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Deputy Chief of Police Peter Muyshondt (Belgium) is convinced that his brother would still be alive if drugs were legal.
The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life’s work to present a sustainable redesign of our culture.
The project lays out a sustainable world civilization where technology and science are applied to redesigning our social system with the prime concern being...
Daniel Araya with Roxanne Meadows
18 min
The Sweatshop Of Wall Street is a short documentary about the world of direct sales in New York City. The piece follows of Phil and Zao, two young salespeople who made as little as $0.50 an hour hawking cellphone contracts to passersby in Brooklyn, New York. From a misleading...
11 min
We are still feeling the backlash from the 2003 Iraq war today; in Iraq, in the Middle East and globally. But in conversations about the 2003 war, two vital perspectives have often been missing.
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Feda dreams to become a fashion designer one day, but with limited job opportunities in Jordan and Lebanon, refugees and host communities are struggling to make ends meet. The LEADERS consortium, with generous funding from the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syria...
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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017). A forthcoming feature documentary about the human cost of the housing crisis from Paul Sng, director of Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain (2015).
To get someone’s support, you need more than just facts.
Colin Beavan
2 min
President Trump is sick of the lying fake news media, so he's doing the news himself. Today on The Trump Report: Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline (great pipeline).
21 min
Kyriakos Papadopoulos is a 41-year old local captain of the Greek Coast Guard. He has two wonderful young daughters Vivi and Melissa, and before the refugee crisis exploded in 2014, he had a “normal” life. Lesbos was a small peaceful island and is job involved routine border...
The following piece is a work of satire*. The fact that it is nearly indistinguishable from some folk’s disturbing view of reality is, I think, an apt commentary on our citizenry’s terrifyingly vast depths of ignorance. (*No religions were harmed in its conception)
2 min
Consider yourself warned.
Let’s not be romantic. Industrial civilization is no utopia. For every creature comfort we have, something or someone pays the price. The wilderness is no fairy tale either. Nature is neutral, but she is almighty. If we watch up close a wildfire or a lightning storm we are...
Ra’s Al Ghul
In the comics, Ra’s Al Ghul is of
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There’s so much talking going on in the world with everyone trying to get their opinions and stories heard, but not a whole lot of listening. Yet, when we listen, we learn and we connect. We discover new information and fresh things about other people. Listening is a vital...
A Paradise! That is what I came searching for in India… And my work took me to remote villages of rural India where I discovered fascinating ecological traditions and wisdom. Everywhere I went I documented vernacular architecture, traditional agricultural practices, handloom...
Everything we do in life serves as an example to someone, whether anyone involved is even consciously aware of it. Whatever these people (be it ourselves, co-workers, kids, family, even strangers) perceive as our mentality and motives becomes recorded and spread quite like a...
'They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started,' Dallas Goldtooth declared
Lauren McCauley
Dr. Ann Russo on violence, healing, and transforming justice.
Dr. Ann Russo
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Martin Luther King's words are as relevant as ever, highlighting the many parallels between the civil rights movement of the 60’s and the NoDAPL movement of the present.
#NoDAPL
The Resistance Calendar lists upcoming rallies across the country.
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
9 min
This short film tells the story of the recent indigenous mobilization at Saramurillo in the Northern Peruvian Amazon and shares the voices of indigenous peoples who united in this ongoing struggle for their rights, and for the protection of the water, land and life itself...
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A huge number of big-budget Hollywood films, especially those featuring war, conflict or terrorism, are influenced by Hollywood's close relationship with the United States military. This leads us to ask - how independent is Hollywood?
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The 10 minute version of a documentary style short film of the Theatre Production by Toby John Short. This one man show details the life of Serbian born - American inventor Nikola Tesla and rise of his A.C system of electrical distribution. "Free wireless power might be too...
When I lived in San Francisco, I often would marvel at the movement of goods through the ports across the bay in Oakland. Full container ships would enter the bay one after another and unload their cargo, which ultimately would be making its way to the many big box stores...
Chris Agnos
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When a plot by a pro-white militia to bomb a Somali mosque in Kansas was foiled by the FBI last October, the aborted conspiracy received little national coverage - nor did it make Donald Trump's list of 78 'under-reported' terrorist attacks.
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Hala and her family are from the Syrian city of Aleppo. In 2012, her husband was kidnapped and she and her four children fled to Germany. Now, as the family tries to rebuild their life in a new land, nightmares of the past still haunt them.
This film comes as a special...
In just one week, with several strokes of a pen, Trump unleashed upon the working class in the U.S. an attack not seen in decades. From his attack on the flawed Affordable Care Act to the banning of immigrants from Muslim countries to the explicit targeting of “sanctuary...
Frank Lara
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London squatting activists ANAL (Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians) are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.
In times like these, in times of great crisis, when, as Yeats memorably put it, the ‘centre cannot hold’ and the ‘blood-dimmed tide is loosed’, then our first response must be to find another, deeper centre. This work, of finding an impassable place that provides both a...
If you’re lucky enough to have longtime friends even as an adult, then you know probably already know how much it means to be able to spend time together. Maybe you even have a dream to retire together and sit on each other’s porches with your families, sharing stories from...
Lighter Side
“A powerful, rigorous, and clear-eyed guide to building social justice movements.”
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
15 min
If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again.
This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the film Plutocracy by Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here (free).
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Over the past few weeks, Redneck Revolt has been communicating with a former member of a III% Patriot Militia based out of Ohio. Peter made contact with our organization after questioning the basis for an upcoming operation that his local militia group was asked to be...
In mid-November of 2016, I was a Water Protector at Standing Rock. At first my goal was to play investigative journalist; documenting then writing about every detail for my article readers and online followers. However, by the time I actually got there, all my goals had changed.
What economic system designs, out of all conceivable ones, might be among the best at helping us meet real needs?
John Boik, PhD
7 min
The war on drugs waged by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has taken more than 7,000 lives since its inception. It took the killing of a South Korean businessman by police to prompt President Duterte to formally apologize. And while he suspended the offensive, the...
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“Stories of Wolves” is about the recovery efforts for Mexican Gray Wolves, the most endangered land mammal in all of North America. Less than 100 wolves remain in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico.
A platform co-operative approach to information, rather than the models of Facebook and legacy media, provide reason for optimism, writes Dan Hind.
Dan Hind
We frequently hear calls for system change, at public mobilisations, in conference halls and even in negotiation halls. The calls come as slogans, they come in anger and they come as a strong rebuke to the systemic scaffold on which our pains, our exploitation and the denial...
Nnimmo Bassey
Instead of falling to the Nazi party, Norway broke through to a social democracy. Their history shows us polarization is nothing to despair over.
George Lakey
5 min
How to stop a robot turning evil.
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The Slow Life : Raúl Micó es un retrato sincero y positivo de alguien que podría ser cualquiera si no fuera porque ha encontrado la razón de su existencia, y eso sólo ocurre cuando desnudas tu alma, miras su horizonte y nadas contracorriente.
120 min
Cornel West outlines the development of Dorothy Day becoming a leading visionary in America. Basic was the love by others and the influences of the neighborhood. Then some travel and the social movement of her time. She began to recognize the political, economic and social...
8 min
This is a teaser for a feature length documentary about the biggest protest in history, on a single day. The day in question was 15 February 2003, when in around 800 cities all over the world, up to 30 million people marched to stop the impending war against Iraq.
10 min
Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B., (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.
Want to be able to breath throughout this coming decade? Are you against the for-profit tax-funded constant wars, drone strikes, and bloated military industrial complex? Maybe even demanding some provably fair elections, ending the undemocratic influence of private...
Responding Effectively to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attacks
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Say what you like about Donald Trump but he's already done things people said were impossible, like made Twitter worse. Looking back, the Harambe situation is the closest working model we have for a Trump presidency. Last week he gave the sort of press conference that in a...
Frankie Boyle
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As long as you're funny, it can get you out of almost anything - even getting mugged, as co-founder of Between Two Ferns Scott Aukerman recounts. Unfortunately, not everyone out there is funny, although some people believe they are, and this is usually when you get...
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We live in a time where we are quick to put people in boxes. Maybe we have more in common than what we think?
Khury Petersen-Smith and Brian Bean comment on a discussion in the Black Lives Matter movement about the role of white activists in the antiracist struggle.
Khury Petersen-Smith and Brian Bean
93 min
Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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*
2 min
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...
5 min
This is a short excerpt from Peacemaking.
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.
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
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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...
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.
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...
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.
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,
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...
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
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...
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...
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.
A discussion about the politics of SURJ
Redneck Revolt and others
7 min
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.
6 min
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...
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...
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
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“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...