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In this world, women are marketed as toys and trophies. Are we surprised when some men take things literally?
Rebecca Solnit
3 min
Every day, we are told that global economic growth will save us. But think about it: How is it possible to have infinite growth on a finite planet? #GrowthOrLife
The violence driving people to seek shelter in the U.S. has its roots in American foreign policy.
Molly Redden
We need an economy that finally cements the most fundamental freedom: to decide how we live our lives. One simple policy can deliver that.
Samuel Miller McDonald
I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.
Sarah Kobos
Politics is about bringing people together and taking democratic control of the spaces where we live
Aaron Vansintjan
6 min
People’s first experience of the system is often profoundly alienating. This is not the fault of their teachers but of the system itself, which assesses us for a particular kind of intelligence. We pass or fail on ridiculously narrow criteria. I was lucky at school because I...
6 min
Both sides in any war believe that their side is the just side. The mentality of war says that only when our enemies are defeated can we have peace. Humanity has been fighting an endless war with each other for thousands of years and no side has been able to claim victory...
Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs)
Max Borders
5 min
In this video from Spring 2018 in New Zealand, Charles advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach to mitigating climate change. The natural and the material world--the rivers...
Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Democracy Collaborative’s offices in Washington discussed the best thinking and work happening on both sides of the Atlantic...
Isaiah J. Poole
For many marginalized people, social justice communities are an essential form of social and emotional support. They can bring the oppressed and isolated together and help keep them afloat in a world that is at turns indifferent and cruel. While these communities often aim to...
Prefigurology
6 min
In this episode, Alter Ego uses Jordan Peterson's recent conversations with Russell Brand to reveal his major strengths and weaknesses, and how we can build on the gaps in his thinking to develop a vision of progress that integrates personal and collective change.
Imagine you are born into a small community in which everyone knows each other. Your parents are valued in the community and are well supported. As a baby and young child, you are often held, carried, or wrapped against your mother or father, and they are very responsive to...
Eric Bowers
Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups
Max Borders
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Fintan O’Toole
3 min
Coming to theaters this summer. DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the...
32 min
One distinct community in West London is home to waves of migrations from South Asia that make it one of the most diverse towns in the UK. "Southall on Film" is a year long heritage project that explores the relationship between the town's South Asian community and film.
3 min
Trailer for my new documentary: Stolen Vision - Counterfeit Medicine in Iraqi Kurdistan. Exclusive interviews and footage reveal the devastating consequences of counterfeit medicine in Iraqi Kurdistan. In this case, counterfeit Avastin medicine blinded patients, and a number...
Jammu & Kashmir Govt Dismissal, Governor’s Rule a Move to Consolidate Hindu Votes in the State, Monopolise Media Narrative – Local Rivalries Are to Blame
52 min
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. As a pioneer of mid-20th-century music, she attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique
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Jacob Goodwin, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, was charged with injuring a black counterprotester in the wake of the August Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. As Goodwin awaits trial, his parents become increasingly more involved in Goodwin’s extremist...
Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as...
Martin Parker
Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!
Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen
Abolishing ICE is not about lawlessness or open borders but about upholding our constitutional principles of defending people’s freedom from big government, government overreach and racial discrimination
Cesar Vargas and Yesenia Mata
For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? How...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
During the winter months of 2005-2006, several handfuls of people from numerous places throughout North America came together at two different locations to create The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship (Bemidji Statement). While much has been written in the...
Indigenous Environmental Network
Let’s be honest, most people are already in favour of free movement – at least for themselves. Aisha Dodwell explains why we should extend it to everyone
Aisha Dodwell
15 min
The 80s movies that left the biggest impression on Pop Culture Detective as a kid weren’t necessarily from the most popular or iconic films. And they aren't referenced in Ready Player One. In this video, PCD discusses 5 of his favorite lesser known movies from the 1980s that...
3 min
There has been a lot of negative attention given to the child detention centers recently. But this Fourth of July, I am proud to announce the rebranded Tío Sam's Campamento de Verano (Uncle Sam's Summer Camp)! This summer camp is basically like a boarding school and parents...
6 min
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...
5 min
When we think of a privileged childhood, we often think of swimming pools, nannies and expensive education. In fact, of course, the only childhoods that properly deserve the word 'privileged' are those in which there was an abundance of love.
10 min
Economic theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin explains his concept of The Internet of Things. Rifkin's latest book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (http://goo.gl/4estV2).
12 min
Eric Weinstein: I get asked a lot about the state of capitalism and I think that for those members of society of a certain age we think of capitalism as being locked in an ideological battle with socialism perhaps or even communism.But we never really saw that capitalism...
22 min
Ron Paul’s “Cultural Marxism” tweet exposes the term’s deep history of racism. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
7 min
The election of Donald J. Trump surprised many, most of all the Democrats. Jeremy Heimans, a political activist and the Founder of the online media company Purpose, explains it simply: Donald Trump won the internet, and thus won the presidency.
12 min
Why wasn't Donald Trump's blatant and unashamed misogyny a deal breaker for voters? Pop Culture Detective argues it has a lot to do with the ways pop culture, especially television sitcoms, work to normalize sexist behavior.
"It was never about crime. Never about MS-13. Always just about hurting less privileged people of color. All at the expense of actually protecting America."
Julia Conley
15 min
'Ayahuasca - a short film' is a poetic yet informative introduction to the Amazonian medicinal brew, ayahuasca.
10 min
A story about the determined group of Lancashire locals on the front-lines against fracking in the UK. Hydraulic fracturing has been banned in Scotland, there is a moratorium on it in Wales, but democratic safeguards in England have failed. The government remains unwilling to...
13 min
Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on an urban 1/4 acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals...
18 min
In the midst of an all-out revolution, Maya, a middle-class womyn, questions and confronts her partner, Wasim, as to why he should be the one to go join the revolutionary struggle and why she should take care of their child, Kabir.
This is my first attempt at directing a...
13 min
From June 21st-23rd, a group of 50 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the “Lighthouse”, between kibbutz Be’eri and the border of Gaza, to envision the possibility of change in the Middle East.
46 min
On the 6th of May 2018, we organized an event at the Muffatwerk in Munich with Glenn Greenwald, Abby Martin and Jill Stein under the title „Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0″. Below you will find the video of the press conference that we held right after the...
49 min
Incidents of violence and discrimination against Muslim Americans are on the rise. Inflamed by fears, misinformation and bald-faced prejudice, anti-Islamic organizations have tripled their membership just in the past three years. How did this disturbing trend begin, where is...
It was about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of Monday, June 25 when armed Federal Protective Service officers returned to the Portland, Oregon office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE personnel had not been back since June 19, when protesters began disallowing easy...
Shane Burley
2 min
Like a smile owned by its teeth,
Like a kiss sold to yourself,
This is how your city grows.
Like the tender limbs of trees
Let our timber lenders breathe in,
This is how your city grows.
From hand to hand, a relay sport
How we shape thought into word,
140 min
Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful...
9 min
When television took over from print and radio as the dominant media in the second half of the 20th century, a hierarchy evolved in which the privileged few with TV camera access spoke to the masses. This top-down dissemination of news and opinion not only shaped information...
Don Lash, author of When the Welfare People Came: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, looks at the many U.S. policies — past and present — that have separated children from their parents.
Don Lash
You have the right to live where you choose.
You have the right to work where you choose.
You have the right to travel where you choose.
You have the right to associate with whom you choose.
You have the right to speak any language you choose.
You have the right to...
Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective
One in three people know someone with macular disease, according to a survey by leading sight loss charity the Macular Society.
26 min
On this episode of 'MINORITY REPORTS,' Vice met up with Tiago, a white freshman at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Spike Lee as alumni. We sat down with him to hear why he decided to enroll in the school, asked his peers for their...
40 min
Protecting Country is an independently produced film bringing the voices of the contemporary Adnyamathanha, Gurindji, Tanganekald, Yankunytjatjara Anunga, Mirning, Narunnga Aboriginal Australian people forward who are united in their stand AGAINST the present and planned...
75 min
Colin R. Turner's informal walk-through on the topics discussed in his book Into The Open Economy. The complete four-part mini-series: I. The Problems; II. The Solution; III. The Practicalities; IV. The Transition; Please add comments and questions below.
21 min
"La moral olvidada" es un documental sobre la liberación animal.. Durante muchos años ha habido, a lo largo de la historia, grandes defensores de los animales. Hoy en día todavía están presentes sus pensamientos entre nosotros. Cuatro personas entrevistadas (Jefe de Proyectos...
The Circle of Courage is based in four universal growth needs of all children: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
Reclaiming Youth At Risk
9 min
Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation — this is their story.
19 min
Jordan Greenhall seems to have the gift of second sight. And for Greenhall, the election of Donald Trump is merely a bi-product of profound changes in the nature of how we understand the world and how we relate to each other. The underlying mediating structures of society...
Fear and uncertainty seem to have settled into our societies, not only among citizens, but also political leaders and transnational corporations who see their capitals and centres of power stagger in the face of the combined effects of slowing global economic growth, imminent...
Jenny Gellatly and Marcos Rivero
I have never spoken with a school shooter, but I’ve talked with many teenage boys and young men who—though behaviorally nonviolent themselves—emotionally connect with the anger, alienation, and hopelessness of school shooters.
Bruce E. Levine
Liberation psychology doesn’t equate a lack of adjustment with mental illness, but instead promotes constructive rebellion against dehumanizing institutions, and which also provides strategies to build a genuinely democratic society.
Bruce E. Levine
41 min
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
- Gloria Steinem
Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students not only how to be students, but how to live. He gives them lessons on teamwork, community, the...
26 min
Over the past 10 years, a growing online community of conspiracy theorists and hoaxers known as “truthers” has come to question the official narratives behind every mass shooting that is heavily covered by the media. A common thread in these theories is the government’s role...
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
John Pilger
“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying...
Bruce E. Levine
7 min
To mark the beginning of Refugee Week 2018, Tima Kurdi pays tribute to her nephew Alan Kurdi a two-year-old Syrian boy whose image gripped the world and dominated news headlines after he drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in September 2015. In this heart-breaking new interview...
4 min
American hero, Daniel Ellsberg, celebrated in the movie "The Post", tells the world who his own inspirational hero is.
3 min
George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic. This quote is taken from his last stand up routine, "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005).
10 min
In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about the history & political economy behind the legalisation of marijuana.
8 min
In this video Yanis Varoufakis addresses diverse questions that acTVism Munich received from the public. Topics include the meaning of fiscal waterboarding, impacts of activism & social movements on policy, U.S. militarization, Bernie Sanders & the effects of lifting people...
3 min
As part of Raizvanguarda art residency in Gois, Portugal, Evgenia Emets worked on a film interviewing people from the local villages. Inspired by their memories, stories and visions of the forest, she created a series of poems, visual works and an art documentary. This art...
The shifts in consciousness brought about by psychedelics could help to dissolve our fear of the other.
Vikram Zutshi
47 min
The week of Venezuela's presidential election, John Oliver dedicated an ENTIRE episode of his HBO show "Last Week Tonight" to the country—full of distortions and highly misleading to progressive-minded people.
8 min
The Creativity Delusion is a multi-part video essay on how our misconceptions about ideas and the way brains work impact our views about creation. These also extend to intellectual property.
5 min
Deep in the heart of Texas Ranchland, we meet Tommy Sonnen, a fourth-generation rancher and Renee, who moved from Houston, Texas to become the archetypal rancher’s wife…with a difference. Tommy, complete with his Great Grandfather’s original spurs and branding iron was...
3 min
JOUD is an unconventional meditation on the cycle of life – but in reverse. Set in Saudi Arabia, the film challenges viewers to look below the surface of everyday experiences and contemplate its Arabic title, translated as “generosity in the face of scarcity.” JOUD uses an...
2 min
Most films about Native Americans concentrate on European perspective or indigenous experience in North America, but there are Natives abroad, and our film shares the lives and daily experience of being “loved in the wrong way” in “Indian crazy” Germany. There are many forms...
Passivity in the young is an obstacle to social transformation. Let’s teach kids to recognize and use their agency.
Leon Prescod
10 min
In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...
56 min
Treading the paths that millions of people take every day, this film takes an insight into one of life's great mysteries: where are we when we are between places?
19 min
Colombia’s presidential election could determine the fate of the historic peace deal ending their 53-year civil war. While most in the country want to honor the agreement, Colombia’s right wing has been a fervent opponent.
3 min
European cities are changing. Increasing storms, floods and heat waves are putting citizens’ health and lives at risk as a result of climate change. Human-made disasters such as terrorist attacks used to happen every 5 years in European cities. Now, we are seeing several...
It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Jeremy Lent
Today, one in four of us will suffer a mental health issue during our lifetime. Discover the key to thriving in the modern world.
Grace Blakeley
40 min
On the 6th of May 2018 we organized an event in Munich with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title "Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0". This is the last part of the event which hosted a solution oriented discussion that focused on how...
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For the last 20 years, the U.S State Department along with the President have hosted Ramadan Iftar dinner to celebrate the month when millions of Muslims around the world fast. Last year, the new administration has chosen not to observe this tradition. So a group of refugees...
38 min
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On the 6th of May 2018 we organized an event at Muffatwerk in Munich with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0“. Scroll below to view the video of this event. This is the second installment of an
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In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about George Orwell's famous book called "1984", and in particular, the excerpts pertaining to the military...
No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold.
Razan Azzarkani
Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems.
John Atcheson
7 min
Agustín Da Silva grew up as a child worker harvesting yerba mate in the fields of Argentina. He was destined for a life of labor, but a twist of fate opened the doors to education and running. Today, he’s training to qualify for Argentina's Olympic team. Subscribe for more...
220 min
Welcome to Season 2 of Tough Talk: Going Deeper.
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
Chris Hedges
2 min
Afrophobia Awareness Short Film. "I am Migrant" PLURAL + United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Winner 2017 Only African Winner at Festival Screened on 4 continents Nominated Best Movie by an African Director/Producer RTF International Film Festival
To characterize Israeli violence as a “response” is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads.
Gregory Shupak
13 min
Mass Trespass is a documentary short about the Kinder Trespass of 1932, an event in the Peak District that helped pave the way for our right to roam on mountains and moors.
14 min
This video responds to those who say carbon emissions are not a problem because "CO2 is plant food" and "the planet is greening". We examine the science of what rising temperatures and climate change will actually mean for global agricultural production.