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Robert Reich explains how Trump has become isolated politically.
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Cat Hobbs interviews activist and author George Monbiot on the potential of the commons, the idea of public luxury and more.
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Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
George Lakey
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Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
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Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives.
Greg Frey
In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the...
Jeremy Lent
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"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to...
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Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says we need a U.S. economy with qualities of both capitalism and socialism.
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Reaction across the Americas from Bolsonaro to Trump
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In this exclusive interview with author, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Peter Kuznick, we examine the first chapter of the Book “The Untold History of the United States” (co-authored with Oliver Stone) with special...
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In this exclusive interview with former U.S. financial regulator, author and academic, William Bill Black, we define and talk about the role of a financial regulator generally. Thereafter we proceed to talk about “savings and loan” crisis in the United States during the 80s...
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Thanks to the filmmakers we've partnered with, our $5/mo+ supporters can instantly watch the 12 pay-per-view films below for free, and we plan to add more to this support tier over time. Check out the video below to watch the trailers for 5 of the 12 films back-to-back.
Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians, so far, have remained on the sidelines of this struggle.
Mike Pappas
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What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a...
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"I reach out to a worker and receive five panicking birds. The five in his other hand get stuffed into a machine. Five set free, five for the machine."
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Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America.
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Climate change denial draws headlines. But is it actually an obstacle to climate action?
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"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a masterpiece of animation. It's an incredible story with amazing characters and worthwhile themes that might just be more relevant today than ever before. As more and more people around the world seem to support the idea that group identities...
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"Parks and Recreation" star Rashida Jones has established a lovable reputation for herself through roles in hit comedies like "The Office" and "I Love You Man". Over the past few years, she's also ventured into writing and producing films, currently tackling projects like...
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After launching almost a decade ago, the transportation network corporations Uber and Lyft rapidly expanded their operations into cities around the world, disrupting taxi unions, degrading labour rights and diminishing public transit ridership. While 'uber-capitalism' was...
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"We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive."
Henry A. Giroux
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
Michaela Haas
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"El camino de la carne" documental emitido en tve2 en octubre de 2018.
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This is an ugly piece of American history that has been swept under the rug. Very few people know about this shameful event where the US Army, led by some of the most revered heroes of WWII, were turned on the veterans of WWI in the streets of Washington, DC.
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Faced with climate change and mass extinction there is only one thing to do. Stop trying to save the world.
Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for ‘Deep Adaptation.’ What we really need is ‘Deep Transformation.’
Jeremy Lent
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Farmworker Realities vs Immigrant Fear Mongering in the Days of Trump and Beyond.
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In this video we compile past comments & analysis from experts that were interviewed on acTVism on the topic of Wikileaks & Julian Assange before Assange was arrested. They include in order: Edward Snowden, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald & Srećko Horvat & Noam Chomsky...
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The short film invites us on an intimate journey through the liberated territory of the Zad of Notre-dames-des-landes, a community in France who resisted an airport, and in doing so created a beautiful way of living with hope in these tempestuous times.
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In this exclusive interview with award-winning & independent journalist, best-selling author and the founder of the Grayzone Project, Max Blumenthal, we talk about his latest book called "The Management of Savagery". In addition we examine the historical roots that led to the...
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Robert Reich examines Trump's dark vision for America, and how to create a progressive message for the future.
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Robert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants.
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Robert Reich explains how government policies protect the wealthy and corporations, but leave ordinary Americans at risk.
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Moderated and introduced by Ilian Burbano. Presentations by:
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Jewish activists, journalists, & even lobbyists say criticizing Israel is NOT anti-semitic.
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Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his unit's official videographer, tasked with shooting and editing footage for the Corps’ recruiting purposes and historical...
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We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.
Tamara Pearson
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Patricia Bath is the FIRST person to invent and demonstrate laserphaco cataract surgery. "Sometimes even now when I’m told I was a “first,” it comes as a surprise, because it’s only through history that you understand that kind of thing."
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This short film is about the design principles of the project and how these manifest in actual lived realities.
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DO YOU KNOW what really annoys me about the media’s coverage of U.S. politics, and especially the Democratic Party?
Mehdi Hasan
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This presentation addresses the problem of communication, categorical associations, the rise of anti-intellectualism and other issues related to discussions surrounding social progress. It works to address the tendency to view all ideas as ideologies, as if the foundation of...
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On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela and uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN Investigator and Human Rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas. Transcript and resources available at Media Roots.
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Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss the US empire's mass surveillance program and dangers of the Intelligence...
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“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...
Bruce E. Levine
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Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. Defenders of the Bolivarian project, though, say that US sanctions and economic war are to blame for the crisis. Greg Wilpert...
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Relying partly on his experience as a Marine, Richard McKinney made an improvised explosive device he planned to detonate near a mosque, resulting in massive casualties.
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In 2013 Paul Chatlin was diagnosed with heart disease. He was told by his doctor that, instead of undergoing surgery, he could cure his condition with a nutrition change. His change to a whole food, plant-based diet was incredibly successful and impacted his life far beyond...
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If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the series for you.
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I went to Nepal after earthquakes in 2015 and I followed six inspirational people who have been fighting for years in order to change their country and obtained great results. They work in six different fields : street children, environment, LGBTI Rights (a transgender...
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There are clever people who make algorithms for the financial services sector. Remember those crumbs that used to fall from the rich man’s table? They’re all accounted for now. Every last one, down to the tiniest minuscule crumb that you can’t even see. They get collected by...
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How Much Money Israel Lobby Gave Politicians Attacking Ilhan Omar I got kind of obsessive and looked up exactly how much $ each politician attacking Omar's comments about the Israel lobby has received from pro-Israel sources. Thanks for watching! Support my work...
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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 thinking of “American Exceptionalism”, what it means, its history and modern form. In addition, we also examine...
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In this exclusive interview with independent journalist and contributing writer to The Nation, Aaron Maté, we examine the context, premise and findings of the Special Counsel investigation (also known as the Mueller Investigation) that was setup to investigate alleged Russian...
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Badger, Toad, Mole and Ratty find themselves in serious trouble when they return to the Willows!
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A short clip of the amazing speech which helped end the Cold War. Given by US President Ronald Reagan in Berlin, Germany at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987 (commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin) - "Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued to Soviet Union...
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The eight UrbanWINS cities are currently implementing pilot actions to prevent and manage waste. These actions are taking into account their urban metabolism data, as well as the discussions and decisions of a wide range of stakeholders who have participated in the online and...
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The market for oil is volatile. The transition from petroleum to renewables is in full swing, and global demand for oil could fall faster than predicted. [Online until: April 17, 2019] When the price of crude oil tumbled dramatically between 2014 and 2016, it heralded the...
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Vicky Ward, the author of a new book uncovering details about how Kushner has continued to let the financial dealings of his family impact the policy decisions he promoted overseas. In one case, this almost led to a war in the Middle East between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The...
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The way trade works in the global economy can be insane – it wastes resources, worsens climate change, and undermines the livelihoods of millions of small-scale producers worldwide. Yet it is an almost unavoidable consequence of de-regulatory ‘free trade’ agreements and the...
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Coastal communities are intrinsically connected to the sea. Their lives depend on it. A key to happiness and life in tropical regions is a healthy mangrove forest. We are now recognizing that a world without the rainforests by the sea, wouldn’t just mean a dismal scenario for...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday (Mar 21) a ban on military-style semi-automatics and assault rifles, in response to the Christchurch shootings that killed 50 people. Full story: https://cna.asia/2Hz5cZN (Video: APTN/TVNZ) Follow us...
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A ship taking on water. A captain nowhere to be found. And a series of strange coincidences. Lost At Sea is a story about a trip on a cruise ship gone wrong - using story, metaphor and song to cross difficult waters.
Filmed by Fair Projects, this 2018 performance of Matt...
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Despite the scorn and mockery, flexitarianism could be the step we all need to take to save our planet.
We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...
Herman Daly
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the world’s population have experienced...
Jason Hickel
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10 years after the premiere of THE AGE OF STUPID, here's Franny Armstrong's new short film, WHAT IF?
In a parallel universe, Fred Miliband, Carolyn Lukas, Zack Harries, Jon Snowflake, Kris Peckham, Jonathan Pie and the President of the Maldives battle to save the people of...
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Plastic polluted neighborhoods in Manila are taking things into their own hands by creating systemic zero waste programs that collect all recyclables, compost all organics, and push for corporate accountability.
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Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.” Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Bruce E. Levine
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Moving Beyond Ford: The Transportation We Want
In Toronto and beyond, campaigns are underway to confront the Ford government’s initiative to take the Toronto subway system from the TTC in order to reorganize, further automobilize and possibly privatize transit and...
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You were lied to about climate change.
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A film by Ruxandra Gubernat, Henry Rammelt & Marcel Schreiter “Portavoce” traces back the evolution of a culture of protest in Romania, developing in recent years, through the voices and opinions of key actors involved in social mobilization and in the development of a...
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An essay film about one of the last scythe builders in germany.
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La finalul anului trecut, patru școli din comuna Schitu-Duca au rămas fără copaci. La ordinul primarului, arborii din curțile școlilor au fost tăiați sub pretextul efectuării unor lucrări de renovare. Timp de două zile, elevii s-au opus tăierilor, oferind astfel o adevărată...
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A Canary in the Coal Mine of Capital Not everyone plays digital games, but with the rise of casual, mobile-based gaming, we all know someone who does. With global sales revenues that far exceed global Hollywood’s annual box office, the digital games industry is a leading and...
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Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.
Sarah Gertler
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Last year at Unrig Summit, Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Trevor Potter, a Republican and the forrmer commissioner of the U.S. Federal Election Commission to learn how to legally bribe politicians.
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What’s a land trust? Journey across Oregon to hear five inspiring stories that answer that question—in their own ways.
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I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a...
Anja Lyngbaek
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Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's wrong with legal corruption in our...
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Stalking For Love is a popular media trope where invasive stalker-like behavior is presented as an endearing or harmless part of romantic courtship. The hero will often go to extraordinary lengths to coerce, trick or otherwise manipulate his way into a woman's life.
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Professional skinny person Wiz Khalifa said straight men should not eat bananas in public. Here's a running list of things straight black men "can't" do because #masculinitysofragile.
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It’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted are in entertainment media. Most popular comedic actors engage in this type of humor. Jokes are typically designed to demean, humiliate, control, or emasculate a male character for being the...
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“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” ― Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia
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WHAT IF is a series of short films to help bring about an antidote to that moment where anger and rage can easily turn to violence. What if we tried love?
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What does it mean when we say "nature" is the artist?
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The word democracy derives from the Greek words that literally means “people govern.” Generally, it is assumed throughout the world that the democratic way of decision-making is the best possible and therefore the most acceptable. The only problem is that nobody knows what...
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18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
Jeremy Brecher
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Greta and the Snowman: From Greta Thunberg to the man who's measured the weather every day for nearly half a century, it is private citizens leading the charge on climate change prevention. This report profiles these two extraordinary characters.
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Shoshana Zuboff professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author of the new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.
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If we don't intervene, Lynn's exquisite property will be bulldozed and replaced with a roundabout. The little guy CAN win. Read on for ways to help. Links about the east west corridor project. https://www.yakimaherald.com/news...
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In this exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky, renowned linguistic, activist, anarchist and author, we talk about U.S hegemony and its influence in Europe taking into account past & present developments. This interview was held via video-conference from Munich in November...
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In the second part of D Anthony Evans Plant Power Story, we learn about the changes he made to his diet and his outlook in order to thrive whilst living with terminal cancer. Watch the inspiring Plant Power Story of D Anthony Evans.
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In this interview with author, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, Peter Kuznick, we assess the recent summit between North Korea and the United States. In addition we talk about the escalation between India & Pakistan...
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The prestigious Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2016 was conferred upon The Akshaya Patra Foundation for its contribution towards the socio-economic development of India by providing mid-day meals to millions of children across the country. A cash prize and citation were...
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When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change…
Angela Nagle
The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Angela Nagle