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1,000 Times No. This documentary follows a group of college students taking action against the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses by educating and raising awareness. This short documentary helps students understand the risks of the dangerous behavior that...
At first glance, Quiet Time - a stress reduction strategy used in several San Francisco middle and high schools, as well as in scattered schools around the Bay Area - looks like something out of the om-chanting 1960s. Twice daily, a gong sounds in the classroom and rowdy...
David L. Kirp
13 min
Perspectives asks the question: Given all that we know, why does sexual assault happen? "Perspectives" looks at different levels of knowledge (and experience) with sexual assault and rape on college and university campuses in the greater Boston area.
17 min
In Motion tells a sobering story. After a sexual assault, a college aged woman is faced with difficult decisions regarding her health and her future. This short narrative film engages with the question of consent and the quick response of friends who, perhaps unintentionally...
Alive in the Sunshine
Issue 13: Alive in the Sunshine
Essays
by Alyssa Battistoni
There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old
Alyssa Battistoni
23 min
Katalyst follows Katya, an amateur artist and survivor of sexual assault, as she goes on a journey of healing. She comes into contact with other survivors and takes steps with them to overcome the trauma caused by her sexual assault years earlier.
14 min
Invisible Fight is part documentary and part fictional film, with the focus on highlighting the stupidity and injustice of victim blaming. First-person testimonials of actual survivors of sexual assault are combined with vignettes depicting real world scenarios of assault...
16 min
$5 for Guys. Girls Free is a re-enacted close-up of the college generation and how quickly a typical night out can go wrong. The story is led by a Spoken Word artist and complemented by a sexual assault Psychologist. We took an interesting twist on the form of documentary and...
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A brilliant poem by Heathcote Williams, narration and montage by Alan Cox. This poem is about the horrors and psychopathy of drone warfare headed by Obama.
Considerations such as 'what do you really care about' and 'who do you serve' should be drivers of sustainability, not profit.
Charles Eisenstein
Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.” It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th. The...
JANE MAYER
77 min
A cinema verite masterpiece...brilliantly captured... about an inner city pawnshop and a banker of last resort. The documentary from Gemini-award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld is set in a pawnshop. Its owner, David Woolfson, a bone-hard Jewish merchant from South Africa...
My recent presentation “Risk Management, Insurance and the Climate Crisis” focussed on the increase in likelihood and consequences of extreme weather events resulting from climate change. Here’s a sample of points from that presentation and elsewhere, including points...
It's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows. Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain...
JESSE A. MYERSON
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The reaction to Jesse Myerson’s Rolling Stone piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For” went beyond anyone’s expectation. Many conservative commentators
25 min
The WRITE reason is a documentary that explores the work of three published authors writing about their mental health experiences. The film shows how writing helps three ordinary, but very different people cope with their problems and dispels common misconceptions about...
The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic impacts of global warming.
Richard Smith
6 min
Short film where a British Columbia farmer discusses where the sustainability movement is going and what needs to change to foster greater local and global resilience.
11 min
With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.
28 min
Abby Martin discusses the history of the Black Hills in South Dakota, the US governments seizure of the land and subsequent offer of $1 Billion to the Sioux tribe, which they refuse to accept.
88 min
The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.
42 min
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and...
47 min
The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil, its real business remains to be discovered.
11 min
The Media Consortium had its annual meeting in Baltimore this past February. Here are some of the highlights from the presentations
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Thousands came together in Washington, DC on October 26, 2013 to protest the NSA's mass surveillance programs.
It wasn't until late last night that I heard about the Mark Duggan verdict, in a distressed text from a friend:
"...how can a shooting of an unarmed man be lawful?"
Is it strange that we should both be so deeply consumed with rage and grief at the killing of a...
Wasi Daniju
60 min
This film analyzes the movement of a society from freedom to tyranny in five steps. It clearly shows how those in positions of power may cultivate the conditions of tyranny in any population by demonstrating how easily ordinary people may be manipulated into compliance with...
5 min
Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Richly...
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This mini-documentary describes the launch of the Natural News Forensic Food Lab and its mission to publicly document analytical research on the heavy metals, toxic elements and radioactive isotopes found in everyday foods. See published results at Labs.NaturalNews.com
32 min
Professor Stephanie Kelton explained the origins of the Bretton Woods system, why US policy makers still make policy as if we were in a gold standard world, why we will not become like Greece, what really creates hyper inflation, why the US can easily reach full employment...
2 min
Join a global debate! Watch amazing films! Ask questions about poverty! Why Poverty? is a ground breaking, cross-media event, online and on TV, using films to get people talking about poverty, wealth and inequality. With 70 broadcasaters working together to create the first...
June 8, 2011 | This article appeared in the June 27, 2011 edition of The Nation.
There is no economic policy more important than job creation. The private sector plays an invaluable and dynamic role in providing employment, but it cannot ensure enough jobs to keep up...
L. Randall Wray
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1 Day, 10 People, 100 Minutes, 1000 Hugs | Free Hugs Campaign organized in Ahmedabad for the first ever time, on 4th February to celebrate universal love and acceptance. Shot & Edited by Jayrajsinh Chavda 'Aazad' (One Man Army)
5. TREASURY BONDS—Are they really what we think they are?
J.D. Alt
17 min
Reality Asserts Itself - Chris Hedges
17 min
Chris Hedges talks about journalism on the Real News.
25 min
Paul Jay from The Real News Network sits down with Ralph Nader for a fantastic interview. This December, 2013 interview is in three segments and covers a range of topics.
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Abby remarks on the legacy of Leonard Peltier, a Lakota activist given two life sentences for the murder of two federal agents, despite the lack of evidence connecting him to the crime. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
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This week on Moyers & Company, State of Conflict: North Carolina, offers a documentary report from the state that votes both blue and red and sometimes purple. Now, however, Republicans are steering North Carolina far to the right: slashing taxes on corporations and the...
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Abby Martin Breaks the Set with exclusive coverage of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin FOLLOW Cody Snell @ https://twitter.com/codysnell EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this...
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Oldie but goodie, Dan and Dan's satirical song about the right-wing British newspaper The Daily Mail.
Time and time again, US presidents have been impeached or forced to resign for all the wrong reasons.
Mike Micklow
Deciding to offer Web Design in a Gift Economy changed my life. Here’s how.
Adrian Hoppel
10 min
Nature's beauty can be easily missed - but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.
4 min
A movement about building the world we know is possible in our hearts today.
We live in extraordinary times. All around us the old world is crumbling, while the new one struggles to be born. Crises and catastrophes are rocking our planet like never before. Rebellions and revolutions are stirring the system to its very core. And yet, while the tidal...
ROAR Collective
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What are we leaving our children? "Hand Me Downs" asks this question by showing what happens when trash is passed from generation to generation and finally to a baby. It dramatizes what we are doing every day in this country and around the world: Leaving our trash for our...
Did you know that, wherever you live, it’s almost certain that farm animals are not protected by key aspects of standard prevention-of-cruelty laws? Animal industries are generally exempt in respect of standard procedures that would be punishable by fines or jail terms if...
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This week:
1. The War on Christmas Trees
2. NYE Noise Demos
3. Rote Flora Defense
4. 20 years of Zapatistas
5. RATM - People of the Sun
6. Anarchists come out of the closet
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Today we look back at 2013. It was a historic year. Edward Snowden exposed how the National Security Agency had built a worldwide surveillance apparatus, while Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking U.S. secret documents to WikiLeaks. Pope Francis urged...
Today marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up.
Michael Moore
The vague cultural concept doesn't translate easily into English, but it has helped Denmark become the 'happiest country on Earth' despite long, dark winters.
Russell McLendon
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How would you feel about replacing your lawn with a natural, low-maintenance system that would also give you a bounty of fruits, vegetables and herbs? Écomestible is a young business that specializes in the design and implementation of edible landscapes.
The news: Norway is well on its way to digitizing every book in its National Library and making them all free to access for any Norwegian citizen. That means hundreds of thousands of books will be available to anyone accessing the collection online with a Norwegian IP address.
Benjamin Cosman
And the grand total is...
Jordan Weissmann
It’s not surprising that many people are uncertain about the dangers of climate change. Much confusion has been created by groups with vested interests, who have successfully utilised sophisticated PR (public relations) techniques to influence public perceptions and opinion.
90 min
This is a French documentary about climate change.
66 min
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up...
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An amazing lecture given by Alan Watts a British philosopher, writer, and speaker. Alan Watts audio courtesy of alanwatts.org Special thanks to Alanna Ketler at Collective Evolution for the kind permission to use one of their documentaries and All other Credit goes to it's...
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Tolson Rendell is a traditional farmer in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland who has been rearing sheep since 1968. For shearing he uses simple tools and methods that he learned as a young boy by watching a community elder by the name of Mrs. Eva George. It usually takes him two...
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The Tchaikovsky Syndrome is a documentary film about the rise of violent homophobia in Russia. It also documents the current Anti-Gay Propaganda Law signed by Vladimir Putin and a range of new anti-gay laws that are currently being proposed by the Russian government (on the...
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Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan. His farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding. He does not plow the soil or use prepared compost and yet the condition of the soil in his...
97 min
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.”
– Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein
44 min
What does it feel like to be poor in the midst of plenty? This heart-wrenching documentary drops us into the middle of a welfare ghetto in high-flying Australia. We hear from the adult world all the time about what poverty is and how to fix it, but this film delves into the...
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Within Reach explores one couple's pedal-powered search for a place to call home. Mandy and Ryan gave up their jobs, cars, and traditional houses to 'bike-pack' 6500 miles around the USA seeking sustainable community. Rather than looking in a traditional neighborhood, they...
A 20 year-old man came down with appendicitis in October of this year. He posted the bill on Reddit and it has gone viral. The US
viralnova.com
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From grey to green. With a litle of work and dedication there is a chance of peace ...
London, May 2009. A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman
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Four Corners asks children what it's like being poor in the midst of plenty. Filmed in Claymore (Sydney, Australia).
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Actions for future is a teaser for a documentary series from "Sattva-reports" in Taiwan. The reports introduce projects and people working for sustainability in the Vegan Food movement, Permaculture, Spiritual Communities and Yoga/Detox. Find your inspiration!
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2013 seemed to be the year of news bloopers from the embarrassing, crude and hilarious events seen in the crazy year.
Nurses, philosophers, and trade unions have over the past 12 months all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better — places to live.
Sam Pizzigati
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Architect Mark Lakeman provides an enlightening comparison between the structural patterns of indigenous settlement that sustain cultures rich in social connection and cosmic relation, and the Assyrian grid imposed by Rome to subjugate the soul of the village to the...
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The film, narrated by Peter and produced and directed by Tom and Barbara Burstyn, features Peter Proctor of New Zealand, the father of bio-dynamic agriculture. The documentary highlights his journey throughout India helping farmers revive their poisoned soil. Various...
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In our final episode, Unseen War, we change the angle slightly and explore the physical, moral and political invisibility of US drone strikes in Pakistan. We speak to journalists, activists and experts inside and outside of Pakistan about the consequences of the strikes in...
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The Love Mob is: organized acts of Love.
This article first appeared on the author’s Terrastendo blogging site on 26th March, 2013.
Does the concept of a living planet uplift and inspire you, or is it a disturbing example of woo-woo nonsense that distracts us from practical, science-based policies?
Charles Eisenstein
5 min
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
Are you ready to help change the world and revive the archaic?
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"The Weight of Chains" is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen...
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Toxic Hot Seat follows a courageous group of firefighters and mothers, journalists and scientists, politicians and activists as they fight to expose a shadowy campaign of deception that left a toxic legacy in our homes and bodies - a campaign so cunning, it's taken nearly 40...
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Swedish journalists came to the United States to document the anti-war and Black Power movements of the late 60s and early 70s. The Black Power Mixtape combines music, original 16mm footage, and contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists, activists...
Bill McKibben, founder of US-based climate change campaign group 350.org, recently visited Australia for a series of presentations and media appearances. McKibben appears to have been extremely effective in mobilising people around the world, who are demanding meaningful...
I have an interest in the world of insurance, which is a far more comprehensive and intricate industry than suggested by domestic insurers’ multi-policy discounts and the like.
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Enbridge misleads the public about the proposed tanker routes. On December 8th, 2011, Enbridge uploaded this video to the internet, to show everyone the proposed route for the Northern Gateway Pipelines. It's purpose was to show the route of the pipeline, or was it? Many...
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Will you join the movement to unbreak our birth care system in the U.S.?
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#ReGENERATION explores the inherent cynicism found in many of today's youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture's apathetic approach to social and political causes. The film features three intersecting stories of students, parents, and artists all...
57 min
The one-hour 1998 documentary film, Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free, in its entirety. The film explores the mechanisms of news censorship in the mainstream media. It focuses on the work of Project Censored, an organization founded after the Watergate scandal by...
38 min
'Fractured Country: an Unconventional Invasion' is a new film from Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia) about the risks to communities from invasive gasfields. This is the full version of the documentary.
35 min
The full version of the recently released film from the Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia), 'Undermining Australia: Coal vs Communities' The documentary features the personal stories of Australians whose lives have been changed forever by coal mining. The film was directed by...
5 min
It would be hard to argue that the environmental movement, which began in earnest in the 1960s, and despite several successes in the 1970s, has failed. Today, the Clean Water Act has been ignored with fracking, Fukushima is releasing millions of gallons of radioactive water...
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The Love Mob is multi-generational movement that promotes love as a lifestyle. This benevolent "mob" began creating organized acts of love with a massive flash mob in Los Angeles dedicated to victims of Sandy Hook last December: (http://youtu.be/EuTp44xwX7A)
After being...
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Prisca Merz
13 min
Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie's most recent film, Occupy Love, explores the growing realization that the dominant systems of power are failing to...
65 min
Max Keiser is a world renowned economic commentator and gives his breakdown of the history of ‘bubbles’ and how the City continues to game a system to breaking point. He is flanked by Respect MP George Galloway.
6 min
This is a general overview of how to built a 14x14 solar cabin for under $2000. For complete step-by-step directions, videos, and more project plans including how to install solar power, drill your own well, build a composting toilet and more please visit the Simple Solar...
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“Hope for Colombia” follows the 10 day Grace Pilgrimage through and around the Colombian capital Bogota in November 2010. It is a portrait of two projects – Tamera, a peace research centre in Portugal which organized the pilgrimage, and the Colombian peace community San José...
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This short film was produced for the exhibition Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth held at Ivorypress Space in September-October 2010 and it traces Fuller's life and career without leaving aside its tragicomic touch and focusing on the milestones of his work, which paved the way...