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Reclaiming Pakistan: Bravery In The Face Of Terrorism
A civil rights activist, Mohammad Jibran Nasir, sparks a social revolution after almost 140 children were killed in the Peshawar Army School tragedy. A short documentary that sheds light on the consequences of extreme religion and terrorism in Pakistan and offers hope to the...
The Risk of Opposing Israel in the US
We all know the stigma, but we cannot remain silent Growing up in the United Kingdom in an agnostic family that had Jewish and Christian members, I was free to have an opinion about the continual clashes between Israel and Palestine. It reminded me of Britain’s...
16 Powerful Krishnamurti Quotes
Here is a collection of 16 powerful quotes by the great Jiddu Krishnamurti. Mostly taken from Krishnamurti’s public talks in the late 1960’s, these quotes will urge you to reconsider culture, religion, politics and family, and will guide you towards a new, more beautiful and...
Jiddu Krishnamurti Teaches Us To Do What We Love and Love What We Do
Jiddu Krishnamurti knew a thing or two about fame. As a 13 year-old boy in India, he was not ‘discovered’ by a record producer or casting agent, but by one of the leaders of the Theosophical Society. The young
Digital Addiction and the Banality of Evil
The story of digital addiction as the default condition in 21st-century America, the rule rather than the exception, is a story of mass capitulation to corporatist collusion between the captains of digital media, the hallowed halls of academia and government at all levels...
Decadence: The Meaninglessness of Modern Life
Decadence: The Meaninglessness of Modern Life is a six-part Australian television documentary series hosted by Pria Viswalingam. The series examines the decadence and meaninglessness of modern, western life. It is also posed the question: 'If we live in such a great and...
On Modern Servitude
The central objective of this film is to reveal man's condition as a modern slave within the context of the totalitarian mercantile system and to show the forms of mystification which mask his servile condition. Its aim is to attack head on the dominant world organization...
The Virus of Faith
In Part 2, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Ch. 4 had insisted on it to create...
The Collective Evolution
'The Collective Evolution' is a documentary aimed at showing the current state of the world, why it needs to be changed, and how each and every one of us can play a role in changing it. The documentary addresses this need for change through five individual yet interrelated...
Storming the Temple
"The army went into Darbar Sahib not to eliminate a political figure or political movement but to suppress the culture of a people, to attack their hearts, and to strike a blow at their spirit and self-confidence."- Joyce PettigrewA documentary aired on the Canadian History...
Mistaken Identity: Jimmy Carter, the Abortion Myth, and the Rise of the Religious Right
Author, historian and Emmy Award nominee the Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer, distinguished visiting professor at Emory Universitys Candler School of Theology, reveals groundbreaking research on the real impetus behind the rise of the Religious Right in this April 16, 2009...
Love Has No Labels
While the vast majority of Americans consider themselves unprejudiced, many of us unintentionally make snap judgments about people based on what we see—whether it’s race, age, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability. This may be a significant reason many people in the U.S...
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion is an award-winning human rights film that explores the challenges we face living in a world of 7 billion.   It tells the story of Beth, an American mother and child's right activist, and her journey to understand how overpopulation is impacting...
The Root of All Evil - the God Delusion (Full Length)
This thought-provoking series is not about whether God exists or not. It explores more challenging questions such as "what happens as we move on and leave religion behind?", "what will guide and inspire us in a world free of all Gods?", "how can an atheist find a meaning in...
This Muslim Girl and Christian Family Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
Voice of a Refugee
This video reflects life from an Afghanistan refugee who lost his father, house, and school because of war. Despite the bad stereotypes he faces, he still radiates kindness to everyone he meets. Amidst the current limitation, he still tries to upgrade his skill and knowledge...
We Are Nature
This film's premise is that anthropocentrism, economism, and infinite growth are the greatest problems we humans face when approaching how to live on planet Earth. Our separation from nature as a species and behavioral attitude of exceptionalism, arrogance, and superiority ...
Radical Dharma – Interview with angel Kyodo williams (Podcast)
In this in-depth interview, Reverend angel Kyodo williams reflects on our widespread crisis of story, the failure of institutional religions to offer a new way forward, and her philosophy of Radical Dharma—a path to individual and collective liberation. A Sensei in the...
The Last Prophecy
THE LAST PROPHECY, THE AFTER WORLD SEEN BY ROMAIN DEMONGEOT
We're Making a Mistake If We Let a Mass Slaughter Become a Debate about Cartoons
Yes, Charlie Hebdo was a magazine that delighted in controversy and provocation. Yes, it skewered religion and took joy in giving offense. Yes, the magazine knowingly antagonized extremists — Charlie Hebdo's web site had been hacked and its offices firebombed before today...
As France Mourns for Charlie Hebdo, Calls For Unity and Understanding
'If this attack is allowed to feed discrimination and prejudice, it will be playing straight into the hands of extremists whose clear aim is to divide religions and societies.' As people across France and around the world mourn the death of the twelve people killed at the...
To Stop the Cult of Trump We Need to Satisfy the Human Need for Meaning
Like all cult leaders, Trump fills a certain void for his followers. Stopping him means providing pathways to sustainable forms of spiritual fulfillment.
Harmony
Inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, HARMONY captures on film in a way we’ve never seen before, an authentic leader on critical global issues. For the better part of three decades, The Prince of Wales has worked side by side with a surprising and dynamic array of...
Can "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Help Us Restore Balance to a Divided World?
"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a masterpiece of animation. It's an incredible story with amazing characters and worthwhile themes that might just be more relevant today than ever before. As more and more people around the world seem to support the idea that group identities...
The Façade of the American Dream P1
This is the story on the people who have existed and thrived in their land for thousands and thousands of years before they were kidnapped, tortured, chained, raped, and enslaved. This is the African who was stolen from his motherland and civilization and had everything taken...
The Kingdom of Survival
The Kingdom of Survival is an interdisciplanary documentary combining speculative travelogue and investigative journalism in order to trace possible links between survivalism, spirituality, art, radical politics, outlaw culture, alternative media and fringe philosophy...
Standing on Sacred Ground
Indigenous communities around the world resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment. In this four-part documentary series, native people share ecological wisdom and spiritual...
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx
Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be defined by race, gender, nationality, religion or species) is one of the great challenges and...
Left Forum 2013: Imagine Living in a Socialist USA
Imagine what life would be like if capitalism was overthrown in America, if we replaced it and were able to live in a genuinely socialist society. Imagine a society of ecological sanity, material abundance and social equality, a society where social relations were premised on...
“Improbable Democracy” - Peter Joseph Lecture (9/8/17)
Peter Joseph speaking at The People’s Convergence, Sept 8th 2017, in Washington DC.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: a Brief, Simple History
The conflict is really only 100 years old, and it's not really about religion.
The Source of All That Is Wrong With Our System Is a Low Self-Esteem
...in the world we live in, trying to understand the system can make you crazy, but trying to understand yourself is the only key to sanity.
Dear Lebanon
Dear Lebanon. A Teenage Perspective of Bombings, Religion and Politics. A film by Raphael Schanz. In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Middle East Office
An Open Letter to My Friends Who Support Donald Trump
I'm cool with you removing me from your friends list if you don't like this post. You can even disown me if you like. But Donald Trump isn't a good person, nor would he be a good president. I can understand a difference in politics. I can understand if you don't like a...
U.S. Pays For Corporate Profit At the Expense of Human Lives
Kansas City, Thursday March 1, 2011 a group of concerned citizens gathered at the Cherith Brook Community House (A Catholic Worker House) to educate and plan protests against the building of nuclear warheads in Kansas City. 
Four Horsemen
The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world...
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) (trailer)
The true life story of the outlaw comic who tried to save the world, as told by the 10 people who knew him best. This groundbreaking documentary uses a stunning new animation technique to tell his story.
The Human Color of Syria
This is a mere glimpse of a perspective we are missing as we've been watching Syria for the past five years.  In the near future, a child will raise his/her hand in class and ask: "How could Israel, Germany, United States - and everyone who knew about the holocaust, let it...
The Games We Play
A Belief in Political Participation
Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein
Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.
BBC 3: Is Britain Racist?
Racism has never been more socially unacceptable in Britain - three quarters of Britons claim they have no racial prejudice whatsoever.
Them, They
This video is my artistic response to what I see going on in our country right now - using music, imagery, and narration as a means to that expression. I composed the music, wrote the narration, and did the editing. The video images are all stock footage and images from the...
When You Only Pursue Pleasure, You End Up Pursuing Pain | Alan Watts
The goal of After Skool has always been to take the most empowering ideas and enhance them with art. Creating videos like this is my purpose on earth. When you find your purpose, nothing will stop you, because...the purpose is bigger than you.
The Most Dangerous Superstition
The primary threat to freedom and justice is not greed, or hatred, or any of the other emotions or human flaws usually blamed for such things. Instead, it is one ubiquitous superstition which infects the minds of people of all races, religions and nationalities, which...
The Five Most Common Misunderstandings About Evolution
Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, former cricket star Shane Warne questioned the theory –...
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
Systems thinkers have given us a useful metaphor for a certain kind of human behavior in the phenomenon of the boiled frog.
Situational Assessment: What We Must Learn from 2016 to Win The Battle of Ideas
In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update. While many things have changed in the world in
Trump Played to Anger, but We Don't Have to Fall for Divide and Conquer
We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.
Queer Muslims Exist - and We Are in Mourning Too
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that
Socialist Party of Great Britain Video
An introduction to the World Socialist Movement and The Socialist Party of Great Britain
Uganda Rising
The scramble for Africa never ended, it was renewed, renamed and redefined by the White supremacist power structure. The exploitation of Africa, its inhabitants, animals, flora and mineral resources has been carefully crafted, designed and implemented by western(White)...
An Apology to Bill Maher from a Bloodthirsty Islamic fundamentalist
Yesterday, I came across your show where you painted the whole Muslim population with the same color of ISIS and Islamic fundamentalism. Sometimes, as a Muslim, it becomes unbearable to watch the criticism coming from those people who do not know anything about Islam...
"Pro-Israel" People Aren't Actually Pro-Israel and Israel Critics Aren't Actually Anti-Semites
The Right Wing and even  PEPs (Progressives Except on Palestine)  like to perpetuate the lie that any criticism of Israel is essentially or practically anti-Israel or Anti-semitic. This is an absurd argument for many reasons.
Artist as Activist: Malina Suliman, Afghan Street Art and Graffiti
Malina Suliman, born in 1990 in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan, one of the country’s most conservative and dangerous areas, chose to become an artist. This decision led her to attend college in Pakistan, and later to begin an art collective, Kandahar Fine Arts Association...
The Wisdom To Survive
Climate change is here. Will we have the wisdom to survive? The film features thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics, and spirituality. The focus: how we can live creatively and even joyfully in the face of this catastrophe, and how can we act to...
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal.  This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees?  Do they have souls?  Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...
My Fellow Americans
This country is held together by lies. Our state religion is indoctrinated to us all as children until we can no longer use logic or rationality properly. We are schooled that we're superior to other countries for our Democracy and Freedom- though neither is true. Our...
People of Nowhere
I have heard and read different opinions about the wave of Syrian refugees who try to make their way in to the EU. Then I went to Lesvos. 7 days on the Greek Island gave me a healthier, human perspective on the situation.  Seeing the people behind the headlines with my own...
Mama Agatha
Once a week, a group of migrant women in Amsterdam learn how to ride a bicycle. Inspiring them to let go of the fear and get behind the wheels is a Ghanaian community mother named Mama Agatha. Mama Agatha is a heart-warming documentary about letting go of the past and the...
How Do You Define Yourself? Do You See How Your Answer May Lead to Violence?
Conflict starts with definitions of "us" and "them" ... what if there is no "them" ... ?