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350.org + Avaaz have No Strategy to Win Climate Crisis Struggle - Arun Gupta Speaking to Dennis Trainor, Jr. of Acronym TV, independent journalist Arun Gupta praised 350.org for driving so over 300,000 people into the streets for the People's Climate March on Sunday, saying...
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The guys are miserable as they see their beloved Janice being hitched up and towed once again. They are stuck waiting for the tow for hours and eventually decide on a new course. They hitch to Austin with their gear on their backs and begin some much-needed therapy with the...
We are pleased and proud to announce the long-awaited publication of PandaLeaks – The Dark Side of the WWF: the controversial book by award-winning German journalist and filmmaker Wilfried Huismann, now finally available in an English language edition – unabridged and...
Wilfried Huismann
The BBC’s war drums make me feel physically sick.
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Operation Great Bear has set out to defend wildlife from the annual, senseless slaughter known as the British Columbia trophy hunt. The Wildlife Defence League has blockaded the only road leading into the Sacred Headwaters from trophy hunters. We are working in solidarity...
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For real politics, don't look to parliament but to an empty London housing estate. A group of 29 homeless single mothers, about to be shunted 200 miles away, have taken radical action and occupied an empty social housing project.
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91 year-old Harry Smith at the Labour Party Conference with an NHS speech that leaves delegates in tears.
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"As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud...
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Live current affairs debate from Cardiff, presented by Rick Edwards and Tina Daheley. Along with the other issues of the week, the question 'Do we live in a sexist country?' is debated.
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An exclusive Acronym TV dispatch from the Flood Wall Street day of action, featuring exclusive footage, analysis, and interviews with Adam Clayton Muller (Idle No More), Tim DeChristopher (Peaceful Uprising), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Arun Gupta (Counterpunch), and Flood...
As heads of state, corporate leaders, and token civil society organizations meet behind the UN Climate Summit's closed doors Tuesday, the streets continue to resound with the messages of the 400,000 people who marched on Sunday, the thousands who flooded Wall Street, the
Nadia Prupis and Sarah Lazare
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Women on the Front Line is a one-hour documentary exploring the battle between the women's rights movement and rigid Sharia law in modern day Iran. The expose comes from Hossein Martin Fazeli, a filmmaker with a track record of bringing Iranian cultural topics into the public...
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The Peoples Climate March took place in New York City, on September 21, 2014. Over 400.000 people attended. This is the largest march in world history, to bring attention to global warming.
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Outrage over the police murder of Michael Brown JR.
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Today we travel into the pure world of sci-fi to investigate the much vaunted, mysterious potential future event known as 'The Singularity'. What will a machine consciousness mean for humanity? What are the ethical, political, military and philosophical implications of strong...
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Indigenous leaders at the Peoples Climate March in New York speak to the urgency of Climate Change and the need for all of us to be #IdleNoMore. From the Amazon to the Arctic, Indigenous Peoples are defending our climate and teaching allies about how extractive industries are...
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New Yorker Nashwa el-Sayed was abducted to Egypt, raised in an abusive household, and forced into an impending marriage. But she insisted that life had more to offer. Moral Courage TV tells the stories of people who are fighting corruption in their faith, culture, or workplace.
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On October 10th, 2014, two individuals will head off on a nation-wide journey in search of the honest, genuine stories of America's everyday entrepreneurs. In doing so, they plan to start a conversation about the value of quality and authenticity, and the need for more...
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You can't open your laptop these days without hearing something about Iraq or Ukraine. This is weird, because the point at which we could have done anything about these conflicts is long past. They are disasters and will remain disasters for a long time to come.
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What it's like inside North Korean Prison. This is happening right now.
Chris Hedges made these remarks Saturday at a panel discussion in New York City titled “The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out?” The other panelists were Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Kshama Sawant and Sen. Bernie Sanders. The event, mo
Chris Hedges
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This collection of short films share stories and tactics from some of the Economic Justice struggles in the UK over the last 50 years, the films hope to contribute to the ongoing process of movements now learning from the successes and failures of the past.
These ten moving and often funny short films document a proud 50 year history of campaigning, strikes, occupations, work ins and solidarity in the name of fair pay, decent jobs, and economic justice. The films are made up of interviews with key organisers, speaking about the...
Economic Justice Project
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The Miss America Pageant...how is this still a thing? They claim to give more scholarships to women than any other organization, and, unfortunately, they're right. To illustrate these problems, John Oliver stages his own pageant with the help of Kathy Griffin. Connect with...
We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs* to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends. The climate march is a good case study because it's so blatant.
Stephanie McMillan
I’ll admit, numbers have always thrown me for a whirl. Math? Yeah, it was never was my strong suit. You could say I spent my school years just a bit afraid of these daunting little things scribbled across papers. So, what was the problem with numbers? They’re a foreign...
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From a remote village, deep in the rainforest of Borneo, comes an inspiring true story about freedom and belonging. Sunset Over Selungo is a documentary and campaign to help the Penan tribe protect their rainforest home. The documentary is an intimate insight into their...
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Dont Look Back is a 1967 American documentary film by D. A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.
The danger is not commercialisation per se but our constant identification with its inner and outer manifestation, in which humanity’s intelligence is led in the opposite direction from nature and spiritual evolution.
What is evil, anyway, if not our identification with...
Mohammed Mesbahi
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An in depth look at the events that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri following the police murder of Michael Brown, a black teenager. Also features an exclusive interview with former Black Panther, Ashanti Alston, about the state of black "America", abolishing penile power and...
Most people who deny that human activity is warming the planet just dismiss a massive body of scientific evidence as a big hoax.
Bill Moyers & Company
The time has come when we must demonstrate
in our millions not against this or that,
but rather for who we are
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At this time of economic turmoil it can be difficult to perceive for oneself how the principle of sharing is a solution to world problems, and this is...
Mohammed Mesbahi
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On the eve of three historic People's Climate March, authors Chris Hedges and Naomi Klein, 350.org founder Bill McKibben and Seattle Council person Kshama Sawant discuss the urgency of radical action on climate change, with an opening speech by Senator Bernie Sanders and...
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Spanning over 500 years and killing countless humans and animals, the Little Ice Age took over the Earth and the livelihood of all those who inhabit it. Despite its duration and magnitude, humans living through the Little Ice Age did not known much about it and some did not...
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"What makes us really different is our ability to put our heads together and to do things that neither one of us could do alone, to create new resources that we couldn't create alone. It's really all about communicating and collaborating and working together".
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Excerpt from Trading Our Future, a short film explaining and critiquing climate finance, including carbon trading, cap and trade, the clean development mechanism and carbon offsetting. You can watch the full film here.
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Content Warning: This educational episode contains graphic sexual and violent game footage.
Wade Davis has a lot of nerve being cheerful. Someone who can list as many threats to the world’s future as he does should be a tormented wreck.
Humanity’s soaring population, eco-degradation, the rapid loss of the world’s languages — these are not exactly things that make...
Paul Luke
I have spent the past week talking about the reasons for living that Gerontologist Dr Karl Pil
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"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking." Carl Sagan
Among the most iconic images to emerge from Hurricane Sandy’s assault on the Eastern Seaboard in 2012 were those
Nathan Schneider
Jeremy Hance from Mongabay.com interviewed director Daniel Azarian about the Save Lolita Public Service Announcement and his career.
Jeremy Hance
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Public Service Announcement for Lolita the Killer Whale directed by Daniel Azarian
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Documentary Short produced by Daniel Azarian for the Orca Network, featuring Dr Ingrid Visser.
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A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, and...
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A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate...
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
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"This is where I live, I do my best to protect that river, I
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Russell Brand The Trews (E150). Reaction to the referendum in which Scotland votes to stay in the United Kingdom. But were the odds stacked against independence?
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Kelsey Juliana, an 18-year-old activist, is fighting climate change in the courts and walking across the country to spread the word on global warming.
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Agüita mi Vida - "Wasser, mein Leben" heißt das neue Musikprojekt, bei dem Kinder und Jugendliche mit ihren selbstgeschriebenen Texten und einer Geschichte eine wichtige Botschaft verkünden wollen: Der Schutz des Wassers und der Umwelt ist ihnen ein dringendes Anliegen, denn...
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Short documentary about Radio Ucamara and their projects for the indigenous people living in the area of Nauta in the middle of the peruvian Amazon rainforest. For more information: http://createyourvoice.org & http://radio-ucamara.blogspot.de
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Vio.Me. is a building materials factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was abandoned by its owners leaving the workers unpaid and without jobs. By decision of their general assembly the workers decided to occupy the factory and operate it under direct democratic workers’...
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The world keeps happening in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value. Sean Carroll
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A music project with youth from the town Nauta in the middle of the peruvian Amazon jungle. They sing about the loss of their native language Kukama.
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Humanity's survival depends on not burning two-thirds of our global oil reserves, so we must act now by limiting fossil fuel extraction. The highly biodiverse Amazon basin is a keystone area in combating climate change because it regulates our planet's health and drives...
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In these times we can not afford to continue polluting the planet ... climate change is a reality. What are we doing? A video by Uriel Gonzalez Rosas (Mexico)
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Our Horizon is a new, non-profit climate change organization based in Toronto, Canada. We think globally and act municipally.
Our first campaign is a globally-unprecedented approach to climate change: we're lobbying municipalities to require climate change warning labels on...
Just as we recognize the importance of biodiversity for the survival of the planet, so we must preserve the diverse ways of knowing that exist among humanity.
Budd Hall and Rajesh Tandon
Just as Sunday’s big People’s Climate March and next week’s UN global summit on climate converge here in New York City, the nation and world are experiencing weather of an intensity that should rattle the stubborn false convictions of even the most fervent climate change...
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
There is an elephant in the climate debate that by U.S. demand cannot be discussed or even seen. This agreement to ignore the elephant is now the accepted basis of all international negotiations on climate change.
It is well understood by every possible measurement that the...
Sara Flounders
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Here at Cornell University, students are saving carbon emissions and energy while saving the university money through a Green Revolving Fund with a target goal of $1 million.
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It's just a little absurd.
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In the summer of 2014 the West Australian Government began baiting sharks on drumlines off Perth and south-west beaches. The policy was in response to seven deaths by shark attacks in three years. The shark cull was an unpopular policy for a people used to living and playing...
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Short documentary on WA's Stolen Wages. Between 1905 and 1972 up to 75 per cent of money earned by Aboriginal people was forcibly withheld by the state. The money...
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A video by Maya Lior-Director and Stephanie Olmanni-Composer (USA)
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Voices from the Gaslands is a series of short videos of people whose lives and businesses have been damaged by the coal seam gas industry in Queensland, Australia.
The videos showcase the harro
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The Wayward Nation crew heads off to Denver next, to team up with pioneer Ricky Padilla for the launch of his new company, Brown Water Coffee. The stakes are high, for right now Ricky and his young employees are less than four days to launch.
This piece by Thomas Swann contrib
Thomas Swann
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Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions of dollars, but we're no safer as a result. WATCH MORE.
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2013 was a watershed year for climate activists in the UK. The incredible dedication of local people proved successful in stopping gas company Cuadrilla from the horrific consequences of fracking. But the battle against fracking companies and for the right to protest rages...
Whatever the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum on 18 September one thing is certain: the campaign waged by Yes has electrified large swathes of public opinion and reinvigorated democratic debate. The formal Yes campaign, launched two years ago, has been the public f
Ken Ferguson
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"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind."
I recently read about a cash-strapped seven-year Walmart employee in Louisiana who says she'd live in her car if she could figure out how to do it. Another Walmart employee claims that many Walmart "associates" actually do that to make ends meet, but it's really not an option...
Lawrence J. Hanley
In the next 20 years, many American family farmers are likely to retire—putting enormous amounts of land on the market. Here's how they're connecting with young farmers to make sure the family farm survives.
arol Ptak and her husband own Blacksmith Ranch, a small grass-fed...
Liz Pleasant
Since August 2011, the Movement on the Road '96 Imider is a social movement which comes from the population of Imider in permanent sit-in on Mount Albban, the sit-in protest longer - it just started the fourth consecutive year - in the history of Morocco. The Movement on the...
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Andrea Gibson performing "Birthday" at Keuka College NY on September 30 2009.
Here is how to make a child bored: first and foremost, keep him indoors so that the infinitude of nature, its endless variation and chaotic messiness is replaced by a finite, orderly, predictable realm. Second, through television and video games, habituate him to intense...
Charles Eisenstein
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The new iPhone, developed in conjunction with the NSA, means you'll never have to worry about the safety of your data ever again... the government will collect and store everything for you, forever.
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Abby Martin speaks with Eran Efrati, a former IDF soldier who recounts his experience being ostracized for attempting to expose crimes he witnessed as a soldier. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
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A public event held in Newtown Powys on 4.8.14 to comemorate the 100 year anniversary of the declaration of WWI In memory of the many who served and died in the First World War.
Degrade and destroy? The west should try to disrupt the canny militants into self-destruction, because bombs will only backfire
The Islamic State (Isis) is without question a very brutal extremist group with origins in the insurgency of the United States occupation of Iraq...
Chelsea Manning
Climate Change is back on the political agenda. On 23rd of September, Heads of States are meeting in New York to pledge climate action. This is good news as it is about time. The rising economic, health-related, and environmental costs of burning fossil fuels, combined with...
Anna Leidreiter
Chris Hedges gave this speech Saturday at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, Wis., before a crowd of about 2,000. His address followed one there by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who seems to be preparing to run in the Democratic presidential primaries...
Chris Hedges
Officials in Washington are inadvertently providing some insight into the strange logic of their nebulous war against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, in contradictory and puerile statements about whether the military action should be called a war, or perhaps...
Nat Parry
Ahead of UN summit, organizers of direct action say the planetary crisis of global warming 'is a result of an economic system that is based on endless extraction, endless growth, and ceaseless exploitation of the earth and people.'
What does climate change have to do with...
Sarah Lazare
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Find out how supporting one student has the power to change a whole community.
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Climate change is fucking up Brother Earth's atmosphere, and he's not feeling it. Feat. Boots Riley and Josh Healey.
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Over the past year, almost every serious publication has written something comparing 1914 to 2014. Could we be at the brink of a new world war? This is transparently ridiculous. In this video we illustrate the way that the mindset in 1914 was a lot closer to Game of Thrones...
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This handimation gives a comprehensive background on the controversial Energy East pipeline proposed by TransCanada, which aims to take 1million barrels of tar sands oil per day across Canada to export ports. The video is narrated in English by Maude Barlow, author and...
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Why are people caught up in consumerism? Devamrita Swami, an internationally travelling monk, teacher and author explains what yoga psychology has to say on this hot topic.
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Film about the protests during the Brazilian edition of Fifa World Cup in 2014. To all that want to understand the reasons behind the street riots and protest that took place around Brazil. A film by Felipe Bretas, produced by Multiphocus.
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Scotland is about to vote on whether to secede from the UK. There are solid arguments on both sides. But none of that makes bagpipes good to listen to...or does it? Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
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At a series of live events throughout Europe, artists and activists have come together to create stunning body art to draw attention to the destruction caused by deep-sea bottom trawling and to ask European governments to support a ban of what scientists have called “the most...
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"By all means let's be openminded, but not so openminded that our brains drop out." Richard Dawkins Music: Malfoy's Mission - Nicolas Hooper & Across The Stars - John Williams Facebook - facebook/theinspirationjourney Vimeo - vimeo.com/theinspirationjourney Tumblr ...