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In their mission to stop fishing of the endangered totoaba fish, the Sea Shepherd crew finds other animals caught up in fishing nets.
4 min
After a brutal mugging left him with traumatic brain injury, John Pierre decided to ‘suit up’ in a neon cape and lightning bolt socks, emerging as the New York running community’s very own superhero.
5 min
John Oliver's plan for Theresa May: send Lord Buckethead to negotiate Brexit.
2 min
I see you, Rupert Murdoch.
I see your whispery head, your hangdog expression, the malevolent balls of obsidian that function as your eyes. I see you shaking your head as you watch the exit polls come in, your flaccid jowls dangling, flapping about like the labia on a jogging...
Sam Gore
It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s 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%...
Monique Charles
Binge-watchers of the new season will find it’s hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption.
Mark Rahner
We spent an afternoon with Warren capturing how he sees the world.
4 min
There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people.
The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish militias. A day before, the state of Israel was...
Marwa Fatafta
We are living through the collapse of the first truly global civilization in Earth’s 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...
Joe Brewer
It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
5 min
Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Caty Borum Chattoo
The Tories may still be in power at the end of the night, but Jeremy Corbyn won today.
Yes, I know this is shameless spin, but hear me out: the last few weeks have vindicated the approach of the Labour left and its international cothinkers under Corbyn.
This is the first...
Bhaskar Sunkara
Automation in the Information Age is different.
11 min
In Jackson, Mississippi, a coalition of Latino, black, and white activists known as MIRA confronts local lawmakers, who introduced 12 anti-immgrant bills into the state legislature in 2017. Among those protesting in the state's capital: 13-year-old Yizel, whose parents are...
11 min
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some...
Stacco Troncoso & Ann Marie Utratel
A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.
Peter Slavin
The 94-year-old campaigner fought in the Second World War and says he still wants to defend his country
Harry Leslie Smith
The world needs an actual popular elected response to US aggression against the world’s poor and the earth’s climate.
David Swanson
Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist theory. I've often thought that this belief in not voting almost represents a sort of relig
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
So far 5 million people have watched as of June 2017. The ad promotes a beautiful message: "Worship your God with love, not terror. Be tender in your faith, tender not harsh. Confront your enemy with peace, not war. Persuade others with leniency, not force."
We couldn't...
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Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a slot for IDs. When that door buzzes, I walk through with video gear. I’m searched, as is the...
Dan Birman
The numbers do not lie: women have long been underrepresented on the United States Supreme Court. In the court’s 228-year history, only four of the 112 justices have been female. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female justice in 1981, almost two centuries after the...
Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers
House prices are through the roof. The banks are swimming in mortgage profits. Rents are sky high. Is it any wonder there are more people on the street?
Wayne Ellwood
Purdue researchers have developed a flow battery that would allow electric cars to be recharged instantly at stations like conventional cars are. The technology is clean, safe, and cheap.
Karla Lant
Very few people know the history of school. Nor do they know the real reason schools were established in the first place. Here's a short history of schools in the U.S. from the documentary Class Dismissed.
2 min
Westminster rebel Caroline Lucas, is the first and only Green MP for England & Wales. In an age of disillusionment and mistrust for the ruling elite, she looks from the inside at what's wrong with England's archaic parliamentary system.
7 min
Classic Cassetteboy mashup.
2 min
In May 2017, a group of Pacific Islanders travelled half way across the world to visit the Canadian tar sands.
11 min
Stewart explains Conservative economic theory in 2 minutes.
2 min
Supergroup Prophets of Rage, made up of members of 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
In the run up to the 2017 snap election, VICE asks why so many enormous issues have not been up for discussion. This has been a campaign best defined by Brexit and the Prime Minister's refusal to engage with the opposition, but there is so much more which has been ignored. Why?
24 min
Trump called "Opportunist-in-Chief" for using latest violence in the UK to justify travel ban from Muslim countries
Jon Queally
The debate over illegal immigration always misses something important: Undocumented immigrants are actually superheroes. Think about it. They literally risk their lives to make a better future for themselves and their families, and they do all the things we citizens would...
8 min
Wonder Woman is an unsettling superhero. More so than her male counterparts, she resists easy classification: she’s 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
The worst thing that the British government is doing today is supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war. It should be a national scandal, but at the moment, it isn’t even an election issue. David Wearing teaches Middle East politics and international...
7 min
We spent an hour with Tony, capturing his wisdom. Thank you Tony. You really are an inspiration. We strive to take on your mantra that "less really is more".
Green Renaissance is a tiny collective of 4 passionate filmmakers (Warren, Jacky, Michael and Justine). We live Off...
2 min
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
7 min
Films For Action is a library for all the best social change films on the internet, cataloged in one place. But because there is so much to cover, and films can’t cover it all — we also curate a ton of articles too.
So this is our invitation to all of the social change...
Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
115 min
Returning power — and profit — to the people.
Natalie Holmes
An epic, ominous and perhaps life saving radio interview occurs with director, Peter Charles Downey on a small-town country radio station about his new documentary movie, Surviving Earth. Where the trees whisper of humanity’s mass suicide in a valley of depleting resources...
95 min
For calling-in to work, it must be rooted deeply in kind speech
'We move on and we move forward, together'
Lauren McCauley
Although farmers have come to rely on imported honey bees, wild pollinators are hardier.
Lori Panico
President Trump announced the U.S.’s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world’s best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet.
The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and projections show...
28 min
The uncompromising voice behind the first gay themed country music album - 40 years after its release.
15 min
Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give facts—it can actually offer understanding. Take it from Alan Alda, a career actor whose craft thrives on effective communication through...
7 min
Donald Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. This would blow a massive hole in the federal budget while benefitting Trump's super-rich friends and business associates.
4 min
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...
Imagine a world where instead of eternally fighting each other in defense of our various cliques, cults, colors, creeds or groups, we began first defending all humans and the planet against our common threats: corruption, war, poverty, nationalism, and other divisive business...
If you relate with a sense of having your true self shunned by the society we live in, this one’s for you! And if you have kids on top of that, it will really hit home.
8 min
We have made this video to show exactly how the Conservative government has impacted women and girls since 2010. The Conservative government have shown a violent hatred towards women and non-binary people with their cuts hitting women of colour and disabled women the hardest.
2 min
There is a lot of grief and anguish in Portland. The killings of the two men standing up to defend women of color were horrific and jarring to everyone in the city of what their sense of community is. But life and politics go on. Here are some principles you may find useful...
Arun Gupta
The basic guaranteed income is one of those ideas, like land value taxation or the Tobin tax, that circles endlessly around. There are times when it’s obscure, and times when it’s being talked about again. It’s currently in the ascendant, and I suspect that it won’t be long...
Jeremy Williams
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to “reduce and control” immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 – a level not seen for 20 years. This pledge caused some puzzlement. Even the Brexit secretary, David...
Robin Cohen
"Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls, and so on to viscosity." - Meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson ("Weather Prediction by Numerical Process." Cambrige University Press, 1922)
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This is the story of people living and working with disabilities in modern Britain whose lives have been drastically affected by a series of Tory cuts, reforms and changes to disability benefits and a growing crisis in social care and housing.
15 min
A personal journey
Nafeez Ahmed
This post has been flying around social media, winning lots of praise and shares. Chris Renwick, we thank you.
Chris Renwick