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Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) was an American writer, poet, philosopher and one of the leading figures of the transcendentalism movement. Besides writingCivil Disobedience, which inspired
Gavin Aung Than · 5 stars
This piece is very personal because, as an Indigenous woman, myanalysis is very personal, as is the analysis that my friends on the frontlines have shared with me. We obviously cant speak for everyone involved, as Native beliefs and perspectives are as diverse as the...
Kelly Hayes · 5 stars
Normal is coming unhinged. For the past eight years it has been possible for most people (at least in the relatively privileged classes) to believe that society is sound, that the system, though creaky, basically works, and that the progressive deterioration of everything...
Charles Eisenstein · 5 stars
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era. But the real solutions lie not in hatred, but relocalisation.
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Rupert Read · 5 stars
I recently spent 4 weeks in hospital. This morning, lying in bed, in severe pain and unable to move, I had a strange feeling of missing hospital. Not the noisy and un-restful clinical environment that being in hospital provides, but the being able to press a buzzer and get...
A few years ago, I got into an argument with my now mother-in-law over my supposedly backwards ways. My transgression? I did not attend a party of my now husbands (then merely boyfriends) distant relatives, none of whom I knew, while he was out of town. Why didnt I want to...
Cat Elz · 5 stars
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifestolaying outthepossible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred everywhere.
An annoymous poster to Antifa International writes:
you antifa guys are actually more hateful and violent than any neo nazi group in the 21st century. its fucking disgusting and you should be branded as terrorists just as much as the KKK
Antifa International responds:
Wed
Antifa International · 5 stars
There is an ancient and well-kept secret tohappinesswhich the Great Ones have known for centuries. They rarely talk about it, but they use it all the time, and it is fundamental to good mental health. This secret is calledThe Fine Art of Not Being Offended.
Shemsi Prinzivalli · 4.9 stars
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Goethe
Charles Eisenstein · 4.9 stars
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some...
Stacco Troncoso & Ann Marie Utratel · 5 stars
Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist theory. I've often thought that this belief in not voting almost represents a sort of reli
The numbers do not lie: women have long been underrepresented on the United States Supreme Court. In the courts 228-year history, only four of the 112 justices have been female. Sandra Day OConnor became the first female justice in 1981, almost two centuries after the courts...
Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers · 5 stars
This collection of 122 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active participants in designing the transition...
Have you ever been told when youre stressed to stopworryingand just relax? That its all in your head? It would be nice if it were that simple. But its not.
Melody Walford · 4.9 stars
During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...
James Gilligan · 5 stars
About half a decade ago, Jordan Peterson was a psychology professor at the University of Toronto and clinical psychologist with little international fame and even less infamy. A talented teacher and skilled speaker, he conveyed expertise within his domain and gave prestigious...
Openwide Contributor · 5 stars
This post has been flying around social media, winning lots of praise and shares. Chris Renwick, we thank you.
Chris Renwick · 4.5 stars
You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. Do you know what I am talking about? The Matrix. The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us.
3 min · 4.6 stars
Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Heres what you need to know about these talking points and more.
Israel has killed upwards of 1500 Palestinians in the past three weeks. The UN estimates that more than...
Noura Erakat · 4.8 stars
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means's most famous speech.
Russell Means · 4.5 stars
Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
86 min · 4.5 stars
"The Superior Human?" systematically challenges the common human belief that humans are superior to all other life forms, which is often used as an excuse for animal cruelty and the destruction of our own environment. It reveals the absurdity of this belief while exposing...
73 min · 4.6 stars
According to a Princeton University study, public opinion has near-zero impacton U.S.law.Onething thatdoeshave an influence?Money.Nearly every issue we face as a nation is caught in the grip of corruption.Fromtaxation to national debt, education to the economy,America is...
6 min · 4.7 stars
A heart-stopping new documentary, A RIVER OF WASTE exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as mini Chernobyls.
92 min · 4.7 stars
Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as...
57 min · 4.6 stars
In a better world, thered be no reason to write this. In that world, plastic bags would be outlawed, rednecks would voluntarily stop driving those obnoxious Ford F-350s and the yogis in yuppie neighborhoods would stop believing that a hybrid SUV could save the planet. But...
Darren Fleet and Stefanie Krasnow · 4.6 stars
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed. This film examines the politics, business interests, and technology that explains why.
92 min · 4.6 stars
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system.
30 min · 4.6 stars
We don't need brutalising hierarchies of power to survive. There's nothing 'natural' about the world we're living in, we are not all inherently evil for no reason, and there is no justification for the domination that we experience in everyday life.
19 min · 4.6 stars
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists is a documentary that takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical hacktivist collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores the historical roots of early hacktivist groups like Cult...
92 min · 4.6 stars
Orwell Rolls Over In His Graveexpresses ideas that will never be heard in mainstream media. It is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where...
180 min · 4.6 stars
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smiths rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.
Riccardo Gazzaniga · 4.5 stars
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the "elitist theory of democracy" and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
99 min · 4.6 stars
Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical depression within their lifetimes, and the rate is increasing with every generation.
Sara Burrows · 4.6 stars
This Wombat has some simple instructions for living on Earth. A great reminder for sure!
1 min · 4.6 stars
The words "health care" and "comedy" aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's new movie 'SiCKO,' they go together hand in (rubber) glove.
123 min · 4.5 stars
Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa calls on all human beings to awaken the mother mind, that part of human consciousness that feels what is happening in the world.
2 min · 4.6 stars
It's something often done these days -- but have you ever wondered who were first to start this non-violent style of protest? Check out the blog for more info and photos: http://valhallamovement.com/blog/2014/07/25/oldest-tree-huggers/
6 min · 4.6 stars
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.
2 min · 4.6 stars
A compilation video highlighting Star Trek's stance on war, race, slavery,globalization, colonization, andpersonal liberty, juxtaposed with current facts and images that show these philosophies'parallels to modern-day issues.
14 min · 4.6 stars
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 really...
98 min · 4.6 stars
The Tea Party movement has taken American politics by storm. But is this truly a populist uprising or one of the greatest feats of propaganda ever seen?
2 min · 4.6 stars
John Lennon's "Imagine" covered by A Perfect Circle, and video edited by Peter Joseph, who made the video as an introduction to Zeitgeist Day 2010. Remix culture at its best!
5 min · 4.6 stars
Ive been talking with a lot of my friends recentlyin private where they felt comfortable letting their guard downabout thedirty little secretno one is supposed to talk about.
The shame people feel when they cant find a job
or pay their bills.
or go to the dentist.
or t
Joe Brewer · 4.5 stars
It's happening. A movement of movements representing millions of people in every country of the world, all working to create an ecologically sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
6 min · 4.5 stars
If life is kicking your ass and the general un-coolness of everybody on planet erf is making you want to off yourself, TALK to someone: 800-273-8255 (national suicide prevention lifeline). We are rooting for YOU. You're the greatest comeback story of all time.
4 min · 4.6 stars
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...
20 min · 4.6 stars
Grasp The Nettlefollows the exploits of a ragtag band of land rights activists inLondon as they struggle against corporations, government, police - and themselves -in their efforts to create alternative communities outside the framework of consumer society.
89 min · 4.5 stars
We feature a surprise address by Senator Bernie Sanders outside the White House on Tuesday during a global day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline that included demonstrations in over 300 cities. "Today we are saying it is time for a new approach to the Native...
6 min · 4.7 stars
When Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002, he became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, than the caricature. And when...
2 min · 4.7 stars
CITIZENFOUR is a real-life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwalds encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass...
2 min · 4.7 stars
Aghetis an award-winning documentary made by German filmmaker Eric Friedler, which proves the truth of the genocide of the Armenian people. Using the actual words of 23 German, American and other nationals who witnessed the events, and arm
93 min · 4.7 stars
Bill Maher calls out deregulators for shielding corporations at the expense of consumers.
5 min · 4.7 stars
We invited Native Americans to respond to the word "Thanksgiving." These are their responses.
2 min · 4.7 stars
In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about. Reengineering our cities will involve more...
22 min · 4.7 stars
Michael Moore investigates the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. He looks into the causes for such violent crimes, focusing on guns as a symbol of both American freedom and its self-destruction.
2 min · 4.7 stars
Think about it: None of us called for genetic manipulation of seeds. Not one of us said, yes, this new technology will benefit me, my family, and my community. Yet today most of us are eating them, while kept completely in the dark as to the hazards we may be facing - for...
7 min · 4.7 stars
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.
11 min · 4.7 stars
This clip from upcoming feature documentary "The World Is My Country" introduces the origins of and need for a World Passport.
8 min · 4.7 stars