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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 whats unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species?
Our era has been dubbed theAnthropocenebecause for the first time we humans are...
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
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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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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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.
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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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...
45 min
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.
57 min
The extremist gangs 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
"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 cant justify it, its illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I dont really understand anarchism as being much more than that.
Noam Chomsky
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Bruce E. Levine
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
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 bereduced to net...
George Monbiot
A minimalist breaks down the biggest shopping day of the year.
10 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 wasassassinated at the age of 21.
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Fall leaves are not a nuisance. Theyre 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 IDO?
R. Buckminster Fuller
We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
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 Mat 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
Theres nothing they need, nothing they dont 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 Terry...
George Monbiot
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automaticwe have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
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 byReich-Wing Watchlooks at the rise of right-wing terrorism in the United States.
136 min
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."
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 https://www.facebook.com/MattOrfVids
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A major investigation of Facebooks impact on privacy and democracy around the world.
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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
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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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 dontbelong? Like youre 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. We...
Azriel ReShel
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
Watch the entire TED Talk with Julian Assange in Part 2.
23 min
How to make simple living go viral.
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...
35 min
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 "Lets...
85 min
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
"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
With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, Slaughterhouseis 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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Humano is a documentary that narrates a young man's journey to the Andes mountains, accompanied only by a camera, two hundred questions and the yearning to discover the origin of man. In Q'eros, he meets a shaman who will explain that before answering his questions, he must...
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Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.