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From Occupy to Ferguson, whenever a new grassroots movement arises, pundits charge that it lacks clear demands. Why won’t protesters summarize their goals as a coherent program? Why aren’t there representatives who can negotiate with the authorities to advance a concrete...
CrimethInc.
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Congratulations to the United States Govt. for just accumulating $18 Trillion in debt! But no worries let's look at some of the biggest reasons why YOU don't need to worry about it.
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My Home, My Land is a graphic representation of much of the Oakland Institute's work on land grabs. Illustrated by the Institute's Intern Scholar, Abner Hauge, this publication dismantles the many myths promoted by so-called donor countries, development agencies, and...
Illustrated by Abner Hauge
Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of local teenagers’ Twitter feeds, law enforcement had learned that a group of high school...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky
This week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Internet.org, its marquee project to “connect two-thirds of the world that don’t have internet access,” is now inviting any website or service to join the program. According to Zuckerberg, this change—which follows...
Josh Levy
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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Part III of The Bloom “New Ways of The Sacred” looks at how Transformational Festivals are venues for an active engagement with ancient, universal themes of MYTHOS, RITUAL and THE SACRED, exploring ways which both honor the traditional, while reflecting our unprecedented...
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Iron Age Mystics; is talent and experience combined into an amazingly musical blend of dissident yet melodious rock beneath passionately intelligent lyrics. A band for the times creating music for the people. With a debut album in the works IAM is the soundtrack for the...
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Iron Age Mystics; is talent and experience combined into an amazingly musical blend of dissodent yet melodious rock beneath passionately intelligent lyrics. A band for the times creating music for the people. With a debut album in the works, IAM is the soundtrack for the...
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Entertainer-turned-Democratic-candidate for U.S. Congress Clay Aiken talks to Larry King about headline-grabbing domestic violence cases and says society should do a better job of preventing such violence before it begins.
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Black on Black Crime is the myth that just won't die. Despite being repeatedly shown to be ludicrous, it was still a large feature of the coverage of the Baltimore protests of the murder of Freddie Gray. This video puts the myth to rest.
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Organized by the Earth Day Network and the Global Poverty Project, Global Citzen 2015 Earth Day, a massive tribute to the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, celebrated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., brought awareness to the combined plights of global poverty and...
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According to a Princeton University study, public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. One thing that does have an influence? Money. Nearly every issue we face as a nation is caught in the grip of corruption. From taxation to national debt, education to the...
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Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow (he knows something) explains the UK general election using what we understand best: Game of Thrones.
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Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge. Many are asylum seekers and other migrants who have committed no crime. They...
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On March 26, without much fanfare or attention from U.S. media, the Spanish government ended freedom of assembly. In the face of popular opposition (80 percent of Spaniards oppose it), the upper house passed the Citizens’ Security Law. Under the provision, which goes into...
Willie Osterweil
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One of the world's most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving film illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds...
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Some things are beyond measure and beyond price. No amount of money is enough to compensate for the loss of the sacred.
Charles Eisenstein
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Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price joins Larry to discuss his headline making decision to dock his nearly $1 million yearly salary down to $70k per year, the new minimum wage for all employees at his company.
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American students face a ridiculous amount of testing. John Oliver explains how standardized tests impact school funding, the achievement gap, how often kids are expected to throw up.
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The Baltimore Uprising is a symptom of a much larger problem!
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Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill got robbed at gunpoint in Baltimore in the '90s. He confronted the gunman who had come to Scahill's free food pantry. They had a long conversation. Scahill still empathizes with the man and those protesting in Baltimore. This story is...
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"Patriotism" by Emma Goldman, read by Sandra Oh.
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"Mother" met en avant l'histoire de Beth, une mère de famille américaine militante des droits de l'enfant. A travers sa propre histoire familiale et sa rencontre bouleversante avec une jeune Ethiopienne, Beth prend conscience de l'impact dramatique d'une population planétaire...
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Madre Tierra reflexiona sobre el polémico tema de la población uniendo los puntos entre el crecimiento de la población y los problemas sociales y ambientales más urgentes de la humanidad. Esta premiada película vuelve a sacar al ruedo este asunto después de que haya sido...
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Today the word on the street is 'Occupy'. This is how we used to do it in the 90's...
Imagine 5000 people being taken across London by underground to a mystery location and then transforming a motorway into a sand pit, a dance floor, a forest. Imagine radical ecologists...
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In 2006, two of the world’s most celebrated writers, Eduardo Galeano and Arundhati Roy, shared the stage of Town Hall in New York City for a historic evening of readings and dialogue. Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan author who died on April 13, 2015. His books include the...
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Radical philosophy professor Chad Kautzer provides commentary to Run the Jewels "Close Your Eyes" music video.
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What If A Solution To Climate Change Was Beneath Your Feet?
Soil is a living universe beneath our feet. As important to our lives as clean air and water, soil also holds a potential solution to the global climate crisis. Increasing numbers of scientists, farmers and...
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2 APR 2013 北京 2013年頭兩個月，北京只得四成日子空氣屬優良。國家衛生部資料顯示，中國肺癌死亡率比30年前上升了465%，且肺癌是發病率及死亡率最高的癌症。這跟空氣污染加劇有直接關係。 某日，換個場地，你和我、他跟她，聚集一起，放眼城市的綠，齊齊換一種方式郊遊去。讓我們以自己的步伐，改變一刻城市風景，重新認識大自然的韻律，為更多人走在一起前，演練更多可能。
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We are in the middle of a growing housing crisis (the UK is in breach of its own United Nations human rights commitment to provide people with adequate homes) which is resulting in a social cleansing of London. This film looks at the West Hendon Estate, Barnet, where over 600...
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Geoff Lawton talks International Permaculture Day at The Greening the Desert Sequel Site in the Jordan Valley (PRI Jordan). Join us worldwide on Sunday 3rd May for International Permaculture Day: In Support of Soil! http://bit.ly/IPD2015SupportSoil
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What are modern workplaces doing to people? Umair Haque suggests they are turning them into assholes.
Umair Haque
We the Corporations: Corporations and the Hijacking of Democracy:
Joelle Hervic
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This fun animation shows how reconnecting trees to our city's watersheds is one of the fastest ways to create lasting jobs while rebuilding local economies and preparing our communities to thrive and survive increasing threats of severe weather.
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In this clip from Bill's interview with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (VT-I), he asks the senator from Vermont what it will take to get the "Hillary wing of the Democratic party to pay attention to the power of a populist message." Here's what he had to say:
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Time is Art: Synchronicity & the Collective Dream is a feature documentary film coming 11/11/15.
“Time is Art” is ultimately the story of an artist’s search for inspiration in a money-driven society that shuns creativity, and of the human search for meaning in a seemingly...
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Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it. Many members of the ball culture...
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Meat and Livestock Australia has published a series of study guides for primary and secondary school students.
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After the seas have disappeared, a courageous female pilot fights against vicious sky pirates for control of the last remaining source of water: the clouds. The bulk of the film was made using nothing but laptops during a 7-week artist retreat on a small caribbean island.
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The history of the world holiday on the 1st of May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for struggling for an 8-hour day.
Anarkismo
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We are living historic moments of oppression, to which the people have the right to respond with historic moments of resistance. The Which Side Are You On came out on our Radical Dilemma album, but the time is NOW for the song and the message it represents. It was an honor to...
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It's not just a slogan. It's a call to organize!
Stephanie McMillan
We will have to consume less, not more, if we are serious about tackling climate change. So how do businesses like Coca-Cola lure us into forgetting that inconvenient truth?
Stephen Devlin
Many years ago I pitched a magazine editor on a story about Bernie Sanders, then a congressman from Vermont, who'd agreed to something extraordinary – he agreed to let me, a reporter, stick next to him without restrictions over the course of a month in congress.
"People need...
Matt Taibbi
When I told my grandma that I was among a crowd of protesters pepper-sprayed while covering the demonstration-turned-riot at Baltimore’s Mondawmin Mall on Monday, her response was blunt.
Julia Craven
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NOW ON YOU TUBE: KROM RELEASE TALIBAN MAN VIDEO
(Directed by the Mancini Brothers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLLboqeV6U
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Some of the most popular apps on your smartphone ask for permissions that expose data to outside sources. We asked people on the street to read some of these permissions out loud so we could capture their reactions.
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This afternoon a communique arrived from the Special Patrol Group, a radical offshoot of STRIKE! Magazine. It read:
Rupert Murdoch has more influence than the entire UK electorate. All of the candidates are idiots: a truly democratic system would have an option
Alex King
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Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 -- April 3, 2000) was a modern philosopher, whose main interest was psychedelics and their role in society and existence beyond the physical body"
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To avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, the world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by US think tank Capital Institute.
Jo Confino
The revolution WILL be given permission.
Matt Lubchansky
Believe you me, neoliberalism is not an institution, but rather a paranormal activity (completely normalized and legally ratified) which operates both in and outside ourselves. This is how it directs our behaviors, those we impose upon ourselves and those we project onto...
Leónidas Martín
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There is a misconception about who runs things in the US. Presidents are important, but what is more important is the network that surrounds the President. Over the past 25 years that network has been changing in important ways. This video points out why this is a problem.
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TV legend Oprah Winfrey talks with Larry King about the difference in each generation's experience with racism.
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A documentary spanning half a year of opposition against Kinder Morgan in the Coast Salish Territories. This is the first instalment of a series in the works.
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19-year-old spoken-word poet Sarah O'Neal recites her poem “An Overreaction,” where she speaks about Dr. King and her frustration at having to defend protests.
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Zombies can always be relied on to offer easy thrills, but what really keeps us up at night are the international trade agreements constantly being negotiated by the United States and its partners—each one more terrifying than the last.
James Trimarco and Marc J. Palm
Help the homeless posters are telling the public that beggars are probably crack addicts. Campaigns like these make money by demonising those they exist to help.
Ric Lander and Amie Robertson
Dystopias infect official reports.
China Miéville
Generally we begin our article about MATLAB excercises with unusual words nobody knows the importance of: Graphical Client Interface, numerical registering, calculations improvement, displaying of frameworks, sign handling, parallel figuring, and so forth. Being a first year...
Scientific and technological innovations have the power to fundamentally transform human civilization as new possibilities previously deemed impossible are made realities. However, it is not the technologies themselves that dictate the nature of the political, economic or...
Eric Draitser
While Salma Hayek’s figure is the jealousy of heaps of ladies, she supposes she’s lost parts as a result of her edge.
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Part II of The Bloom explores how Transformational Festivals have become incubators and spaces for “Practicing The New World”, where the festivals are produced using a model of CO-CREATION, utilizing an ethos of PARTICIPATION to create these remarkable realities and MODELLING...
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Transformational Festivals Panel for “Practicing The New World” LIVE at 7:00pm April 29th following the LIVE MASS VIEWING of THE BLOOM PART II
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This week's chaos on the streets of Baltimore has been decades in the making.
Simon McCormack
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Russell Brand: End the Drugs War BBC Full Documentary 2014 The documentary Russell Brand made for BBC Three in 2012 concluded with him giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee. Drawing on his own experience of drug taking and recovery, he advocated treating...
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MLK said a riot is the language of the unheard. Thank you Ferguson and Baltimore, maybe they are starting to listen now. . .
Our pursuit for justice for
Louise Michel
Workers at app-driven companies like Uber don’t have the rights of full employees. But with the help of traditional unions, some are banding together into worker-owned cooperatives.
Wolde Gebremariam is one of more than 160,000 people nationwide who drive their own cars for...
Mary Hansen
Killings of land and environmental activists in 2014 reached an average of more than two a week, a new Global Witness report reveals – an increase of 20% from 2013. How Many More? documents 116 known deaths worldwide last year – almost double the number of journalists killed...
Global Witness
A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m asked, What is the cause of greed? First I’ll say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiable
Charles Eisenstein
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"Synthetic Forests provides an investigation into the devastating effects GE trees could have on our health and the environment
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WWE Superstar John Cena slams critics of openly gay athletes and shares a story of how he supported his brother coming out.
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Many people assume that now that once China's economy is larger than the US economy, Chinese dominance is soon to follow. This video presents three reasons why this will not be the case, including Chinese racial ideas, their neighbors, and most importantly the 3rd mover...
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Digital media technologies are full of paradoxes. On one hand they are said to open up new opportunities, a “democratisation” of media, but on the other they are said to consolidate not just media power, but also the ideological frameworks that constrain critical creative...
Elizabeth Mizon
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On the eve of the 2 year anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, activists in London gathered to tour the UK highstreet's top stores, and hear stories about fashion's dirty secrets. The event was held on Oxford Street on 23rd April 2015, hosted by Labour Behind the Label and...
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In his statement to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices,
Elizabeth Mizon
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Intercutting thousands of contemporary and classic television commercials with insights by Stuart Ewen, Jean Kilbourne, Sut JhalIy and others, this film scrutinizes late 20th century American society and its prime inhabitant, Consumer Man. You will never look at an ad the...
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The Real News Network's Eddie Conway reports on Freddie Gray's funeral and explains the context for the outburst of anger and frustration in Baltimore, where the site of police and civilian clashes is a major source of trespassing arrests for Baltimore youth waiting for the bus.
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Officials calling for calm can offer no rational justification for Gray's death, and so they appeal for order.
Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die...
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Trendy clothes are cheaper than ever. That sounds great for the people who buy them, but it's horrible for the people who make them.
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama shares his thoughts on same sex marriage and homosexuality.
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Own the Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time is a short documentary meant to give an overview of what a worker co-op is, how it can transform lives and communities, and the realities of starting one. Watch as we go through concrete steps for building...
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The Price of Love takes a look at how the 2012 Spouse Immigration Rules have affected 3 British families.
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Unchallenged by the BBC, Israel was allowed to lie at will as it pounded Gaza to rubble and wiped out entire Palestinian families.
Amena Saleem
Being underground is not a condition Enric Duran
Nathan Schneider
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Comedian Keegan-Michael Key plays his iconic character Luther at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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The battle between landowners and wildlife has raged on many 'battlefields' across the world. I
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The liberties of the individual began to be eroded with Magna Carta. Far from celebrating it as a sacred document that protected people's natural rights, the 1215 deal in Runnymede between king and aristocracy took the first fatal step in a centuries-long process of...
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Spectacularly photographed in Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Hawaii, Breath of Life travels the globe in search of the truth behind what appears to be a looming environmental catastrophe. Everyone is telling us how we are destroying our world. BREATH OF LIFE is a film...
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I started wearing a headscarf just over a month ago. This video has highlighted my experience, the reason why I wanted to do it, people's reactions and how its changed my day-to-day life. It seeks to explain why someone who was raised in Britain, with no family or societal...
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The USDA’s organic standards don’t prevent mistreatment of farm animals—but the agency may finally move to change that.
Do you ever wonder why so much organic food also carries animal welfare labels?
The short answer is that while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
Twilight Greenaway and Adrien Schless-Meier
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Modern production is based on extraction from the planet, and modern finance is based on extraction from the many for the benefit of the very few. What would a new economy look like and how can we rethink our relationship to resources, work and culture? Those are some of the...
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As research for a panel on the subject of ‘audiences’ at the Radical Film Network‘s inaugural conference earlier this year, I spoke to a number of media organisers and radical filmmakers about their work and how they survive while doing it. This is the second of two...
Elizabeth Mizon
Yesterday in the middle of rush hour, about 200 people held a die-in for the people who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean, shutting down three lanes of traffic all around Westminster for over an hour.
Photos by Chris Bethell, Words by Daisy May-Hudson
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Art has the power to move our imaginations and bodies, transforming the emotional and physical spaces we share. It has the power to build and transform social relations and to bring about equity and justice.
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Save the Confluence was organized as a response by Navajos who had been exiled from their land for nearly 50 years under The Bennett Freeze, and who now are threatened by a proposal called the “Grand Canyon Escalade.” Many residents believe this proposal is the wrong kind of...
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Así no hables ingles, el video tiene subtítulos en español. Nuestro objetivo es que este video se haga viral a nivel global y que Venezuela sea tópico a nivel internacional! Por eso debemos difundir, Difundir, y DIFUNDIR este video lo masssss que puedas! No dejemos a nuestros...
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An Apology Letter to Future Generations.
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