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No one can say we don’t live in interesting times. But amidst the tumult and frenzy of domestic politics and global events one thing is for certain: the age of passivity is unquestionably over. The age of watching it all unfold on a TV screen or in between the pages of a...
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. AFFIRM the Charter today: http://charterforcompassion.org
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London activists are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.
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This is Part One of a Series on Whiteness. (Part Two)
“Politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea. The presence of the Negro puts our democracy to the proof and reveals the falsity of it.” — Hube
Quinn Norton
On a remote mountaintop of the Himalayas sits Jhamtse Gatsal (Tibetan for “The Garden of Love and Compassion”), a special school and home for 85 abandoned and neglected children.
Founded by former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phunstok, who trained under the Dalai Lama, this unique...
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Understanding the UC Berkeley Protests
CrimethInc.
Political movements rarely succeed without causing discomfort and inconvenience
Francine Prose
Rev. William Barber offers some words of hope.
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As Donald Trump issued an executive order intended to single out Muslims for immigration restrictions, many Americans searched their consciences for the right way to respond to this act of discrimination by their government. “First they came for the Communists/And I did not...
Jim Naureckas
BARE-HANDED – FIGHTING THE ISLAMIC STATE, is a documentary about young returning fighters, an experiment to save them, and save us.
Recent world events have a lot of people feeling fearful and angry. But there is much more good than bad in this world, and I choose to remain hopeful. This video explains why.
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Edward Snowden Interview With actvism Munich- Part I - History of Intelligence Agencies
On January 15th acTVism Munich organized its largest event yet that took place under the title “Freedom & Democracy – Global Issues in Context” at Muffathalle in Munich and featured a...
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Whistleblower to be released from military prison in May
Nika Knight
Nationalism is a form of geographical racism that makes some lives matter more than others, and explicitly justifies that logic without apology. While today, not even lying corrupt politicians will outright say that racism is acceptable, nationalism is promoted and accepted...
Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military’s special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings...
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Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of colour
The Radical Monarchs is an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of colour in Oakland, California. Its members earn badges not for sewing or selling cookies, but for...
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In austerity Britain homelessness services have been halved, and homelessness has doubled.
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A group of street people in Austin, TX edit, write, and distribute their own newspaper as a way to help get them off the street. The Challenger Street Newspaper improves their lives by helping them to earn a living in an environment where job opportunities are virtually...
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In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization?
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Kenya: a forest people #fightback as they are illegally evicted, beaten & imprisoned - paid for by the World Bank.
57 min
A small team of filmmakers set out for Greece, documenting human stories from the frontlines of the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. The world was changing and we found ourselves at a crossroads in history, so we set out to help in the way that we knew...
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Abby Martin goes on-the-ground to the epicenters of state-backed settler terrorism in Palestine’s West Bank, in Part II of her report on illegal Israeli settlements and home demolitions (watch Part I here).
This installment visits both the rural countryside of...
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The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government.
With hundreds on notice...
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In August 2012, Syrian photographer Issa Touma awoke to the dawn of the rebel uprising in the city of Aleppo. He spent the next nine days holed up in his apartment, filming the emerging civil war outside.
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Mohammed Abu Amar runs a makeshift 24-hour helpline from his flat in Hamburg, guiding scared refugees fleeing the violence in Syria across the water to Europe.
Despite losing the use of both legs in a shelling in Damascus in the early days of the conflict, Abu Amar made the...
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Compassionate activism is activism that is rooted in an underlying compassion for all beings. It is an activism that resists the strong urge we all face to dehumanize our opponents, as they often do to us, and we often do to them. This collection of articles and videos...
We still don’t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting “The List” -- the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper’s fawning coverage on November 24. The project of smearing 200 websites with one broad brush...
Norman Solomon
Did you know over 1/2 a million Americans are being held in jail with no conviction? Not enough people know this – or that it’s all because of our money bail system. That’s why we made this video to help shine a light on this archaic, inhumane process only practiced in the...
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December 1st marks West Papua’s original independence day, when the Morning Star flag was first raised in 1961 before the country was invaded by Indonesia. The flag is recognised as the national flag of West Papua and continues to be the defining symbol for a Free West Papua...
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What does it mean to stand behind girls education in some of the toughest and most backward communities in India?
See how non formally educated Barefoot R&D technology innovators are solving the education disparity problem by realizing the dream of education for girls in...
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There has been an increase in reports of hate crime in the United States recently and as such there is a need for everyone to know how to confront and disrupt them, while providing support and solidarity to the victims. We know that not everyone who voted for Trump holds the...
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The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales – not about some particular government or...
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A recent report found that 2015 was the deadliest year on record for environmental activists, raising concerns for those who continue to fight on the frontline, writes Liam Turner.
Liam Turner
The true sharing economy represents the end of the old ways defined by the pursuit of profit and competitive self-interest, while a new age of intergovernmental sharing and cooperation can only begin through the channel of ending hunger in a world that has such an abundance...
Mohammed Mesbahi
A short documentary profiling Iraqi refugees trying to assimilate to American culture after being displaced from Iraq due to the war. El Cajon, a county in San Diego, has one of the highest concentrations of Iraqi refugees in America. A majority of these refugees are known as...
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Right to Clean Water & The Fight Against Eminent Domain
Words are battling in my head and I cannot truly form a sentence empty of frustration.
Beautiful. Listen to this.
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Aaron looks at the facts when it comes to Britain and refugees.
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Born in Darfur, Sudan and raised in Philadelphia, Emi Mahmoud is the 2015 World Poetry Slam Champion and the Women of the World co-Champion of 2016. From a young age Emi presented poetry to raise awareness about the conflict in Darfur.
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Society sets the bar so high to become a 'good immigrant', argues writer Nikesh Shukla, that normal immigrants are demonised. He says non-Brits in the public eye have a simple path to good-immigrant status - as long as they play within the rules. But immigrants should be held...
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Anarchism : The word “anarchy” comes from Greek and means “no rulers”. As a political philosophy, anarchism is based on the idea that organization does not require rulers—that people can get together and deal with all the problems facing them, without an authority directing...
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Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, says many Europeans' fear of refugees boils down to the idea of the "precariat" - people whose lives are marked by precariousness, anxiety and fear. As more EU countries raise walls and the backlash against...
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In the age of heavily restricted migration, passport control seems a natural prerogative of the state. The idea of abolishing passports is almost unthinkable. But in the 20th century, governments considered their “total abolition” as an important goal, and even discussed the...
Speranta Dumitru
DISTURBING THE PEACE is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us and, with the power of our convictions, take action to create new possibilities. DISTURBING THE PEACE follows former enemy combatants - Israeli...
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Reporter Matthew Cassel spent a year documenting the journey of Syrian jeweler Aboud Shalhoub as he travels from Turkey to Greece, and through Eastern Europe to the Netherlands to be reunited with his wife and children, whose story is told from Damascus and then the...
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1968 Olympic athlete John Carlos protested racial inequality by raising his fist in a Black Power salute on the medal stand. He has some advice for athletes like Colin Kaepernick who are protesting racism and injustice today.
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Can you name Africa’s last colony? Western Sahara has been occupied by neighboring Morocco for over 40 years, yet most people have never heard of the conflict. NO country in the world recognizes the Moroccon occupation, and time after time the UN Security Counsil has stressed...
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Global inequality lies at the root of our anxiety over migrants, says Bridget Anderson.
Bridget Anderson
The ‘Winston Churchill note’ has entered circulation in England, honouring a man who swilled on champagne while 4 million men, women and children in Bengal starved due to his racist colonial policies.
Crimes of Britain
In commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder in detention of Stephen Biko, the 17th annual Steve Biko lecture is delivered by Professor Angela Davis author, activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department...
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"Absolutely brilliant on numerous levels. While there have been many other important documentaries about individual strikes and/or strike movements, Plutocracy has succeeded at generalizing the political lessons of an entire era in U.S. Labor history from a working-class...
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Reverend James Seawood grew up in the 1950s in Sheridan, Arkansas, and attended an all-black school.
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Powerful! Caleb Stephens speaking before the Sisters With A Purpose march for justice in Lawrence, KS - 7.22.16. This is how solidarity lives.
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From an early age Blacks are socialized to live defensively and to absorb the mental body blows that come from the day-to-day indignities that are hoisted upon us by the very people who are hired to uphold ‘the law’ but instead engage in lawlessness.
The Australian Government finally released this advert today about the treatment of children in its jails and offshore detention centres, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Cultural diversity gives us strength and resilience! Indonesia has 726 languages making it the second most diverse in the world. Based on Dadang Pohon Tua's song, "Siapa Lagi Kalau Bukan Kita" ("If Not Us Then Who"), each singer sings the chorus in their mother tongue language.
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Moazzam Begg speaks with Albert Melise, his former Guantanamo Bay guard about his film, The Confession, life after Guantanamo and how by coming together we can end the cycles of violence.
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"It didn't stop & it won't stop with Omran if the world doesn't act."
Deirdre Fulton