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The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed | Robert Reich 5 min
The GOP’s Attack on LGBTQ Americans, Revealed | Robert Reich
Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country. They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.
Robert Reich
Are You Paid What You’re Worth? | Robert Reich 5 min
Are You Paid What You’re Worth? | Robert Reich
The idea that everyone is "paid what they're worth" has proven to be a cruelly effective way to put the blame on workers for not getting ahead — while giving the rich and powerful cover to rig the game for their own benefit. Don't buy it.
Robert Reich
Water Has a Memory 12 min
Water Has a Memory
Matriarch and Environmental Ambassador for the Ponca Nation, Casey Camp-Horinek takes us through the occupied territory of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Through the ancestral teachings of her Ponca culture, Casey has been protecting the Water, Mother Earth and Father Sky through the...
LUSH
CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method 68 min
CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method
Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA mass murder in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against socialists and accused leftists in 22 countries during the Cold War.
Empire Files
Reconsidering Reparations | Olufemi O. Taiwo 60 min
Reconsidering Reparations | Olufemi O. Taiwo
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project—either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present, or they focus on the...
Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics Harvard
Why You Should Be Kind To Everyone | Daryl Davis 7 min
Why You Should Be Kind To Everyone | Daryl Davis
One person’s kindness has the power to change the world. Let me prove it. - Daryl Davis   "I’ve been to 57 countries on every continent except Antarctica. I’ve played music in every state except Alaska. I’ve gotten
Daryl Davis
What Is (and Is Not) Anti-Fascism? 112 min
What Is (and Is Not) Anti-Fascism?
Anti-fascist activity has existed for about one hundred years. Yet, many people, particularly in the United States, have little to no idea about what it really is.
Leon Thomas
The Video That Got Me Fired: Israel Is An Apartheid State 13 min
The Video That Got Me Fired: Israel Is An Apartheid State
Here's the video that got me censored, fired, and canceled by Next Star media, which owns The Hill and Rising, a show I've been a weekly contributor to for three years. Thanks to Breakthrough News for making this video with me and actually being an independent and uncensored...
Katie Halper
It’s Not Enough To Be Anti-Racist, We Also Need To Be Pro Human | Daryl Davis 5 min
It’s Not Enough To Be Anti-Racist, We Also Need To Be Pro Human | Daryl Davis
How do we solve a problem like racism? Can simply being against racism bring about its destruction? No. To end hatred, we must know what we want to put in its place. In 1990 I met Roger Kelly, a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Since I was a child I had a question: “how can...
Fair For All
The US Government Prioritizes War Over People 7 min
The US Government Prioritizes War Over People
Hurricane Katrina – which caused around 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage – was predictable and preventable, but the US Government prioritised their so-called War on Terror.
WHILE THE REST OF US DIE
Learn What It Means to Matter 3 min
Learn What It Means to Matter
Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. All lives matter. But what does it actually mean to matter? Find out by enrolling in
What Should We Do About Racist White Americans? | Daryl Davis & Quay Hanna 6 min
What Should We Do About Racist White Americans? | Daryl Davis & Quay Hanna
"What should our society do about people like me? White people from rural America who might be racist? My name is Quay Hanna." "And I’m Daryl Davis. Both Quay and I have dedicated our lives to reaching out to racist white Americans to get them to see the common humanity that...
Daryl Davis & Quay Hanna
Indict Us Too: Daniel Ellsberg & Cryptome's John Young Demand US Drop Charges Against Julian Assange 23 min
Indict Us Too: Daniel Ellsberg & Cryptome's John Young Demand US Drop Charges Against Julian Assange
As supporters of Julian Assange fear his extradition to the United States could be just weeks away, and President Biden faces growing pressure to drop espionage charges against Assange, we are joined for an exclusive joint interview with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel...
Democracy Now!
My Enemy's Letters | Jim Enderle 10 min
My Enemy's Letters | Jim Enderle
During his service in Iraq, Navy Corpsman Jim Enderle had an awakening experience that changed his life. Jim uncovers what it means to be human and how our perceptions prevent us from truly achieving peace.
Jim Enderle
America's Gun Fetish | Chris Hedges 8 min
America's Gun Fetish | Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges explains how guns became such an important part of the American culture.
Chris Hedges
Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? 80 min
Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)
Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first-ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression. His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers...
We need a #HomesGuarantee 3 min
We need a #HomesGuarantee
A national Homes Guarantee is a plan that will ensure every person in the U.S. (or any country) has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. It comes straight from people impacted by the nation's housing crisis and builds from a long tradition of...
People's Action
Occupation Inc. 42 min
Occupation Inc.
A documentary about Spanish involvement in the Moroccan occupation and exploitation of Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, with Sahrawi human rights defenders Elghalia Djimi and Sultana Khaya.
Laura Daudén
Voting, a Patriotic Duty
Voting, a Patriotic Duty
I am a black woman in America. I am a woke black woman who has been woke before woke was cool. I also love America.
Valerie Elverton-Dixon
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons 47 min
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...
Jeremy Earp
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States 85 min
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the...
Sut Jhally
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 80 min
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Sut Jhally
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property 52 min
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...
Media Education Foundation
Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal 50 min
Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the U.S. judicial system. The mainstream media could no longer ignore it, but how would they...
Sut Jhally
Nonviolence Means... a Visionary Poster Series by Campaign Nonviolence & Rosie Davila
Nonviolence Means... a Visionary Poster Series by Campaign Nonviolence & Rosie Davila
In all 50 states and around the world, Campaign Nonviolence has been building a culture of active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. We share skills and tools with which people can practice nonviolence toward themselves, one another...
Campaign Nonviolence, Rosie Davila
We Don’t Need the CIA | The Chris Hedges Report 34 min
We Don’t Need the CIA | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
The Chris Hedges Report
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales 3 min
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (trailer)
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
Honest Government Ad | Visit Brazil 4 min
Honest Government Ad | Visit Brazil
The Brazilian Government has made a tourism ad ahead of the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
thejuicemedia
AWAKE: A Dream From Standing Rock 90 min
AWAKE: A Dream From Standing Rock (2017)
AWAKE tells the dramatic story of the historic #NODAPL native-led peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, which captured the world's attention as one of the biggest stories of 2016.
Myron Dewey
Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger? 19 min
Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?
We're often told just how productive a capitalist economy is. We produce far more than we need...so why are there still so many hungry and malnourished people? In this episode we'll investigate the real cause of world hunger, and assess whether capitalism has the tools to...
Second Thought
Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience 58 min
Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021) ($4)
Psychedelia takes viewers on a journey through the origins and resurgence of psychedelic research, exploring the profound, life-altering effects of these compounds in both the therapeutic setting and the world at large.
Pat Murphy
Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa 14 min
Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa
The Hyde Amendment denies low-income individuals abortion access. Following an abortion helpline in Philadelphia where every phone counselor goes by Lisa, the film gives voice to women and teens affected by the explicitly discriminatory legislation.
Full Film
Honest Government Ad | US Supreme Court 4 min
Honest Government Ad | US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has made an ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
thejuicemedia
Roe v Wade: How The Democrats FAILED Women On Abortion | Katie Halper 10 min
Roe v Wade: How The Democrats FAILED Women On Abortion | Katie Halper
More guns, no abortion: Welcome to Joe Biden’s Liberal America
Katie Halper
Lakota Human Remains Stolen from US Army Massacre Hoarded by Private Museum 20 min
Lakota Human Remains Stolen from US Army Massacre Hoarded by Private Museum
For over 100 years, human remains and sacred artifacts stolen from the bodies at the Wounded Knee Massacre have been locked away, held by a private library in the small town of Barre, Massachusetts.
Empire Files
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America 40 min
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)
To help provide context for America's mass shooting crisis, Video Project is offering the Sundance-award winning documentary Living for 32 for free online streaming (get a classroom or community screening license here). Unfortunately, the issues presented in Living for 32...
Maria Cuomo Cole
The Blue-Gieman & US 60 min
The Blue-Gieman & US (2022) ($5)
The Blue-Gieman & US gives a voice to everyday people seeking answers to systematic racism and police brutality in America. The film presents hard truths, hidden facts, and soul-searching journeys from the catastrophic events of 2020 and before to a new face of healing and...
Drusilla Talley-Williams
The CIA Plot to Kill My Husband Julian Assange | Stella Assange 13 min
The CIA Plot to Kill My Husband Julian Assange | Stella Assange
Julian Assange’s wife on the CIA plot to kill her husband for exposing war crimes & fight to save his life
Double Down News
My Son was Shot Dead with an AR-15 in School. I Warned Biden about Texas Shooting - He Didn’t Listen 10 min
My Son was Shot Dead with an AR-15 in School. I Warned Biden about Texas Shooting - He Didn’t Listen
“We don’t need your thoughts & prayers, what we need is our kids”
Manuel Oliver
Hiding in the Walls 2 min
Hiding in the Walls (trailer)
Hiding in the Walls captures the complicated and devastating story of Baltimore’s lead poisoning epidemic. It takes a deep dive into the origins of lead poisoning, the failures of local leadership to stop the problem, and ultimately how it came to be a dangerous part of daily...
America's War On Abortion 66 min
America's War On Abortion (2020)
Deeyah Khan investigates one of the most divisive issues in American politics - abortion, going on the frontline to meet those most affected by America's abortion wars.
Deeyah Khan
A Cloud Never Dies | Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh 28 min
A Cloud Never Dies | Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (2022)
A new biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by actor Peter Coyote, A Cloud Never Dies weaves together original film and photographic archives, telling the story of a humble young Vietnamese monk and poet whose wisdom and compassion were forged in the...
What If We Just...Stopped Working? 21 min
What If We Just...Stopped Working?
Ever think about how the average person is orders of magnitude more productive than workers of the past, and yet our work week hasn't gotten any shorter? What's the deal? In this week's episode, we're looking at the idea of "work," and how it's been so thoroughly polluted by...
Second Thought
King In The Wilderness 112 min
King In The Wilderness (2018)
King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and...
Peter Kunhardt
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange 39 min
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange (2020)
Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as 'enemies of the people' to now criminalizing common...
How the Ukraine War Exposes Western Racism | Peter Oborne 10 min
How the Ukraine War Exposes Western Racism | Peter Oborne
“War is ok, something you can sing & dance about when it happens in Muslim countries, but deadly serious when it happens in Europe”
Double Down News
The Field of Peace
The Field of Peace
John Perkins once told me a story of bringing a group to have an audience with the Dalai Lama. A woman asked him, “Is it important to pray for peace?” The Dalai Lama said, “Yes, praying for peace is very good, but if that is all you do you are wasting your time.”
Charles Eisenstein
Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn 7 min
Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn
And why that doesn't make me Anti-Vax - Jeremy Corbyn
Double Down News
Why American Fascism Is On The Rise 18 min
Why American Fascism Is On The Rise
It should be common knowledge that the troubling undercurrent of outright fascism has been becoming more and more mainstream over recent years. With new fascist and Neo-nazi groups popping up all the time, and with their rhetoric becoming ever more grotesque and anti-human, I...
Second Thought
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature 44 min
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Third Harmony tells the story of nonviolence, humanity’s greatest (and most overlooked) resource. "I am exhilarated and grateful to the filmmakers for bringing forth such a fine gift for the future of life on Earth. Hurray! and deep bows." - Joanna Macy, deep ecologist...
Michael Nagler
How American Workers Are Losing Billions 16 min
How American Workers Are Losing Billions
You've probably heard the term "wage theft" before, but do you know just how big a problem it is? In the US, wage theft dwarfs all other kinds of theft combined. Let's take a look at why this is happening and try to understand the underlying problems that enable it.
Second Thought
The Myth Of Upward Mobility 15 min
The Myth Of Upward Mobility
In this video, Second Though revisits the idea of "meritocracy" and explores the misguided belief that the United States is anywhere close to a "fair competition" where everyone has "equal opportunity."
Second Thought
Environmental Justice: How Capitalism Threatens Humanity 18 min
Environmental Justice: How Capitalism Threatens Humanity
Earlier this year, the NGO Global Witness released their report on the deaths of environmental defenders. In 2020 alone, a total of 227 people fighting against environmental degradation and climate change were killed. We live in a system that always has - and always will ...
Second Thought
The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism 19 min
The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism
With jobs being automated and handed off to machines at an ever-increasing pace, it's only natural to consider what our future will look like. Will humans have more free time to spend with loved ones? More time to pursue hobbies and fulfilling activities? Or will the status...
Second Thought
How Capitalism Ruined Work 19 min
How Capitalism Ruined Work
If you’re unemployed, it isn’t because there’s no work. There is, and always will be, work to be done. So...what's going on? Why are there so few meaningful jobs, and why are they getting replaced by alienating, meaningless labor?
Second Thought
The Man Who Knew Too Much 69 min
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A documentary film about Colin Wallace an intelligence officer who blew the whistle on fake news and was framed for a murder.
Michael Oswald
Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity: a Crime Against Humanity?
Profiteering From Vaccine Inequity: a Crime Against Humanity?
Companies and rich nations are creating a deadly Covid-19 vaccine "protection racket."
Fatima Hassan, Gavin Yamey, Kamran Abbasi
How Finland Ended Homelessness 14 min
How Finland Ended Homelessness
Second Thought explains how Finland ended homelessness.
Second Thought
‘I Felt Like A F*cking Nazi’: An Ex-Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out 11 min
‘I Felt Like A F*cking Nazi’: An Ex-Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out
Jenn Budd is a former senior U.S. Border Patrol agent turned migrant rights activist. She spoke to Dena Takruri about what she calls a racist, sexist and corrupt culture inside the agency.
AJ+
Exterminate All The Brutes 3 min
Exterminate All The Brutes (trailer)
Exterminate All the Brutes is an eye-opening journey through time, offering an incisive look at the history of European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. The groundbreaking series explores the lasting impact of exploitation and genocide on society today, pushing the...
The Murderous Police Gangs of Los Angeles 19 min
The Murderous Police Gangs of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, America’s second largest city, has a horrible secret. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the fourth largest police department in the country – harbors dozens of criminal gangs within its ranks. These LASD gangs have been involved in assaults, the...
The Gravel Institute
Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People
Not all humans are equally culpable in the climate chaos outlined in the latest IPCC report. Identifying the rich and powerful as the principal culprits is key to stopping further destruction.
Chris Saltmarsh
Should We Rethink American Policing? 13 min
Should We Rethink American Policing?
American police have become yet another battleground in the pointless culture war. In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the characteristics of policing in America, the problems we face, and how we might solve them to the benefit of the whole society - including the...
Second Thought
Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel 57 min
Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel (2017)
In 2016, Rabbi Dov Taylor invited a group of Americans to join him on a tour of Israel and Palestine. This 12-day excursion was not planned as a sight-seeing tour, though there were plenty of sights to see. Rather, the purpose was to introduce tour members to Palestinians...
Killing Gaza 96 min
Killing Gaza (2018) ($3)
In Killing Gaza, journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal documented Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza.
MLK/FBI 107 min
MLK/FBI (2021) ($5)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy...
The Truth About Food Insecurity 13 min
The Truth About Food Insecurity
We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we've reached the earth's carrying capacity. Is that really the case? In this episode, Second Thought takes a brief look at the...
Second Thought
Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Socialists? 19 min
Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Socialists?
For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we've seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at why so many young people are attracted to socialism...
Second Thought
Killer Mike: Amazon Using Slave Labor to Enrich the Richest Man in the World 8 min
Killer Mike: Amazon Using Slave Labor to Enrich the Richest Man in the World
Killer Mike delivered a powerful speech at a rally for Alabama Amazon warehouse workers who are fighting to unionize. If their efforts succeed, it could be the spark that ignites successful Amazon union drives across the country.
The Terrifying $1.2 Trillion Plan That Could Kill 90% of Humanity | Stephen Fry 12 min
The Terrifying $1.2 Trillion Plan That Could Kill 90% of Humanity | Stephen Fry
The US will soon review its nuclear weapons program. Should it spend $1.2 Trillion extending & updating it?
Double Down News
Why America Throws the Poor in Prison 8 min
Why America Throws the Poor in Prison
America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of...
The Gravel Institute
David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything 13 min
David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything
America: the greatest, richest, freest country in the world – or is it? David Cross, of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Dark Divide discusses why Americans, despite living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, have a much worse standard of living than...
The Gravel Institute
Mutual Aid And Dual Power | Praxis 101 14 min
Mutual Aid And Dual Power | Praxis 101
"One of the most common questions I get on my channel is "what can normal people do to help?" So, here's a video on what you can do to help! Building dual power and getting involved in mutual aid networks are some of the most effective ways to win over new people to the cause...
Second Thought
Truth Behind SNL’s Controversial Israel Joke 5 min
Truth Behind SNL’s Controversial Israel Joke
Abby Martin responds to the outcry against Michael Che's joke on the last episode of Saturday Night Live about medical apartheid in Israel.
Empire Files
America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better 14 min
America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better
We're taught to believe that America is the greatest country on earth and that it couldn't possibly get any better. Let's put that claim to the test. In this episode, we'll compare the US to other wealthy nations using several key metrics: "low-skilled" job compensation...
Second Thought
Open Letter to Bernie, the Squad and Progressive US Lawmakers: State Repression of the Farmers’ Movement in India
Open Letter to Bernie, the Squad and Progressive US Lawmakers: State Repression of the Farmers’ Movement in India
An open letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen Ed Markey, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rep. AOC, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Cori Bush, fmr Sen. Nina Turner, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Rep. Ro Khanna...
Saib Bilaval
Freedom of Information Under Attack From Secret Government Unit | Mary Fitzgerald 6 min
Freedom of Information Under Attack From Secret Government Unit | Mary Fitzgerald
It’s literally a matter of life and death… Protect Freedom of Information, Sign the Petition.
Mary Fitzgerald
Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Warriors | Ronan Burtenshaw 17 min
Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Warriors | Ronan Burtenshaw
Here's what the free speech warriors never talk about...
Double Down News
How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis 9 min
How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis
American housing is in crisis. With more luxury housing being built every day while huge numbers of people are stuck with substandard homes or none at all, the U.S. model for housing has proven to be a catastrophe. Zohran Mamdani, New York State assemblyman, talks about how...
The Gravel Institute
The Minimum Wage Debate Explained 15 min
The Minimum Wage Debate Explained
Since the minimum wage is in the news again, I figured it would be a good time to address some things that are never brought up. In this episode we take a look at the minimum wage and why some people are against it being raised, but more importantly, we examine what the whole...
Second Thought
Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? | Zephyr Teachout 6 min
Does Capitalism Mean Freedom? | Zephyr Teachout
According to the standard account, capitalism—whatever your criticisms of it—is synonymous with freedom. Zephyr Teachout explains how we are told other systems necessitate central planning by undemocratic bureaucracies. But what if that’s not true? capitalism puts us at the...
Zephyr Teachout
Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World 16 min
Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World
The US incarcerates more people - both per capita and by sheer numbers - than any other nation on earth. Our prisons are inhumane hellholes, and private prisons are making a killing. Let's talk about our horrendous prison system and look at some much better justice systems in...
Second Thought
Standing in Solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux 36 min
Standing in Solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux
Mid-November, 2016, thousands of water protectors gather as a singular family on the campgrounds surrounding the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This is the story of the grassroots movement known as Standing Rock, calling people across the world to stand together to protect...
Arise Media Studio
Censorship and the Future of the Internet 11 min
Censorship and the Future of the Internet
This week's video is about the limits of the first amendment, corporate control of the internet, and what a future non-corporate online world could look like.
Second Thought
Ten Things You Need to Know to Stop a Coup 3 min
Ten Things You Need to Know to Stop a Coup
We have a president who has openly said he might not respect the outcome of our election. We have to be ready if he claims victory before votes are counted, tries to stop counting, or refuses to accept a loss. Choose Democracy is preparing people for the possibility of a coup...
Choose Democracy
Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series 51 min
Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series
Digital Wampum is a series of 8 short, testimonial films, on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois.)
Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing 6 min
Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing
There is a simple solution to the economic problems we face today. It’s called a universal basic income and this is the justification for it.
Guy Standing
The Last Chance to Save SCOTUS, and RBG's Legacy
The Last Chance to Save SCOTUS, and RBG's Legacy
The Senate has scheduled a vote for this Friday, October 23rd. If we the people want to stop Barrett's confirmation, now is the time; and here are two ways to do it.
Liam Miller
Honor Yard: Finding Hope & Healing in a Maximum-Security Prison 9 min
Honor Yard: Finding Hope & Healing in a Maximum-Security Prison
Imagine finding hope, camaraderie and healing in a maximum-security prison. “Honor Yard” explores the symptoms of trauma from the perspective of the men who live in an Honor Yard at a California Prison in Lancaster, CA.
Honor Yard
Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace 11 min
Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace
For the vast majority of people, work is miserable, tedious, and meaningless. It doesn't have to be that way. Expanding workplace democracy through worker co-ops is a step in the right direction. This video was written in part by a Second Thought patron! Big thanks to Thought...
Second Thought
Can Universal Basic Income End Our Cultural Obsession With Work? | Philosopher Andrew Taggart 9 min
Can Universal Basic Income End Our Cultural Obsession With Work? | Philosopher Andrew Taggart
In 1948, German philosopher Josef Pieper predicted that society was headed for a dystopia he called 'Total Work'. With most of us in 2017 working too long, missing social events, working on weekends, and egging on our older years just for the retirement, practical philosopher...
Philosopher Andrew Taggart
Endgame 2050: Humanity's Last Chance Is Now 93 min
Endgame 2050: Humanity's Last Chance Is Now (2020)
What will the future be like in the year 2050? A mere three decades away, most of us hope to still be around. So, what kind of future are we riding into? ENDGAME 2050 gives us a glimpse into that future, and it does not look good. Humanity has backed itself into an ecological...
We Can Do Better Than This
We Can Do Better Than This
My wife, Stella, recently shut down her account on the social-media-platform-that-must-not-be-named. “It feels like I’m walking away from a fight,” she said. “Almost everything I read there is a signal as to what side the poster is on. Or an attempt to promote the idea that...
Charles Eisenstein
RNC 2020 & Kenosha: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 21 min
RNC 2020 & Kenosha: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses a week that saw the Republican National Convention, a horrific series of shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and a strike in professional sports -- three stories that are really one story, about race in America.
LastWeekTonight
LA 92 114 min
LA 92 (2017)
Over twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests and violence in Los Angeles, LA92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely-seen footage. Produced by Oscar winner Simon Chinn and Emmy winner...
Is it Time to Forge a New Narrative about Race? 101 min
Is it Time to Forge a New Narrative about Race?
This is a video of the premiere event of The Equiano Project where, with some distinguished guest speakers, we examined the question: Is it time to forge a new narrative about race?
The Equiano Project
Until Further Notice 2 min
Until Further Notice
I made this video after a friend left me a voicemail. We had both recently been laid off our jobs and all non-essential businesses were being shut down. We didn't realize it at the time but we were the lucky ones - essential workers were out there risking their health to keep...
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In The Executioner's Shadow 56 min
In The Executioner's Shadow (2018)
In the Executioner’s Shadow casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories - a former state executioner who comes within days of executing an innocent person; a Boston Marathon bombing victim who struggles to decide what...
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice 73 min
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Today, there are more Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The prison population has exploded by 500% since the end of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. America locks up more of its...
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020) (US only) 114 min
Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020) (US only)
The voices of Iraqis take center stage in “Once Upon a Time in Iraq,” an unprecedented, two-hour FRONTLINE documentary special. They share their personal accounts and lasting memories of life under Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led invasion of their country and the years of chaos...
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