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“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy
Patricia Tashiro
From the brilliant mind and pencil of Steve Cutts, a message in support of animal rights.
2 min
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
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
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
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.
2 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...
6 min
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...
Why are we against prison?
John Carico
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...
2 min
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
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.
2 min
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
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.
2 min
Was the catalyst for the current conflict in Syria a drought caused by anthropogenic climate change?
Written by Audrey Quinn, Illustrated by Jackie Roche
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...
1 min
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
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
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...
9 min
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
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.
6 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...
7 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...
3 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...
33 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
Not to be outdone, thousands of anti-war protesters make their presence known at the event.
Billy Briggs
After the tragic crisis in Syria, more than half of all Syrians have left their homes. Where are they?
3 min
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
Motherboard dives head first into the R+D world surrounding the development of fungi as a viable replacement for plastic, and the people who hope it can lead to a better and more sustainable future.
11 min
A lawyer's advice on how to assert your rights when it comes to drugs and the police.
Lauren Vazquez
Democracynow.org - Today we spend the hour with David Simon, the man behind "The Wire," what some have described as the best television series ever broadcast. His latest project is titled "Show Me a Hero," a six-part mini-series now airing on HBO.
45 min
Focusing on privilege diverts attention away from the real villains.
Connor Kilpatrick
Rather than creating an individualized “culture of giving,” we should be challenging capitalism’s institutionalized taking.
Mathew Snow
In the 1970s, women from the Indian subcontinent who migrated to the UK to join their spouses were routinely subjected to virginity testing examinations. A poet and a filmmaker from Bristol, UK have made a short film, Borders, about the women's experience.
Using state of the art 3D graphics and the timing of a stand-up comedian, world famous statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents a spectacular portrait of our rapidly changing world. With 7 billion people already on our planet we often look to the future with dread, but...
58 min
The Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dubbed the TTIP an "economic NATO," comparing it to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance. Over the last two years WikiLeaks has published chapters from two other secret global trade deals, including the...
11 min
What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?
382 min
How all three are surprisingly connected
Scott Santens
Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday; or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons; or that dancing around a fire...
11 min
This year's gay marriage ruling was a milestone, but LGBT discrimination is still surprisingly legal. John Oliver explains why we need a federal anti-discrimination law.
15 min
This week we bring you nihilistic news from the climate front plus an update on the revolt in Turkey following the suicide bombing of Rojava supporters. Watch the rest of this show on the SubMedia site.
6 min
As the democratic socialist from Vermont tries to do the impossible, the firebrand academic could help.
Matthew Pulver
This intimate, heart-rending portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph.
3 min
The word migrant has become a largely inaccurate umbrella term for this complex story.
Barry Malone
The steak is a vivid reminder that all manufactured consumables have consequential origins, whether those origins are living, breathing animals, or cells in vitro.
3 min
Donald Trump's comments on immigration have added fuel to an ongoing debate. But what are the real facts (and myths) about immigration?
3 min