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BBC documentary featuring also shots showing how life was in Tibet before the invasion in 1959.
1 min
SHOW US WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE MEANS TO YOU! UPDATED DEADLINE: April 1, 2014 #Action4Climate video challenge invites young aspiring filmmakers to produce and submit a 1-12 minute video documentary telling a story about climate change. How is climate change impacting your community?
18 min
This Week: 1. Proto nazis in the Ukraine 2. the end of Bill McKibben's innocence 3. Enbridge blockers found guilty 4. Fracking pipeline must be stopped 5. No justice for Kelly Thomas 6. The silent anarchist is free 7. Bambu - Crosshairs 8. Peter Gelderloos on Barcelona assemblies
88 min
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary.
We remind you subtitles are available! Visit http://www.seedsofpermaculture.org for more information and extra...
2 min
He's the imam of a town in France that once deported Jews. That history - and his own humanity - makes Imam Hassen Chalghoumi speak out against fanaticism. This is the voice of reformist clerics that we've all been waiting to hear.
4 min
An excerpt from Anjali's second TEDx Talk on the negative use of fear as motivator in the world of activism, suggesting hope as viable alternative to action.
Part 2 is the full-length video.
2 min
In this beautifully animated clip from Dirt! The Movie, Wangari Maathai tells an inspiring tale of doing the best you can under seemingly interminable odds.
11 min
The short film, in French and directed by Éléonore Pourriat, shows a father taking his kid to kindergarten and going through the rest of his day facing catcalls, sexist remarks, sexual assault, and contempt.
6 min
From the Himalayas to US Neuroscience labs, two filmmakers explore the effects of mediation and it's potential for collective evolution.
Back in 2009, I discussed the claims that incorporating biochar in soils could help mitigate climate change in an Ecologist article. At the time, biochar was included in a draft UN climate agreement: biochar carbon offsets were proposed and proponents were speaking about...
Almuth Ernsting
30 min
This is the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
5 min
The Occupy Austin group and other activists came together to show support for food without Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). These activists stand for the labeling of products containing GMOs and aim to educate the public about what Monsanto has done to our food system.
2 min
One of Larry Jackson's first acts of protest was his draft to the Vietnam War. His early political involvement lead to a life of change and activism in Austin. ----------------------- This project is produced in conjunction with THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS.
9 min
Generation Waking Up is a global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world. This video is part of the Generation Waking Up Experience - called a 'WakeUp' for short - a multimedia educational workshop that inspires young...
A note of clarification: The "left" in left libertarian in the title exists to distinguish the solutions this article presents from the right-learning associations most people have of American libertarianism. If you're only used to reading
Kevin Carson
5 min
A concise breakdown of the 2008 episode of 'Catalyst' on Biochar (referred to in the video as Agrichar) edited with additional images. For a comprehensive insight into Biochar, please visit this playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6s3pCgkGTkQLaE8J9CqvSERf6KXnOdO
20 min
Study finds fungi is responsible for majority of carbon sequestration in northern forests.
3 min
The film explores Mama C’s decade’s long project of coming to terms with who she is—an African American raised in Kansas City, KS, the “jazz-capital of the world,” who has lived most of her life in Africa, the place from where her ancestors were forced to make the...
18 min
Glimpse into the miraculous potential of Biochar as a significant solution to climate change, soil degradation, drought, slash and burn deforestation, peak phosphorus and the global food crisis.
2 min
This is about a different kind of war that hits home. Literally. A New York advocate for tenants tells us how landlords have tried to burn renters out of their apartments by throwing Molotov cocktails inside. The landlords' aim? To get current tenants out so that...
Provocative, mature and cinematic, Luca Bellino and Silvia Luzi’s award-winning documentary explores the 15-month struggle of militant factory workers in Milan to save their plant from closure. The stakes are raised when the workers occupy and over 8 days in 2009 their fight...
Bristol Radical Film Festival
A new report from the Swedish Prison and Probation Service claims that 46 percent of Sweden’s inmates are mentally ill, that 70 percent have severe drug problems and that these problems mostly have their origins in early life. As elsewhere, Sweden’s prison population is made...
David Grobgeld
1 min
The 22 minute documentary premiered at the Environmental Film Festival Melbourne (EFFM), Australia - 5th September 2013.
8 min
Under threat and under-recognised, this beautiful Victorian wetland (South-Eastern Australia) is home to 129 bird species and a community who are out to save it.
12 min
This hauntingly beautiful film introduces people scarred and deeply impacted by the British atomic weapons tests at Emu Fields and Maralinga in the 1950's and 60's. The memories of Aboriginal elders who experienced the fallout, alongside those of Australian atomic veterans...
17 min
The Olympics are as much about money as they are about sports. Between broadcasting rights, merchandising, sponsorships and construction of the Olympic venues themselves, there's a lot of money to be made.
Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South.
Jason Hickel
31 min
Complex tax systems allow for avoidance, evasion and expensive administration costs to both the public and private purse. At the recent G8 summit, the UK placed tax compliance as one of the most important issues facing the world today.
3 min
This animated short film visualizes what the Basic Income is, why a movement for it is growing around the globe, and how we could pay for it.
120 min
What's the problem with the world economy? It's debt -- too much personal debt -- too much corporate debt -- and most importantly, too much government debt.
27 min
Accessing and using the forests upon which they depend for survival is one of the main challenges faced by local communities in the Congo Basin rainforests, especially for indigenous 'Pygmies'. National laws offer very few rights for Central Africa's forest people, and even...
10 min
A philosophical treatise against the practice of forced labor for income. An abridged reading of 'The Abolition of Work' by Bob Black.
8 min
It's the 21st century -- why are we working so much? And is there a solution that would have radically positive effects for all aspects of society and the economy?
2 min
We all use money, we all rely on money. But do we know how money works? Where does money come from? How is money created?
5 min
Fewer than 10% of the world's population own and control all our land and natural resources.
3 min
Abby Martin highlights a new report from the World Health Organization that predicts global cancer rates to rise by 57% over the next 20 years, and calls attention to the battle over generic cancer medicine and the threat posed by pharmaceutical companies who put profits...
4 min
There are an increasing number of officials being made aware of the illegalities and abuses by the Romanian authorities in the Gregorian Bivolaru case. Some have even questioned the very fabric of Romania’s justice system. Voices from the Supreme Council of Magistrates in...
10 min
In 1963, in the midst of the heated debate over the desegregation of American schools, the University of Alabama announced that it would for the first time allow African Americans to enroll. Fifty years later, in September 2013, two University of Alabama sororities rejected...
2 min
Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing.
3 min
It took over four years for photographer Jimmy Nelson to document 29 cultures and tribes at risk of disappearing from their remote corners of the world. He set out to "celebrate the beauty of these cultures and their traditional ways of life" and beautifully captured his...
5 min
Thank goodness for the people behind these smartphones and cameras because otherwise ... well, without them, who would know that these things are happening? WARNING: Some violent/graphic content is shown.
32 min
A 30 minute documentary focused on the challenges citizen journalists face and our rights with cameras in public. Digital cameras & social media sharing are possibly the most powerful tools available to activists. Know your rights about using them, and don't be intimidated...
6 min
This TED Talk by Nick Hanauer was initially not posted by TED due to its controversial thesis. In his short speech, Hanauer points out the inaccuracy of calling business owners "job creators", and the problems that result from perpetuating this world view– most notably income...
“Do what you love. Love what you do.”
Miya Tokumitsu
ALONIA, Greece — The feisty owner of a small family business that makes detergents has never had time for anticapitalist firebrands. So he was suspicious and skeptical when he was approached by left-leaning activists campaigning to purge “profiteers” from the market.
Andrew Higgins
10 min
10 minutes of plain-spoken awesome. Economic Democracy is the BIG IDEA of our time. Make sure you don't miss the awesome moment starting at 2:30 that goes until 3:25!
This comic offers a pointed critique of the phrase "getting friend-zoned" and the unthinking attitudes that often get carried along with this term. What do you think?
MammaMantis
2 min
Matti Salminen is a mental health advocate who knows what it's like to struggle with mental illness. After being diagnosed with Schizophrenia and later attempting suicide, Matti began a long journey to recovery that wasn't always easy. Schizophrenia is complex, and the field...
1 min
World Osteoporosis Day 2013 * www.worldosteoporosisday.org Bone health is especially important in post-menopausal women, as they are most affected after an osteoporotic fracture. Everyone knows a family member or friend who has suffered an osteoporotic fracture; whether a...
2 min
A Chipotle original series that explores the outrageously twisted world of industrial agriculture. Premieres Feb. 17 on Hulu.
3 min
This video was shot in Portland, Oregon, November, 2011 and features the words of John Trudell.
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Debut al
3 min
Art is but a tool to call for general global awareness!
All means are available nowadays for us all to share a fair, free and clean world: economic sustainability, ecological mentality and resource based lifestyle.
4 min
Meet Nick Hanauer. He’s a very wealthy man, his family owns a lot of things, and he’s invested in some big companies that started out small (ahem ... Amazon...). He’s got a few things to say about who the job creators really are in our country, and it goes totally against the...
8 min
Abby Martin speaks with BTS producer Manuel Rapalo about the top five characteristics of a liar, including body language and verbal signals, using past presidents as prime examples.
12 min
Abby Martin takes a closer look at the 3D printer revolution, featuring interviews with Kristen Turner of Sculpteo and Liza Wallach of HoneyBee3D, discussing how the technology works and the ways it will revolutionize manufacturing and democratize production. LIKE Breaking...
Based on what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal.
Are there any self-respecting environmental organizations out there that are still behind President Obama? After his State of the Union on Tuesday...
Tara Lohan
3 min
A former racist skinhead, TJ began questioning the ethics of the movement and began to speak with younger members in order to convince them to leave the movement. A fierce advocate against hate, TJ has kept his own name despite repeated death threats.
2 min
Kevin got bullied in school. But then he took up boxing. Check out what happened when he saw another student being bullied, and decided to act. Moral Courage TV tells the stories of people who are fighting corruption in their faith, culture, or workplace.
24 min
I have been volunteering in Honduras as an International Human Rights Observer since May 2012. In that time, I have been involved in situations where international accompaniment was vital to the safety, and indeed the life, of Hondurans who struggle for Justice and Dignity.
3 min
This is THE Film about Bullying you MUST SEE! Bullied to Silence provides hope and a path for change to anyone who has ever witnessed or experienced being bullied or a bully.
4 min
For almost 40 years now, Leonard Peltier has been in prison. The injustices run deep. Learn more and get fired up to DO SOMETHING!
15 min
Over 500,000 innocent people have been killed by the Indonesian military in West Papua. Women and children have been raped, elderly people tortured, fathers removed from families, women forcibly sterilized, villages burnt and thousands imprisoned for speaking out. Help us to...
5 min
Twenty-nine year old Michael Magner, owner of a sub shop and pizzeria, decided to open an authentic Italian restaurant in Beverly, Massachusetts. He needed a chef. Paolo Laboa, a two star Michelin chef, had just moved to Massachusetts with his wife and children from San...
How can I make a positive difference in the world? Where do I start? Which of the overwhelming number of urgent global issues should I focus my attention on first? These are questions most of us have asked ourselves at some point, but although being an active citizen can...
Sophie McAdam
You fly in through Salt Lake City. You drive your rental car up and up and up to Park City. It's snow, Venti-sized drinks and premiere screenings day and night over the ten days of the 30th anniversary edition of the Sundance Film Festival.
Peter Samuelson
NEW YORK — The co-founder of one the nation’s oldest venture capital firms fears a possible genocide against the wealthy. Residents of Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side say the progressive mayor didn’t plow their streets as a form of frosty revenge. And the co-founder of Home...
Ben White
There's a lot of talk of Karl Marx in the air these days – from Rush Limbaugh accusing Pope Francis of promoting "pure Marxism" to a Washington Times writer
Sean McElwee
2 min
With the owner of the team vowing "NEVER" to change its name, Native American tribes around the country launched a national campaign to do just that.
When banks are allowed to create a nation’s money supply, we all end up paying higher taxes. This is because the profits from creating new money go to the banks rather than the taxpayer, and because taxpayers end up paying the cost of financial crises, which are caused by the...
Positive Money UK
18 min
Enough Is Enough lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is enough, not more.
'Obama admin. clearly never wanted Copenhagen talks to work,' says Bill McKibben following latest NSA revelations concerning climate talks
While climate activists from around the world gathered outside the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 called for "System Change...
Jon Queally
Good ole’ Costco made national news again during this year’s State of the Union. Why? Because Costco is a corporate empire that pays livable wages.
Maria Myotte
48 min
AUGUST 7, 2013 - The Washington Post announced the paper had been sold to Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million. Bezos, one of the world’s wealthiest men, now controls one of the most powerful newspapers in the country. Some critics of the sale have cited...
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This is the first four minutes of Agnes Varda's award-winning documentary, "The Gleaners and I" (2000). Inspired by Realist painter Jean-François Millet's famous painting "The Gleaners [Les Glaneuses] (1857)," Varda explores contemporary practices of gleaning and recycling.
Vera Scroggins, an outspoken opponent of fracking, has been legally barred from the new county hospital. Also off-limits, unless Scroggins wants to risk fines and arrest, are the Chinese restaurant where she takes her grandchildren, the supermarkets and drug stores where she...
Suzanne Goldenberg
9 min
Agitators of the Agora, a new series focusing on unique perspectives from today's prominent anarchist thinkers. This premiere episode features Derrick Broze of The Houston Free Thinkers discussing the links between anarchism and the practices of Buddhism and shamanism, what...
4 min
An AWESOME MMT Video
A big MMT thanks to Donna D’Souza aka Trixie aka @HaikuCharlatan. She has done an awesome job of animating J.D. Alt’s wonderful new ebook D
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American Promise is more than a documentary; it is part of a bigger, ongoing movement about changing perceptions of-and behavior and values with respect to-young African-American males in our society.
2 min
Lock the Gate Alliance has put together a short 90 second video tribute to you, and the year that was - 2013. It's our way to say THANK YOU for your actions last year: to remember the sacrifices that people have made; the incredible hurdles they have overcome; the thousands...
70 min
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep...
Perhaps the biggest news in south-eastern Australia in the four days commencing 14th January, 2014 was the extreme heat. In Melbourne, for the first time ever recorded, we experienced four consecutive days above 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit), ranging from 41.7C to...
20 min
Is circumcision a valid practice? Penn & Teller look at the various justifications behind the procedure and try to determine whether there exists a medical or social cause.
3 min
Alan Watts asks "what did you forget?" in this Sustainable Man film starring Chris, Sean, and Luke Abad as "Joe Dokes"
"Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?" - Alan Watts
7 min
Our ideas about financial investment have been fairly limited thus far. Investment has been all about maximizing financial return at any cost, even if that cost is environmental pollution, human dignity, or our moral compass. Our economy has focused narrowly on creating and...
By Katie Mulvaney
Katie Mulvaney
4 min
If someone told you that a mountain of personal debt could be cleared via 3 simple changes to the way that money and banking works, would you like to know how? Would you like to see a more stable economy, with more jobs, less personal and government debt?
Take action: Join...
86 min
It's the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. We have fundamentally changed the rules of the game and the rules of engagement. Today drone strikes, night raids, and U.S. government--condoned torture occur in corners across the...
"I believe, inherently, that the structures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now."
The economic and legal system rewards corporations that bulldoze, stripmine and burn. A new law against ecocide could halt this destruction.
Designer Vivienne Westwood expressed anguish and alarm at the worsening state of the planet, at a press conference yesterday. "The...
Charles Eisenstein
Friends, put on your flak jackets. It's time to drop some honesty on yet another uncomfortable topic: love.
Carsie Blanton
51 min
David Korten’s inspiring and extensively illustrated presentation of his book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. David says we are at a defining moment in all of human history.
Don’t ask anyone to “accept” the bad parts of you. Instead, strive to improve those parts. Make yourself worthy of the love they’ve offered you.
I was perusing my Facebook Newsfeed today and I came across a status that said this:
“Yea I’m a b*tch but deal with it. I wont be...
Matt Walsh
13 min
Abby Martin speaks with Andreas Antonopoulos, founder of Root Eleven and co-host of let's Talk Bitcoin, discussing how Bitcoin works, and why it's so important to have a decentralized system of money.
Do you agonize over the little venial eco-sins of everyday life? Every gallon of gas, every extra minute of a hot shower, each flush?
Eric Moll
5 min
The chances are you never met Aaron Swartz, the man/social justice fighter/Internet genius, but he fought for you — yes, you, sitting there in front of your computer screen or phone — for a free and open Internet. Aaron fought tirelessly against dangerous Internet bills...
Liquid Democracy is one of the boldest contemporary innovations in democratic decision-making. The idea uses web technology that allows users to interact in new ways. Its primary innovators are located in Berlin, and Germany has been the first to adopt and apply Liquid...
Jose Ramos
Imagine the following exercise: You enter with your spouse, partner or good friend. The purpose is to deepen and improve your relationship through honest communication -- a mutual assessment for growth.
Steve Nelson
Last week, in the midst of what appears to be infinite fascination [2] about Lena Dunham’s nudity, I saw a fundraiser for the documentary “Free the Nipple [3]“ and also, by coincidence, talked to Facebook spokespeople
Soraya Chemaly
This is an image of a 19th century wood engraving called "Slaves in Brazil: The Terrible Torture of a Slave", from 'Journal des Voyages'. [3] It depicts a black slave being boiled alive above a huge cauldron.
Chauncey DeVega
Senators Introduce Chemical Safety And Drinking Water Protection Act In Response To West Virginia Spill
Reuters | Posted: 01/28/2014 12:38 pm EST | Updated: 01/28/2014 1:59 pm EST
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators introduced legislation on Tuesday...
Reuters