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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
8 min
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...
3 min
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
“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
45 min
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...
3 min
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...
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
4 min
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
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
4 min
Most American cities are full of breasts. They are everywhere: On billboards. On storefronts. On
7 min
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
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...
5 min
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...
The latest evidence shows with a high degree of confidence that we are currently undergoing Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Event.
Bob Novella
56 min
"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...
5 min
Vanessa Kisuule calls on all women, whatever their age, creed or class, to stop shrinking themselves, and instead, take up space!
4 min
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.
20 min
Racism and hypocrisy are in play when a Black male struggles to meet Asian females at a party.
64 min
Q&A Session during the April 2015 Ren Xue Healing Retreat in Wonder Valley, CA
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
17 min
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.
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
8 min
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...
1 min
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...
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
8 min
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...
4 min
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.
63 min
America's Opportunity - How the Top, Middle, and Bottom Economic Classes are Experiencing the Opportunity Gap
7 min
A report from the streets of London from the anti-austerity protest on Saturday 20 June 2015. The message - "Don't mourn, organise!"
3 min
Uploaded by mervyn day on 2015-06-20.
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Uploaded by mervyn day on 2015-06-16.
Remember, it’s not the planet that needs saving, it’s us. #savethehumans
6 min
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??
6 min
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...
5 min
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.”
15 min
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...
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
2 min
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.
5 min
Knight Owl is a real-life superhero using his unique skill-set to help folks on the streets at night.
25 min
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...
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
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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
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
22 min
"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...
4 min
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...
8 min
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.
10 min
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...
1 min
With Good Cop, Bad Cop action figures, you decide how to police the city!
4 min
Desserts is a short film produced in 1998, staring Ewan McGregor, written and directed by Jeff Stark.
An extract from Pope Francis’s 180 page encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality
Pope Francis
1 min
In 1975, the FBI had 1,500 informants. In 2011, over 15,000. Who are they spying on?
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.
Click on the...
Positive News
9 min
Vintage nostalgic moments with Atari Players. Utopia Software 1983
59 min
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.
3 min
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.
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
8 min
The Globalising Wall is a video Installation by Danae Stratou, based on a text by Yanis Varoufakis.
3 min
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...
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
13 min
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.
3 min
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...
4 min
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?
1 min
The Israeli Foreign Ministry released a cartoon recently about Gaza. But it's not funny ha-ha. Instead, it ridicules journalists. Check it out.
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
3 min
Ever notice how the racist media treats black protesters & white rioters differently?
"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
58 min
'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...
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
1 min
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...
4 min
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.
"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
3 min
Archbishop Desmond Tutu exposes the Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. Archbishop Tutu connects the struggles of black South Africa with the struggles of the Palestinians.
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
2 min
Ideas without images, landscapes without colour, people without faces: what people who lives in perpetual darkness dreams? Which colours, images, pictures populate their imagination?
55 min
The Vatican Insider - 52'/2011
a documentary by Luca Bellino an
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
1 min
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).
15 min
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...
2 min
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.
Short history of the medical revolution, how it created an antibiotic backlash in the form of superbugs and an imminent comeback for natural antibiotics.
11 min
Richard Seymour reviews the international media coverage of the tragedy in the Mediterranean, where at least 1200 people died trying to migrate to Europe.
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