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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...
“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...
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?!
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...
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...
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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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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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.
“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...
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.
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.
No one should ever work.
Bob Black
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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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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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
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