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A Narrative Strategy for Changing the Story of Global Development
Joe Brewer
Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is “fundamentally compromised” by corporate interests
Nafeez Ahmed
53 min
In the Syrian town of Serekaniye, the people live under constant threat from the unimaginable atrocities of ISIS. The revealing documentary Her War: Women vs. ISIS places us directly in the belly of this region, and explores the surprising and significant number of women who...
2 min
Tens of thousands of people have attended candlelight vigils across Australia in support of refugees, adding their voices to the growing pressure on Australia to accept more people who are fleeing the war in Syria.
As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions of Asylum seeking refugees in urgent...
Otto Scharmer
1) “Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing some people when they make call-outs because I...
Anonymous Anarchist
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit
#2. Bartending is far more dangerous than being a police officer.
James Woods
The refugee crisis in Europe is showing that humans helping each other, irrespective of national boundaries, is often the most effective form of action.
Jonathan Davis
Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well.
Michael Todd Landis
In Austria, refugee children are given toys and shelter. In Australia, they are sent to indefinite detention on tropical islands
First Dog on the Moon
2 min
How much does the Queen cost the UK taxpayer?
Mark Kernan argues that the late comedian was a shaman of our times
2 min
It has been amazing for me to return the the White Crow Farm. Six years ago I moved to this land to reconnect with my roots, and to start to use my skills in media to tell the story of the important work happening on the land. That project would one day turn into Over Grow...
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader
Recently, on All Things Considered—you know, that bastion of liberal media—Mara Liasson, talking about the prospect of Joe Biden running for President said:
There are many Democrats who think it would be good for Hillary Clinton because she'd have a serious opponent, and it...
John Atcheson
"Anarcho-syndicalism is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none."
Michael S. Wilson and Noam Chomsky
What will happen when the state collapses? Will society descend into lawlessness, or can we seize the opportunity to let our human potential flourish?
Joseph Todd
2 min
Firefighters, Architects & Engineers Expose 9/11 Myths - Official Trailer Movie release date: September 11, 2015 Honor the fallen by shining a light on the evidence. Thank you. Firefighters, Architects and Engineers are exposing the 9/11 facts about the evidence for the...
25 min
Abby Martin explores the U.S. Empire, its rise to world hegemony and its impact on people and the planet.
2 min
Last week, 14-year-old Ahed Tamimi confronted an Israeli soldier who was assaulting her brother. She is one of the faces of the anti-occupation movement in the West Bank.
7 min
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was a modern day Renaissance woman – author, poet, activist, dancer, singer, director, teacher and hero. Here is her poem Phenomenal Woman, illustrated by Zen Pencils.
Gavin Aung Than
A tax on Wall Street traders would tame risky bets on the stock market without disrupting America’s economy.
Douglas Cliggott
Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'
Andrea Germanos
On September 18th the award-winning documentary 'On The Art of War' directed by Silva Luzi and Luca Bellino, will be screened at the George Eastman House, Rochester, USA.
Tfilm DOC
Rather than waiting for society to all agree how we need to live in a different way, by focusing here in the suburban household, people can actually get on with making changes… a lot can happen right where people are. – David Holmgren, co-founder of Permacul
Chip Richards
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
Patricia Tashiro
2 min
From the brilliant mind and pencil of Steve Cutts, a message in support of animal rights.
There are over 1.5 million non profits registered in the USA. That is awesome! Well sort of awesome actually. It seems to me that if we have that many non profits we shouldn’t have as many problems as we do. I really admire anyone who is going out of there way to make a...
Rob Greenfield
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow
This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes...
Cher Weixia Chen and Michael Gilmore
Scholar Henry Giroux says America’s current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like ‘the walking dead.’
Bill Moyers and Henry Giroux
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
In this clip, Sen. Bernie Sanders says he believes “one of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions ever” — Citizens United — has allowed big money to “deflect attention from the real issues” facing voters.
Karin Kamp
30 min
EUROPA 0km - 30'/2010 di Silvia Luzi e Luca Bellino
Rule 1: There is no man box.
Derrick Jensen
Free cash is in the works for a growing number of Dutch urbanites. After the city of Utrecht announced that it would give no-strings-attached money
Maria Sanchez Diez
As another election season approaches, we are faced with the age old anarchist dilemma: To vote or not to vote.
Jurgen Yats
I get trolled a lot these days by people with all sorts of ideological beef. It gets old, fast.
9/11 and 7/7 conspiracy theorists who believe that governments "did" 9/11 and 7/7 criticise me for being too "establishment". On Twitter, arch 9/11 conspiracy wing nut accounts...
Nafeez Ahmed
Humanity, after taking over the driver’s seat of evolution, has crashed it into the brick wall of industrial civilization.
Arun Gupta
For the third year running a controversial cull of badgers is underway in parts of England. With the stated aim of tackling TB in cattle, the killing began in 2013 in the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire, continued in 2014, and has now been expanded to include Dorset...
LACS
25 min
Catalonia has a distinct culture of its own, most evidently of Mediterranean tradition, and it is different from most other Spanish regions in several aspects, not only by its language. Catalonia is one of the most cosmopolitan places in Spain, thanks to its long tradition of...
5 min
What the Frack, Jerry Brown?! is a comedic video series about the insane impacts of fracking in California.
2 min
We all have something to forgive or to be forgiven for. Let us guide you on a journey of forgiveness and healing. Together we can heal the world!
For decades we have exported a Western consumerist dream to the Global South; little wonder migrants now want to share our good fortune, writes Jeremy Seabrook.
Jeremy Seabrook
Ocean plastic has been ingested by 90 percent of all seabirds alive today, a new study finds, and the problem is still getting worse. But it's not too late to intervene, researchers say.
Russell McLendon
“The first step in the revolution is eye contact.” - Alicen Grey
Mickey Z.
The film inspired by Klein's book features the stories of everyday people standing up to climate change.
Araz Hachadourian
2 min
If you want to do more than just feel good, ask the Big Questions about poverty and we can expose its root causes and get real answers about how to stop creating it.
6 min
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...
Over the last few weeks, Britons have been well-informed on the harrowing experiences faced by migrants travelling to Europe in an attempt to escape the harsh realities in their homeland. As a result, the media frenzy over the ‘European migrant crisis’ has not only raised...
Ric Yeboah
3 min
El Rebozo Editorial Cooperative are just steps away from having their own Community Printing Press! At which point they will have the entire printing process under one roof- from design and editing, to distrubution and at last, printing! With your support, they will finally...
10 min
Free Tibet have launched this short film to coincide with the Chinese government’s celebrations surrounding 50 years of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region.
4 min
On the 15th August 2015, Londo2Calais held our first convoy of seven cars delivering food, cloaths and emergency supplies to the migrant camp in Calais. This short film shows the journy and what we found out from charity volunteers in Calais.
Do you despair when people fleeing war, poverty and disasters are met with hostility or indifference? Fed up with the dispassionate and downright inhumane response from governments and the media? You're not alone. Citizens of many countries are taking direct action to help...
When you are a member of the oppressor group you feel you have something to prove. You take a side, either on the side of status quo or of change. And sometimes you can shame those who rigidly adhere to outdated and prejudiced thinking. And when you change hearts and minds...
Maggie Price
Why are we against prison?
John Carico
4 min
Europe is experiencing unprecedented levels of migration. The hundreds of refugees stranded at Budapest's Keleti Palyaudvar train station illustrate the crisis nicely. Everyone has an explanation, but we should be focusing on the responsible party, the United States.
2 min
Structured as a personal journey of rediscovery by filmmaker Jennifer Lee, this documentary brings the momentous first decade of secondwave feminism vividly to life.
Its trajectory starts with the earliest stirrings in 1963 and ends with the movement’s full blossoming in...
A much-anticipated book in conservation and natural science circles is EO Wilson’s Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, which is due early next year. It builds on his proposal to set aside half the Earth for the preservation of biodiversity.
The famous biologist and...
William Lynn
Bree Newsome’s removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse reminds us that real change comes from people power.
Mistinguette Smith
2 min
The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media...
Chris Hedges
One of the best ways for the general public to take power back is to develop alternative currencies — both local and global — that allow people to trade outside of the corporate-government banking systems and central bank notes.
John Vibes
2 min
Hungary plans to build a very long fence to keep migrants out. Thousands of asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and beyond are streaming into the EU via Hungary.
In the early days of the Syrian uprising, civil society blossomed for the first time in generations. Despite the destruction, it is still alive, says Daniel Adamson.
Daniel Adamson
4 min
FINDING OUR ROOTS: community, culture, and sustainability
Our project was born with two desires at heart: to take root in a new culture and to experience reality outside of the big metropolis.
11 min
What do you do when you are fed up with the violence and hate that's constantly spewed across our media platforms? You take a trip across the country to remind people [and yourself] that it doesn't have to be that way. This summer, that's exactly what MaestroRiko did as he...
As long as there has been lending, there have been times when the people’s debt becomes a crisis. Here’s a look at the policy solutions governments have been using, starting in ancient Sumer.
Lindsey Weedston and Jennifer Luxton
A strategy for world transformation
Mohammed Mesbahi
Was the catalyst for the current conflict in Syria a drought caused by anthropogenic climate change?
Written by Audrey Quinn, Illustrated by Jackie Roche
In 2011 Geoff Dalglish gave up all his worldly possessions to walk more than 10,000 miles and spread a message of treading lightly on the Earth. Here, he talks about his latest quest: a three year long water conservation pilgrimage starting next month
Geoff Dalglish
8 min
This short film presents a simple definition of sustainability based on natural cycles and a scientific consensus, as well as the four root causes of unsustainability.
42 min
Wildwood Trust's Peter Smith explains the History of why Wildwood Trust was formed and our mission to Rewild Britain. In this lecture Peter explains the complex issues that will challenge us as we try to rewild Britain and make a space for nature. At the heart of the problem...
6 min
America is "treating" mental illness through incarceration - and the price we are paying both in dollars and human capital is enormous. It's time to take action and start treating mental illness as a health issue, not a crime. And there’s no excuse not to. Solutions have...
1 min
This summer, seismic blasting in Arctic waters is being conducted on behalf of companies like Shell, looking for oil beneath the seabed. Blasts from 16 massive airguns are emitted every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these blasts are 8 times louder than a jumbo...
Volunteers, aid workers from the Libya Red Crescent, and Zuwarans moved into action by the unfolding tragedy, have recovered 116 bodies from a stretch of coast west of the town right up to the Tunisian border in the past days.
Mark Micallef
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at the heart of the American empire, recognize that every promise made by the proponents of...
Chris Hedges
Activists’ tendency to turn every issue into a fight against government or big business won’t create long term change
Deborah Doane
In response to Jeremy Corbyn's 'Standing to Deliver' plan "for a fairer and more successful Britain," Jeremy Gilbert suggests an additional 10 things to plug some of the holes in Corbyn's plan, making it a more relevant and robust radical plan for 21st Century Britain and...
Jeremy Gilbert
9 min
A civil rights activist, Mohammad Jibran Nasir, sparks a social revolution after almost 140 children were killed in the Peshawar Army School tragedy. A short documentary that sheds light on the consequences of extreme religion and terrorism in Pakistan and offers hope to the...
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
Is the recycling of plastic really a solution? Are plastics actually 100% recycled back into new products? If so, then how come the oceans and our landfills are overflowing? Its time to take a good look at one of the great illusions of our time.
"They call us now.
Before they drop the bombs.
The phone rings
and someone who knows my first name
calls and says in perfect Arabic
“This is David.”
And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass shattering symphonies
still smashing around in my head
I think "Do I know any Davids...
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
3 min
Support This Worthy Cause Here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fight-for-bala-stop-a-destructive-power-plant#/story
6 min
In attempting to answer the question "how to win a holy war?" Matthew Cooke begins by trying to define what is "holy" and guides us on a wonderful journey toward oneness.
Ask Pope Francis and Mohammed Mesbahi
7 min
The Peruvian Amazon, which encompasses some 300,000 square miles, is an extremely biodiverse landscape larger than the state of Texas. For its size, it is very sparsely inhabited – it takes up 60% of Peru's landmass but is only home to about 5% of the country's 30 million...
Is there too much hyperbole in digital activism? Should campaigners really follow the rules of modern marketing in online movements?
James Turner
3 min
When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and dangerous by many Americans. Now executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and part...
The social media has an open nature. This causes a number of ethical issues, including unfair reviews of services and products, or clickbait headlines. Users expect to get accurate and fair information, instead they get fake PR materials, news stories and other information...
Thomas Brown
33 min
The detention of migrants has become a multi-billion dollar industry in which immigrants are sold to the highest bidder and traded like mere products. The Corrections Corporation of America, The Geo Group, and the Management and Training Corporation run over 200 facilities...
More than 80 people a month are now dying after being declared ‘fit for work’. The safety net that used to be there for the most vulnerable is being torn to shreds
Frances Ryan
2 min
At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere shares some of the beliefs of her culture. Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways...
2 min
Lend Lease is the main construction contractor for the North Wales Prison. Lend Lease is a multinational property and infrastructure company headquartered in Australia. They have built several huge, well-known developments in the UK, including Bluewater Shopping Centre in...