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"It was never about crime. Never about MS-13. Always just about hurting less privileged people of color. All at the expense of actually protecting America."
Julia Conley
From June 21st-23rd, a group of 50 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the “Lighthouse”, between kibbutz Be’eri and the border of Gaza, to envision the possibility of change in the Middle East.
13 min
It was about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of Monday, June 25 when armed Federal Protective Service officers returned to the Portland, Oregon office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE personnel had not been back since June 19, when protesters began disallowing easy...
Shane Burley
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful...
140 min
Don Lash, author of When the Welfare People Came: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, looks at the many U.S. policies — past and present — that have separated children from their parents.
Don Lash
Protecting Country is an independently produced film bringing the voices of the contemporary Adnyamathanha, Gurindji, Tanganekald, Yankunytjatjara Anunga, Mirning, Narunnga Aboriginal Australian people forward who are united in their stand AGAINST the present and planned...
40 min
Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation — this is their story.
9 min
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
John Pilger
Most films about Native Americans concentrate on European perspective or indigenous experience in North America, but there are Natives abroad, and our film shares the lives and daily experience of being “loved in the wrong way” in “Indian crazy” Germany. There are many forms...
2 min
In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...
10 min
No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold.
Razan Azzarkani
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
Chris Hedges
This video picks apart the right-wing Day for Freedom video, examines how the alt-lite uses the Streisand Effect to spread its message, and points out that Karl Marx was a champion of free speech.
9 min
“Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement” is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and others.
39 min
2016-17 saw the worst prison riots in decades. Across the country the prisons estate exploded as warned by campaigners and prisoners. The flames of the riots cast a light on the so-called prison crisis. Look hard and you’ll see it’s not that prisons are in crisis, prisons are...
66 min
In 2016, more than 50 bills were introduced in Congress targeting Trans people. Since Trump took office, dozens of pieces of landmark legislation have been cancelled, severely rolling back Trans rights.
22 min
Is all inclusion good inclusion?
Toshio Meronek
In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by “antifa,” a loose international network of radical anti-fascist groups that aims to shut down far-right talks and rallies. For antifa...
Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin
Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...
Alan Nasser
We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.
Joe Brewer
These documentaries expose the ugly truth about war and the governments who wage them. The US government is focused on in this collection because I am based in the US, and it is every citizen's duty to call out and name the crimes of their government.
Tim Hjersted
"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."
Jake Johnson
"While this shows one individual soldier's act, it is made possible by criminal orders from the top that authorized use of lethal force against unarmed protesters that has resulted in hundreds being shot."
Jake Johnson
Peter Joseph speaks at The University of Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.
120 min
Fifty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Left struggles to speak with the kind of moral clarity King exemplified — but that shouldn't stop us from trying.
Robert Greene II
In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.
Eli Friedman and Andi Kao
Randomly shooting into crowds is more than just threatening people with death. It is a means of terrorizing the dissidents.
Juan Cole
Jewish Voice for Peace is horrified by the Israeli response to the #GreatReturnMarch, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Gaza are marching peacefully inside of Gaza. At the time of this writing, at least eight Palestinians have been killed and over 500 injured
Jewish Voice for Peace
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
Paul Buchheit
The Holy Land Foundation Five are Palestinian political prisoners sentenced up to upwards of 65 years in US prison for providing aid to refugees.
25 min
What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a...
23 min
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it’s called Politeness.
7 min
During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...
James Gilligan
What is this world we’ve created for our youth? 7,000 dead to gun violence since 2012?! What is that? The weight that we are leaving for our youth is unbearable to bear witness to, but if we don’t… what kind of world will we have created?
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Researchers found unlikely heroes in keeping the world from authoritarianism - magic mushrooms. Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London showed that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, makes people less likely to embrace...
Paul Ratner
Jordan Peterson: "I was invited to Queen's University March 5 to give the inaugural lecture/discussion of the Liberty Lecture series, funded by Faculty of Law alumnus, Gregory Piasetzki (LLB 1980). Dr. Bruce Pardy (https://law.queensu.ca/faculty-re
106 min
In this video, Zero Books looks at Nina Power’s 2009 feminist Tract “One Dimensional Woman” to find out how the book is holding up seven years later. Was Power right when she suggested that feminists should be perhaps a bit less concerned about representation and more...
9 min
This video will ask the question “Do we live in a patriarchy?” In order to answer the question we examine the ideas of three different cultural critics: Angela Nagle, Jordan Peterson, and Nina Power.
10 min
A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett.
Tim Hjersted
Are your emotional and psychological needs being fulfilled?
Chip Richards
ProPublica obtained chat logs capturing the members and aims of Atomwaffen Division, a notorious white supremacist group. When Sam Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen members cheered the death, concerned...
4 min
South Africa, a former apartheid state, has been vocal in its support for the Palestinian cause against the over 50-year-old Israeli occupation.
teleSUR
The Staging Post follows two Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar and Khadim. Stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they built a community and started the school which inspired a refugee education revolution.
61 min
America, can we talk? Let’s just cut the shit for once and actually talk about what’s going on without blustering and pretending we’re actually doing a good job at adulting as a country right now. We’re not. We’re really screwing this whole society thing up, and we have to do...
Aging Millennial Engineer
On top of overtly genocidal threats, the Trump Administration has announced new terms: that they "will never accept a nuclear North Korea." But, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea already has nuclear weapons. Does that mean a war is imminent?
33 min
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a hugely important kids' show, but for more than you may think.
2 min
The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean...
Patrick Cockburn
As Europe is going through a crisis that is not solely economical but also a crisis of moral values, millions of European citizens demand a response to a crucial question: is water for the European Union a commercial product or a human right? Until today, the European...
59 min
A significant question facing progressives today is whether the use of the term "white privilege" helps or hurts building the kind of solidarity needed to promote racial justice and reverse runaway inequality.
Les Leopold
Matt Bruenig presents a devastating challenge to those who call themselves libertarians, and explains why they have no choice but to deny climate change and other environmental problems.
George Monbiot
Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck. Will...
8 min
“What many failed to understand is that it doesn’t have to be rape to ruin your life, and it doesn’t have to ruin your life to be worth speaking out about,” Samantha notes early on. She closes with a simple request: “Men, if you say you’re a feminist, then fuck like a...
8 min
Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy. Our most visionary...
5 min
Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance--16 year old Ahed Tamimi.
20 min
In 2017, murders of social leaders, union organizers and indigenous activists in Colombia hit a new high since the historic peace agreement. In the past three years, more than 3,000 unionists have been murdered in a disturbing new trend which threatens all social progress.
19 min
We sat down to speak to Artist Shqipe Kamberi in Pristina, Kosovo regarding her recent personal art exhibition titled “Consciousness: Past and Present” displayed at the National Museum of Kosovo. Shqipe began actively pursuing the arts upon graduating from the Academy of Arts...
When the war broke out in Syria, Abdullah had just enrolled in university to study law. The war intensified, and his home town of Dier Ezzor became a major battleground in the fight between Assad's forces, anti-government rebels, and eventually Daesh. Russian and American-led...
42 min
We interview people camping out for the new Iphone X to gain some insight into what it is like sleeping rough on the streets of sydney.
4 min
Learn what fascism is, how fascists think, and what arguments motivate fascists to action. Based on the works of Robert Paxton, including "The Anatomy of Fascism" and "The Five Stages of Fascism." Once you know the mobilizing passions, the prevalence of fascist rhetoric and...
26 min
On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin, and Ilionor Louis