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In episode two of The Guardian's series on modern masculinity, Iman Amrani met Neil Smedley, a barber shop owner in Leeds. In the interview they did together Neil spoke about a range of issues, some of them very personal, and they felt that they couldn't do his story justice...
12 min
"The Adani Fight: Journal from the frontline" follows a small group of surfers to one of the largest remaining coal deposits in the world, located beneath the land of the Galilee.
7 min
Denver became the first city in the country to decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms, after a ballot initiative squeaked through with 50.6% of the vote, according to election officials. The unofficial final results -- which are not expected to change...
33 min
STRANGERS IN TOWN tells the story of how global migration unexpectedly transformed and enriched Garden City, Kansas. It brought great challenges to the community, including demands for housing, social services, education, and infrustucture. For the current students at Garden...
47 min
Damaging the earth is a crime, right? That is what earth´s lawyer Polly Higgins thinks. Why earth destruction should be seen as a crime and what is it that brings earth lawyers Polly Higgins and Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón to fight for ecocide?
17 min
China has the world’s fastest and largest high-speed rail network — more than 19,000 miles, the vast majority of which was built in the past decade. Japan’s bullet trains can reach nearly 200 miles per hour and date to the 1960s. They have moved more than 9 billion people...
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Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when they desegregated Central High, America's schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Contemporary Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles present a microcosm of the...
3 min
From Fire in the Belly Productions, 100 Years documents the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell's courageous fight for justice for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were cheated out of billions of dollars by the United States Government.
3 min
Comedian Andy Parsons spent a day in a shopping centre encouraging people to get off their smartphones and have a chat. Secret cameras captured the moment surprised shoppers were approached by Andy.
Over the past decade I’ve watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of...
Charles Eisenstein
3 min
In this video whistleblowers and former insiders of different intelligence agencies speak out about their experience. In addition they talk about the significance of privacy for the individual as well as what it means for our democracy.
50 min
Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we can´t stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that climate change is a fact that can´t be denied anymore? A...
16 min
Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the workplace.
16 min
Fully Charged spent an amazing day at the Sustainable City, a housing development in Dubai with 3,500 people already living there and it's still not quite finished. This truly is a remarkable achievement, a stark lesson to building contractors the world over. It's not more...
I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty I’d never...
Che Ramsden
A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.
Satish Kumar
2 min
The Australien Government just released this ad about how it doesn't like us satirically impersonating the Australian Government, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
30 min
Prof. Richard Wolff presents an in-depth analysis of UBI, showing its advantages over most welfare, safety net systems. An even better alternative would avoid capitalism's unnecessary production of unemployment because it utilizes technical progress (rising productivity) for...
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn’t one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
Steven Newcomb
What do the Australian’s columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.
Sandew Hira
6 min
Dear Followers & Supporters,
Your power to make choices in life is your most powerful asset.
19 min
On the 2nd of May 2019 in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate, a demonstration was organized by the “Democracy in Europe Movement 2025” & “Demokratie in Europa” called “We are all Julian Assange!”
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD
5 min
A visualization of near-term human extinction.
28 min
Hi everyone, I’m pleased to announce a new online short course I’ve created called Unlearning: For Change Agents.
Spaniards threw their weight behind a Green New Deal programme by re-electing the pro-climate Spanish Socialist party (PSOE).
Natalie Sauer
5 min
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In the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia lies a Permaculture Food Forest grown by Jodie Vennitti. It all began when she discovered Permaculture and found her love for plants, she soon realised, home growing was one thing, but using the produce was another. Restricted by...
17 min
Predicting the future is more of an art than a science. So when predicting the futures of our cities, where better to look for inspiration than the literary arts? This film explains how we can utilize the themes of beloved works of fiction to re-invent our cities to face...
14 min
In this exclusive interview with bestselling author, former finance minister of Greece and the co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Yanis Varoufakis, we talk about the case of Julian Assange. Furthermore we examine why there isn’t significant grassroots...
59 min
A Real Solution to Money in Politics with James D'Angelo How to end the corrupting influence of money in politics. America's founding fathers had an effective solution, but is it worth it? Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
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Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’ Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Verso, 2019).
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon...
Our way of being — the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction — is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is about...
Bob Wentworth
12 min
A Theory from the Final Chapter of Insanity
by Mattias Olsson of Campfire Stories
16 min
The latest research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. So how do we harness our attention to focus deeper, get distracted less, and even become more creative? Chris Bailey, author of the recent book Hyperfocus, talks about how our ability...
How the new movement for ecological justice is reimagining the world by reimagining the art of protest, protection and healing.
A farmer in the Midwest, a Donald Trump supporter in 2016, complained last week that his farm was in danger of going bankrupt owing to the combined effects of climate change and the tariff-wars, initiated by Trump, that have caused corn and soybean prices to collapse while...
Peter Gabel
The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
George Monbiot
85 min
Post 2008, as investment firms in the United States look for ways to multiply their clients' investments while earning money for themselves, they chance upon the idea of selling opportunities to unsuspecting Americans who want to get rich by participating in the "China growth...
29 min
New Zealand’s peaceful image has been threatened by the terror attacks in Christchurch in March. The country is famous for its unspoiled natural beauty and friendly people. But the events have got the nation engaged in serious soul searching Fifty people were killed in the...
16 min
Noam Chomsky puts RussiaGate in its proper perspective.
Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world: unity, planning, and nonviolent discipline.
Hardy Merriman
20 min
My meeting with Charles Eisenstein.
7 min
In the second part of Paul Chatlin's Plant Power Story we learn about the inspiring changes Paul's made to his lifestyle, including taking up vinyasa yoga and launching a plant-based support group, since adopting a whole food, plant-based diet.
54 min
Peter Joseph addresses the opening arguments put forward by Jordan B. Peterson, from Peterson's debate with Slavoj Zizek called "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" - April 19th 2019 (Sorry for the typos. Mostly min. 46-48)
It took the Earth 10 million years to recover from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.
Aylin Woodward
21 min
A film about subvertising in London (21mins).
2 min
For disabled people, hard work never ends.
5 min
'Just as we have a need for wild nature, along with that comes a need for ancient wisdom, ancient traditions with wise elders, who live close to the earth, and understand it. A need to return to those basic truths.' - Hermien de Vos
60 min
In 2015, while the far right was gaining ground around the world, socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the UK Labour Party in a landslide victory. Accusations of antisemitism within the party immediately began to circulate. Well-known anti-racists and left-wing...
5 min
Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.
73 min
Confronting the Truth shows how countries which have experienced massive human rights violations have created official, independent bodies known as truth commissions.
80 min
For thirty years, President Hosni Mubarak had ruled Egypt by manipulating elections, crushing dissent, and jailing and torturing his opponents.
2 min
14-year-old filmmaker Dylan D'Haeze explores how communities can develop zero waste strategies and looks at building a sustainable lifestyle for today and for future generations.
3 min
Robert Reich explains how Trump has become isolated politically.
21 min
Cat Hobbs interviews activist and author George Monbiot on the potential of the commons, the idea of public luxury and more.
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
7 min
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...
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
23 min
"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...
6 min
Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says we need a U.S. economy with qualities of both capitalism and socialism.
41 min
Reaction across the Americas from Bolsonaro to Trump
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 the first chapter of the Book “The Untold History of the United States” (co-authored with Oliver Stone) with special...
39 min
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...
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."
8 min
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America.
4 min
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...
14 min
"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...
51 min
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...
"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
54 min
"El camino de la carne" documental emitido en tve2 en octubre de 2018.
27 min
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.
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
24 min
Farmworker Realities vs Immigrant Fear Mongering in the Days of Trump and Beyond.
23 min
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.
43 min
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...
17 min
Robert Reich examines Trump's dark vision for America, and how to create a progressive message for the future.
12 min
Robert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants.
5 min
Robert Reich explains how government policies protect the wealthy and corporations, but leave ordinary Americans at risk.
22 min
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...
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
3 min
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."
9 min
This short film is about the design principles of the project and how these manifest in actual lived realities.
DO YOU KNOW what really annoys me about the media’s coverage of U.S. politics, and especially the Democratic Party?
Mehdi Hasan
31 min
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...
39 min
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.
28 min
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...
“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