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Israeli Activists: Reject Mandatory Military Service | Interview with Amit Gilutz 6 min
Abby Martin interviews Israeli activist, Amit Gilutz, about why he is urging young Israelis to reject mandatory enlistment in the Israeli Defense Forces.
State of Female Justice: What Makes You Rise? 147 min
In LA, February 6, Flanders hosted a live public event, bringing together women from the movements for racial, economic, environmental and media justice to discuss creating gender justice in our world. This State of Female Justice event is part of a series, developed by...
The alarm clock inaugurates your day. You open your eyes and stare at the roof, stretch your left arm and take the cell phone to turn off the alarm. You deny for a few seconds the fact that today you have to do all as you did yesterday. Notice that this denial does not work...
Ferguson Activists Bring Message of Love and Struggle to Palestine 10 min
A group of activists, artists, musicians and journalists on the frontlines of the struggle against racist policing in the United States traveled to Palestine earlier this month to build on the growing bonds of solidarity
Akala Knowledge Is Power interview 14 min
The artist taxi driver - Great wide ranging interview between the Artist Taxi Driver and Akala. Class struggle, cultural history, and strutural violence are a few topics covered.
In your weekly, admittedly rhetorical WTF-is-wrong-with-this-country turn, it seems cops in South Florida have been using real photos of real black men - bullet-riddled, obviously, when they're done with them - as target practice at their shooting range, an endearing ritual...
“Je suis Charlie. Tout est pardonné.” Muhammad in tears adorns the new cover of Charlie Hebdo: “I am Charlie. All is forgiven.” This is bigger than satire. I take a deep breath, uncertain how to write about last week’s insane shooting spree in Paris. My daughter and her...
France Assaults Free Speech in the Name of Free Speech 5 min
Abby Martin discusses France's hypocritical arrest of 54 French citizens, including a comedian for his controversial social media comments in the wake of a mass demonstration in Paris defending free speech.
Today the World Development Movement has become Global Justice Now. An organisation which has been around for 45 years doesn’t change its name lightly – so why have we done it?
Great Canadian Migrations: The Tar Sands Pipeline 2 min
Join the intrepid naturalist as he follows the greatest of all Canadian migrations: the journey of the tar sands. Say no to the Energy East pipeline proposal here.
How the US Government Made A Dirty Bomb Much More Likely 4 min
The United States government loves scaring us with the idea of a Dirty Bomb. It turns out, however, that they have failed to do the most basic thing necessary to protect us from this horrible scenario: maintain good relations with Russia.
Democracy Needs A None Of The Above Option To Work 4 min
Four videos by NOTA UK on why we need a formal 'None of the Above' (NOTA) option on the ballot paper for all future elections and how to properly implement it.
Second Opinion: Laetrile At Sloan-Kettering 113 min
The War On Cancer, launched in the early 1970s, set the stage for a massive influx of new ideas in fighting the disease of cancer. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, America’s leading cancer research center at the time, was assigned the task of testing an unconventional...
Lucent 106 min
Commonly referred to as "the Australian Earthlings", Lucent is a feature-length documentary which explores the darker side of Australia's pig farming industry through a combination of hand-held and hidden camera footage, highlighting the day-to-day cruelty accepted by the...
I WANT TO SAY 27 min
I Want to Say is a 27-minute documentary short, produced by Goodby Silverstein & Partners and production company Bodega, that tells the story of Hacking Autism, a newly adopted Autism Speaks initiative devoted to unlocking the voices of children with autism through technology.
Working for the Water, the Environment, and Indigenous Rights! The Tomorrow's Ancestors Speak project (www.TomorrowsAncestorsSpeak.org) is based on the aw
COMPASSION AND EMPATHY IS SORELY LACKING IN TOO MANY PEOPLE As a person who has been on the brink of homelessness and joblessness before, and who knows there are many who land in those situations despite their best efforts to prevent it from happening to them, I wrote...
Anishinabeg Elder Chief Al Baker Talks About The Water and Humanities Relationship to Nature 8 min
Please go to 2:15 min mark to skip the introduction and go straight to Chief Al Baker's message.
Mayan Elder Paula López Domingo Speaks About the Water and Humanities Relationship with Nature 7 min
In this short video, the Tomorrow's Ancestors Speak team visits Tecpán, Guatemala to receive the messages of Mayan Elder, Paula López Domingo. As a Mayan, she represents one of the four peoples of Guatemala that the Tomorrow's Ancestors Speak team has visited with - the Maya...
CONTENTS PREFACE 1. SOME OPERATING ASSUMPTIONS 2. GETTING STARTED — IDENTIFY THE
To Change Everything, Start Everywhere 8 min
To Change Everything, Start Everywhere! The case for complete self-determination—a guide for the furious, the curious, and the pure of heart.
Immigration, Racism in Sport and the Rise of Extremism - Cantona Shares His views 8 min
A football legend to some, a “king” even for most Manchester United fans, Eric Cantona is also a talented actor and film-maker. Euronews’ Diego Giuliani caught up with him in Lyon, where Cantona presented his latest documentary,"Football and immigration - a 100
On January 3, Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has been terrorizing northern Nigeria since 2009, razed and massacred the town of Baga and other villages on the country's border with Chad. The ongoing occupation of the town and ravaging of the countryside makes it hard to...
Why McDonald's Is McF*cked | Weapons of Mass Distraction 5 min
Abby Martin discusses a new ad put out by McDonald's that uses tragic events to sell big Macs, and why this is just the latest egregious act the fast food giant has committed. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
You Say You Want An Islamic Reformation? 3 min
Some claim that what the Middle East really needs is an "Islamic Reformation". They seem to misunderstand what a violent mess the Protestant Reformation actually was. This video explains...
Defenders of the Spirit Forest 26 min
Defenders of the Spirit Forest is a film set in the rainforests of Cambodia. The Cardamom mountains are a remaining jewel of biodiversity in a country where forests are dwindling fast. Still home to rare species like the Siamese crocodile and Asian elephant, the forest is...
I am not Charlie Hebdo. I am with Charlie Hebdo. Since the Charlie Hebdo murders: The severed head and entrails of a boar were left outside of an Islamic prayer center in Corsica. A note read: “Next time it will be one of your heads.” Shots were fired into an empty...
Dear friends, last week, a horrid assault was perpetrated against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, who had published caricatures of Mohamed, by men who screamed that they had “avenged the prophet”. A wave of compassion followed but apparently died shortly afterward and all...
Charlie Hebdo: Does Fox News Terrorise Us? 9 min
Russell Brand The Trews (E232). I look at the extreme way Fox News reacted to the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. Subscribe Here Now: http://tinyurl.com/opragcg and send links to video news items of topical stories that you'd like me to analyse.
In tribute to Charlie Hebdo, we select our favourite radical publications which challenge authority with every issue. Charlie Hebdo’s willingness to offend traces its way back to France’s radical post-war activists and intellectuals who helped ignite the student revolts of...
The Penalty - How Much Are Executions Costing you? 2 min
Do you know how much the death penalty is costing you? The Penalty is a 90-minute feature-length documentary from the award-winning Webby-nominated team behind One For Ten. Lifting the lid on America's modern death penalty, the film examines the human cost of the ultimate...
Alan Heeks explores the pathways that can take us from the ‘old story’ of addictive materialism into a new, creative and regenerative post-industrial society.
Fannie Lou Hamer Tells Her Story 1963 1 min
Mississippi civil right leader Fannie Lou Hamer tells her story in 1963. A clip from the documentary film ""We'll Never Turn Back" by Harvey Richards. Available through the Harvey Richards Media Archive, at http://www.estuarypress.com/civil_rights_films.html
In Plum Village, where I live in France, we receive many letters from the refugee camps in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, hundreds each week. It is very painful to read them, but we have to do it, we have to be in contact. We try our best to...
Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy 3 min
Dr. Gabor Maté explains why it is that our culture makes so many of us unhappy, unkind to one another, miserable, alienated from ourselves, etc. Watch the full interview in Part 2.
Set Her Free 3 min
Three refugee women speak out about their experiences of detention in the UK. This film was first shown in Westminster in January 2014 to launch Women for Refugee Women's report on women asylum seekers and detention. Please go to www.refugeewomen.co.uk for more information.
Why Wall Street Wants You to Talk About the One Percent 4 min
The US financial sector is a tremendous problem that needs solving. We keep sabotaging our fight against it by using inexact rhetoric, however. This video attempts to improve our approach.
When every cultural force beckons us to hate, to harden our hearts and vilify the other, we must have the courage to look, deeply, with an intention to understand.
The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was not about free speech. It was not about radical Islam. It did not illustrate the fictitious clash of civilizations. It was a harbinger of an emerging dystopia where the wretched of the...
After the Paris massacre, European governments should resist narratives of civilizational conflict and push for a ceasefire in the Syrian war. The recent attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left a dozen editors and cartoonists dead, has renewed...
A Sustainable Death 3 min
What do you want to happen to your body after you die?
Exposing the 'Unidentified Queen of Torture' | Interview with Ray Nowosielski 6 min
Abby Martin interviews Ray Nowosielski, a reporter and filmmaker, about one of the chief CIA officers involved in misleading Congress about the nature of the agency's torture program, Alfreda Frances Bikowsky.
Paris Attacks: Not About Islam or Free Speech | Weapons of Mass Distraction 6 min
Abby Martin goes over the most outrageous responses to the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and why the clash of civilizations mentality when it comes to these type of acts is so misleading.
How Do You Ask Someone About Their Race? 2 min
Ever been asked, "So... what are you?" Here's how to throw self-censorship out the window and open up a deeper conversation.
Schooling Rudy Giuliani on Black on Black Crime 3 min
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has recently been in the public eye for denying that there is anything wrong with US policing. Today we (sort of) interview him, and present him with some basic facts...
At the outset of 2015, a glance across Europe shows that left-wing parties are likely to gain significant ground in this year's elections. Yet despite five years of austerity here, things aren't as sunny for the left in Britain as
When Organics Goes Bad 2 min
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Permaculture Design 1 min
www.geofflawton.com - A free series of Permaculture Design videos by Geoff Lawton, world renowned Permaculture designer, teacher and consultant reveals how to not only survive the coming crisis with Permaculture Design but how to build abundance on your land.
More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found myself standing on a bridge at midnight, staring into a man’s eyes for exactly four...
Ethnic Notions 5 min
Ethnic Notions is Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the...
My Call For Humanity | Spoken Word 6 min
It is no longer acceptable to live an unfulfilling life, or participate in habits which cause degeneration in health, the environment, and/or relationships.
Our current democratic models are crumbling and outdated. We need to make something more real and meaningful. Activist and politician Birgitta Jónsdóttir points to how it might be done.
American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They routinely contaminate homes and classrooms and drinking water. A growing chorus of doctors...
Charlie Hebdo and the Clash of Civilizations 4 min
We are all still processing the horrific crimes of January 7, 2015. Our response has mostly been inspiring, but in some small ways it has been exactly what the killers wanted. This video looks into that a little further.
Reach Out: A Film about Mental Health Awareness 2 min
www.jamun.net | [email protected] Saarthak - a Mental Health Organisation and The Hans Foundation asked us to make a film that helps raise awareness about Mental Health. The film explores the inner and outer struggles of people living with Mental Illness and that with support...
ACE Study Presentation-Frank W. Putnam, MD 20 min
ACE Study Presentation-Frank W. Putnam, M.D. (ACE = Adverse Childhood Experiences) one of the most important epidemological studies of our time. So what did the ACE study do?
In this 50th anniversary year of the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act it helped inspire, national media will focus on the iconic images of “Bloody Sunday,” the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the interracial marchers, and President Lyndon Johnson...
It’s past time to wake up, America, and look around Americans who live abroad -- more than six million of us worldwide (not counting those who work for the U.S. government) -- often face hard questions about our country from people we live among. Europeans
A comics report by Stephanie McMillan about two movements that converged on Washington DC, Stop the Machine and Occupy DC.
Hidden Valley 22 min
A people speak out for their river, and for their future The Hidden Valley gold and silver mine in the Morobe Province is affecting communities living along the Watut River, a long and fast-flowing river in the lush mountains of Papua New Guinea. In this evocative and...
The Beheading of Michael Turpin (Fogo) 2 min
On Fogo Island, in the town of Tilting, there’s a trail that wraps around the coastal part of the community. Here, yellow hills meet rocky cliffs that meet the ocean. It’s a windy stretch of land, but the trail, exposed as it is, is a fine one to walk. It’s called Turpin’s...
How capitalism functions like a religion
Structural Violence 2 min
Structural violence kills more people every year than terrorism, religious extremism, crime or war.
Understarding bullies through comedy - [Key & Peele] 2 min
One school bully is surprisingly in touch with his emotions.
The ship plows on with groaning sails, with a heave and a shove, like a fat man shouldering through a crowd. The motion is surprisingly stop-and-go, without ever really stopping, or quite going. In the open cockpit we’ve just been holding on and talking about flotsa
DEBTOCRACY 75 min
For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media.
Catastroika 88 min
It was at the beginning of 1989 when the French academic Jacques Rupnik sat at his desk, in order to prepare a report on the state of the economic reforms in Mikhail Gorbatsov's Soviet Union. The term that he used in describing the death rattle of the empire was...
The Super-Rich and Us 113 min
BBC documentary in which Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain.
Dominican Republic - What They Don't Want You to See 5 min
Dominican Republic is not all beaches and resorts. There is a different DR that most people don't know about. This short Doc gives you a glimpse into a hidden Dominican reality, with the story of Maria Santos, a missionary who is trying to make a difference.
An environmental activist who was sentenced to 19 years in prison as an “eco-terrorist” was released from prison today following a court ruling where the government acknowledged withholding evidence during his trial. Eric McDavid was convicted on conspiracy charges in 2007...
Love of stuff will make you unhappy: You know this, and in case you forget, there is probably, somewhere, some version of A Christmas Carol playing on television right now to remind you. But in a release from the American Psychological Association, psychology professor Tim...
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret 90 min
The World's largest environmental organizations are failing to address the single most destructive force facing the planet today. Follow the shocking, yet humorous journey of an aspiring environmentalist as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing...
"STAYING INDIAN IN OHIO" 32 min
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Chris Hayes Spoofs White Power Structure, Has No Clue How To Stop Culture Of White On White Violence 7 min
Riffing off an article by Gawker columnist Cord Jefferson yesterday, Jefferson and MSNBC host Chris Hayes satirized the right's concern with "black on black violence," rolling footage of a recent "surf riot" from Huntington Beach and asking when "the white community would...
The recent attack on the headquarters of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo was devastating, underscoring violent times under the treacherous shadow of terrorism. We must take care not to lace our grief with hate, vengeance and more violence by misconstruing our...
Charlie Hebdo: Why I'm optimistic and what the media isn't saying 7 min
Irshad Manji has a very different interpretation of the shooting at Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper based in Paris. She tells us why she's optimistic even in the face of so much fear.
There is no “but” about what happened at Charlie Hebdo. Some people published some cartoons, and some other people killed them for it.  Words and pictures can be beautiful or vile, pleasing or enraging, inspiring or offensive; but they exist on a different plane from physical...
The ‘Robin Hood of the Banks’ strikes again. This time the aim is to create a worldwide cooperative to develop and expand a new economy of the commons.
The fear of freedom 11 min
This short film intends to show the reality of modern society using a metaphor.
Sharif and Said Kouashi, the two brothers for whom the French police are searching, were born in Paris of Algerian parents, Mokhtar et Freiha Méguireche, according
'If this attack is allowed to feed discrimination and prejudice, it will be playing straight into the hands of extremists whose clear aim is to divide religions and societies.' As people across France and around the world mourn the death of the twelve people killed at the...
Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? A 800 Year Fight for Public Goods 26 min
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, and this weeks show marks that occasion with a discussion on the rights of the commons with author Peter Linebaugh. We also visit a community center in Caracas, and hear from youth voices about life and...
Just a Little Racist? Try Diet Racism! 2 min
A video that will result in absolutely no discussion on Facebook!
The UK is leading one global race: it is the only G7 country in which wealth inequality has increased steadily since 2000. Seemingly unaffected by the financial crisis or subsequent recession, our recent report finds
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
How Prisons Rip Off and Exploit the Incarcerated 30 min
Eddie Conway and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges discuss the forms of slavery and exploitation thriving in today's U.S. prison system.
Many journalists at the offices of Charlie Hebdo have been murdered by bampots brandishing
For generations, white households have enjoyed far greater access to wealth and security than their black counterparts. As protesters march through our cities to remind us that black lives matter, grievances about our racially fractured society extend far beyond flashpoints...
New research first of its kind to identify specific national reserves that must remain untapped A groundbreaking new study is confirming what green campaigners have long argued: in order to stave off climate disaster, the majority of fossil fuel deposits around the...
Yes, Charlie Hebdo was a magazine that delighted in controversy and provocation. Yes, it skewered religion and took joy in giving offense. Yes, the magazine knowingly antagonized extremists — Charlie Hebdo's web site had been hacked and its offices firebombed before today...
Inside The Private Prison Industry: An Interview With Christopher Petrella 23 min
Majority Report producer Michael Brooks interviews journalist Christopher Petrella, covering the power of the private prison industry, why private prisons are working to be reclassified as real estate holding companies, who the biggest players in the private prison business...
To Prison For Poverty by Brave New Films 15 min
Part one features the story of Hali Wood, a seventeen-year-old from Columbiana, Alabama who is deeply in debt to the private probation company, JCS. Part two introduces us to  Kathleen Hucks, a woman suing Sentinel Corrections Services for their abuse of power.
The Cost Of Racism To White America - John H. Bracey 50 min
In his lecture, Professor John H. Bracey, Jr. examines how racism and white entitlement have economic costs for all Americans, starting at the 7 minute mark. Professor Bracey is a member of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American studies at Umass. This lecture includes...
The attack on Charlie Hebdo is the worst case of targeted killings of journalists ever recorded in Europe and is matched only by the massacre five years ago of 32 journalists and other media workers, by 100 armed men who attacked an election convoy in Mindanao in the Philippines.
Who Can We Run To? 3 min
Hard hitting music video for Who Can We Run To by Samantha "3D Na'Tee" James focuses on police brutality, white supremacy and institutional racism in the US.
Inequality For All 90 min
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and former Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy.
Joyce and Herman - 8 min
Animator Keston Neunie records his Grand Parents talking about arriving in England on the Windrush and early struggles for West Indians in the country. We need to immortalize our relativ
Second Chances -- Union Made 57 min
"Second Chances -- Union Made," This documentary tells the story of former criminal gang members and prison inmates who became successful, productive workers through their participation in building trades apprenticeship programs in Los Angeles. The workers told how the...
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