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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
In this powerful new RSA Minimate, TIMEs Editor-at-Large Anand Giridharadas argues that while the winners of our age might be well meaning in their desire to give back, too many stop short at the kinds of real change that would see power more radically distributed.
5 min
It's been two years since we finished filming The Staging Post. We have never stopped filming the community and we're making another 'episode'. We plan to screen it around Australia in June 2020.
2 min
Journey with us to Pelican Bay State Prison in California, to see how HUSTLE 2.0 is empowering incarcerated men through Entrepreneurship + Emotional Intelligence training.
14 min
Katherine is the Policy and Knowledge Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. She has over eight years experience in various roles with Oxfam GB - as a Senior Researcher for the Global Research Team, UK Policy Manager, and Research and Policy Advisor for Oxfam Scotland.
16 min
Writer Anand Giridharadas describes in his book " Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World " why the rich do not pay taxes, but with their philanthropy determine the course of the world (and thereby undermine our democracy).
43 min
Aeroponics grows fruits and vegetables faster, cheaper and better.
12 min
In this report we document the public rally event organized by the "Don't Extradite Assange Campaign" for Julian Assange that took place on the 4th of February 2020 at the Royal National Hotel in London. Interviews and speeches in this video include WikiLeaks editor-in-chief...
16 min
Divide-and-conquer allows the oligarchy free rein. It makes the rest of us puppets, fighting each other on a made-up stage.
Robert Reich
As Canada prepares to violently invade our lands, we have no fear. We are peacefully living on our lands and upholding our laws, as we always have.
5 min
If you can dream it, you can do it, is a famous quote attributed to Walt Disney or one of his staff.
John Perkins
Effortless Actionis the sequel to my documentary The Art of Effortless Living. This documentary explores the spontaneous nature of the Taoist wisdom of wu-wei as explained by the great sages Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu.
48 min
When Bernie says it's not about him, I see my values and fears and hopes represented in a way I never have before.
Cari Hernandez
Theyve never met a poor person. Theyve never lived in deprived areas. Ha-Joon Chang explains why economics is too important to be left to economists.
4 min
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It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues and basic theories of economics. Ha-Joon Chang
385 min
What many of us long for more than anything else is a simpler life; we feel overwhelmed by our responsibilities, schedules, commitments and obligations. This is a film about how to create the simpler life we deserve.
7 min
From Roosevelts attempt to create a New Deal national health insurance program, to the Trump administrations repeal of the Obamacare individual mandatethe three-part Bernies Damn Bill video series reveals how decades of influence by greedy special interests have led to the...
13 min
The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its goals. Rather, it is essentially a very pragmatic approach that begins not with asystem, but...
Martin Oetting
In this entertaining talk from SAND18, James Fadiman, "America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use," describes the citizen science of his recent investigations into the effects of microdosing, and shares some fascinating stories from the...
31 min
At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of Americas first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out?
21 min
Germany has a much lower crime rate and fewer people in prison than the United States. How does Germany do that? Is it because their prisons are different than ours? Is there anything we could learn from them? Find out.
26 min
Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation
Rebecca Solnit
We often define ourselves by things that are "outside" us: relationships, work, family even our own bodies. But what would it mean to have your life dramatically altered and your body irrevocably damaged? Who would you be then? This talk explores the impact of loss on the...
20 min
John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not play the game" were assassinated or overthrown.
19 min
As a world leader in managing the care of very sick people, Ken Hillmans breakthrough methods of treating critically ill patients have become the gold standard in Australia, the U.S. and Europe.
15 min
"The challenge of building trust across divides is universal and inescapable. Can we move from a culture of blame and avoidance to an acceptance of shared responsibility for a new future?"- Initiatives of Change International
Rob Corcoran
Theres another word for lesser evilism. Its called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, its a rational position. But you dont stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it, to prevent the worst, and then you go on to deal with the fundamental roots of whats wrong...
Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Our society is experiencing profound levels of stress and anxiety, a public health crisis thats triggering unresolved traumas in many people, resulting in widespread uneasiness, poor public health, social dysfunction, and alienation, as well as high levels of violence...
26 min
In the often polarizing and intense debates on identity politics you often encounter three talking points from those who oppose those who criticise identity politics. First, that all politics is identity politics. Second, critics of so called identity politics ignore the...
Ralph Leonard
The goal of After Skoolhas always been to take the most empowering ideas and enhance them with art. Creating videos like this is my purpose on earth. When you find your purpose, nothing will stop you, because...the purpose is bigger than you.
12 min
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university professor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.
24 min
Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale.
Debbie Bookchin, Sixtine van Outryve
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Michael Pollan's new book "How To Change Your Mind" surveys the highly controversial terrain of the renaissance of both the science and popular usage of psychedelic substances. As one of our most brilliant and clear-eyed explorers of such topics as plant intelligence and how...
31 min
The visionary goal of Project Drawdown, founded by Paul Hawken, is to actually reverse global warming by drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels. All the practices and technologies documented in Pauls best-selling "Drawdown" book are already...
33 min