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On the 6th of May 2018, acTVism Munich organized an event with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0″.
7 min
Retailers around the country are shuttering stores — a list that ranges from Toys R Us, which just announced it’s closing or selling all its U.S. locations, to brands including Footlocker, J. Crew and Macy’s that are shrinking their brick-and-mortar operations. But one...
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www.thecoi.org www.facebook.com/nmpnews contact us :716-885-2289 1.The proletariat movement 2.The Proletariat Revolution 3.From The Imperious Harlot to the Communist Virgin We will attempt to prove that "old Jerusalem" was an Imperial apostate and that the Messiah 'Yshuah...
#EmergingProud is a Grassroots Social Movement
17 min
Commerce and police brutality in Hong Kong during the Umbrella Revolution 雨傘革命
10 min
The Intellectual Dark Web brand claims to be a motley crew of ideologically opposed truth tellers but is instead a group of warriors for the status quo who are unified around scapegoating leftists and specifically Marxists for problems that capitalism itself generates. They...
9 min
This video picks apart the right-wing Day for Freedom video, examines how the alt-lite uses the Streisand Effect to spread its message, and points out that Karl Marx was a champion of free speech.
The only legitimate struggle for Palestinians, it seems, is keeping quiet, allowing their lands to be plundered and their children to be starved.
Jonathan Cook
39 min
“Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement” is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and others.
In contrast to White House refusal to condemn Israel, the U.N. Human Rights Council denounced the massacre and slammed Israel for repeatedly violating international law
Jake Johnson
How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell
Tom Engelhardt
3 min
On the 25th May vote yes for a better Ireland
Eight-month-old Laila is youngest Palestinian killed in Gaza on Monday, the deadliest day since 2014 war.
Middle East Eye Staff
66 min
2016-17 saw the worst prison riots in decades. Across the country the prisons estate exploded as warned by campaigners and prisoners. The flames of the riots cast a light on the so-called prison crisis. Look hard and you’ll see it’s not that prisons are in crisis, prisons are...
22 min
In 2016, more than 50 bills were introduced in Congress targeting Trans people. Since Trump took office, dozens of pieces of landmark legislation have been cancelled, severely rolling back Trans rights.
13 min
Mass Trespass is a documentary short about the Kinder Trespass of 1932 in the UK. An event in the Peak District that helped pave the way for our right to roam on mountains.
29 min
The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.
113 min
"You think you know what ‘feminine’ is, but you don’t. And you think you know what ‘masculine’ is, but you don’t. All you really know is how the ‘masculine’ behaves when it is plugged into a power-over paradigm. And all you know is how the ‘feminine’ behaves when it is...
Pat McCabe
“Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”
Norman Solomon
9 min
Our society has definitely become masters at increasing the amount of things we can measure - more and more money, more and more floor space per capita, more and more GDP, and less and less of the things that we can’t measure - how happy we are, levels of intimacy, the...
Is all inclusion good inclusion?
Toshio Meronek
93 min
HOPE What You Eat Matters is an award-winning documentary that looks at the effects of the typical Western diet on our health, the environment and animals. It features experts including T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn and has been endorsed by Sir Paul...
And why I think you should also do it
Gustavo Tanaka
4 min
Music changes the World because it changes People!
A PRAYER FOR ST LOUIS - ATOMIC HOMEFRONT - Just scratched the surface of the horrors of people having to Live With Uranium - Behind the Uranium Curtain and the Cities of Secrets. Many having their origin not just in the Manhattan Project but in the weapons industries that...
In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by “antifa,” a loose international network of radical anti-fascist groups that aims to shut down far-right talks and rallies. For antifa...
Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin
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Progressive candidate Levi Tillemann met with Congressman Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives, to make the case that the party should stay neutral in the Colorado primary and that he had a more plausible path to victory than the same centrism that...
We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert
The Knell of Doom for 45's associates is for him to diminish their purported role.
Liam Miller
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#ShoutDownHate is a social media campaign designed to raise awareness of the issue of hatred, especially hatred targeted at young people, and promote Voices for Change (www.voicesforchange.space), a safe, digital community for Anne Frank Ambassadors from education charity The...
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Tough Talk is a documentary series created to reduce the stigma surrounding men's mental health. Sam O'Sullivan is a Kiwi psychologist who gets off the beaten track and travels in his van around his home country of New Zealand to film conversations with everyday men about...
We need to practice economic disobedience so that radical alternatives can flourish.
Niki Seth-Smith
We’ve all heard the argument before: However “nice” the use of nonviolence may be, in the real world violence is necessary — and ultimately more effective, so the thinking goes — for challenging a brutal regime, fighting injustice or defending against an armed opponent. But...
Molly Wallace
Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would “make America great again,” by restoring waning coal and...
Sarah Aziza
The Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization that advocated violence, was seen by my father and other clergy members who were involved in Vietnam anti-war protests as one of the most self-destructive forces on the left. These members of the clergy, many...
Chris Hedges
We need to build a national anti-war campaign. The establishment's propaganda machine is working overtime filling all of our heads with this governmental soap opera drama, maintaining our own perpetually orchestrated division. No matter how attention-grabbing, or even when...
Meatless May campaign is a water and animal rights advocacy campaign that challenges global citizens to commit to a more sustainable diet in the month of May.
Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
Juliana Breines
6 min
Daryl Davis and BLM activist Kwame Rose discuss their pivotal confrontation moment from Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America.
In late 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issued a dramatic “warning to humanity” over biodiversity loss due to overconsumption of resources. They agreed that if we continue “business as usual,” we'll shortly approach a point where it will be too late to...
7 min
Discussion of overly excited Youtubers, the loudness wars and sensationalism in media.
5 min
Sell an identity, not a product.
6 min
It's not accidental or because they are stupid. Its often confusing and vague on purpose. Some of the greatest corruption scandals in history have happened thanks to jargon.
9 min
Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he's somehow been anointed by God to become President...
2 min
Watch the entire movie on undercurrents.org. #powertripfilm
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as Fracking. We show what happens beyond the few seconds...
Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...
Alan Nasser
Let me present five signs of a hypocrisy, a fraud-in-the-making:
Sasha Abramsky
Eric K. Ward is currently the executive director of Western States Center. Western States Center’s mission is to connect and build the power of community organizations to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic...
Eric Ward
In the park today I saw a teenager watching two little kids, one of whom apparently stole a piece of candy from the other. The teenager rushed up to the two of them, reprimanded one of them, and stole both of their bicycles. I felt like it was my turn to step in at that...
David Swanson
"The latest U.S. air attack on Russia’s close ally Syria was as much politically aimed at Moscow as at Damascus."
Norman Solomon
"Strikes against the Syrian regime – without congressional input or authorization – shows a contempt for the U.S Constitution and is without legal justification."
Jon Queally
In this memo to the White House, the Veteran Intelligence Professions for Sanity urge President Trump to get the evidence first before deciding to strike Syria.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
This style of coverage—enthusiastic about the moral need for violence but oblivious to its obvious consequences—inhibits the public’s capacity to make sense of the extremely dangerous moment in which we are living.
Gregory Shupak
34 min
VICE finally got a rare glimpse of the embattled Gaza Strip and a chance to see what life was like under the rule of Hamas. In 2007 we tried and failed to get into Gaza through the Israeli-controlled Erez Crossing. Back then the rival Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah...
When we confront something we regard as “evil,” it poses a threat to the self-preservation of ego. We are so busy preserving our existence in the face of this threat that we cannot see the thing clearly at all.
—Chögyam Trungpa
Sometimes in Q&A sessions or internet...
Charles Eisenstein
Do you know what literally repulses me these days? Hearing about the first so and so to get accepted into the exclusive club of the aristocracy. Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the latest first black president or first woman CEO. Who cares! I don’t know how we have arrived...
Teodrose Fikre
The neoliberal bureaucratization of society and of government action seems to be one of the main characteristics of the contemporary world, transcending as it does the diversity of geographical, social, political, and economic situations.
Yavor Tarinski
96 min
“Hijacking the Holy Land” takes you behind the headlines and past the media bias against Israel. Go inside the world of Palestinian media and watch incredible video clips of Palestinian politicians and clerics. You won’t believe what you see—the lies, the incitement and the...
We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.
Joe Brewer
23 min
Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
51 min
While the world is in crisis, there is a man who thinks the future is as bright as it can be. Peter Diamandis, author of the book Abundance and co-founder of Singularity University, sees how technology can soon provide all basic needs such as energy, clean drinking water and...
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The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems.
8 min
The media's panic about antifa reflects an old bias in the way journalists cover protest movements.
29 min
Donald Trump's inauguration as US president a year ago reinvigorated many right-wing groups, including white supremacists. Now the militant left is fighting back with some shock tactics of its own.
42 min
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific. Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its contents into the sea.
These documentaries expose the ugly truth about war and the governments who wage them. The US government is focused on in this collection because I am based in the US, and it is every citizen's duty to call out and name the crimes of their government.
Tim Hjersted
“I want to kiss you all over your smile.”
Miki Kashtan
"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."
Jake Johnson
This is not a post I ever wanted to write but it’s time to tie up loose ends before starting the new year. I’ve left DiEM25 and I’d like to explain to you why that is and what I hope DiEM will do differently in the future if it is to realise its tremendous potential to be a...
Aral Balkan
As a nation, we have a tendency to sentimentalize cultural icons in death in a way that renders them non-threatening, antiseptic and easily digested by a society with an acute intolerance for anything controversial, politically incorrect or marred by imperfection.
John W. Whitehead
6 min
"Together with others, I know I can get much further."
"While this shows one individual soldier's act, it is made possible by criminal orders from the top that authorized use of lethal force against unarmed protesters that has resulted in hundreds being shot."
Jake Johnson
120 min
Peter Joseph speaks at The University of Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.
This paper by David Schweickart, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in...
David Schweickart
11 min
Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. In this animation he describes the incredible properties of fungi as well as an overview of how mushrooms could have played a massive role in the evolution of human consciousness.
When most people think of romance, they think of flowers and chocolate, candlelight dinners and sunset walks, dancing, poetry, and diamond rings. These types of romance happen most consistently during the falling-in-love phase of a relationship. Further into the relationship...
Eric Bowers
Has anyone seen the new E-Trade commercials running, which sum up the problem with modern America?
They show some frustrated grunt workers, being scorned and scoffed at by rich assholes in superior positions. They end with a tag-line that basically says, "Don't get mad- you...
To the intellectuals, ''goodness'' is a terrible word, and they generally want to avoid it, but now it is becoming the fashion even among the intellectuals to use that word. And is there goodness when there is a motive behind it? If I have a motive to be good, does that bring...
J. Krishnamurti
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How can we move forward as men and women in the wake of the #metoo campaign? Psychotherapist and relationship expert Louise Mazanti PhD talks to Rebel Wisdom founder and journalist David Fuller.
For more details on Louise Mazanti: https://www.mazantilousada.com/
They also...
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On the 50th Anniversary of his death, many of MLK’s economic and radical messages are written out of history.
Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives
SoFA Coop Circle
How did humans go from savanna-dwelling primates to moon-bouncing Tide Pod™ eaters? This is the big question that Big History has been trying to answer for millennia. Sure, other ages may have framed the question differently.
Pre-Internet historian Herodotus may have asked...
Samuel Miller McDonald
It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break…You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break, but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces! – C. Joybell...
Joshua Kauffman
It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness.
Jeremy Lent
Positive thinking may be useless or even damaging, but negative thinking is unlikely to change the world for the better.
Alessandra Pigni
Are you a healer who is trying to bring love and light into this world? If so, you might feel the way I do sometimes… in those moments of clarity about how big the forces of harm have become and that the darkness may last for the rest of your life and beyond.
I write these...
Joe Brewer
50 min
What are the challenges facing men today? Former US Army Ranger and philosopher Michael Robillard looks at the growing sense of alienation felt by men and how to find a sense of belonging.
Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance
Heather Plett
30 min
In his keynote at the Burning Man European Leadership Summit, Ronan Harrington calls for a politics that recognises the one thing that we all have in common: our vulnerability.
4 min
For the past two years, Alter Ego has been gathering new cultural and political leaders to rethink politics and our vision of progress. This is a behind the scenes of our first gathering in 2016, where we explored spirituality as a transformative source of political renewal...
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” ~Albert Einstein
Christopher Chase
Ideology Dies One Small Social Experiment at a Time
Max Borders
11 min
The United States and the global status quo are rapidly approaching a breaking point. Viewed from the scale of history we're milliseconds away.
Our situation may seem hopeless, but we have a rich inheritance of ideas and practices from which we can draw. Monarchies have been overthrown, dictators pulled down. We can take inspiration from past revolutions to build a new framework for the future.
The Symbiosis Research Collective
9 min
People don't get "woke" overnight. Sometimes we have to be patient and help them get there.
Fifty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Left struggles to speak with the kind of moral clarity King exemplified — but that shouldn't stop us from trying.
Robert Greene II
60 min
Agneta is a documentary film about the life of the now 80-year-old Swedish peace activist Agneta Norberg. Through Agneta's extraordinary and humorous personality, the documentary explores questions of what it means to be an activist, how a third world war can be avoided, and...
In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.
Eli Friedman and Andi Kao
4 min
On the 15th of January 2017, acTVism Munich hosted it's largest event to date with Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahlll, Richard D. Wolff, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Paul Jay & Srecko Horvat. This event was sold out three months in advance, viewed by 53,000 people via livestream and the...