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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.
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.
The Stimulator interviews Kristian Williams author of "Our Enemies in Blue" http://kristianwilliams.com/
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
“Without doubt it is the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” – Tom Secker [spyculture.com]
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."
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...
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!
If Trump weren't so dangerously close to being the next president, his campaign would be hilarious.
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...
The Australian Government released this advert today about Census Day (August 9), and its surprisingly helpful and informative.
John Oliver covers the Democratic convention and the unconventional state of our democracy.
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.
Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income.
The problems with 'winner take all' or 'first pass the post' voting, explained via the animal kingdom.
Official video for Ahmed by Lowkey ft. Mai Khalil contains devastating truths about war, migration and the underlying systemic issues that surround them.
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...
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...
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...
How to Be There for the People who Need you Most.
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?
I hope all of my teachers see this. - Prince EA
Psychedelic drugs could be the key to making you happier and healthier. So why won't we research them?
"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...
Supergroup Prophets of Rage descended upon Cleveland during the Republican National Convention to givea voice to those not represented in the political process.
If you had to flee your country, what’s the one piece of technology you would take with you?
This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
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/
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.
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.
They say things have to get worse before they get better. Well, here's our inflection point, if we seize it.
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...
Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
Alex Jones and Roger Stone interrupted The Young Turks live coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
The attempted coup against Turkish President Erdoğan might have failed, but plenty of problems still await him.
Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?
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...
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
We All Love Animals is a short little video about our love towards animals being contradicted by our daily actions.
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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.
If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.
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.
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