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An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency
Richard Smith
INTRODUCTION TO JUST TRANSITION“Indigenous prophecy meets scientific prediction. What we have known and believed, you also now know: The Earth is out of balance. The plants are disappearing, the animals are dying, and the very weather – rain, wind, fire itself – reacts...
Indigenous Environmental Network
First, you have to admit that you have a problem . . .
Hi there. If you are here, it is probably because you have come to the conclusion that our political system is no longer “fixable” by ordinary means and that some sort of deep structural changes need to be made. If you...
Jordan Hall
27 min
To Burn or Not to Burn: In Sweden, waste incineration plants convert excess and non-recycled rubbish into energy. The Swedish government classifies this process as recycling, but is this form of waste disposal really sustainable?
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Can we be addicted to ideology? Gabor Maté is an world famous expert on addiction - in his book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' he talks about how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis.
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The most potent predictor of sexual misconduct goes beyond individual perpetrators.
Emily Peck
6 min
Why do 70% of people claim that using psychedelics was one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives? Maybe it has to do with the feeling of their ego being dissolved and tapping into the true essence of reality.
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Could this be the future of peatland management, agriculture and conservation? Produced in collaboration with numerous NGOs, The Carbon Farmer presents a possible future of best-case practice on the UK's peatlands that provide a plethora of benefits - from carbon...
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Yoga has transformed from an ancient spiritual practice into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry. And for a practice rooted in renunciation, yoga is making some people very rich. YOGA INC. poses this question: Can yoga survive the war between the...
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Mother Jones would have us pray for George H.W. Bush, who died at age 94, but also for his victims, many of whom, children included, were buried without pomp, or were simply disappeared
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Here’s how international law has changed to help countries intervene
Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve University
11 min
Juan Mata is the co-founder of the Common Goal Initiative. Professional footballers who join the initiative pay 1% of their salary and thus support the charitable work of Common Goal. With the money they help people to fight the world's toughest opponents from HIV/AIDS to...
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As the media memorializes George H.W. Bush, Democracy Now! looks at the lasting impact of his 1991 invasion of Iraq and the propaganda campaign that encouraged it. Although the Gulf War technically ended in February of 1991, the U.S. war on Iraq would continue for decades...
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The ‘It’s okay to be white’ poster campaign, seen in the context of reacting to ‘Black Lives Matter,’ cannot be seen as benign.
Matthew Flisfeder
Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicide are more common among male and female physicians, with suicide rates 1.41 and 2.27 times greater than that of the general male and female populations...
Dr. Michael Pappas
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Poachers have decimated the elephant population in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, but Niassa’s rangers are determined to save them from extinction.
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86 min
NOTHING TO HIDE questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights. People generally agree that mass surveillance regimes are inherently invasive and authoritarian. Yet at...
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Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland explores the death of Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation, was found dead in her jail cell three days later.
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Arthur McNeil is a formerly homeless long distance runner who raises money for shelters on cross-country runs. This film attempts to capture Arthur's story and warm character in a short documentary film. This documentary focuses on themes of homelessness, gentrification, and...
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One cannot serve both the one percent and the 99 percent as their interests are at odds with each other. Although many join for righteous reasons, actions speak louder than intentions. Actions of the U.S. military has always been death, destruction, anguish of the working...
Will Griffin
My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about what’s unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species?
Our era has been dubbed the Anthropocene because for the first time we humans...
Frances Moore Lappé
Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.
Chris Hedges
Allow me to begin by stating an anthropological and genetic fact. Any conversation about so called “American” nationalism must begin with the story of human migration itself, which is a story that started in Africa: the one place where all humanity can affirm a shared genesis...
George Cassidy Payne
55 min
In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But he underestimated his opponents, led by a student...
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Jonathan Haidt explains three areas where we need to update our understanding of the world.
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Click part 2 to watch the full lecture.
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Being raised indoors might the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world. - American childhood is going, going… gone, says Professor Jonathan Haidt. - In the mid-'90s there was a sharp shift to overprotective parenting. In previous generations, kids were allowed to...
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"How can we best utilize our communities to support the education of our children while also encouraging community participation?"
12 min
The Outside View is a new way to look at the world. To realise the cultural simulations we live with and work to change them.
91 min
TRANSCRIPT AND RESOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/federalreserve What is the Federal Reserve system? How did it come into existence? Is it part of the federal government? How does it create money? Why is the public kept in the dark about these important matters? In this...
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Three heroic women fighting the evils of war with love and compassion. They are called Mama, a title of respect meaning Mother or Woman.
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Baba Bora ('better father') is a short documentary about toxic masculinity, fatherhood, and what it means to be a man in D.R. Congo.
"Peace in the world starts in the home" is the motto of Jackson and his team as they travel around eastern D.R. Congo - an area with a long...
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In this exclusive extended interview, Abby Martin speaks with Randy Credico who tells his side of the story on his role in the Russia investigation, his upcoming interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and true nature of his relationship with Trump campaign advisor...
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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, amongst other issues, the socio-economic...
19 min
To create a sustainable future, society has to change, this includes all of us. Our governments cannot be trusted to deliver sustainability. We can do this through dialogue, not rebellion. We must become positively active in developing the psychological growth we need to...
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Guardian journalist George Monbiot addresses the Extinction Rebellion climate change protest blocking the road outside parliament, London, UK. 31/10/2018. 3840X2160 25fps footage © Jason N. Parkinson Terms These video are for viewing only and may not be embedded or otherwise...
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The following documentary examines far-right radio host Alex Jones, and the affect his fear-mongering and conspiracy theories has had on the public. Also explored is his relationship with Donald Trump, and the numerous contradictions of Alex Jones.
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51 min
Michael Moore, Jeremy Scahill, and Marshall Curry speak for a special post-election screening and Q&A about making these two films in the age of Trump.
51 min
The extremist gang’s leader is trying to bail, its members are in jail, and the FBI is on its tail.
Andy Campbell
I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.
Frances Lee
No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles.
Norman Solomon
When I read this in the morning paper, my heart stopped: Just 40 minutes away from me, the white mother of black children in New Jersey was repeatedly harassed via Facebook by a stranger, who told her that her children should be hung.
George Lakey
Due to the inaction of the UK government to the climate emergency, Extinction Rebellion called for a Day of Rebellion in London
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"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis.”
The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new -- both Obama...
“The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.”
—Noam...
Bruce E. Levine
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The Australien Government has made an ad about West Papua and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
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In this interview, American physician and researcher Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. explains in detail the harmful effects animal products have on our bodies, and how in regions where people have a plant based diet heart disease is non-existent.
11 min
Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
Sarah B Shear
5 min
This short film exposes the emotional, psychological and physical damage that can be done when children are imprisoned – even with their families.
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It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to be reduced to net...
George Monbiot
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A minimalist breaks down the biggest shopping day of the year.
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42 min
The Monsanto Papers investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant #Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, #Roundup.
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A 6-minute video on who Fred Hampton was and why he was assassinated at the age of 21.
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A series time lapses filmed around the Exmouth region of North West Australia showing the beauty and the future challenges facing us with the ever looming danger of climate change.
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Fall leaves are not a nuisance. They’re part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.
Return to Now
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
— R. Buckminster Fuller
We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
23 min
A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures' systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to reduce the distance...
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Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma On The People Of America? Today's video features Dr. Gabor Maté a renowned expert in addiction and trauma - here he is diagnosing Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Obama! Check out the full Under The Skin episode here.
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What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.
Chris Hedges
There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called...
George Monbiot
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
53 min
Since October 2017, America experienced three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. This epidemic coincides with a frightening resurgence of white nationalism. Sometimes the two trends overlap. But why here? Both phenomena can be explained by a common historical...
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A new 2-part documentary by Reich-Wing Watch looks at the rise of right-wing terrorism in the United States.
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121,000 likes and 36,000 shares attest to a powerful story about how change is fought for.
Davis Hammet
Stepping up in the era of Me Too and Total Shutdown.
"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler."
A meditation on the midterms, narcissism and causing transformation.
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Is it Spam or Censorship?
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The Solution to Facebook Censorship? Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman Support my work! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf Subscribe ▶https://www.youtube.com/orf Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3gaYQ4e4c4
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A major investigation of Facebook’s impact on privacy and democracy around the world.
110 min
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Sarah runs into her old pal Jesus at the polls. With returning guest star Fred Armisen.
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Media coverage of tragedies like shootings and bombings is frequently politicized, particularly when jihadism is a factor in perpetrators’ motives. In its coverage of the recent outbreak of conspiracy-fueled far-right wing terrorism, however, many media outlets have rushed to...
Justin Anderson
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This film tells the story of one small family practicing urban sufficiency. They live on 1/10th of an acre in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. By living more simply and utilizing alternative technologies this household draws 75-80% less electricity from the grid than the...
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Our minds are connected. This is nothing mystical - but it changes everything.
When a pregnant mother has a drug or alcohol problem, or there is spousal abuse taking place, the effect that has on a child can be devastating.
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We need a ban on factory farming! Take action today!
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Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical...
Chris Hedges
Have you ever felt like you just don’t belong? Like you’re a pink chicken in a field of graceful giraffes, or that perhaps you came to the wrong planet? Certainly many people seem to feel this way, either about their families, or their community, their sexuality and culture...
Azriel ReShel
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In this interview animal behaviourist Dr. Marc Bekoff talks about the complex emotional lives of animals, what humans can learn from them and his desire for a more peaceful future without slaughterhouses or factory farms.
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This thing we call female body-image - the relationship which women have to our own bodies - is, without doubt, in need of urgent attention. I know from my own deep exploration of the subject, that as a woman, I am unable to really separate my own sense of self from the...
Ayla Amano
23 min
Watch the entire TED Talk with Julian Assange in Part 2.
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The Life-Changing Cosmology is a poetic and challenging journey through the Danish writer Martinus' world picture.
42 min
How to make simple living go viral.
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RIPPLE EFFECT is a short documentary film that shows how essential a life skills education is to all young people. There are many issues facing our children: bullying, substance abuse, violence, lack of employability, and graduating high school. RIPPLE EFFECT demonstrates how...
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Tim Canova for Congress!
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July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...
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When Blue Hess was with his biological family, both his parents and their extended family abused and neglected him and his siblings. They had drug abuse problems, and problems with alcohol. According to Blue, his dad would beat and punch him all the time.
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In this second of our special bonus interviews, animal behaviourist Dr. Marc Bekoff talks about the complex emotional lives of animals, what humans can learn from them and his desire for a more peaceful future without slaughterhouses or factory farms.
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Every year, more than twenty million people – an average of one person every second – are displaced because of climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts, rising sea levels, and storms. They are forced to leave their homes and migrate elsewhere, either temporarily or...
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Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where...
Ryan Conrad
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Telling Helena Bourdillon's story is possibly the most important project I’ve ever undertaken.
Are you like me, looking at people you admire and see as successful, and assuming they’ve been lucky in life? That they’ve had it easy? That it’s alright for them?
Yet when you...
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In this video we talk to a retired U.S. retired Army Colonel (31 years) and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Staff Colin Powell (2002-2005), Prof. Lawrence Wilkerson, about the state of the U.S. Empire, its foreign policy and the ideology and forces that influence it. In...
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"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson
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In this video independent economic researcher, author and journalist, Dr. Shir Hever, explains Israel’s "Jewish Nation-State Law", provides context to it and examines its significance.
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In the first part of the interview series with Léonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, Director of the African Development Policy Program and member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy, we examine how foreign direct investment, odious debt and capital...
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With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, Slaughterhouse is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence...
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Using archive footage I set to create a music video / documentary that captures the spirit of activism and people working together for change.
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