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Dominion
Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankinds dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways...
Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men
In response to my recent newsletter, which I named Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy, I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways they pointed me to the reality that the word...
What Is Toxic Masculinity?
You may have bumped into the term toxic masculinity during your travels around the internet. It usually shows up in connection with particularly abusive male behavior, but what does it really mean?
If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn’t the Only Answer
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years from an estimated half a million people in 2016to more than 3.5 million 5% of our population today. Influential documentaries such as
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?
Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements from the Leave camps now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release 350 million a week for the NHS to the former Chancellor George...
Identity: In & Beyond The Binary
This 60 min documentary features trans, genderqueer, butch and queer people interviewed on their varied experiences with gender identity. Addressing topics from hormones to employment to growing up, "Identity" is a series of enlightening and heartfelt interviews.
Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly
The Wholeness of Life Kanyiniis best expressed in English as the combination of the two words Responsibility and Unconditional Love, but it is actually a relationship; it is an enormous caring with no limit it has no timeframe: it is eternal. Uncle Bob Randall In our...
Who Cares?
Just who is changing the world?
Time to Wake Up: the Neoliberal Order Is Dying
Inmy recent essay, I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives supporting what we might loosely term our current neoliberal order rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are of course deeply...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
The Benefits of Working Out in Nature
I was at the beach the other day with some friends and after a rousing game of apprehend the frisbee before it nails an unsuspecting stranger, we all settled on the sand to chat and observe our fellow beachgoers.
Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, but Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People
Columbuss treatment of the Tano people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide erasing the memory of the Tano from our nations classrooms
Land of Hope and Glory
The hidden truth behind UK animal farming - featuring approximately 100 facilities across the UK and never before seen undercover footage. Activist Earthling Ed produces and narrates this 'UK Earthlings documentary' with over a decade of undercover footage and Animal...
Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy
The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities has concluded. The report, entitled Testing Theories of American...
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little throughout our lives. Whilst some of our other values...
Brett Kavanaugh: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, the sexual assault allegations against him, his Supreme Court nomination, and what that could all mean for the highest (mostly-dog) court in the land.
How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying: Top 5 Times He Committed Perjury
Read the accompanying 10,000-word essay on his deceptions here, via Current Affairs magazine.
Unity
100 celebrities narrate this enlightening documentary that re-examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, ponders our place in the universe, while taking viewers on an epic journey through the history of civilization and beyond. In this compassionate and inspiring...
Memory Reconsolidation and Dead Man Walking
How many men have come forward and confessed to committing rape or sexual assault in the public eye?
From Shock to Awe
From Shock to Aweasks,how do we heal our deepest wounds?An intimate and raw look at the transformational journey of two combat veterans suffering from severe trauma as they abandon pharmaceuticals to seek relief through the mind-expanding world of psychedelics. Recent...
Brett Kavanaugh, Patriarchy, and Bursting the Ruling-Class Bubble
"Elites" aren't accustomed to adversity, being challenged, or having their birthright entitlements questioned. They coast through their prep schools and Ivy League, and slide into their preordained adult lives without ever experiencing the daily struggles of working people...
Edmund Hillary Fellowship: Build the Future in New Zealand
The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) brings together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and change-makers to build solutions to global problems from Aotearoa New Zealand. International Fellows receive exclusive access to New Zealands new Global Impact Visa, an open work visa...
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and...
Mean, Kind or Non: Which Type of Racist Are You?
"Despite our best efforts to eradicate racism, it comes backlike a toxic weed because we fail to pull it up by its root."
1968 - The GlobalRevolt
The four-part documentary 1968 The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.
Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels
In June this year, I spent two and a half months converting a 1986 Toyota Hiace into my home and office. Watch the camper conversion process and also see a tour of the finished van! -Jordan Osmond
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living
Tony Wrench of Wales had a natural building that radically challenged and altered the governments policy on low impact housing. This paved the way for Lammas - the UKs first planned ecovillage, on brilliant display in this film.
Why Women – Including Feminists – Are Still Attracted to 'Benevolently Sexist' Men
If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?
Sacred Earth
Sacred Earth by Emmy Award winning director Jan Nickman is a unique Nature Immersion Experience through the stunning beauty of the Sacred Lands of the American Southwest. White sand deserts, ancient slot canyons and the stunning red rock landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico...
Offline Is The New Luxury
To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is becoming a luxury. Where can you be offline?
US Government Admits It's Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba
The United States has repeatedly accused the Russian and Iranian governments of using social media to spread disinformation and foment chaos. Under US government pressure, Big Tech corporations have banned large numbers of accounts accused (in some cases falsely) of being...
Dear Future
Dear Future is Motherboard and CNET's new documentary series built on the premise that technology and science are still capable of wowing us. Fusion energy, DIY off-grid energy systems, decentralized mesh networks, the search for life on other planets, and humanoid robots...
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She...
Before You Have Sex, Watch This
Some people claim THIS is better than sex. Do You Agree? - Prince Ea
Future Dreaming
Future Dreaming is a remarkable documentary that will challenge the way you think about humanity. The film explores the narratives that drive our economic, social and political thinking and offers a new way of understanding the Human Condition.
Initiation Into a Living Planet
Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what you knew and what you were. From the rubble of the ensuing collapse, a new self is born into a new world.
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Change comes in waves, like the ocean, like sound, or ripples on a lake. Sometimes its all action Occupy, the Arab Spring, the summer of 1968. Sometimes it feels like nothings happening, nothings ever going to happen, no matter how hard you try. Or even that things are...
Venturing into Sacred Space | Archetype of the Magician
Like Stories of Old: In this conclusion of my Archetype Series based on the book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, I examine the archetype of the Magician and explore some related concepts such as initiation, ritual process and sacred space.
The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone
When kings went out of style, that impulse didnt leave with them; it simply found a different way of manifesting.
How a New Aristocracy's Segregation Puts Stress on Society
Growing class division is destabilizing our society, argues author and philosopher Matthew Stewart in a provocative Atlantic magazine cover story. He says there's a group in between the top 0.1 percent and bottom 90 percent that plays an important role in running the economy...
How The Last Jedi Defies Expectations
The Last Jedi is a movie thats designed to defy fan expectations. Nowhere is this subversion more evident than in the way the film handles its three male heroes: X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, renegade Stormtrooper Finn, and legendary Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. //Pop Culture...
Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness
Peace to you; if youre willing to fight for it Fred Hampton The founding fathers deliberately arranged a system of governance that would protect the wealthy minority from the majority. Over time, as it fused with capitalism, this arrangement transformed the US government...
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.
Here's Why You Should Think Twice about Killing Spiders in Your Home
I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Dont kill the next spider you see in your home.
This Restaurant Takeout Service Swaps Styrofoam for Sustainable
After big cities like San Francisco banned businesses from using styrofoam containers, a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who was fed up with the plastic trash began her own crusade. When her efforts toward passing a local ban failed, she decided to focus on small-scale...
Voices of Transition
This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...
Our Current Leadership Is Unsustainable
Environmentally, socially and psychologically our society is unsustainable. If consumption continues to increase at current rates, by 2050 we will need 3 Earths to sustain us (United Nations, 2015). Socially, income inequality is at the highest level in 50 years in OECD...
American Anarchist
This is the story of one of the most infamous books ever written, The Anarchist Cookbook, and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at the age of 19 in the midst of the counter-culture upheaval of the late 1960s and early 70s.
Alt-Right: Age Of Rage
In the first year of Donald J. Trump's presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the alt-right movement, while Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.
Periods Are Beautiful
Women go through their female cycle around 450 times in their lifetime. 450 times of bleeding. But also 450 times of letting go, letting a dying thing leave their own body, becoming new, regenerating and waxing and waning, not unlike the moon and tides.* Alas, the average...
Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential
Movement, perception, thinking, effortless achievement and healing are inherent to lifethey happen by themselves. When we observe children learning to walk or speak, ecosystems regenerating themselves, or animals self-organizing, we notice theres a masterful way of...
It's Time to Decriminalize Immigration, Say Top Texas Dems
Two top candidates say Congress should decriminalize unauthorized border crossings entirely, while aspiring U.S. Sen. Beto ORourke argues asylum-seekers should be exempted from illegal entry prosecution.
All the Financial Advice You’ll Ever Need Fits On a Single Index Card
At first glance, fiscal planning can seem more complex and time-consuming than its worth. But according to Professor Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago, you can fit all the financial advice youll ever really need on a single index card. Economics correspondent Paul...
PERIODE 28
An ode to periods.
Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World
The future we long for is alive and well in the more hopeful corners of our heart.
Beware Of Images
From cave paintings to virtual reality, Beware of Images embarks on a fascinating journey through the history of mediated representation. This is the history of media you will never find on TV.
Inequality - How Wealth Becomes Power
Germany is one of the worlds richest countries, but inequality is on the rise. The wealthy are pulling ahead, while the poor are falling behind. [Online until: 17 September 2018]