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The activist, feminist and revolutionary explains how the ‘prison industrial complex’ profits from black people, that Barack Obama can’t be blamed for the lack of progress on race, and why Beyoncé is not a terrorist
“There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United...
Stuart Jeffries
I have long thought that accomplishing anything through political means was a complete and utter waste of time.
3 min
Are you worried about the planet? Are you a Hobbit? Want to save the Earth?
5 min
In this short clip, I explain how I came up with the idea to write a book on 'saving the Earth,' and why I chose Tolkien's world to get the message across. The book is now available on all major ebook sites, including Amazon.
Editors Note: Last week, YES! magazine published an article by Fania Davis, director of a restorative justice center and sister of civil rights activist Angela Davis, called “This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right...
Desmond Tutu
2 min
Rapper Zulfiqar "Zufi" Bakhtiari heard about an honor killing in his community, and he knew he couldn't stay silent about it.
4 min
Alternatives germinate at the margins, sending cracks into the hardest things to change. Paved-over utopias, rise up like Weeds!
3 min
The torture report teaches many lessons. One that has been overlooked is the one it teaches us about the way the US government is organized...
3 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
5 min
Abby Martin goes over the two year anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, discussing the potential reasons why gun violence is so common in the US.
13 min
Abby Martin interviews investigative journalist, Nafeez Ahmed, about what was not discussed in the torture report and his claims of censorship at the Guardian newspaper, where he used to work.
54 min
http://www.petit-oeil.fr Eritrea is one of first African countries to reach the Goals of Millenniums for the Development. Only this country is almost never mentioned by the western media; and when the media speak about it, it is leading to a qualification of terrible and...
It came from the top and that’s never been a secret. The president authorized the building of those CIA “black sites” and the use of what came to be known as “enhanced interrogation techniques” and has spoken of this with a certain
Tom Engelhardt
The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.
George Monbiot
If you haven’t been living in a cave, you have heard that Greenpeace stenciled a message at the Nazca Lines, one of the world’s most historic cultural sites, last week.
Sasha
41 min
"Today we explore Sumbawa and Moyo Islands. Unique culture, rich traditions and spectacular human stories live together with the majestic Mount Tambora, protagonist of the main volcanic eruption in human history."
57 min
In the Indonesian Island of Sumbawa, the community of Hu’u has a very special reality; poverty, taught living and working conditions and lack of education live together around Lakey Peak. It’s one of the best beach destinations to practice the activity that keeps the head of...
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www.connectedwalls.com, an interactive documentary experience about separation walls] * Four women talk about love in front of a camera during a casting for the first movie by a young director. Everything takes place at the CETI, a temporary immigrant residence center in Ceuta.
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www.connectedwalls.com, an interactive documentary experience about separation walls] * After living in the U.S. for 18 years, a Mexican father is deported to Mexico. Parallel, Maria Castro considers taking the dangerous journey across the border to reunite with her kids for...
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We were among the 40,000 people in NYC dedicated to eradicating police violence against Blacks and humanity.
You can hear the sounds of new construction from just about any point on Sterling College’s bucolic Vermont campus. The whir of saws and plink of hammers ricochet off the nearby Lowell Mountains as students—26 percent more than were enrolled just two years ago—shuffle to...
A.C. Shilton
7 min
The New World Order: They control the world's governments; THEY rule over all of us from the top of the pyramid. While WE suffer at the bottom. Right? Today we blow open the truth about the NWO in order to shed light on this widespread conspiracy which has frequently been...
It’s not every day that a former prison work camp is given new life as a place to grow food. But that’s exactly what’s happening in Peoria, Ill., where Hanna City, the shuttered facility that was also once a home for delinquent boys and a 1950s Air Force radar base, is being...
Lori Rotenberk
15 min
No piece of art or entertainment has meant more to me than "Star Trek." It continues to have a profound effect on my life and the manner in which I perceive the world around me. The half century of philosophical and metaphysical musculature stands as one of the most robust...
One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux is that more and more Americans are becoming "disposable," recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to the madness of winner-take-all capitalism...
Paul Buchheit
2 min
After Officer Darren Wilson shot teenager Michael Brown dead this summer, Ferguson, Missouri, erupted with outrage, compassion and street protests. The response from many corners of the commentariat was predictable: condemnations of those "bad elements" among the protesters...
Jesse A. Myerson and José Martîn
3 min
In 2013, the Government spent $18 BILLION on Border and Immigration enforcement, more than the budget of every other Federal agency, combined. SUBSCRIBE: WATCH MORE: ABOUT BRAVE NEW FILMS Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are at the forefront of the fight to create a...
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'This Is A Goat' questions the twisted reality of present day society in which humans constantly run in a loop of escapism while trying to achieve the non-existent, searching for meaning and satisfaction through their 'consumer specific' sensory organs.
4 min
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of NYC on the night of and the night after grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Mike Brown.
30 min
An interrogation of race, power and justice in the contemporary United States, The Ghosts of March 21 focuses on the death of 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon and the factors that led him to kill four Oakland police officers before losing his life in the deadliest confrontation in...
You and I constitute the very system that we blame for the world’s problems, which is starkly illustrated at Christmas when we rob our fragile earth on the high streets in the name of Jesus. What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ this year than to unite under the...
Mohammed Mesbahi
5 min
In her theory of change known as 'emergence', the academic scholar Margaret Wheatley reminds us that: "The world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible."
These days, it seems like everyone with a stake in racial justice is out on the streets. Students in high schools across the country, including my daughter, responded to the call for #HandsUpWalkOut at her high school on December 1. My Twitter feed is filled with pictures and...
Victoria Law
“In refusing to prosecute, Obama and Holder demonstrate their own profound disregard for the collective rights of Black Americans as a people.”
Black Americans know all about “law and order”: the term, itself, is code for the state-wielded hammer that is relentlessly...
Glen Ford
What is permaculture? For those of you who’ve only heard of the term in passing, and even for you seasoned “permies” who struggle to explain this exciting (and sometimes life-changing) idea to others, here’s the gist in 7 points:
Rob Avis
No Logo author Naomi Klein says we must revolutionise our working lives if we are to combat climate change and save the free world...
Naomi Klein
Derek Lucas Reyes, 20, went from being undocumented in the U.S. to undocumented in his native Mexico.
TED ROBBINS
It hit Rita Black one night a couple of years ago. The realization, that is, that she'd signed up for a mentoring program but ended up being part of something a whole lot bigger. She and the young woman she'd been assigned to mentor — well, Black realized that night, it turns...
Matthew Tully
When you need to cut back on your bills at home, what do you do? Make sure you turn off lights, run the dryer less, turn the thermostat down? Using less power is a simple way to lower costs, but another is using your electricity more efficiently.
SHANNON ANDERSON
For the third year in a row, a typhoon wreaked havoc on the Philippines during a Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In 2012, during the UNFCCC COP 18 in Doha, Qatar, Typhoon Bopha, the strongest ever to hit...
Mary Louise Malig
Since the civil rights movement, white people have exploited every opportunity to conceal their colonialist legacy and longstanding (ab)use of white supremacist power. They’ve proven time and again that they have no interest in rectifying that history, only in dealing with...
Kẏra
“Why should we be so arrogant as to assume that we're the first homo-sapiens to walk the earth?” (J.J. Abrams et al., 2010)
No one remembe
The documentary film made by Latin America Bureau - LAB editors Nayana Fernandez and Sue Branford has led directly to a crowd-funding initiative, to support the Munduruku Indians in defending their sacred territory in the Amazon Rainforest, and hence their way of life. Here...
54 min
Recorded with my Android Mobile Phone.
Another Indy #BlackLivesMatter march in downtown Indianapolis, in solidarity with with National Day of Resistance. Event hosted by Indy10, find them at their facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Indy10People.
We are two students -- one black, one white -- at Union Theological Seminary, an institution historically and presently committed to fighting against injustice through faith and action. We were outraged by the non-indictment in the case of Eric Garner, which is only the most...
Rev. Shawn Torres and Benjamin Perry
So, there's this page where local people have discussions and they happened to be having a discussion about protesters blocking traffic. This is my response.
Steffany Ann Brown
10 min
"The carbon market is a mechanism to keep polluting if you’re able to pay," says Pablo Solón of the global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under negotiation at the United Nations Climate Summit in Lima, Peru. Solón is Bolivia’s former ambassador to the United...
84 min
Monthly Economic Update Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 7:30pm "The Economics of Facing Reality" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan...
China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s top economy. But in taking a few examples from China, as well as investing in jobs that stay in America and taking steps to insure economic stability for the majority of American workers, the U.S. can come out on top again. And we...
Carl Gibson
3 min
The Sentencing Project is a nonprofit that does incredible work, trying to eliminate racial disparities in the US criminal justice system. You should make a tax deductible contribution.
25 min
Bill speaks with outspoken veteran journalist John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, about the problems with the Obama-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership being negotiated in secret and Hillary Clinton's possible presidential campaign.
21 min
As time runs out for the Tarkine (Tasmania, Australia), an aerial cinematographer tries to capture images of the wild and unique unprotected great wilderness.
30 min
Legalize Democracy is a documentary film by Dennis Trainor, Jr. about a movement to amend the U.S. Constitution so that Corporations are not considered people, and money is not considered speech. For more information about Move To Amend, visit: https://movetoamend.org
4 min
Why is the corporate media turning torture into a debate? Abby Martin discusses the media's reaction to the Senate torture report and why torture has suddenly turned into a partisan debate.
4 min
Abby Martin discusses the spending bill that is about to be voted on by Congress and the various ways that it screws over regular Americans.
104 min
This documentary by director Tom Peosay presents the history of Tibet under Chinese occupation. While the film depicts life at Buddhist monasteries that are closely associated with the mountainous region, it also shows other sides of the country, capturing the poverty found...
We've marched. We've "died-in." We've disrupted traffic. We've organized.
Now it's time for increased intensity to our ac
Louise Michel
Whatever is Privilege? - Why the caption on the picture is bollocks, from someone who is a white male who once said those words.
3 min
Some important facts and statistics that reveal a dysfunctional and vulnerable Bucharest
Since gathering in groups to use our right to free speech is perfectly legal, why do police infiltrate protest movements with undercover cops? Why not simply police these events in uniform?
Elisabeth Parker
3 min
Glenn Greenwald on America's Two-Tiered Justice System JOIN US: http://www.bravenewfilms.org/broken_justice_system SUBSCRIBE http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bravenewfilms In this supposed "land of the free," you can be arrested for sleeping on the streets...
For almost 30 years, the Dayspring Center in downtown Indianapolis has helped homeless families with shelter and basic needs. Now, its executive director says it is in a crisis, with dwindling donations and a growing need.
Naomi Pescovitz
2 min
At first glance, these images look like like photos of glaciers and icebergs afloat on tranquil and frigid seas. The truth is somewhat more interesting, however – they’re enormous soft pastel finger drawings by U.S. artist Zaria Forman.
Forman’s works (which we wrote about...
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After decades of isolation, we meet a nation of amazing people who have been excluded from all the 'benefits' of western civilization. Country where most of the people don't have running water or electricity, country without ATM, broadband internet or mobile phone roaming.
The decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer is just the latest story in a long history of violence against black men. What response can disrupt patterns set by centuries of racism?
I am among the millions who have experienced the shock, grief, and fury of losing someone...
Fania Davis
5 min
Sustainable is a film about the land, the people who work it and what must be done to sustain it for future generations.
5 min
They're shamelessly greedy, they're tearing apart communities and they're one of the main drivers of exploding levels of inequality. Bankers? Tax dodgers? Actually it's property developers. If they continue in this way argues Owen Jones, soon housing will become a luxury...
3 min
Do barriers actually help against migration? Immigration is both a problem and a solution for millions of people. Looking for jobs or fleeing conflicts people are constantly on the move. Europe and the US are the major destinations for those migrants and they protect...
(photograph: Lee on Sands, Essex)
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
John Pilger
As I write, New York City is witnessing its fifth day of demonstrations after a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the Eric Garner killing. Those demonstrations followed on the protests across the country over the police shootings of Akai...
Katrina vanden Heuvel
With the nation's streets still filled with protesters and a plan for thousands to march on Washington brewing, the call for justice for Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and other black victims of police violence has only grown stronger. In the days and weeks since two grand juries...
Lauren McCauley
10 min
Abby Martin speaks with human rights lawyer, David Remes, about the contents of the newly released Senate torture report summary and how it will impact the future of the "war on terror".
4 min
Abby Martin goes over a new Reuters report showing that a select group of attorneys are continually selected to present their cases in front of the US Supreme Court and why this is a problem for a fair justice system.
8 min
Abby Martin interviews Terry O'Neill, President of the National Organization for Women, about the Rolling Stone article about an alleged rape that took place on the campus of University of Virginia and how the discovery that details of the case were untrue will impact sexual...
THE DISPOSSESSED is a classic of science fiction, and also one of the few novels, of any description, which deals honestly and openly with anarchist ideas, and, for this reason, is one of the most oft-cited influences on anarchists today. To be honest, I wouldn't bother...
Ray Cunningham
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The blockbuster that cost £60,0000,0000,000 to make! So bad it should be illegal.
Given that a call for sharing is already a fundamental (if often unacknowledged) demand of engaged citizens and progressive organisations, there is every reason why we should embrace this common cause that unites us all.
Adam Parsons and Rajesh Makwana
3 min
Mary Shelley is awesome. Her creation Frankenstein, and her invention of the Science Fiction novel speak for themselves. Yet she somehow still gets less respect than her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. This video is an attempt to correct that.
5 min
Abby Martin discusses some of the top revolutionary public transportation ideas that could be implemented in the US.
42 min
Some say that in order to promote harmonious race relations the African should forget his story and consent to burying it in the pit of forgetfulness. But there is another view which says that THE STORY FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SLAVE-SHIP is the missing piece that is required...
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Abby Martin speaks with attorney and co-host of Ring of Fire radio, Mike Papantonio and former DC police officer, Ronald Hampton, about the decision by a grand jury not to indict New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, over the choking death of 43-year-old black man Eric...
29 min
Hānau ʻia ka Mauna a Wākea
25 min
Since 2011, tens of thousands of children have fled the genocide in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. This film is their story.
3 min
Homeless Hate Laws are spreading throughout the country. There are alternatives
4 min
This summer Israel launched its bloodiest ever massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza strip. More than 2,190 Palestinians were killed as Israel deliberately targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. But 2014 also saw unprecedented levels of solidarity with the Palestinian...
20 min
In this sedition a special report on the rebellions that have been rocking Turtle Island in the wake of the "no indictment" of racist cop Darren Wilson for his murder of black teen Mike Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
3 min
Ramsey runs through five key guidelines for allyship:
Finally a lawmaker has put his weight behind what many people have been saying for months: this doesn’t end with Darren Wilson’s resignation, the entire Ferguson Police Department needs to go before any progress can be made.
Jameson Parker
4 min
According to the last man on the Moon, NASA Astronaut Gene Cernan, Americans went to Mars. Gene Crenan was the last human to leave footprints on the Moon. In 2010 Obama canceled NASA's plans to return to the Moon, so Gene Cernan went on Fox News to voice his disapproval.
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We all have dream to be someone. Most of young people of Bangladesh are observing that their 10 years oath at school and their dream are not relevant with real situation of this country (Bangladesh). Now the question is, the children those who are dreaming to be something and...
4 min
Mike Brown. Tamir Rice. Akai Gurley. Daniel Levitt. Kimani Grey. Remi Fraisse. Sean Bell. Eric Garner. Mike Brown. They want us to forget.
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An examination of the strategy being used in one of Canada's major cities to repress political dissent. Brutal police tactics and military weapons being used against senior citizens, young people and the press in an efofrt to criminalize even the most Basic exercise of civic...
In 2007 Canada experienced a fundamental shift in the focus of our Intelligence Services, a shift that is of interest to every Canadian. It was in this, and the following years while planning for the G-20 summit and Olympic Games that the baleful eye of the security services...
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In the wake of decisions by grand juries in both Missouri and New York's Staten Island not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed African-Americans, this week we present an encore broadcast of Bill's conversation earlier this year with journalist Ta-Nehisi...
3 min
Music video for The King Blues track 'The Streets Are Ours'. We have tried to convey the idea of reclaiming the streets, anarchy and revolt.
Anarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one? This article provides an...
Carwil Bjork-James with Chuck Munson
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Alegria - A Humanitarian Expedition tells the story of an epic solo expedition across the Himalaya that changed the life of hundreds of people in need. Supporting leprosy patients and mentally destitute women in India, Christoph von Toggenburg cycled 3200km on the world’s...