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This powerful spoken word by Hussam Ahmad urges people to look beyond the narratives being spun by the media and politicians.
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The US Government just released this tourism ad for Hawai'i and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Medical Mondays have become an internet sensation, Macka.B dropping bars about the Health benefits of Vegan Foods. This compilation video features 4 episodes, including the now famous cucumber, followed by herbal teas, pumpkin seeds and okra.
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It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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There is a kind of lottery that very rarely is talked about in which every single human being participates.
Chris Agnos
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Are you the longing for love? Watch the video to know more about love and longing for it.
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Hi, I’m Matt Orfalea and for 3 years I’ve been writing and making videos about the BIG idea of a Basic Income Guarantee (aka Universal Basic Income)
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Having a bit of a grumpy day? "Hi Stranger," by Kirsten Lepore, offers a surreal, uplifting and intimate experience that may leave you feeling relaxed as much as puzzled. With so much going on in the world today, little videos like these are a nice reminder of the other side...
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People of the Sikh faith, commonly mistaken for both Muslims and Hindus, are frequent targets of bigoted hate crimes—in fact, the first victim of post-9/11 hate crimes was a Sikh man. In 2016, attacks against Muslims—and people perceived to be Muslims, in particular Sikhs—has...
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In a world where some of the most unimaginable shitheads keep getting elevated to positions of authority and influence, it's gratifying to see them taken down a peg or two... or in this case, shrunk to doll-size and put in a box. 21st Century Bastards are the best satirical...
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Mhairi Black says the Tories' system of benefit sanctions is designed to victimise the most vulnerable in society. The SNP MP says the regime costs more to administer than it saves, makes those using it more likely to fall into hardship - and shifts blame from those who...
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Bill Mitchell, Professor of Economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and a notable proponent of Modern Monetary Theory spoke during the Joan Muysken Lecture on Monday 6 March at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics
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We must not give up on revolutionary optimism. It may get us some important concessions from neo-liberalism—and possibly much, much more.
Willy Mutunga
For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism. Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate goods and services to the population. Capitalism uses democracy and “free markets” to...
Chris Agnos
Every day, we’re treated to another barrage of outright falsehoods from the White House: Trump won the election by a landslide, Sweden is the crime capital of Europe, corpses are piling up in Bowling Green, anarchists are on George Soros’s payroll, nobody loves women or black...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
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Exiled from the tropical paradise where they evolved, a tiny population of remarkable stick insects dodged extinction by hiding under a single windswept bush on the world's tallest sea stack for 80 years. Thanks to a dedicated team of scientists they're now living safely in...
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A poetic portrait of scientist Nick Holmes and his work preventing extinctions on islands. Part nature documentary, part fairy tale and chock full of blindingly beautiful, big-hearted science. Narrated by Nick Holmes from Island Conservation.
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'Halfway' is a short film about the daily struggles of women in STEM. The script was developed based on real experiences of women who work in STEM/academic environments. Experiences were recounted through interviews and the distribution of an online survey.
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Our aim is a society where people are guaranteed the necessities of life not because they’re sympathetic, but because they’re human beings.
Clio Chang
Poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity.
Jim Tull
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Trish Hoffman has made it her goal to teach women how to feel safe and prepared, no matter what. In the video above, she demonstrates how a woman can defend herself against an attacker in three specific scenarios.
There's no way of knowing how strong your attacker may be...
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What makes people brave? Vanessa Baird takes a look at an under-examined quality that can change the world.
Vanessa Baird
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Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. Jamal Edwards, founder of film-making company SBTV, asks why so many men are taking their own lives, and whether society's stereotypes of masculinity have stopped men from seeking help with depression.
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Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.
Patrick Stokes, Deakin University
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On Saturday 18th March, the UN day against racism, 30,000 people marched against racism in London.
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Three principles to help you avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world.
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
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Unsafe water kills more people than war. I was caught off guard when I heard these statistics. I grew up in a country that lacks in water and is rich in war and I always thought we had it bad. However, in 2017, with all our access to knowledge, there are hundreds of millions...
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We speak of the need to trim entitlement costs from programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Food Stamps. We describe the effort to do so as a political third rail. But the current discussion about entitlement programs is a classic and cynical misdirect. What we...
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Last year, we went to Puerto Rico to document first-hand the detrimental effects that the debt crisis has had on health care, education, and the general public. Now, the Fiscal Control Board and Pro-bank members like Carlos Garcia, are trying to slash even more money out of...
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The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip service to liberty and justice while obliterating the institutions and laws that make them...
Chris Hedges
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Why do girls feel empowered to engage in sexual activity but not to enjoy it? For three years, author Peggy Orenstein interviewed girls ages 15 to 20 about their attitudes toward and experiences of sex. She discusses the pleasure that's largely missing from their sexual...
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The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their own things.
Jeremy Williams
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Tamera is an extraordinary intentional community in Portugal. A model for regional autonomy in energy and food, it is focused on creating a truly peaceful society, working harmoniously with nature. This short film looks at the many projects that have transformed the arid...
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The person we may find it hardest to be kind and sympathetic to is, surprisingly, ourselves. Yet being a friend to ourselves provides the only viable basis for living an emotionally fulfilled life.
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"Capitalism is Evil!"
"No, socialism is Evil!"
"You must love oligarchy!"
"You must love communism!"
Sound familiar? That's what passes for "debate" these days- beating each other over the head with divisive labels and any extreme straw-man arguments handy. Ideas become...
Our lives in the digital 21st century are ruled by tens of thousands of digital algorithms. But here’s the one that matters most:
Chemical destiny minus meaningful ritual = addiction.
Here’s how it works, step by step:
We are wired for addiction by virtue of the simple...
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Whistleblowers are essential - they help expose wrongdoing that otherwise would flourish and cause harm, but what whistleblowers go through is often not fully appreciated.
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The most important truth for anyone to understand today is this: Without limits and oversight, Capitalism is Sociopathy. When used as a tool in carefully monitored ethical and humane boundaries, it can indeed be a positive driving force in the advancement of civilization...
We are living in a time full of threats – and unprecedented possibilities, especially when it comes to the state of the media. Let’s consider five paradoxes, in no particular order.
Vanessa Baird
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Adapted from the feature documentary Not Without Us, Kandi Mossett from the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the health, environmental and social impacts of extractive industries on indigenous communities.
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Environment, public education, worker protections, and cultural institutions all stand to lose under Trump's "cruel" budget blueprint
Deirdre Fulton
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Fukushima residents are grappling with a choice: return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.
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Pablo Picasso was feeling uninspired. The world’s most famous artistic genius had been commissioned to do a painting for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937, but all he had come up with in three months were some preliminary sketches that he didn’t like very...
Gavin Aung Than
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Elephants and their ancestors have roamed the African continent for millions of years. They are the largest land animals on earth and can live up to 70 years. Elephants are profoundly intelligent and social creatures. They have trunks that serves as their nose, arm, and...
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An interview covering neoliberalism, migration, Brexit, Trump, community-building, climate change, democracy, power, globalization, and lots more.
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Mientras las tecnologías digitales están cambiando todo, seguimos teniendo instituciones políticas del siglo XIX.
Sin embargo, en los márgenes del poder actual, crece un movimiento que escapa de las trincheras ideológicas tradicionales, para dar cuerpo a otra forma de hacer...
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"Why we need basic income today" -- discussing why the benefits from UBI would already be a huge gain, and it's not just a policy for when automation has decimated the job landscape. Jim Pew is the co-founder of the Universal Income Project
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Steve Bannon has been propelled over the last year from fringe media outlier to top propagandist of the U.S. Empire as Trump's Chief Strategist.
From his Wall Street roots and apocalyptic film career to his cultivation of alt-right bigots at Breitbart News, Abby Martin...
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If you want to sustain yourself for the work ahead, here’s some advice: It doesn’t matter whether the other side “deserves” anger.
Colin Beavan
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Belo Monte: After the Flood is a new film directed by award-winning environmental documentarian Todd Southgate, and produced with International Rivers, Amazon Watch and Cultures of Resistance.
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In rural McDowell County, West Virginia, a crowd of Trump supporters cheered progressive senator's call for universal healthcare
Nika Knight
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In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one.
All three girls and their families have endured the emotional trauma of being thrown out of their homes. With nowhere to go they are absorbed into the hidden world of bed...
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Dear Europe is a collaborative video about the upcoming European elections and how lessons gleaned from Brexit and Trump, might relate. The piece was made by artists who call the US and the UK home. Turn on closed captions for French, Dutch and German and Italian!
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On January 30 – three days after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries – an American scientist employed by NASA was detained at the US border
Paul Ralph
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Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She tells of the abuse and racist treatment she suffered, and returns to her school in Kilkenny...
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When Joshua Browder developed the chatbot for DoNotPay, the original idea was just to help people out with their traffic ticket woes. DoNotPay has since successfully overturned more than 200,000 disputable parking tickets in London, New York, and Seattle. It’s also given free...
Dom Galeon and Kelsey Marquart
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In today's Trews I respond to your comments on various subjects.
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Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth.
Lynn Parramore
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David Milarch is an arborist from central Michigan. In 1991, Milarch had a near death experience that inspired a personal quest – to archive the genetics of the world's largest trees before they're gone and to replant global forests to fight climate change. This is the story...
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DIVIDE IN CONCORD is a feature-length documentary that follows the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America.
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April 1 to 7: Call for a Week of Solidarity
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
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What happens when our meta-addiction to all things media and all things digital emerges as the default social conditon, the rule rather than the exception? Like the citizens of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we are enslaved not by the things we fear, but by the things we...
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Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief insisted that the Wall Street Journal wouldn’t label Trump’s false statements as “lies.” Lying, said the editor, requires a deliberate intention to mislead, which couldn’t be proven in Trump’s case.
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Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self...
Skye C Cleary
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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Have you heard any of these statements before?
Life is hard and requires sacrifice. If you work hard, you will succeed. There is not enough. Look out for yourself. The world is hostile. “Survival of the fittest.” Competition drives progress. Be rational. Control your...
Chris Agnos
Have you noticed all the cuts being made to your city budget? To schools and libraries, fire fighters and social services, and other public spending? Think you could do a better job managing the budget? Soon, you may have that chance.
Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner
Communication is essential to achieve successful human interactions. However, the type of communication we have highly determines the outcome of our relationships. It all simply boils down to how we are connecting with each other.
Elyane Youssef
Or, The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land
Rob Hopkins
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A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and...
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Important Information regarding a proposed law reform and what it means to you.
5 reasons why antifa are nothing like the fascists.
It's about working together to get the good things in life, the things we're currently expected to have to strive for alone, the things that most people will live an die and never experience precisely because they're alone and powerless and poor.
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Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique...
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In this article, Smucker reveals how radicals can pursue a revolutionary horizon that "delivers the goods." The key is to arm ourselves with the strategic knowledge and orientation to start building the future we want now, in the shell of the old.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
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"I'm trying to find a way to translate my experience, so you can relate, but I'm waiting... waiting for the moment you stopped listening."
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In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff talks about bankruptcy protection, debt jubilee, students debt and the function that a credit system serves in our society today.
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In this episode Dean invites Nafeez to deconstruct his recent essay outlining a roadmap for the resistance in the Age of Trump.
In the face of corporate domination, economic injustice, and climate change, movements led by women offer a revolutionary path.
Rucha Chitnis
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Our phones, computers and even TVs can be used to spy on us today. This video asks what does it mean to be a young person growing up in a surveillance state.
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In January 2014 a brutal new Jihadist group swept through Syria and set up its capital in Raqqa in the east of the country.
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"Morality has lead us to accept what we cannot change, and to think that there are things we cannot change."
America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it's rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse
Paul Buchheit
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire ation.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in
Bernie Sanders
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A teaser of the upcoming cinematic documentary revealing the controversial life of Women Extraordinaire. You can SUBSCRIBE to our NEWSLETTER on our website: www.WEGeniusMinds.com. We will LOVE to keep you informed about our progress!
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A dwarf, a dragon, and a golden egg. Yet the real fairy-tale of this film is the journey of Jeanmarie,
the Dutch street performer. In an adventurous project, Jeanmarie teams up with youth worker Frank to travel through the last remaining untouched regions of China, performing...
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The proportion of women not having children before the menopause has reached a record high in the last decade. Here, women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of childlessness that they say comes from a dated societal structure - and celebrate International...
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Women are massively more affected by budget cuts than men, says the Labour peer. They are more likely to be single parents, earn less and work part time than their male counterparts. She argues the government must replace ‘gender-neutral’ budgeting with economic policies that...
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Strike for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people
FFA Staff
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Bill Nye is interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News to talk about climate change and research to identify the cause of the cognitive dissonance in those who deny the evidence that the current rate of climate change is man-made. What happens is an object lesson in media...
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This documentary chronicles the story Jordyn, a 13 year old autistic boy who is just learning how to communicate for the first time. Unable to control his body and emotions, Jordyn's autistic world is also filled with unseen beauty and idealism which he expresses through his...
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Humans and birds are having a difficult time co-existing, as a confrontation in an open field spirals out of control.
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