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The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
3 min
History teaches us that legislative action rarely happens without organized protest. This is why the Black Lives Matter movement is so essential today.
Bree Newsome
"Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies' work by destroying each other."
Audre Lorde
Monday, October 12th is Columbus Day, which we have celebrated in this country since the eighteenth century... and that's probably long enough. When you find out the actual facts of what Columbus did when he got to America, you'll find one of the darkest chapters in American...
9 min
The History, the Inspiration, the Mass Murder
J.J. McCullough
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men never think about patriarchy—what it means, how it is created and sustained. Many men in...
bell hooks
A message of hope, a message that looks beyond the numbers and sees the human looking for hope.
4 min
Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Council, leaked diplomatic cables have revealed the UK was a key player in the election of the Gulf State ─ despite the Saudis’ appalling human rights record.
Michaela Whitton
Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely
Nick Cohen
Ten people were killed and seven wounded recently in a mass shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. Such shootings are more than another tragic expression of unchecked violence in the United States, they are symptomatic of a society engulfed in fear, militarism...
Henry A. Giroux
Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.
Matt Bruenig
Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it.
27 min
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
5 min
This unexpected alliance between slaves and natives is a great model for social change
Jacob Devaney
The Science Guy argues that most anti-abortion legislation is derived from outdated beliefs that predate smart science by fifty centuries.
5 min
As Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable suffering at the hands of Israelis, there are some old bromides that are constantly being hurled at an unsuspecting public by elected U.S. officials, in order to justify U.S. financing of that suffering. Let us look at just a...
Robert Fantina
Bernie Sanders talks about the one issue the billionaire class wants us to avoid discussing.
8 min
Made to coincide with the third anniversary of conflict (in March 2014), let us stand #WithSyria features artwork from Banksy and is narrated by Idris Elba with exclusive music from Elbow.
2 min
A beautifully told tale of a couple living peacefully in the countryside until one day an explosion rocks their world.
8 min
Here and Now weaves together social justice, land conservation, human history, and scientific knowledge into a cohesive and moving story about what’s possible by working together. We learn about four innovative partnerships between Native Americans and land conservation...
18 min
The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
28 min
"With a swelling slave population, the masters faced the prospect of white freedmen with disappointed hopes joining forces with slaves of desperate hope to mount ever more virulent rebellions. The elites’ race strategy decreased the probability of such class rebellions. The...
Thandeka
Refugees are fleeing their homes by the thousands, risking their families' lives to try to find a way out of the violence. Most see Europe as a beacon of hope. We've sent a team to Budapest, Hungary, to follow a group of refugees on their journey.
15 min
This is a documentary of the struggle to survive and heal in war while bringing to life a better society. Kobane has had about 80% of its infrastructure destroyed and has been largely cutoff from aid and supplies. While struggling to cope with the military and civilian...
7 min
The number of people displaced by wars fuelled by the west and its allies has reached a staggering new high.
Ben Norton
From The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy:
Will Shetterly and Thandeka
As part of Israel's ongoing and desperate PR campaign to counter opposition and prove it has justice on its side, The Yesha Council, a settlers' organization in the West Bank, has released a new booklet to teach young people "the right facts" -
Abby Zimet
It was 1975 when the first same-sex Americans were “permitted” to marry one another. It was Clela Rorex who processed these licenses illegally. This act of sabotage against the state’s marriage monopoly was eventually discovered, and Rorex quit — many calling for her to face...
Ryan Calhoun
Tens of thousands of people have attended candlelight vigils across Australia in support of refugees, adding their voices to the growing pressure on Australia to accept more people who are fleeing the war in Syria.
2 min
As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions of Asylum seeking refugees in urgent...
Otto Scharmer
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit
The refugee crisis in Europe is showing that humans helping each other, irrespective of national boundaries, is often the most effective form of action.
Jonathan Davis
Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well.
Michael Todd Landis
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader
Films that show the complex reality of indigenous health and well-being.
John Ahni Schertow
Transgender healthcare access is crucial for trans people to live and be themselves, but trans people are frequently marginalized in so many ways, including equal access to healthcare. This film covers the current issues faced by trans people in the US. Please watch, like...
6 min
Do you despair when people fleeing war, poverty and disasters are met with hostility or indifference? Fed up with the dispassionate and downright inhumane response from governments and the media? You're not alone. Citizens of many countries are taking direct action to help...
Hungary plans to build a very long fence to keep migrants out. Thousands of asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and beyond are streaming into the EU via Hungary.
2 min
Was the catalyst for the current conflict in Syria a drought caused by anthropogenic climate change?
Written by Audrey Quinn, Illustrated by Jackie Roche
When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and dangerous by many Americans. Now executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and part...
3 min
The detention of migrants has become a multi-billion dollar industry in which immigrants are sold to the highest bidder and traded like mere products. The Corrections Corporation of America, The Geo Group, and the Management and Training Corporation run over 200 facilities...
33 min
After the tragic crisis in Syria, more than half of all Syrians have left their homes. Where are they?
3 min
In the 1970s, women from the Indian subcontinent who migrated to the UK to join their spouses were routinely subjected to virginity testing examinations. A poet and a filmmaker from Bristol, UK have made a short film, Borders, about the women's experience.
This year's gay marriage ruling was a milestone, but LGBT discrimination is still surprisingly legal. John Oliver explains why we need a federal anti-discrimination law.
15 min
As the democratic socialist from Vermont tries to do the impossible, the firebrand academic could help.
Matthew Pulver
The word migrant has become a largely inaccurate umbrella term for this complex story.
Barry Malone
In the summer of 2014, the Gaza strip was ravaged by an Israeli military operation that lasted 50 days. This hugely disproportionate conflict saw the Gaza strip devastated, with entire neighbourhoods left in ruins. The UN has said "the extent of the devastation and human...
3 min
Addressing income inequality is important, but worsening economic segregation has far more compounding effects.
Richard Florida
It is highly beneficial for Europe to have a uniform migration policy. The Union must accept the reality that the massive movements will not stop, and setting up a fortress is not a sustainable solution.
Away from the xenophobic hysteria aimed at desperate immigrants are people taking steps to help newcomers and promote the good things they bring
Various
Thom Hartmann says white people need to understand black people have suffered 400 years of genocide and the murders continue today. This is why members of the Black Lives Matter movement are disrupting campaign events.
3 min
As refugees and asylum seekers continue to pour into Germany, supporters face off against a surging tide of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim protesters.
9 min
Over the past couple of weeks, @DMReporter and I (@BestoftheMail) have been getting more and more aghast by the tone of some of the coverage of the migration in Europe. This is especially apparent in newspaper comment sections where it now seems that literally anything...
Daily Mail Comments (@BestoftheMail)
As Africa looks desperately for leaders of integrity and vision, the life and ideals of the late Thomas Sankara seem more and more relevant and exemplary with the passage of time. This new film should go a long way towards explaining why, though largely forgotten in this...
52 min
There is a group of people in the world today who are more persecuted than anyone else, but they are not political or religious activists. They are girls. Being born a girl means you are more likely to be subjected to violence, disease, poverty and disadvantage than any other...
3 min
This powerful video by Matthew Cooke pulls together disparate stands to create the story of how the ruling class divides people in order to keep them enslaved.
11 min
LIVING THINKERS examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today.
5 min
Where do black women activists fit into the epochal struggles for equality and liberation during the 1960s and 70s? This feature-length documentary unearths the story of black women’s political marginalization—between the male-dominated Black Power movement and second wave...
3 min
The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. And its unique history is shaped by, and inseparable from, assertions of national identity...
2 min