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"Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don't. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."
Greta Thunberg
David Pakman'slong-form investigation into political correctness, including a history of the term, and whether it is too liberally or conservatively applied in modern culture.
15 min
Democracy Now: As we continue to look at the video that has gone viral showing a group of Catholic high school students apparently mocking an indigenous tribal elder near the Lincoln Memorial, we speak to Chase Iron Eyes, an activist and lead attorney for the Lakota Peoples...
10 min
The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.
Chris Hedges
In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Womens March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war
Robert C. Koehler
Everyones talking about that incident on the Lincoln Memorial But heres what the Indigenous Peoples March actually wanted the public to know. CGTN's Lisa Chiu talked to Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project about land rights, and the U.S...
5 min
All suffering begins and ends in our brains.
Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, its the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship thats an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our...
Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.
Ruth Conniff
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it
Adam Simpson
"Business leaders and elite intellectuals recognized that the public had won enough rights so that they can't be controlled by force, so it would be necessary to turn to control of attitudes and opinions...
5 min
Abundant Landis a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Molokai opposing the biotech industrys use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Molokais topsoil and...
62 min
Just days after President Donald Trumps inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.
Christopher Beem
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, hed probably tell people to join unions.
Peter Cole
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
RoseAnn DeMoro
Amador Fernndez-Savater talks with Guiomar Rovira, author of Networked Activism and Connected Multitudes, about punk, Zapatismo, technology, communication, and activist appropriation of the internet.
Guiomar Rovira and Amador Fernández Savater
Video by Matt Orfalea.
6 min
Audience Question: Can you give examples of white identity politics?
5 min
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...
Sarah Peyton
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
2 min
This article was first published in Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down. Read more about the action guidehere.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
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82 min
"Dedicated to all those who sacrifice everything to make the world safer and better for all of us.
2 min
On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page ofwhat appeared to be theWashington Posthad people stopping in their tracks. Theheadlineread: UNPRESIDENTED: Trump hastily departs White House, ending crisis.
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nations schools. On the hate side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...
Gerald Coles
Gillette's newest ad, 'The Best a Man Can Be', has created a social media firestorm in the last few days. Rebel Wisdom sat down to discuss the reaction, the cultural context behind it and their response to the ad. Drawing on their interviews with Warren Farrell, Cassie Jaye...
33 min
To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of millions is through compassion and inclusion. It might feel good to rage at the...
Teodrose Fikre
Chaos erupts in Baltimore, MD as an unarmed black man called Freddie Gray sustains fatal injuries while in police custody. The city of Baltimore is in a state of emergency, curfews are put in place, the national guard is sent out. This a documentary covering life and times in...
43 min
Tears in the Bayouis a documentary that takes you through the madness in the inner city of Houston, Texas.
107 min
I have not found a word that captures the exact line that I am looking for. Commitment may be a bit too strong, and tends to connote should, thus invoking the non-choiceful energy of obligation and duty. Intention is not strong enough, in my mind, to carry the unwavering...
Miki Kashtan
Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable. The kind of love that reminds us that open hearted is not a metaphor, but a literal description of a way to be in our bodies. The kind of love that transforms every...
Simon Mont
Boost your morale with unexpected good news you wont find in the mainstream media
EcoHustler
And we wouldnt even have to tax the rich to pay for it.
Ellen Brown
The same people who praise Wikileaks now used to call them terrorists for practicing award-winning journalism. -
9 min
Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty. Obviously we had to ask him how!
6 min
Robert Reich explains why we must limit the influence of donors and lobbyists on Washington.
4 min
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
3 min
[Editors Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novelA Rain of Night Birdswasreviewed on our websiteby Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this piece, Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of global...
Deena Metzger
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
David Korten
"In what is becoming a field of near-identical documentaries featuring similar experts, research, and opinion, Grant Dixons film stands apart with its unique, homegrown feel. His in-depth exploration of the whys and wherefores behind his own health scare introduces us to the...
87 min
In Part II of our series Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin addresses the surprise order from Trump that he was "ending the war" in Syria.
14 min
In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that has expanded US wars and occupations.
17 min
George Monbiot on the true and bloody legacy of Christopher Columbus
6 min
Chris Hedges speaks about his new book, "America, the Farewell Tour."
30 min
Hidden in the depths of the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains is a world few have seen. Complex geology, climatic conditions, and impassibly rugged river canyons have inspired some of the greatest technological feats of history technology created by life over billions of...
55 min
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet weve had a simple answer for millennia
"Efficacy is the ability to produce a desired result. But are the results we're achieving, the ones we intent? Our intelligence is remaking the world before our eyes. What kind of future do you want to see?"
82 min
More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most extensive pieces of civil rights legislation, people of color across the United States still are engaged in a battle to protect their right to vote.Voting Mattersfollows one dynamic woman working...
2 min
The latest UN climate talks,known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as climate villains
Nicholas Beuret
From Trump in the U.S. to Bolsonaro in Brazil, ordinary people in large democracies are discontented and shifting right, what can progressives do about it? Cornel West in conversation with Sharmini Peries.
9 min
Rapper KYLE on race, toxic masculinity, depression and being the happiest rapper alive!
7 min
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
5 min
Iam constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced understanding...
Teodrose Fikre
Ownership is often seen as a very simple concept. Mine, not yours, a two-year-old might tell us. The reality, however, is far more complex, as the rights of owners are far from fixed. Indeed, the concept of what ownership means is itself subject to change. For this reason...
Steve Dubb
An independent documentary exploring both the beauty and betrayal of Tulum, Mexico - and what can be done to change it.
*Available with Spanish subtitles - simply click the CC button on the video player.
31 min
I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy thats baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years Ive been here. The forest sustains. As do you and I. Tangled beings brought together by strange and...
Suprabha Seshan
What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that dislike, without apology. What would you do?
17 min
A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.
Ellen Brown
TomasBjrkmanis the author of three books: The Market Myth (2016), Vrlden vi skapar (eng. The World we Create) (2017) and, together with Lene Andersen, The Nordic Secret (2017).
19 min