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A FAIR study of the democratic presidential debates clearly shows that questions for progressive candidates such as Sanders and Warren were always framed critically, while those for moderate candidates were neutral.
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Esteban escaped poverty in the ghetto when he was thirteen, by running away from home and joining the FARC guerrilla movement in Colombia.
48 min
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden.
Chris Hedges
Everybody's noticing how social and political conversations become more and more polarized, to the point you can hardly call it a conversation anymore. - Charles Eisenstein
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The evidence is in: Joe Biden has a habit of making things up. And its not just wrong it could hurt him in a general election contest against Donald Trump. According to The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan, if you think the guy who made up getting arrested in South Africa, who...
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This video explores the reasons to vote for Bernie Sanders over other candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary election.
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Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination.
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Biden is a huge risk for those that want to defeat Trump in November.
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We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist...
A Feminist Future
Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base isthe billionaire classever since his election.
Paul Street
Donald Trump had the perfect opponent in the 2016 election. Running as a populist billionaire taking on the Washington elite, he couldnt have asked for a better rival in Hillary Clinton, who carried heavy political baggage and who, for many, personified the so-called...
Conor Lynch
The fascists and plutocrats are not just coming... they are already here.
Peter Bloom
"What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence goes at root cause of the problem."
Paul K. Chappell
Love, Peace and the Interconnection of All Life
A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defense against an epidemic like we now face.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good.
David Korten
When there is a conflict between big business and the public good, on labor rights, consumer rights, small taxpayer respect, and environmental protections, Bernie has stood with the people.
Ralph Nader
Dr. Cornel West makes the case for Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic nominee for president at a Bernie 2020 GOTV Rally in Detroit.
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A candidate who has the guts to stand up to the people who own this country. A candidate who has the guts to have a vision that American can be a land for all people. Not just a land controlled by the super rich. #FeelTheBern #Bernie2020 #BernieBeatsTrump Thanks for watching...
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Nonviolence is not simply the absence of violence, but about taking a proactive stand against violence and injustice, and working to repair the harm.
Kazu Haga
We must think, act and organize locally, while simultaneously cultivating a global vision and global solidarity.
Ronnie Cummins
The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.
Chris Hedges
There is no more daunting and dangerous duo in U.S. politics than the profits-over-people corporate wing of the Democratic Party and the belligerent, bigoted, and brutal Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Roy Eidelson
"People need to see it."
INVISIBLE follows two undercover investigators, Emily and Sarah (their names have been changed to protect their identities), on a pig farm investigation in Europe, offering the viewer an unprecedented glimpse into a world that is deliberately and...
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Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based onmaternal values:care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
What would America's heartland be like, 10 years after we pass a Green New Deal?
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How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
Most people sense that the conventional, industrial school system isn't working and that change needs to happen. But how do we transform education? In this video, Nariman Moustafa shares her "7Cs" framework for conceptualizing the bottom-up, radical shift that is taking place...
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WORTH THE PRICE? is a shortdocumentaryreviewing the role of then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) in leading the United States into the most devastating foreign policy blunder of the last twenty years.
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The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this one quick fix would root out the rot that pervades America's political economy.
Chris Maisano
"Its all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Storythe account of how the world came to be and how we fit into itsustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted
The following text is a translation ofMarian Dezs impassioned closing speech at therecent convergence meetingof theWorld Social Forum for Transformative Economies.
Marian Díez and Guerrilla Translation
Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same.
Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar
Black Snow looks at the explosion at the Oaks Colliery in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which despite being the world's worst industrial loss of life in the 19th century, was a tragedy that remained relatively unremembered until 2015, when a group of ex-miners, trade unionists...
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"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election."
Jon Queally
Welcome to the Most Corrupt Industry in the World Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
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Despite the desperate smears from center-right opponents claiming he is "divisive," the reality is that Bernie Sanders policies are all about unity: common needs, mutual care, and a shared future.
Christopher D. Cook
If millions of Americans started driving electric cars with Federal tax breaks and an end to gasoline subsidies, American petroleum demand would plummet.
Juan Cole
There is no time for hopelessness. Here are some ideas for what we can do now to fight back against the attacks we know are coming.
Ed Goddard
Sen. Bernie Sanders isnt talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. Hes talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.
Jesse Jackson
SAVING ASSANGE is an archive-driven, compilation, internet documentary that uses extracts from news bulletins, broadcast programs, TV docs, talk shows and other online content to revise the Assange saga and argue the legal, moral and ethical case for Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
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Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth combined with their...
David Swanson
In this excerpt from LOVE SCHOOL, author and visionary Charles Eisenstein speaks to the importance of surrounding ourselves with a supportive community that can give usthe courage we need to step into the unknown, into new ways of being.
6 min
"This is a poignant situation. A woman is feeling pretty beat down in a pretty dark place who loves art, but shuts down when the question "what's the point?" inevitably creeps into her mind."- Charles Eisenstein
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"Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow." - River Phoenix
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The beliefs and stories that we hold are not the result of an independent choice by the neo-liberal separate self choosing from the marketplace of ideas. Belief is a collective function. The echo chamber effect can operate both ways. -Charles Eisenstein
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Even if we elect a better-than-Trump, half-measures candidate, we're still not better off. Our grandchildren will curse us all the same.
Thomas Neuburger
An inside look at how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos built one of the largest and most influential economic forces in the world and the cost of Amazons convenience.
114 min
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 Dharmaa path to individual and collective liberation. A Sensei in the...
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With climate change and biodiversity loss worsening every day, we're all asking ourselves: will humanity survive?
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Why is chronic poverty tolerated in America? Is our economic system flawed? Through personal stories and insights, University of Alabama professor J. Palmer (Jim) Brown explores the problem of poverty and advocates a solution in worker ownership and cooperation.
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Nonty Charity Sabicis cofounder of the internationalRise Ubuntu Network, based on ubuntu, an indigenous South African philosophy that aims to teach and collectively remember the connection shared between humans and nature. Based in Barcelona, Sabic is involved in theWorld...
MarÍa Sanz DomÍnguez and Timothy McKeon
INHABITANTS follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted...
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Attention is like a spotlightwhatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.
Paul Gilbert
California once had more linguistic variety than all of Europe. Language Keepers is a 6-part series following four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages.
105 min
Its time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.
Marjorie Kelly
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The design brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it.
Innovating and...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Ignore the usual fairytale. Democracy, unions, healthcare and education: these are the forces that matter
Jason Hickel