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Why “Black” Makes Us Uncomfortable
John Halstead
Taking action requires practice, and that means training for it. Simply put, we have not been training to build the skills necessary for actively evolving the institutions of our civilization — so we are not skilled in the practices needed to do the work.
Most social change...
Joe Brewer
Sometimes, words just aren’t enough, but there are other ways to get ideas across. These images will help you understand what depression feels like.
Sherrie
If you’ve struggled with depression at any point in your life, you’ve probably heard some well-meaning soul say “just try to get some exercise, it’s good for your mood!” Annoyingly, they’re right; I don’t think that exercise can single-handedly cure depression or treat its...
Sarah Kurchak
Many Americans are rightfully scared shitless of Donald Trump; in particular marginalized people. But for many of us, we do not have the privilege of it being the first time we are truly afraid for our lives.
Morgana Visser
On La Gomera, a small island in Spain’s Canary Islands, the last speakers of a language without words reside. "El Silbo," a whistled communication used in rural and isolated areas, is dying out as islanders embrace digital communication and move to cities and the mainland...
4 min
The illusion of power IS a kind of real power. There is a lesson in this for the majority of humanity.
Joe Brewer
The day after Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the Democratic National Convention and urged his supporters to work to ensure his former rival wins the presidential race, we host a debate between Clinton supporter Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President...
37 min
Emails appear to violate White House policy
Nika Knight
Brilliant comic, part of the Seeing Wetiko series, from The Rules.
Christina Tran
The series documents Rob Greenfield's off the grid bike ride across America on a bamboo bicycle where he practiced sustainable living to the extreme. In 4,700 miles of cycling he used just 160 gallons of water, burned less than one gallon of gas, never turned on a light...
25 min
It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals. I am sketching out here opinions based on information, they may prove right, or may prove wrong, and they’re intended just to challenge and be part of a wider...
Tobias Stone
How to Be There for the People who Need you Most.
2 min
When you shrink the United States' population down to 100 people this is what you get. The United States has over 2,000,000 prisoners. Who are they? What are they in for?
3 min
Cynicism and despair are among democracy’s worst enemies.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
Dear fellow JillB4 Hill folks and Berniecrats, a part of me really does not want to expend energy posting to all my center-left groups about the necessity of preventing Trump from winning the election. The necessary historical context in which to look at how detrimental a...
Monday morning saw Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former DNC chair, booed offstage at the Florida Democratic Delegation Breakfast; while it was transpiring, MSNBC's caption read that she was being cheered. A concise example of establishment media trying to force a positive...
I am Black. I capitalize Black and leave white lowercased. Sure, it’s the accepted spelling, but really I do it because it feels good. My family lived in Missouri, but my mother crossed state lines to birth me in Kansas. Missouri was a slave state. Kansas was free, and she...
R.L. Stephens
Bringing together the inner and outer aspects of transformation may be the revolution of our times
Kavita Byrd
It's The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam
I hope all of my teachers see this. - Prince EA
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Psychedelic drugs could be the key to making you happier and healthier. So why won't we research them?
5 min
"Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy [...] the greatest and most savage slavery out of the extreme of freedom." Plato's The Republic.
A personal project filmed and edited at the 2016 Republic National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and...
3 min
The beautiful and mind-bending illusions in Canadian artist Robert Gonsalves’ paintings have a fun way of twisting your perception and causing you to question what in his paintings, if anything, is real.
Most of his stunning paintings have an unclear boundary between the...
Dovas
Supergroup Prophets of Rage descended upon Cleveland during the Republican National Convention to givea voice to those not represented in the political process.
5 min
If you had to flee your country, what’s the one piece of technology you would take with you?
3 min
This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
3 min
'When it comes to climate change, there’s precious little time for lesser evils; the physics—as scientists are quick to tell us—has put humanity on a deadline.' - Kate Aronoff
Jon Queally
In 1987, the United States Senate passed a resolution which acknowledged the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the resolution acknowledged the historical debt which the United States owes to...
Ojibwa
This is something everyone can do to take some of the power from the present system and put it into the people's hands. Find a bank near you: blackoutcoalition.org/black-u-s-banks/
3 min
Alan Watts discusses choice and the thoughts process behind it. Our choices are fundamentally what shape our character, and more importantly our life as a whole.
3 min
If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery
Sara Burrows
Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine for VP may trigger the sea change progressives have been dreaming of and working towards for decades. Please hear me out.
What does the meat industry do to people’s mental health?
Andy West
Both inner and outer change are essential for political transformation.
Michael Edwards
Nominating a political clone like Sen. Tim Kaine is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want a higher turnout
John Atcheson
On #BlackLivesMatter, moral injury and activism
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
We all know it sucks to be lonely, but is it actually essential for our survival? Here's more on why loneliness might be a good thing.
4 min
They say things have to get worse before they get better. Well, here's our inflection point, if we seize it.
6 min
All over the world there is a feeling that something is deeply wrong. It is often felt more than seen, an unnamed darkness that keeps millions (even billions) of people disconnected from the reality of authentic life-affirming experience. Too many of our so-called leaders are...
Joe Brewer
Once again we find ourselves confronting the murder of another black man at the hands of police. The video showing Michael Slager fire eight times at a fleeing Walter Scott is irrefutable evidence of the police brutality that people of color fear. As with Trayvon Martin...
Ijeoma Oluo
Intellectually lazy. Willfully ignorant. Blinded by privilege. Drunk with prejudice. These are some of the words that come to mind when I think of the 30 percent of Americans in 2016 who agree “our country has made the changes needed to give blacks equal rights to whites.”...
Anthony DiMaggio
It may seem hard, but it's not impossible.
6 min
A stirring speech by the legendary cosmologist Carl Sagan, on the evolution of human consciousness. Decades old but still highly applicable today.
"More of us flee from war, oppression and famine today, than at any other time in human history, and the world impoverishes...
4 min
Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
13 min
Alex Jones and Roger Stone interrupted The Young Turks live coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
4 min
A social justice group that invites white people to fight racism is spreading like wildfire in the US. From 12 to 150 chapters in two years. Clearly a whole lot of white people are interested in fighting systemic injustice. But how? This week's guests have dedicated their...
22 min
What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the Republican National Convention.
Laurie Penny
No matter who we vote for or who gets elected, the revolution must continue. These films remind us why.
Charles Eisenstein is one of the first people I heard talk about the "new story," synthesizing a diverse movement that has been emerging for the last several decades. When I go back far enough, I first heard about these ideas from reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn when I was...
Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit or thought-form driven by greed, excess and selfish consumption. It deludes it host into believing that consuming the life force of others for self-aggrandizement or profit is a logical and morally upright way to live.
4 min
Dear Democrats,
unknown Redditor
Street artist MissMe, the Artful Vandal, offers a very personal, very intimate take on the many little hits that broke her and on how she recovered from the one big blow to re-make herself and become the powerhouse that she is today.
15 min
Michelle Alexander posits that mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system in the United States. After the Civil Rights Movement, a “wave of punitive” legislation swept across the nation, targeting Black and Brown communities.
24 min
Sagan's ability to convey his ideas allowed many people to understand the cosmos better—simultaneously emphasizing the value and worthiness of the human race, and the relative insignificance of the Earth in comparison to the Universe. He hosted and, with Ann Druyan, co-wrote...
4 min
A group of people in Lithuania were invited to an audition and while they were waiting they were secretly filmed as they were asked to translate a racist message someone had received in Lithuanian. Their responses are pained and uncomfortable but show support and solidarity...
5 min
Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States.
96 min
A spoken word film about enjoying nature and spending more time outdoors. Our environment and our climate is what keep us alive. If we look after our planet, it will look after us in return. Written, Performed & Directed by Gary Turk.
3 min
One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control. - Vandana Shiva
Yavor Tarinski
Black Lives Matter is a powerful and influential movement for justice and empathy. Because the movement is challenging systems of racial oppression in the United States, there are a lot of negative reactions and social media misinformation about it.
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How many more disaffected black men have to self-radicalize before we take their claims seriously?
Tavis Smiley
When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
Sarah van Gelder
Shefali Tsabary's latest book argues that parents need to focus more on themselves and less on their children.
Diana Divecha
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi
Around the time of President Obama's first inauguration, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some towns were getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest communities in the USA — and moved in.
5 min
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer
A video about animals embodying once thought human exclusive emotions like love, grief, happiness, joy and anger. We grant them way too little in their capacity to feel. This video nicely refutes and challenges common misconceptions that humans are unique in their diversity...
2 min
Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting early on Sunday, July 17 in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.
Frank Rudy Cooper
In this time of unprecedented global change, we need to be rooted in reality more than ever. Yet it is quite clear — by simply tracking all the ways people make an exodus from “the real” on a daily basis — that we are not doing this individually or as a collective...
Joe Brewer
For half a century, Stokely Carmichael's slogan "Black Power" has resonated in the fight against anti-Black racism and oppression in the U.S.
teleSUR
Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen...
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The attempted coup against Turkish President Erdoğan might have failed, but plenty of problems still await him.
3 min
Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?
3 min
Cleveland, the second poorest city in the US is set to hold the 2016 Republican convention. Since the housing crisis, the city has lost 17% of its residents, many due to predatory practices. Community organizers point out that Donald Trump advocated some of the practices that...
3 min
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
2 min
We All Love Animals is a short little video about our love towards animals being contradicted by our daily actions.
3 min
In part 1, we learn why Tyrion Lannister has a knack for staying alive. He is constantly getting into trouble and talking his way out. But Tyrion's genius is replicable if you learn how he thinks. And one of the first things he thinks of is what other people want. That is how...
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He did promise he would, so that helps to explain some of the anger and disappointment with his endorsement.
Flugennock chronicles the art and activism of political cartoonist Mike Flugennock. Flugennock's comics have circulated for more than thirty years. Based in Washington D.C.,Flugennock's marijuana fueled posters have promoted smoke ins, marijuana legalization, protests...
20 min
NEVOAZUL is a magazine about less and more where minimalism, consumerism and sustainability merge with art, literature and culture. Together we can open a debate about how social responsability, sustainable behavior and ethical fashion could make a difference in our future.
Today must begin a #RevolutionaryLove
David Eric Larson
He's playing the long game. If Sanders had gone third party, split the votes and then Trump got elected, it would have divided the left and set back the momentum and gains the Sanders/progressive movement has made another 10 years. The center of America would blame the...
On Structural Racism and Daily Inaction
Garrett Bucks
‘Economics is for everyone’, argues legendary economist Ha-Joon Chang in our latest mind-blowing RSA Animate. This is the video economists don’t want you to see! Chang explains why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics. He pulls back the...
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There's been quite a lot of anger, disappointment and attention on Bernie's decision to endorse Clinton the last couple weeks. But I've started to believe this attention on Bernie has become a big distraction from the fact that the work was always going to be up to us. The...
A just society has fair laws. But most societies aren't like that. So what can you do? The opponent of slavery, Henry David Thoreau, gave one answer in his essay 'On Civil Disobedience': follow your conscience and break the law on moral grounds rather than be a cog in an...
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What’s your blueprint for a just society? Your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in. If you’re rich, you may well be in favour of the freedom to earn and enjoy the fruits of your efforts; if you’re poor you’re likely to be more...
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We are so busy and so obsessed with our phones, we rarely take a break to do that vital and rather philosophical thing: stare out of the window.
2 min
A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. The professor’s response is priceless.
Social Design Notes
No one wants to be called fragile. And if you’re white, what you feel reading the title of this article may be indicative of the term. “White fragility” refers to white people’s low emotional tolerance for discussing topics of race and racism.
Katherine Kirkinis and Sarah Birdsong
In 1991, when video was released of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, Alton Sterling of Louisiana was 12 years old. Philando Castile of Minnesota was seven.
Sarah Kendzior
I keep thinking since the horrific police assassinations in Dallas that we’ve been here before. It’s not that so many police officers have been summarily executed. It’s that a palpable tension still exists between police and black people in our country, despite the efforts of...
David C. Couper
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.
Ronan Burtenshaw with Paul Mason
If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.
17 min
Powerful footage, filmed by a refugee, shows the terror of being on an overcrowded rubber dinghy as it sinks during the crossing between Turkey and Greece. Thousands of people have died trying to make the same journey.
6 min
Bill Nye is feeling down. He's visiting his therapist – Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger – wondering why he doesn't feel like himself lately. He feels as if a horrible weight is on his shoulders. The therapist listens sympathetically, and diagnoses the cause. Bill is suffering from...
43 min
In the aftermath of the Leave vote, people will need to find ways to calmly hear each other and bridge divides. Ultimately, we will need to unite against the corporate forces that undermine our wellbeing, not against immigrants who are victims as well.
Kristen Steele
If you're not worried about the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the Snoopers' Charter), you don't know enough about it. Visit Privacy International and join the campaign against new Government snooping powers.
2 min
Every year, supermarkets in the UK throw away an estimated 40million tonnes of perfectly edible food, often for perplexing reasons. FareShare is a charity that diverts some of this waste, redistributing it to organisations that work with vulnerable people.
27 min