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The award-winning documentary film, #ReGENERATION, explores the galvanizing forces behind the Occupy Movement and the state of social activism in our society. The film takes an uncompromising look at the challenges facing today’s youth and young adults as they attempt to...
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For many Egyptians, Omar Suleiman was a symbol of evil incarnate. For twenty years he was the head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, aka the mukhabarat. Under him, arbitrary detention and torture became commonplace as deterrents to dissent. He was the contact man for...
75 min
Superheroes do exist and they are fighting injustices on the streets of Mexico City.
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A collection of short films from filmmaker Carla Dauden explain why many Brazilians are unhappy that the World Cup (and Olympic Games) are being hosted in their country. Issues range from the enormous cost (estimated at more than the last 3 World Cup's combined) when...
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Travel to 9 countries with Matt Briggs to uncover the best ideas, cutting-edge technologies and restorative solutions to help curb climate change. You can view the full program or the chaptered version.
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This film explores the ethics of fracking though different professional, scientific, medical, spiritual and religious backgrounds. It also takes a look at the deceiving advertising the gas industry heavily relies on.
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All about the moringa tree. Moringa seeds, moringa powder, moringa nutrition... http://miracletrees.org Moringa oleifera videos & info. Spread the Moringa seeds Moringa oleifera: A Food Plant with Multiple Medicinal Uses MORINGA INTRODUCTION http://www.moringanews.org/
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"Our Seeds" addresses the problems of globalised food based on hybrids that require pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. The film shows how individuals and small groups have solved these problems. A celebration of the seed keepers that stand at the source of humanity's...
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Last Call provides a high-level examination of one of the most fundamental environmental questions of our time - are there limits to growth?
In 1972, the publication of the book The Limits to Growth stimulated worldwide interest and debate, selling 30 million copies in 30...
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Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains how the connectedness of every living thing to every other living thing is not just an idea but a way of living. This way includes all beings as part of a vast family and calls us to...
Focusing on minimizing a number hasn't worked that well so far. Maybe it's time to try a whole-systems approach.
Charles Eisenstein
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Short film that documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK.
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Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
Symbolia and YES! Magazine
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Why do humans have such a hard time taking the future into account? Answering this question with insightful analysis, the film offers strategies for policymakers and individuals who are interested in ways that we can overcome our conditioned habits.
In contrast to many films...
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Begzsuren welcomes guests into his home from all over the world, offering these visitors aspects of traditional Mongolian Culture and in exchange his guests offer insight into how they live and work back home. Everyday Begzsuren is on an adventure and a mission.
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What if you really could change the world? Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner, firmly believes that each and every one of us can and should contribute to creating a better world. In this empowering RSA Short Jody explains why it is so important that we strive to make a...
Global Ideas
Paraguay struggles to grow soy sustainably
Paraguay is the world's fourth-largest exporter of soy, much of which is shipped to the European Union. A certification scheme is meant to make soy production sustainable, but some remain sceptical.
Rachel Stern
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FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental...
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Never before in history have so many people relied on so few for the basic essentials of life.
49 min
A spiritual journey into the ethereal landscape of Dartmoor with Satish Kumar, the world-renowned ecologist & creator of Resurgence magazine. Through changing seasons, Satish walks the moor and explores ancient woods and rivers, home to a wealth of wildlife including red...
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On October 2nd 1992, Marland Mold, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts plastic mold manufacturer became an employee-owned company. The once radical notion of worker ownership was employed for conservative
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This award-winning film features nine unique schools, both public and private, California to East Harlem. In these unique schools, relationship, creative thinking, and direct experience are valued above memorization of facts. As we struggle with issues of how to provide a...
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Born into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, is the winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, Born into Brothels is a portrait of several unforgettable children who...
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In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. This is their story. Four...
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Michael Valpy talks of the injustices toward aboriginal women in Canada.
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Brian Giles has been given a few years to live, after contracting asbestosis at work. Workers' Comp has turned a blind eye.
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Yazd, the emerald of the desert, is an oasis city deep in the heart of the desert in central Iran. The city has 3000 years of history. Previously known as Ysatis, the city's early records can be tracked to the time of the ancient Median Empire here in Iran.
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The story of how a group of investigators pursued and exposed Bernie Madoff and his elaborate ponzi scheme which defrauded investors out of $50 billion.
The film includes interviews with Markopolos and fellow investigators Frank Casey, Neil Chelo, Michael Ocrant, and Gaytri...
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The expansion of the EU, with all its boredom and bureaucratic waste, is one of the most successful peace initiatives of all time. European peace, and the EU's role in that peace is rarely noted, let alone celebrated. This is our attempt to deal with that oversight.
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What do you do when the surf media abuses its power? You ask Mick Jagger to send a memo on behalf of surfing. Watch. Because surfing is not only surfing.
Solar roadways are being touted as an answer to energy shortages - enough energy generated by the roadway itself, and, voila, car culture can continue. But trucks and cars for intercity - and intracity - transport should be regarded as part of the past, not the future. It's...
Gregor MacDonald
"Russia needs higher prices so that its oil extraction industry can meet its skyrocketing costs. Putin, like the rest of us, has reached the neck-line of the Triangle of Doom, the pointy-end of the gangplank where there is negligible room to maneuver, where the conventional...
Steve from Virginia
There have been hundreds of books and essays written on the evolution of Homo sapiens and I assume you are familiar with that history. In this short essay I am going to point out a few things that are usually left out of that story, the part that deals with the very nature of...
Ron Patterson
27 min
This documentary traces back the origins of Takfiris in Islam and elaborates on their objectives through interviews with senior Shia and Sunni clerics. PRESS TV Documentaries
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Cloud Makers is a short film about the human impact of industry and contamination on First Nations land. It is the story of two sisters caught in a system where they and the land with which they share a deep relationship are abused and ignored.
60 min
Indian Givers” (2012) is a mixed-art documentary film, produced by the Sarnia/Aamjiwnaang-based Kiijig Collective, made collaboratively by and for Native and non-Native youth, shot and edited by Ian Alexander of Rocketship Productions and SCITS student Sadie Mallon. This...
"The U.S. is a mature exploration and development province for oil and gas. New technologies of large scale, multistage, hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells have allowed previously inaccessible shale gas and tight oil to reverse the long-standing decline of U.S. oil and...
David Hughes/PostCarbon Institute
Dr. Kevin Trenberth illuminates the mechanics of ocean heat, and the coming El Nino event, and makes a bold prediction.
Robert Sinclair
"I know I’m showing my age now. And feeling all nostalgic about the good old days when petrol cost fifty cents a gallon, when the Club of Rome had only just published its Limits to Growth Report, and everyone just decided to ignore it, because 2020 was so far into the...
Mike Stasse/Damn The Matrix
"This is not good news for humanity. As the ice sheets melt due to global warming, not only do they raise the sea level directly; they also exert a weaker gravitational pull on the surrounding ocean. So water sloshes back toward the continents, where we all live. "If...
Chris Mooney/Mother Jones
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Out of the cacophony of voices making claim and counter claim about this country's future comes a feature length documentary taking a radically different approach to the debate on Scottish independence.
9 min
Love and Capitalism is a short documentary shot on Super 16mm filmed in Spring of 2014. The goal for the project was to film portraits and interviews of working subjects in the high-income Gold Coast neighborhood and the working-class Pilsen neighborhood. By contrasting these...
"I like to call it a dysphemism. A dysphemism is a euphemism for something else that has a negative connotation. And it is beautiful. It is one of the best propaganda terms ever invented because the second you say, ‘Yeah, I don’t know he is a bit of a conspiracy theorist,’...
Russ Baker/Skeptiko.com
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Abby Martin interviews Dan Johnson, founder of People Against the NDAA, about the National Defense Authorization Act and its language that allows the military to indefinitely detain American citizens and what local communities are doing about this law. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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Abby Martin interviews Ronnie Moas, Founder of Standpoint Research and Creator of PhilanthropyandPhilosophy.com about his work as an ethical stock analyst and why he's urging Wall Street to consider massive wealth redistribution. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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English description follows Ce regard critique sur nos forces policières, leurs origines ténébreuses, leurs structures et restructurations ainsi que des précisions sur leur vraie mission. Voilà des précisions très informatives sur la nature et fonction réelle de nos forces...
David Korten's new essay (available to read as a PDF) connects the work of finding a new sacred story with the effort to build a new economy.
David Korten
77 min
This film from the UK looks at several children who do not thrive in conventional schooling for a variety of reasons, and asks how we can bring the best out in each child instead of measuring them against a one-size-fits-all standard and labeling them as failures.
"This...
We need to recognize we share the planet with millions of other life forms
Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an...
Richard Heinberg
Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow from EDELO (En Donde Era La UNO / Where the United Nations Used to Be) explore the effects of NAFTA in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and the site of the Zapatista revolution sparked by the agreement.
EDELO
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We've been saying this for years. There's no need for formal conspiracies when all of these economic and political elites share the same ideology, which they learned from their environment growing up in similar positions of privilege within the
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A documentary about addiction. Addiction of the digital kind.
During the 15 years, I lived and worked in Asia as a development professional from 1978 to 1992, I witness a troubling paradox. GDP was growing, incomes were rising, there was an expanding middle class, and a few people were getting fabulously rich. Development seemed to be...
David Korten
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What if our "last act" could be a gift to the planet — a force for regeneration? Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth. A WILL FOR THE WOODS is an immersive...
The current US oil boom, from hydraulic fracturing of permeable shale formations, may soon be over, while the accompanying environmental damage will be around for years to come: "
Ashley Eady/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
70% of the US shale oil "reserves" are, or were, located in the Monterey Formation in California... but it looks like someone got a bit overoptimistic in their estimates: "Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated amount of recoverable oil buried in Ca
Louis Sahagun/Los Angeles Times
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It’s often said a society can be measured by how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved and valued by their families and communities.
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Wherein the most popular arguments for capitalism are looked at more closely.
Sources:
Worldwide, 13% of workers feel engaged with their work
Most people – even many of those who support small farms and eat organic food – believe that there’s no way to feed the global population without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, fossil fuels, biotechnology, heavy equipment, and the rest of the agribusiness arse
Steven Gorelick
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This short video is for the awareness of global warming, but also the possibilities that we could explore to help our planet.
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Is 'true' capitalism good and crony capitalism the real problem? This debate has been raging for a long time and finally, we have a definitive answer. This video kindly cuts through all of the divisive rhetoric and misunderstandings and offers a constructive path towards...
Looking to take charge of your health? Wondering where to begin?
There is so much information out there about what foods to eat or not to eat, about what and how to exercise, about what herbs and supplements to take or not. Social Media has only made the abundance of how...
Ann Armbrecht
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Abby Martin highlights a new report by The Intercept showing that the NSA is collecting and recording virtually every single phone call made on the island nation of the Bahamas and how this dangerous technology is usurping the rights of global citizens.
This is easily the best comic strip ever made.
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
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Abby Martin goes over a round-up of some of the most outrageous recent police stories, including a noise complaint that turned into a SWAT team style raid and the sentencing of Occupy protestor, Cecily McMillan for assaulting a cop after having her breast grabbed.
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This video is on one of the most important benefits that the EU provides to individual European countries. The virtue of size. It is something that Europe needs in the 21st century. This video addresses one of the main arguments of euroskepticism. Neville Chamberlain is one...
Those the words of my friend and photgrapher Delizia Flaccavento on the events of Soma Turkey.
Despite what many of those who advocate meat-eating would like to believe, humans do not sit at the top of the food chain. In any event, it’s a food web rather than a chain, due to the many complex interactions involved.
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Fight for our Future has launched a "Reset The Net Campaign" for June 5th, 2014.
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Cecily McMillan was sexually assaulted by a New York City Police Officer. She was than beaten, knocked unconscious, falsely arrested, and than convicted of assaulting a police officer. Her sentence was 90 days and 5 years probation,Due to the probation, It will be difficult...
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Sakdiyah is a young Muslim comedian who takes jihadists down several notches with her razor-sharp wit. In the face of rising extremism and violence, she uses her stand-up comedy as a platform to speak up for the rights of women!
Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if...
Charles Eisenstein
Have you ever overheard an insufferable dude at a bar telling some really sexist-sounding story about "tapping that," and wished it would find its glorious happy feminist ending? Well, you're not alone. In fact, there's a meme for that.
Elizabeth Plank
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Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century.
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This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.
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Police the Police The APD Killings Protest. The Albuquerque Police Department is under federal investigation for over 20 shooting deaths as well as many non lethal shootings and the practice of paying bounties for killing suspects. Is there something very wrong with the...
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Abby Martin speaks to Keane Bhatt, journalist and activist about a recent open letter he and many prominent figures signed calling for the non-profit organization Human Rights Watch to close its revolving door with the U.S. government. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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ZDay 2014, Los Angeles, Q&A March 29th 2014. Thanks to TZM Los Angeles.
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Single Coin Dancer is one of my songs (rather terrible outbursts). Im a monetary accuser - a competition refuser - no one ever win nothing - nothing is ever lost - Is the core lyric and thats the truth. No one ever win and nothing is really lost. Its just f¤€ed up. And by...
It's official: The FCC is moving ahead with their plan to replace its discarded open Internet rules with new ones that will allow Internet companies to pay for fast lanes, voting 3-2 in favor of the ISP-favored plan.
Tom McKay
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Abby Martin talks about the media's obsession with LA Clipper's owner Donald Sterling's new comments regarding Magic Johnson, AIDS and racism while ignoring reports that Syrian rebels are blocking water supplies in the city of Aleppo. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
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Abby goes over a new Amnesty International report that finds that 141 countries in the world practice torture methods, including everything from severe beatings to waterboarding, while the top ten recipients of US foreign aid are all members of that list.
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Abby Martin goes over the top 5 most ridiculous patents in the US, citing everything from Amazon's patent of white background photography to Apple's patent of the shape of a rectangle all leading to the rise of patent trolling and a complete abuse of the system.
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Documental realizado por estudiantes de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Departamento de Comunicación, en 1987. Luego se añadió noticia sobre el centenario (1991). DIVEDCO Director: Carlos Raffols Investigación: Jenny Suárez Investigación: Yolanda Santiago Locución...
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From Glasgow to Brighton the streets of the UK look a little different this week. In 10 cities guerrilla install crews have been swapping 365 ads with art works, creating the largest advertising takeover in world history.
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At 92, Robina Asti, a WWII veteran and pilot, tells her story of living as a transgender woman since 1976 and her fight to be treated like any other widow. Learn more about Lambda Legal's resources for trans people and advocates at www.lambdalegal.org/kyr/trans Music...
80 min
Is the Plastic Trash Island floating in the Pacific Ocean a myth? Are we getting poisoned? How long do we have before a worldwide disaster happens?
This documentary includes interviews from Capt. Moore (Algalita Marine Research Institute), Anna Cummins (5 gyres Institute)...
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Concerned Internet users want to make sure that the FCC and Congress hear them when it comes to keeping the Internet open and free.
Digital-rights advocacy group Free Pr
Marguerite Reardon
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The taming of Europe is one of the most extraordinary facts of modern life. European peace, and the EU's role in that peace is rarely noted, let alone celebrated. This is our attempt to deal with that oversight.
Help us reach our target of 8,000 names
Sign our petition to Wu Aiying, China's Justice Minister...
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These X Factor contestants aren't the only ones for whom singing can mean everything - you'll see them in a different way after this. You can find out more and take action here: http://freetibet.org/singers
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So-called "balanced" climate change coverage usually means a skeptic is put up against a climate expert. Watch HBO funny man John Oliver explain why this set up is so absurd (warning: he likes to swear).
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As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE...
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Two leaders in the climate change divestment campaign on breaking ties with the fossil fuel industry.
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The Internet’s Own Boy follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's...
It has been one year since my last shower. Yes, I know that sounds crazy and a year ago I would have agreed with you. I was a regular showering guy for the first 26 years of my life. Well, maybe not every single day, but just about.
Rob Greenfield
Across the planet, new technologies and business models are decentralizing power and placing it in the hands of communities and individuals.
Nina Misuraca Ignaczak
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Scientists predict that Kiribati - a remote Island Republic in the Central Pacific - could be lost to rising sea levels in the next 50 years. As a result a whole nation faces an uncertain future. 'Tinau' is an intimate family portrait of a Kiribatese mother now settled in the...