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‘People’s Morality is not in their melanin’. Rapper and writer Akala speak to Going Underground about how the mainstream media’s coverage of the Baltimore riots is devoid of historical context and the reality of life in the racially, economically segregated ghettos of...
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The most difficult challenge facing humanity is not devising solutions to the energy crisis or climate crisis; rather, it is bringing stories or narratives of the human journey into our collective awareness that empower us to look beyond a future of great adversity and to see...
Duane Elgin
Zekarias Kebraeb is a human being who can fly because he has wings in his soul. To us Zekarias Kebraeb is an immigrant. Just an immigrant. One of many illegal migrants fleeing Eritrea’s perpetual war for just the faintest hope of escaping the interminable hopelessness that...
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We talk of love as if it were just one thing: in fact, it’s two very different moves, Loving and Being Loved. You start to grow up when you stop focusing on the latter and get involved with the former.
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This documentary probes into the achievemnts of the isolated country of Eritrea in spite of the sanctions impose against it by the U.S PRESS TV Documentaries
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation’s jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the US, totaling 6.8 million people, one of every 35 adults. We are far and away the world leader in putting our...
Bill Quigley
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FIFA has been taken to court by the US Government. Sepp Blatter and his organization are awful, but this grab for power by the DOJ has wider significance. When considered along with FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, we can see the beginning of a true New World Order.
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Why is magic needed in order to change the existing story and how can we generate this archetypal, sacred power to do so?
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On Facebook I quietly unsubscribe from friends who regularly make angry issue-related posts, even if they’re right. I don’t want to be pummeled by “truth,” no matter how true it is.
David Cain
Go right now and check out John Nelson’s animations and have an epiphany . . . feel, maybe for the first time in your life, viscerally and emotionally connected to the pulse of life of planet earth.
Then come back here.
Are you back?
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Adbusters
Using NASA's latest high-resolution satellite imagery of Earth, datavisualization expert John Nelson has created a pair of captivating animations that track seasonal transformations on the blue marble we call home.
Robbie Gonzalez
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This short documentary captures New York City protests directly following the non-indictment of the cops that murdered Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
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What’s your vision for a just and equitable 2050? Add your voice: http://changethecourse.org
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How Spain’s 15M movement went from occupying city squares to city halls—without compromising its independence
When tens of thousands of people occupied city squares across Spain in the spring of 2011
Erica Sagrans
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After the arrests of numerous top officials, John Oliver decided to give an update on the state of FIFA.
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“Give a man a gun and he’ll rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he’ll rob the world.”–Unknown
Gary ‘Z’ McGee
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The debates on GMO and organic farming, the future of farmers and agriculture, and the politics of food are not new. But even so, we find ourselves today at a crucial point, not just in terms of a movement committed to resisting biological and ecological destruction, but also...
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Sometimes it seems like we live in nonsensical times. Do you ever wonder what happened to good old common sense? Indigenous voices from around the world who are fighting for cultural survival and protection of nature in their homelands offer simple wisdom in the face of...
Rucha Chitnis
On May 12th, I presented my analysis of the polling as of that time, headlining, “The Early Signs of Whom The Next U.S. President Will Likely Be: Presidential Polls Look Confusing Regarding Bernie, But Downright Bad Regarding Hillary & All Republicans.” Based on the net-favorab
Eric Zuesse
I went through a recent awakening where I realized that something very important has been missing throughout my entire life.
Chris Agnos
Blockades, shutdowns, lock-ons, love-ins, tripods and nanas…..Reclaim the Power’s day of action against the fossil fuel industry today (1 June 2015) saw 18 different actions drawing the dots between big energy firms, government ministers, public relations companies, oil arts...
Reclaim The Power
Nonviolence, peace, and justice are not utopian dreams but real and practical ways in which humans can affect the world around them.
David Cook
In the United States, a Congressional mandate requires that approximately Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fill 32,000 beds in immigration detention facilities every day. In Canada, nearly 100,000 people have been detained since 2006.
Victoria Law
Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.”
He foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction. He knew that reigning ideologies—think neoliberalism—were created to serve the...
Chris Hedges
Marina Sitrin interviews Marcela Olivera, an activist in Bolivia’s Water Wars of 2000, about the victories of the movement and its ongoing legacy today. Photo: march in Cochabamba during the tenth annivers
Marina Sitrin
We’ve just released our new report on the May
Josiah Mortimer
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À Paris, une jeune photographe cherche sa place dans une société moderne en décadence...
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One neighborhood - one month - no cars. This 11-minute feature recounts the story of the Haenggung-dong neighborhood in Suwon City, South Korea, which underwent a transformation to an ecomobile neighborhood for one month. It shows how the idea of ecomobile urban life was...
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Hundreds of campaigners are gathering at Didcot Power station in Oxfordshire to demand a green energy future - and an end to the Government's relentless push for fossil fuels and nuclear power, writes Diêgo Lôbo. Preparations are under way for a series of actions due to take...
Diêgo Lôbo
History shows us just how easily national borders can change, but we still like to think that they are permanent fixtures. These photos of different national borders around the world show you how nations like to fence - or not fence - off their turf.
Borders will often say...
Lina D
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The worst environmental disaster in US history is quickly approaching, yet very little is being done to stop it. A casualty of the "water wars" in the Southwest, California's largest lake is disappearing. The receding Salton Sea reveals a toxic mix of fine dust and chemicals...
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Most of us were taught as children never to talk to strangers. At face value this is bad life advice — we can never know people we never talk to. But we know it’s only meant to arm children with a basic skepticism about unknown people, so that they’re less likely to accept a...
David Cain
People can say with conviction and confidence that voting will never make a difference - but it's still a belief, and possibly one that may be too ideological for our own good, as it can skew our perception of reality.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination, has trouble being taken seriously by the corporate media, what with him being a democratic socialist and all.
If you go to Google News and put in his name, you get headlines about him being...
Juan Cole
A new film highlights the food waste problem. Here are some things we can do to fix it.
Naomi Starkman
The word “Buddha” means to wake up. More precisely it means to see what is really going on (in other words, “dharma”), and understand that it has always been so. The Occupy Wall Street movement and its 1,000 offshoots worldwide is that kind of awakening. Its overarching theme...
Lewis Richmond
Nick Davies uncovers the story of "the man in the green blanket", who died trying to broker peace, and reveals the complicity of the powers that be.
Nick Davies
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Renowned poet and writer, Benjamin Zephaniah gets a sneak preview and takes us on a personal tour of the new blockbuster exhibition at Tate Britain showcasing one of the great names in British Art. J.M.W.Turner was celebrated in his day, but towards the end of his life, his...
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Something is wrong when this is all you see when changing channels on your TV.
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Good reasons for eating meat. Check it out!
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In the early hours of 8th February 2014, Kye Gbangbola, Zane and Zane's mother Nicole Lawler, were all taken ill at home in Thameside, Surrey. An ambulance was called and all 3 were taken to hospital. Both Kye and Zane had suffered cardiac arrest. Zane died later in...
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There’s a growing movement to ban the box on job-application forms that asks about criminal convictions. Manuel La Fontaine from All of Us or None talks to AJ+'s Dena Takruri about why the movement is important to the 70 million people in the U.S. who have an arrest or...
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We know our place in the world. We are the port of last resort, and have little to offer the Rohingya beyond a separate peace. Yet I write this with pride, in the hope that there will always be a cluster of islands southwest of the Pacific, where no ship in need is called...
Patricia Evangelista
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This week we break Bill C-51, down Klanada's sinister new law, that would give the Canucks increased spying powers over its population. On the break, long standing hip-hop act Onyx, returns with "Fuck The Law." We wrap things up with an interview with Antoine, a computer...
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The way that meat, eggs and milk are produced is surrounded by one of our great silences, in which most people collaborate. We don’t want to know, because knowing would force anyone with a capacity for empathy to change their diet.
George Monbiot
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Gazi to Gezi - a stone's throw away" explores the poetry of a nationwide revolt in Istanbul, Europe's largest city. An explosive mix of the city’s inhabitants come together to fight the police and barricade themselves into one of the metropolis' few remaining green spaces...
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Peter Hutton is the principal of Templestowe College, one of the most innovative schools in Australia. He has developed a radical solution, empowering students to control their own learning. No school bell, no year levels. Students take part in the staff selection process and...
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The story of two neighbours on either side of a river. One was an environmentalist who grazed his cattle right up to the edge of the river. The other was Geoff Lawton. Visit geofflawton.com to view the full version.
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NASA Television shares this inspiring production by Italian videomaker, Giacomo Sardelli, about the International Space Station, its inhabitants, and its role in space exploration. Sardelli writes of the video, "I'm not the first one to use NASA's pictures taken from the...
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“One, two, shhhh, she’s counting. Ariel runs, tiny legs waddling across pavement, her chubby fingers barely able to grasp her daily Pepsi, she runs. Poison in hand, smile on face, looking for hiding spots, three. Ariel stops, she takes a sip. She’s already consumed 1460 sodas...
Jeff Roberts
FIFA's decision to hold the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is drawing more and more criticism as more and more allegations of everything from bribery and financial mismanagement to slavery and deadly work conditions pile up. 900 workers have died during construction for the...
Dovas
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NASA faked the moon landings, HIV was made by the government, and Elvis ain’t dead. Further fueled by “reliable evidence” on the Internet, these conspiracy theories can be added to and expanded upon for years, even decades in the case of the supposed UFO landings of Roswell...
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Professor of Journalism and contributor to Spare Rib, Angela Phillips, analyses the relationship between women's perceptions of themselves and the way they are seen by others, exploring the tension between the private and the public.
The jarring contradiction between how...
Angela Phillips
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In a Democracy Now! exclusive Amy Goodman talks to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent nearly three years inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London, where he has political asylum. Assange faces investigations in both Sweden and the United States. In the U.S., a secret...
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The March against Monsanto in Stockholm 2015 gathered a lot of people demonstrating against GMO and Monsanto. We were there making our voice heard. Who joined us?!
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Maybe all this campaign talk about a Political Revolution will fade away.
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In late 2015 Graham Hancock will bring out his new book, 'Magicians of the Gods', the sequel to his worldwide bestseller 'Fingerprints of the Gods'. In this lecture, recorded in March 2014 for Alternatives London at Saint James's Church in Piccadilly, he reviews his past work...
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The Spanish government’s latest round of anti-protest laws are as worrying as they are laughably predictable. On top of criminalizing passive resistance, the new regulation considers actions such as...
Amador Fernández-Savater & Leónidas Martín
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Right now, Shell is preparing to drill in the Arctic for the first time. If we don’t stop them, it could be the beginning of the end for everything we hold dear - because if we’re willing to let them risk the destruction of this beautiful, vital, pristine landscape at the top...
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On April 16, 1968, a multi-racial group of five hundred prisoners sat down in the yard of the Raleigh, NC Central Prison and began a work strike. The State Corrections Commissioner temporarily placated the men with hollow promises. Authorities continued to pander
Neal Shirley
The Conservatives have won the 2015 elections with a slim majority. Labour and the Liberal Democrats suffered unexpected crushing defeats, prompting their leaders, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, to resign. And despite winning a significant percentage of votes, UKIP only managed...
Nafeez Ahmed
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This series of six short films look beyond hierarchy at two approaches to self-organisation. Traditionally, many of us are used to having someone at the top, but times are changing and we are seeing a paradigm shift in how people organise. There are now needs and desires to...
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For the sixth episode of its third season, HBO’s Emmy-winning news series, VICE, focused its lens on Indonesia’s palm oil industry. The episode, entitled, “Indonesia’s Palm Bomb,” follows VICE correspondent, Ben Anderson, as he investigates the environmental and social impact...
Heather D’Angelo
Is representation necessary, or antithetical, to the democratic will? In light of the significant gains made by the indignados in the Spanish municipal and regional elections on Sunday, we publish a discussion about democracy and representation between Jacques Rancière
Kieran O'Connor
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MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth’s environment – in just a few minutes!
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REFERENCES https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hres281/text http://organharvestinvestigation.net/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-to-stop-harvesting-organs-from-executed-prisoners/ http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/199462-doing-something-about-a-chinese-atrocity/...
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We all know that class differences exist in society, but just how bad can it be? Auckland-based artist Toby Morris recently created an illustration breaking down the upbringing differences depending on socioeconomic status.
Toby Morris
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In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the "rules" are unable to remain...
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'Lesson Plan' is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. This exercise in fascism took place in Palo Alto, California. Within one week, 30 students grew to 200 as the Third Wave took on a life of its own, and...
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Welcome to this exclusive Rap News broadcast, helmed by the veteran anchor, and Iraq War Hero, Brian Washington. Today we seek to understand the cause of the tension which has gripped the Police States of America following the seemingly unstoppable deaths of black people at...
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New York Centuries is made up of photographs, film, and video of people working, building, and making social change in New York City. Images and sound are from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
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Life in a South African Township is seen through the eyes of seven pupils as they come together under the parental eye of Mr Mtshali, headmaster of Velabahleke High School Velabahleke (Come with a Smile) may be the only school in the country that starts at 06h30am and where...
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Five short films as part of None on Record digital media and documentation project. Interviewes with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons working and living in Kenya. They talked to lawyers, chefs, scientists, activists about their experience growing up LGBT in Africa.
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1. On Sanders’ Decision to Run as a Democrat
Just under a year ago, a group of activists, members of social movements, and progressive political forces in Barcelona presented our plan to take back our city council for the people at the May 24 local elections. We're Barcelona en Comú, and this Sunday we have a good...
Ada Colau
Schools need to play a major role in developing and creating better humans than merely producing students. We need to question the norm of “Getting excellent results Vs. Being an Excellent human being”. There needs to be a balance in terms of both gaining knowledge and being...
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A powerful poem narrated by Splitting The Sky, performed by guitarist Ron Bankley, and compiled by aConcernedHuman. This piece is socially critical, fast paced and visually mesmerizing. The audio track was taken from the album Insurgent Sun by Ron Bankley, accompanied by...
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Passerbys are asked to try a new brand of milk, from real human breasts.
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Dear Lebanon. A Teenage Perspective of Bombings, Religion and Politics. A film by Raphael Schanz. In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Middle East Office
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A four year old can understand it. Can you?
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Lyrical take on our habit of eating animals. Seek truth, take responsibility for your part.
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Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.
Vandana Shiva
From the tar sands of Alberta to the Port of Seattle to the communities in the blast zone of oil trains, organizers across North America are calling for a "wave of resistance" this fall to "shut down the economic and political systems threatening our survival."
Under the...
Sarah Lazare
WHISTLEBLOWING IS TRANSPARENCY
Raymond Johansen and Kitty Hundal
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The Globe's Ivan Semeniuk sits down with Jane Goodall to discuss her view on Canada's environmental record under Stephen Harper and her vegetarianism.
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BBC Free Speech got together some people from the transgender community to pick out questions they often hear. We asked, so you don't have to!
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Comedian Frankie Boyle puts forward the proposition that Britain is racist to the core. Rapper, poet and educator Akala speaks to this, giving clear examples of structural racism and talking about the ongoing effects of colonialism and imperialism.
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The campaign launched by Netpol last week, which is seeking to challenge attitudes towards greater protection of protesters’ privacy, has sparked considerable feedback about the ethics of wearing a face covering or mask.
Network for Police Monitoring
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Script - Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess
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Media pundits, when they declare that Bernie won’t win, want us to believe that our history has been foreordained. The pundits, it seems, have been granted supernatural powers, powers that allow them to know exactly what the future holds for us. We need not bother creating...
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Warning: This short contains disturbing footage of police violence. Film The Police! is the second installment in a short series aiming to invigorate the fight for racial justice in this country. And, as the short states, our right to film the police is now being threatened...
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Shockingly relevant to today, the film probes the use of animals as entertainment, as pets, for food, for scientific and military research. Stuffed with footage never before shown, the film is laced with deliciously ironic extracts of government films and newsreels. The...
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Living Utopia is a unique documentary that blends the historical account of the origins and development of the Spanish anarchist movement, and the revolution of 1936 - illustrating an anarchist society in action.
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Within modern life exists a paradox: we celebrate democracy as a political system, but not as an economic system, even though our workplaces have a far greater impact on our day to day lives. It's fair to say that most workplaces under capitalist management are organized in...
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An amateur film about the up spring of the Occupy Mowement in Denmark. The story is presented in an artistic manner with spoken word by one of the "voices of Occupy" in Denmark - Allan Davies Madsen. Music by Søren Kruse
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A story by Our Better World - tellling stories of good to inspire action.
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Start-up Culture and the New Economy have given us a lot. But it has also taken away. This video documents some of the costs of the new regime. Featuring the ideas of Betty Friedan, Robert D. Putnam and Abby Hoffman.
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I look at the new powers brought in by David Cameron to supposedly aid in counter terrorism, but instead, turns us all into suspects.
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America the Beautiful questions the sexualized media we consume and how it affects our youth. Director Darryl Roberts teams up with industry experts to delve into the reality behind child beauty pageants, teen pregnancy, and rape culture.
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