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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has effectively abandoned all hope of retrieving millions of dollars of capital, real estate and luxury goods after the US Justice Department formally filed an asset-forfeiture with the Supreme Court on Friday.
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Political failure is a failure of the imagination, argues Guardian columnist George Monbiot. But, he says, Jeremy Corbyn has turned that failure into hope. Labour strategy used to be about mimicking its rivals. Now, it is about offering a radically different world.
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I just can't believe what happened in the British elections.
Thomas S. Harrington
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These scenes are excerpted from California Newsreel’s acclaimed three-part documentary series, Race-The Power of an Illusion.
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...in the world we live in, trying to understand the system can make you crazy, but trying to understand yourself is the only key to sanity.
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Shock. It’s a word that has come up a lot since November— for obvious reasons.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about shock. Ten years ago, I published “The Shock Doctrine,” an investigation that spanned four decades from Pinochet’s U.S.-backed coup in 1970s Chile to...
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In their mission to stop fishing of the endangered totoaba fish, the Sea Shepherd crew finds other animals caught up in fishing nets.
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After a brutal mugging left him with traumatic brain injury, John Pierre decided to ‘suit up’ in a neon cape and lightning bolt socks, emerging as the New York running community’s very own superhero.
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John Oliver's plan for Theresa May: send Lord Buckethead to negotiate Brexit.
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I see you, Rupert Murdoch.
I see your whispery head, your hangdog expression, the malevolent balls of obsidian that function as your eyes. I see you shaking your head as you watch the exit polls come in, your flaccid jowls dangling, flapping about like the labia on a jogging...
Sam Gore
It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was ill judged. This election has highlighted the disregard for the “many” that government should serve, and after an election in which the youth turnout was around 72%...
Monique Charles
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In this video founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, author & former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis,explains Germany's role in the European Union and what we should take into account when we hear the term "multi-speed" Europe.
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Binge-watchers of the new season will find it’s hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption.
Mark Rahner
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We spent an afternoon with Warren capturing how he sees the world.
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There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people.
The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish militias. A day before, the state of Israel was...
Marwa Fatafta
Putting America's greatest threats in truthful perspective.
We are living through the collapse of the first truly global civilization in Earth’s history. This is bigger than the fall of Rome. Much more dramatic than the end for the Mayans. Greater in magnitude than the fall of the ancient Egyptians. And yet there is still hope for...
Joe Brewer
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It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
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Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Caty Borum Chattoo
This one's on me America. Take a constitutional sigh of relief that you did the right thing. Pride yourselves for ditching the royal yolk - even though you may sometimes miss its fairy-tale qualities. Here in the UK? We're still dragging our supplicant feet, swallowing the...
The Tories may still be in power at the end of the night, but Jeremy Corbyn won today.
Yes, I know this is shameless spin, but hear me out: the last few weeks have vindicated the approach of the Labour left and its international cothinkers under Corbyn.
This is the first...
Bhaskar Sunkara
A Belief in Political Participation
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Automation in the Information Age is different.
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In Jackson, Mississippi, a coalition of Latino, black, and white activists known as MIRA confronts local lawmakers, who introduced 12 anti-immgrant bills into the state legislature in 2017. Among those protesting in the state's capital: 13-year-old Yizel, whose parents are...
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The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some...
Stacco Troncoso & Ann Marie Utratel
A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.
Peter Slavin
The 94-year-old campaigner fought in the Second World War and says he still wants to defend his country
Harry Leslie Smith
The world needs an actual popular elected response to US aggression against the world’s poor and the earth’s climate.
David Swanson
Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist theory. I've often thought that this belief in not voting almost represents a sort of relig
Political journalists, especially during elections, should provide balanced news coverage of parties and scrutinise each parties’ political agendas to help properly inform the public. Sadly this is an ideal that is all-too-rarely realised. The 2015 election was reported as a...
Allaina Kilby
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So far 5 million people have watched as of June 2017. The ad promotes a beautiful message: "Worship your God with love, not terror. Be tender in your faith, tender not harsh. Confront your enemy with peace, not war. Persuade others with leniency, not force."
We couldn't...
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On the eve of the NBA Finals, superstar LeBron James found the “N-word” spray painted on his home. Not even James, with all his wealth, fame and success, is exempt from being attacked with classic racist slurs.
David Crockett
Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a slot for IDs. When that door buzzes, I walk through with video gear. I’m searched, as is the...
Dan Birman
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A group of kids with migration background decides to stage the history of civil rights movement in Berlin in order to understand how to cope with racism in Germany. But the play becomes real when Berlin authorities denies the request of asylum to one of the kid. What would...
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The numbers do not lie: women have long been underrepresented on the United States Supreme Court. In the court’s 228-year history, only four of the 112 justices have been female. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice in 1981, almost two centuries after the...
Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers
House prices are through the roof. The banks are swimming in mortgage profits. Rents are sky high. Is it any wonder there are more people on the street?
Wayne Ellwood
Purdue researchers have developed a flow battery that would allow electric cars to be recharged instantly at stations like conventional cars are. The technology is clean, safe, and cheap.
Karla Lant
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Very few people know the history of school. Nor do they know the real reason schools were established in the first place. Here's a short history of schools in the U.S. from the documentary Class Dismissed.
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Westminster rebel Caroline Lucas, is the first and only Green MP for England & Wales. In an age of disillusionment and mistrust for the ruling elite, she looks from the inside at what's wrong with England's archaic parliamentary system.
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Classic Cassetteboy mashup.
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In May 2017, a group of Pacific Islanders travelled half way across the world to visit the Canadian tar sands.
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Stewart explains Conservative economic theory in 2 minutes.
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Got family or friends who are thinking of voting Conservative?
Can't find the right words or evidence to explain why that is a terrible idea? Or just want to know more about what the Tories have been up to over the last 7 years?
Look no further!
Tyler Watts
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Supergroup Prophets of Rage, made up of members of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, have just released the first track from their debut album, along with this music video directed by Michael Moore.
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In the run up to the 2017 snap election, VICE asks why so many enormous issues have not been up for discussion. This has been a campaign best defined by Brexit and the Prime Minister's refusal to engage with the opposition, but there is so much more which has been ignored. Why?
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Trump called "Opportunist-in-Chief" for using latest violence in the UK to justify travel ban from Muslim countries
Jon Queally
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The debate over illegal immigration always misses something important: Undocumented immigrants are actually superheroes. Think about it. They literally risk their lives to make a better future for themselves and their families, and they do all the things we citizens would...
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Wonder Woman is an unsettling superhero. More so than her male counterparts, she resists easy classification: she’s neither an alien or a billionaire – nor has she been exposed to some chemical to obtain her powers. The comic books cast her as a mystery to be unravelled and...
Roberta Magnani
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The worst thing that the British government is doing today is supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It should be a national scandal, but at the moment, it isn’t even an election issue. David Wearing teaches Middle East politics and international...
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We spent an hour with Tony, capturing his wisdom. Thank you Tony. You really are an inspiration. We strive to take on your mantra that "less really is more".
Green Renaissance is a tiny collective of 4 passionate filmmakers (Warren, Jacky, Michael and Justine). We live Off...
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How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
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We do know how UK Government representatives vote in Brussels, it's a matter of public EU record. Our parliamentarians'd rather forget what happens in that 'other place'
Films For Action is a library for all the best social change films on the internet, cataloged in one place. But because there is so much to cover, and films can’t cover it all — we also curate a ton of articles too.
So this is our invitation to all of the social change...
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Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
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Returning power — and profit — to the people.
Natalie Holmes
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An epic, ominous and perhaps life saving radio interview occurs with director, Peter Charles Downey on a small-town country radio station about his new documentary movie, Surviving Earth. Where the trees whisper of humanity’s mass suicide in a valley of depleting resources...
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For calling-in to work, it must be rooted deeply in kind speech
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"The Tories don't understand how you live? They don't have to bring up a family in these areas, they're all sat in their posh homes in Oxford.." 2.3 Million views and counting...
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'We move on and we move forward, together'
Lauren McCauley
Although farmers have come to rely on imported honey bees, wild pollinators are hardier.
Lori Panico
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President Trump announced the U.S.’s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world’s best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet.
The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and projections show...
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Here are just a few of the things this legendary character and party have campaigned and lobbied for, which you probably didn't know about:
- Reducing the voting age from 21 to 18-years-old
- The legalisation of pirate radio in the UK
- Passport for pets
- Music schools and...
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The uncompromising voice behind the first gay themed country music album - 40 years after its release.
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Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give facts—it can actually offer understanding. Take it from Alan Alda, a career actor whose craft thrives on effective communication through...
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Donald Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. This would blow a massive hole in the federal budget while benefitting Trump's super-rich friends and business associates.
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Which are the things we truly need in life?
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How much can we ever really rely on the media’s depiction of events?
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£8.9bn will be slashed from schools budget by 2022. To get individual breakdowns of what school/college budgets will look like under the main parties use www.schoolcuts.org.uk . Simply enter your postcode and click on the schools in the area to get a breakdown of what a...
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This collection of 122 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active participants in designing the transition...
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After humans can change the climate, can we change it back? Climate scientist Josh Willis takes on geoengineering.
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Imagine a world where instead of eternally fighting each other in defense of our various cliques, cults, colors, creeds or groups, we began first defending all humans and the planet against our common threats: corruption, war, poverty, nationalism, and other divisive business...
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If you relate with a sense of having your true self shunned by the society we live in, this one’s for you! And if you have kids on top of that, it will really hit home.
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We have made this video to show exactly how the Conservative government has impacted women and girls since 2010. The Conservative government have shown a violent hatred towards women and non-binary people with their cuts hitting women of colour and disabled women the hardest.
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There is a lot of grief and anguish in Portland. The killings of the two men standing up to defend women of color were horrific and jarring to everyone in the city of what their sense of community is. But life and politics go on. Here are some principles you may find useful...
Arun Gupta
The basic guaranteed income is one of those ideas, like land value taxation or the Tobin tax, that circles endlessly around. There are times when it’s obscure, and times when it’s being talked about again. It’s currently in the ascendant, and I suspect that it won’t be long...
Jeremy Williams
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to “reduce and control” immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 – a level not seen for 20 years. This pledge caused some puzzlement. Even the Brexit secretary, David...
Robin Cohen
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"Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls, and so on to viscosity." - Meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson ("Weather Prediction by Numerical Process." Cambrige University Press, 1922)
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This is the story of people living and working with disabilities in modern Britain whose lives have been drastically affected by a series of Tory cuts, reforms and changes to disability benefits and a growing crisis in social care and housing.
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A personal journey
Nafeez Ahmed
This post has been flying around social media, winning lots of praise and shares. Chris Renwick, we thank you.
Chris Renwick
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In 2013 performance poet and rapper Kate Tempest and Battersea Arts Centre, embarked on a journey together to tour the award winning show Brand New Ancients. In collaboration with director Joe Roberts, Battersea Arts Centre produced these three short films interpreting Kate's...
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The relentless pursuit of self-reliance and self-improvement is rooted in our lost connection to common stories, homeland and ancestors that bind and unite us. The times now demand that we recognize the world's suffering in our own.
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Each generation has had one common desire: to live a more honest, ethical life of self-sufficiency and oneness with nature.
Nancy Matsumoto
1 in 3 women will be the victim of some kind of domestic violence in their lifetime. That scary statistic means that more than one woman in your life will be, or already has been, a violence victim.
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NHS crisis, education crisis, u turns ... you can't trust Theresa May. All proceeds from downloads of the track between 26th May and 8th June 2017 will be split between food banks around the UK and The People's Assembly Against Austerity.
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Comedian John Cleese is taking advantage of the huge tax breaks given to churches by founding a new one - The Church of JC Capitalist. Praise be the almighty $.
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Children are running wild in the mud, climbing high into trees and playing with knives, but no one is telling them off. This is kindergarten, Danish-style.
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Baking soda isn't just useful for cooking. You can use it as a deodorant, cleaning paste for rusty metal, heartburn relief, and more.
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Perhaps the most unlikely project we’ve been involved with comes from Dubai. A short film about a new development providing a glimmer of hope from this carbon-heavy Emirate.
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Even at John F. Kennedy’s centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time – a man who, in our mind’s eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.
Steven Watts
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Between the Tomahawk strike on Syria and the MOAB in Afghanistan, cable news under Trump has been saturated by images of American firepower. But the media's obsession with American weapons sanitizes violence and makes it harder to think critically about why we use deadly force.
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In our current age of resurgent nationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia and increasing border militarization, it can be easy to lose track of the central role that migration has played in shaping the spaces we inhabit. The richness and depth of human history comes from the...
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Nothing is ever what it seems
Imagining the world without hunger, war or energy dependance seems so impossible. People tend to believe that there’s enormous complexity in the way our human society is constructed. Most of them do not comprehend that the system we’re living in...
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The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, tells Owen Jones that she believes voters have felt powerless in recent years but ‘things have changed’ and people are realising they have the opportunity to transform Britain. The Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne says she thinks...
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Without collective action, social change will be slow.
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Ready by 3rd is a video featuring kids and families benefiting from home visiting services, Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education, and preschool. It also describes the importance of having an active advocacy organization serving as a voice for vulnerable kids...
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Oregon's Early Learning Opportunity is a data-packed video on the importance of early education and what Oregon can do to help young children learn, thrive, and succeed.
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In the wake of our recent Presidential election, the Flint Water Crisis has seen a rapid decline in news coverage. An “out of sight, out of mind” stance has been taken by most major networks and while the city continues to fight for an uncertain future, the rest of the world...
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16 months after the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 was founded by the former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis and philosopher and activist Srećko Horvat, a socio-economic plan called the European New Deal was presented today on 25th of May 2017 at the Volksbühne...
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