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Chris Renwick
In 2013 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
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
Each generation has had one common desire: to live a more honest, ethical life of self-sufficiency and oneness with nature.
Nancy Matsumoto
NHS crisis, education crisis, u turns ... you can't trust Theresa May. All proceeds from downloads of the track between 26th May and 8th June 2017 will be split between food banks around the UK and The People's Assembly Against Austerity.
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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 $.
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Children are running wild in the mud, climbing high into trees and playing with knives, but no one is telling them off. This is kindergarten, Danish-style.
11 min
Baking soda isn't just useful for cooking. You can use it as a deodorant, cleaning paste for rusty metal, heartburn relief, and more.
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Even at John F. Kennedy’s 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 mind’s eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.
Steven Watts
Between the Tomahawk strike on Syria and the MOAB in Afghanistan, cable news under Trump has been saturated by images of American firepower. But the media's obsession with American weapons sanitizes violence and makes it harder to think critically about why we use deadly force.
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In our current age of resurgent nationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia and increasing border militarization, it can be easy to lose track of the central role that migration has played in shaping the spaces we inhabit. The richness and depth of human history comes from the...
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The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, tells Owen Jones that she believes voters have felt powerless in recent years but ‘things have changed’ and people are realising they have the opportunity to transform Britain. The Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne says she thinks...
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Without collective action, social change will be slow.
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Politics isn’t something that can actually be put on hold
Abi Wilkinson
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...
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Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies. In June 2015, while in the midst of arranging the launch of the Exeter Pound, a local currency for...
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When we shot “World Vote Now” from 2001-2009, in 26 countries around the world, we got a first glimpse of what kind of global democratic system is needed and what is possible. Nobody could have predicted the incredible events that have since followed in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya...
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One week before Donald Trump was elected, 700 workers—many of whom were Trump supporters—walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in Waterford, NY, sparking a 105-day strike. In the wake of his win, the workers gets candid about Trump's advocacy for union-busting legislation.
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While the news about endangered species is often not good, there are always instances of progress and positive storylines. From recently discovered populations of rare animals to canceled development projects, here is some good news we want to share.
Erik Hoffner
Last year, we visited a theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden that became a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. As strange as that sounds, this was a pretty good deal for about 500 people looking to start a new life. But...
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A theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden becomes a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.
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Nasir Sobhani of Melbourne, Australia, aka The Streets Barber, gives free haircuts to the homeless to help them feel clean, empowered, and understood. Life on the streets is rough, with homeless people often ignored or abused to the point that they no longer feel human -- and...
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Animals have a lot to teach us about wisdom if we are ready to take their quietly-delivered lessons on board.
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We can't let huge corporations continue to underpay our friends and families! Today, May 23, is the day before their annual shareholder meeting-- where they make the key decisions that will impact workers across the nation for the next year. Make sure McDonald's hears you...
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The attack was the day that we had been warned about by security services. The day we hoped wouldn’t happen. But it happened here. In Manchester, at the Manchester Arena where young girls, known as “
Caroline Cheetham
Bernie’s been taking more flak than ever from progressive rebels lately, and understandably so — his recent cuddle party with the White Helmets, a&
Caitlin Johnstone
In the event of a major ISIS-inspired action in Britain, what principles do far-sighted – and brave – politicians need to observe? First published on 20 January 2017.
Paul Rogers
In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) and Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) to films and TV...
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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 entirely wordless edit features the wonderful music from the film, intercut with the...
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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
Plus 11 other key ideas to living well as an activist
Drew Serres
Both sides of politics are burning political capital to approve a massive coal mine with a poor business case, run by a questionable company, in a dying industry. We've got one question - why?
5 min
A major leak of Facebook’s 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...
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In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje discuss the issues with the supermarket system and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing.
6 min
We asked Lowkey for his thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn, he didn't hold back
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Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s...
John Pilger
It should be quite obvious, but apparently it’s not, that we can’t devise an anarchist revolutionary strategy until we have a clear idea of what it is we’re trying to achieve.
James Herod
Feminists today are occupied by seemingly endless Twitter debates. But this is a politics of representation: our attention needs to move towards a politics of change. What are we not doing while so many of our movement's resources are being used like this?
Chitra Nagarajan
Shorter workweeks could help reduce accidents, combat climate change, make the genders more equal, and more, contends historian and author Rutger Bregman.
Rutger Bregman
Storm clouds gather for a future that will be turbulent and dangerous. We need designers ready for this future.
Joe Brewer
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
Since, under present world conditions, everyone either is now, or has been, or will be at some time a target of social oppression, and since everyone is now, or has been, or will be in a non-target group in relation to some other group’s oppression, alliance-building is for...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological and physiological benefits...
Marc Lewis and Shaun Shelly
"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
Your story is shaped by what you are saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to. Every single person on the planet knows the challenge of boundary setting. But being clear about what you will, and will not, allow into your life can help you to live a happier and simpler existence.
15 min
All over America, school children are completing another academic year before their summer vacation. This invites the questions, what did they learn and what did they do with what they learned?
Ralph Nader
For some decades now the human civilization has embarked on a journey to rapidly extract whatever resource it can from the planet as to maintain its current predominant doctrine — unlimited economic growth. There are, as one could imagine, dire consequences resulting from...
Yavor Tarinski
How did he do it? And what led to this incredible victory for humanity? It's a story for the ages...
Intrigued? This clip is just an excerpt from the full movie. If you want to take things back to the very beginning, you can watch the full 30 minute movie here.
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Bayard & Me is a short doc about how the openly gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Martin Luther King, adopted his partner Walter Naegle in the 1980s for legal protections. In this intimate love story...
15 min
To coincide with Chelsea Manning’s release from Fort Leavenworth military prison, Guardian US chief reporter Ed Pilkington and Manning’s attorney, Nancy Hollander, explain the significance of her release and the impact of her legacy for the transgender community.
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Maybe it’s because we’re starting to see bits of Gilead all around us.
Mark Rahner
“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. Pe
Carol Black
Not many boys dance ballet, but 11-year-old Gabriel Romero, who trains at Thom McIntyre’s Philadelphia Dance Center, is the ultimate boy ballerina (or ballerino). Even if he's the only boy ballet dancer among dozens of girls, Gabe doesn’t let it get to him. He’s in the studio...
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Doing the 'right thing' in life is super important. Miss a few car payments at eighteen, and those rates will jump. Overdraft by two dollars, a barely-working monthly budget becomes screwed by bank fees. Drive your car without affording proper maintenance, and your life (or...
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.[1]
We live on the Earth as part...
Paul Kivel
Human trafficking is a hidden industry that brings in $150 billion in illegal profits every year. In the United States, tens of thousands are trafficked annually—the biggest clients being major hotel chains and foreign diplomats.
The Philippines is one of the largest labor...
25 min
It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar greetings to us. We cannot be sure that, when our own...
Philip Ball
The persecution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE members and all the radicals of four decades ago is not ancient history. It is the genesis of the present.
Chris Hedges
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars
John Dower
Why should you vote? Rapper Potent Whisper brings his perspective, in rhyme.
5 min