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Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.
Matt Bruenig
27 min
Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it.
5 min
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
This unexpected alliance between slaves and natives is a great model for social change
Jacob Devaney
5 min
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
As Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable suffering at the hands of Israelis, there are some old bromides that are constantly being hurled at an unsuspecting public by elected U.S. officials, in order to justify U.S. financing of that suffering. Let us look at just a...
Robert Fantina
8 min
Bernie Sanders talks about the one issue the billionaire class wants us to avoid discussing.
2 min
Made to coincide with the third anniversary of conflict (in March 2014), let us stand #WithSyria features artwork from Banksy and is narrated by Idris Elba with exclusive music from Elbow.
8 min
A beautifully told tale of a couple living peacefully in the countryside until one day an explosion rocks their world.
18 min
Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about what’s possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
28 min
The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
"With a swelling slave population, the masters faced the prospect of white freedmen with disappointed hopes joining forces with slaves of desperate hope to mount ever more virulent rebellions. The elites’ race strategy decreased the probability of such class rebellions. The...
Thandeka
15 min
Refugees are fleeing their homes by the thousands, risking their families' lives to try to find a way out of the violence. Most see Europe as a beacon of hope. We've sent a team to Budapest, Hungary, to follow a group of refugees on their journey.
7 min
This is a documentary of the struggle to survive and heal in war while bringing to life a better society. Kobane has had about 80% of its infrastructure destroyed and has been largely cutoff from aid and supplies. While struggling to cope with the military and civilian...
The number of people displaced by wars fuelled by the west and its allies has reached a staggering new high.
Ben Norton
From The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy:
Will Shetterly and Thandeka
As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, has released a new booklet to teach young people "the right facts" -
Abby Zimet
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
Ryan Calhoun
2 min
Tens of thousands of people have attended candlelight vigils across Australia in support of refugees, adding their voices to the growing pressure on Australia to accept more people who are fleeing the war in Syria.
As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions of Asylum seeking refugees in urgent...
Otto Scharmer
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit
The refugee crisis in Europe is showing that humans helping each other, irrespective of national boundaries, is often the most effective form of action.
Jonathan Davis
Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well.
Michael Todd Landis
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow
6 min
Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film covers the current issues faced by trans people in the US. Please watch, like...
Do you despair when people fleeing war, poverty and disasters are met with hostility or indifference? Fed up with the dispassionate and downright inhumane response from governments and the media? You're not alone. Citizens of many countries are taking direct action to help...
2 min
Hungary plans to build a very long fence to keep migrants out. Thousands of asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and beyond are streaming into the EU via Hungary.
Was the catalyst for the current conflict in Syria a drought caused by anthropogenic climate change?
Written by Audrey Quinn, Illustrated by Jackie Roche
3 min
When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and dangerous by many Americans. Now executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and part...
33 min
The detention of migrants has become a multi-billion dollar industry in which immigrants are sold to the highest bidder and traded like mere products. The Corrections Corporation of America, The Geo Group, and the Management and Training Corporation run over 200 facilities...
3 min
After the tragic crisis in Syria, more than half of all Syrians have left their homes. Where are they?
In the 1970s, women from the Indian subcontinent who migrated to the UK to join their spouses were routinely subjected to virginity testing examinations. A poet and a filmmaker from Bristol, UK have made a short film, Borders, about the women's experience.
15 min
This year's gay marriage ruling was a milestone, but LGBT discrimination is still surprisingly legal. John Oliver explains why we need a federal anti-discrimination law.
As the democratic socialist from Vermont tries to do the impossible, the firebrand academic could help.
Matthew Pulver
The word migrant has become a largely inaccurate umbrella term for this complex story.
Barry Malone
3 min
In the summer of 2014, the Gaza strip was ravaged by an Israeli military operation that lasted 50 days. This hugely disproportionate conflict saw the Gaza strip devastated, with entire neighbourhoods left in ruins. The UN has said "the extent of the devastation and human...
Addressing income inequality is important, but worsening economic segregation has far more compounding effects.
Richard Florida
It is highly beneficial for Europe to have a uniform migration policy. The Union must accept the reality that the massive movements will not stop, and setting up a fortress is not a sustainable solution.
Away from the xenophobic hysteria aimed at desperate immigrants are people taking steps to help newcomers and promote the good things they bring
Various
3 min
Thom Hartmann says white people need to understand black people have suffered 400 years of genocide and the murders continue today. This is why members of the Black Lives Matter movement are disrupting campaign events.
9 min
As refugees and asylum seekers continue to pour into Germany, supporters face off against a surging tide of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim protesters.
Over the past couple of weeks, @DMReporter and I (@BestoftheMail) have been getting more and more aghast by the tone of some of the coverage of the migration in Europe. This is especially apparent in newspaper comment sections where it now seems that literally anything...
Daily Mail Comments (@BestoftheMail)
52 min
As Africa looks desperately for leaders of integrity and vision, the life and ideals of the late Thomas Sankara seem more and more relevant and exemplary with the passage of time. This new film should go a long way towards explaining why, though largely forgotten in this...
3 min
There is a group of people in the world today who are more persecuted than anyone else, but they are not political or religious activists. They are girls. Being born a girl means you are more likely to be subjected to violence, disease, poverty and disadvantage than any other...
11 min
This powerful video by Matthew Cooke pulls together disparate stands to create the story of how the ruling class divides people in order to keep them enslaved.
5 min
LIVING THINKERS examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today.
3 min
Where do black women activists fit into the epochal struggles for equality and liberation during the 1960s and 70s? This feature-length documentary unearths the story of black women’s political marginalization—between the male-dominated Black Power movement and second wave...
2 min
The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. And its unique history is shaped by, and inseparable from, assertions of national identity...
3 min
Private Violence explores a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. Every day in the U.S., at least four women are murdered by abusive (and often, ex-) partners.
10 min
The Supreme Price is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father's victory in Nigeria's Presidential Election...
Here are 50 documentaries, short films and other videos that focus on women's issues, perspectives and struggles. We're hoping to expand this list over time so feel free to share links to anything we missed via our contact page. Thanks!
Sandra Bland, who died while in police custody in Texas, has emerged as a martyr, illuminating police violence against black women in a way that is finally resonating across the country.
Kirsten West Savali
On July 9, soon after Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman, moved to Texas from Naperville, Illinois, to take a new job as a college outreach officer at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M, she was pulled over by the police for failing to signal while making a lane...
Henry A. Giroux
Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusing to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be “like” us. When we fail to see the “other’s” humanity, we ascribe to all of them ugly characteristics that somehow justify treating...
Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis
The crisis of incarceration this nation now faces demands people of faith act with swift and fierce moral authority to transform, not just reform, an irreparably broken system. It demands that all of us—clergy, seminarians, teachers, and people in pews, mosques and temples—...
Janis Rosheuvel and Lissette Castillo Vizcarra and Pastor Lilian Amaya
2 min
The Palestinian village of Susiya is about to bulldozed after Israel's high court recently rejected an injunction to stop the demolition. People have been fighting the demolition for decades.
4 min
Malian-French soul pop singer Inna Modja shares the music video for “Tombouctou,” her latest single off the upcoming Motel Bamako album. The visuals, shot in Bamako at Malick Sidibé‘s studio, follow the aesthetic of the iconic Malian
120 min
A feature-length, multi-award winning documentary by Alanis Obomsawin set in the thick of the armed confrontation between Mohawks and Canadian government forces during the 1990 standoff in the Mohawk village of Kanehsatake near the village of Oka in Quebec. The two-and-a-half...
6 min
The elaborate myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.
5 min
One year on, the children of Gaza still face suffering and trauma. Jon Snow has returned to the territory on the anniversary of the conflict. He found children scavenging in the ruins of a mosque destroyed in last year's bombardment.
4 min
Together with Amnesty International, Forensic Architects from University of London have embarked on an extraordinary and ambitious scientific project - The Gaza Platform. Its the most comprehensive database ever build on what happened during the Gaza conflict 2014. The...
2 min
As the UK Government launch their latest round of austerity measures, they admit that disabled people who get finance support will most likely be affected and, in order to lower the number of children in poverty, rather than taking any meaningful steps they are just changing...
Does privilege theory offer an adequate lens to challenge oppression and help those it is intended to help?
3 min
"There are no bullets, but it's a war in which people are dying... And the principle weapon, is debt."
This clip is taken from the beginning of the film War By Other Means (1992), by John Pilger. Watch the full documentary online here. It may be over 2 decades old, but it...
4 min
MIT's Phil Thompson explains how the struggles against slavery and Jim Crow were not just about reaffirming human rights, but also about transforming the economy.
What would happen if the United States suddenly stopped building walls and instead flung open its borders, not unlike the European Union has done among the member countries of the common market? Conservatives malign the notion and liberals, even radical ones, haven't exactly...
Roque Planas
In February, 2009, then Attorney General Eric Holder, in an address at the Department of Justice to commemorate Black History Month, said we in the United States were “a nation of cowards” when it comes to an honest conversation about race. He continued to speak about the...
Valerie Elverton Dixon
'There’s a perception that whiteness is working for white people. It’s not. Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated.'
Quinn Norton
I was a very poor 16-year-old so, as you can imagine, having a car was out of the question. Wherever I needed to go, I walked -- which was not always pleasant on a Florida summer day.
It was on one of those hot days, while walking to the corner store, that a red truck slowed...
Benjamin O'Keefe
4 min
Most American cities are full of breasts. They are everywhere: On billboards. On storefronts. On
25 min
Signs of overt racism still are all around us, be it a New Hampshire police commissioner’s use of an ethnic slur to describe President Obama or an NBA team owner’s disturbing remarks about black athletes and fans. By now, we all know the drill, the media calls these people...
Dear friends, We don't need more conversations about race, we need conversations about white supremacy and how to end it.
Clare Bayard
3 min
Archbishop Desmond Tutu exposes the Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. Archbishop Tutu connects the struggles of black South Africa with the struggles of the Palestinians.
15 min
The US Senate Torture Report revealed horrifying details of America's interrogation program. Helen Mirren will fill you in. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
This pamphlet gives an excellent analysis and debunking of conspiracy theories and proposes a practical alternative for emancipation.
Will, Chino, Saudade, Mamos
My Poem to friends that have responded to the Texas Pool Party with ignorance and arrogance
Happy Basic Income Day? May 1st may be better known as International Workers' Day, but some activists are trying to rebrand it. "Labor Day should not be about demanding ‘more jobs’ or higher wages," the official Basic Income Day website explains. "Labor Day should be about...
Dylan Matthews
3 min
BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, has gained momentum across American college campuses. In response, anti-BDS efforts have also intensified. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing an "offensive" against boycott efforts...
Dear Everyday Sexist,
Alia Al Ghussain
Prisons should not be profit centers
Mary Turck
18 min
John Oliver explains why America's bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system.
In record numbers, people are escaping regions plagued by warfare, instability, disasters, poverty, or systemic persecution. The United Nations announced last year that forced displacement had topped 50 million globally, and early tracking indicates that number may increase...
Alan Taylor
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures
Justin Elliott and Laura Sullivan
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
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
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
6 min
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...
After a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean, thousands of migrants arrive in Sicily every week. These are their stories.
Photographs by Gideon Mendel - Interviews by Alessandra Bonomolo
Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture
Hannah Devlin
No one should ever work.
Bob Black
A father from Ivory Coast wanted to reunite his son with the rest of his family living in Spain. But the Spanish government denied him a family reunification visa. Desperate, he paid a Moroccan woman to smuggle his 8-year-old onto Spanish soil. On May 7, 2015, she attempted...
Sonali Kolhatkar
1 min
Private prison companies claim they can house, feed, and monitor inmates more cost effectively than state governments and so there you have it-- they win big contracts.
25 min
A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer’s Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60...
Advocates say that resolution in Chicago must be placed in the 'broader context of ongoing and endemic police violence.'
Lauren McCauley
My Home, My Land is a graphic representation of much of the Oakland Institute's work on land grabs. Illustrated by the Institute's Intern Scholar, Abner Hauge, this publication dismantles the many myths promoted by so-called donor countries, development agencies, and...
Illustrated by Abner Hauge
On March 26, without much fanfare or attention from U.S. media, the Spanish government ended freedom of assembly. In the face of popular opposition (80 percent of Spaniards oppose it), the upper house passed the Citizens’ Security Law. Under the provision, which goes into...
Willie Osterweil
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
I sometimes wonder if satire has reached a nadir in Britain because British society has itself become a parody of itself. The
Frankie Boyle
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