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Abby Martin talks to Sophia Wallace, artist and founder of the 'Clieteracy Project', about her work in exploring the taboos and misconceptions about the clitoris, and using the term as a symbol of freedom, sovereignty and sexual equality.
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Bali is a little island with a big problem - it's drowning in trash. In this short film, host & pro-surfer, Kyle Thiermann, shows the good, the bad, and the ugly of Indonesia and what we can do to restore it to the pristine, tropical paradise it once was.
13 min
Abby Martin breaks down the hypocrisy of the GOP pushing to defund food stamps by separating the program from the congressional farm bill, all the while accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from the federal government in the form of subsidies for their private farms.
3 min
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan presents case studies that mirror four types of human desires that are reflected in the way that we selectively grow, breed, and genetically engineer our...
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Into the Fire is being crowd-released: All over the internet people are embedding Into the Fire on their website or blog. With everyone who participates the audience and distribution network will grow. Are you participating?
38 min
This video exposes the privatizers and profiteers selling out our democracy.
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The map, as an innovation, is extremely important. Simply constructing a useful representation of our world onto a piece of paper (or clay or vellum or whatever) vastly increased the capabilities of humankind. But we continue to add and alter this medium, in ways that allow...
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What makes a great photograph great?
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In a surprisingly low-key interview, Richard Clarke, former White House Counterterror "Tsar" to Presidents Clinton and Bush, goes on record about what he believes happened at the CIA in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, accusing then-CIA Director George Tenet and two of his...
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A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American econom
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Where do you draw the line?
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Peak Moment 200: "Is the world a better place because you were born?" asks author Derrick Jensen. He contrasts sustainable indigenous cultures, who enrich their habitat, with the current "dominant culture destroying everything." He explores how industrial civilization is...
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Bill Maher looked at just how much utter disturbing unhinged hatred there is in this country.
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Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the...
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Guy Debord's classic 1967 text, remade into a contemporary context, with all sorts of visual remixing in the grand spirit of 'the spectacle.' Also includes Marshall McLuhan and John Berger.
18 min
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.
In this film produced by John de Graaf of AFFLUENZA fame, ecological economist Dave Batker presents a humorous, edgy, factual, timely...
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AFFLUENZA diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the environment. We have more stuff, but less time, and our quality of life seems to be...
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On September 21st, we will draw the line to protect our communities from climate change and show President Obama that there is no turning back -- to keep his climate promises, he has to stop Keystone XL and the tar sands.
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In the 1970s, a strange psychological phenomenon was identified: in traumatic abduction situations, a certain percentage of the population is prone to falling in love with their abductors. But if we are living in a societal prison of the mind, then are there those who have fa
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When our economy is based on, y'know, stuff ... and stuff is made out of, y'know, stuff we get from the Earth ... how exactly do we think this is going to end?
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The Afghan war has provided NATO with access to control the $200+ Billion opium trade. The war has given NATO a key toe-hold in a geostrategic region, bordering perennial US target Iran as well as providing access to the key Central Asian nations- a vital area in NATO’s...
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Sacred Spirit of Water speaks to how we will be impacted by the Canadian government's omnibus bills that eliminate protection for 99% of Canada's lakes and rivers and the Alberta government's potential plan to set up a provincial water market.
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Dokri and her Kondh community live in the remote hill range of Niyamgiri in the state of Odisha. India’s indigenous people know as Adivasi, or first people, have lived in these forested areas for hundreds of years.
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John Stewart ripped CNN apart on Tuesday night's Daily Show for it's appalling coverage of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting - specifically for drawing speculative conclusions in the absence of concrete facts.
Just mute the ad at the beginning. It is Comedy Central's video...
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Abby Martin pays a personal tribute to Occupy, remarking on how the movement isn't dead, because shifting the public consciousness is not something that ever goes away.
4 min
Abby Martin remarks on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, highlighting a recent Reuters poll showing that only 15% of Americans are satisfied with the government's effort to prosecute Wall Street bankers, and speaks with former Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis...
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Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
75 min
Indigenous communities around the world resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment. In this four-part documentary series, native people share ecological wisdom and spiritual...
2 min
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Occupy movement, two video activists, have released a 10 minute short film providing perhaps the most detailed civilian account to date of the NYPD’s process of crowd dispersion during mass mobilizations. The video, shot on...
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What happened on September 11, 2001? All over the world, people question the official story and explanation about the events that took place in the USA more than 10 years ago.
22 min
Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of the...
13 min
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
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This is a great example of a local business interacting with their local ecology to create something that improves the lives of everyone it touches. I hope it inspires others to use their gifts in ways to uplift society.
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In a world where violence and deception are the news, fear and distrust divide us more and more each day. Yet friendships are sealed online with the click of a button. One man set out to reach beyond the screen, and to prove how social networks can be used to unite and...
2 min
What would you do in this situation?
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5 years after the financial crisis, Wall Street grows bigger than ever. What's worse, it continues to hurt everyday Americans in ways that most of us aren't even aware of. This video summarizes 3 ways that happens.
3 min
It might be on a tacky TV show, but ignore the studio, focus on the performance and you will be rewarded with a captivating display of poise, grace and beauty with a finale that's a wonderful metaphor for the delicate balance in the natural world.
7 min
Robert Anton Wilson has some strong words to share about Belief Systems.
2 min
President Obama needs your help starting World War III! Find out how you can help!
4 min
Produced by Chipotle and created by the Academy Award–winning Moonbot Studios - this masterfully animated film feels like more than an implicitly subversive attack on big agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Tyson and Monsanto.
3 min
Noah, a short film that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, illustrates the flitting attention span and lack of true connection in digital culture more clearly than anything else in recent memory. (Warning: NSFW)
17 min
If you spend most of your day inside, this is for you!
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Abby Martin remarks on how the American political and media establishment has marginalized those who question the US government's official narrative on the events of 9/11.
3 min
"Whitewashed" is a documentary film that explores racism and what it means to be white in the United States.
34 min
"Wrong, Blasphemous and Sinful" is the English version of the Belgian film "Epouvantails, autruches et perroquets." The film analyzes the way the media managed to skip or distort controversial subjects surrounding the 9/11 attacks. The original film in French appeared on the...
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Black 9/11 names the identities of several 9/11 suspects that should be investigated if a criminal trial were ever to be conducted.
39 min
When our daughters or young women look at the screen they don't see a reflection of themselves
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Abby Martin draws attention to five corporations that are profiting from the constant fear mongering that keeps the US at war and has resulted in the slow erosion of Americans' civil liberties.
5 min
Circumcision: The Whole story - is an informational video about the culture of circumcision. It explores the historical origins, the physical function of the foreskin, and commonly believed myths and scientific truths.
20 min
Coming this Fall of 2013 -- A Winner of the 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival, the film examines the academic community's treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government's narrative from scholarly examination.
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What a beautiful, inspiring story. Photographer Richard Renaldi takes two random strangers on the street and has them pose together in a photograph as if they were intimate family members. Almost
2 min
The Internet Must Go is a video mockumentary which follows the character John Wooley, a market researcher who tries to come up with a plan for how internet service providers can try to market what internet access would look like without network neutrality protections.
The...
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If you don't know what ALEC is, please watch this. If you do, watch it anyway. And then let's all get together and do something about it. United, we stand. Divided, ALEC wins. - Melinda Clark
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Directors Tom Simon and Sarah Teale (HBOs Dealing Dogs) tell the story of an animal rights investigator who goes undercover at a hog farm in Ohio to explore a whistle blower's allegations. The evidence he gathers leads to a rare prosecution and trial for animal cruelty, and a...
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After watching this video, I just wanted to make the most of my free time. I also wanted some candy, so we will call that a 2 for 1. - Rafael Casal
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This is a tale of two worlds: The first exploring the current trends that just may lead us all into vast new levels of decline; The second showing what the world could be...if anyone actually gave a damn to make it happen. ;)
32 min
Emerging from the echoes and end-game of a dualistic ego-driven world, we find ourselves once again with the opportunity to reflect on the past and change our planetary future into a whole new positive, conscious and peaceful paradigm.
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of...
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THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to...
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When you've got giant energy companies this scared, you must be doing something right. At 3:38, I snorted. Just sayin'. And at 4:43, he explains brilliantly what's in it for you. - Adam Mordecai
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Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.
10 min
Line In the Sand is an independent documentary about the ongoing resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil through the U.S. with the risk of damaging land and health. We're drawing a line in the sand through film to say "no" to...
15 min
A hard-hitting, fact-filled, humorous look at U.S. warmongering.
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Throwing conventional environmental wisdom on its head, Ben Falk doesn't want to reduce his impact on the land. He wants to increase it as much as possible. We couldn't agree more.
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In this clip from the film "War Made Easy", some of television's most prominent journalists admit that their organizations were not skeptical enough in their reporting during the lead up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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A global movement is coming together to challenge the fossil fuel industry in a fight for the planet and our future here.
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Guruju Sri Vast argues that it's our concept of family that leads to so much conflict and suffering in the world. "By only seeing those inside your house as your family, naturally, you must take from those outside of your house to take care of those inside of your house."...
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Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts - a man far ahead of his time.
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Be a man. Stop being such a fag. Grow a pair. You're such a girl. Man up.
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The Assange Agenda is a documentary about how surveillance by governments and corporations is disrupting democracy and how Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others attempt to turn back the clock on the erosion of civil liberties and individual...
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The Military-Industrial-Complex owns this country. It owns this president. And it will own our future, unless we rise up to stop it. Watch this to get yourself psyched up.
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Those pesky earthquakes that happen near fracking rigs? Just natural side effects, folks. Nothing to see here... Read about frackquakes at http://bit.ly/frackingquake
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There are some things in our society.. and some things in our world.. which I am proud to be maladjusted" -Martin Luther King Jr. Mankind's increasing capability is at great contrast with the global state of disparity. We've reached unprecedented levels of technological...
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All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are calling it a mass extinction event.
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I wish my teachers had shown me documentaries like this when I was in school.
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"Elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state." - Thomas Ferguson
This is a clip from Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). It is possibly the definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics.
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Filter-free news & resistance updates via the Stimulator.* This week:
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Different war. Same principles of justice. You can bet that on the 50th year anniversary of MLK Jr.'s "I have a dream speech," while the US is poised to launch yet another war, this time in Syria, King would echo the same words as he does here.
Today, these words are even...
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We can honor MLK Jr. by pursuing the causes he was advocating for before he was killed.
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Disney Princesses believe in equal pay for all humans (and mermaids).
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"The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today" is a Peabody Award-winning documentary by Jay Rosenstein that tells the compelling personal story of Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten-year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases...
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This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a...
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The sheer awesomeness is just a little unbelievable. Only in the internet age could we ever expect to see a man the United States would like to have hung from the gallows singing... well.. just watch.
Thank you, Rap News, for this little moment of humor amongst the...
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This video is so simple, but the impression it left on me, looking into the eyes of this being left an indelible impression on me.
What you are seeing is from the state of Pará, Brazil, where animals await their fates fearing any human approach. In Brazil, an ox is killed...
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The first thing you notice about Sarnia, Ontario, is the smell: a potent mix of gasoline, melting asphalt, and the occasional trace of rotten egg. Shortly after my arrival I already felt unpleasantly high and dizzy, like I wasn't getting enough air. Maybe this had something...
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If you know of something better please tell us in the comments, because this is both brilliant and politically biting. Naturally, all credit for this bit of political theater goes to Banksy.
Also, yes this installation is from 2010 (created for
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A documentary, a research project, a story of stories about the construction of a sustainable, solidary and decentralized economy. Weaving nets that overcome the individualization and the hierarchical division of work. Thousands of people every day all over the world. Here...
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Gorgeous cinematography without words, very reminiscent of Baraka or Samsara. The film-maker's summary is below. - Films For Action
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Ashton Kutcher just told a bunch of screaming kids how to be sexy, in the smartest way possible.
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Abby Martin talks in depth about the curious case of Barrett Brown, the hacktivist/journalist who is facing 105 years in prison for posting a link.
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What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?
Quoting the words of Sherry Turkle from her TED talk - Connected, But Alone.
(ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html)
Also Based on Dr. Yair Amichai-Hamburgers hebrew article -The Invention of...
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Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
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THE SPARK is a documentary about a genius technologist and a rebel educator, two pioneers from opposite spectrums with one goal in common: Build a sustainable community. Can two men driven by determination overcome global challenges to change the world?
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Can you put this video into words? It's a clip from the phenomenal documentary Samsara, directed by Ron Fricke, who also made Baraka.
If you're interested in watching Samsara, you can
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Abby Martin calls out MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, for promoting the notion that violence is rooted in conspiracy theories, while disregarding the importance of questioning official government narratives.
6 min
The superb documentary War/Dance reveals the redemptive power of music, even in the most horrific places. Focusing on three children in their early teens in war-torn Uganda–stoic Nancy, driven Dominic, and soft-spoken Rose–War/Dance tracks the efforts of the school of a...
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As our troops in Afghanistan prepare to come home, more and more British soldiers are haunted by the trauma of over a decade of war. This Panorama special investigates the true personal cost which, until now, has remained largely hidden. The Ministry of Defence only releases...
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A debut short film about the transition of a woman from being a follower of others to a follower of her own authentic voice. Inspired by the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
You can visit NeoTribalist Films
on Facebook here: facebook.com/NeoTribalistFilms
on the web here...
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