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What's More Corrosive Than Flint's Water? The Cynicism of the Powerful
What's More Corrosive Than Flint's Water? The Cynicism of the Powerful
The Flint water crisis exposes like nothing else the toxic cynicism of America's ruling class, writes Jesse Jackson. In their privileged view, the victims of the lead poisoning are disposable 'unpersons' that matter less than General Motors' auto parts. But now they, and...
Jesse Jackson
If You've Ever Wondered What We're Here For... We Came to Dance!
If You've Ever Wondered What We're Here For... We Came to Dance!
We began with rhythm. From the beating of our mother’s heart to the first kick in our mother’s womb.  We were born to move.  ‘We Came To Dance’ combines this rhythm that we all share, with the rhythm of music, dance and an epic piece of spoken word that unravels over the...
3 min
Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of
Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It’s just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if you don’t come up with something quick.
Gilbert Ross
The Commodification of Self Care and the Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love
The Commodification of Self Care and the Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”  ...
Rae Swersey
Loving-Kindness Meditation: A Practice That Helps Us Forgive Others
Loving-Kindness Meditation: A Practice That Helps Us Forgive Others
Loving-kindness meditation is also known as metta meditation.
Elyane Youssef
Recovering From Betrayal: 7 Steps That Will Change Your Life
Recovering From Betrayal: 7 Steps That Will Change Your Life
I understand it hurts, and it hurts really badly. No one deserves to be treated the way you were. No one deserves to feel emotional pain tearing through their body or bringing them to their knees. You did nothing to deserve this and it is not your fault.
Kristen Brown
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration.  It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...
3 min
The Gift of Presence
The Gift of Presence
“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot
Evelyn Rennich
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
After hundreds of years of isolation, here’s how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity — and their health.
9 min
My Special Place in Hell, Courtesy of Unfettered Greed
My Special Place in Hell, Courtesy of Unfettered Greed
'Women all over the country can write about the damage done to their lives by the rigged economy and the special place in hell they work to escape daily when trying to fight back.'
Donna Smith
Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou
Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou
Poet, teacher, activist and more-pay tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou and listen to her read her unforgettable poem "Phenomenal Woman."
2 min
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
The crack in your being that pain inflicts is a sacred gift where openness, love, compassion, vulnerability and new inner wisdom can emerge and connect with the world.
William Timothy Walker
How Stress Affects Your Brain
How Stress Affects Your Brain
Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can...
4 min
This is the National Health Service (NHS)
This is the National Health Service (NHS)
The story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, told through the voices of those on the frontline.
3 min
10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy
10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy
News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in Flint, deposed the mayor and city council, then appointed his own man to run the city. To...
Michael Moore
Racism: It's in the Water
Racism: It's in the Water
Racism isn't just about police brutality or the criminal justice system. It's in the air and water. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a textbook case of environmental racism. We explain how it's playing out across the country.
3 min
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt
Many of you have contacted me wanting to know how you can help the people of Flint with the two-year long tragedy of drinking water contaminated by the radical decisions made by the Governor of Michigan. The offer is much appreciated by those who are suffering through this...
Michael Moore
How We Used to Die; How We Die Now
How We Used to Die; How We Die Now
An emergency physician’s beautifully written and agonizingly empathic account of “how we used to die” starkly contrasted with how most people die now in our death-defying, death-dealing military industrial medicopharmaceuticalized culture.
Louis Profeta, M.D.
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally
If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication
If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication
Appreciate others for what they have done. Don't apologize for simply existing.
Yao Xiao
Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life
Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in...
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France Passes Law Restricting Super-Thin Models and Airbrushing
France Passes Law Restricting Super-Thin Models and Airbrushing
France passes a new law that bans the use of "excessively skinny" models and puts regulations on airbrushed photos to promote better self-image in women and girls. Some critics in the fashion industry have criticized the law's ambiguous language.
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15 Easy Things You Can Do to Help When You Feel Like Shit
15 Easy Things You Can Do to Help When You Feel Like Shit
You don’t have to tackle it all at once.
Maritsa Patrinos
Do You Have Time to Love?
Do You Have Time to Love?
The greatest gift you can offer loved ones is your true presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Here's How Negative Thinking Is Changing Your Brain
Here's How Negative Thinking Is Changing Your Brain
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you may have a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill
Rage, Fear, Sadness, Fatigue: The Yoga of Darkness
Rage, Fear, Sadness, Fatigue: The Yoga of Darkness
“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” -Carl Jung
Return Yoga
Realize You Are the Earth
Realize You Are the Earth
“We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Advice for the Budding Activist
Advice for the Budding Activist
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
Ebola on the Ground
Ebola on the Ground
While Western media coverage of the Ebola crisis faded sometime in November, daily case counts in Sierra Leone continued to grow exponentially through the top of the new year. Okayafrica, teaming up with single-subject news site Ebola Deeply, arrived in Freetown on New Year's...
33 min
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
The Neglected Mass Shooter and His Need to Be Seen
At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: “Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient”, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...
Cheryl Hashman Sheinman
The Difference Between Hot Boredom and Cool Boredom
The Difference Between Hot Boredom and Cool Boredom
Hot boredom is like being locked in a padded cell. You are bored, miserable, and irritated. Cool boredom is quite spacious.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Understanding Patriarchy
Understanding Patriarchy
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men never think about patriarchy—what it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in...
bell hooks
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Mental Health
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Mental Health
John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn't.
12 min
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min
In Praise of Self-Helpless
In Praise of Self-Helpless
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
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships.
Dieter Duhm
The Ecosexual Awakening
The Ecosexual Awakening
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 Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
“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
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?
"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."
5 min
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
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
Ola - Health Is Everything
Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)
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...
69 min
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness
Jonathan Davis
5 Difficult Situations Where 'Letting Go' Is the Best Decision You'll Ever Make
5 Difficult Situations Where 'Letting Go' Is the Best Decision You'll Ever Make
1. When the people you love hurt you
Yasmine Amin
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?
Bill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
5 min
The True Source Of Greed
The True Source Of Greed
“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
Ocean of Plastic (Do You Think That Marine Pollution Does Not Affect You? Think Again.)
Ocean of Plastic (Do You Think That Marine Pollution Does Not Affect You? Think Again.)
This short film which shows you an extremely important reason why you should take marine pollution seriously.
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Ex-hedge Funder Buys Rights to Life-Saving Drug and Raises Price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
Ex-hedge Funder Buys Rights to Life-Saving Drug and Raises Price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
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
5 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Think Your Partner Is Toxic
5 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Think Your Partner Is Toxic
“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
Judge Less, Accept More, and Restore Your Happiness
Judge Less, Accept More, and Restore Your Happiness
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
Patricia Tashiro
Ten Films You Need to Watch About The Reality Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
Ten Films You Need to Watch About The Reality Of The World's Indigenous Peoples
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow
Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
When Arizona Sen. John McCain met with the Navajo Nation’s tribal government earlier this month at their capital in Window Rock, Arizona, after arriving in a big black SUV, he believed he would be spending the day observing the commemoration of Code Talkers Day. This was not...
William Rivers Pitt
The Man Box and the Cult of Masculinity
The Man Box and the Cult of Masculinity
Rule 1: There is no man box.
Derrick Jensen
Transgender Healthcare Equality
Transgender Healthcare Equality
Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film covers the current issues faced by trans people in the US. Please watch, like...
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Worried Your Partner Is Emotionally Abusive? Check Out These 7 Warning Signs
Worried Your Partner Is Emotionally Abusive? Check Out These 7 Warning Signs
There’s a misconception that abusive partners always use physical violence, which can make it hard to tell if your partner’s abusive.
Emma Rust
Cure Your Ailments and Be in a Good Mood for No Reason with Nature Rx
Cure Your Ailments and Be in a Good Mood for No Reason with Nature Rx
Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatever ails you. Side effects may include confidence, authenticity, remembering you have a body, and being in a good mood...
2 min
Inside Her Sex: Where Shame And Sexuality Collide
Inside Her Sex: Where Shame And Sexuality Collide (trailer)
While we live in a highly sexualized society, the messaging around female sexuality is distorted and rife with shame. What women should look like, who women should want, what women should desire...in fact, who women should be, is dictated to us from screens and pages and people.
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Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
This summer, St. Luke’s Hospital started sending all new moms home from the hospital with a basket of fresh produce, recipes and literature about the importance of a healthy diet. All of the produce in the basket was grown on an organic farm on the hospital’s Anderson campus...
Jodi Helmer
Got First World Problems? This Might Help
Got First World Problems? This Might Help
A pop-up shop selling placebo pills for “first-world problems” just opened its doors in Amsterdam on June 7th. A Netherlands-based fund created the campaign to raise money for very real problems facing millions who cannot access AIDS medications.
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Red Path
Red Path
"Red Path premiered at the Unmentionables Film Festival in New York, a festival dedicated to breaking taboos and this first year the taboo was menstruation.   I truly believe t
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