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A severe water crisis is facing Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. In this film, local people and experts try to tackle this growing water problem. There are solutions, but the government and the people need to act quickly.
I've known Adam Curtis for nearly 20 years. We're friends. We see movies together, and once even went to Romania on a mini-break to attend an auction of Nicolae Ceausescu's belongings. But it would be wrong to characterise our friendship as frivolous. Most of th
Writte by Jon Ronson, Illustrated by Krent Able
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A brief interview/news report between WHDT's Gary Franchi & Sherman Institute Co-Founder, Aaron Bolinger about the status of education today, and what Sherman Institute is doing that is so outside-the-box of mainstream academia.
109 min
On Wednesday, February 1. 2006, Dr. Steven Jones gave the following presentation at Utah Valley State College on 9/11 and the physics of falling bodies and how it was physically impossible for these structures to have collapsed based on the conclusion that our government has...
This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.
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The legendary performance artist and activist Benny Zable speaks candidly about his art and philosophy.
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Karen O'Brien is a tourism operator on the frontline of invasive gasfields in the beautiful Gloucester Valley of NSW Australia. The encroaching industry has turned her into an accidental activist. This is her story.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership, now headed to Congress, is a product of big corporations and Wall Street, seeking to circumvent regulations protecting workers, consumers, and the environment. Watch this video, and say "no" to fast-tracking this bad deal for the vast majority...
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Music video from 'Songs of the Bentley Blockade' CD with Luke Vassella and choir led by Peter Lehner. Featuring many of the heroes of the Northern Rivers NSW (Australia) gasfield-free movement. Camera/edit/direction: David Lowe, additional cameras: Brendan Shoebridge, Ondy...
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92 year old Bill Ryan fought to save Australia on the Kokoda Track in WW2. Now he's fighting to save Australia from extreme mining and climate change. Here he is at beautiful Gloucester in NSW, which is threatened by coal mining and unconventional gas.
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Atheist Stephen Fry on Irish television show The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne is asked, suposing he existed, what he would say to god - whom he describes as a capricious, mean-minded maniac.
Dear Our New Favourite Newspaper, The Daily Mail:
A thousand thanks for your tireless support for the much-abused Calais migrants! (Or, as they’re also known, “Fellow Human Beings”.)
Some freeloading scroungers might have cynically used your festive promotional offer with...
David Charles
Martin Luther King Jr. exemplifies real bravery in "Selma."
Well, you can beat on your chest / Hell, any monkey can. —Bruce Springsteen, “Real Man”
In an essay on Theodore Roosevelt, Gore Vidal classified the former president and known tough guy as an “American sissy.” He...
David Masciotra
The public relations disaster known as Just IN would have been galling for any governor. But especially so for Mike Pence, who's worked hard for years to cultivate good working relationships with journalists on the state and national levels.
Tim Swarens
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Syriza had 22 days to make history. This is how they did it. We followed Syriza's activists, candidates and leadership from the waterfront, to remote mountain villages, to the nail biting final days.
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Gang stalking is a form of community mobbing and organized stalking combined. Just like you have workplace mobbing, and online mobbing, which are both fully recognized as legitimate, this is the community form.
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"I wrote this song in August for the people in Ferguson, Gaza and elsewhere rising up against horrific racial injustice, and for those that continue to grieve, rage and rise. As an artist I'd like to make it clear that the tragedies in Ferguson and Gaza are not isolated nor...
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VIDEO BILINGUE / A discussion of the systemic problem of police abuse of power threatening both freedom of expression and of the press based on the events of April 3 2014 in Montreal.
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So many 9/11 witnesses or people who would seem to have knowledge of the cover up, and who were standing their ground for seeking out the truth under the lies and deception they were told all of a sudden decided to commit suicide or were found dead, in some cases crushed by...
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The most remarkable untold narrow escape and rescue story of 9/11-from the 14 guests and staff of the Marriott Hotel which stood between the twin towers and was crushed when they fell...
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Video evidence that PMC’s (private military contractors) are supplying Kiev with Lethal aid. This, less then a week after German claims of 500 Blackwater contractors operating on behalf of Kiev. The man holds a carbine in his hand and is wearing a tactical vest. As the...
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What is man allowed to? (Click the CC icon for English Subtitles)
A characteristic of Greek tragedies is that someone who has risen to a great height fails to understand why they are falling from grace. And a typical reason why many fall from grace is down to the company they keep.
Lester Holloway
Dutch Surinamese photographer Rohan Radheya has spent two years photographing West Papuans in exile...
Rohan Radheya
This is an excerpt from The One Idea That Saves the World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action by Laurence Overmire.
Laurence Overmire
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you: it’s a well known phrase and few could argue that disagreeing with those that support you is ill-advised if you want that support to continue. It’s a power game all too familiar in the non-profit sector – those with their hands on the purse...
Joseph Blake and Sophie Pritchard
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Abby Martin interviews Margaret Heffernan, author of 'Willful Blindness' and 'A Bigger Prize', about the destructive impact of competition and alternative models of incentivizing people to work together for the greater good.
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Abby Martin remarks on the way that US police deal with mentally unstable people holding knives compared to other developed countries.
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Belgish workers on strike - 6.11.2014
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French Rag - Riots in November 2014 (Nantes, Rennes, Paris...)
Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Derrick Jensen
26 min
Documental de 30 minutos, seleccionado en mas de 20 festivales alrededor del mundo grabado en la profundidad de la selva Amazónica Colombiana. Cuenta la verdadera historia de la planta de la coca y su diferencia con la cocaína.
After 134 days of resistance, the Kurdish forces of the YPG/YPJ have finally pushed IS out of Kobani. While the battle is won, the struggle continues.
Today, the resisting Kurds and their comrades in Kobani achieved the unimaginable: they managed to expel the fighters of the...
Joris Leverink
Following the release of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper,the masses of America have been chomping at the bit to slaughter Muslims. The film, which portrays the deadliest sniper in United States history, is a hit among the sect of Americans that tends to demonize Hollywood...
Carey Wedler
Gov. Mike Pence is starting a state-run taxpayer-funded news outlet that will make pre-written news stories available to Indiana media, as well as sometimes break news about his administration, according to documents obtained by The Indianapolis Star.
Tom LoBianco
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Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers.
Editor's note: Thandeka wrote this in 1999, but her analysis and contribution to the discussion on anti-racism remains as relevent to today as ever. She addressed this to Unitarian Universalists, but you can read it as if she's addressing middle-class liberals or...
Thandeka
“American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an innate right as a “Christian” nation to exterminate the “lesser breeds” of the earth, a grotesque hypermasculinity that...
Chris Hedges
The Greeks have voted for SYRIZA in order to be able to breathe, but deeper aspirations for freedom, social justice and radical democracy are very high.
Welcome to Greece.
This is the first time since the Spanish revolution of 1936 that a left
Antonis Broumas
8 min
Although there are many challenges in the World, Satish Kumar reminds us that, in the big picture, it is Love that sustains us. That's why all activism must come from optimism!
8 min
Abby Martin speaks with Ali al-Ahmed, Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs about the death of Saudi Arabian monarch, King Abdullah, and why the media is covering him as a 'reformer'.
At Syriza’s HQ, the cigarette smoke in the cafe swirls into shapes. If those could reflect the images in the minds of the men hunched over their black coffees, they would probably be the faces of Che Guevara, or
Paul Mason
136 min
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
28 min
James Conway, retired Superintendent from Attica Correctional Facility in New York, visits four Nordic Prisons. What methods are used in the correctional facilities of the Nordic countries? How do they differ compared to the US? English subtitles. Host: Joakim Rundt. Read...
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This is a tailer for the first film of a 3 pat documentary entitled; Monsanto's Chemical Genocide. You can watch it for free Here.
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Within Integral Art there are many levels and layers to be observed. At a basic level the Love & Evolve sculpture may seem static, but take a closer look. It is interactive. It changes as you move around it. It changes when you change your perspective.
Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his
Glenn Greenwald
60 min
A five-part Norwegian documentary series examining the lives of sweatshop workers in Cambodia through the eyes of three young, relatively wealthy Norwegian citizens. From the day they arrive in Cambodia they begin to see how different their lives are from the lives of people...
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted...
Johann Hari
Every year world leaders and business executives meet at Davos to discuss how they want to run our economy - in their own best interests. We're led to believe that without their entrepreneurial talent that we would all be worse off than we are now. The myths of this elite...
Global Justice Now
Hoosiers, Don’t Let Monopoly Utilities Kill Your Right to Choose Solar!
T.U.S.K. America
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John Oliver is certainly inspired by Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and others. But his Last Week Tonight program represents something different, and potentially much more powerful.
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Sadies the Cleaning Ladies - the Movie is a snap response to the Liberal National Party's calling of a snap election in Queensland Australia. With mining leases over 54% of Australia, the Sadies, SNAGs and KNAG are joining together as one immutable force to uncover dirty...
Jay Tiernan, a leader in the fight to stop the killing of wild badgers in England, has received a six month suspended jail sentence and up to $83,000 in fines for breaching a court order brought by cattle farmers who support the “badger cull.” According to The Gu
Donny Moss
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November 25th marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, so Everlast created this video in support for that day. In Peru, and around the world, more women are afraid of getting harassed on the street than anything else. So they decided to send...
Pitchfork published a new interview with Björk on Wednesday, and in it she speaks powerfully about the kind of sexism she’s faced in her career. Aske
Forrest Wickman
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Abby Martin interviews independent journalist, Rania Khalek, about the new film 'American Sniper' and why it's such a controversial choice to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
Most white Americans believe they were born white. Yet their own stories of early racial experiences describe persons who were bred white. Which is it-nature or nurture? Neither. The social process that creates whites produces persons who must think of their whiteness as a...
Thandeka
“The economy inhabited by the vast majority of Americans grows smaller and more cutthroat, with nearly all the new wealth accruing to the rich.”
Tuesday night, in his next-to-last State of the Union address, President Obama flashed the suckers a bag of tricks that has no...
Glen Ford
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Kshama Sawant's response to Obama's 2015 State of the Union Address
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Billionaires David and Charles Koch have been handed the ability to buy our democracy in the form of giant checks to the House, Senate, and soon, possibly even the Presidency.
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Take Action for Clean Air - https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1645 People who suffer from asthma often say an attack feels like breathing through a pool of water or like a pillow is covering their face. In the United States, asthma...
New research exposes companies behind Europe's multi-million Euro image-laundering business.
A report released today by research and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) sheds light on how dictators and repressive regimes are paying European PR firms and...
Corporate Europe Observatory
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Special Panel Discussion on Racism, Poverty and the Future of Ferguson.
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Permaculture Homestead Lot For Sale (SOLD) click here: http://youtu.be/WMSecjdlt7w
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To watch The Hinson's Permaculture Homestead Tour click here: http://youtu.be/TVp_N-rOCw8
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An animation about consumption in a surreal, miniature world
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A short animation on body image and internal conflict.
Music Credits: Bonobo - Black Sands (P) Ninja Tune 2010 Licensed courtesy of Ninja Tune
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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[via Reddit.com] : PBS played this in the middle of the night. It took a single animator 2 years to illustrate this by hand.
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IRON WILL: A Veteran's Battle with PTSD Produced by Zac Adams and Tim VandeSteeg and Directed by Sergio Valenzuela. Be a part of the Documentary and Movement. www.IronWillmovie.com
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LIKE www.facebook.com/HUNGERinAMERICAmovie www.HungerinAmericamovie.com "Hunger in America" is the powerful documentary tackling the hunger epidemic in America. Narrated by "Desperate Housewives" star James Denton. Available to Watch Online - September 2, 2014 on FMTV. Go to...
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Producer: Tim VandeSteeg Director/Producer: Windy Borman THE EYES OF THAILAND is the powerful 10-time award-winning documentary narrated by Ashley Judd. www.eyesofthailand.com www.facebook.com/eyesofthailand @EyesOfThailand
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Indiewood Pictures in Association with Destiny Pictures presents the 10-time award-winning and critically acclaimed inspirational documentary MY RUN, narrated by Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton. After tragically losing his wife to breast cancer and struggling to raise...
The “race problem” between police and black Americans won’t go away because it’s a deadly ruse.
Thandeka
While the glorification of American psycho sniper Chris Kyle on the big screen is atrocious, the movie's rewriting of the US destruction of Iraq and racist portrayal of Arabs is worse and far more dangerous.
Rania Khalek
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Abby discusses the decision by the US to deploy at least 500 troops to countries surrounding Syria to train "moderate" Syrian rebels despite this policy being a dangerous failure in the past.
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Author of "Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs" Johann Hari (@johannhari101) joins me to discuss the origins of the war on drugs and how evidence shows that drug laws don't work.
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Policing Through Sexual Infiltration
“It must be a horrifying experience to discover that your partner is not the person they say they are; that they may have been relaying information provided in confidence ‘on the pillow’, to the state; and that the fundamentals of the...
Michael Loadentha
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More than 12 years after he was detained by the US, Mohamedou Ould Slahi remains locked up in Guantánamo, trapped in a horrific legal limbo. But his extraordinary account, handwritten over 466 pages from his single cell at Camp Echo in 2005, is finally being published after...
Last month, the Zapatistas organized the first World Festival of Rebellion and Resistance Against Capitalism. One participant shares his impressions.
Giovanni Cattaruzza
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Last Friday saw a large defeat for the Drug Warriors. I did not expect such a sweeping change to the forfeiture laws. This video explains the change and also the way that forfeiture illustrates one of the central problems of drug reform.
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You wouldn’t love it if you knew what it was made from. Tell Doritos and PepsiCo to adopt a responsible palm oil policy, and save our rainforests: http://smarturl.it/Doritos
Some Doritos flavours contain palm oil. Doritos' parent company, PepsiCo, buys 427,500 tonnes of palm...
I have mixed emotions about Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For me, it’s a time of hopeful celebration — but also of cautionary vigilance. I celebrate an extraordinary man of courage and conviction and his remarkable achievements and hope that I can behave in a manner that honors...
Abdul-Jabbar
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A discussion on King’s vision of economic justice, and how so little has changed for America’s most oppressed.
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The small pueblo of San Juan la Laguna (Solola, Guatemala) sits on the edge of Lake Atitlan - one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. Unlike most villages on the lake, San Juan plays host to few tourists other than for day-visits, and is home to an exemplary...
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Democracy is dead. It has always been an afflicted creature - hobbling about - wounded at its very being. An enslaving...
Reverend Osagyefo Sekou
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You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct, see this and this.
At the job before the one I have now one of my duties was to take water frozen in red Solo cups and use an ice ball press to press the ice hunk into a ball. It took about a minute a ball. Demand for the ice balls always out-paced my capacity to create them. I was the barback...
Maria Catt
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Guatemala's Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (IMAP) Founder and Maya Kaqchiqel, Ronaldo Lec Ajcot Speaks. Coming soon: Part 2. For full story, including article, please visit www.TomorrowsAncestorsSpeak.org. For more pictures and announcements, like our Facebook page at...
Martin Luther King Jr. had more than “a dream,” but you might not notice that on Monday during observances for his birthday.
Somewhere between his assassination and today began an MLK-neutering campaign meant to turn the famed agitator’s holiday into a national Day of...
Danielle C. Belton
After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket shortly after, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared "a war against terrorism, against jihadism...
Noam Chomsky
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HISTORIA Z ARUNACHAL to edukacyjny film skierowany do młodego widza stworzony przez Marię Strzemieczną - polską pielęgniarkę i socjolog, zajmującą się profilaktyką zdrowotną w Indiach i przez Martushkę Fromeast – polską fotograf i założycielkę Click Academy, wspólnie z grupą...
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स्टोरी फ्रॉम अरुणाचल एक शिक्षाप्रद फ़िल्म है, जिसे पोलैंड की एक नर्स और समाजसेवी मरिया श्रमयत्शना जो की भारतमें स्वास्थ्य सुविधाओं पर काम कर रही है और मरतुषका फ्रॉमईस्ट जो एक फोटोग्राफर और क्लिक एकेड़मी की संस्थापकहै ने अरुणाचल के खिमयंग के एक सरकारी प्राथमिक विद्यालय
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STORY FROM ARUNACHAL is an educational film created by Maria Strzemieczna - Polish nurse and sociologist, who has been working as a part Polish Medical Mission Association on promotion of preventive health care in India and by Martushka Fromeast - photographer and founder of...