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What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Justin Mcbrien
13 min
The grief is so strong. What do I do with that energy? I've noticed kind of a trap, a diversion, that says "take that energy and hate somebody with it. Blame somebody with it."
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Peter Kalmus
Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. “I want you to panic,” the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly...
Catherine Tumber
35 min
In this exclusive interview with author, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Peter Kuznick, we examine two historical events that took place on the 11th of September: The 1973 Chilean coup d'état and 2001 World Trade...
55 min
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the resurgence of white supremacists in America. An investigation into how the violent and infamous rally in Charlottesville became a watershed moment for the white supremacist movement. Correspondent A.C. Thompson shows how some of those...
8 min
At the age of 39, Catherine’s world changed. She discovered the world of ancient craft of basketry weaving. She chose to listen to the voice inside. She chose to follow her passion.
38 min
A day in the life of Kostas Divolis, the last professional fisherman on Sikinos island, Greece.
1 min
This video was shot on Lesvos, Greece, during a journey documenting the refugee route through the Balkans and all the way to Germany.
Fred stands for the many people we met who choose empathy and love as the guiding principle of their actions.
Thank you, Fred, for stepping...
13 min
A journey into the relationship of man and sea with a focus on the Cyclades.
2 min
Are you looking for inspiration and hope in a world of crisis? Do you want to support radical change in cities? Take action now and vote for the Transformative Cities 2019 Award to show your support for a #RightToTheCity for everyone https://transformativecities.org/2019award/
Sex-crazed and trouble-prone, there's never a dull moment with goats around.
Brian Barth
9 min
"If you look at zero, you see nothing. When you look through it, you see everything."
38 min
Common Notions is a film about the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver, BC, and about education, learning, friendship, and youth liberation.
92 min
A panel responds to the use of veganism to propagandize the occupation. Organized by Animal Liberation Currents and Vegans for BDS
For over a decade, the nation branding campaign Brand Israel has sought to “wash” the crimes of occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing by...
9 min
What is more important - a beautiful face or a beautiful heart? While outer beauty may turn heads at first, it is easily forgotten when the true nature is revealed. Inner beauty will be remembered. Our relationships with others will be what is cherished.
6 min
Eating what he considered to be a balanced diet and working out several times a week, Dave Willits thought he was relatively healthy. But, in early 2014, Dave suffered a massive heart attack at work. He was rushed to hospital, where he flat-lined three times and was lucky to...
5 min
Deep within Navajo Nation, scattered across a dusty, sagebrush-filled desert, three relatives share their homemade golf course with the community.
As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.
Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann
40 min
The global expanse of US military bases is well-known; but it's actual territorial empire is largely hidden. The true map of America is not taught in our schools. Abby Martin interviews history Professor Daniel Immerwahr about his new book, 'How To Hide An Empire,' where he...
26 min
According to this SBS documentary, Bolsonaro is called the Trump of the Tropics. He is promising to destroy the Amazon and indigenous people within it. In 2017, there was 57 environ
10 min
Growing electronic waste (e-waste or WEEE) volumes from consumers are a challenge for low and middle income countries. Informal recycling of valuable and hazardous components creates an income opportunity for the poor, but poses major health and environmental risks and also...
80 min
When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.
22 min
In the fall of 2017, Glenn Greenwald reported on a nationwide FBI manhunt for two pigs named Lily and Lizzie. The pigs had been removed from a factory farm in Utah by animal rights activists from a group called Direct Action Everywhere. From the perspective of the activists...
7 min
In that space between our words, when the mind is quiet, we can hear our own heart talking to us. And that is also when we are open to communicating with animals. This is something that we are all able to do - we've just forgotten how. We need to let go of all the rational...
Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School.
“Oh, home, let me come home
Home is whenever I’m with you.”
~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
As I pull
Ian Mackenzie
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...
Local Futures
56 min
Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the...
63 min
‘Use and value diversity’ is one of the ten core principles of permaculture — for good reason. Studies have shown that small, diversified farms can yield more than twice as much food per acre when compared to large monocultures. Crop diversity significantly contributes to...
53 min
When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.
58 min
These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that aren’t made by mega-corporations; foods that aren’t full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that weren’t made in factories that harm the...
83 min
Small farms around the world may be thriving, but farmers, particularly those just starting out, face a lot of challenges. Accessing affordable land is a BIG one, along with finding start-up capital, and competing with traditional producers in the market. But so are things...
45 min
For young people not raised on the land, getting into farming can seem daunting. Even for people who have worked on farms before, it is easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed when it comes to starting a farm of one’s own.
36 min
As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.
When fear and darkness surrounds the world, man needs to trust and act. Krisis is born in response to the present period, situating itself in the very near future. This short film questions the reason behind violence and hope, in short, the struggle between good and evil.
10 min
“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.” Yuval Noah Harari
5 min
Age seems to be such a lingering factor in life, but what does it really matter? Maybe we need to stop focusing on age and numbers and deadlines – and rather start focusing on life and moments and experiences.
67 min
Bernie Sanders is a 2020 Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party and is currently serving as the U.S. Senator of Vermont.
34 min
👎Industrial Agriculture:
- Destroys soil
- Produces tons of emissions
- Pollutes water
- Destroys biodiversity
14 min
In the high altitude desert of the Tibetan Plateau, Ladakhi people have carved a living from the mountains for a thousand years. Tourism in Ladakh, first commencing in 1974, has developed into a robust industry with new economic opportunities, yet has also placed growing...
5 min
"Some people are invisible. They exist, but in a sense they don't exist at all..."
5 min
Clara meets a machine who makes her feel like a winner. But with this machine, winning is impossible... From Cloudcatcher Media, Screenworks and Create NSW. Developed and produced under the Go Viral! initiative 2019 #DoYouFeelLikeaWinner? CLARA: Melia Naughton THE MACHINE...
3 min
Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics
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From the award winning writer, director and researcher, a new documentary by Red Haircrow now in production. On the intersection of realities, identities and Indigeneity, and the concept of being enough, no matter what or who you are. Following the lives of four people...
4 min
Wendy Valentine is the founder of Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk, England. In this short film, award-winning film maker Alex Lockwood uncovers what makes a person give up their whole life to rescue animals.
7 min
We have become so reliant on the need for order and predictability. We overthink and we over analyze. But what would life be like if we let go of the need for constant control and perfection, and instead decided to embrace chaos? We might find a new world of opportunity and...
This charter was originally published in Spanish as a rallying call for Social Solidarity Economy initiatives within the Spanish territory. We have translated it to share its principles with English speaking audiences and Social Solidarity initiatives worldwide. This article...
REAS
Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or excoriated—the price he paid for The Age of...
Bruce E. Levine
93 min
Russel Brand speaks with Dr. Gabor Maté on the latest episode of the Under the Skin podcast.
Donald Trump is a con artist. He is practicing one of the oldest tricks in the book, borrowing a page from every magician who seeks to fool and dazzle their audience by distracting their attention at a critical moment in the act. Trump’s trick of choice has a long history in...
Brian Becker
30 min
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the...
25 min
Spiritual activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician Gregory Hoskins craft a love letter to endings on the nights of grief and mystery tour.
69 min
Which come first, people or oil? When money and morality collide, there's only one winner. The Yasuni Park in Ecuador is a haven of biodiversity and home to indigenous tribes. It also holds a third of the country's oil reserves. Ecuador had agreed to keep the oil in the...
The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers.
Ronnie Cummins
11 min
***Full extended version*** I asked Jim Acosta about the Trump administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute Julian Assange for practicing journalism. Jim Acosta promotes his book “Enemy of the People” about defending the First Amendment @ the Newseum...
8 min
Carpe Diem - Seize the day. While every day might not be good, there is always something good in every day. Life is filled with adventures and experiences. Life is about living. Find what drives you. Find what motivates you to get up every morning. Make every last second count.
2 min
Too often, when businesses are sold, workers pay the price. Our new policy proposal would guarantee workers a right of first refusal, giving them a chance to bring their workplaces under democratic ownership. Learn more at: https://thenextsystem.org/rto
Working less would massively reduce our carbon footprint, and bring many other benefits besides
André Spicer
What is the most neglected issue in politics? I would say land. Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership and control have been captured by a tiny number of people.
George Monbiot
We need ways to build healthier relationships with people who have perspectives different from our own.
Matthew Legge
In the endless brain fart cyclone that is the Trump era, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has made a name for himself posing as a martyr of the free press. While US mass media have made a theatrical WWE performance of Trump’s occasional mean words toward Acosta
Caitlin Johnstone
5 min
I asked Jim Acosta about the Trump administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute Julian Assange for practicing journalism. Jim Acosta promotes his book “Enemy of the People” about defending the First Amendment @ the Newseum, the First Amendment museum...
7 min
lovEvolution C♥NTENID☼: ---- video 1 ---- http://youtu.be/5pVigXjm9yA - INTRODUCCIÓN A TU SENSACIÓN - ANTECEDENTES DE AMANTES Y MENTES: EL SOL Y SU EXISTENCIA COMO CIENCIA. ---- video 2 ---- http://youtu.be/_E0Q77JZz30 - METODOLOGÍA: PRESENTACIÓN, PRODUCCIÓN Y ALEGRÍA - EL...
Today, thousands of people use video to address social or environmental issues. From Indonesian group Paradoc addressing the disastrous effects of industrial pollution in a village community, to recent videos depicting violent police conduct
8 min
Love is a strange and beautiful thing. But we often put provisions on love - we attach it to how others are acting, to circumstances and emotions. But what would the world be like if we stopped looking to get something in return, and just loved unconditionally, for the...
2 min
Brian was “the glue that held everything together,” recalls a family member in the first few minutes of “Masterjam.” To some it probably wasn’t a surprise, then, when things fell apart after he took his own life. Brian’s brother Jamie uses footage gathered during his time as...
10 min
Already tired from a long trip, Alonzo Rey returns home to discover a mailbox full of legal fallout from his recent run-in with abusive cop Detective Ruby. Alonzo's early return spooks his girlfriend, who dials 911 to report what she thinks is a home invasion. It's bad enough...
9 min
Dear supporters of acTVism Munich,
We’ve come a long way together, thanks to your donations and the commitment of our dedicated volunteers. We’ve built a truly independent non-profit & bilingual media network, which does not rely on advertisements and state or corporate...
6 min
The wilderness has a power that is not easily understood. It offers the space for healing and growth - a place of solace - a sense of perspective. And for Fox Lederboer, spending time in the wilderness had a tremendous impact on his life after a traumatic period in his past.
7 min
These effective strategies can minimize harmful moral grandstanding – in yourself and in others.
26 min
A short film by the creators of A Quest for Meaning, inspired by Arnaud Desjardins, which plunges us into the themes of spirituality and self-knowledge.
11 min
6 Pulitzer prize winners explain.
In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections. Worse yet, another report gave humanity...
Thomas Linzey
62 min
Join Joy on her journey to visit intentional communities as she searches for a place to call home.
45 min
Create a Low Energy Home: Join the Passive House Revolution!
New York City, NY – Tom Porter (Sakokwenionkwas – “The One Who Wins”) Haudenosaunee Educator, Elder and Spiritual Leader, a member of the Bear Clan of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, received the Wisdom Fellowship Award for 2019 from the Sacred Fire Foundation.
Kim Langbecker
Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless figures continue to rise. Is this...
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To celebrate Plastic Free July we're bringing you the inspiring story of a zero waste/waste free family in Hobart, Australia. Lauren, Oberon, and their kids have found ways to produce almost no rubbish - they've only filled one small jar of waste in two years!
26 min
On a narrative level The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about the power of hope in the face of extraordinary hardship. But underpinning Andy Dufresne’s story we also find a blistering critique of the prison system and criminal justice policy in the United States. The film’s...
In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked – Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The...
Jordan Engel
Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.
Peter Gowan
The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on...
Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems of governance that would, first and foremost, protect them (the wealthy, landowning minority)...
Colin Jenkins
45 min
Does your job make little to no sense? Does it seem like it wouldn't even matter if your job didn't exist? Would it even make the world better? Then you likely have a bullshit job. In this documentary, vpro and American anthropologist, David Graeber looks more closely at...
13 min
#WeUnite - The 12-minute film ‘We Unite’ is a window into the lives of two organic farmers and the reasons they join the yearly ‘We are Fed-Up’ demonstration in Germany .Along with hundreds of other farmers, they drive their tractors into the heart of Berlin where they unite...
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Short experimental film about living in a van.
19 min
The manifest is not a film. It's a video message from the creators to their friends, hoping to start a dialogue that will lead to finding a new dream.
11 min
What is up! The day is here as we talk about a major factor in the shift on this planet, Veganism! We'll be covering the reasons for Veganism both ethical & health wise, as well as some other very important aspects involved with it. Enjoy!
21 min
In this exclusive interview with author, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Peter Kuznick, we talk about the recent incident in the Gulf of Oman in which two oil tankers were attacked. In addition we examine historical...
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Continuing on the path of transition, old patterns emerge and the journey is not as straight forward as one thought it would be.
Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Marker’s documentary work in style and approach, Noble’s films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...
Ron Jacobs
Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.
Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton
29 min
In this exclusive interview with author, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Peter Kuznick, we provide historical context to Iran–U.S. relations & the Iran nuclear deal also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...
It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.
Anna Lind-Guzik
63 min
Coleman Cruz Hughes writes on the topic of race for Quillette and the New York Times. Despite still being an undergraduate, studying philosophy at Colombia University, his articles have sparked polarised reactions, leading to a meteoric rise in profile over the last couple of...
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Australia's treasurer is doing the rounds celebrating 5% unemployment... as if that's something to be proud of? That's celebrating a system in which hundreds of thousands of single parents, old people, and young people are locked out of paid work. Where eight people are...
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The government is very excited about “returning to budget surplus”. But what does it actually mean? Because so far, chasing surpluses has gutted our schools and hospitals. It's stopped us from acting on climate catastrophe. It's condemned folks doing it tough to starve. Why?...
An excerpt from a new book by Samuel Alexander and Rupert Read
Samuel Alexander