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Environmental photography is fast becoming one of the most powerful ways to call attention to issues about our planet, be it melting ice caps, city-leveling earthquakes or the innate beauty of our natural surroundings. Now the Royal Geographical Society is bringing together...
Kate Lismore
The power is in your hands.
2 min
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures
Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan
My reaction to the spectacle of The Queen's Speech that opened the Conservative government following the UK general election.
9 min
There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where civilian females, instead of asking for permission, instead of waiting for outside help, have taken...
8 min
INDIA's DAUGHTER is the story of the short life, and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the 23 year old medical student by 6 men on a moving bus, and her death, sparked unprecedented protests and...
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A woman is raped every ten minutes in the UK and yet thousands of rapes go unreported and conviction rates remain low. Pips Taylor explores why, in powerful interviews with young rape survivors. She confronts those in authority about the failures in the system and speaks to...
56 min
‘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...
13 min
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
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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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
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
What’s your vision for a just and equitable 2050? Add your voice: http://changethecourse.org
4 min
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
“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
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
I went through a recent awakening where I realized that something very important has been missing throughout my entire life.
Chris Agnos
Nonviolence, peace, and justice are not utopian dreams but real and practical ways in which humans can affect the world around them.
David Cook
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
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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
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
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
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
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...
19 min
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...
15 min
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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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
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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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...
47 min
Maybe all this campaign talk about a Political Revolution will fade away.
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...
2 min
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...
74 min
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
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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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.
15 min
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...
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
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.
8 min
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...
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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I look at the new powers brought in by David Cameron to supposedly aid in counter terrorism, but instead, turns us all into suspects.
11 min
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...
John Oliver explains how chicken farming can be unfair, punishing, and inhumane. And not just for the chickens!
18 min
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