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In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are still some things you can do to keep your communications private—and not all of it is high-tech.
Julia Angwin
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"The School Closure Playbook" is a video essay about Chicago's education policies, and how they have served as a prototype for a broader neoliberal campaign against public schools. This "playbook" leverages a sense of crisis to convince the public that there is no alternative...
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Imagine children and young people residents of urban communities at social risk and excluded, being able to share their views from a collective experience, where photography and video become tools of social transformation. That's the objective of Project Eyes of The Street...
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Sun for Rent a film by Kiiru Ngotho, Ecofinder Kenya rents out solar lamps in remote areas of western Kenya. Thus the organization not only brings eco-friendly light sources to the people, but also creates jobs in the area.
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Different countries face different challenges in mobilizing resources to address their developmental needs and cub the inequalities and injustices within their society. Taxation is a common path way used in solving some of these challenges, we visit Puntland in Somalia to...
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With Good Cop, Bad Cop action figures, you decide how to police the city!
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Desserts is a short film produced in 1998, staring Ewan McGregor, written and directed by Jeff Stark.
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An extract from Pope Francis’s 180 page encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality
Pope Francis
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In 1975, the FBI had 1,500 informants. In 2011, over 15,000. Who are they spying on?
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For 22 years Positive News has pioneered solutions-based journalism. As they get ready to hand ownership to their readers and journalists with the launch of their community share offer, they look back at their content and reveal the most viewed online stories.
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Positive News
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Vintage nostalgic moments with Atari Players. Utopia Software 1983
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An Epic tale of an American Cultural experience. I have been working on this one for a couple of years now and am very proud to see it breathe life outside of my timeline. The Premiere was full of great reviews as the Movie is a bit infectious.
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With the Tories going it alone in government we know exactly what to expect. More nasty, destructive cuts to the things ordinary people care about- the NHS, the welfare state, education and public services.
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Children delight in playing in the patches of grass, trees and playgrounds in and around most schools these days and researchers have long documented how important this type of exposure to nature can be to their physical health. But what about their brains?
Ariana Eunjung Cha
Elites are using the Henry Jackson Society to sell surveillance, war, white supremacism, banks, and misogyny
Nafeez Ahmed
2 min
https://www.TWHA.be | United for health, what does this mean? In this humorous animation, we explain what we stand for. Produced by Docwerkers | Animations: Benjamin Pattin | Voices: Simon Shrimton Smith & Marieke Van Hooff | Recording: Studio Cavern
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The Globalising Wall is a video Installation by Danae Stratou, based on a text by Yanis Varoufakis.
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Find out more, speak up and spread the word: http://www.StopFastTrack.com; http://www.ExposeTheTPP.org; http://www.sumofus.org/tpp The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could cost us our internet freedom, labor rights, access to affordable medicine, the safety of our food, and...
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I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green Party candidate, and going home. Any further energy invested in these elections...
Chris Hedges
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Short artist-documentary narrated by Hollywood icon Julie Christie exploring the devastating oil pollution committed by Chevron-Texaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and the 22 year quest for justice of the indigenous people impacted by it.
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We have become disconnected from the natural rhythms of the earth by focusing only on money, consumerism and exploitation while deep down inside, we crave the return to a foundation of culture, community, and creation. The forthcoming documentary film, (90% complete) Time is...
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The extraordinary tale of a community who defied the gas juggernaut. We are crowdfunding now for the feature documentary that tells the story of the fastest growing social movement of our time and poses the question- what is truly valuable?
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry released a cartoon recently about Gaza. But it's not funny ha-ha. Instead, it ridicules journalists. Check it out.
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In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.
George Monbiot
If it makes sense to feel hopeless about the future, maybe what we need right now is some 'profound nonsense.'
Tim Hjersted
“I think the way western education has grown over the last few centuries, especially with the rise of industrialization, was basically not to create human beings fully equipped to deal with life and all its problems, independent citizens able to exercise their decisions and...
Carol Black
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield
It's a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to "get a job" by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net.
Theft, Part 1: The Average U.S. Household Pays About $400 for Safety Net...
Paul Buchheit
Corporate propaganda has convinced the populace that government alone is to blame for our problems, rather than recognizing the complete fusion of corporate power and government decision-making.
Dennis Weiser
Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises, militarism, the rise of the surveillance state, and a dysfunctional political system can all be traced to its normal operations.
Faramarz Farbod
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Ever notice how the racist media treats black protesters & white rioters differently?
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"By releasing this report, the IMF has shown that 'trickle-down' economics is dead; you cannot rely on the spoils of the extremely wealthy to benefit the rest of us."
Jon Queally
There are two types of vehicles that strike a particular fear into the heart of London's neighbourhoods: police vans and Foxtons Minis. Synonymous with gentrification, the Foxtons car represents the vanguard of the housing crisis, expanding sky-high rents into fresh...
Ben Beach
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'Patriot Acts' explores the human cost of the Bush Administration's controversial National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS, also know as "Special Registration"). Instituted a year after 9/11, NSEERS facilitated the agenda embodied by the USA PATRIOT Act by...
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A COUPLE OF MILES outside the town of Page, three 775-foot-tall caramel-colored smokestacks tower like sentries on the edge of northern Arizona’s sprawling red sandstone wilderness. At their base, the Navajo Generating Station, the West’s largest power-generating facility...
Abrahm Lustgarten
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Environmental activists blockade Shell's Drilling Rig Polar Pioneer delaying its departure from Seattle's Elliott Bay bound for the Arctic on June 15, 2015. The Polar Pioneer is one of two drilling vessels heading towards the Arctic for Shell this year. The second, the Noble...
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In the Spring of 2011, Senegal was pitched into crisis when President Abdoulaye Wade decided to change the constitution to allow for a third term. An artist-led youth movement erupted to protect one of Africa’s oldest and most stable democracies.
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"The whole essence of media is not about information. It’s about power.”
“Today the media is, as the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays described, ‘an invisible government.’ It’s in the government. It’s in the government’s vested interests. The Prime Minister is a PR...
Real Media
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu exposes the Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. Archbishop Tutu connects the struggles of black South Africa with the struggles of the Palestinians.
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France will cease over-the-counter sales of agrochemical giant Monsanto's weedkiller brand Roundup, following a recent United Nations report that found the active ingredient, glyphosate, was "probably carcinogenic to humans."
Nadia Prupis
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Ideas without images, landscapes without colour, people without faces: what people who lives in perpetual darkness dreams? Which colours, images, pictures populate their imagination?
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The Vatican Insider - 52'/2011
a documentary by Luca Bellino an
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Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically...
Glenn Greenwald
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The most important thing you need to know about TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership); a heavily flawed trade deal proposal between the United States and Europe. And the same goes for TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership).
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The US Senate Torture Report revealed horrifying details of America's interrogation program. Helen Mirren will fill you in. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
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If you’re like me and eagerly anticipating Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change—due out Thursday, June 18—stop what you’re doing and watch this.
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Short history of the medical revolution, how it created an antibiotic backlash in the form of superbugs and an imminent comeback for natural antibiotics.
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Richard Seymour reviews the international media coverage of the tragedy in the Mediterranean, where at least 1200 people died trying to migrate to Europe.
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1. “Capitalism is the accumulation of resources by means of exploitation in the production and sale of commodities for profit. Capitalist exploitation is an unequal exchange wherein capitalists extract income from economic exchanges solely because they hold legal title to...
Glen T. Martin
Since the day you emerged into this bizarre, sparkling universe, you’ve been conditioned to think in certain ways.
Jordan Bates
6 min
How do you build a radical black farm in the middle of East Oakland? With a bold vision, an activist family, and the help of one small, stimulating green plant.
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This new film from Aussie Animals, the makers of Lucent, takeS a look behind the scenes of Aurtralian farms and slaughterhouses, exposing widespread cruelty and abuse. No individual involved in the scenes displayed in this video has been prosecuted for animal cruelty.
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There's no easy way to say goodbye to a friend, especially when they've supported you through your darkest times. This is poigniant jouney, through good times and bad, featuring Ben Moon and his canine companion Denali.
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At the Repair and Service Center in Vienna, the long-term unemployed retrain to be "mechatronic engineers" and repair electronic devices. Founder Sepp Eisenriegler tirelessly initiates networks, projects, and cafés—all dedicated to the art of fixing things.
Ute Scheub
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Triball here, with FrogTV. This week Diego and I discovered a new menace lurking in our garden. Looks like it could be right off the set of “Little Shop of Horrors.” Coming soon…to a field near you. Maybe your backyard.
Introducing the “Mutant Superweed,&r
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A young woman wanders through deteriorating buildings in Detroit searching for pools of light in which to take nude photos of herself.
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The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?
John Vidal
Instead of imposing devastating austerity measures and bailing out its banks, Iceland let its banks go bust and focused on social welfare policies. It has now repaid 85 percent of U.K. claims, and the Icelandic finance minister announced recently that all will be settled by...
Roisin Davis
There is a war going on right now between those who are working to protect the commons and the hard-core capitalists, who are working to privatize our economy, culture, ecology, environment and government.
John Atcheson
This pamphlet gives an excellent analysis and debunking of conspiracy theories and proposes a practical alternative for emancipation.
Will, Chino, Saudade, Mamos
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Matt Gonzalez, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, speaks to the Green Party national convention. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. June 26th, 2004. www.mattgonzalez.com
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Satish Kumar brings a Hindu, Buddhist and Jain perspective to the definition of "sacred place." We found his explanation so compelling that we edited a three-minute piece incorporating some of our best b-roll images, asked Jon Herbst to compose a musical score, and we present...
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This week we take on the NGO led spectacle called the people's climate march plus a look at Peru's spectacular resistance against a copper mine, and the call from the east to disrupt oil extraction and infrastructure. On the music break, Ontario based hiphop group Flowtilla...
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In the UK calls are growing to end sponsorship of the arts by fossil fuel companies. Members of the Art Not Oil coalition have been staging incredible interventions at institutions sponsored by oil companies, notably BP. Representing “ a cross-section of people - artists...
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An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts.
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Amandla Stenberg, 16, knows one or two things about racism and the entertainment industry. Several years ago, when Amandla was cast as Rue in the first installment of The Hunger Games,many people had issues with the fact that she’s black, even though, in the book series, the...
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A movement is taking over America - the movement against inequality.
When street artist Louis Masai Michel went on a trip to South Africa to paint endangered animals, he came back a man on a mission.
Brandon Siewert
Film series tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world
Christopher McLeod
The transition from a capitalist to a cooperative economy could be one of the defining achievements of the 21st century.
Guy Dauncey
The Robin Hood Army are taking on food waste in India and Pakistan by redistributing food waste from restaurants and weddings and giving it to the hungry
Dimple Vijaykumar
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez has been campaigning since he was six. He explains why young people are not afraid to take on the fossil fuel industry
Lilah Raptopoulos
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New Yorkers and tourists passing through Columbus Circle Thursday were treated to free shaved ice courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell, which was recently given preliminary approval by the Obama administration to drill for oil in the Arctic. The company hauled a chunk of the "last...
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The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the...
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This was filmed in 2014 at Northern New South Wales, Australia at the final dawn service of a peaceful blockade after the suspension of Metgasco's drilling license. Where an exploratory CSG mine was set to commence operation when the local community collectivised and halted...
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In an exclusive new interview on The Laura Flanders Show, author, activist and public intellectual Dr. Cornel West responds to criticism from MSNBC host Michael Eric Dyson and discusses Bernie Sanders, Palestine, Black Lives Matter, B.B. King, and the LGBT movement. Dr...
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On the 15th, 16th & 17th of March 2014, over 100 000 people in 31 locations across Australia marched the streets protesting the actions of our conservative coalition government.
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A Post-Growth economy is not only necessary for planetary survival, but will make our lives way better, too. These films explain why.
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Sorious Samura introduces a video explaining the importance of the EU's Action Plan to improve the way forests are owned and managed and ensure that timber imported into the EU is legal.
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Corporate polluters are driving global warming and must not be allowed to steer—or even participate in—the ongoing processes of the United Nations whose stated aim is to develop global solutions to the climate crisis, a coalition of civil society organizations declared Wednesday.
Sarah Lazare
The Baltimore uprising showed that direct action can force concessions from the state. What is still lacking is a coherent strategy for radical change.
Ben Reynolds
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There's a reason this is being hidden from the public.
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With high and rising levels of inequality in the UK, what can the current generation of A-Level students expect?
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Holding Thermal Receipt Paper and Eating Food after Using Hand Sanitizer Results in High Serum Bioactive and Urine Total Levels of Bisphenol A (BPA)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...
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World leaders at the G7 summit pledged to act on climate change and have sworn to stop using fossil fuels ... in 100 years. Right around the time they've extracted them all.
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Atena Farghadani is a 28-year-old Iranian artist. She was recently sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison for drawing a cartoon.
Gavin Aung Than
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Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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'Let's face it, the Arab Spring failed women. They are no closer to liberation than before the uprisings.' Mona Eltahawy, who was beaten and sexually assaulted by Egyptian riot police in 2011, argues that feminism is a vital movement wherever you are - both 'over here' and...
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Blurring the fluid boundaries between present and future, documentary and fiction, Paths Through Utopias is a feature length utopian road movie exploring a post-capitalist Europe. Shot during a 7 month journey in 2008 visiting ten utopian experiments, the film is half of the...
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We can't all ride the Tour de France, but every cyclist deserves a little celebration. #CyclistsAreHeroes
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Perhaps you recall Republican state Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Tenn.), apparently unfamiliar with camera phones, getting caught on film calling an uninsured activist in Tennessee an “a-hole.” Gardenhire had
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My Poem to friends that have responded to the Texas Pool Party with ignorance and arrogance
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Nature Therapy is a video project to bring the serenity of the natural world into the home or healing environment to provide a more tranquil experience.
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Comedian, Aaron Barschak, once said that all you need for creativity is a certain level of boredom, and some alcohol. The latter we have plenty of but with the technological advancements at our disposal, I wonder if we are no longer able to feel bored?
Here is a summary of global warming and climate change myths, sorted by recent popularity vs what science says. Click the response for a more detailed response. You can also view them sorted by taxonomy, by popularity, in a print-friendly version,
John Cook
It is common knowledge that a person’s surroundings play a vital role in sculpting the mind, ideologies, and thought process of an individual. A stunning example of this is found in the case of the Buddha statue of Oakland, California.
TJ Morey
Earth Day is one of the most confused and misguided celebratory days of the year. The UN refers to this day as the ”International Mother Earth Day,” but what is it we’re supposed to celebrate?
Shahid Naeem
Take some money from the wealthy, give it to the poor -- why not do it?
Duncan Cameron
Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go? Three years after the groundbreaking revolutionary ruptures of 2011, violent repression and media invisibility have relegated these thriving movements to a grey area. The perception seems to shift between mainstream...
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