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How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.
Vandana Shiva
Social movements should take heed of social psychology, argues Kelvin Mason
Kelvin Mason
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In the vastness of space, there's a a small speck of rock inhabited by the most peculiar lifeforms: Dark little "Globosomes" that start to replicate fast and begin to show signs of intelligence. The film tells the story of the rise and fall of these little creatures.
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'There’s a perception that whiteness is working for white people. It’s not. Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.'
Quinn Norton
My son Seamus wears a dress.
Frida Berrigan
It's official: the planet is entering a "sixth great extinction" that even the most conservative estimates show is killing off species at rates far higher than the previous five mass die-offs—and humanity is both at fault...and at risk.
A joint study by scientists from...
Nadia Prupis
Trees are considered sacred in many cultures. Tree worship, in one form or another, has been practiced almost universally by ancient peoples in every corner of the globe.
Jocelyn Mercado
Imagine a Collective Arena for all issues facing The Populous. An e-forum. Think WikiPolicy, with a Collective Voting Platform.
Duke Johnson
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Denis Hayes recently dropped by the Grist office to talk about his new book,Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment, coauthored with Gail Boyer Hayes (and reviewed here). Naturally, we took him to our...
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Joint statement signed by 45 US military veterans urges drone operators to follow their consciences and say 'no' to surveillance and assassination missions
Sarah Lazare
The announcement of S. Kidman & Co’s intention to sell their pastoral business and 11 leases marks a new waypoint in South Australia’s progress towards a post-colonial world. From the time when Sidney Kidman first cohabitated the bush with
Paul Reader
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.
Samuel Alexander
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It is June 28th, 2009. The people of Honduras are preparing to vote in their country's first-ever referendum. However, instead of waking up to ballot boxes they rise to find their streets full of soldiers. The first coup d'état in Central America in three decades.
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John Oliver on The Charleston Shooting and Russia's Crazyness
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What's remarkable about the decision of SCOTUS, and its well-publicized dissensions, is how it alludes to the fault-lines now showing up in language 'itself'. A deeper paradigm shift is underway.
Regulated private capitalism. State capitalism. Socialism. These three systems are entirely different from each other. We need to understand the differences between them to move beyond today's dysfunctional economies. With confidence waning in whether modern private...
Richard D. Wolff
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The Cry of the Indian Government is a work of Anjane Motion Pictures to hit on mentality of people about government! ONLINE MEDIA PARTNER Bakchod Billi : fb Page : https://www.facebook.com/Backchodbilli Website : http://www.bakchodbilli.in Thank You For Watching :D
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"Growing up I was programmed by our racist society, I used to use the nword growing up without even giving it a thought, and then because of the suffering and abuse I endured I began to understand prejudice and racism, I made a promise to myself and God many years ago that I...
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Originally found at "Best Video You Will Ever See Facebook" and uploaded here so others may see. https://www.facebook.com/gary.yourofsky/videos/835998416455408/?fref=nf We are told that it is good for us, that we do not kill the animals by buying it. However, there is...
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Today on Rap News, a world exclusive: Pope Francis performing his 2015 encyclical on climate change, revealing his new, revised Ten Climate Commandments for the care of our common home. Of course, Robert Foster also has a couple of pointy questions to ask the Pontiff; as does...
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20 Years After Stonewall is a documentary film of the 1989 New York celebration of the Stonewall Revolt. In 1969 a police raid on the Stonewall Inn., ( a gay bar on Christopher St. ), started a three day riot. this was said to be the start of the modern lesbian, gay civil...
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The Court of Appeal has today finally brought to a halt the Detained Fast Track appeals process for asylum-seekers in detention.
Ben
In a press conference last week Tomiichi Murayama, the soft-spoken, elegant former prime minister of Japan urged his country’s current leaders to honor, on this 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, the nation's past apologies. Murayama, whose independent streak may come from...
Nassrine Azimi
Today, I am delighted to launch a major new RightsInsfo infographic, the 50 Human Rights Cases That Transformed Britain. For the full experience, make sure you access it on a desktop computer.
Adam Wagner
The spy unit responsible for some of the United Kingdom’s most controversial tactics of surveillance, online propaganda and deceit focuses extensively on traditional law enforcement and domestic activities — even though officials typically justify its activities by...
Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman
Donald Trump has made an entire career out of being an odious bile merchant. So it came as no surprise that during his presidential campaign announcement this little turd came plopping out of his mouth:
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A social experiment exposing class discrimination in Sweden has called the Nordic country's image as a tolerant nation into question.
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A look into the lives of the unsung hero's defending our wildlife. Men and women who risk their lives to protect the worlds most vulnerable species.This is the reality for a Rhino Ranger in Africa.
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Uploaded by mervyn day on 2015-05-04.
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A short Film made in 2012 by Charlie Tanner highlighting the work of Wildwood Trust in its charitable work to rewild Britain. Charlie has volunteered and Worked for the Trust and filmed many of its animals.
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A history of Beaver in Britain , a lecture by Peter Smith, Chief Executive of the Wildwood Trust. Peter talks about the history of beaver extinction, the many efforts of people over the last 100 years who tried to reintroduce beavers and the problems they faced.
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Columbia University becomes the first major U.S. university to divest from the prison prison industry. It's all thanks to student activism.
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Hanna Yusuf asks why a simple piece of clothing is seen as the very epitome of oppression. She says many women find empowerment in rejecting the idea that women can be reduced to their sexual allure – and we should not assume that every women who wears the hijab has been...
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A new kind of shop is aiming to transform the future of retail by lending rather than selling items and fostering more meaningful connections with the things we use
Lucy Purdy
Radicals often think they are out in a wasteland, disconnected from society, when in fact they are its cutting edge – though not necessarily moving toward the goals they espouse. Resistance is the motor of history: it drives social, political and technological developments...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective
Playing Bigot Whac-A-Mole
Voice of an angel, mouth of a __________ (insert your own faecally related insult here).
Voice of an angel, brain of a ___________ (enter whatever imaginative metaphor you like; my favourite was “sponge” because, really, it’s a compliment).
Voice...
Charlotte Church
A poll in 2012 showed that trust in the mainstream media is increasing, which should worry all of us who value truth, integrity and press freedom.
Sophie McAdam
Politics, they say, is the art of compromise. Candidates, in order to succeed, have to soften their views. Candidates have to make their views more palatable to the general public and the corporate and political establishment. That’s what they tell us anyway. Maybe it’s true...
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You see that pink gloop made from the ground up trimmings of fat, starch and miscellaneous animal parts? That's your hot dog that is.
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Message of diagnosis re stuck-addiction© The current crisis of global financial and political stasis evaluated from a sickness paradigm.
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Description of stuck-addiction©
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Description of era changing bellwether pandemic
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Description of global pandemic that defines this era change.
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Short clip describing current global conditions of stuck-addiction© as the bellwether disease of this era change.
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An excerpt from The Socialist Party film "Capitalism and Other Kids Stuff"
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Dear White Supremacy,
First of all you are not really that supreme.
While throughout history White Supremacy it must be admitted you have achieved some very dominant positions. These positions have been gained mostly through force or some biological agent such as disease...
Lupe Fiasco
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Darius Simpson and Scout Bostley begin to speak into their individual microphones -- but then they stop, switch mics and start talking again.
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Following recent election success, Israel’s ultranationalist right held a zealous march on Jerusalem Day; a day of celebration for them, but a day of sorrow for Palestinians and the secular left.
Bringing together pro-nationalist zeal and religious fervour in a show of...
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4 Tips on How to Grow Healthy Organic Bananas click here:
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Pressure from those concerned that the EU-US trade deal would hand over too much power to foreign corporations has been working on both sides of the Atlantic.
John Hilary
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This is a hybrid Music Video Mini-Documentary exploring the Baltimore protest from the perspective of Salomon Faye. It's a bit of a personal Journey he makes as an artist to speak to the issues facing the country at large. The Song Black Power was bigger than just the song to...
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Between Tues 23rd and Fri 26th June Lancashire County Council is scheduled to be considering applications for 2 new fracking test sites on the Fylde Peninsular near Blackpool. We have been here before with the last attempt in January ending in farc
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”― R. Buckminster Fuller
Jocelyn Mercado
Unless you're on long retreat in a Himalayan cave, it's becoming more difficult to overlook the fact that our world is beset by interacting ecological, economic and social crises. Climate breakdown, species extinction, a dysfunctional economic system, corporate domination of...
David Loy
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Selling the Girl Next Door takes viewers into the world of underage American girls caught up in the violent sex trade. Thousands of girls under the age of 18 are ensnared into lives of prostitution annually, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children...
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The UK is one of only nineteen countries worldwide, and the only EU member, that still recruits 16 year olds into its armed forces, (other nations include Iran and North Korea). The vast majority of countries only recruit adults aged 18 and above, but British children, with...
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1. They aren’t going to just throw down.
Instead, they’re committed to helping one another overcome problems and conflicts. Simply being mad at the person won’t resolve anything.
2. They focus on the problem, not its embodiment.
They keep in mind that a relationship is...
Higher Perspective
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Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper discuss the Confederate flag and its historical significance. When Williams realizes that she needs a white man to repeat her EXACT WORDS to be taken seriously, she sets out to find herself a “Helper Whitey”.
h/t Above Average
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I was a very poor 16-year-old so, as you can imagine, having a car was out of the question. Wherever I needed to go, I walked -- which was not always pleasant on a Florida summer day.
It was on one of those hot days, while walking to the corner store, that a red truck slowed...
Benjamin O'Keefe
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Most American cities are full of breasts. They are everywhere: On billboards. On storefronts. On
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Asuman is an artist in Turkey.
After her children grew up she was relieved of the duties of a housewife and wanted to make a career. While searching for a career in art, her lifelong interest, she encountered Eyüp toys, traditional 17th century toys once constructed in
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Every age has its protest music, from blues to rock and roll, folk to punk. Today hip hop is leading the charge, challenging the staus quo and shining a light on the injustices that dominate our social landscape. There's also an additional element to modern protest music, the...
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Rapper Nasir 'Nas' Jones and director Adam Sjoberg take us on a world tour of breakdancing in the most unexpected places, as we visit the slums, shanty towns and ghettos of the world, where hip-hop really means something. With jaw-dropping breakdancing moves, b-boys and...
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The latest evidence shows with a high degree of confidence that we are currently undergoing Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Event.
Bob Novella
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"The police are the public and the public are the police” said cop-founder Robert Peel in 1829. What a noble sentiment! A delightful idea! “I know, we could get people to run themselves, it’d be great, all we have to do is split them into two groups and just make sure...
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Vanessa Kisuule calls on all women, whatever their age, creed or class, to stop shrinking themselves, and instead, take up space!
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A documentary on what it's like living on the sidewalk of Kaka'ako, Oahu. Dear Thalia follows The Martin Family (Tracy, Tabatha, and Thalia) homeless and living in Kakaako, Oahu, Hawai'i. Filmed over the course of 4 months.
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Racism and hypocrisy are in play when a Black male struggles to meet Asian females at a party.
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Q&A Session during the April 2015 Ren Xue Healing Retreat in Wonder Valley, CA
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Online harassment is a major problem, but it's rarely prosecuted. If only we'd been warned about this in the early days of the internet.
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Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" informally outlines the most striking qualities of fascistic theory and practice. It remains one of the most popular tool-kits for intellectuals in discovering where the barbarity of fascism might once again materialize, for Eco was...
Jeremy Brunger
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Emory Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party. Through archival footage and conversations with Emory we share his story, alongside the rise and fall of the Panthers. He used his art as a weapon in the Black Panther Party’s...
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Coal pollution is the single biggest driver of climate change on the planet. It's causing more and more extreme weather and pushing the world's poorest people into poverty and hunger. If we keep burning fossil fuels at the rate we are now, climate change could push 50...
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The fantasies of a faith-based neoliberal economics laid bare
Robert Parenteau
Arriving at the Bank of England for Saturday's big anti-austerity demo, there was a sea of Tory-haters of every conceivable type. You had your animal lovers dressed as badgers, your percussionists in samba bands, unreformed Stalinists, people wearing "vote Labour" rosettes...
Simon Childs. Photos: Oscar Webb and Chris Bethell
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This is the story of Peru's slums and the people who live there.
Peru's capital Lima has expanded rapidly. In the 1950s, the city had around 1 million residents. Today, nearly 10 million people call the city home.
The city has continued to grow outwards through the...
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Rachel Dolezal is someone we'd all love to hear less about. Her choice to invent an African American identity does tell us a lot about white people though. Watch me massacre my favorite A Tribe Called Quest lyrics to illustrate the point.
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America's Opportunity - How the Top, Middle, and Bottom Economic Classes are Experiencing the Opportunity Gap
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A report from the streets of London from the anti-austerity protest on Saturday 20 June 2015. The message - "Don't mourn, organise!"
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Uploaded by mervyn day on 2015-06-20.
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Uploaded by mervyn day on 2015-06-16.
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Remember, it’s not the planet that needs saving, it’s us. #savethehumans
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Chipotle recently announced they would no longer use genetically modified ingredients. Many in the media called this "anti-science." But is it? What does the science REALLY say??
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This short movie was made during the international project Beyond Our Eyes in Tbilisi, Georgia 2014 The project was about different minorities and was held by the Georgian organization AIRA (Regional Association of Youth Initiatives) In this short movie Merab Dukashavili was...
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Jon Stewart apologized to his audience for not having any jokes for them, as he just dropped the comedy to get serious about Charleston. He said, “I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness.”
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As the United States heals from the scars left by the murders in Charleston, the world is also witnessing a human rights catastrophe whose origins also partly lay in the imperialistic, racially-divisive policies of the United States. At present, hundreds of thousands of...
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Subvertising: noun, the practice of making parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make an alternative statement.
You can make everything from Deodorant to Sunscreen using Coconut Oil as the main ingredient. We have compiled ten different recipes in this Infographic as a guide for homemade personal care products.
Health Perch
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How do we build on communities of dissent, asks veteran Black activist A. Sivanandan in a short film released this week by Sage Publications alongside a collection of his key writings in Race & Class.
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Knight Owl is a real-life superhero using his unique skill-set to help folks on the streets at night.
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Signs of overt racism still are all around us, be it a New Hampshire police commissioner’s use of an ethnic slur to describe President Obama or an NBA team owner’s disturbing remarks about black athletes and fans. By now, we all know the drill, the media calls these people...
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An act of terrorism unfolded on American soil Wednesday night when Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Julia Craven
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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White Supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent, for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth...
Elizabeth Martínez
Dear friends, We don't need more conversations about race, we need conversations about white supremacy and how to end it.
Clare Bayard
This beautiful, bounteous, life-giving planet we call Earth has given birth to each one of us, and each one of us carries the Earth within every cell of our body.
Thich Nhat Hanh
'The depth of indigenous knowledge rooted in the long inhabitation of a particular place offers lessons that can benefit everyone, from educator to scientist, as we search for a more satisfying and sustainable way to live on this planet.'
Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
What makes Pope Francis and his 183-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It’s the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies.
While the Argentina-born pope is a very...
Steffen Böhm
According to this year's UNHCR Global Trends report, 59.5 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes by wars, conflict and persecution.
That's the highest number is recorded history, even higher than the number forced to flee by the Second World War. One...
Eleanor Dean