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Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless figures continue to rise. Is this...
Success, Culture & Race | Coleman Hughes 63 min
Coleman Cruz Hughes writes on the topic of race for Quillette and the New York Times. Despite still being an undergraduate, studying philosophy at Colombia University, his articles have sparked polarised reactions, leading to a meteoric rise in profile over the last couple of...
What Can Baltimore Learn from the Bay Area's 30% Decrease in Homicides? 5 min
Bay Area violence interrupters say a sustained commitment to community-based violence reduction is key to reducing violence.
Feeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green 10 min
Do you have complicated feelings about fossil fuels?
The Salt of the Earth 110 min
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.
Policing Identity Politics in Trump's America: Briahna Joy Gray at The Harvard Law Forum 56 min
Briahna Joy Gray is a leading Millennial writer on identity politics, racial justice and economic power. She is a contributing editor at Current Affairs and has been featured in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Guardian. She is the co-host of SWOTI (Someone's Wrong on...
Pushing Back on Grievance Studies with Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying 21 min
Mike Nayna: In an attempt to expose academic fields corrupted by postmodern ideology, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay spent a year submitting intentionally broken papers to academic journals. Their secret project was cut short when an investigative...
How Culture Makes Us Feel Lost - Dr. Gabor Maté On Finding Your True Self Again 6 min
Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true...
Privilege 22 min
According to the theory of Privilege, everybody is born into different circumstances, and those circumstances make certain outcomes in life more likely relative to those born into different circumstances. Circumstances that render a higher likelihood of a fulfilling life are...
Why We Must Legalize Marijuana 3 min
Robert Reich explains why we must the War on Drugs, and legalize cannabis.
Love School 4 min
In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the “free love” utopian movements of the 1960s’ and 70’s, building upon the insight that the liberation of...
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls 103 min
“Modern slavery.” It sounds like a paradox. Hasn’t humanity progressed? Didn’t we leave slavery dead on the battlefields of the American Civil War? Didn’t social reformers like Lincoln and Wilberforce legislate against such cruelty over a hundred years ago? So we had thought...
This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity
Strangers in Town 33 min
STRANGERS IN TOWN tells the story of how global migration unexpectedly transformed and enriched Garden City, Kansas. It brought great challenges to the community, including demands for housing, social services, education, and infrustucture. For the current students at Garden...
Teach Us All 3 min
Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when they desegregated Central High, America's schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Contemporary Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles present a microcosm of the...
Over the past decade I’ve watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of...
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk 16 min
Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the workplace.
I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty I’d never...
Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.
Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians, so far, have remained on the sidelines of this struggle.
Can "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Help Us Restore Balance to a Divided World? 17 min
"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a masterpiece of animation. It's an incredible story with amazing characters and worthwhile themes that might just be more relevant today than ever before. As more and more people around the world seem to support the idea that group identities...
Interview with Rashida Jones on Her Porn Documentary 'Hot Girls Wanted' 14 min
"Parks and Recreation" star Rashida Jones has established a lovable reputation for herself through roles in hit comedies like "The Office" and "I Love You Man". Over the past few years, she's also ventured into writing and producing films, currently tackling projects like...
"We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive."
So Close to America: Undocumented Farm Workers & The Myth of The 'Free Ride' 24 min
Farmworker Realities vs Immigrant Fear Mongering in the Days of Trump and Beyond.
We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.
There are clever people who make algorithms for the financial services sector. Remember those crumbs that used to fall from the rich man’s table? They’re all accounted for now. Every last one, down to the tiniest minuscule crumb that you can’t even see. They get collected by...
Stalking for Love 24 min
Stalking For Love is a popular media trope where invasive stalker-like behavior is presented as an endearing or harmless part of romantic courtship. The hero will often go to extraordinary lengths to coerce, trick or otherwise manipulate his way into a woman's life.
Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs 64 min
It’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted are in entertainment media. Most popular comedic actors engage in this type of humor. Jokes are typically designed to demean, humiliate, control, or emasculate a male character for being the...
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” ― Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia
When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change…
Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.
How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson 12 min
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a...
Public Shaming 11 min
Public shaming is an old phenomenon given new life by social media.
One might think that by now progressives would figure out that vilifying Peterson almost always redounds to his advantage. One would be wrong
The Truth About Political Correctness 15 min
David Pakman's long-form investigation into political correctness, including a history of the term, and whether it is too liberally or conservatively applied in modern culture.
In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Women’s March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...
Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.
Can You Give Examples of White Identity Politics? - David Pakman Q&A 5 min
Audience Question: Can you give examples of white identity politics?
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...
What Is a Man? A Response to Gillette 2 min
"Dedicated to all those who sacrifice everything to make the world safer and better for all of us.
Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong 33 min
Gillette's newest ad, 'The Best a Man Can Be', has created a social media firestorm in the last few days. Rebel Wisdom sat down to discuss the reaction, the cultural context behind it and their response to the ad. Drawing on their interviews with Warren Farrell, Cassie Jaye...
To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of millions is through compassion and inclusion. It might feel good to rage at the...
Down in the Hole - The Streets of Baltimore 43 min
Chaos erupts in Baltimore, MD as an unarmed black man called Freddie Gray sustains fatal injuries while in police custody. The city of Baltimore is in a state of emergency, curfews are put in place, the national guard is sent out. This a documentary covering life and times in...
Tears in the Bayou - The Streets of Houston 107 min
Tears in the Bayou is a documentary that takes you through the madness in the inner city of Houston, Texas.
Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable.
Trump is Expanding the US Empire 17 min
In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that has expanded US wars and occupations.
Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE 7 min
Rapper KYLE on race, toxic masculinity, depression and being the happiest rapper alive!
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi 5 min
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
I am constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced...
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis 17 min
What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that dislike, without apology. What would you do?
Jonathan Haidt: Radicalization, Biased Media, Polarization 29 min
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and author of his most recent book with Greg Lukianoff "The Coddling of the American Mind," joins David Pakman to discuss politics, tribalism, and much more.
Bret Weinstein: How the Magic Trick is Done 68 min
In this speech at the Students For Liberty conference in Vancouver, B.C. Bret Weinstein discusses the inner workings of the regressive left.
To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a social issue.
Hi everyone. This might be another one of those serious posts, so please take a few deep breaths and eat some dark chocolate. While perusing an online group, I witnessed a conversation between several colleagues, and it was disheartening. A difference of perspectives led to...
[T]he biggest enemy of society’s security is the state and the private organization’s belonging to it. Selma Irmak, member of the Democratic Society Congress[1]   Introduction   Police arbitrariness and impunity are a common trait across the world. In the U.S. the...
[Note: This essay was just published in the Fall 2019 theology journal, "Oneing," by Fr. Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation. To order a copy, visit: www.cac.org ]
The most potent predictor of sexual misconduct goes beyond individual perpetrators.
The ‘It’s okay to be white’ poster campaign, seen in the context of reacting to ‘Black Lives Matter,’ cannot be seen as benign.
Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicide are more common among male and female physicians, with suicide rates 1.41 and 2.27 times greater than that of the general male and female populations...
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland 2 min
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland explores the death of Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation, was found dead in her jail cell three days later.
The Journey of Compassion (2018) | Homelessness Short Film 7 min
Arthur McNeil is a formerly homeless long distance runner who raises money for shelters on cross-country runs. This film attempts to capture Arthur's story and warm character in a short documentary film. This documentary focuses on themes of homelessness, gentrification, and...
My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about what’s unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species? Our era has been dubbed the Anthropocene because for the first time we humans...
3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids—and Ourselves | Jonathan Haidt 6 min
Jonathan Haidt explains three areas where we need to update our understanding of the world.
How Overparenting Backfired on Americans | Jonathan Haidt 5 min
Being raised indoors might the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world. - American childhood is going, going… gone, says Professor Jonathan Haidt. - In the mid-'90s there was a sharp shift to overprotective parenting. In previous generations, kids were allowed to...
Three Heroic Women Fighting Evil With Love In D.R. Congo 6 min
Three heroic women fighting the evils of war with love and compassion. They are called Mama, a title of respect meaning Mother or Woman. More info: https://www.facebook.com/JOINgoodforces
The extremist gang’s leader is trying to bail, its members are in jail, and the FBI is on its tail.
When I read this in the morning paper, my heart stopped: Just 40 minutes away from me, the white mother of black children in New Jersey was repeatedly harassed via Facebook by a stranger, who told her that her children should be hung.
"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis.” The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new -- both Obama...
Who was Fred Hampton? 6 min
A 6-minute video on who Fred Hampton was and why he was assassinated at the age of 21.
Why America? Mass Shootings & White Nationalism Share Roots 53 min
Since October 2017, America experienced three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. This epidemic coincides with a frightening resurgence of white nationalism. Sometimes the two trends overlap. But why here? Both phenomena can be explained by a common historical...
121,000 likes and 36,000 shares attest to a powerful story about how change is fought for.
"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler."
Jesus at The Polls 6 min
Sarah runs into her old pal Jesus at the polls. With returning guest star Fred Armisen.
Media coverage of tragedies like shootings and bombings is frequently politicized, particularly when jihadism is a factor in perpetrators’ motives. In its coverage of the recent outbreak of conspiracy-fueled far-right wing terrorism, however, many media outlets have rushed to...
Ripple Effect 35 min
RIPPLE EFFECT is a short documentary film that shows how essential a life skills education is to all young people. There are many issues facing our children: bullying, substance abuse, violence, lack of employability, and graduating high school. RIPPLE EFFECT demonstrates how...
Love And Revolution 85 min
July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...
In response to my recent newsletter, which I named “Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy”, I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways they pointed me to the reality that the word...
What Is Toxic Masculinity? 7 min
You may have bumped into the term toxic masculinity during your travels around the internet. It usually shows up in connection with particularly abusive male behavior, but what does it really mean?
From Shock to Awe 2 min
From Shock to Awe asks, ‘how do we heal our deepest wounds?’ An intimate and raw look at the transformational journey of two combat veterans suffering from severe trauma as they abandon pharmaceuticals to seek relief through the mind-expanding world of psychedelics. Recent...
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability 56 min
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
"Despite our best efforts to eradicate racism, it comes back like a toxic weed because we fail to pull it up by its root."
1968 - The GlobalRevolt 2 min
The four-part documentary 1968 – The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 – an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.
If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?
The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone 7 min
When kings went out of style, that impulse didn’t leave with them; it simply found a different way of manifesting.
A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.
Alt-Right: Age Of Rage 3 min
In the first year of Donald J. Trump's presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the alt-right movement, while Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs 7 min
Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.
Women go through their female cycle around 450 times in their lifetime. 450 times of bleeding. But also 450 times of ”letting go, letting a dying thing leave their own body, becoming new, regenerating and waxing and waning, not unlike the moon and tides.”* Alas, the average...
PERIODE 28 4 min
An ode to periods.
Men's Movement 2.0 - Raw Man Experience 4 min
Herman Ottoson of the Raw Man leads a group at the Nordic Men's Gathering - part of the launch of Men's Movement 2.0.
Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons 23 min
Healing Trauma dives into the inner struggle of former gang members whose abusive childhoods inevitably lead to an anger that resulted in a criminal lifestyle and landed them in prison. Upon their release, these former gang members found their redemption with Homeboy...
Matt Orfalea Interviews White Nationalists Attending "Unite the Right 2" in DC | August 12, 2018 4 min
I wanted to meet the people that many want to punch in the face without having met them. The conversation with 2 guys from Stormfront Action Radio was cut short when we arrived at the final destination. I left the group to get a wide shot with my camera and cops would not let...
BLACKkKLANSMAN 3 min
A Spike Lee joint. From producer Jordan Peele. Based on some fo’ real, fo’ real sh*t. Watch the #BlacKkKlansman trailer now - in theaters August 10. https://www.facebook.com/blackkklansman https://www.instagram.com/blackkklansman/ https://twitter.com/BlacKkKlansman...
Portland Protest Shows New Far-Right Trend: Multiethnic Groups with Fascist Heroes Like Pinochet 8 min
Democracy Now! continues their interview with A.C. Thompson, correspondent for Frontline PBS and reporter for ProPublica. His new investigation is titled Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. He discusses how he was there in Portland, Oregon, when anti-racist, anti-fascist...
Trump’s Not the Problem. He’s a Symbol of 4 Bigger Issues. - Ian Bremmer 7 min
Ian Bremmer: The problem is not Trump. Trump is a symptom. If the problem were Trump it wouldn’t be happening in other places around the world. We actually see all sorts of countries, advanced industrial democracies, where people are getting angrier and they’re voting more...
How to Defeat Racism 8 min
Here are 5 amazing stories that show the power of unconventional and unexpected approaches to defeating racism, via Matt Orfalea.
The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All 13 min
Exploring the Archetype of the Warrior in films, based on Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette’s King, Warrior, Magician, Lover and Carol S. Pearson’s The Hero Within.
How Aristocracies Rule 4 min
The American fairytale is far from enchanted. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other so that the poor turn against the poor. It’s how most...
White Right: Meeting The Enemy 55 min
In this Emmy-winning documentary, acclaimed Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan meets U.S. neo-Nazis and white nationalists including Richard Spencer face to face and attends the now-infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville as she seeks to understand the personal and...
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