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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
2 min
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"
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.
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.
51 min
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
This week's chaos on the streets of Baltimore has been decades in the making.
Simon McCormack
57 min
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...
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
35 min
"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.
4 min
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...
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
3 min
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...
In his statement to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices,
Elizabeth Mizon
44 min
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...
6 min
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.
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
17 min
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.
2 min
His Holiness the Dalai Lama shares his thoughts on same sex marriage and homosexuality.
20 min
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...
24 min
The Price of Love takes a look at how the 2012 Spouse Immigration Rules have affected 3 British families.
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
4 min
Comedian Keegan-Michael Key plays his iconic character Luther at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
6 min
The battle between landowners and wildlife has raged on many 'battlefields' across the world. I
10 min
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...
82 min
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...
22 min
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...
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
7 min
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...
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...
6 min
An Apology Letter to Future Generations.
Migrants seeking a better life in Europe have died by the thousands in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while fleeing poverty and bloodshed in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
David Sim
5 min
As we assess the current state of our world and consider together the elements that are essential to a ‘just transition’, and ultimately, a just economy, we are called to consider four goals: to decommodify nature, reimagine work, liberate knowledge and democratize wealth...
84 min
GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system...
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In this clip of Larry King Now, Terry Crews on his new book, "Manhood", and why connecting with his feminine side was the key to his masculinity.
4 min
In the past the amount of money in the economy was the main driver of inflation. But now in a world where everything is connected, external factors have a much greater influence on inflation.
The general election is here, and once again the parties are all over us like a rash, promising that they will fix things. But you don’t have to be an anarchist to know that nothing changes, whoever gets in. This is why politicians are keen on new methods such as postal...
Anarchist Federation
It is said that if a modern, successful corporation were a type of person, it would be a psychopath.
With this in mind, Jason Louv assesses ‘Patient Monsanto’
An Evaluation of
Jason Louv
30 min
The Bloom Part I looks at the “Fundamental Frequencies” of the Transformational Festival experience—how they immerse participants in a world of INSPIRATION, restoring a deeply felt sense of CONNECTION, and supporting processes of HEALING for those involved.
I must follow on from my interpretation of ego as the root cause of climate change. On a spiritual level that may well be so, but what other more tangible explanations are there for this horrific destruction of our planet and species? A phenomenon we are almost paralysed to...
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Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet?
What really is climate change if not a reflection of our grandiloquent ego? Day by day, year by year we destroy our one viable, habitable planet. What possibly could be the reason for such absurdity? Certainly the decisions we make in this moment are what effectively create...
There are three main components that make up ADHD and in varying degrees I can see these being applied to a vast majority of humans growing up in today’s toxic culture.
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Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when...
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Wall Street is responsible for a lot, but one of its least known crimes is it's worst. The more powerful a financial industry gets, the worse it is for the region it is based in. Wall Street killed the Empire State, and this video shows how it happened...
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Texas saved $2 billion for taxpayers by cutting prison spending while making the state safer. If they can do it here, they can do it anywhere!
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While Orange Is The New Black, Transparent, and Glee have made strides, GLAAD's Nick Adams tells Larry King that too often trans characters are not shown in a positive light.
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Ever been told to "man up"? Mark Greene has something to say about that, and gives some advice to his own son while he's at it. What other expectations do people assign to you?
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TransCanada's Energy East pipeline plan is all about exporting oil. It is not a made-in-Canada energy solution. Up to 90 per cent of Energy East's oil would be exported unrefined. As an export pipeline, it won't create many permanent jobs or have lasting economic benefits to...
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This is "Symphony of the Soil (French subtitles)" by Lily Films on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
I sometimes wonder if satire has reached a nadir in Britain because British society has itself become a parody of itself. The
Frankie Boyle
MINISINK, N.Y.—The affable, soft-spoken dairy farmer stood outside his 70-stall milking barn on his 230-acre family farm. When his father started farming there in 1950 were about 800 dairy farms in New York state’s Orange County. Only 39 survive. Small, traditional farms have bee
Chris Hedges
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For inventors, patents are an essential protection against theft. But when patent trolls abuse the system by stockpiling patents and threatening lawsuits, businesses are forced to shell out tons of money.
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Ines is a Haitian businesswoman and mother of twin girls, Dina & Dini. Ines and her daughters, along with the other characters throughout the film, showcase one of the common lifestyles for Haitian women and children.
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This is a profile on James Erbense, age 14, who became our second cinematographer. This video highlights his footage on what he finds beautiful around his neighborhood.
The Sun columnist's violent words about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean are indefensible. They should be condemned as hate speech.
Refugees in Lampedusa, Italy. Image:
Des Freedman
Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours. While these societies have had far fewer consumer goods and less of what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far less mental illness. This reality has been buried, not surprisingly, by...
Bruce E. Levine
When 64-year-old Vietnam vet John Constantino burned himself to death on the DC Mall in October of 2013 I couldn’t stop thinking about this man and his act. Who was he? What compelled him? What was his life’s story? What were his political views, his life’s station, etc? I...
Thirty Three and a Third
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Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces.
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The Waco siege was a siege of a compound belonging to the religious group Branch Davidians by American federal and Texas state law enforcement and military between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The group was suspected of weapons violations and a search and arrest warrant...
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George Monbiot argues that the more time children spend in the classroom, the worse they do at school because our narrow education system only rewards a particular skill set. He says that when you take failing pupils to the countryside, they often thrive – yet funding for...
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Drax is the largest coal-fired power station and single biggest carbon emitter in the UK, and is now also the biggest biomass power station in the world. In return for trashing forests and digging up communities, Drax is receiving massive subsidies when it should have been...
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Evicted and Abandoned is a global investigation that reveals how the World Bank Group, the powerful development lender committed to ending poverty, has regularly failed to follow its own rules for protecting vulnerable populations.
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Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning — the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas — must come to an end during the next few decades. If the twentieth century was all about increasing our burn rate year after blazing year, the dominant trend of twenty-first...
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Richard Heinberg explores how — in our economy, the environment, and energy production — we may well be hitting the point of diminishing returns. When previous societies have hit similar limits, they often doubled-down by attempting ever more complex interventions to keep...
Lately, we’ve been talking about the techniques of manipulation used by the government and mass media, regarding the privatization of public education, and all public benefits.
In these first months of legislature, the better part of this manipulation has been aimed at...
Soy Pública
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Talking about the most intimate fears and insecurities, accusations of "playing the gender card", "first-world problems", jokes made 'too soon' - why are some topics still too hard to talk about, & what are women losing by keeping them to themselves.
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Richard Van Wickler, superintendent of Cheshire County Department of Corrections in Keene, New Hampshire, describes his awakening to the failure of the war on drugs. SUBSCRIBE to Brave New Films and WATCH MORE of this series.
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The framework agreement that the U.S. and its international partners reached with Iran that blocks Tehran's pathways to building a nuclear bomb is barely a week old, yet the usual suspects have already denounced it as a "bad deal."
California's ignoring the elephant in the room when it comes to water usage — or rather, the cow.
Ameena Schelling
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The Kindness Offensive was started in August 2008, when four guys (David Goodfellow, Benny Crane and James Hunter) asked members of the public on Hampstead Heath what random acts of kindness they would like done for them.
"I think that many of us alive today, have kindness...
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Despite the wishes of the country, and even some members of his own family, Jeb Bush seems to be running for President in 2016. This video briefly outlines why that's a terrible idea.
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Wham! Bash! Pow! The superheroes battling to save legal aid. An animated superhero adventure film pitting three audacious lawyers against the justice minister, Chris Grayling. This satirical take on the government cuts to legal aid features the voices of Joanna Lumley, Simon...
Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new energy to the world economy wasn’t solar, wind power, or even natural gas or oil, but coal.
Andreas Malm
Radical hope is not just about determination and courage in the face of darkness, writes Paul Hoggett - it is also about love and a re-finding of all that is benign in the world. And this is the spirit we need to muster to confront the serious challenges that lie before us.
Paul Hoggett
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Following a 9 month long international screening run, the independent UK documentary The Fourth Estate is now online for all to view, download, and share for free.
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Nobody likes the IRS. But recent budget and staff cuts have made it increasingly difficult for the department to do its very important job. Don't take our word for it. Ask Michael Bolton.
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Dr. Nick Siegler, Technology Manager for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, tells Larry King that there are over 200 billion planets in our galaxy alone. He also says that the odds are “so high” that life exists on at least one of these planets.
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Eyes Wide Open writer Eduardo Galeano take us on a journey through today’s Latin America. After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power.