglets, Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary took
MFA
Despite the UK government voting against military action in Syria initially, UK pilots have taken part in airstrikes in the country but we must pose this questions and demand answers. What’s going on in Syria, should we get involved, who are we fighting with, is it legal?
Our governments now treat us like cattle – governed by fear, we have surrendered too many of our hard-won freedoms. It’s time to recapture the territory we’ve ceded
Margaret Atwood
With news this week that one in seven over 70 year olds are using their pensions to pay off their mortgage debt, the prospect of home ownership has got a whole lot less appealing. The fact that so many people
Alice Martin
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On this episode we present Juã and Rômulo, two young men who show that environmental services are the consequence of a good agriculture.
The politicians, plutocrats and pundits of the Democratic Party establishment have no answer to Bernie Sanders' blistering critique of their failure to defend the interests of the voters who have kept them in power. Neither have they a substantive case against his policy...
Jeff Faux
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The drastic consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives. The face of the world is changing, because of us.
The refugees won’t all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist.
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
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With the publication of the incredibly powerful photograph of Aylan Kurdi, the boy who drowned while fleeing the fighting in Syria, let's hope the world pays attention to that awful war for more than one news cycle. Aylan has become the symbol of the current refugee crisis...
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Danag y muchas otras ciudades en Vietnam Central están altamente vulnerables al calentamiento global. Los tifónes, inundaciones y sus pautas imprevisibles han causado graves consecuencias en la vida de las personas, sobre todo a los jóvenes.Este cortometraje narra dos...
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Los cientificos predicen que Kiribati, una isla remota en el Pacífico central, puede desaparecer por el aumento del nivel del mar en los próximos 50 años. Por ello una nación enfrenta un futuro con incertidumbre. "Tinau" es un retrato familiar intimista de una madre de...
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"Balud" es una palabra en dialecto filipino que significa "olas". Este cortometraje experimental es una respuesta al tifón Yolanda (nombre internacional: Hayan), lo cual tragó mi ciudad natal Tacloban en el pasado Noviembre de 2013. A mi família, amigos y compañeros que se...
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La situación al sur del casquete polar de Groenlandia se está deteriorando. El calentamiento global de la Tierra parece afectar a esta área más que a ninguna otra en el mundo. Las temperaturas han empezado a fluctuar y los habitantes nativos ven que su cultura se empieza a...
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Se trata de una película de animación sobre un violinista tocando en un teatro. Al cerrar sus ojos, él encuentra todo en el mundo a derretirse. Después de una ejecución loca, el violinista abre sus ojos sobre una realidade inesperada.
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Las montañas Rwenzori en Uganda se elevan 5000 metros desde el corazón de África. En sus cumbres están algunos de los únicos glaciares ecuatoriales de la Tierra. Pero estas "Montañas de la Luna", cuya existencia ha causado sensación en Europa cuando subieron por primera vez...
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Un documentario sobre el super tifón Yolanda - Hayan que azotó las Filipinas en el 8 de Noviemebre de 2013.
Un vídeo de Dobrin Kashavelov (Bulgária/Filipinas) - Grupo etário 18-35
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"Una carta desde el futuro se escribe en nuestro pasado reciente, diciéndonos como 'las cosas salieron bien'".
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Danang, like many other cities in Central Vietnam, is highly vulnerable to climate change. In particular, typhoon and flood and their recently unpredictable patterns have caused severe impacts on the people's lives, especially the youth. This short film tells 2 interweaving...
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Scientists predict that Kiribati - a remote Island Republic in the Central Pacific - could be lost to rising sea levels in the next 50 years. As a result a whole nation faces an uncertain future. 'Tinau' is an intimate family portrait of a Kiribatese mother now settled in the...
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This documentary discusses the effects of global warming in São Carlos, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. We follow Adinalsa, a farmer affected by the extreme heat of summer, and Gabriel, one of the founders of a community that thinks about how to take care of the...
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Balud is a Filipino dialect word for "waves." This short experimental film is a response to Typhoon Yolanda (International name: Haiyan), which swallowed my hometown Tacloban city last November, 2013. This film dedicated to family, friends and fellowmen who were lost on its...
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What is the problem with climate change and how we can solve it...
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The situation in the south of the Greenlandic Ice Cap is deteriorating. A global warming of the earth seems to threaten this area more than anywhere else in the world. Recorded temperatures have begun to fluctuate, and native inhabitants find their culture beginning to sink...
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It's an animation movie about a violinist playing at a theater and when he close his eyes he find the entire world melting. After a crazy play he open his eyes over an unexpected reality.
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Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains rise 5000m from the heart of Africa. At their summits are some of Earth's only equatorial glaciers. But these "Mountains of the Moon," whose existence caused a sensation in Europe when they were first climbed in 1906, are changing fast. Snows of...
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A documentary about the super typhoon Yolanda - Haiyan which hit the Philippines on Nov 8th 2013. A video by Dobrin Kashavelov (Bulgaria/Philippines) - Age Group 18-35
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"A letter from the future is written to our recent past, telling us how the world ´it turned out right´. It follows the trail of someone that left words written, words of change, of simple change. In this near future, the images of our world are the same, but the value of...
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Four people from four continents are heading to the top of our planet. They journey north to encounter a seismic blasting fleet that poses a deafeningly loud threat to narwhals, walrus and other spectacular wildlife. According to a new scientific review, seismic blasting is...
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Journalist Jay Cassano explains why Turkey's AKP Government is launching military strikes against Kurdish fighters and violating Kurdish rights in Turkey. The history of Turkish and Kurdish relations. Why the Turkish President is moving against the Kurds and is Turkey heading...
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In November 2014 the Iconic club Madame Jojo’s (in London's Soho) closed its doors. This event being interpreted by many as the death knell of Soho.
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War Without Bullets…the war waged against the poor with briefcases instead of guns. Cathy McCormack a global community anti-poverty activist from Glasgow U.K. made this short film as part of the Historic United Nations 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing highlighting the...
The Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is an annual celebration of the most beautiful and spectacular visions of the cosmos by astrophotographers worldwide. In 2015 the competition launched for its seventh year with new categories and more prizes up for...
Royal Museums Greenwich
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In August 2011 29 year old Mark Duggan was shot and killed whilst being arrested by armed police in Tottenham. This incident ignited a riot that escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest in recent British history.
Essentially The Hard Stop is an observational...
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This video is about 'We have One dream - We are One Human' - created on the run from Hungary to Germany. I have been following 750 refugees on their journey and this short film is about their shared message: We just want freedom - you know?!
Jerry Seinfeld joked that if aliens came to earth and saw people walking dogs, they would assume the dogs are the leaders. The dog walks out front, and a gangly creature trailing behind him picks up his feces and carries it for him.
David Cain
I’ve been interested in oppression politics and social justice activism for a while now, both from the point of having things that directly affect me and that I want to change in society, and from the point of being an ally and trying to help other people do the same. And I’m...
Hannah Wilder
Numerous US media outlets recently uncritically echoed a methodologically flawed report by an anti-immigration organization with ties to white supremacist groups (FAIR.org, 9/4/15). Beyond this serious problem, however, lies a larger and more endemic issue in media: an...
Ben Norton
“Despite it all, I loved him – and that love was not enough.” How can you tell if your partner is healthy for you? Here's some guidance that can help.
Melissa A. Fabello