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In this 9 minute animated short film, Poor Johnny doesn't like "healthy" food. What could possibly persuade him to eat all his "veggies"?
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
Buddha
What happens with all our mental capacity?
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Let's Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer. It is about aspects of the development of the world wide financial system, claiming that elitists economically exploit the rest of society, especially in the developing world, but also in western nations.
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An Ashram in The Middle of The City
In the modern society we are confronted with a lot of challenges raised by the civilization process itself. The old way of living was swept
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In The Dock - a DraftCraft Initiative - documents the travails of a section of the lakhs of Banjaras, Kolis, Kannadigas, Tamilians and North Indians residing in South Mumbai's slums, whose lives are fully dependent on Sassoon Docks.
The documentary on the subject...
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The Drug War gets a bad rap. It is, of course, a complete failure at keeping people off drugs. But it is only a failure if you think that fighting drugs is the point of the drug war. This series of short videos identifies the things that the Drug War does really, really well.
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Hub for Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Patancheru is seeing heavy contamination in air,water and ground due to unchecked emission levels. The feature covers some interviews and observations when we visited the site in October 2012.
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The second large scale public mural painted in collaboration with local artists and community organizations as part of the #WaterWrites Mural series. In downtown Oakland, California, the finished mural is over 5,000 square feet and has art work by over 200 artisits and...
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They were unpaid and they were crazy. They were Rebels With A Cause. How a battle over land changed the landscape forever. http://rebelsdocumentary.org/
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The first thing you notice about Sarnia, Ontario, is the smell: a potent mix of gasoline, melting asphalt, and the occasional trace of rotten egg. Shortly after my arrival I already felt unpleasantly high and dizzy, like I wasn't getting enough air. Maybe this had something...
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If you know of something better please tell us in the comments, because this is both brilliant and politically biting. Naturally, all credit for this bit of political theater goes to Banksy.
Also, yes this installation is from 2010 (created for
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In London, government authority has just fired a new shot at freedom of the press.
Norman Solomon
In an act of blatant escalation against press freedom, UK officia
Abby Zimet
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“Catch it” is the debut documentary by Amelie de Rooij, about how dance can educate and inspire young people in disadvantaged communities around the world. The director, who hails from the suburbs of Paris and herself grew up with dance as an integral part of her life, left...
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On a book by Laura Nader and Ugo Mattei
At TED talks, the most viewed video — now surpassing 14 million hits — is “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” by England’s Sir Ken Robinson.
Thomas Larson
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A documentary, a research project, a story of stories about the construction of a sustainable, solidary and decentralized economy. Weaving nets that overcome the individualization and the hierarchical division of work. Thousands of people every day all over the world. Here...
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Discover the real motivation for the Brazilian riot and the truth behind it.
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This short movie is on the ex-president of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's childhood. It has a very strong message on Corruption. A must watch for all Indians. [Sorry no subtitles available at the moment]
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A DNA test is popularly considered as 'conclusive evidence' but sadly tends to charge the accused with a 'presumed guilt' until the findings arrive which may go on to prove innocence albeit a wee late. This is a DraftCraft initiative to advocate against the use of arbitrary...
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A beautiful mangrove forest in the middle of San Juan becomes polluted and threatens a community in its vicinity. Students from a nearby university document the resident's plight and resolve to fight back.
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Gorgeous cinematography without words, very reminiscent of Baraka or Samsara. The film-maker's summary is below. - Films For Action
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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) explores the effects of POPs, which are a group of chemicals that cause cancers, birth defects, learning disabilities and other health problems in humans and wildlife. The GEF funds projects in developing countries to assist them phasing...
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For Part 2 go to: http://youtu.be/1xuvTk-yv34
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Short history of the activities dedicated to the Great Cosmic Powers
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This is the building of UWV and Belastingdienst. The Dutch social security / welfare service and the Tax office of Almere, the Netherlands. It is called "La Defense". A very pretty building due to it's shape, color shifts and reflections. The outer-exterior is basic grey, but...
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cold: adjective- “aloof” syno
Ghost of Spartacus
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Bali is about to become an environmental disaster! Piles of rubbish are getting dumped on the side of the roads, onto the beaches, into the rivers, floating into the sea. Surfers and swimmers get sick regularly from the sewage in the seawater. The food is covered in toxic...
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Noam ChomskyI'd like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not - and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they're framed almost reflexively in terms of...
Noam Chomsky
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Ashton Kutcher just told a bunch of screaming kids how to be sexy, in the smartest way possible.
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Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely...
David Cain
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The first of the #Water Writes mural series took place in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Eighth grade biology students fro KIPP LA Prep were able to work with an artist team to design and create a mural about water surrounding their school.
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"Talha’s poems are the songs of a caged bird. Read them and enjoy them. But if that is all that you do, you will be a thief."
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With a mounting death toll in Egypt, Abby talks to Brian Becker, national coordinator with the ANSWER Coalition about the roots of the violence, and how US tax dollars continue to fund the Egyptian military despite hollow condemnations from the White House.
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The 7 chakras are the energetic centers of the body. They play a vital role in health. Chakra meditation activates and balances the chakras. Our chakra meditation course brings you profound healing. Chakra meditation. 7 ways to change your life. Start for free today...
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The US immigration debate is based on a lot of faulty assumptions. This video addresses the most basic. Despite the assumptions of a lot of old white men in congress, the border is secure. The billions of dollars that they are already spending on it, and the billions more...
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Neighbors in Conover Commons in Redmond, Washington, share an open field as their community gathering spot. This photo originally appeared in Jay Walljasper's book, How to Design Our World for Happiness.
Jay Walljasper
Radical Islam is the last refuge of the Muslim poor. The mandated five prayers a day give the only real structure to the lives of impoverished believers. The careful rituals of washing before prayers in the mosque, the strict moral code, along with the understanding that life...
Chris Hedges
People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.
For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000...
Emily Esfahani Smith
What can we do to help young men respect women, recognize consent, and have healthy sexual relationships? Teach them kindness to others—and the courage to go against the crowd.
When Max was just a few months old, I sat cross-legged on the floor with him in a circle of...
Kim Simon
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There’s no class in high school on how to not be a shitty boyfriend or girlfriend. Sure, they teach us the biology of sex, the legality of marriage, and maybe read a few obscure love stories from the 19th century on how not to be. But when it comes down to actually handling...
Mark Manson
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Abby Martin talks in depth about the curious case of Barrett Brown, the hacktivist/journalist who is facing 105 years in prison for posting a link.
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Although once thought of as useless wastelands, careful study and research has revealed that mangroves are among the most important ecosystems on this planet. Valued for anchoring coastal ecosystems as well as providing economic and ecosystem services to humans, mangrove...
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The Question Your Shrimp campaign is currently working to gather support from restaurants, chefs, retailers, & consumers who are pledging not to serve or buy unhealthy imported shrimp. By raising awareness & changing consumer demand in the U.S. (currently, the #1 consumer of...
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Imagine an international mega-deal. The global organic food industry agrees to support international agribusiness in clearing as much tropical rainforest as they want for farming. In return, agribusiness agrees to farm the now-deforested land using organic methods, and the...
Jonathan Latham
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What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?
Quoting the words of Sherry Turkle from her TED talk - Connected, But Alone.
(ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html)
Also Based on Dr. Yair Amichai-Hamburgers hebrew article -The Invention of...
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Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
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It’s Bangladesh.
Joshua Lye
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THE SPARK is a documentary about a genius technologist and a rebel educator, two pioneers from opposite spectrums with one goal in common: Build a sustainable community. Can two men driven by determination overcome global challenges to change the world?
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Download the track "Mindtunes" here: http://bit.ly/10zvhvi. Proceeds go directly to the Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for disabled people. Find out more about QEF on http://qef.org.uk/ Mindtunes is a track created by Andy, Jo and Mark, 3 physically disabled music fans, using...
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Abby Martin talks to former Vermont Governor and US presidential candidate, Howard Dean, about the his 2004 presidential run, and current views ranging from healthcare to the US military's use of drones. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
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Can you put this video into words? It's a clip from the phenomenal documentary Samsara, directed by Ron Fricke, who also made Baraka.
If you're interested in watching Samsara, you can
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Documentary films are not only wildly entertaining, but also serve as a powerful and engaging educational tool. As quality documentary films continue to be produced around the globe, we encourage teachers to take advantage and enlighten their students with some of these...
The people behind “Game of Thrones,” reportedly the most-pirated show on the Internet, have always taken an oddly laissez-faire view of piracy. Director David Petrarca once told a crowd in Sydney that illegal downloads help the show by generating “buzz.” Both author George...
Caitlin Dewey
Things are getting real. Entertainment, specifically. And by "real" I don't mean serious, or imminent, or even necessarily honest -- but real, as in pushed to the limit of what we perceive as real, and even further, until it's so real we can't distinguish what's real and...
Gabriel Mizrahi
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Abby Martin calls out MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, for promoting the notion that violence is rooted in conspiracy theories, while disregarding the importance of questioning official government narratives.
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Let’s talk about healthcare. I don’t mean debating the Affordable Care Act. I mean healthcare, as in: If everyone needs healthcare, guarantee that everybody gets it.
I know, when it comes to healthcare, it’s easy to get into a debate for or against Obamacare. But we...
Deborah Burger
After a week of careful planning, environmentalists attending a tar sands resistance action camp in Oklahoma thought they had the element of surprise — but they would soon learn that their moves were being closely watched by law enforcement officials and TransCanada, the very...
Adam Federman
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With the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan, Abby Martin goes over the dangers of nuclear energy and remarks on the anniversary of the atomic bombs that devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
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Dubai is an interesting city. A thriving futuristic metropolis in the heart of the desert considered to be the crown jewel of modernity with indoor ski resorts, gulf courses, fully computerized metros, giant air-conditioned shopping malls, and the tallest skyscrapers in the...
Adon Apamea
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The superb documentary War/Dance reveals the redemptive power of music, even in the most horrific places. Focusing on three children in their early teens in war-torn Uganda–stoic Nancy, driven Dominic, and soft-spoken Rose–War/Dance tracks the efforts of the school of a...
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As our troops in Afghanistan prepare to come home, more and more British soldiers are haunted by the trauma of over a decade of war. This Panorama special investigates the true personal cost which, until now, has remained largely hidden. The Ministry of Defence only releases...
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Astonishing timelapse pictures of a growing, changing, withering, clearly finite planet have been unveiled from Landsat, a satellite project launched in 1972 by NASA, Google, the U.S. Geological Survey and others. Over three decades of minute-by-minute global change, watch...
Abby Zimet
Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action.
Robert Jensen
Attitude changes everything
The ecology of the SOUL for an updated perspective on politics and politicians
In the modern society, an
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A debut short film about the transition of a woman from being a follower of others to a follower of her own authentic voice. Inspired by the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
You can visit NeoTribalist Films
on Facebook here: facebook.com/NeoTribalistFilms
on the web here...
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"From One Second to the Next," the rather unlikely film above, came together when AT&T approached the legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog and asked if he would direct a series of short films warning people about the dangers of texting while driving.
"What AT&T...
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The city of Detroit isn’t looking too pretty to date. On July 18th as many know, Detroit filed for bankruptcy after falling an estimated $20 billion in debt to over 100,000 creditors. Due to the inability for the city government to provide for goods and services it once...
Ezra Van Auken
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Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses some rather amazing discoveries related to the social and personal consequences of hierarchy.
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Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
A recent Associated Press expose—drawing on e-mails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act—revealed that in 2010, Mitch Daniels, then Indiana’s Republican governor, covertly set out...
Sonia Murrow & Robert Cohen
"I wasn't worried about freedom. I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV." -- Ray Bradbury in 2001 talking about his book Fahrenheit 451
Ron Kaufman
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Australia has $16/hour minimum wage-more than twice the US-and its economy is growing faster and boasts far lower unemployment.
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The following story is a succinct review of the vast majority of methods used against Gregorian Bivolaru over the course of time for
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"The Price of Sex" profiles the forgotten Eastern European women who have been drawn into the netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse.
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Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction
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Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families who dominated the country's economy, its strategies for keeping the power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - the big...
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A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful people, each representing a planet in the Solar system. These seven, along with the...
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Mark Boyle's new book, The Moneyless Manifesto explores in-depth the social, personal, ecological and economic reasons why we may want to transition beyond money into a localised, gift-based economic model. In it he also provides a vast toolkit of ways you can thrive with...
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When you're glued to the latest series of a show like Game of Thrones, caught up in the drama, the twists and turns of the plot, you may be missing the most intricate, massive drama imaginable; the one happening all around you, in real time.
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"The most absurd conspiracy theories are often promoted by the most powerful individuals in society."
Finally, a short film that intelligently and responsibly addresses the politics of conspiracy theory. It makes a rather incredible point at 4:40, which is then illustrated...
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A revealing documentary about the international world of private equity banking.
The Carlyle Group, one of the largest investment banks in the world, is based in Washington and has accumulated its capital mainly by investments in the defense industry. On their list of...
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Is Breaking Bad just entertaining TV, or badass political commentary? The Drug Policy Alliance and Beyond Bars have teamed up to release an edgy and thought-provoking new video pegged to the upcoming premiere of the final season of AMC’s runaway hit show Breaking Bad.
The...
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Cathy talks with Jacqueline and Jeff of daytime about Compost Awareness Week. Also discusses drink trays (you know the ones you get with 2 or more coffees) How many do we produce? What does one year's worth for one person look like?
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Secret wars breed deadly blow-back. It’s a truth as old as covert operations themselves but one that both Democratic and Republican administrations ignore, leading to a vicious cycle of spending on killing that soaks up billions of public dollars.
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Housing justice advocates hopeful about innovative Richmond plan to use public seizure laws to save underwater homes from foreclosure
Using the authority of state government to actually help people has Wall Street bankers in a panic, spurring threats of aggressive legal...
Sarah Lazare
The Third Carbon Age: Don’t for a Second Imagine We’re Heading for an Era of Renewable Energy
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems. Most of us believe (or want to believe) that the second carbon era, the Age of Oil, will...
Michael T. Klare
My first visit to Mondragon was in 1979. I had been searching the globe for years for a Relationship Age society which was also fully integrated into the modern world. My initial reaction to Mondragon was utter amazement. I had never expected to find such a mature and...
Terry Mollner
Scary stories of kidnappings and explosions lead our news feeds, but it's the good news that helps break down the myth of our own powerlessness.
"If it bleeds, it leads." Ever hear that maxim of journalism? If you want readers, go with the scary, gruesome story—that's what...
Frances Moore Lappé
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Laughter... Plato Hated it. The Bible discouraged it. The school you went to probably banned it. The first ever feature documentary about the subject, Laughology is a "screamingly funny," groundbreaking odyssey into why we laugh and those who would stop us.
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Happiness, or the lack thereof, lies at the root of what makes life meaningful. But figuring out what exactly constitutes happiness,especially in a culture like the Unites States that tends to conflate moneywith meaning, proves to be elusive. It's not enough, the new...
Bob Banner
Start by switching to an alternative search engine, using an alias on Facebook, and supporting allied nonprofits.
The PRISM scandal confirmed our worst fears when it comes to state-level surveillance of the Internet, with the revelation that the NSA has created "backdoors"...
Nick Pearson
1. Declare a moratorium on drone strikes.
The head of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is calling on jihadists to retaliate for U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. The Yemeni group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), where the U.S. says the threats are...
Medea Benjamin
Prince Riebus (and apparently many others) still th
David Akadjian
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Fracking company Cuadrilla have descended on the small West Sussex village of Balcombe, where 85% of the residents have said they are opposed to fracking and supportive of those taking action to stop it. Residents and their supporters have set up the Balcombe Community...
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This is an original experience in Quebec. A law passed in order to fight against poverty is measured and monitored with people who are living this situation in an oficial setting.
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This short documentary tells the story of the occupation of Gezi Park, the eviction on July 15, 2013, and the protests that have continued in the aftermath. It includes interviews with many participants and footage never before seen.
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Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship
The US still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan cold war build-up, the Vietnam war and...
Mark Weisbrot
Here it is: Power. Now, quick, before reading further, close your eyes. What associations come to mind? If your list is full words like coercion, force, guns, oppression, domination, money, you could be in big trouble.
Frances Moore Lappé