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The increasingly unscrupulous propaganda machine of radical corporate capitalism is warping our humanity and driving us to destroy what is closest to our hearts, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker. The last hope of defeating this evil might lie in the strategic use...
J. Col - 4 Your Eyez Only 48 min
An hourlong special that combines documentary footage of J. Cole’s travels to various cities through the Midwest and the South that have personal or political resonance for him with in situ music videos that locate Mr. Cole’s songs as part of a larger conversation about black...
“Cryptography is the ultimate form of nonviolent direct action.” - Julian Assange
No one is coming to save you, Comrade.
The Call to Sanctuary: How to Create Safety in Your Community 5 min
The Trump agenda calls for a rush on deportations. That means we need a call to sanctuary now by keeping our communities safe and speaking out louder than ever before. Together we can protect the most vulnerable by pushing our cities and counties to take up Sanctuary and...
The Fight - Documenting Disability Activists Caravan of Courage in Bolivia 30 min
People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up of being ignored, a group of them marched across the Andes to the seat of the Government in La Paz, asking to speak with President Evo Morales. They are met with riot police, barricades, tear...
Here's Why the 'Strong and Stable' Conservative Slogan is Complete Bullshit 4 min
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
The Scottish Start-Up Making Roads with Waste Plastic 3 min
Engineer Toby McCartney explains how his Scottish start-up MacRebur is persuading councils to use local waste plastic to build roads. Two English councils have already started building roads this way.
What Happens When You Bring Meditation to Public Schools 5 min
Classrooms all over the country are trying something new: sitting and breathing.
Smoke That Travels - What it Means to be Native American 13 min
Smoke That Travels is a personal documentary by Kayla Briët that explores preservation and loss of culture and her own identity as Prairie Band Potawatomi.
Risk 1 min
Laura Poitras, Academy Award winning director of CITIZENFOUR, returns with her most personal and intimate film to date. Filmed over six years, RISK is a complex and volatile character study that collides with a high stakes election year and it’s controversial aftermath.
Bernie Sanders Talks Democrats, President Trump, Palestine and Syria 10 min
Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.
Kubra Khademi - Afghan Performer Artist 10 min
A soul. A human being. A woman. A feminist. A refugee. But what would it matter? Her arts speak all.
You Decide Your Side 2 min
Short Video to raise awareness of the environmental risks that we may suffer if we do not change our way of living in developed countries. www.thevisualsuspects.net
Ahmed Galai - Bakri Bouchi (العربية) 22 min
Interview with Ahmed Galai (Nobel Peace Price 2015 member) and Bakri Bouchi (Barcelona, 2016)
Invisibles - Projecte Social Educatiu 1 min
INVISIBLES és un projecte educatiu d’innovació i transformació social per sensibilitzar la ciutadania sobre la pitjor crisi humanitària des de la 2ª Guerra Mundial. Persones refugiades, asilades, expatriades, deportades o immigrades, i especialistes que treballen per...
Privacy, Control & the Darknet 27 min
Out of the periphery of most online users, there’s a vast, hidden space used by people who want to remain anonymous, which filmmaker Alex Winter explores in his documentary Deep Web. The film focuses on the Silk Road, a black market hosted on the Darknet using bitcoin...
Them, They 3 min
This video is my artistic response to what I see going on in our country right now - using music, imagery, and narration as a means to that expression. I composed the music, wrote the narration, and did the editing. The video images are all stock footage and images from the...
“I have a problem with your title, like…why do you feel the need to tell black stories for white audiences and not for your own community?” A young black man in the front row wanted to know, his arms folded, as if he’d come to ask that question and promptly leave before my...
Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope 2 min
THE CHILD MAY NOT REMEMBER, BUT THE BODY REMEMBERS.
'By rushing this bill through Congress, Republicans are creating a manufactured crisis that will devastate millions of families'
Emotional intelligence can mean the difference between behaving in a socially acceptable way and being considered to be way out of line. While most people will have heard of emotional intelligence, not many people really know how to spot it – in themselves or in others.
Anywhere but Westminster - Is This the Weirdest Election Ever? 11 min
John Harris and John Domokos start a five-week tour of the UK in the crucial battleground of south-west England.  From the Brexit heartlands of Cornwall to remain-voting Bristol, they try to answer 2017’s big question: how can such a divided, confused country even begin to...
Two Americas - A Colony in a Nation 5 min
Chris Hayes, the progressive journalist, commentator and host of "All in With Chris Hayes" on MSNBC, explains the power of white fear and the great divide between the "Colony" and the "Nation."
Kenya's Universal Basic Income Experiment 11 min
Give Directly, an NGO, has embarked on a pioneering economic experiment in rural Kenya. They are providing the residents of entire villages with a universal basic income through direct cash transfers.
The Bentley Effect 4 min
The extraordinary tale of a community who defied the gas juggernaut. Filmed over five years, The Bentley Effect documents the highs and lows of the battle to keep a unique part of Australia gasfield-free. This timely story of a community’s heroic stand shows how strategic...
Universal Wisdom Meditation 12 min
This guided meditation is offered as a way of connecting to our deeper purpose as a unique expression of the Universal Wisdom to support the co-creation for a new planetary story, emerging from the heart of our humanity. Meditation: Facilitated by Anneloes Smitsman of...
Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm! 6 min
From our fellow change agents at United Earth….
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done 33 min
This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in an alternate timeline became the greatest Prime...
What Is OK? 4 min
Hyper individualism, capitalism and disposable-culture point in one particular direction. "What Is OK?" attempts to point in another.
These are strange times in American politics. And stranger still is the emerging character of the Trump presidency. Events are appearing with growing frequency, raising the question who is really running the White House and the US government? Is Trump really the President?
Zimbabweans Are Turning Trash Into Art 2 min
In a country dealing with cash shortages, power outages and high unemployment, artists have been striving to reveal a beauty in the environment around them.
A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...
The ONE secret that Nikola Tesla wrested from nature on that fateful day in a Budapest park was the design for his most famous and important invention: the Alternating Current Induction Motor. Before Tesla’s breakthrough, all electricity and motors used a direct current...
Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and egalitarian world we all long for. The key is...
Cybersecurity for the People 3 min
Planning on going to a protest? You might not be aware that just by showing up, you can open yourself up to certain privacy risks — police often spy on protesters, and the smartphones they carry, and no matter how peaceful the demonstration, there’s always a chance that you...
Following the Route of the Keystone XL Pipeline Through 3 States 23 min
After Trump's revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, some communities along its route are getting ready to fight back. Others see a promise kept by the US president to 'make America great again'. The Guardian drove along the proposed route of the pipeline, through three...
Buggy Off! 4 min
Buggy off! is a short film exploring the experience of a wheelchair being denied on a bus and the reactions of the general public. It brings into focus bigger questions around how people are valued in society. Buggy Off! was made by get2gether with the help of Media Education.
Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do it fix it.
Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit Negotiations: "How Can These Smart People be so Deluded" 6 min
Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, resigned back in 2015 at the height of the crisis there. He has now written a book about the whole experience, Adults in the Room - and he spoke to Evan Davis about Brexit and the UK's general election.
Neil Gaiman's Powerful Poem Lays Bare the Merchants of Hate 3 min
An original poem by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Peter Kenny, directed and animated by Anna Eijsbouts. Hate for Sale Hate for sale. All the very best  Hate for sale. Vintage stuff. Do my cries excite your interest?  Lovely hate. Your life is rough. Buy my hate. You'll come...
As Indonesia hosts World Press Freedom Day, accusations of hypocrisy are growing louder. The Indonesian government is notorious for restricting journalism within the occupied territory of West Papua – something that West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor and Cyril Payen of...
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature 22 min
Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most...
When I graduated from high school in 1985, college was the unquestionable next step for an intelligent, middle-class or upper-middle class young person. I entered an elite school not out of any particular ambition, but because the story that surrounded me said that this is...
We the People 2.0 91 min
We the People 2.0 describes the growing people’s revolt against destructive corporate activities in the US to stop toxic dumps, mines, drilling, etc. Communities are seizing back the right to say no through local lawmaking, outlawing oligarchy.
Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class politics itself: the politics of a strain of the professional-managerial class whose worldview...
The Valley Rebels - The French Farmer Helping Refugees Cross Europe 25 min
Cédric Herrou is a farmer who supports and houses African refugees in the alpine village of Breil-Sur-Roya in southern France. Some regard him as a heroic good samaritan, but others – including the French border police and state prosecutor – denounce him as the leader of a...
Netflix’s new talk show, “Bill Nye Saves the World,” debuted the night before people around the world joined together to demonstrate and March for Science. Many have lauded the timing and relevance of the show, featuring the famous “Science Guy” as its host, because it aims...
Trouble Ep 2. - Bash the Fash 31 min
Reactionary right-wing politics are on the rise in the west, and events are moving at a dangerous pace. In the wake of Trump’s ascendency to the US presidency, a toxic mix of white nationalism, Islamophobia, transphobia, violent misogyny, and anti-migrant hysteria is rapidly...
The Ongoing Impact of Mass Incarceration 3 min
In February of 2012, Jamal Faison was a 20-year-old college sophomore home on school break in New York City when he, along with a group of friends, was arrested for attempting to steal mobile devices from a subway rider. Jamal maintains he wasn’t involved in the...
Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.
For major protests today, it is standard to have a media strategy. For example, there can be individuals assigned to media liaison. The location and timing of an action can be chosen with an eye toward media schedules. Some actions are designed specifically to attract media...
Can We Run on 100% Renewable Energy? 2 min
Most of our energy is currently generated from fossil fuels. However, researchers are convinced that we can make the transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050. But how realistic is it really?
Donald Trump. King of the horrifingly dumb and dangerously greedy.
Well that didn’t take much. After all the time and effort that those of us in the alternative media have been pouring into our attempts to show people that democracy does not exist in America, the political establishment has stepped forward and admitted it candidly with its...
How The Free Market Really Works 5 min
An example of how the Free Market functions, taken from the book titled 'The New Human Rights Movement,' written by Peter Joseph.
How to Boil a Frog 53 min
There's plenty of serious documentaries on the world's environmental problems. How to Boil a Frog takes a different approach, mixing fast-paced comedy with hard-hitting facts to help make complex subjects both understandable and more engaging. The accompanying study guide...
Real Value 70 min
Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...
Guerrilla Growing: Tools and Techniques 9 min
This video will show you how to Guerrilla Grow food bearing trees and plants in a wooded area. You will learn the tools and techniques necessary for a successful planting mission and there are links to suppliers in this description. In this video we are planting the native...
“When you left London the East India Company was a trading company,” Tom Hardy’s troubled anti-hero James Delaney is warned in the second episode of the BBC’s prime-time drama Taboo. “Now it is God Almighty.” Discussing the show before it aired, writer Stephen Knight referred...
Rights for many intelligent animals could hinge on a one-word edit in a law dictionary.
If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is now, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). If the global...
How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a community would have to follow. I hasten to say that I do not understand these rules as predictions; I am not interested in...
After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings working on social, economic, and...
Understanding Trump's Divide and Conquer Strategy 2 min
The biggest threat to authoritarianism is unity.
A “memetic” observation about all the resistance marches since Trump took office… the protests feed what they oppose. There is a finite amount of emotional energy available in the world — the aggregate of all things that people are thinking about and acting on in any given...
Yanis Varoufakis - Why the Universal Basic Income Is a Necessity 32 min
In this video former finance minister of Greece, professor of economics, author and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), Yanis Varoufakis, argues why the Basic Income is a necessity today. His arguments take into account a macro socio-economic...
After 54 years of struggle under Indonesian rule, is freedom finally in sight for West Papua? Danny Chivers investigates.
It has been 10 long years since Congress passed legislation to raise the minimum wage. It’s time to raise it for all Americans.
Kyle Cease: The World's Problems Are My Fault 3 min
The world is falling apart, and it's my fault.
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist 120 min
What if telling a story that gives hope by pointing out solutions was the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that shake our world?
Gracie's Backyard (2017)  - Kickstarter Video 2 min
Support the film on Kickstarter : http://kck.st/2pWfibo
Crop Swap Taranaki 7 min
Crop swapping is an easy and fun way of building community around moneyless exchange of homegrown and home made food and garden produce. Have a look at how we do it here in Taranaki, Aotearoa/New Zealand
New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?
This Social Experiment Shows That Building Bridges is Much Better Than Building Walls 4 min
Can two strangers with opposing views prove that there’s more that unites than divides us?
Pope Francis on Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone 18 min
A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to people of all faiths, to those who have power as well as those who don't, the...
In My Backyard... (Nobody Bites) 18 min
This documentary aims to show the importance of community networking when addressing social realities such as the sale and use of intravenous drugs in neighborhoods and public spaces. The experiences and opinions of various social actors involved in this case in a...
What About & About Who? 25 min
This is a document of work to promote the associative movement of drug users (Catalonia-Spain). It is part of the preliminaries of a qualitative and participative research (Action Plan on drugs of Reus-ARSU) . We took advantage of the participation in various conferences...
Noam Chomsky says CIA Targeting of Julian Assange & Wikileaks Is Disgraceful 5 min
Last week, the Trump administration reportedly prepared an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department was seeking to put Assange in jail. Amy Goodman asked world-renowned linguist and dissident Noam...
You Don't Publish a Million Secrets a Year Without Making a Few Enemies 2 min
The Trump administration is preparing to go after WikiLeaks, here is their response.
Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman in Discussion 80 min
A discussion between Noam Chomsky, MIT's Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, and Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning independent news program Democracy Now!
Nature's Solution to the Water Crisis 2 min
How can we support this natural solution to ensure there is water for future generations?
Life, but Not as We Know It 6 min
A short 6-minute extract from a talk given by author Kingsley L. Dennis. In this extract Dennis discusses some ideas concerning artificial intelligence.
It's been said that the original computers are our brains. But what if that's more than a metaphor? What if I told you we could use that analogy as insight, and escape mental slavery by fighting our ignorance? True, you don't actually have to have a clue to struggle through...
You Can't Have Infinite Growth On A Finite Planet 6 min
"Our economy is based on a crazy idea - the crazy idea being that we're gonna have infinite growth on a finite planet." - Paul Guilding
When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals – it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt and conclude that we should eat less meat.
Unpaywall is a web browser plug-in that brings free information to those who seek facts. The open-source service is disrupting traditional publishing by giving users access to peer-reviewed journal articles for free, and it's all totally legal.
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Get Out of the Materialism Trap NOW 10 min
Do you own stuff or does stuff own you?  Materialism is an addiction. It is a sickness. And it's one of the only sicknesses that appears to sparkle and shine. This is because it is an addiction of material possessions that appeal to the eye; nothing more, nothing less.
Temporary Truce in a Democratic Party Civil War: The Sanders & Perez Unity Tour 16 min
Bernie Sanders says fight the billionaire class and DNC Chair Tom Perez refuses to say it; the Real News Network panel asks if/when Bernie should leave the party.
Don't Buy the Lie - To Oppose the Government Is Not Sabotage 2 min
Paul Mason says the Daily Mail headline, calling those who oppose the government ‘saboteurs’, is sinister. He argues that this tactic is commonplace in dictatorships and autocracies, but to see it in a democracy is alarming. He says meaningful opposition to the Tories is...
The Hidden Purging of Millions of Voters 27 min
With all the discussion of the contentious 2016 election, the most shocking fact is often ignored: that millions of people had their votes stolen through malicious means. The Republican Party is currently working to purge millions more voters leading up to the 2018...
How Sanctuary Cities Actually Work 6 min
President Trump says he wants to strip funding from so-called "sanctuary cities," but what exactly do these cities do?
A 3-Minute Cure for Prejudice and Racism 3 min
This exquisite 3-minute video tells the story of three thousand American high school art students who reached out in 2017 to war-displaced children in a Syrian refugee camp by studying photographs of their faces and painting portraits of them as gifts. In the process, the...
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty. Standard...
Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually it’s the other way around.
'The sentences of Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are another heinous example of how the death penalty is applied to people with severe mental impairments and history of abuse'
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