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Reaching out to young people is especially critical at this time. With mounting psycho-social stress attributed to an increasingly uncertain future, young people are going to need support grappling with the social effects of so many convergent crises.
One of the most profound changes that occurs when modern schooling is introduced into traditional societies around the world is a radical shift in the locus of power and control over learning from children, families, and communities to ever more centralized systems of authority.
Carol Black · 4.8 stars
We wont see a presidential candidate like Bernie again in our lifetimes. As I heard these words, spoken by a woman at a Sanders campaign event recently, I felt a chill go through me. Because I knew she was right. We wont.
John Sanbonmatsu · 4.9 stars
With the heartbreak, outrage and uproar about Cecil the lion, a few things need to be addressed... When are we going to have the courage to ask ourselves why we don't cry out for the billions of animals who are slaughtered every year? The 300 million animals that we kill...
6 min · 4.9 stars
Could the root cause of addiction actually be a lack of connection.
3 min · 4.9 stars
An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans
Stop. Just stop.
It is no longer a request. It is a mandate.
We will help you.
We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt
We will stop
the planes
the trains
the schools
the malls
the meetings
the frenetic...
4 min · 4.9 stars
Food Fight is the story of a kid who lives in a world where the food at the local corner store is killing his neighborhood -- literally.
6 min · 4.8 stars
Russell Brand The Trews (E146). Reaction to President Barack Obama's 'destroy and degrade' strategy address for fighting the Islamic State.
14 min · 5 stars
This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in an alternate timeline became the greatest Prime...
33 min · 4.8 stars
"In three generations, India has systematically targeted and annihilated more than 50 million women from its population a number which constitutes the sum total of the populations of Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal put together (Banerji, Female Genocide)...
3 min · 4.8 stars
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There...
65 min · 4.8 stars
As businesses increasingly embrace a not-for-profit culture, an end to overconsumption on a finite planet could finally be in sight. But given the huge lobbying power of vested interests, it will remain impossible to create a truly sustainable world until the illegitimate...
Rajesh Makwana · 5 stars
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have accessto leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization?
Josh Jones · 5 stars
How to be there for the people who need you most
Heather Plett · 5 stars
If youve struggled with depression at any point in your life, youve probably heard some well-meaning soul say just try to get some exercise, its good for your mood! Annoyingly, theyre right; I dont think that exercise can single-handedly cure depression or treat its symptoms...
Sarah Kurchak · 5 stars
What does it mean to be happy in a modern consumer society? John F Schumaker argues that our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction.
John Schumaker · 5 stars
Communication is essential to achieve successful human interactions. However, the type of communication we havehighly determines the outcome of our relationships. It all simply boils down tohowwe are connecting with each other.
Elyane Youssef · 5 stars
In the fall of 2009, I interviewed a Holocaust survivor from the Lodz ghetto. As a young girl, she had seen her whole family lined up and executed by a Nazi firing squad in a spray of machine gun fire, alongside hundreds of the people she had grown up with.
Banks make so much money because they can create money, effectively out of nothing, by lending. Every single pound in your bank account was created by a bank, not by your government.
Visit www.PositiveMoney.org.uk, find out more and SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN. ...and spread the word!
3 min · 5 stars
Grundeinkommen - ein Kulturimpuls (The Basic Income - A Cultural Impulse) is a German film with subtitles in 10 languages that makes the case for a basic income for all citizens.
Subtitles Note: To make the subtitles easier to read, we highly recommend clicking the "CC"...
100 min · 5 stars
Miss Representationis a powerful film that exposes damaging, sexist media messages that inhibit young womens happiness, ambition, and leadership.
90 min · 5 stars
A portrait of photographer Aaron Huey's work on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring Shepard Fairey.
12 min · 5 stars
Important reflections for everyone hoping to affect change in the world.
This is a clip from "UnVeiled & Lifted," which was released online for free by the film-makers in 2013. Watch the full film here.
3 min · 5 stars
Abby Martin interviews the creator of the Zeitgeist Movement, Peter Joseph, covering everything from the upcoming Zeitgeist Festival in Los Angeles on October 4th to economic and societal solutions to global problems ranging from environmental destruction to mass inequality.
30 min · 5 stars
Part III of The Bloom New Ways of The Sacred looks at how Transformational Festivals are venues for an active engagement with ancient, universal themes of MYTHOS, RITUAL and THE SACRED, exploring ways which both honor the traditional, while reflecting our unprecedented...
70 min · 5 stars
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values ofaltruism, compassion and collaboration.
It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that theglobalized capitalist economy is...
3 min · 5 stars
The living earth is slowly being consumed by the human animals living on its surface. There are many drivers of the destruction being wrought, and many solutions we can pursue. One of the clearest drivers of deforestation, habitat loss and extinction is our insatable and...
4 min · 5 stars
Thrilled to announce that this film won 1st Prize for Long Documentary Category at the Danish Press Awards in March 2017!!!
9 min · 5 stars
Digging deep into Hillary's connections to Wall Street, Abby Martin reveals how the Clinton's multi-million-dollar political machine operates.
27 min · 5 stars
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated short film, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
3 min · 5 stars
The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.
29 min · 5 stars
Luther Standing Bear was an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief who, among a few rare others such as Charles Eastman,Black Elk andGertrude Bonnin occupied the rift between the way of life of the Indigenous people of the Great Plainsbefore, and during, the arrival and subsequent spread...
Wisdom Pills · 4.8 stars
The poor pay more for everything, and such transactions are highly profitable for those selling goods and services to the poor. Profits are made on the labor of the poor, the consumption of the poor, and the debt of the poor; meanwhile the poor remain-poor.
13 min · 4.8 stars
Dr. Gabor Mat explains why it is that our culture makes so many of us unhappy, unkind to one another, miserable, alienated from ourselves, etc. Watch the full interview in Part 2.
3 min · 4.8 stars
At the Repair and Service Center in Vienna, the long-term unemployed retrain to be "mechatronic engineers" and repair electronic devices. Founder Sepp Eisenriegler tirelessly initiates networks, projects, and cafsall dedicated to the art of fixing things.
Ute Scheub · 4.9 stars
Brilliant satirical comic imagines what policy would look like if the UN focused on eliminating extreme wealth.
Liv Strömquist · 4.9 stars
When you know where to look, you begin to see an unprecedented phenomenon now happening in this world of ours. Be they teachers infavelas, forest defenders, urban farmers, occupiers of Wall Street, designers of windmills, military resisters (the list goes on), the fact is...
Joanna Macy · 4.9 stars
REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$OM outlines a genuine alternative to the global property speculation that forced so many into debt. Doubling the pressure, the tax game has become just that, with tax havens a favoured option for the wealthy. The result - we are taxing the wrong things...
39 min · 4.9 stars
Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains how the connectedness of every living thing to every other living thing is not just an idea but a way of living. This way includes all beings as part of a vast family and calls us to...
6 min · 4.9 stars
'This is the very definition of a film you MUST see before you die.' We all know that there's something odd about life. But we never really discuss it. 'The Great Everything & The Nothing' explores the world of social engineering, laying out our problems as a species and...
111 min · 4.8 stars
Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts - a man far ahead of his time.
5 min · 4.8 stars
"I believe, inherently, that thestructures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now."
The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply embedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this...
180 min · 4.8 stars
This is the story of our unique moment in history. We are living through an age of tipping points and rapid social and planetary change. Were the first generation to feel the impacts of climate disruption, and the last generation that can do something about it. The film...
56 min · 4.7 stars
"You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."
Sophie McAdam · 4.9 stars
State Unemployment agencies have been charged with the grave task of salvaging an economy on the brink of collapse, theoretically through the emergency distribution of living wages and stipends.
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
51 min · 4.9 stars
Actress Sandra Oh reads the speech given by Anarchist Emma Goldman in San Francisco before the United States entered WWI. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States given October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles California (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.)
4 min · 4.9 stars
A 34 minute animated documentary about resource depletion and the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet.
34 min · 4.8 stars
A short film byAdam Curtisshows how the deliberate undermining of people's perception of the world, by manipulating the media and civil society, creates confusion and contradiction, undermining any opposition to existing power structures. This strategy has allowed...
6 min · 4.9 stars
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a...
68 min · 4.9 stars
This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is.
5 min · 4.8 stars
We're awake now. We're not goingback to sleep.
2 min · 4.9 stars
6 Native American girls school us on the REAL history of Thanksgiving.
2 min · 4.9 stars
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative...
157 min · 4.8 stars
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have...
59 min · 4.8 stars
There is enough wealth for all of us.
What if we decided thatevery human beinghas a right to income security?
How could a basic income change our lives?
Could this relieve our society from the stress and anger that comes with the rising inequality?
49 min · 4.8 stars
Just acknowledge that all that sh*t is f*cking b*llshit you're here now, in this place, with your inner stillness. Take in a deep breath ... now breathe out. Just feel the f*cking nonsense float away.
2 min · 4.8 stars
I've always been proud of Israel, but the brutal Gaza assault requires Jews worldwide to be honest, not nationalist
Rabbi Michael Lerner · 4.9 stars
With every new terrorist attack we hear about in the news, whether it be by ISIS, a white supremacist or military general of a powerful nation, I think back on this piece. The thoughts I wrote here continue to stay with me every time a new atrocity occurs.