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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...
6 min
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?
8 min
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...
5 min
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.
20 min
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...
23 min
"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
7 min
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.
48 min
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
7 min
"Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow." - River Phoenix
3 min
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
10 min
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...
39 min
With climate change and biodiversity loss worsening every day, we're all asking ourselves: will humanity survive?
7 min
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.
18 min
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...
76 min
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
Walking along the Klamath River in Northern California, Phil Albers reflects on the Karuk language and the ancestral land of the Karuk people that surrounds it. This film premiered in the fifth issue of Emergence Magazine on "Language" as part of the six-part multimedia story...
5 min
Nearly all of Ethiopias original trees have disappeared, but small pockets of old-growth forest still surround Ethiopias churches, living arks of biodiversity amongst the brown grazing fields. In this film and essay, Jeremy Seifert and Fred Bahnson travel to Ethiopia to gain...
8 min
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people as long as it's profitable.
Nicole M. Aschoff
CNN and CBS do it. NPR and PBS do it. They all do it.
Jeff Cohen
Food and farming is in crisis. In just over a decade weve lost more than 33,000 farms from our countryside, and alongside this, bad diet is now causing more health problems than smoking! The fundamental link between people, food and the very land we stand on is being broken...
68 min
Canada invades. Invades on behalf of industry. Invades during ceremony. Canada tears us from our land. Tears us from our families, from our homes. Takes our drums away. Takes our women away. Jails us for protecting the land, for being in ceremony, for honouring our ancestors.
7 min
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. Its an environmental crisis thats been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.
55 min
The new decade is just days old, but in one respect it is already shaping up like the last one: with mass protests around the world.
Rallies for democracy overseas and
Danielle K. Kilgo
Sierra Robinson is a seventeen-year-old farmer, homeschooler, and environmental activist from Vancouver Island, BC.
12 min
Practicing Nonviolent Communication guides us to reframe the way we listen to others and express ourselves by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, needing and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. In this context the word need...
Center for Nonviolent Communication
If you get into debt buying your child branded trainers, if you fear redundancy, if you suffer anxiety about the future of the planet and you blame yourself for all of these things then you are showing symptoms of drowning in the insidious and sinister ideology...
Brendan Montague
#1 Most scholars agree that the beginning of todays struggle was the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs by the Israeli military in 1948, which the Palestinians call The Nakba, meaning catastrophe in Arabic.
70 min
Some people are starting to talk aboutregenerative culturesas possible pathways towards a thriving future of people unfolding their unique potential within the context of the communities and regions they help to regenerate cultures that are healthy, resilient and...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Two soulful members of the Bundjalung Tribe in Australia, explain with severity and grace, the nature of their relationship to the Earth, which is about belonging to it rather than owning it.
11 min
With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.
Contrapoints' 100 minute video essay on "cancel" activism.
100 min
Natalie Wynn explains why cancel culture is harmful. Watch the full video essay here.
11 min
Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously shit-life syndromeand its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.
Bruce E. Levine
Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich
Mark Weisbrot
The uprising across Canada in support of Wetsuweten First Nation land defenders shows no sign of stopping. As of February 11, ports, bridges, rail lines, highways and roads have been blockaded across much of the country by solidarity protesters, who have also occupied the...
Joyce Nelson
Both Republicans and Democrats have blocked all attempts to build a rational, universal health care policy for the U.S. This is because capitalism prioritizes profit over the health and well-being of the working class. Creating a truly just health care system will require...
Mike Pappas
An unprecedented, groundbreaking and voyeuristic look into military reserve life in Israel, this film was shot over a 5 year period in director and reserve soldier Yaniv Berman's life.
65 min
Pick any of the big topics of the day Brexit, climate change or
C. Thi Nguyen
In an era of bitter partisanship, political infighting and ostracization of those with unpopular views, Americans actually agree on one thing: 85% say political discourse has gotten worse over the last several years, according to Pew Research.
Joshua B. Grubbs