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John Oliver, the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, announced on Sunday that he had bought back and forgiven $15m of medical debt. Oliver announced the giveaway during a 20-minute segment on the 'grimey business' of debt collection.
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One in every four Americans experiences mental illness, and lack of police understanding can lead to tragedy. Here’s what could happen if we were all trained to deal with depression and anxiety.
Jasleena Grewal
The campaigns to improve our lot under capitalism are endless. Once one form of oppression is dealt with, there’s always another left to tackle, but while engaging in that new fight, the former is bound to return because no progress is ever permanent under capitalism. Rights...
Paris Marx
They found this refugee baby floating out at sea, reminding many of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old whose body was found washed up on the beach.
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For the past twenty years, I have been carrying out experiments to find out how power is distributed in groups. I have infiltrated college dorms and children’s summer camps to document who rises in power. I have brought entire sororities and fraternities into the lab...
Dacher Keltner
For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy—while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with meaningful work, loving relationships, and a thriving natural world.
Sarah van Gelder
In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked for hugs and boys joked about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?
Jessica Valenti
All over France people are rising up. A clip from the film Network is followed by footage of the protests, strikes and riots sweeping across France. Read more here.
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The set of ideas we can call Romanticism is responsible for making our relationships extremely difficult. We shouldn’t give up on love; we should just recognize that it’s more a skill we can actively practice, and less an emotion that we have no control over.
5 min
To defeat the current upsurge in right-wing populism, progressives will need to disrupt, defuse, and – critically – compete for portions of its constituency.
Tarso Luís Ramos
This is my body is a spoken word piece by Agnes Torok, a commentary on people judging, grabbing and commenting on her body. She talks about the all the incredible things she can do with her body and how she shouldn't be seen as a sex object. Support Agnes is her work here.
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The Daily Show look beyond the campaign trail rhetoric to find out what Donald Trump had to say about poor people and women before he was trying to become President.
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These days, feminism is on fleek. Touted by everyone from Dove to Barbie to Taylor Swift, consumer capitalism has made feminism sexy, fun, cool—and remarkably easy to claim as your own. But the price tag has been the meaning of the movement itself.
Marcie Bianco
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I’m eleven years old. I’m in the deep end of a swimming pool, small wet hands fastened on to the pool ladder. My instructor bends over.
“Let go,” she says.
“I will,” I tell her.
“Let go now.”
Priya
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter
Feeling trapped on the corporate ladder? You’re not alone… our work culture has become uncaring, toxic and rather dangerous to our well-being.
Sigmund Fraud
Artist Grayson Perry explores contemporary masculinity, visiting ultra-male worlds to explore the changing lives and expectations of men in Britain today, and reflecting on his own prejudices and identity.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn
I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer
I used to get made fun of for my big front teeth. Once, when I got home from school, I found my mom’s nail file and tried to file them down. The edge of the nail file caught on my lip after I sawed away for a few minutes and punctured a hole in my cheek. I sat there, crying...
Rosemary Donahue
For the first time in his life, Daniel Blake, a fifty-nine-year-old British carpenter, is obliged to apply for welfare after suffering heart problems. Although his doctor has put him on sick leave and told him he mustn't work, he is obliged to go job-hunting or else he'll be...
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Masculinity is having a moment — but it's not a good one.
Alex Mierjeski
How to be there for the people who need you most
Heather Plett
When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone.
Kostadin Kushlev
We have been told a great lie about capitalism — that everyone who works hard in life will be successful, make a lot of money, and have a good life.
Joe Brewer
There's so much pressure on us to be always rational, calm and sensible: it's time also to say a word about the essential normality of a little madness.
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When talking about refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who - just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals... Only when you sit down...
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Is it weird to call Captain America an anarchist? Yes, yes it is. Of course, there’s a ton of different versions of the character throughout the canon, from the hyperpatriotic and jingoistic to the I-hereby-renounce-my-US-citi...
Sadie the Goat
Kate Tempest performs her poem 'Progress' on Austrailian TV show Q&A.
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The façade of democracy and the disempowerment of the citizenry by corporations has sparked a nationwide revolt. Elites, fearing unrest, will soon become ruthless. We must engage now in acts of sustained civic mobilization and civil disobedience or be crushed.
Chris Hedges
Death can be very painful and confusing. This is true for economic systems just as it is for personal loved ones. Moving on is just a hard thing to do.
It’s really tough to work through all the difficult feelings we have about loss. Will I see my grandmother again? What am I...
Joe Brewer
Cathy Newman's full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America's foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
17 min
Last weekend, Nuit Debout’s international working group organized two days of assemblies and action planning on the Place de la République in Paris. Some hundred people came from all over Europe and beyond to get to know this new movement in one of the heartlands of the...
Manuela Zechner
After hearing a 19th-century African-American song, Dr. Maya Angelou has never forgotten one important lyric: God put a rainbow in the clouds. Watch as Dr. Angelou shares how she honors those who employed kindness to help her, and find out how, she says, we can all "be a...
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“The biggest casualty of humanity is the lack of communication, it’s the thing that breaks most relationships. It just feels so much better to talk and get it out.”
5 min
Truly Inspiring speech by Jim Carrey.
2 min
Depression and anxiety are rising rapidly among young people: what’s going on?
William Davies
Here's what happened when a group of women performed 'The Vagina Monologues' in an all-male prison.
2 min
Nuit Debout ("Rise up at night") is a French social movement that emerged from opposition to the 2016 neoliberal labour reforms known as the "Loi Travail," and began on the 31st March 2016.
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Every bold advancement of progress in the United States is met by a racist backlash, says Steven Thrasher. So, he argues, it would make complete sense if Donald Trump became the next president. Until 2043, when America is mostly non-white, true political revolution will not come.
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Lisa Mckenzie, Jason Williamson and others discuss class inequality and prejudice in austerity Britain. Taken from the feature documentary Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain.
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The film Richard is a portrait of wandering piano tuner Richard Roberts while he explores the adventures of living without a fixed address. He classes himself as working homeless – a growing group who sleep rough by night, but then get up in the morning to go to work. Richard...
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The media is wrong to characterise the issues surrounding the thousands of people attempting to travel into Europe as a ‘migrant crisis’, according to a briefing released today by campaign group Global Justice Now. Instead, attention should be drawn to the multiple crises...
Global Justice Now
With a house that was starting to wear down and energy bills that were going up, Dawn McInnes recognized she and her two sons were living on the edge of fuel poverty.
10 min
"Boundaries" draws attention to the oppression of male entitlement that women feel on a daily basis in everyday life.
Amanda Froelich
We are the disgruntled royalty, ungrateful, because we're ignorant of our grand status.
14 min
Men of the world, women would like to thank you for your advice.
3 min
Our mission is to enlighten and educate the general population about the grassroots issues of poverty and homelessness in Chicago, the US and abroad, and tell the story from the inside out.
41 min
Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of protest policing, a set of strategies developed in the wake of 9/11 to preempt forms of mass protest at major events in the US and worldwide. The film tracks the development of the Miami model...
42 min
Where's the just ice?
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When Johnny Perez spent three years in solitary confinement, his only human contact was a correctional officer who slid cold food through a metal slot in his door. He argues that this treatment takes away prisoners’ humanity, damages their mental health and makes it harder...
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The world is a pretty screwed up place. So how do we fix it when we ourselves are broken? This is the question that rarely gets asked — and it is a keystone piece of the solution to all the global crises in the world.
Global Warming? Can’t fix that and create healthy...
Joe Brewer
Capitalism is having a laugh at our expense. Surely that is the only reasonable explanation for the current shamelessness of Britain’s corporate elite. Having survived the financial crisis without the public, armed with pitchforks, hammering on their doors, perhaps they now...
Owen Jones
"Let's face it, America doesn't have a race problem, it has a race system. It's not broken, it's designed to work against you."
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Off the Cut provides unique insight into a community of boaters living on the Kennet and Avon canal. The film follows a family on their pedal powered boat as they embark on a journey in which their way of life, and that of the whole community, comes under threat.
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About six months ago, I wrote a post titled 6 Toxic Habits that Most People Think Are Normal. It became very successful. A lot of people commented and a lot of people shared and big grown-up websites who get paid to post smart grown-up things asked me if they could copy/paste...
Mark Manson
Feminist porn is sex on film showing women and men as sexual equals - that sex is something you do together, not just something that a man does to a woman
Harriet Williamson
I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends recently — in private where they felt comfortable letting their guard down — about the dirty little secret no one is supposed to talk about.
The shame people feel when they can’t find a job…
…or pay their bills.
…or go to the...
Joe Brewer
Britain is still a society deeply divided by class. The same schools, established church and universities dominate public life, but under the façade of immobility, changes are afoot.
Danny Dorling
Sometimes when you are living within a system of oppression it is difficult to even see that the system exists, let alone imagine alternative ways of living and organising. Thankfully the system of capitalism, and its coke-fuelled cousin neoliberalism, that dominates the...
Emma Lindsay responds to an all too common argument about women’s responsibilities with respect to alcohol and rape
Emma Lindsay
Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.
Joe Brewer
We should all be able to afford a home in an area we want to live. But for many of us in the UK, with prices spiralling way beyond incomes, this isn’t a reality.
Instead, finding somewhere to live can often feel like a game.
Why is this? And who are we actually playing...
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Why do we need libraries, I hear you cry, when there is THE INTERNET? Well, the thing about the internet is that it'll only show you what's most popular, not what is BEST.
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Thrilled to announce that this film won 1st Prize for Long Documentary Category at the Danish Press Awards in March 2017!!!
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The One Thing You Should Know; Before You Die...
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Over the years, I’ve probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay I’ve written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. aren’t chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein
Anti-racism activist Tim Wise contextualizes the Trump campaign as just the latest in a centuries-long strategy of rich whites duping poor whites into channeling anger toward people of color, rather than the elite.
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Anytime there’s a new development in robotics or artificial intelligence, popular culture almost instantly regurgitates the Skynet Terminator narrative. To wit, when Anti-Media reported on a new robot getting pushed around by its handlers, even we couldn’t resist alluding to...
Jake Anderson
This morning I was walking into my building and a man was walking parallel with me. He was going towards one set of doors; I was going towards a pair adjacent to them. He smiled at me and gestured me over to his side with a head nod. “Let me get the door for you.” (He meant...
Kel Campbell
Is everyone transgender? Can straight people identify as queer? Shon Faye asks: If queerness is defined by a rejection of labels how should queers differentiate and support the identities most vulnerable to patriarchal oppression?
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Blogger Emlyn Pearce responds to those who feel all Muslims are responsible for the actions of a few, with an amazing Facebook post that's going viral.
Emlyn Pearce
New studies show being in nature may increase your willingness to be generous, trusting, and helpful toward others.
Jill Suttie
Last week, I got an email question from a colleague (we’ll call her ‘Amy’). I’ve known for a while. I asked Amy for permission to answer her question in a more public forum, because this is a question I get quite often. And it is a question that is difficult to answer without...
TMS Ruge
Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
Sarah van Gelder
New social movements are different. Instead of asking for alternatives, they are bringing them to life.
Marina Sitrin
Donald Drumpf wants to build a wall on the U.S-Mexico border. Is his plan feasible?
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‘Unhappily Ever After’ uses beloved Disney characters to expose the unfortunate effect pollution, war, and modern society has on the world.
Amanda Froelich
Please watch this video through to the end. Those who support Trump and the ignorant, violent hostility he intentionally fosters have no place calling themselves patriots. This is beyond politics. Trump is toxic. Trump is the only presidential candidate to have openly...
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“Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing.
Bill Bigelow
Almost six years ago, Xela de la X, a local Los Angeles community activist and musician, organized the first Luna Ride, a nighttime bicycling event that takes place beneath the full moon. This event marked the founding of the Ovarian Psycos, a collective of brown and black...
Tasbeeh Herwees
Former advertising industry art director takes to the streets, recliaming space and chalenging the way women are portrayed in the media.
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The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months...
I’ve never been punched in the face. Not in an actual fight, at least. I’m not much of a fighter, I suppose… More of an “arguer.” I don’t think I’m “scared” to get into a fight, necessarily–There have been many times I have put myself in situations where a physical fight...
Chris Boeskool
Someone posted this amazing ad on Montreal Craigslist
Anon
If the population of the world was only 100 people, what would society look like? How many people would have shelter? Clean water? Education? Watch this video and find out.
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The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees w
If you feel weird because you're not turned on all that often, stop worrying. Read more about this research here.
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How We Are Collectively Improvising a 'New Story' About Learning
Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain
Desperate to escape conflict and poverty, thousands of migrants and refugees attempt the perilous journey to Europe each year, with many crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa in rubber dinghies and wooden boats.
In the wake of the decommissioning of Mare Nostrum...
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Vignettes of some of the women, men and children journeying across the Aegean Sea, seeking refuge and lives of less precarity- and the reflections of those working in solidarity with them. Filmed in Lesvos, Greece.
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Bernie Sanders endorsed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s close friend and civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte. Nina Turner, Cornel West, Killer Mike, Danny Glover, and millions more. Bernie Sanders for President. #FeelTheBern Edited by Matt Orfalea
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Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED. This unique series of short films candidly examines issues of race, education and equality. Produced by Loudspeaker Films, TEACHED will open your eyes to the ways America perpetuates injustice against youth of color through public...
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In the most shocking upset of the 2016 presidential campaign to date, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary. Sanders won 50 percent of the vote to Clinton's 48. During the campaign, Sanders focused heavily on his opposition to what he...
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Homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and the housing bubble are all rooted in privatized housing.
Jesse A. Myerson
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger
Depression is the unavoidable by-product of not being who you really are
Nanice Ellis
It all comes back to you and the power you have to choose how you want to respond.
19 min
Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?
Chris Agnos