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On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region.
24 min
Recent weeks have seen an escalation of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine, the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from atrocities – they are fleeing both on foot and by boat to Bangladesh. It is the latest sur
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Tom Johnson
A 360° illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini. Scroll to the right as the story progresses.
6 min
One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the...
Vishal Wilde
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined. This film is an autobiographical account of the director's experience with immigration.
4 min
After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counter demonstrations? Some say yes.
Laurie Marhoefer
The Relevance of Radicalized Peacebuilding to Antifa Praxis
Emmi Bevensee
Just another clicktivist petition pushed by corporate NGOs with no connection to grassroots struggle? Not this time – West Papuans are risking beatings, arrest, and even death to sign a petition for their right to self-determination, coordinated with international support...
Connor Woodman
Antifa’s horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations
Angela Mitropoulos
Despite protests, the Israeli government will displace the Bedouin population of Umm al-Hiran to a temporary area until a new neighborhood is built for them nearby. However, residents won't be welcome to return to the new Jewish-only city of Hiran.
14 min
Maz Saleem’s father who killed by a neo-Nazi terrorist, who then went on a bombing campaign - but you’ve probably never heard of him. Why?
4 min
We must be very wary of any attempts to excuse or normalize white supremacy.
Stanislav Vysotsky
Twitter user @JuliusGoat posted this incredible thread in response to the Unite The Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and quickly got hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes. Read it and share widely, it's epic!
Julius Goat
A plea deal is an arrangement to resolve a case without going to trial. This is an option most often taken by those who cannot afford bail and want to go home instead of wait days, months, even years locked up in jail. An estimated 177,624 innocent Americans pleaded guilty in...
6 min
What is the point of international co-operation in matters of shared concern? According to the UN Charter, its founding member nations were determined to achieve overarching societal progress based on human rights.
Amy Maguire & Jason von Meding
In today's global landscape, challenges inside and outside our feminist movements have sharpened, but so have we.
So it's time to ask: what is the state of our collective movements today?
2 min
A new UN report has found that two billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. However, the report covers just a small part of the global population and fails to address the impact that war and corporate profiteering have had on drinking water...
Whitney Webb
This man survived the Holocaust by fleeing to Britain as a child refugee. Now he’s helping to take the government to court to save other refugee children. This is the incredible story of Lord Alf Dubs.
4 min
Countries like Yemen, Chad and South Sudan have been devastated by famine and starvation in recent years, with millions of people suffering despite a global surplus of food. But the problem is not a lack of resources - they are starving due to the effects of unending Western...
Eric Draitser
In a wide-ranging interview about Britain’s relationship with Europe and the ongoing migration crisis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said that people who raise questions about the level of immigration into the UK should not be seen as racist. He said that to be...
Simon Goodman
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2 min
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain want Al Jazeera - including AJ+ - to be shut down. Here’s what Al Jazeera journalists think of that.
5 min
Today's Trews reacts to events at the G20 and asks whether anything will actually change as a result.
6 min
Berta Cáceres, winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment and possibly the most well-known land rights activist in the world, was murdered in her home a year ago. Berta's message to the world was that no one is beyond reach. Far from silencing her and her...
25 min
Two decades after the UK handed it back to China, President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for the first time to celebrate the anniversary. The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was designed to preserve democratic freedoms in the wealthy former colony. After troubled years of...
9 min
Michael Wesch meets up with
13 min
The world's largest humanitarian crisis is not in Syria. It's in Yemen.
So says the United Nations, highlighting the grave consequences of a conflict that has left 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance, including 10.3 million who require...
3 min
“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”
Julian Cola
Official music video for Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) by K'naan featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product.
6 min
The FCC is planning to repeal the strong net neutrality rules that we fought so hard to get in 2015. Why do we care? Vimeo is the home to so many makers, watchers, and all-around internet video lovers. Net neutrality makes sure there is room for creativity and equal access...
2 min
The Supreme Court allowed a partial version of Trump's executive order banning travel from 6 Muslim-majority countries to go into effect this summer. But the full order could have a lasting impact on how the US treats refugees.
4 min
"We'll be ready," said the ACLU in response to the announcement
Jake Johnson
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Yessenia Funes
Happy father’s day to the fathers, and to our fathers’ fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and all the way back to Grandfather Sky. Past there to before there were fathers, because all was just ONE.
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served for the victims of the Grenfell fire? Or are our laws already too much shaped to the needs of the business class?
Steve Tombs and David Whyte
In response to the police shooting death of Philando Castile, Trevor shares his own experience as a black man facing law enforcement discrimination in America.
5 min
In 2015 the AJ+ team followed groups of refugees as they made their way across Europe. Now, 2 years later, Dena Takruri catches up with some of the people she met to find out how they are getting on.
25 min
In today's Trews I read from my recent blog about the Grenfell tragedy, which you can read here.
4 min
Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside the 'localist' youth. As elections loom...
25 min
"Austerity is a matter of life and death." Rapper Lowkey watched people die with his own eyes, this is what he thinks should happen to the criminals responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire.
2 min
Residents of Notting Hill say they are proud of the community, who have come out in force to help those who have lost everything in the Grenfell Tower fire. Locals worked tirelessly to provide food, water and clothing. However, with the search for friends and relatives...
3 min
This Government Must Be Held Responsible
Mona Kamal
It’s time to ensure that no American has to worry about where they and their families will sleep tonight, says housing consultant James Stockard.
James Stockard
There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people.
The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish militias. A day before, the state of Israel was...
Marwa Fatafta
It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
5 min
Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Caty Borum Chattoo
In Jackson, Mississippi, a coalition of Latino, black, and white activists known as MIRA confronts local lawmakers, who introduced 12 anti-immgrant bills into the state legislature in 2017. Among those protesting in the state's capital: 13-year-old Yizel, whose parents are...
11 min
House prices are through the roof. The banks are swimming in mortgage profits. Rents are sky high. Is it any wonder there are more people on the street?
Wayne Ellwood
The debate over illegal immigration always misses something important: Undocumented immigrants are actually superheroes. Think about it. They literally risk their lives to make a better future for themselves and their families, and they do all the things we citizens would...
8 min
The worst thing that the British government is doing today is supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It should be a national scandal, but at the moment, it isn’t even an election issue. David Wearing teaches Middle East politics and international...
7 min
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to “reduce and control” immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 – a level not seen for 20 years. This pledge caused some puzzlement. Even the Brexit secretary, David...
Robin Cohen
This is the story of people living and working with disabilities in modern Britain whose lives have been drastically affected by a series of Tory cuts, reforms and changes to disability benefits and a growing crisis in social care and housing.
15 min
In our current age of resurgent nationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia and increasing border militarization, it can be easy to lose track of the central role that migration has played in shaping the spaces we inhabit. The richness and depth of human history comes from the...
34 min
One week before Donald Trump was elected, 700 workers—many of whom were Trump supporters—walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in Waterford, NY, sparking a 105-day strike. In the wake of his win, the workers gets candid about Trump's advocacy for union-busting legislation.
9 min
Last year, we visited a theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden that became a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. As strange as that sounds, this was a pretty good deal for about 500 people looking to start a new life. But...
10 min
A theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden becomes a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.
9 min
Nasir Sobhani of Melbourne, Australia, aka The Streets Barber, gives free haircuts to the homeless to help them feel clean, empowered, and understood. Life on the streets is rough, with homeless people often ignored or abused to the point that they no longer feel human -- and...
1 min
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s...
John Pilger