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Parenting Without God 30 min
Parenting Without God
When asked if the world would be better off without God, Dan Arel, the author of Parenting Without God does not pull punches. "The world would be better off without the idea of God,' Arel clarifies "the world is already without God."
This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds. 1 min
This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.
This Wombat has some simple instructions for living on Earth. A great reminder for sure!
Be the Change Initiative
The People Who Wouldn't Mind If the Pacific Northwest Were Its Own Country
The People Who Wouldn't Mind If the Pacific Northwest Were Its Own Country
The first thing we heard when we pulled into the Finney Farm was the clattering of drums, followed by a high-pitched howling noise.
Allyce Andrew
How Unarmed Peace Efforts Can Save Lives and Diffuse Conflict Even in War Zones
How Unarmed Peace Efforts Can Save Lives and Diffuse Conflict Even in War Zones
"I think if we had a gun we would have been shot immediately.”
Robert Koehler
Against Conspiracy Theories - Why Our Activism Must Be Based in Reality
Against Conspiracy Theories - Why Our Activism Must Be Based in Reality
A talk given at Occupy Wellington, New Zealand, to counter the prevalence of conspiracy theories amongst the local wing of the Occupy movement.
Asher
A German Guy Wants to Give You a Bunch of Money for Nothing
A German Guy Wants to Give You a Bunch of Money for Nothing
What would happen if we didn't have to worry about making a living anymore? Would people just sit on their asses all day or actually do something meaningful with their lives? Michael Bohmeyer, a 29-year-old founder of a tech startup in Berlin, wanted to find out.
Chris Köver
What's So Special about Storytelling for Social Change?
What's So Special about Storytelling for Social Change?
A new world requires new stories, but people will only listen to them when they themselves are included in the storyline. This requires a ‘gear-shift’ in conversations about radical action.
Simon Hodges
This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound. 31 min
This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.
If everyone watched this it could transform the world.
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You. 5 min
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.
A good friend of mine, Ian Mackenzie recently shot this short film The Meaning of Death – Stephen Jenkinson.  Hope you are as moved as I was by the film. IN JANUARY this year, I flew out to attend my first full session of the Orphan Wisdom school, founded by Stephen...
Stephen Jenkinson
The Story That's Destroying the World
The Story That's Destroying the World
Let me start by saying something that sounds controversial but actually isn't:
Tim Hjersted
Towards a New Co-Existence: On Reframing Our Ecological Crises
Towards a New Co-Existence: On Reframing Our Ecological Crises
How we think about and talk about ecological crises and our role in them form the structures of our responses.  This is why thought forms, concepts, frames as George Lakoff calls them, are all central, form the crux, of attempts to protect species and the planet’s systems...
Elizabeth Oriel
Films for Action: We Share Breaking Knowledge
Films For Action: We Share Breaking Knowledge
A lot of media organizations focus on breaking news. We're focused on breaking knowledge.
Films For Action
The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times
The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times
"Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity."
Joanna Macy
Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action
Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action
Economic globalization obliterated traditional boundaries and created previously unimagined opportunities for collaboration and expansion. It also unleashed a series of unintended and problematic changes, exposing those with the least power to ecological devastation...
Bess Kercher
Ubuntu 8 min
Ubuntu
"I am because you are," is the deep meaning of Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy recognizing the shared essence within humanity and life. In this film, we visit Dorah Lebelo and the GreenHouse Project, Credo Mutwa, the great Zulu traditional healer and teacher, and the...
PeaceGardens
The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living
The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living
Wisdom for aspiring leaders and change-makers of every kind
Stephen Mitchell
How to Start an Empathy Revolution 17 min
How to Start an Empathy Revolution
Empathy can be a force for radical social change, but only if we understand how to unleash it.
TEDx Talks
5 Reasons It's Time for the 4-Day Work Week
5 Reasons It's Time for the 4-Day Work Week
Psst: Working less is the key to success.
Lynn Stuart Parramore
The Lottery of Birth 76 min
The Lottery of Birth (2013)
Do you shape the world or does it shape you? Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make you think again about what it means to be free.
Joshua van Praag
What Happens When Silicon Valley Experiments With Direct Democracy
What Happens When Silicon Valley Experiments With Direct Democracy
Like a few other cities, the city is letting some citizens vote directly on how the city spends its money. But, of course, it's adding an online twist.   The heart of Silicon Valley is experimenting with a novel form of direct democracy that gives citizens direct control...
Gregory Fernenstein
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic (trailer) 1 min
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic (trailer)
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a full-length educational film that will give you the tools necessary to get started on your own project, whether it's a multi-acre commercial orchard, or a few fruit trees in your urban backyard.
Listen To This Mute: An Angry Speech-Impaired Man Rants about His Country 3 min
Listen To This Mute: An Angry Speech-Impaired Man Rants about His Country
A mute man rants about everything that is wrong in his country in under 3 minutes and goes on to tell you how you can change everything. A powerful film, relevant in every democracy across the world.
Handloom Picture Company
Global Economic Sharing: The Most Important Debate of Our Time?
Global Economic Sharing: The Most Important Debate of Our Time?
Almost everywhere we look, there is an emerging debate on the im
Share The World's Resources
The Key to Global Prosperity: Worker Ownership
The Key to Global Prosperity: Worker Ownership
Shared ownership helps to diversify rather than concentrate wealth and roots the value it generates in communities.
Jeffrey Hollender
6 Anti-NSA Technological Innovations that May Just Change the World
6 Anti-NSA Technological Innovations that May Just Change the World
Rather than grovel and beg for the U.S. government to respect our privacy, these innovators have taken matters into their own hands, and their work may change the playing field completely. People used to assume that the United States government was held in check by the...
SCG News
The Open Source Revolution Is Coming And It Will Conquer The 1% - Ex CIA Spy
The Open Source Revolution Is Coming And It Will Conquer The 1% - Ex CIA Spy
Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of
Nafeez Ahmed
Another World 91 min
Another World (2013)
"Another World" is a film about the grassroots initiatives in Greece that form another world right here and now, away from the crisis and beyond capitalism (Greek narration, English subtitles in captions).
Tesla To Open Source ALL Of Its Patents, Won't Sue Anyone For Using Its Technology
Tesla To Open Source ALL Of Its Patents, Won't Sue Anyone For Using Its Technology
At a time when most high-tech companies are hoarding patents and suing each other, creating a complex web of cold war-style mutually-assured destruction, Tesla is going against the crowd (once again) and open sourcing all of its patents, making its inventions available for...
Michael Graham Richard
The French Are Right: Tear Up Public Debt - Most Of It Is Illegitimate Anyway
The French Are Right: Tear Up Public Debt - Most Of It Is Illegitimate Anyway
As history has shown, France is capable of the best and the worst, and often in short periods of time. On the day following Marine Le Pen's Front National victory in the European
Razmig Keucheyan
The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate 2 min
The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate
Are we competitive, selfish, individualistic creatures by nature? What is human nature, anyway?
Sustainable Human
Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us
Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us
Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
Symbolia and YES! Magazine
The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Development Paradigm
The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Development Paradigm
During the 15 years, I lived and worked in Asia as a development professional from 1978 to 1992, I witness a troubling paradox. GDP was growing, incomes were rising, there was an expanding middle class, and a few people were getting fabulously rich. Development seemed to be...
David Korten
A Will for the Woods 2 min
A Will for the Woods (trailer)
What if our "last act" could be a gift to the planet — a force for regeneration? Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth. A WILL FOR THE WOODS is an immersive...
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
This is easily the best comic strip ever made.
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
A World Beyond Markets: How Will The 'Collaborative Commons' Transform Our Lives? 23 min
A World Beyond Markets: How Will The 'Collaborative Commons' Transform Our Lives?
Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century.
The RSA
Solidarity Means Attack! 13 min
Solidarity Means Attack!
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sub.Media
Immortal Technique on Conspiracy Facts, Money as God & Breaking the Two Party Dictatorship 13 min
Immortal Technique on Conspiracy Facts, Money as God & Breaking the Two Party Dictatorship
Hip hop artist Immortal Technique discusses everything from his creative process in his politically charged lyrics to his views on capitalism and the two-party stronghold over American politics.
What If the Government Guaranteed You an Income?
What If the Government Guaranteed You an Income?
First, the bad news: Even if the economy improves, middle-class career paths will continue to disappear as globalization and technological innovation render more jobs obsolete.
David R. Wheeler
10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy
10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy
A Way to Achieve Global Human Happiness Without Destroying the Planet
Ashish Kothari
Pieces of Madrid 18 min
Pieces of Madrid
This short documentary from the excellent Global Uprisings crew explores ongoing resistance and self-organization in the midst of the economic and social crisis in Madrid, Spain. As social conditions continue to deteriorate across the country, people have been turning to the...
Talib Kweli Breaks the Set on the Obama Presidency, the Prison Industrial Complex & Real Hip Hop 12 min
Talib Kweli Breaks the Set on the Obama Presidency, the Prison Industrial Complex & Real Hip Hop
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with hip hop artist Talib Kweli, discussing the role of government, Obama's presidency, the prison industrial complex, and establishment hip hop. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
The Narcicyst Breaks the Stage on Conscious Hip Hop, 'Sumeria' & 'Leap of Faith' 13 min
The Narcicyst Breaks the Stage on Conscious Hip Hop, 'Sumeria' & 'Leap of Faith'
Breaking the Set features an exclusive interview and musical performance by politically conscious Iraqi-Canadian Hip Hop artist, Yassim 'The Narcicyst' Alsalman, who performs the songs 'Leap of Faith' and 'Sumeria'. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW...
Brother Ali Breaks the Set on Where Hip Hop Meets Islam & 'Mourning in America' 10 min
Brother Ali Breaks the Set on Where Hip Hop Meets Islam & 'Mourning in America'
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with hip hop artist, Brother Ali, discussing his politically charged music and where the Muslim faith merges with hip hop. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Confessions of an FDA Agent, Truth Behind 'Honor Diaries' & US' Embarrassing Illiteracy Rate 27 min
Confessions of an FDA Agent, Truth Behind 'Honor Diaries' & US' Embarrassing Illiteracy Rate
Abby Martin talks about a new 'breakthrough' technology discovered by the US Navy, that converts sea water to fuel, yet is only being considered for military use.
Chuck D on Corplantations, Booty & Thug Television and Fighting the Power 13 min
Chuck D on Corplantations, Booty & Thug Television and Fighting the Power
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Hip Hop Legend and Public Enemy front-man, Chuck D, discussing the corporatization of Hip Hop, his views on internationalism and the upcoming United We Stand Festival on May 10th, where both Abby and Chuck are featured guests.
How Financial Looters Are Destroying Your 401(k) in a Fraction of a Second 4 min
How Financial Looters Are Destroying Your 401(k) in a Fraction of a Second
Abby Martin explores the public distrust of the US financial system, discussing the controversies surrounding 'High-Frequency Trading', a practice that involves advanced computer algorithms that gives buyers and sellers on Wall Street an advantage over the general public.
Drugging Whales, Killing Giraffes & Other Disturbing Zoo Realities | Brainwash Update 5 min
Drugging Whales, Killing Giraffes & Other Disturbing Zoo Realities | Brainwash Update
Abby Martin goes over the dark side of zoological and water parks, going over instances of maltreatment of animals in captivity, including drugging Orca whales at SeaWorld with valium and 'culling' healthy animals because of inbreeding. LIKE Breaking the Set @...
Brainwash Update
Growth is Not Enough 3 min
Growth is Not Enough
Our politicians are hung up on keeping the growth curve rising. But does GDP really tell us all we need to know about a country's wealth and well-being? In this new RSA Short, Kate Raworth makes a powerful argument to look beyond economic growth alone for a true measure of...
The RSA
How Brazil Is Blazing A Trail For Electronic Democracy
How Brazil Is Blazing A Trail For Electronic Democracy
In the land of all-night samba clubs and soccer fanatics, Brazil is throwing its famously high-energy spirit into the untested waters of online democracy. Multimillion dollar budgets are being handed over to online “town halls,” and the federal government is crowdsourcing...
Gregory Ferenstein
7 Reasons The Universal Basic Income Is Worth Fighting For
7 Reasons The Universal Basic Income Is Worth Fighting For
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – sometimes called the Unconditional Basic Income, Citizens’ Income or Social Wage – has in recent times become a focus of economic discussion across the political spectrum. While column inches in the Financial Times and The Economist have...
Andrew Dolan
The Humanists Guide to Morality Narrated by Stephen Fry 3 min
The Humanists Guide to Morality Narrated by Stephen Fry
What makes something right or wrong? That's the question posed in this short animation about morality, written and produced by the British Humanist Association and narrated by Stephen Fry.
#ThatsHumanism (2014)
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao 13 min
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao
Abby Martin's exclusive interview with former NASA Astronaut and ISS Commander, Leroy Chiao, about US-Russian cooperation in space, life on other words and the reality of the film 'Gravity'. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao
Remote Control Cockroaches & Invisible Cloaks with Lee Camp | Think Tank 8 min
Remote Control Cockroaches & Invisible Cloaks with Lee Camp | Think Tank
Abby Martin speaks with comedian and host of Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity web series, Lee Camp, going over several mind blowing technologies, including remote control cockroaches and a real invisibility cloak. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby...
Think Tank
Abby Martin Takes Down the Cold War-Obsessed Neocons Behind the Curtain 6 min
Abby Martin Takes Down the Cold War-Obsessed Neocons Behind the Curtain
Abby Martin calls out the Foreign Policy Initiative or FPI, a DC neocon think tank that rose out of the ashes of PNAC. Abby discusses the real motivation behind their recent attacks against the credibility of Breaking the Set; advocating for a revival of the Cold War.
Watching Strangers Kissing is Tender, Funny, Moving, Awkward and Kinda Awesome 3 min
Watching Strangers Kissing is Tender, Funny, Moving, Awkward and Kinda Awesome
A short film where twenty strangers are asked to kiss on camera. The results are lovely and emotionally charged. Make love not war... and kiss more.
Tatia Pilieva
The Power of Three Words: 'Not-for-Profit'
The Power of Three Words: 'Not-for-Profit'
Ever since we started writing and speaking about our current book project, How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050, we have been amazed by one phenomenon in particular. When we have a chance to explain to people what not-for-profit (NFP) enterprise...
Jen Hinton and Donnie Maclurcan
Another World (2014) (trailer) 3 min
Another World (2014) (trailer)
ANOTHER WORLD is a feature documentary about the journey of mankind to discover who we truly are, challenging the modern view of the world and reconsidering the world view and value systems of ancient societies such as the indigenous Americans.
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
Films For Action
How Welfare DOES NOT Work The Way You Think It Does 13 min
How Welfare DOES NOT Work The Way You Think It Does
It is time for us to reconsider who is dependent on welfare. Poverty is not only the lack of income and wealth but also the poverty of power. A key part of the poverty of power is to be defined as dependent: dependent on charity, handouts, welfare. Yet, it is the wealthy, not...
GlobalPOV
We Need an International Minimum Wage
We Need an International Minimum Wage
The deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has sparked calls for better worker treatment. The revelation that Apple manages to
Hamilton Nolan
Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai 4 min
Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai
An excerpt from Anjali's second TEDx Talk on the negative use of fear as motivator in the world of activism, suggesting hope as viable alternative to action. Part 2 is the full-length video.
ReturnProject
Generation Waking Up: The Story Of Our Generation 9 min
Generation Waking Up: The Story Of Our Generation
Generation Waking Up is a global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world. This video is part of the Generation Waking Up Experience - called a 'WakeUp' for short - a multimedia educational workshop that inspires young...
The Taxing Question of Land 31 min
The Taxing Question of Land (2013)
Complex tax systems allow for avoidance, evasion and expensive administration costs to both the public and private purse. At the recent G8 summit, the UK placed tax compliance as one of the most important issues facing the world today.
Workers of the World... Relax! 10 min
Workers of the World... Relax!
A philosophical treatise against the practice of forced labor for income. An abridged reading of 'The Abolition of Work' by Bob Black.
infinit yes productions
PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy 10 min
PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy
10 minutes of plain-spoken awesome. Economic Democracy is the BIG IDEA of our time. Make sure you don't miss the awesome moment starting at 2:30 that goes until 3:25!
PROUT Globe
What Did You Forget? 3 min
What Did You Forget?
Alan Watts asks "what did you forget?" in this Sustainable Man film starring Chris, Sean, and Luke Abad as "Joe Dokes" "Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?" - Alan Watts
Sustainable Human
Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human 7 min
Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human
Our ideas about financial investment have been fairly limited thus far. Investment has been all about maximizing financial return at any cost, even if that cost is environmental pollution, human dignity, or our moral compass. Our economy has focused narrowly on creating and...
Sustainable Human
Letter Grades for Students Get an 'F'
Letter Grades for Students Get an 'F'
Imagine the following exercise: You enter with your spouse, partner or good friend. The purpose is to deepen and improve your relationship through honest communication -- a mutual assessment for growth.
Steve Nelson
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary
Deep Ecology Hub
Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful 2 min
Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful
Kids, try this one at home. Wish you could do more? You don't need a Kickstarter account, or even any Internet at all.
You've Been Sleeping, And It's Time To Wake Up! (Zen Hand Clap)
You've Been Sleeping, And It's Time To Wake Up! (Zen Hand Clap)
Awake from your slumber of cynicism! Awake from your slumber of despair!
Velcrow Ripper
Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For
It's a new year, but one thing hasn't changed: The economy still blows. Five years after Wall Street crashed, America's banker-gamblers have only gotten richer, while huge swaths of the country are still drowning in personal debt, tens of millions of Americans remain...
JESSE A. MYERSON
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva 14 min
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva
The reaction to Jesse Myerson’s Rolling Stone piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For” went beyond anyone’s expectation. Many conservative commentators
Jacobin
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless 11 min
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless
With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.
TEDx Talks
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times 66 min
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up...
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
London, May 2009.  A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman
A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination
A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination
Nurses, philosophers, and trade unions have over the past 12 months all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better — places to live.
Sam Pizzigati
Fear of a Living Planet
Fear of a Living Planet
Does the concept of a living planet uplift and inspire you, or is it a disturbing example of woo-woo nonsense that distracts us from practical, science-based policies?
Charles Eisenstein
The Black Power MixTape 1967-1975 90 min
The Black Power MixTape 1967-1975 (2011)
Swedish journalists came to the United States to document the anti-war and Black Power movements of the late 60s and early 70s. The Black Power Mixtape combines music, original 16mm footage, and contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists, activists...
A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein 5 min
A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein
It would be hard to argue that the environmental movement, which began in earnest in the 1960s, and despite several successes in the 1970s, has failed. Today, the Clean Water Act has been ignored with fracking, Fukushima is releasing millions of gallons of radioactive water...
Sustainable Human
The Old Paradigm’s Demoralizing Orthodoxies Make Us Confuse Despair With Realism
The Old Paradigm’s Demoralizing Orthodoxies Make Us Confuse Despair With Realism
Undergraduates ask me how to keep from getting cynical and demoralized, and my first question is how much mainstream news media they consume each day.
Arlene Goldbard
To Do Justice to Mandela's life, the Struggle Must Continue
To Do Justice to Mandela's life, the Struggle Must Continue
Brian Ashley of South Africa's Amandla magazine says that in the battle to overcome inequality and achieve social justice, we will need many more Nelson Mandelas. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Amandla magazine...
Brian Ashley, Red Pepper/Amandla
A World Without a Financial System
A World Without a Financial System
An overriding concern of many people participating in protests since 2010 has been the financial system. From the September 17, 2011 protests against financial institutions and the symbolism of Occupy Wall Street to the widespread discussion of alternative currencies, money...
Heather Marsh
The Future of Journalism
The Future of Journalism
In the past, media was protected in most democracies because in order to govern themselves, people need access to accurate and timely information on all topics relevant to their governance. The news needs to be the match that starts analysis and action which doesn’t stop till...
Heather Marsh
The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time 4 min
The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time
Carl Sagan narrates the story of the Pale Blue Dot, the one place we all call home.
El Nuevo PATRIA
Will Work For Free 126 min
Will Work For Free (2013)
Will Work For Free is a documentary by Sam Vallely on the subject of technological unemployment. This work is protected under fair use and will always be free.
Decolonize the Consumerist Wasteland: Re-imagining a World Beyond Capitalism and Communism
Decolonize the Consumerist Wasteland: Re-imagining a World Beyond Capitalism and Communism
Here in India, even in the midst of all the violence and greed, there is still hope. If anyone can do it, we can. We still have a population that has not yet been completely colonized by that consumerist dream.
Arundhati Roy
The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand 11 min
The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand
Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman engages Russell Brand about voting, apathy, revolution and beards... and it's the most utterly fantastic clash between the old paradigm and the new paradigm I've seen condensed into 11 minutes.
BBC Politics
The Kingdom of Children 10 min
The Kingdom of Children
Have a look at how photography is actually creating futures. Deep in the beautiful mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Picture Aid travels to meet one of the children that are supported with education through a picture hanging on a wall: A 15 year old girl who dreams of becoming a...
PictureAid
The Story of Good Versus Evil
The Story of Good Versus Evil
To this day, a philosophical debate rages on as to the true nature of humanity. Is humanity at its core good or evil? Does the human species amount to no more than a parasite on the planet as Agent Smith says in The Matrix, “a cancer”, intent on devouring every last resource...
Sustainable Man
The Abolition of Poverty in Switzerland: A Template for Europe?
The Abolition of Poverty in Switzerland: A Template for Europe?
For the past 18 months people all over Switzerland have been campaigning for the "Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income". Today the result of their efforts will be handed to the Federal Chancellery: 116,000 signatures (the minimum required number of signatures...
Ivan Botoucharov
The Real Reason Millons of People Love Star Trek 3 min
The Real Reason Millons of People Love Star Trek
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was ahead of his time. In his own words, he explains the universal appeal of Star Trek and why the people of this world "are ready for the 23rd century now, and are light years ahead of their petty governments and visionless leaders.
Sustainable Human
Earth Trek / The Economics of the Future 4 min
Earth Trek / The Economics of the Future
A beautiful and inspiring lesson in sustainable Star Trekonomics featuring Charles Eisenstein, George Carlin, Martin Luther King Jr. and a couple captains of the Enterprise...  "We have it within our reach--now--to achieve nearly every dream of mankind." -Gene Roddenberry
Sustainable Human
Earth Trek / The Challenge 3 min
Earth Trek / The Challenge
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. " - Gene Roddenberry
Sustainable Human
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
Cory Doctorow, guest of honor at the upcoming FenCon science fiction convention in Dallas, notes (“During the shutdown, some scientists can’t talk about science,” Boing Boing, October 4) that some of his fellow speakers will be unable to speak if the government shutdown...
Kevin Carson
When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State
When The Government Shuts Down, Suddenly "Public" Land Isn't Public, but the Property of the State
The government shutdown is teaching us a lot about the “public sector” — mainly that it doesn’t exist.
Grant Mincy
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children is squarely and solidly built on a Great Forgetting that
Daniel Quinn
Holy Wars 65 min
Holy Wars (2010)
Shot over a four year period in America, Britain, Lebanon, and Pakistan, Holy Wars follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world...
Stephen Marshall
TED Talk Controversy: 3 Powerful Talks TED Tried to Censor
TED Talk Controversy: 3 Powerful Talks TED Tried to Censor
TED is a powerful and paradigm shattering initiative that brands itself with the slogan “Ideas worth spreading.” At this point, we have probably all heard of TED and the short talks given by inspiring people from all around the world to audiences at different conferences...
Joe Martino
Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast 4 min
Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast
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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