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OUT OF OMAHA is an award-winning, intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, young black men coming of age in the divided city of Omaha, Nebraska. Directed by Clay Tweel and Exec Produced by J. Cole.
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United States of Distraction chronicles critical media literacy and faculty experts, students, and media makers who provide contextual analysis for understanding the current rise of the so-called fake news phenomenon.
63 min
Immuto (Change), is a response to the climate emergency and global environmental collapse.
45 min
"Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News" takes an in-depth look at what is wrong with the news media in the U.S. today and highlights the work of 40-year veteran media democracy organization Project Censored and their commitment to media literacy...
63 min
"This kind of documentation serves as a counter-narrative to repeated denials of responsibility from the police, who are routinely claiming protesters were the ones to grow violent first."
Jake Johnson
As protests against police brutality are met with anunceasing barrage of police brutality, the obsequious bootlicking copologia in online discussion forums has been cranked up to eleven.
Ive written a
Caitlin Johnstone
COMMUNITIES OF HOPE is a film born from a quest to discover a regenerative culture.
29 min
Redirect it to emergency response programs that dont kill black people.
Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris
The United States has reached a crossroads. The police response to protests against police brutality has been to act even more brutally toward the people they're supposed to protect and serve. America needs to reckon with the legacy of slavery and the continued abuse of power...
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James Baldwin makes a heartfelt plea for racial justice and equality at Cambridge University.
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Almost every quantifiable indicator of white supremacy all lead back to the government-sanctioned policy of redlining. Here's how the racist legacy of redlining still works today.
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Learn about the life of Bayard Rustin, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a gay rights activist, and one of Martin Luther Kings closest advisors. -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington to nearly a quarter million...
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Reframing vulnerability as a strength is what makes transformation possible.
Jason von Meding & Heidi Harmon
Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and...
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James Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic whose essays in Notes of a Native Son explored race, sex and class distinctions. -- In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000 documents in an investigation into one of Americas most celebrated minds. The subject of...
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A terrifying new website recently opened up: ArmyForTrump.com
Riots are often justified, whats the French Revolution but a riot blessed by history
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At times of widespread misery, a single incident of blatant injustice can cause enormous, unexpected outrage outrage that then fuels far wider protests and more radical demands. This is exactly what weve seen across the United States since George Floyds murder.
Jeremy Gong
Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?
Madison Pauly
Using damage to property as cover, US police have meted out shocking, indiscriminate brutality in the wake of the uprising
Rebecca Solnit
Learn more at: https://utopiacornucopia.org/
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Chris Hayes explains the power of white fear and the great divide between the Colony and the Nation. From our country's founding to Selma, Ferguson, and more than 140 cities today, we have seen our two Americas laid bare. In one America, white people enjoy the freedom and...
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"One big orgy: Thats the stereotype about the lifestyle of consensual non-monogamy an arrangement where committed partners agree to have relationships with other people. But people who have practiced non-monogamy for years say its not all wild sex or even all that wild. It...
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This is a story of the violence and coercion that underlies our modern societies. Most of the time, our interactions are peaceful and consensual, but there is a large notable exception. The state maintains its power and ability to create law by the constant threat of force...
106 min
Looting is the word of the day, on the lips of every newscaster, the president, and elected officials across the country. And, indeed, looting is a major problem in America.
Thom Hartmann
Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately accuse protesters as being duped by outside agitators. Dont fall for it the lie of the outside agitator is designed to weaken protests and downplay our widespread anger at injustice.
Glenn Houlihan
A letter to white people from a white person.
Brother Doctor Cornel West finally said what needed to be said on CNN. The one narrative a neo-fascist liberal mediasphere cant headline. Not in Venezuela. Not in Syria. Not in Yemen. Not in Tel-Aviv, Paris, the UK, or anywhere throughout the neo-liberal world.
We are...
Bias training, body cameras, community dialogues Minneapolis has tried them all. We need a better response
Alex S Vitale
No one wants to see their community burn. But the fires burning in Minneapolis, just like the fire burning in the spirits of so many marginalized Americans today, are a natural response to the trauma black communities have experienced, generation after generation.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
This epidemic of racism is more prevalent, more real, more tangible than even a virus that is taking lives seemingly overnight. When do Black people get to rest, to be safe, to breathe?
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
The pandemic is very quickly teaching us whats important: health, love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into nature. Shouldnt those things be the pillars around which our societies are organised? The virus...
Laura Basu
From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon,The Condor & the Eagletells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples of North and South America in their fight to preserve their communities and to protect the...
Linda Etchart
This is an extra clip from the movie "Changing of the Gods," coming in 2022.
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If the Reopen America protests seem a little off to you, that's because they are. In this video we're going to talk about astroturfing and how insidious it is. - Second Thought
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This morning the president of the United Statesthreatened state-sanctioned murder in response to looting,laying bare the way in which white supremacy, capitalism and the state work together to violently repress people who defend Black life.
William C. Anderson
Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
77 min
From indigenous rain forest dwellers having their way of life completely threatened, to dozens of Campesinos assassinated, to the livelihood of waste pickers at landfills taken away, THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and brings us up close to projects working...
2 min
Narmada: A Valley Risesis beautifully photographed, inspiring film. It documents a 200 kilometre non-violent Gandhian march involving 6000 participants. The film offers a compelling and intimate portrait of a unique movement while raises critical and universal issues of...
87 min
Whatever causes you grief, let yourself grieve. It is healing and necessary to feel the pain of the loss, whether we understand the fullness of its dimensions or not.
Anthony Rella
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid
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This 2-part video series offers a basic explanation of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's Propaganda Model. In their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, they outline 5 filters that critique the political economy of the mass media," namely...
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A video essay by Second Thought.
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The uprising in response to George Floyds murder by a Minneapolis police officer this week has led to predictable calls to condemn looting. But the real looting in our society comes from the military, the police, the pharmaceutical companies, private equity, the landlords...
Peter Gowan
Joe Brewer is a complexity researcher and evangelist for the field of culture design. The spoken audio is from a Kosmos Live podcast, "on cultural design and midwifing a new era".
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The American media landscape can be pretty depressing for those with leftist sensibilities, butit's better than it was five years ago! Over the last two decades, a surge of support for leftist thought has culminated in a vibrant new batch of leftist media. From podcasts to...
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A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
41 min
Progressive International Council member Carola Rackete and Dr. Claire Wordley explore the dimensions of Europe's biodiversity crisis and how the Green New Deal can address it.
Carola Rackete and Dr. Claire Wordley
A goal without a plan is just a wish.Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and regions thatclaimto be working...
Richard Heinberg
The coronavirus (covid-19) has caused upheaval across the world, deaths of the most vulnerable, closed borders, financial market crashes, curfews and controls on group gatherings, and many more devastating effects.
Degrowth Editorial Team
A week before the announcement of the Janata [public] Curfew slated for March 22, 2020, I spoke with a 43-year-old close relative in her village in Leh, Ladakh, by phone from Delhi. Around that time, the news of rising infections from the novel coronavirus coming in from...
Padma Rigzin
Three students challenge outdated economics by debating with their professor about the nature of humankind, with rap and puppetry. This animated film is a collaboration between economist Kate Raworth, puppet designer Emma Powell and song writer Simon Panrucker. The critique...
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The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
Aragorn Eloff
The other day I was amused to read a critique ofThe Coronationin which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed it.
Charles Eisenstein
There's a whole lot of bickering and name-calling in American politics, but modern politicians have a lot more in common than you might realize. In this episode,Second Thought takes a look at just how skewed the American political spectrum is.
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Theres a video out there that claims to show a scientist being silenced by the government. I keep seeing people share it while saying things like What do you think of this? or I dont know if this is right, but its worth listening to. If you want to learn more but are wary of...
Beth Skwarecki
In this video essay, we look at how climate change is causing a decrease in biodiversity worldwide. Biodiversity is a measure of the variety and variability of life, and climate change is causing the decline of biodiversity in numerous ecosystems via extreme weather...
9 min
"Bernie Blackout" Director Pat McGee Interview. Thanks to Pat McGee!- Matt Orfalea
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Despite low unemployment rates and a rising stock market, 3 out of 4 economists are expecting a recession by 2021. We are already facing a #crisisofpoverty and economic precarity, where 140 million people are poor or low-income, the costs of living are going up and the...
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Realism and utopia are often seen as opposite poles. Realism, it is thought, is concerned with what is and utopia is concerned with our wishes about what we would like to be. However, once we fully examine the issue we can see that this way of thinking is mistaken. A properly...
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