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Earthship is a concept of over 40 years and yet the first one ever built in Europe was in 2000. The idea is a trademark of Michael Reynolds — a US architect. In the 70s, Reynolds envisioned a home which would have three exciting traits — self sustainability, construction...
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John Oliver explains how chicken farming can be unfair, punishing, and inhumane. And not just for the chickens!
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Melissa Fabello: My Moral Courage mentor is Wagatwe Wanjuki. She inspires me because she made an unpopular decision to go public after she was sexually assaulted. #BeMoralCourage Brave high school girl runs into the middle of a stabbing: https://youtu.be/Q6uF2EP7LOg Subscribe...
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http://beyondextremeenergy.org/sign-up-for-mass-action-at-ferc-in-may/
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If Bernie Sanders becomes the next President of the United States, it will be more than an upset. It will be an American Revolution.
When my children were young we used to play the game Monopoly. This was one of my son’s favorite games. And mine. It got to the point where no one would play with us anymore. We were too tough, too ruthless. The games would go on forever because neither he nor I would be...
Susan Weinschenk Ph.D.
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A Documentary about Tinkers Bubble in Somerset, England, about a group of people who share the passion to live sustainably. Having lived without fossil fuels since 1994, we hear the tales of living in accordance with nature and what had brought them to branch out from the...
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This is a clip from the BBC comedy series 'That Mitchell and Webb look' satirises sexism in advertising.
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“Socialism” is considered a dirty word in the United States. Being a hard-working, “free market” capitalist is a part of our national mythology. But it wasn’t always this way. The socialist movement used to be quite strong in the early 20th century. There was even a socialist...
Arthur Moore
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The Estate is an interview-based documentary set on the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, London. Created in the midst of the local councils plans for the estates redevelopment, this simple portrait of the area primarily aims to explore the sense of community there before its...
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After a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean, thousands of migrants arrive in Sicily every week. These are their stories.
Photographs by Gideon Mendel - Interviews by Alessandra Bonomolo
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Life, death, oppression and resistance - 5 Years with the women of Bangladesh's sweatshops and their fight for a better life. Produced by RAINBOW COLLECTIVE and OPENVIZOR, 'UDITA' follows a turbulent 5 years in the lives of the women at the grass roots of the garment workers...
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On 18 February 2005, the Hunting Act came into enforcement – fox hunting was now illegal. Yet, Denise Ward (writer and producer) and other ordinary people who live in the apparently tranquil and idyllic countryside continue to find their lives barbarically disturbed and...
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Don’t be clowned by the clowns of the political circus,
They pledge allegiance with the Ronald Mcdonald of all clowns,
Might sound strange but their affiliates are all made of all shades,
but different in creed,
Its all greed, gluttony, lust, sodomy, sloth,
now you must all...
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Extract from the documentary Enough is Enough, explaining how money is created through debt and how this harms society.
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Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture
Hannah Devlin
Lots of people eagerly study all the polls and reports on how many people believe that climate change is real and urgent. They seem to think there is some critical mass that, through the weight of belief alone, will get us where we want to go. As if when the numbers aren’t...
Rebecca Solnit
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Join the movement for a more compassionate future by being on the right side of a socially accepted wrong.
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No one should ever work.
Bob Black
55 min
Uploaded by Açık Toplum Vakfı on 2012-09-28.
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The Revolution
Bernie Sanders is a socialist in the US Senate, the most deliberative, prestigious body of government in a nation that is at the helm of a global capitalist empire. It is an act of political genius for someone to have accomplished such a feat in an era of...
Not long ago, a Diné (Navajo) friend of mine, Lyla June Johnston, sent me a one-line email: “I am not going to Harvard… I am going to plant corn.”
Charles Eisenstein
The Facebook empire of 1.4 billion users just conquered new territory, unrolling a "partnership" to host articles from some of the most well-known news publications in the world, in a venture that critics warn poses a direct threat to independent media outlets—and the future...
Sarah Lazare
Is religion the source of conflict, or are deeper problems to blame? Militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins compare religion to a virus which infects human minds and turns potentially rational people into dogmatic automatons, willing to kill and die for their beliefs. But...
Steve Taylor Ph.D.
It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites the way a gambler puts cash on his favorite horse. Money has replaced the vote. The wealthy...
Chris Hedges
A father from Ivory Coast wanted to reunite his son with the rest of his family living in Spain. But the Spanish government denied him a family reunification visa. Desperate, he paid a Moroccan woman to smuggle his 8-year-old onto Spanish soil. On May 7, 2015, she attempted...
Sonali Kolhatkar
“What struck me” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and...
Robert C. Koehler
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The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.
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„PELZFREI“ ist ein Mobilisierungsvideo für Pelzfrei-Demos in ganz Deutschland. Es spannt den Bogen vom Tierleid in den Pelzfarmen über den Verkauf der Pelze bis zur energetischen Demo „Stuttgart Pelzfrei“ 2013.
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www.unstummfilm.de
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Since 2009 Animal Aid has secretly filmed inside ten randomly selected British slaughterhouses, including conventional 'humane' abattoirs, 'higher welfare' operations, and a non-stun halal slaughterhouse. We found illegal cruelty taking place in nine of them. You can see just...
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Join the San Francisco Green Film Festival, May 28 – June 3 at the Roxie Theater and venues around SF, for a week of new films and events that spotlight the world’s most urgent environmental issues and most innovative solutions.
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A SCIENCE OF TEACHING offers a comprehensive guide for teachers, educators, and anyone else interested in human behavior on how learning occurs at a biological and environmental level. What shapes our behavior? How do our behaviors become reinforced? What are some useful...
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The Battle for Compassion is a film by Jonathan Leighton about what matters and how we can have greater impact in shaping a gentler future for our planet. The film draws on key ideas from his book The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe. He advocates the...
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Maybe it's time to remember an old friend...wemissyou.de
“WE MISS YOU” CORNELL ADAMS DANELL FORTSON director of photography JANN DÖPPERT production designer JILL SCHWARZER costume designer ANDY BESUCH editor BENJAMIN ENTRUP music by PHILIPP NOLL & AXEL HUBER sounddesign &...
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As the deadly Saudi aggression against Yemen continues, Press TV has launched a petition to help the Yemeni people.
Press TV
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Water. It's the earth's most valuable resource. Our cities are powered by it, countless industries depend on it, and all living things need it to survive. But it's very possible that in the near future, there won't be enough to sustain life on our planet. From Academy...
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The explosion of worker cooperatives in recent years has social justice organizers talking. Transitioning to a people-powered economy will require the work of many different social movements and worker co-ops have come to the center of the conversation due to their ability to...
David Morgan
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Open your eyes. Trust your heart. Take the journey. Five farmers, a humane officer, an animal rescuer, and a cow named Snickers will make you laugh and cry, expand your consciousness, and challenge your ideas about animal farming. A riveting story of transformation and...
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Her opponents call her “The Green Killer”. They gave her “The Bullshit Award” for sustaining poverty. TIME says she is a hero of our times, an icon for youngsters all over the world.
The film is about Vandana Shiva, Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, who...
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The police—not to mention capitalism—have done far more to damage Baltimore than any riot could
When Oscar Grant was shot by transit cop Johannes Mehserle in Oakland in the early hours of January 1, 2009, a week passed with no institutional response, while videos of Grant’s...
George Ciccariello-Maher
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Kumanovo, Macedonia was the scene of near warfare between police and an Albanian separatist group last weekend. The roots of this conflict go far further than the collapse of Yugoslavia. This video investigates the falls of Empires, and the lessons for the United States.
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Based in the Nairobi slum of Kariobangi, Box Girls is an organization that works through boxing to instill self confidence in girls living in slums throughout Nairobi, shaping them into the next generation of community leaders.
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From the very beginning the film starts to describe the life of a young boy who lost his mother at very early age.After the death of his mother he was sent to hostel and again came back to his own home after passing his high school graduation.Somehow the audience would find a...
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Sustainability in Bangladesh : Call for an emergency wave
According to 2014 Environmental Performance Index data Bangladesh ranks among 178 countries are 169th in environmental friendly countries, 88th in having enough forests, 123rd in biodiversity and it is the most air...
Nazmus Sadat
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We have just added German subtitles to this stunning short film from Conservation International, which goes directly to the point: we need nature. Nature does not need us. Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian...
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Gold VS paper-based financial system
Warren Buffett once famously chided that all the gold in the world would form a cube of 67
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RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land is a short documentary that was filmed in the summer of 2013 on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, 1000 km north of Vancouver in northern BC (western Canada) over the duration of the fourth annual Environmental Action Camp, hosted by...
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Thousands of video interviews conducted around the world to draw a large portrait of humanity.
www.7billionothers.org
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Many American companies do not offer paid leave after the birth of a child, which means they probably shouldn't run sappy Mother's Day ads.
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'Grace And Frankie' showrunner Marta Kauffman tells Larry King about an offensive comment made on the set of ‘Friends'
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Whoever controls the price of oil can play god with the global economy - that’s why the US and Saudi Arabia are leading the way to smash OPEC and re-create a new global oil cartel
“No one can set the price of oil,” said Saudi oil minister Ali
Nafeez Ahmed
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Paul Tudor Jones THINKS he's Robin Hood -but he is the opposite!
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This short film explains why migratory sea birds arrive to the island of Chiloé (Chile), and the different migrations that the birds make. It shows how important wetlands are in giving these birds shelter, as well as exposes their threats. At the same time, we can appreciate...
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Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate change have been ‘woefully inadequate.’...
Steve Taylor Ph.D.
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Private prison companies claim they can house, feed, and monitor inmates more cost effectively than state governments and so there you have it-- they win big contracts.
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In this essential new feature documentary, legendary radical activist Angela Davis speaks for the first time about her 1970s imprisonment as a terrorist and conspirator, which became a flashpoint in the black liberation struggle and turned her into a revolutionary icon.
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Walk with Juan around his multi-layered edible forest garden and learn how it requires little human input yet still provides an abundance of diverse food, a rarity in his region of Spain.
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THE BIG BUSK: Happy Days in Shrewsbury 2015 in 3 minutes. See if you can spot yourself in the crowd! The Shrewsbury Ark #localtalent #pressplay Paul Henshaw and Karen Higgins #thebigbusk
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Following decades of research and hundreds of cross-cultural studies, psychologists have identified a number of consistently-occurring human values.
Common Cause
Hours after the Conservatives were re-elected, the government looked at cutting access to work schemes for the disabled. You'd think they'd at least have the decency to bring some flowers before shafting the vulnerable, but no. Not these guys. Not today. Today is not...
Laurie Penny
The election results are in. The Tories can form a majority government to rule for the next five years. Now what?
The result was, admittedly, a surprise. With the Scottish National Party expected to clean up in Scotland, the Liberal Democrats collapsing and the Tories and...
Phil
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The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and...
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Projects and campaigns usually start because we feel inspired about an idea or passionate about a particular issue. Our first impulse is to throw ourselves into action straightaway. But if we take a little time to analyse the situation and to develop a plan of action we can...
Seeds for Change
1. Most people are motivated primarily by self-interest. As a creative community organizer, you are always trying to figure out people’s common self-interest, the glue that binds political organizations and movements.
Si Kahn
Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly-structured, and authoritative. Because of this, it carries negative connotations. Merriam-Webster, the...
The comparisons being made between the Baltimore riots this past week and the historical Boston Tea Party are wrongheaded. Baltimore residents have much more to fight for than the American colonists of old.
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What if there were a magical place where blacks could escape the indignities, dangers and inconveniences of racism?
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this film exposes how officials in the Malaysian government are making huge profits on "development" projects that are forcibly relocating local people in Sarawak. The plan to build twelve additional mega-dams is excessive as Sarawak already has abundant electricity. Dam...
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As part of the Vice The New Wave series, we meet The London Black Revolutionaries, a movement of radical young black people who do not feel represented by the "white supremacy" of our current political system. They hope to bring consciousness to the black working class with...
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Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...
Peter Gray, Ph.D.
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Bruce Schneier talk about the NSA at MIT: Edward Snowden has given us an unprecedented window into the NSA's surveillance activities. Drawing from both the Snowden documents and revelations from previous whistleblowers, this talk describes the sorts of surveillance the NSA...
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Watch the video "Generateur De Gemmes Clash of Clans" uploaded by WotNewsBuzz on Dailymotion.
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Ferguson. New York. Baltimore.
As cities erupt after decades of oppression and violence at the hands of police, calls for nonviolence can be deafening. “Violence isn’t the answer,” the moralists chide when protesters throw rocks and clash with police.
They’re right. But...
Nathalie Baptiste
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In this extended interview, part of our recent episode "Absent Voices", Ronit Lentin explores issues of migrancy in Ireland and the concept of the racist state. She argues that states like Ireland are - by their very nature - racist, outlining Irelands' long and shameful...
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Miasma Theory was universally held and horribly wrong. What else might we be wrong about?
Weldon Kennedy
*Helpfulness not guaranteed.
Tom Tomorrow
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A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60...
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Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record.
Dan Froomkin
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The Walls of Bethlehem documents clashes between Palestinians in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and invading Israeli soldiers after the Israeli army’s killing of 20-year-old Jihad al-Jafari in nearby Dheisheh refugee camp in February.
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Last week, an activist in Baltimore began writing names of victims of police brutality along the sidewalk. She began with victims killed on January 1st of 2013 and wrote every name that was recorded until the present day. Names stretched from Penn Station to a George...
John Vibes
Waiting for political change to come about once every few years at election time is not only frustrating, but is an almost sure-fire way of ensuring that the changes you really want don’t get delivered within the time frames that are necessary.
If we really want to see...
SHIFT
Of the most commonly recurring themes that keeps popping up in the comments sections beneath my work is the "if only everyone stopped voting ..." type is probably the most infuriating.
Thomas G. Clark
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In today's 'Trews Politics Week Conclusion' I recap last week's episodes, reveal Part 2 of 'Milibrand' and give my call to action for how to best use your vote to save the country, and for future REVOLUTION.
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The Future of Energy is a powerful documentary that captures the movement across the United States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift. It's a positive film about the renewable energy revolution, and a love story...
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Advocates say that resolution in Chicago must be placed in the 'broader context of ongoing and endemic police violence.'
Lauren McCauley
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The research documentary looks to investigate the UK’s existing economic and cultural attitudes towards charity and international development. With the “controversial pledge by the UK government to spend 0.7% of the UK’s income on foreign aid” the project looks to explore the...
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'Everybody Loves Raymond' Star Brad Garrett Reflects On His Time Working With The Late Robin Williams. During a viewer call-in segment, actor and comedian Brad Garrett discusses with Larry King his time working with the late Robin Williams on HBO’s ‘The Crazy Ones.’
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In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the Un
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"Land is the only real wealth in this country and if we don't own any we'll be out of the picture."
Leah Penniman
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This 2-minute short takes on plastic microbeads—the nasty little bits of plastic that companies have been putting in everything from body washes and hand soaps to toothpaste and make up. In it, we show how microbeads are actually designed to go down the drain and into our...
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“I witnessed pepper spray, blunt force, and threats with firearms all used by police and National Guard. As such, it was important to make a record for both the news and the history books.”
Jennifer Baker
Thanks largely to Russell Brand, the question of whether to vote or not has been raised at national level this election.
Real Media
It’s hardly surprising that Eddie Izzard, Alan Partridge and now even Russell Brand all want us to vote Labour. They are the people the modern Labour Party represents after all. Millionaires who feel a bit guilty about poverty and stuff but don’t want to change things too...
Johnny Void