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The political context of violence should determine how we judge it, says Brian Bean.
Brian Bean
A world where everybody has a gun, sorry smartphone*
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Filmed at a student march organised by Movement for Justice earlier this month, this film highlights some of the issues facing international students at the moment in the UK. It forms part of Real Media’s special week of articles covering migrants and refugees.
In solidarity...
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This is a short excerpt from Peacemaking.
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We live in a toxic society filled with toxic people. Even the ones with the best hearts- including ourselves- have been raised in ignorance, with disinformation. Our examples of happiness are fake, sponsored, and used to sell products. Typical relationship standards normalize...
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After 10 years and three terms, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa's time in office has ended. Under his administration Ecuador made far-reaching economic and social gains, despite having inherited a country on the brink of collapse. In one of his last interviews before...
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Excerpt from MLK Jr.'s last sermon, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Delivered at The National Cathedral on March 31, 1968 (4 days prior to his assassination)
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On Feb 16th, the London Green Party supported the latest Kings College Climate Emergency protest calling for the university to divest its fossil fuel holdings.
Students decorated the front of the university and painted dots, calling for Kings College to 'Join The Dots' and...
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It’s alarming to see how polarized politics have become in the United States. The wider the gulf grows, the more people seem to be certain that the other side is wrong. Certainty can be a dangerous thing.
Two years ago, I met the social psychologist Arie Kruglanski while...
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AJ+'s documentary series Guns in America explores how fear and power define Americans' relationship with guns. The six-part series examines the controversy over assault rifles, guns in schools, the rise of concealed carry, the NRA's new agenda, smart guns and record shooting...
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Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the world is to get everyone out of extreme poverty and get the richest people to use less fossil...
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Power to the Pigeon is a new horizontally organized alternative language school in Nijmegen where language learning starts from your interests, knowledge and experience. Together we learn to be critical by supporting our natural curiosity.
We want to teach and learn language...
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Adama Traoré died in police custody last year. His family's struggle for justice has put police brutality back under the spotlight in France and his older sister Assa is leading the battle for the truth around her brother's death. Iman Amrani looks at how this story paved the...
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In the small town of Oxford, Kane and Fiona Hogan have transformed their urban 1/2-acre property into abundant veggie gardens. Their business Urban Gardener aims to build resilience and food security in their local community.
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Living with chronic illness is lonely as fuck. I spend so much time on my own — more time than I ever expected to spend on my own, or have ever wanted to. There is so, so, much of my life that people don’t see. I share parts of it — through social media, my writing and...
Empirical historical evidence combined with a little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual Apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both.
The passing of the 'Regularization Bill' on...
Ramzy Baroud
3 min
With an increasingly polarized and divided world, we need empathy more than ever before. Too often we are talking at each other, unable to listen and jumping to entirely wrong conclusions. Communication is fast becoming a stressful endeavor, which instead of connecting us, is...
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Why men need more platonic touch in their lives
Mark Green
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The Caretaker is an intimate portrait of the relationship between an immigrant caretaker, and a woman in the last months of her life. This short film is the first of eight films in the Immigrant Nation series
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Outside of Taos, New Mexico, you'll find a community of people living in off-grid homes made of garbage. The homes are called Earthships and were invented by Michael Reynolds. We went to Taos to check them out.
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One of the best forms of resistance will be our demand for a more equitable and humane economy
Les Leopold
Humanity stands at a crossroads. Now, more than ever, history calls for a grassroots democracy at a global scale. If we look carefully, all the tools are at hand.
Eleanor Finley
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Do you think of yourself as the alpha dog of the house? Do you think it's important to assert your dominance over your dog? Well, you're in for a surprise.
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Donald Trump is driving liberals crazy, says Jonathan Freedland, but how worried should they really be? He claims that norms of democracy - such as a free press and the rule of law - have already been undermined by the new president. And, he says, the idea of democracy is...
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If you’ve been feeling increasingly stressed lately, then check out these instantly relaxing gifs and see for yourself why researchers recommend them.
Raven Fon
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In this powerful film, Abu Muntasir tells the story of how he decided to travel for Jihad in Afghanistan, the traumatic reality of what faced him there and why he changed his mind and recognised the true interpretation of the Qur'an.
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No one can say we don’t live in interesting times. But amidst the tumult and frenzy of domestic politics and global events one thing is for certain: the age of passivity is unquestionably over. The age of watching it all unfold on a TV screen or in between the pages of a...
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At a time when immigrant and minority communities are under unprecedented attack from discrimination and racism across the UK,
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Noam Chomsky, Charles Eisenstein, Beth Payne from Redneck Revolt, along with many other activists, writers, and scientists (and even Vermin Supreme!) on How to stop the Ecological Crisis we face.
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In 1936, the people of Spain rose up, overthrew their masters and took power into their own hands. In the villages and small towns of Aragon, they began to live in a way never seen before in modern Europe. Their ideal – libertarian communism.
This detailed eyewitness account...
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In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The location was apparently empty, and the whole endeavor was risky – what, if anything, was going to show up? But what came back was nothing short of spectacular: an image of over...
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I admit, I laughed a little too. When I first saw videos of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched by a protester, I thought it was funny. And even now, I’m not exactly shedding a tear for him. I certainly pray that the attempts to find and target the person who...
Kazu Haga
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The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. AFFIRM the Charter today: http://charterforcompassion.org
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All together now.
George Monbiot
5 min
We stood on the ice dunes of the glaciers of Alaska in the midst of a snowy winter. Trekking the slopes of another planet had been on our list for a long time. The silence and majesty of the mountains surrounding us, the bluest ice we had ever seen and the steady rush of ice...
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Movies to remind you there’s hope in the fight for justice and equality.
Breena Kerr
23 min
Donald Trump spreads a lot of false information thanks to his daily consumption of morning cable news. If only we could sneak some facts into the president's media diet...
23 min
I see you, Piers Morgan.
Sam Gore
Plant the Seed Education - Social Change Programme
Mattieu Theron
6 min
London activists are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.
6 min
A discussion about the politics of SURJ
Redneck Revolt and others
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Last week, a video statement made by self-proclaimed members of the "Alt-Right" was shared by Milo Yiannopoulos and has since spread across the Internet.
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Director Ken Loach accepts the Bafta award for Best British Film for his portrayal of life in the British welfare system in I, Daniel Blake. He uses his speech to criticise the government for its “callous brutality” and its attitude towards “the most vulnerable and the...
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How minorities, soldiers, workers, the poor and American Natives opposed unjust and oppressive U.S. governments.
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Honoring the life, legacy and enduring dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This interactive panel will explore the continued struggle for collective liberation and explore the role of men and masculinity in a new civil rights movement led by queer/femme black and...
112 min
A systemic crisis in the global Deep System has driven the violent radicalization of a Deep State faction
Nafeez Ahmed
Trump is a disaster, but so was the TPP
Isabel Marlens
1 min
“I'm Mustafa and I'm currently imprisoned in the juvenile prison of Wiesbaden.
Here in Germany you can't pray in peace, you are discriminated. I have met many recruiters myself. They say it's wonderful there, you can live according to your Islamic religion, you can fight for...
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"We expected them to be aggressive, determined. Instead we found them to be very young, in their 20s at the most, and searching in an almost childlike fashion for somewhere to belong, an identity," director Stefano Obino told ANSA. Obino is working on a documentary on...
Luciana Borsatti
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Trailer for the upcoming release of the short documentary WhyTalkFeminism?
51 min
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Dr. Stephan Harding explains Gaia Theory and its Impact on his Life.
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In Indonesia, in the center of Java Island, forest communities are making every effort to achieve sustainable development. Conscious that they live with timber, they organize themselves to ensure production chains with legal wood only. Cutting a tree can take hours : they...
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The media are alive with the he-tweeted, she-tweeted of Gorsuch's purported behind-closed-doors criticism of Trump. But he should not be praised for pretending to have a spine.
Liam Miller
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“What has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike.” - Wilhelm Reich "The Mass Psychology of...
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Every German consumes an average of nearly 90 kg of meat every year. This is way too much and problematic in many ways. Industrialized production of meat is unsustainable in many ways, it affects: Land consumption, food security, climate change, animal rights, pollution and...
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New document swirls as prison appears to be 'gearing up' for new prisoners from expansive global battlefield
Andrea Germanos
20 min
Videos are a fantastic tool for activism and advocacy. Here are a few video guides to creating films of your own. Produced by Witness, you can find many more helpful videos and written materials on their website.
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The world’s longest‐running military occupation and genocide has killed more than 500,000 people, and is destroying the world’s second‐largest rainforest and 50,000 years of civilisation. Why haven't more people heard of West Papua?
Here’s one reason: it’s because the...
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Back in the liberal-compared-to-now days of the Ronald Reagan administration, a rapper named Brother D released a single that asked the question: “How we gonna make the black nation rise?” His answer – “agitate, educate, and organise” – if prescient then, seems overwhelmingly...
Tim Atkins
Not happy with the way the world’s changing? Advertising professionals are far from powerless.
Alex Reeves/Beak Street Bugle
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"The Democratic Republic of Congo"
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"MONICA: Peruvian Highlands"
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Living in a pastoral yet urban village along the Nepalese border, Vandana, a devout Hindu woman, speaks of her aspirations for life, which are not that different from those of us in the West. One of three women from the triptych Black Inside-Three Women's Voices, Vandana...
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Just west of the Somali border and equally south of Ethiopia's Ogaden, you'll find one of the most brutally harsh regions of open desert within Kenya's vast northern territory, yet it's called home by Sarah and her nomadic tribe the Gabra. Sarah is one of three women featured...
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Children are the best gift......Then? Abeer is a 9 yr old boy who is going through a lot in his daily life. He expresses his feelings in his diary and questions the beliefs and false expectations that our society has from children. One day, he takes a drastic step which...
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BLACK INSIDE: Three Women’s Voices - is a triptych film created for the United Nations Foundation's - Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, (www.cleancookstoves.org) that lends an intimate perspective to an urgent global public health and environmental threat.
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RED DIRT ROAD follows the life of Hab Saly, a young woman who believed there was more to life than working so hard for so little, in the oppressive garment factories in Phnom Penh. With a backdrop of the 1974 Khmer Rouge atrocities that permanently scared Cambodian life...
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From Ladakh to Bhutan, Buddhist nuns and monks from 60 centers in the Himalayan region work on environmental protection. From cleaning up rivers, to installing solar panels, the nuns and monks approach the environment with a sense of compassion, recognizing the...
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Last week I had two brushes with the mainstream of American culture and politics. The first was an appearance on a PBS television show, the Tavis Smiley show. As far as I can remember, this was only the second time I’ve been on a national TV program. The other time was in...
Charles Eisenstein
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A team in the Houston Police Department is trying something new when addressing complaints associated with people living on the streets.
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Kids give an important reminder to be kind to others, regardless of our differences, and inspire hope for the future.
"In the wake of the US election, filmmaker Jessie Auritt wanted to do something to try and combat the negativity, xenophobia, racism and sexism that...
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Mithu Storoni is an author, a University of Cambridge-trained medical doctor (MD), certified in Ophthalmology, and also holds a PhD in Neuro-ophthalmology. Her book, 'Stress-Proof' (published by Penguin Random House) explores the science of stress resilience. This talk was...
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Nuclear waste can be harmful for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. How can people today even imagine what society will be like over those types of time periods? And more importantly, how can we make sure that future generations don’t forget nuclear...
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The progressive agenda over the next four years will be hard-won—and heavily illustrated—if the past few weeks are any indication.
Jennifer Luxton
On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile of bricks and wood underneath a football field at the University of Chicago. Known to history as
Scott Santens
Social movements ought to place private military contractors at the center of a broader critique of authoritarian neoliberalism and America’s permanent war economy.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
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An Intimate Portrait of Muslim-American Families of Detainees, Congresspeople, ACLU Lawyers, and the unprecedented protest at JFK Airport of Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
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Are you a Highly Empathic Person? Discover the traits of those who are, and learn how we can use empathy to support both others and ourselves. Learn more here.
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Bi-weekly podcast making sense of the crisis of civilization with Nafeez Ahmed (VICE, Insurge Intelligence, Global Sustainability Institute) & Dean Puckett (Grasp The Nettle Films).
This is Part One of a Series on Whiteness. (Part Two)
“Politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea. The presence of the Negro puts our democracy to the proof and reveals the falsity of it.” — Hube
Quinn Norton
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On a remote mountaintop of the Himalayas sits Jhamtse Gatsal (Tibetan for “The Garden of Love and Compassion”), a special school and home for 85 abandoned and neglected children.
Founded by former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phunstok, who trained under the Dalai Lama, this unique...
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After Donald Trump's inauguration declaration that "from this day forward it's going to be only America first", many in Europe were left wondering if perhaps they were second. In an attempt to win favor with the new President, many European nations have been making videos to...
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This is a love song like you've never heard before. Join Charles Dance, David Gyasi, Miranda Richardson, Elbow and people across the country in coming together to protect all we hold dear from climate change. Watch, share, #ShowTheLove. Together we can protect the places and...
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Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly reconfiguring the United States into an authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no longer exist. Corporate exploitation, through the abolition of regulations and laws, will be unimpeded. Global...
Chris Hedges
All living beings share one thing in common. Each man, woman, child, bird, bee, and dog – all have just one life. For every living being, life begins and ends. We are all here for a very short time. Most of us live a life preoccupied by work, earning a living, being on time...
Chris Agnos
How the rhetoric of free speech is leveraged to create space for the far right to organize violent actions, and how else to understand freedom.
CrimethInc.
Understanding the UC Berkeley Protests
CrimethInc.
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Henry David Thoreau not only wrote Walden; he is also responsible for a small pamphlet titled Civil Disobedience, which recommends that - when a US president is taking a wrong turn - good citizens have a duty to protest.
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On the women's march and the series of protests happening around the world at the moment, together combining to make perhaps the largest movement in history.
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This is a story of power, but perhaps not the traditional kind. The kinds of power we are interested in are the deep currents.... the cultural forces that shape all of our lives at the deepest levels.
Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel and Joe Brewer
The open economy, or freeworld, isn’t just an idea – it exists.
Christine Margaret
I believe that true justice should have compassion in it. When someone does something harmful, destructive, the destruction is done not only to the person who is the victim, but it is also done to the person who has committed the destruction. We all know that every time we...
Thich Nhat Hanh
Published as part of the Transnational Institute's State of Power 2017 report.
I see all sorts of well-meaning and otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people applauding neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched in the face. Here’s why this is not something to celebrate:
Arno Arr Michaelis IV
We must not let authoritarians co-opt the language of people's movements for their own ends.
Alex Jensen
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Poet Kate Tempest's extraordinary song 'Europe Is Lost' is set to images of everything from the US election to Isis, the KKK to Trump, beauty pageants to apocalyptic film scenes, all artfully cut together by Manuel Braun.
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IN UTERO is a documentary about life in the womb and its lasting impact on human development, human behavior, and the state of the world.
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On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.”
Kazu Haga
We must take care of ourselves in a way that ensures our compassion is not drained away.
Colin Beavan
Humans are fascinating creatures. Our brains are wired to solve puzzles, so we see them everywhere. In the news, in our relationships, in movies and foreign policy- we take the information presented, sift it all through our own perspective, biases, and understanding of...