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Focusing on media activism, it is quite easy to get swept up in promoting a thousand different messages, leaving me sometimes feeling like I've gotten off track with my core message and purpose.
Tim Hjersted
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The invasion of Iraq was supposed to turn the country into a democracy that posed no threat to the United States, or the rest of the world. Thirteen years later, Iraq has collapsed into three warring states. A third of the country is controlled by ISIS, who have also taken...
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Finding and connecting with your soul tribe is more important than ever—not just for connection but also to thrive in our modern society
Al Jeffery
Let’s say you’ve found a new sense of awareness or elevated consciousness — suddenly you feel connected to the beauty of the world, you understand yourself better, and you’re filled with a drive to become better, to nurture yourself and the world around you.
Marc Angelo Coppola
The word fascism has reappeared in the American popular lexicon thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The word is used to keep progressive Democrats in a state of fear should he win, but its existence in this country right now is rarely discussed.
Margaret Kimberley
The fraternity of the woke is growing larger by the day, but can anyone get in? Who polices the woke, and why aren’t we checking IDs?
Lawrence Ware
Let’s jump off the train and build a boat.
Tim Bennet
In light of the precarious position many progressives find themselves in because they are weighing a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, this needs to be said: Voting is important, but in a democracy, our vote is not our voice.
Lawrence Ware
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When one of the kids at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in West Baltimore acts out, chances are she'll be sent not to the principal's office but to the Mindful Moment room, a soothing space with comfy cushions and beanbags, lit by glowing pink Himalayan salt lamps. It's...
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In China, a sheltered internet has given rise to a new breed of app, and American companies are taking notice. What was once known as the land of cheap rip-offs may now offer a glimpse at the future.
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Auto lenders can steer vulnerable people into crushing debt. Keegan-Michael Key and Bob Balaban help John Oliver show exactly how.
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Could the root cause of addiction actually be a lack of connection.
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Take 60 seconds to learn about one Māori tribe's struggle to reclaim their ancestral land from the government. In New Zealand, division of land between #Māori and European settlers is a complicated issue.
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We asked people diagnosed with Alzheimer's to tell us memories they never want to forget.
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![[un]Documented - The People Who Are Documented in Your Everyday Life](/img/wide/ef84815a-2031-4eea-aaaf-480fb432521a.jpg)
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"You call me indocumentada, but joke's on you!"
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Ever heard the term "compassionate bigotry"? Learn what it is in this powerful talk, featuring Tai Amri Spann-Wilson and Caleb Stephens at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lawrence, Kansas - August 7th 2016. Part 2 is the poem "Healing" by Adam Lawrence Dyer, spoken...
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Rob Greenfield has a simple idea… that people are good and the world is a good place. So he decided to put his idea to the ultimate test by flying one way to a far off place with no money, no credit card, no cellphone, not even a toothbrush. Just the clothes on his back and...
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Why we need to move empathy from personal emotion to collective moral concern -- Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s...
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It isn’t macabre or nihilistic to think of death. It’s the start of a proper, braver engagement with the possibilities of life.
"For centuries, artists produced ‘memento mori’, works of art that would remind their viewers of death and usually featured a skull or an...
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College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites...
Chris Hedges
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Among the many terrible features of the Trans Pacific Partnership, twelve countries are crafting something that would give corporations unprecedented power: a secret court for capitalist enterprises to sue any country that infringes on profits. As it stands, with investment...
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Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gallery and garden. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, this is home: a labor of love 24 years in the making.
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From Shakti Butler, the director of The Way Home: Women Talk About Race in America and Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible , comes a new film that asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity.
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"Democracy needs a moral compass," said Green Party nominee Jill Stein. "We must be that moral compass."
Lauren McCauley
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Jaureguiberry's elementary school is giving kids in Uruguay a first-hand look at environmental sustainability. The school was built with recycled materials, and students grow indoor and outdoor edible gardens.
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Do you suffer from loneliness? Feel isolated and distant from other people? Do you long for connection? Strive and hope to be noticed? To be loved? To be heard? To be touched? To be seen?
Well you are not alone. Or perhaps I should say, your feeling of being alone is widely...
Joe Brewer
How can a traffic offense get you a ticket to prison?
David C. Couper
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The Stimulator interviews Kristian Williams author of "Our Enemies in Blue" http://kristianwilliams.com/
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This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racist policing of borders. Ash Sarkar reports on the #ShutDown
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The Economic Enigma of Money vs Life: [A Social Value Disorder]
I received the following comment from a police officer in Sweden after my recent post “Using Force: A Reflection and Some Suggestions for Police.” I think these comments bear publishing here as a post.
David C. Couper
In the vast emptiness of space there are an unimaginable number of galaxies, each galaxy containing billions upon billions of stars. Looking at one galaxy we find an average star that hosts eight unassuming planets – four gas orbs, and four rock orbs. But one of these planets...
Rua Lupa
Colonial feminism is based on the appropriation of women’s rights in the service of empire and has been widely utilised in justifying aggression in the Middle East. But is it liberal?
Deepa Kumar
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“Without doubt it is the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” – Tom Secker [spyculture.com]
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What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance.
George Monbiot
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This incredible story has a lot to teach us about how we can be more effective agents for creating positive change in the world, and in involves the idea of "non-complementary behavior."
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Raull Santiago is a human rights defender from Rio de Janeiro. In March 2014, he co-founded the collective Papo Reto (Straight Talk), a group of citizen journalists documenting life in the Complexo do Alemão favela. The intention of the group is to draw attention to what is...
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The criminalization of poverty is a global phenomenon of mistreatment and prejudice faced by the poorest members of society due to their economic circumstances, often influenced by and perpetuating racism and other forms of discrimination. It can manifest itself in various...
Alex Besser, Alix Vadot, Ava Rose Hoffman, Eli Nemzer and Nashwa Al-sharki,
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about meditation. In fact, says Karen Maezen Miller, that’s pretty much all that meditation is — the process of seeing how much you’ve misunderstood meditation and everything else.
Karen Maezen Miller
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We express ourselves in the choices we make every single day, so why not express your thoughts on issues that matter to you by voting? Let your voice be heard! Vote this November!
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The editorial staff of Othering & Belonging: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern,
Daisy Rockwell
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If Trump weren't so dangerously close to being the next president, his campaign would be hilarious.
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As an Indigenous woman who organizes in the hopes that both Black and Brown people might know greater freedom, safety and self determination, I am no fan of electoral politics.
Kelly Hayes
for a working class orientation at the heart of white anti-racist organizing
Chris Crass
Regardless of the outcome of November’s U.S. elections, what will count most is what happens in the streets. As Frederick Douglass put it plainly a century and a half ago, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did...
Pete Dolack
Pope Francis argues that modern economy's worship of 'god of money' leads to disenfranchisement and extremism
Nika Knight
Hillary Clinton will trounce the self-destructive Donald J. Trump, but the neo-liberals secure total victory if the Sanders movement falls away
RoseAnn DeMoro
The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and...
SPLC
A man is offering kids a shoulder to cry on.
Elyse Wanshel
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The real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life: Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian boy who ran away from home to join the army. Najah Aboud was a 19-year old Iraqi who had been conscripted to fight in the war, leaving behind his wife and son. Both...
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The Australian Government released this advert today about Census Day (August 9), and its surprisingly helpful and informative.
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28 Stunning Photos Of The World’s Largest Cave
Kid Krunk
The Presidential election is not a radical nor revolutionary litmus test so let’s stop making it one.
Nelini Stamp
I spent about nine months in an isolated cell behind a one-way mirror. It was cruel, degrading and inhumane
Chelsea E Manning
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John Oliver covers the Democratic convention and the unconventional state of our democracy.
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On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the Move compound, killing 11 people, including five children, and destroying an entire neighborhood. The countercultural group lived communally and had a history of violent encounters with police.
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I went backstage at the biggest political show on earth- and found America telling stories about itself
Laurie Penny
This is the incredible list of links compiled by redditor marisam7 on r/EnoughTrumpSpam maks the case that Donal Trump is indeed a fascist
marisam7
My favorite definition of privilege is 'thinking something's not a problem because it's not a problem to you.'
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Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income.
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Fresh strike took place in same area where US is said to have killed scores in airstrikes last week
Andrea Germanos
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The problems with 'winner take all' or 'first pass the post' voting, explained via the animal kingdom.
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This does not preclude voting for third parties at the local and state levels, which is where third party power needs to grow before a presidential campaign could win.
gblues
Something strange happened on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.
Katherine Krueger
The insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign was a big step forward in building the progressive populist political alignment we need. We have to figure out how to keep building after this election cycle. But first we must mobilize to defeat hate, bigotry, and the growing threat of...
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
An argument for collective expression.
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Official video for Ahmed by Lowkey ft. Mai Khalil contains devastating truths about war, migration and the underlying systemic issues that surround them.
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Can voter identification, registration, and protection efforts help not only defeat Trump, but build a mass movement for democratic socialism?
Jesse A. Myerson
Luz Sosa came to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as a disappointed Bernie Sanders delegate. But she is leaving fired up to take on big political fights in her home town of Milwaukee.
Isaiah Poole
As wildfire rages in California, flooding affects millions in India and China, and eggs are fried on sidewalks in Iraq, scientists say global climate catastrophe is surpassing predictions
Nika Knight
Both Trump and Clinton are scary bad news. There's plenty of time to make a decision. You don't have to answer to anyone when you make it. Whichever decision you make, make it part of a long-term plan.
Michael J. Dumas
It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."
Jeff Cohen and Salim Kujitawala
Four ways to make it through trying times with an open heart
Pema Chodron
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
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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...
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The illusion of power IS a kind of real power. There is a lesson in this for the majority of humanity.
Joe Brewer
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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...
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Emails appear to violate White House policy
Nika Knight
Brilliant comic, part of the Seeing Wetiko series, from The Rules.
Christina Tran
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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...
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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
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How to Be There for the People who Need you Most.
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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?
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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
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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?
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"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...
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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
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Supergroup Prophets of Rage descended upon Cleveland during the Republican National Convention to givea voice to those not represented in the political process.
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If you had to flee your country, what’s the one piece of technology you would take with you?
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This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
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