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"“One big orgy”: That’s 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 it’s not all wild sex — or even all that...
106 min
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...
3 min
Hace tiempo que siento que la educación predominante sobre la naturaleza se centra peligrosamente en su funcionamiento, cuando en pocos sitios se enseña a conectar con ella, a amarla. Subestimamos erróneamente ese conocimiento emocional, cuando es posible que sea nuestra...
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.” Don’t 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.
52 min
Nigeria, like many countries, is facing a crisis in it's education system. Teacher morale is often very low, most pupils never have access to even the most basic of books and, consequently, many pupils leave school unable to read of write,
Brother Doctor Cornel West finally said what needed to be said on CNN. The one narrative a neo-fascist liberal mediasphere can’t 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
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To question and debate our disconnect with nature, not Climate Change ! The channel will be appealing to people who have a critical position on claims, arguments and theories - but also the will for driving change and betterment. An example: Why would an impoverished family...
13 min
The Movie. 532 simultaneous actions in 27 different countries against nuclear business. More Info: http://www.chernobyl-day.org - http://www.nonukes.it - https://www.rnanews.eu/
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
9 min
Thorium is NOT "green", NOT "safe", NOT "peaceful". Read more here: Thorium Military Proliferation in Italy http://www.nonukes.it/rnanews/rnanews023.html
NO THORIUM 2013:
RNA in Paris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVyP_uWnzWo
Thor
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Thorium is NOT "green", NOT "safe", NOT "peaceful". http://www.rnanews.eu http://www.facebook.com/nothorium
The more people I meet, the more I’m fascinated by the human being. It is exciting to hear people’s stories, their dreams, their problems and their concerns. You realize how amazingly similar we are even though we strive to reinforce what makes us different. However, there is...
The pandemic is very quickly teaching us what’s important: health, love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into nature. Shouldn’t 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 Eagle tells 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
5 min
This is an extra clip from the movie "Changing of the Gods," coming in 2022.
12 min
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
This morning the president of the United States threatened 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
77 min
Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
2 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...
87 min
Narmada: A Valley Rises is 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...
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
12 min
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid”
20 min
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.
The uprising in response to George Floyd’s 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
2 min
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".
11 min
An award-winning documentary about why 70 million meditators were targeted for elimination in China. For more information visit: https://www.swoopfilms.com/films/tpofg
55 min
56 MINUTES NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN It’s hard to believe that doctors would kill for profit. It’s even harder to believe that major media are not investigating. Watch this award-winning insight into why the world is ignoring China's mass-market sale of human organs.
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Gli Espulsi dal processo produttivo divenuti oggi Eccedenze umane NON utilizzabili come merce. Davvero credete alla grandissima frottola del lavoro? Del "dare lavoro"? Quando 40 anni fa, in Italia, fu creato (senza tante storie e bassi moralismi per cerebrolesi…) un vero e...
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Competenzkistan completa una trilogia in videomorphing iniziata nel 2008 con "Liechtenstein" e che al tempo raggiunse in poche ore le 50mila visualizzazioni grazie al blog di Grillo. Successivamente un videoclip più breve "C'è del 'nuovo'... che Avanza" (uno sfottò ai governi...
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The American media landscape can be pretty depressing for those with leftist sensibilities, but it'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...
41 min
A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978 monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
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-Exupéry
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 that claim to be...
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
7 min
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...
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 of The Coronation in 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
8 min
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.
There’s 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 don’t know if this is right, but it’s worth listening to.” If you want to learn more but are...
Beth Skwarecki
9 min
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...
57 min
"Bernie Blackout" Director Pat McGee Interview. Thanks to Pat McGee! - Matt Orfalea
In the gangland sagas of Godfather and Irishman, we witness death as the defeat of every individual mobster who had contributed his life in the world of Organized Crime in America. Death as synonymous to defeat provokes the reader to accept it as the leitmotifs of Francis...
85 min
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...
6 min
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...
4 min
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” Edward O. Wilson
It's tempting to wonder when things will return to normal, and as discussed in an article, Covid 19 has messed up life. This has led many of us to think about normality and, as we all know, it has put us in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Second World War...
24 min
There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix. The answers to metaphysical questions—and indeed political questions, personal questions—are usually less important than the process that the question launches. Here we explore...
For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing down my hurts and disappointments, my losses. Since the pandemic began, all the plans I’d made, all the things I’d finally given myself permission to get excited about, to invest money and energy in, to do what I wanted have been...
Anthony Rella
So, was the film “Planet of the Humans” a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers’ phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, “The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now...
Craig Collins
They say anxiety is us weaving conspiracy theories about ourselves.
But what if those feelings are already there, and we are actually telling stories to support them?
We weave stories to try to explain how something inhuman and awful could happen to us. We also need people...
Justice Bartlett
Neo-Liberalism and the Arts.
Eamonn Kelly
8 min
Cycle courier cooperatives are turning technology on the gig economy giants.
25 min
Marine Corps infantryman turned anti-war activist John Motter tells Abby Martin the hidden reality of the endless Afghanistan War.
What would it cost to wipe out everybody’s student loans? The answer may surprise you.
Sparky Abraham
6 min
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AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP MIROWSKI - Many observers expected that the 2008 financial crisis would mark the end of neoliberalism. Instead, we saw a wave of privatization and sharp cuts in public services. Today, the forces best placed to exploit the coronavirus pandemic are...
Alex Doherty
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Poetry Corners - "I Am Part Of The Change" (2019) - A powerful digital poetry work addressing family violence.
29 min
We have a story to tell you…and it's a new story. We are being called by children everywhere to begin seeing the world from their eyes and telling a new story about the better world our hearts know is possible. We, all of us, in the WorldSummit movement are already creating...
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A bedtime story of how it started, and why hindsight’s 2020 🛌 🧸 by Probably Tomfoolery.
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If we stop to listen to the forests, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us about community resilience, about cooperation, about finding strength in differences and about how to live in the present. Perhaps they would also remind us of all the things we have in...
Counteracting corporate media consolidation, the Progressive International has launched the Wire, to disseminate critical perspectives around the world.
Michael Galant
14 min
We are in the time of THE GREAT PAUSE. Where might we collectively go next?
48 min
A film on Climate Change, Degrowth and System Change. The effects and risks of climate change are compelling young people the world round to call upon radical system change as the only solution to avoid a catastrophic collapse. This film studies the role economic growth has...
The divide between the haves and the have nots has been highlighted by the impacts of the pandemic.[1] For those able to work online with a spacious and secure home base, and some financial resources to ride out the pandemic, life has mostly been tolerable. Consumption has...
David Holmgren
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After a struggle to get back home to Australia and two weeks in quarantine before reaching Zaytuna, Geoff enjoys an early morning, and he takes us on a walk to some special spots around the property. Possum (the dog) waits on the speed bump that sends water to Paradise Dam...
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To learn more, watch my 4-part Permaculture Masterclass series, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L
Good design will make the most of any situation. It can be used to mitigate any extreme. When it comes to water the question is… do you have enough?...
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I'm at the Jordan permaculture project 'Greening the Desert,' and I've filmed a casual tour of the site and included a list of our plants below. It's taken the team 10-years to get to where we are now and everyone is doing a fantastic job turning this arid desert land into a...
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To learn more about permaculture watch the Permaculture Masterclass, a 4-part documentary-style film, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L.
I've returned to the Greening the Desert site in Jordan which is located 10km north of the Dead Sea, 6km east of...
14 min
Geoff is in Zaytuna’s kitchen garden today, which may be much larger than the average kitchen garden but provides great design examples for intense, small-space gardening.
Kitchen gardens can be intensely cultivated, easy, diverse, and fertile. The mix of crops grown can be...
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Learn more with my free Permaculture Masterclass series, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L
The easiest way to build a garden, the least inputs for the maximum outputs, begins with simple ingredients available anywhere. It can begin with typical...
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Take a 20-minute tour of our 66-acre Zaytuna Farm property. Throughout, I explain specific features of the farm, how these things came together, and why the farm was designed as you see it.
If some terms aren’t familiar, we have included a detailed explanation below and to...
14 min
To learn more watch the Permaculture Masterclass, my newest 4-part documentary-style film, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L.
Forests are ecosystems with a diversity of plants, animals, and fungi. They were designed by nature to have perfect...
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Learn more about Permaculture with my free 4-part Masterclass series, here: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/a/12454/e3i2ci3L
Compost worm farms transform household waste into a resource, a very valuable resource, a nutrient-rich fertilizer (liquid and solid) while also...
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Permaculture designer Andrew Faust presents a clear outline for achieving energy independence with 100% renewable technologies in the New York bioregion.
35 min
Learn how to become more regionally resilient with bioregional economics and ecological city design.
4 min
Why Biogas and on-site fuels are inherently superior and appropriate for heating and domestic hot water and why electricity should be reserved for certain tasks that can be run by solar on-site.
4 min
Si nos parásemos a escuchar a los bosques, ¿qué nos dirían? Quizás nos hablarían de la resiliencia de la comunidad, de la cooperación, de encontrar fortaleza en las diferencias y de cómo vivir el presente. Es posible que también nos recuerden todas las cosas que tenemos en...
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” - Albert Einstein
Tawai is a film about reconnection. It connects us to our ancestors and the type of life they may have lived. It connects us with our bodies and senses, inviting us to feel...
Bruce Parry
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down why "corporate social responsibility" is a total farce, and explains why corporations can never be trusted to do the right thing on their own.
Recent data out of New York City shows a large number of people with COVID-19 have largely been staying home. Governor Andrew Cuomo called this a “surprise.” But capitalism is forcing working-class people to spread the virus. A socialist doctor from New York explains the...
Corona is destroying the economy and forcing us to change our ways of distributing goods.
A detailed plan to bring about a systemic change. Something You & I can do !
13 min
Click Part 2 to watch Rebel Bass' video about renewable energy.
72 min
Misadventures in Corporate Media | Jeff Cohen Interview Had fun speaking with Jeff Cohen about the 5 media filters "Manufacturing Consent" and his own misadventures in cable news. Jeff wrote the book “Cable News Confidential” about his misadventures in Corporate Media. He...
6 min
George Monbiot exposes the billionaire class.
Why are real, meaningful apologies so few and far between? What have we internalized about the meaning of apologizing?
Teri Lynn
75 min
“The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the voices of these elders, offering an unprecedented insight into their knowledge, traditions and...
Nuestro mundo ideal, en su más pura esencia es asombrosamente similar en la mente de las personas. Todos acarreamos con las mismas necesidades físicas y emocionales básicas, necesidades que al final son las que dan sentido a nuestras vidas. Entre otras tantas cosas que son...
4 min
“We each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society.” - Nicholas Christakis
This is the final in a series on Planet of the Humans. The other posts are here:
Ketan Joshi
14 min
From The Magic in your Mind, Chapter two, Discovering the Secret Self, by U.S. Andersen
There is worse ahead. In acceptance, hope is transformed into energy for the unimaginable.
For many homeowners, rooftop solar is a smart move. But what if you could get every home and business in your entire county to switch to renewables, all at once? This is essentially what’s happening in my state, California: a quiet revolution awkwardly named community choice...
Peter Kalmus
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In this excerpt from a talk and Q&A given at the Institute for the Radical Imagination on 08/10/2019 titled 'For a Left that Dares to Speak its Name', Zizek discusses why white liberals love identity politics and political correctness, arguing that their emphasis on...