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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
51 min
Trailer for the upcoming release of the short documentary WhyTalkFeminism?
1 min
Dr. Stephan Harding explains Gaia Theory and its Impact on his Life.
6 min
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...
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
5 min
“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...
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...
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
10 min
"The Democratic Republic of Congo"
5 min
"MONICA: Peruvian Highlands"
5 min
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...
15 min
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.
14 min
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...
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
5 min
A team in the Houston Police Department is trying something new when addressing complaints associated with people living on the streets.
3 min
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...
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
4 min
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.
4 min
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.
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...
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...
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.
5 min
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.
4 min
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.
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
4 min
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.
2 min
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.
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...
2 min
2012: 34 South African miners killed. 2017: Still no justice from the British mine owner, Lonmin.
Political movements rarely succeed without causing discomfort and inconvenience
Francine Prose
10 min
WIZARD MODE is the story of Robert Gagno as he rises up the ranks of the international pinball circuit while striving to gain his independence and transcend the label of autism. Wizard Mode is a uniquely positive first-person perspective on aut
I wrote these words about challenging Domination nine years ago (Engines of Domination, p. 230):
“The future is in the hands of the people of the world. No one can anticipate what events and ideas will motivate people to take action, or what actions they will take. Only...
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. ~ Phillip Stanhope
I’d like to illustrate how a young woman used empathy to bypass violence during her night shift at a drug detoxification center in Toronto. The young woman recounted this story during a...
Marshall Rosenberg
From "You Are on Your Own" to "We Are All in This Together." What this moment demands is a coherent strategy and egalitarian vision that can harness the energy and outrage Trump has provoked
Jules Lobel
2 min
Together, we can resist and win! Watch and share this quick guide to learning about the best practices for making Congress listen -- straight from the brilliant minds of congressional staffers. Go to indivisibleguide.com for more information!
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Rev. William Barber offers some words of hope.
Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove useful to movements preparing to resist Donald Trump’s presidency.
The Beautiful Trouble Team
As Donald Trump issued an executive order intended to single out Muslims for immigration restrictions, many Americans searched their consciences for the right way to respond to this act of discrimination by their government. “First they came for the Communists/And I did not...
Jim Naureckas
Last week in NYC, a brave little pharmacy called Thompson Chemists in SoHo put up signs on its windows saying “All Women Customers Shop Tax Free” and “All Male Customers Are Subject To 7% Man Tax.” In reality, male customers are just being charged the u
Juhea Kim
There's a meme going around that says "My religion is kindness; I'm basically against anything that harms the planet or the people on it." Another one points out, "If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion." These are humanist truths.
If we as a...
A tweet moves Rob Hopkins to share a personal experience from his family’s life.
Rob Hopkins
3 min
Impact of Climate Change on Coral Reefs
27 min
The increased aggression towards Russia from US politicians and media is made more clear when taking into account the real history of the post-Soviet period. The hidden story of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency explains how deeply the US government, along with Western capitalist...
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Leading scholar on US-Russia relations addresses the claim being trumpeted by politicians and media on both sides of the political spectrum that Russia is now the "number one" threat to the United States. Given the proxy wars in Syria and Ukraine, Dr. Cohen tells host Abby...
It was likely never the intentions of Mr Cameron and Mrs May to cut funding to the welfare state, blame its inevitable collapse on ‘hordes’ of migrants so as to tease us with promises of a referendum in return for another four years of austerity and a blanket ban on Poles...
I have a serious problem with the idea of spending massive amounts of money to sit in a conference room listening to some self-help guru or motivational speaker. I am also allergic to church and despise therapy. Call me crazy, but I try to avoid cults as well.
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Auroville is an intentional community located in South India. In this documentary-series, several Aurovilians have been interviewed about their experience.
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We won't let anyone destroy what generations of Americans have built. History has shown that people like YOU are the driving force behind change. Now is the time to fight for what you believe in. We will rise, we will resist, we will renew.
The notion of privilege exists because most people do not live in the spiritual dimension of life. We live in a culture that is based on a matrix of separation.
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Nonviolent communication is a tool that we can use to resolve conflicts at both the individual and collective levels. By focusing on identifying the needs of individuals and groups instead of the assigning blame for circumstances, nonviolent communication has the potential to...
![Divine Purpose Workshop by Sonya Sophia [@Burning Man, 2015]](/img/wide/b5f57f8a-9207-49a3-89e1-3a4f0f0ccbf8.jpg)
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EFT Master, Sonya Sophia, guides us through a potent Burning Man 2015 workshop to get in touch with our Divine Purpose. Practice Tapping through blocks & fears to connect with the reason you're on Earth!
Free EFT Mini-Course: http://bit.ly/freeminieft {more info about the...
Donald Trump won’t be backing down any time soon on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 elections. Just weeks after winning the Electoral College, Trump tweeted that millions of illegal voters had cost him the popular vote.
BARE-HANDED – FIGHTING THE ISLAMIC STATE, is a documentary about young returning fighters, an experiment to save them, and save us.
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On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration groups all over the country hung banners pushing for 'bridges not walls' and in solidarity with minority and oppressed groups. Here's a video from the London bridges.
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Impeach Donald Trump? There are a few things we have to do first.
If you look at the world today, and if you survey the human race’s recorded history, it’s easy to see our species as innately bloodthirsty and aggressive species. It seems as if warfare and brutality have been omnipresent, and are natural to human beings. And indeed, this is...
Steve Taylor PhD
If you had read in early 2016 about a National Policy Institute conference on the theme of “Identity Politics,” you might have assumed it was an innocent gathering of progressives. If you had attended, you would have been in for an unpleasant surprise. The National Policy...
Shuja Haider
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Recent world events have a lot of people feeling fearful and angry. But there is much more good than bad in this world, and I choose to remain hopeful. This video explains why.
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A 2-minute introduction to the global-to-local argument.
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Interview with Srećko Horvat on Social Movements, Political Activism & DiEM25
In this interview with author, philosopher and activist, Srećko Horvat, we talk about a number of issues pertaining to social movements, political activism and the movement he founded with Yanis...
21 min
Interview with Jürgen Todenhöfer – The first Western journalist to visit ISIS
In this interview with best-selling author and war correspondent, Jürgen Todenhöfer, we talk about a number of issues pertaining to the Middle East, war and activism.
What is the history of the...
I've been seeing a lot of people convinced that the DNC and all establishment Democrats are total idiots. How could they not be, when they sabotaged an easy win (Bernie) to prop up a hated, warmongering millionaire corporitist (Hillary), thus handing the election to an...
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American whistleblower Edward Snowden recently gave a lengthy interview at an event hosted by acTVism. “Freedom & Democracy—Global Issues in Context,” moderated by acTVism Munich founder and senior editor Zain Raza, also featured interviews with philosopher Srecko Horvat...
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Nora Jaccaud is the co-creator of Human Postcards, an ongoing web series of 60-second video portraits capturing the powerful messages of everyday people from around the world. In this talk, Nora shares what she has learned from interviewing over 100 people from around the world.
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Our new clip for Luke Vassella has something to say to America, from an Australian perspective. The third in the trilogy of songs (and award-winning music videos) that began with 'Gently Bentley' and continued with 'Shine a Light'... Buy Luke's music at...
A world free of extremes of wealth and poverty in which no one needs to stand in line for a chance at a secure and fulfilling life.
David Korten
4 min
What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift? Or to vote for her in the town election?
It should be a scandal that leftists-liberals paint Trump as a special threat, a war mongerer – not Obama who is the first president to be at war everyday of his eight years, who is waging seven wars at present, who dropped three bombs an hour, 24 hours a day, the entire...
Stansfield Smith
Neoliberal policies contribute to alienation, disempowerment and non-unionised jobs, but a new model for unions could break the vicious circle, argues Simon Taylor.
Simon Taylor
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Dr. Jeffrey Schaler Professor of Psychology describes psychiatry as a pseudoscience. Read comments from Psychiatrists, including the former chairman of the DSM task force admitting that there are no medical tests to confirm mental disorders...
A blend of dread, disgust, rage, and despair for the future, all in a state of shocked disbelief—if you feel something like this facing the Trump regime’s ascent to power tomorrow, you are not alone. It’s the fitting response to an appalling reality. And, just like me and...
Bosses don't grow on trees. They don't magically appear at your job. They aren't born into their roles. They are created. They are manufactured to fulfill arbitrary positions of power within organizational hierarchies. They possess no natural or learned talents, and they are...
Colin Jenkins
Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are...
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A Familiar Tale of Resource Scarcity, Demagogues, and How Creativity Can Trump Hate
A quick, original, illustrated allegory that pokes at the demagogues we’ve got with an inclusive message promoting positivity during the 2016 Inauguration. It's read by ABC's Quinn Marcus.
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Edward Snowden Interview With actvism Munich- Part I - History of Intelligence Agencies
On January 15th acTVism Munich organized its largest event yet that took place under the title “Freedom & Democracy – Global Issues in Context” at Muffathalle in Munich and featured a...
Being truly happy isn't some gift or new toy you're given (though many people confuse the two). It's not the moment all your perceived negatives are resolved, nor a state of perpetually chasing fading thrills. Like anything in life, happiness is a skill that grows only when...