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Starhawk, contemporary witch, activist, and permaculturist, spoke at HDS (Harvard Divinity School) on March 7, 2013, about how earth-based spirituality can inform and empower efforts to build sustainable communities and societies. Starhawk is a founder of Reclaiming, a...
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This is an excerpt from The Fifth Sacred Thing, an upcoming feature film based on the best selling novel by Starhawk, and is set in 2048, where an ecotopian San Francisco defends itself from invaders using nonviolence and healing.
2 min
Float Nation is a full-length documentary that provides an inside look into the world of flotation tanks. This isn't here to promote or sensationalize the flotation experience, but to provide a multitude of viewpoints on what the tool and experience does and means to a wide...
5 min
Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important documentary, Thomas Keith, professor of philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny...
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What role does art play in the transition to a new kind of world? This video explores this question with beautiful sounds, images and ideas that will likely leave your imagination stimulated with evocative dreams and visions of your own.
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Scenes from the new western novel, Scalp. Scalp was written from a native's point of view and is refreshingly different than other westerns. A young Lakota boy becomes a man when he leaves the reservation to find the man that killed his family.
48 min
This video consists of three mini-documentaries about permaculture:
1. (0:12) FOREST GARDENING with Robert Hart
Find out loads about what forest gardening is, and how to make your own!
2. (15:55) PLANTS FOR A FUTURE with Ken Fern
Second is an amazing case study about...
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Securiotic is an excerpt from a funny animated short film Risto Turunen is working on called "The Heart". He has an IndieGoGO campaign running: http://igg.me/p/565213 if anyone feels inspired to help him get it created.
1 min
Forget your culture and give a fresh look at the world: questioning, researching and learning. Free your mind.
25 min
What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions? Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our...
7 min
Set in the remote Alaskan Yukon Delta, Yukon Kings follows Yup'ik fisherman Ray Waska as he teaches his grandkids how to fish during the summer salmon run. With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his...
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In the harsh environment of a Rhode Island men's prison, a group of fifty inmates are transforming their lives through the practice of meditation. Path of Freedom follows former inmate Fleet Maull as he visits prison to share his strategies for surviving on the inside.
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference had some big-name...
Naomi Klein
The "courage" of Edward Snowden is "contagious," according to lawyer and transparency advocate Jesselyn Radack, who says that additional employees at the National Security Agency are now coming forward with what they consider objectionable practices by their employer.
Jacob Chamberlain
An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development
Vandana Shiva
9 min
One year ago, when Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast of the United States with its high tides and winds stretching a 900-mile span, it hit communities in 24 states. Damage estimates range from $50 billion to $68 billion. In New York, loss estimates exceed $19 billion...
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THE AIR IS DARK... AND FULL OF CARBON
28 min
Abby Martin Breaks the Set with Legendary Director Oliver Stone and Renowned Historian Peter Kuznick.
A simple video that speaks for itself. This short film was made by the students (David Graaf, Ramona Krämer, Yana Tumakova) of the University of Cologne in a scope of media training course of Deutsche Welle in August 2011.
In one vision of the distant future, after global warming has melted the ice caps and left the planet covered in water, Kevin Costner grows fish gills, lives on a trimaran, and battles pirates as he sails in search of the legend of “Dryland.”
Christopher Zumski Finke
5 min
A short film on poverty, dignity, and the unconquerable nature of the human soul. I consider this to be my first formal short film. Winner of the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD- Manhattan International Film Festival 2012.
22 min
Over 550 students from Reception through to University are supported at the EFTC school in Guatemala; The School of Hope. Many of the children in our classrooms come from the poorest of backgrounds, living in corrugated iron shacks with mud floors.
12 min
Abby Martin's exclusive interview with the Rehman family, who lost their grandmother due to an American drone strike. The Rehmans came to the US from the North Waziristan region of Pakistan to testify in front of Congress about the horrors of living under drones.
In "historic" briefing, Rehman family gives heartbreaking account of drone killing of 65-year-old grandmother... to five lawmakers
Despite being heralded as the first time in history that U.S. lawmakers would hear directly from the survivors of a U.S. drone strike, only...
Lauren McCauley
3 min
Despite significant economic and social progress, India is still host to deep gender inequalities due to the unjustifiable patriarchal social norms and practices that fundamentally value a woman as a lesser mortal than man.
4 min
A video about a very special lady named Kelly.
7 min
Abby Martin calls out Saudi Arabia and gives an extensive outline of the country's extensive human rights record and repressive theocracy by discussing the open discrimination against women, public execution for petty crimes and harsh sentencing for government critics. LIKE...
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2D Animated Short Film on Tobacco Awareness.
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"Even in extreme poverty, a person has ideas. If these ideas aren't recognized, people fall even deeper into poverty" (participant in the Ouagadougou MDG seminar). To understand the successes and failures of the current MDG agenda, it is essential to think together with...
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The man described as the world's 'poorest president' discusses Uruguay's move to legalise marijuana.
2 min
Sundance award-winning documentary which tells the compelling story of how a group of young, feminist punk rockers known as Pussy Riot captured the world's attention by protesting against Putin's Russia. Through first-hand interviews with band members, their families and the...
1 min
The film will explain itself, but read on for further description. A short video that touches on how a smartphone can affect relationships with the people around us, not just people we know. Directed by Eliot Grigo, and done for an assignment for Transmedia Studio Concepts...
27 min
Take a trip to Somaliland and travel off the international map. Despite winning independence in a brutal civil war 20 years ago, Somaliland remains to be unrecognized by the international community. Eclipsed by Somalia's ongoing and complex troubles, Somaliland's milestones...
90 min
What defines true sustainability? How can we begin to create sustainability in a world that has such vastly differing views on the subject? If we perceive our external world as "unsustainable" what does this suggest about our own internal landscape?
“Did you ever ask yourself how it happens that government and capitalism continue to exist in spite of all the evil and trouble they are causing in the world?” the anarchist
Chris Hedges
“Reformism” is one of those words that’s hard to pin down sometimes. It’s usually taken to mean advocating for “reform within the system” — in other words, the bad kind of reform.
Kevin Carson
It’s been the thing lately, among certain establishment liberals, to dismiss libertarians as “Koch-funded shills.” We’ve heard a lot of it from Mark Ames and Yasha Levine at NSFWCorp, for example.
Kevin Carson
Thomas Nestel, the Philadelphia Transit Authority police chief, is aghast over the refusal of bystanders to help a transit cop — Sam Wellington — being beaten up by one of their fellow citizens that he’d been trying to arrest. “I was horrified. I was frightened for my cops.”
Kevin Carson
Kevin Carson dismisses the NWO conspiracy theory narrative of world government, which in many ways resembles a kind of 'cartoon evil' as it is often depicted. There is a more grounded way to look at it.
Kevin Carson
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:
Gary Chartier
58 min
A filmmaker makes a journey into her own family's history to investigate the terrible truth behind her grandmother's odd tattoos and, in the process, unveils the story of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War.
40 min
Finally someone in the mainstream media has changed their opinion on cannabis and he is sharing his new opinion with the world. That someone is CNN news correspondent neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. On August 11th 2013, CNN aired Sanjay Gupta's documentary "WEED".
5 min
This a clip from the feature length documentary, "Orbs: The Veil is Lifting". It has won 2 national awards, one for "Best Spiritual Film". It is currently being distributed by Beyond Words Publishing worldwide in several languages. You can also see this film at GaiamTV...
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Here is the side of the story you were never told. We couldn't save Muammar Gaddafi from media propaganda. We could not save all his grandchildren (all under 3 years old) from being brutally murdered either. Maybe this video will increase awareness and help the rest of his...
Social unrest over police actions, poverty and corruption have grown Black Bloc ranks
When a tear-gas canister rattled around at Andrea Coelho's feet, a masked young man picked it up and tossed it back at police. Right there, the kindergarten te
Bradley Brooks
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The triple bottom line for business is people, planet, profit. What is it for housing? A group of people in Leeds, England have built a cohousing project that sets a triple-benefit bar for housing projects by prioritizing three core tenets: the environment, affordability, and...
A strange thing happened during the October 2013 battle in the US Congress over a government shutdown and threat of default. The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, denounced the Republicans as “anarchists.” So did Elizabeth Warren, one of the most liberal Senators. As did...
Wayne Price
This article is about every person who has ever ingested a mind-altering substance but didn't want to die from doing so.
Neill Franklin and Mikayla Hellwich
5 min
The Right To Save Seed is an animated movie which explains when farmers can resow their seed in Europe. With the help of Magnum, Agata, Dali and Mona Lisa -- four varieties of potatoes that really exist -- the movie covers different legal situations with humour and a lot of...
Here in India, even in the midst of all the violence and greed, there is still hope. If anyone can do it, we can. We still have a population that has not yet been completely colonized by that consumerist dream.
Arundhati Roy
The U.S. military, according to one former diplomat with a frontrow seat to its drone policy in Yemen, is creating new terrorists in that country at breakneck speed.
Jon Queally
10 min
Still trust the mainstream media to bring you unbiased news? New research shows many so-called experts who appeared on television making the case for U.S. strikes on Syria had undisclosed ties to military contractors. A new report by the Public Accountability Initiative...
11 min
Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman engages Russell Brand about voting, apathy, revolution and beards... and it's the most utterly fantastic clash between the old paradigm and the new paradigm I've seen condensed into 11 minutes.
France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.
Marilyn Wedge
3 min
For over two weeks now, a coalition of people including local Mi'kmaq residents, and anglophone and Acadian settlers, have blockaded the road leading to an equipment compound leased to South Western Energy or SWN. SWN is a Texas based energy company, that has been attempting...
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With some of the only video from behind police lines, subMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the Mi'kmaq blockade of fracking equipment. But the fierce response of the community in defense of the warriors was also captured on camera. We...
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Have a look at how photography is actually creating futures. Deep in the beautiful mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Picture Aid travels to meet one of the children that are supported with education through a picture hanging on a wall: A 15 year old girl who dreams of becoming a...
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Klemen Slakonja impersonating Slavoj Žižek. A tribute to Žižek, Inspired by his lectures (Je bella cesta, 17.10.2013, Pop tv) What's up with this music?! I am a philosopher, I like to provoke, we live in perverted times, so let me tell you a perverted joke!
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.
David Cain
12 min
It's really unbelievable what happened to Stella Liebeck. You just have to watch to see how the media turned on this little old lady who lived in Albuquerque. Obviously a villain, right? And at 5:00, prepare to see what the coffee actually did to her. It's not pretty. Well...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is being negotiated in secret between more than 12 countries around the Pacific region. Find out why it poses a huge threat to your digital freedoms.
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StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum. This video harnesses the voices of celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures in speaking out against mass surveillance by...
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Abby Martin speaks with ANSWER Coalition organizer, Mike Prysner, about a new documentary titled 'No Justice, No Peace', which exposes the rise of rampant brutality by police.
We are in trouble, folks. If the record high temperatures, extreme droughts, and hi
http://sustainableman.org/author/chrisagnos/
To this day, a philosophical debate rages on as to the true nature of humanity. Is humanity at its core good or evil? Does the human species amount to no more than a parasite on the planet as Agent Smith says in The Matrix, “a cancer”, intent on devouring every last resource...
Sustainable Man
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Abby Martin speaks with BTS producer Manuel Rapalo about a few of the most shocking US government conspiracies that turned out to be true. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin FOLLOW Manuel Rapalo @...
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Abby Martin calls attention to the gross underestimation of Iraq War casualties, and calls out the WHO over a report that blatantly covers up the connection between the use of depleted uranium by occupation forces and congenital birth defects among Iraqis.
“The rich are different from us,” F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have remarked to Ernest Hemingway, to which Hemingway allegedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.”
Chris Hedges
Debunking Government’s Justification for Mass Surveillance
Preface: The Bush and Obama administrations have claimed for more than a decade that spying on Americans was justified by 9/11.
Senator Diane Feinstein – head of the Senate Intelligence Committee – is now...
Washington's Blog
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About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and...
11 min
Abby Martin speaks with John Perkins, best-selling author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' & 'Hoodwinked', about the corporate takeover of world governments and the need to eradicate the death economy.
11 min
About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and...
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The LEGO® BUILD THE CHANGE workshop took place at the EcoCity2013 World Summit, 24 - 29 September 2013.
Connect4Climate collected online submissions from around the world to be displayed at the event: http://www.connect4climate.org/competition/buildthechange
More than...
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A short film on differently abled. The protagonist in the film is Shekhar Naik, the captain of the Indian Blind Cricket Team, which won the inaugural World T20 Cricket Championship for the Blind, beating arch rivals Pakistan in the finals in 2012. Shekhar cannot see beyond 5...
2 min
On December 16, 2012 a young woman and her friend travelling on a bus in South Delhi were physically assaulted. The young woman was raped and brutalized and fought for her life for days following. Unfortunately she lost her life, but her struggle galvanized millions in...
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This captivating documentary follows a National Geographic filmmaker who finds relief from pain and aches using the earth as a healing conduit source of free electrons. Helping his community in Alaska, he expands his circle of people who are eager to learn about the effects...
For the past 18 months people all over Switzerland have been campaigning for the "Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income". Today the result of their efforts will be handed to the Federal Chancellery: 116,000 signatures (the minimum required number of signatures...
Ivan Botoucharov
15 min
OSCE Side Event 26 Sept. 2013 hosted by Soteria International Institutional discrimination of religious and spiritual minorities; Italy and Romania with Willy Fautré (Director of Human Rights without Frontiers).
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OSCE Side Event 3rd Oct. 2013 hosted by Soteria International "Asylum and Human Rights challenged by EU directives" with Mihai Stoian (representative for Gregorian Bivolaru)
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Abby Martin cites a new report by the Arizona Republic about the Phoenix International Airport about TSA misconduct, highlighting instances where agents have abused the elderly and the disabled. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
11 min
Abby Martin speaks with former 'Public Enemy' member Professor Griff, discussing the de-evolution and corporatization of mainstream music, and how youth can reject escapism and fight the power. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
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Abby Martin speaks with Han Shan, spokesperson for Ecuadorian Victims of Chevron Contamination about the decades-long legal battle between oil giant, Chevron, and indigenous residents of Ecuador's rainforest who suffered from a massive oil contamination. LIKE Breaking the Set...
When the town of Sandy Springs, Georgia, spun-off from Fulton County and established a brand new government, it didn't sign a Declaration of Independence; it signed a contract.
PR Watch
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Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for its coverage of 16 year old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai, highlighting her heroism promoting education against the Taliban, but omitting her important message to Obama about ending US drone strikes in her home country.
28 min
The story of the building of Devil Ark, a breeding sanctuary set up by the Australian Reptile Park to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. Shown on CH 9 6/9/2013
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Bastion Point, at Mallacoota, in Victoria's Far East is under severe threat. For nearly thirty years residents have been engaged in a battle with their local council to try and stop the development of a massive break wall.
The shooting on Capitol Hill of Miriam Carey, an unarmed woman who refused police commands to stop her car, was a familiar situation for any veteran of the Iraq War, with one significant difference — rather than moving through a progressive escalation of force while...
Jonathan Carp
Throughout the US government “shutdown,” Democratic politicians have compared their Republican rivals to “anarchists” and argued that the “shutdown” proves government necessary. A recent speech by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the Senate floor exemplifies this trend.
Nathan Goodman
8 min
In this parody of "Beat It," GMO executives have taken over the food chain, so a group of dedicated citizens march to face them off in an epic battle, but something nefarious and unexpected happens...
31 min
John Sinclair is best known as the Sixties marijuana activist who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman. He was eventually freed when John Lennon and Yoko Ono spoke out on his behalf
8 min
When Alex Jones receives a call from a listener asking him about the Koch Brothers, his response is pretty interesting! He calls the Koch Brothers "apolitical" and says they're not all that big of a deal. Hmmm.....
For an in-depth review of Alex Jones, see Project...
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There are lots of reasons why we have to alter globalization. In Tunis, 2013 during one of the largest gatherings of civil society in the world, the World Social Forum, a broad cross-section of the world's social movements gathered to discuss key issues concerning the what...
11 min
Abby Martin speaks with Michael Ruppert, investigative journalist and author of 'Crossing the Rubicon', about destructive energy policies, the global energy crisis and the potential for a collapse of industrial civilization as we know it unless people become more than just...
9 min
Zumbara is a time-banking community that facilitates thousands of exchanges between people in Istanbul and in other cities in Turkey. Zumbara recognizes the opportunity to use the tool of time-banking to create a better connected community and an accessible way to start to...
3 min
This is exactly the kind of civic revenge video that we condone, hilariously injuring yourself in the name of proving a point. - http://unlooker.com
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Abby Martin calls attention to the superficial PC debate about changing the name of the Washington Redskins, all the while avoiding the real issue of the dire state of Native American communities in the US. Abby cites the casino industrial complex as a contributing factor to...
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Abby Martin looks back on the tragic incident in 1985 where police firebombed a Philadelphia neighborhood in an attempt to punish members of the MOVE revolutionary political group.
10 min
Kahsatstenhsera (gah-sad-sdanh-se-ra) is a Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk) word that means Strength in Unity. This short documentary details contemporary Indigenous resistance to tar sands pipeline expansion, in particular the Line 9 and Energy East pipelines, which threaten the...
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Rainforests are being destroyed for palm oil and pushing the last wild orangutans to the brink of extinction. At Rainforest Action Network our goal is to collect 60,600 photo petitions - that's one person for each orangutan remaining in the wild.
TAKE ACTION TODAY TO STAND...
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Creating Gasfield Free communities: All over the Northern Rivers, communities are taking charge of their destiny via this grass-roots process. They conduct a thorough survey of people in their locality, asking “Do you want your roads and lands Gasfield Free?” After reaching...