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Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Natives Stereotypes In Germany
Forget Winnetou! Going Beyond Natives Stereotypes In Germany (trailer)
What does a world that respects Indigenous peoples look like, thats working towards ending racism, colonialism, and other intersecting oppression on a global scale?
4 min
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett examines how other cultures protect new mothers well-being.
Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
But What about the Psychopath?
But What about the Psychopath?
If something bites you, it is inside of your clothes. Swahili proverb I have argued that change will come not from overcoming the powers-that-be, but through their transformation. I have stated that we are fundamentally the same being l
Charles Eisenstein
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
Our political and social systems don't support fundamental human needs, says Gabor Matewhich affects our ability to deal with traumatic events.
Jenara Nerenberg
How My Prejudice Redeemed Me From Believing I Was Essentially Good
How My Prejudice Redeemed Me From Believing I Was Essentially Good
The screen froze as yet another announcement crept into the cabin from the overhead speakers and through my headphones. I swore beneath my breath. For the umpteenth time, the captain spoke with that strange in-flight inaudibility and cadence: with muffled, static-beleaguered...
Adebayo Akomolafe
123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo
123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo
Now that there are thousands of films on Films For Action, we realized the very best gems have really become buried all across our library, and for people new to this information, weneeded a more guided way to dive in. Spread across 15 core themes, this collection aims to be...
Films For Action
Carl Sagan and Annie Druyan's Love Letter to the Universe
Carl Sagan and Annie Druyan's Love Letter to the Universe
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the universe.
16 min
Fred Perry, Proud Boys, and the Semiotics of Fashion
Fred Perry, Proud Boys, and the Semiotics of Fashion
Over the past week the Proud Boys, a self-described "Western chauvinist" organization whose members are tired of apologizing for "creating the modern world", have garnered media attention. Along withthe disruption of an Aboriginal ceremony in Halifaxby Proud Boy servicemen...
Anya Simonian
These Legendary Buskers Taking a Stand Against Petty Bureaucracy Will Make Your Day
These Legendary Buskers Taking a Stand Against Petty Bureaucracy Will Make Your Day
When Manchester City Council workerstry to move legendary travelling band Phat Bollard from the city centre, their response is to sing them a song, much to the delight of the assembled crowd. Here are the full lyrics:
4 min
The Speech Racists Didn't Want You to Hear
The Speech Racists Didn't Want You to Hear
Fox News tried to intimidate Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor from speaking. Now we're printing her words in full.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Common Takes Us on an Evocative Journey Through Black America
Common Takes Us on an Evocative Journey Through Black America
This stunning short film is a companion piece to the album 'Black America Gain' by Common,directed by "Selma" cinematographer Bradford Young.
21 min
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Facing Psychological Coercion and Manipulation Has Become a Daily Part of Claiming Benefits
Curing unemployment is a growth market for psychologists. Job Centres are becoming medical centres, claimants are becoming patients, and unemployment is being redefined as a psychological disorder.
Felicity Callard and Robert Stearn
White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism
White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism
Among other things, whiteness is a kind of solipsism. From right to left, whites consistently and successfully reroute every political discussion to their identity. The content of this identity, unsurprisingly, is left unexamined and undefined. It is the false foundation of...
Asad Haider
Naomi Klein: We Must Kill Our 'Inner Trump'
Naomi Klein: We Must Kill Our 'Inner Trump'
The author of 'No Is Not Enough' says we must tackle our inner Trump in order to create a better world. Part of a 20min interview with OpenDemocracy, which you can watch in full here.
2 min
Documents Expose How Hollywood Promotes War on Behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
Documents Expose How Hollywood Promotes War on Behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford
America Celebrates Lateral Transition From Monarchy to Corporatist Oligarchy
America Celebrates Lateral Transition From Monarchy to Corporatist Oligarchy
Today America celebrates its liberation from the shackles of the British Crown and the beginning of its transition into corporatist oligarchy, which is a lot like celebrating your lateral promotion from housekeeping to laundry staff. Fireworks will be set off, hot dogs will...
Caitlin Johnstone
Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time
Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time
'Is not nationalismthat devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murderone of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?'
Howard Zinn
The Museum of Capitalism is Full of Intriguing Exhibits
The Museum of Capitalism is Full of Intriguing Exhibits
The Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, California is dedicated to "educating this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of capitalism." Visitors are asked to reflect on capitalism as if they resided in a post-capitalist era.
3 min
Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy: Helpful Advice for the Wounded Heart
Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy: Helpful Advice for the Wounded Heart
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.~Rumi
Sofo Archon
The Matrix Is All Around Us: Anthropologists Call It The Social Construction of Reality
The Matrix Is All Around Us: Anthropologists Call It The Social Construction of Reality
This matrix parody is kind of mind blowing.
6 min
We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?
We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?
Presently, most of the people in our culture believe thatcompetition, possessiveness, and jealousy are all acceptable responses when we lovesomeone. But is this really true, independent of culture or custom?
Tim Hjersted
The Muslim Tradition of Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction
The Muslim Tradition of Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction
Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or Western imagination? Open One Thousand and One Nights a collection of folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to the 13th centuries CE...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Why We Need Net Neutrality
Why We Need Net Neutrality
The FCC is planning to repeal the strong net neutrality rules that we fought so hard to get in 2015. Why do we care? Vimeo is the home to so many makers, watchers, and all-around internet video lovers. Net neutrality makes sure there is room for creativity and equal access...
2 min
Facts Don't Always Convince People - Here's Why and What You Can Do About It
Facts Don't Always Convince People - Here's Why and What You Can Do About It
Humans aren't rational creatures, and here's what we can do about it.
3 min
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Yessenia Funes
'Theresa May and the Holy Grail' is Satirical Genius
'Theresa May and the Holy Grail' is Satirical Genius
Having lost her majority, and with complicated Brexit negotiations and fields of wheat on her doorstep, Theresa May is determined to "get on with the job of government" (and to seek the Holy Grail).
3 min
Following The Horsemen
Following The Horsemen
There are few roads in Lesotho. There are even fewer mountain bikers. Here the horse is supreme and the myriad horse trails that have been carved through its steep and rugged mountains are its lifeblood. Horsemen ply these trails, just as they have for generations, riding...
19 min
John Waters Commencement Address is Priceless
John Waters Commencement Address is Priceless
John Waters' rollicking commencement speech atThe Rhode Island School of Designoffered up some good one-liners and a few pearls of wisdom, though phrased, quite naturally, in an irreverent way.
12 min
Moby and Steve Cutts Music Video: In This Cold Place
Moby and Steve Cutts Music Video: In This Cold Place
Moby says, working on In This Cold Place and Are You Lost In the World Like Me? with Steve Cutts has been a creative highlight for me. He's such a great animator and activist, and I'm so happy he agreed to make these two videos. Last week, Moby & The Void Pacific Choir...
3 min
Uluru - The Faraway Sacred Site Brought Close By Street View
Uluru - The Faraway Sacred Site Brought Close By Street View
Google is attempting to bring the cultural and spiritual dimensions of Uluru to its Street View platform. To do this, they have created an interactive, audiovisual guided tour, narrated by traditional owner Sammy Wilson and with song and music by Anangu elder Reggie Uluru.
3 min
Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project
Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." This quote, which has often beenmisattributed to Sinclair Lewis, is wise inrecognizing the authoritarian potential of both nationalism and organized religion. In slight contrast, Professor...
Colin Jenkins
When Concerns of Cultural Appropriation Risk Supporting Intellectual Property
When Concerns of Cultural Appropriation Risk Supporting Intellectual Property
The latest entry in panics over social justice comes from my hometown, where some folks have created a list shaming restaurants and foodcarts that were owned by white people but sold non-European international cuisine. One of the more annoyingrestaurants on that list hasnow...
William Gillis
John Oliver's Plan for Who Should Negotiate Brexit for Britain is Genius
John Oliver's Plan for Who Should Negotiate Brexit for Britain is Genius
John Oliver's plan for Theresa May: send Lord Buckethead to negotiate Brexit.
2 min
Grime Launches a Revolution in Youth Politics
Grime Launches a Revolution in Youth Politics
It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa Mays decision to call a snap election was ill judged. This election has highlighted the disregard for the many that government should serve, and after an election in which the youth turnout was around 72% of...
Monique Charles
Trump White House Vs. “House of Cards” White House
Trump White House Vs. “House of Cards” White House
Binge-watchers of the new season will find its hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption.
Mark Rahner
Happy to Be - The Joy of Living in the Present, Being Patient and Loving Yourself
Happy to Be - The Joy of Living in the Present, Being Patient and Loving Yourself
We spent an afternoon with Warren capturing how he sees the world.
4 min
There Is Life After Civilization Collapse
There Is Life After Civilization Collapse
We are living through the collapse of the first truly global civilization in Earths history. This is bigger than the fall of Rome. Much more dramatic than the end for the Mayans. Greater in magnitude than the fall of the ancient Egyptians. And yet there is still hope for the...
Joe Brewer
Broadcasting Rules Are Killing Political Satire – Thank Heavens for the Internet
Broadcasting Rules Are Killing Political Satire – Thank Heavens for the Internet
Political journalists, especially during elections, should provide balanced news coverage of parties and scrutinise each parties political agendas to help properly inform the public. Sadly this is an ideal that is all-too-rarely realised. The 2015 election was reported as a...
Allaina Kilby
Theresa May Has Something to Say
Theresa May Has Something to Say
ClassicCassetteboy mashup.
2 min
Prophets of Rage Unleash New Track to Unfuck the World
Prophets of Rage Unleash New Track to Unfuck the World
Supergroup Prophets of Rage,made up of membersof Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, have just released the first track from their debut album, along with this music video directed by Michael Moore.
4 min
Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Woman is an unsettling superhero. More so than her male counterparts, she resists easy classification: shes neither an alien or a billionaire nor has she been exposed to some chemical to obtain her powers. The comic books cast her as a mystery to be unravelled and...
Roberta Magnani
Calling in Call-Out Culture
Calling in Call-Out Culture
For calling-in to work, it must be rooted deeply in kind speech
Gabe FromMaui
These C*cksucking Tears
These C*cksucking Tears
The uncompromising voice behind the first gay themed country music album - 40 years after its release.
15 min
Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication
Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication
Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give factsit can actually offer understanding. Take it from Alan Alda, a career actor whose craft thrives on effective communication through...
7 min
Films for Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
This collection of 122 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active participants in designing the transition...
Films For Action
Poet Kate Tempest's Heartbreaking Story of the Brand New Ancients
Poet Kate Tempest's Heartbreaking Story of the Brand New Ancients
In2013 performance poet and rapper Kate Tempest and Battersea Arts Centre, embarked on a journey together to tour the award winning show Brand New Ancients.In collaboration with director Joe Roberts, Battersea Arts Centre produced these three short films interpreting Kate's...
11 min
Master Storyteller Stephen Jenkinson on The Making of Humans
Master Storyteller Stephen Jenkinson on The Making of Humans
The relentless pursuit of self-reliance and self-improvement is rooted in our lost connection to common stories, homeland and ancestors that bind and unite us. The times now demand that we recognize the world's suffering in our own.
6 min
John Cleese Founds Church of JC Capitalist
John Cleese Founds Church of JC Capitalist
Comedian John Cleese is taking advantage of the huge tax breaks given to churches by founding a new one - The Church of JC Capitalist. Praise be the almighty $.
2 min
When Image Trumps Ideology: How JFK Created the Template for the Modern Presidency
When Image Trumps Ideology: How JFK Created the Template for the Modern Presidency
Even at John F. Kennedys centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time a man who, in our minds eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.
Steven Watts
Why Social Change Is Slow
Why Social Change Is Slow
Without collective action, social change will be slow.
4 min
Does Biology Drive Our Best and Worst Selves?
Does Biology Drive Our Best and Worst Selves?
How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic -- and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky looks at extreme context, examining actions on timescales from seconds to millions of years before they occurred. In this...
15 min
How Animals Can Teach Us to Be Kind, Love and Appreciate Life and Each Other
How Animals Can Teach Us to Be Kind, Love and Appreciate Life and Each Other
Animals have a lot to teach us about wisdom if we are ready to take their quietly-delivered lessons on board.
3 min
Dispatches From the Ruins
Dispatches From the Ruins
In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthys The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupis The Windup Girl (2009) and Emily St John Mandels Station Eleven (2014) to films and TV programmes...
5 min
Music From the Film Human
Music From the Film Human
Human is one of the most extraordinary films ever made. The 6 hour epic journeys around the world and presents us with a huge range of voices the encompass what it means to be Human. This entirelywordless edit features the wonderful music from the film, intercut with the...
80 min
The Evolution of American Protest Music
The Evolution of American Protest Music
Music is a critical form of expression in American politics especially in times of political and social unrest. Dating back to the early days of colonization, American protest songs have shifted in style and form. The earliest protest songs were written in an era of oral...
7 min
The Facebook Files: Facebook's Internal Rulebook Revealed
The Facebook Files: Facebook's Internal Rulebook Revealed
A major leak of Facebooks internal guidelines shows how the social network deals with hate speech, graphic violence and sexual imagery. As regulators become increasingly concerned about the content available on Facebook, is it time the company took a more active approach to...
2 min
Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!
Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!
The Santiago Theory of Cognition proposed by the Chilean biologists and neuroscientists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela offers a scientific way of understanding the process by which living systems engage in autopoiesis (self-creating or self-generating) through...
Daniel Christian Wahl
The Revolution Is Acceptance
The Revolution Is Acceptance
"Waiting for some distant point in the future when we're all magically agreeing with one another to begin working together, is like deciding to climb Mount Everest on the condition that we'll help each other only after we've reached the top."
David Heaps
Why the Handmaid’s Tale Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes in Trump's America
Why the Handmaid’s Tale Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes in Trump's America
Maybe its because were starting to see bits of Gilead all around us.
Mark Rahner
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
In Wildness is the preservation of the World.Thoreau says it in Walking, and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays,The Abstract Wild, questions how many of us have any idea what it means. P
Carol Black