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Sam & Margot hope to ignite a debate about capitalism and inequality with their new music video, aptly titled "Burn It Down," which recently premiered at The Milwaukee Film Festival. It certainly provides a nice theme song for the aspirations of the 99%. Yes, burn down this...
3 min
If we had focused on the real causes of poverty over the past 30 years we probably wouldn’t need the United Nations’ sustainable development goals now
Zoe Williams
Leaked UN report calls on governments around the world to decriminalise drug use and possession for personal consumption for all drugs
Richard Branson
A decade-long battle over a proposed pipeline is helping shape the Canadian national election even as a historic legal case may make or break the development. First Nations are playing a central role. First proposed in 2004, the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was planned...
5 min
A new whistleblower inside the U.S. drone program reveals just how easy it is for the government to kill people and how little evidence is needed.
2 min
This clip is taken from the end of the film War By Other Means (1992), by John Pilger. Watch the full documentary online here. It may be over 2 decades old, but it remains one of our favorite films for explaining one of the biggest issues of our time. The need for the world...
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Over 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists affirm Black-Palestinian solidarity in our new video. Featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat, Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many...
3 min
In this video, Professor Angelou recites her poem, "Still I Rise," from her volume of poetry And Still I Rise, published in 1978.
3 min
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
Ray McGovern and Jason Leopold: The intelligence agencies had the information, the question is why didn't they use it.
24 min
New research finds, through their silence, mainstream news outlets are 'legitimating' U.S. military's burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan
Sarah Lazare
Internalized racism prevented me from seeing how the system works.
Marcus Harrison Green
Uri Rezken was stabbed in the back by a man who mistook him for Palestinian. Now, Uri's calling for peace.
1 min
Fermi's Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse are among the subjects discussed in this feature length documentary on the environmental crisis. Interviewees include Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Derrick Jensen, Peter D. Ward, Jill Stein, Bill Patzert, Guy McPherson...
84 min
And we're going to create that world together.
Rabbi Michael Lerner and Vandana Shiva
“A few weeks ago at work,” Jennifer Lawrence wrote in an essay for Lenny (yup, I guess I’m subscribed to Lenny now! Well played, Lena Dunham). “I spoke my mind and gave my opinion in a clear and no-[BS] way; no aggression, just blunt. The man I was working with (actually, he...
Alexandra Petri
Back to the Future, updated for the actual future!
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Tuesday night at the Democratic presidential debate, leftist favorite Bernie Sanders clarified his feelings about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Evan Greer
As we watch in horror as violence in Israel and Palestine escalates and there continues to be needless and senseless killings, we offer a prayer of love, compassion and strength.
Rabbi Michael Lerner
In Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love, Dr. Dieter Duhm presents a vision for a new global culture – a world without war, a society without violence, love free of lies, and a life free of fear. Preview the book here. This video clip is a preview of the...
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Almost half a century after his famous raised-fist salute at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, John Carlos has authored a new memoir with sports writer Dave Zirin, "The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World." Olympic medal winners in the 200 meter...
29 min
Rejected by everyone except for his two dogs, Birdie is a fruit peddler on the chaotic streets of Rio de Janeiro. Heloisa Passos presents this intimate story about friendship and the all too common story of survival for the homeless.
14 min
Positive news reporting is often conceived as serving only as light relief or as a trivial distraction from the realities of the world. But as Jodie Jackson explains, there is a growing body of research emerging to suggest that these perceptions are unfounded
Jodie Jackson
Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs.
Mark Hertsgaard
In an exclusive interview for the Guardian, the mother of Ali al-Nimr, the Saudi teenager on death row who is scheduled for crucifixion, speaks for the very first time about her family's ordeal.
5 min
After four-plus years of fighting, Syria's war has killed at least 250,000 people and displaced 12 million people. And, though it started as a civil war, it's become much more than that. It's a proxy war that has divided much of the Middle East and has drawn in both Russia...
5 min
An ecological community in the Bolivian Amazon is revealed: Candelaria Madidi Ecologico. By protecting one of the most biodiverse places in the world, they aim to create an alternative model of a society.
41 min
Homeland is racist (photo courtesy of Showtime)
What’s wrong with Homeland’s political message? The very first season of “Homeland” explained to the American public that Al Qaida is actually an Iranian ve
Heba Amin
“Whoa Canada” is about Canada’s surveillance programs in an era of climate change. We’ve interviewed some of the countries leading experts and people who have actually been wrongfully targeted by this surveillance and intimidation. Together with members of the SHD community...
60 min
Bernie Sanders crushed the debates by every measurable indicator except one: pundits’ opinion.
C. Robert Gibson
Over 30 percent of Saudi Arabia's population are migrant workers. But most who come, cannot leave. If they try, they could face death.
Learn more about the Saudi Kingdom's dark secrets in the full episode here: Inside the Saudi Kingdom: Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt
2 min
Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
George Monbiot
To create the conditions for equality and justice, to end the wanton destruction of the environment and begin the process of restoring ecosystems, we need to understand the root causes of the problems we face and strive for systemic change.
The fetishization of work feeds the politics of resentment. It’s time to instead embrace the language of economic and social rights.
Peter Frase
This is a clip from Inequality For All, a documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he works to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
4 min
We are in a college debt crisis. Almost 70 percent of college students graduate with approximately $30,000 in college debt. In 1992, it was one-third of that average. Why has the cost and burden
3 min
Whether you are for or against gun control, it is undeniable that gun violence is a huge problem in America and something needs to change. I wrote This Is Home nearly three years ago after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and it is sadly just as relevant today as it...
4 min
Survivors of Central Intelligence Agency torture are sueing the contractor psychologists who designed one of the most infamous programs of the post-9/11 era. Salim, one of the three ex-detainees in the suit, is a Tanzanian fisherman who says that flashbacks from his ordeal in...
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Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government.
Christine Berry
Brilliant satirical comic imagines what policy would look like if the UN focused on eliminating extreme wealth.
Liv Strömquist
In his final moments, Anakin Skywalker remembers who he once was, and realizes he no longer wishes to serve the empire any longer. It's a powerful metaphor for the transformation we desire from our society - from Empire to Earth Community.
The video is a remix of Charlie...
5 min
The Trans Pacific Partnership has been approved and this secret agreement between the government and corporations will herald in the New World Order! Get set to pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of Walmart, or whichever corporation is running your country...
6 min
"Marx Is Back" takes place in todays' Argentina, which suffers like other countries the blows of economic crises. Workers of a printing house are facing suspensions and lay-offs; a group of workers are organizing to fight back as the union officials try to push them aside. At...
55 min
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
17 min
Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father...
4 min
TTIP, activists fear, would erode labor and environmental standards.
Common Dreams
Salute chronicles Peter Norman's involvement in the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The picture of the three men on the winner's podium after the Men's 200m final at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is still considered one of the most powerful images of modern history...
2 min
UK News reporter Jonathan Pie has a go at David Cameron, Alan Sugar, Nuclear Weapons, Matt Damon's treatment in the press, Jeremy Corbyn's treatment by the press...you name it, he has a go about it!
3 min
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
Riccardo Gazzaniga
According to world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the rising use of automated machines may mean the end of human rights – not just jobs. But he’s not talking about robots with artificial intelligence taking over the world, he’s talking about the current capitalist...
Dylan Sevett
America deserves a new kind of the same old politician.
2 min
8th March is International Women's Day, to celebrate here are six incredible poems written and performed by women.
Lies you've been told about work.
3 min
The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
3 min
On October 3, a U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz, Afghanistan, partially destroying it. Twelve staff members and 10 patients, including three children, were killed, and 37 people were injured. Accor
Jon Schwarz
Chris Spannos speaks with the acclaimed public intellectual about the shift in US policy toward Cuba and what it signals.
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September 2015, US President Barack Obama said that ‘for 50 years, the United States pursued...
31 min
History teaches us that legislative action rarely happens without organized protest. This is why the Black Lives Matter movement is so essential today.
Bree Newsome
Everyone everywhere complaining about grassroots activists not being ‘strategic’ or ‘effective’ by targeting so-called Left politicians – you’re wrong.
Harsha Walia
Hot boredom is like being locked in a padded cell. You are bored, miserable, and irritated. Cool boredom is quite spacious.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche