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Holden is just one of the 2.4 million people who was entrapped within the criminal justice system. After his release from prison he does all he can to make it in a world that does all it can to keep him “Locked Out.”
Appreciate others for what they have done. Don't apologize for simply existing.
Yao Xiao
1 min
There are many different ways of living on this planet, who's to say their way is best?
Philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky once observed that being feminine often means using one’s body to portray powerlessness. Consider: A feminine person keeps her body small and contained; she makes sure that it doesn’t take up to much space or impose itself. She walks and sits...
Lisa Wade, PhD
4 min
Abdullah Kurdi - father of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, who died during a boat crossing from Turkey to Greece - pleads with the world to open their doors to Syrian refugees.
Positive thinking isn’t naive, it’s the best way to get things done
Angus Hervey
I’ve protested the death of my father, Eric Garner, for more than a year. I’ve learned who my allies are – and who will fight for the spotlight instead of justice
Erica Garner and Kemi Alabi
10 min
Jordan Klepper sets out to determine the likelihood of another gun owner stopping an active shooter.
I often get asked by people about what they can do to change things, to change the world, when each of us is just one person, in the face of so much that we cannot even hope to control or influence.
What can we do? Why bother, given our powerlessness?
As we look back on the...
Nafeez Ahmed
21 min
Dump Trump was a rally and march, which took place in New York City, on December 20. 2015. The rally was outside Trump Towers, and the March was to some of the Major Media Outlets which Donald Trump has been using as a megaphone to preach UN-American hate and bigotry, against...
2 min
Jess Thom's tics from Tourette syndrome can be funny, but people often suppress their laughter for fear of causing offence. This, she says, shows how hard it can be to deal with people who are different from us. But by having an open conversation about disability and...
57 min
BlackLivesMatter: A new generation of civil rights activists emerging from racism and violence in the USA.
78 min
Full length documentary following Chester P along his journey through Hip Hop, Homelessness and the Housing Crisis. Featuring Focus E15, Love Activists, New Era Estate residents, Streets Kitchen plus many more.
7 min
Ricky Syers is an off-beat 50 year old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City’s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, an 86 year old community activist. They became friends and he made...
55 min
On November 23rd, 2015, Killer Mike sat down with Senator Bernie Sanders at The SWAG Shop in Atlanta, GA to discuss topics ranging from gun control to democratic socialism.
4 min
We brought together two people with a very large gap of 57 years between them and got them to ask each other questions about life and growing up. Our aim was to see if people from opposing stages of their lives could learn from each other.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand people have fled for their lives to Europe this year. (At least three thousand four hundred and six people died in the Mediterranean sea.) Of that great mass of people, a few thousand have washed up Calais, France, trying to attempt the...
Kate Evans
Under the plan receiving support by 70 percent of the country, every adults would receive a monthly allotment of €800
Jon Queally
3 min
Enjoy our trailer for "The Year We Thought About Love" award-winning feature length documentary about a LGBTQ youth theater troupe.
1. Freedom of movement is not a right; it is a real living force. Despite all the obstacles that states put in people’s way — all the barriers of barbed wire, money, laws, ID cards, surveillance and so on — millions cross borders every day. For every migrant stopped or...
No Borders
5 min
Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Where do markets belong and where do they undermine values worth caring about?
We’ve been here before, and we know that violent backlash is at its fiercest when movements for racial and gender justice are winning.
Max Berger
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder November 24 in the death of Laquan McDonald. A video released by police shows Van Dyke shooting the teenager 16 times.
Paul Hirschfield
2 min
I have heard and read different opinions about the wave of Syrian refugees who try to make their way in to the EU. Then I went to Lesvos. 7 days on the Greek Island gave me a healthier, human perspective on the situation. Seeing the people behind the headlines with my own...
13 min
A growing number of American cities are ticketing or arresting homeless people for essentially being homeless. The new laws ban behavior commonly associated with homelessness like reclining in public, sharing food or sitting on a sidewalk.
Supporters argue these measures...
5 min
Borders is dedicated to her uncle Bala, in a tweet posted this morning M.I.A wrote "One of the first Tamil migrants to come to the UK in the '60s who went [on] to inspire so many people as a creative, daring man... Thank you for helping my family come to England and taking us...
In the wake of Monday night’s direct attack on #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in Minneapolis at a protest against the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, I feel compelled to share some thoughts.
Annie Leonard
Cupcake fascism asserts itself violently through something the infantilized subject holds deeply as an ideal. This ideal is niceness.
Tom Whyman
Sometimes homophobes will try anything to come up with a reasonable argument for why homosexuality is wrong, but it turns out with a little bit of thought that debate is going to be shut down very easily.
Joe Morgan
1 min
November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance for the LGBTQ community to call attention to transgender victims of hate crimes. 2015 has seen a historic high in anti-trans violence, with nearly twice as many people murdered as 2014.
When Mhairi Black posted a short message to welcome refugees to Scotland she received both support and condemnation. Here she responds to those who said she should be more concerned about the problems faced by Scottish people.
Mhairi Black
A reflection on religion, spirituality, connection and destruction.
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then you hear a story about people overcoming all odds to help others and it completely changes your perspective of the world. The story of Jia Haixia and Jia Wenqi is certainly one of these.
Kate Good
With all of the unrest that has been occurring at my alma mater, The University of Missouri-Columbia, it has caused me to reflect on my own experiences while on campus.
I completed both my undergraduate as well as my master's degree at Mizzou and while I had the opportunity...
Erica Wright
2 min
What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich?
(Created in collaboration with AJ+.)
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in 'unprecedented' coalition to end years of punishing cuts
Lauren McCauley
The Youth, the dreaded Youth. Pissing on our chrysanthemums, loitering with menace, eating crisps with their mouths open, thinking for themselves.
19 min
Former offenders face enormous obstacles once they leave prison. John Oliver sits down with Bilal Chatman, an ex-prisoner, to discuss the challenges of reentering society.
For our Debt Issue, we explored ways we could turn the tables on the bankers, rethink the soul-crushing nature of debt, and find routes to get out of it. Because the shame and powerlessness of debt can overwhelm our senses and perceptions, we decided to ask our favorite...
Yes! Magazine
Stress kills Mindfulness. Here are Ten Things you can do to avoid it.
Captain Paul Watson
Critics of foreign aid often argue that it's ineffective at generating sustainable economic development or truly helping the world's poor. But as this great map from the cost information website HowMuch.net reveals, one reason for that is that promoting development and...
Matthew Yglesias
12 min
Watch the video to find out the answer to that question for some.
On Saturday 31st October 2015, at 1.30am, my 22-year-old eldest daughter Polly was killed when she lost control of the car she was driving and hit a tree. She was alone in her VW Beetle, no one else was hurt and, I am told, it was instant.
John Darvall
I have been struggling with “how” to do the work so many of us call social justice. I understand the “why,” or I at least think I do. I am on a journey to understand my role in changing the world, which is no doubt a privilege. It has taken me quite a while to get over the...
Cody Charles
7 min
It has been said that 'Men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them.' How do you feel about this statement? In this episode our men discuss how they relate to women, adding a much needed male point of view to the discussion surrounding...
16 min
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Hedges discusses his new book Wages of Rebellion, an investigation of the social and psychological factors...
17 min
This short film is intended as a conversation-starter for staff, volunteers, board members, and funders of social purpose organisations.
6 min
Since the police force was established in Britain in 1829 the list of their crimes, committed largely with impunity, continues to rise at an alarming rate. Is it time we started to question whether this broken institution actually does more harm than good?
It began in high school—actually before that—but my my first organizing effort was done senior year of high school. Speaking out against things that seemed unjust has always felt natural to me. I had this deep understanding of what I thought was fair or not fair, even when I...
Bulaong Ramiz
4 min
Racism is real but race is not. "Black" and "White" were labels invented in the 15th century - made up to divide us. Is it time to let these labels go? Prince Ea believes the answer is yes.
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion" ~ Paulo Coelho
Desiree Adaway
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have access to leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization…?
Josh Jones
73 min
Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds.
83 min
Is reality obsolete? From low-tech function like body piercing and artificially-stocked fishing pools, to the latest in bionics and VR gaming, Iara Lee's 1995 cyber-age intellectual survey - call it a *.DOCumentary - downloads a Future Shockful of data and defines the...
My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out – I’ve thought about writing her one of those “Now I’m Dead, Here’s My Letter Of Advice For...
Caitlin Moran
Tribute to an elder
Rebecca Roher
9 min
Michael Moore interviews NY Times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges for the special features section of his documentary 'Capitalism A Love Story'. Hedges explains how capitalism is consuming and destroying everything on the planet, including the planet itself, and a sort of...
4 min
Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years, has a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty.
Today Professors in Poverty premieres at a Congressional briefing calling on politicians, colleges and...
26 min
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky.
Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear...
7 min
Every Job I've Ever Had Has-Been (or Will-Be) Automated
15 min
Roughly seven minutes away from my house by car, down a mountain road in the middle of the forest of Rio de Janeiro, sits an encampment in which several homeless people live. Because it’s behind a wall, one can’t see the encampment from the street. But what one does see when...
Adam Elliott-Cooper discusses how Britain's role as a major imperial power not only brought about mass migration, but has united an otherwise extremely heterogeneous Black population in struggle through their common experience of colonial violence. The 'diversity in unity' of...
Adam Elliott-Cooper
2 min
You may have heard about it, may have even seen images about it. But do you really know anything about the wall? Or how it is being built on Palestinian land and around Palestinian cities? When it was made? And how it effects every single Palestinian in some shape or form...
2 min
How much income is too much? The former Minnesota governor rallies for the living wage and against the greed at the core of income inequality.
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Naomi Zack and Steve Paulson
3 min
Sam & Margot hope to ignite a debate about capitalism and inequality with their new music video, aptly titled "Burn It Down," which recently premiered at The Milwaukee Film Festival. It certainly provides a nice theme song for the aspirations of the 99%. Yes, burn down this...
If we had focused on the real causes of poverty over the past 30 years we probably wouldn’t need the United Nations’ sustainable development goals now
Zoe Williams
3 min
Over 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists affirm Black-Palestinian solidarity in our new video. Featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat, Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many...
At a vigil to honor the victims of Sandy Hook, I read aloud the piece that Rabbi Lerner wrote on December 14th, 2012, entitled: “Banning All Guns is Necessary but Not Sufficient”, that we also need a fundamental transformation of consciousness both inner and societal. An...
Cheryl Hashman Sheinman
Internalized racism prevented me from seeing how the system works.
Marcus Harrison Green
1 min
Uri Rezken was stabbed in the back by a man who mistook him for Palestinian. Now, Uri's calling for peace.
29 min
Almost half a century after his famous raised-fist salute at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, John Carlos has authored a new memoir with sports writer Dave Zirin, "The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World." Olympic medal winners in the 200 meter...
14 min
Rejected by everyone except for his two dogs, Birdie is a fruit peddler on the chaotic streets of Rio de Janeiro. Heloisa Passos presents this intimate story about friendship and the all too common story of survival for the homeless.
2 min
Over 30 percent of Saudi Arabia's population are migrant workers. But most who come, cannot leave. If they try, they could face death.
Learn more about the Saudi Kingdom's dark secrets in the full episode here: Inside the Saudi Kingdom: Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt
Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.
George Monbiot
3 min
We are in a college debt crisis. Almost 70 percent of college students graduate with approximately $30,000 in college debt. In 1992, it was one-third of that average. Why has the cost and burden
4 min
Whether you are for or against gun control, it is undeniable that gun violence is a huge problem in America and something needs to change. I wrote This Is Home nearly three years ago after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and it is sadly just as relevant today as it...
Brilliant satirical comic imagines what policy would look like if the UN focused on eliminating extreme wealth.
Liv Strömquist
55 min
"Marx Is Back" takes place in todays' Argentina, which suffers like other countries the blows of economic crises. Workers of a printing house are facing suspensions and lay-offs; a group of workers are organizing to fight back as the union officials try to push them aside. At...
17 min
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
4 min
Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father...
2 min
Salute chronicles Peter Norman's involvement in the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The picture of the three men on the winner's podium after the Men's 200m final at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is still considered one of the most powerful images of modern history...
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
Riccardo Gazzaniga
8th March is International Women's Day, to celebrate here are six incredible poems written and performed by women.
4 min
"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace.""Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full of hope? Where are you, wise women covered in wounds? Where are you?"
2 min
Mass shootings keep happening in the United States. But what happens when you limit guns? Here's a look at gun laws around the world.
The History, the Inspiration, the Mass Murder
J.J. McCullough
There can be no doubt that the job market has been more resilient since the financial crisis than many imagined. Unemployment did not rise as far as was feared and the recovery in employment to pre-recession levels has been quicker than forecast by even the most optimistic...
Stephen Bevan
4 min
A message of hope, a message that looks beyond the numbers and sees the human looking for hope.
Toxic ideas about people of color can be hard to shake, but looking at those ideas from a different perspective reveals positive truths.
Trabian Shorters
What would gun rights look like in America if we treated them like abortion rights? The Supreme Court has ruled that owning guns and getting abortions are both rights granted to Americans, but the laws governing each are remarkably different. Republicans are the primary...
William Hamby
6 min
A young cleaning girl's day turns upside down when she finds the gripping journal of a refugee. How a shared story can change peoples attitude. Heartwarming.
I want to live in a community with men and women, with children, animals and plants so that I am not continually forced to hide my actual being from the others. Perception and contact are forces of life that are as elementary as breathing. If these are possible, then I love...
Sabine Lichtenfels
My new home of West Asheville is in the news. A local coffee shop, Waking Life Espresso, closed its doors after its owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens were outed for hosting a misogynistic blog. In addition to repulsive and degrading comments about women and details of...
Charles Eisenstein
14 min
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, October 1. According to Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, the shooter was a 20-year-old male, and was killed by officers who...
It isn’t just poor people’s lives which differ from rich people’s lives – it's poor people's thoughts that differ from everyone else's.
Carmen Rios
69 min
A timely and emotional debut documentary that celebrates Hawaii's most cherished social values, Ola challenges us to rethink what it means to be healthy. Ola (Hawaiian for "life" or "well being") explores the widespread social factors that affect our ability to create...
Despite research telling us it’s a really bad idea, many of us end up working 50-hour weeks or more because we think we’ll get more done and reap the benefits later. And according to a study published last month involving 600,000 people, those of us
Bec Crew