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6 Native American girls school us on the REAL history of Thanksgiving.
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VICE sends journalist Ben Judah, author of This Is London - an epic piece of reportage about the life of the capital's immigrants - to walk in the footsteps of EU migrants and go undercover to unearth the conditions newcomers are up against in Brexit Britain.
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Watching the footage of the police attack against water protectors from last Sunday, conjured images of the apocalypse. Yet, despite this brutal assault, the people at Standing Rock keep on fighting. This video is dedicated to Sophia Wilansky, who was critically injured...
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"They Can't Kill Us All" author Wesley Lowery talks about tracking police violence, covering protests and the difficulty of interviewing those affected by shootings.
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It’s not just about sex. Sex education should be giving us the information we need to feel in control of our bodies and make informed decisions about them – but it’s failing. In episode four of Vagina Dispatches, we speak to our moms, friends and sex educators to find out...
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There's a reason why radio and secular Fascism emerged together in the early 20th century. What happens when the addiction finally takes over as moderator of all our most important internal and external debates...
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How the Simple act of Walking can bring us Inner Peace.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) Headquarters in Washington DC was ambushed by protesters wearing blue jumpsuits, trying to gain access to the building. The group claimed they were hired movers but security fended them off and barricaded the front steps. Meanwhile...
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An estimated two thousand people marched through the center of Manchester in what was probably the largest ever anti-fracking gathering ever seen in the United Kingdom. Activist converged on the city from Lancashire, Yorkshire, London, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland...
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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
The first sailboat ferry company in the world
VoyageVert
7 min
"...take out their families..."
-President-elect Donald Trump
The 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force gives the President almost unlimited authority to bomb, detain, and monitor just about anyone, anywhere. It has yet to be amended or repealed.
Featuring...
Growing up I thought I was as American as anyone. But can a country built on winning ever value something as weak as equality?
Ashley C. Ford
4 min
There has been an increase in reports of hate crime in the United States recently and as such there is a need for everyone to know how to confront and disrupt them, while providing support and solidarity to the victims. We know that not everyone who voted for Trump holds the...
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In this cafe, the food and drink is free. You just pay 7 cents per minute to be there.
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DAPL's Worst Nightmare: Big Oil EXPOSED By Whistleblower John Bolenbaugh. Together we can and will change the world for the better.
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We invite you to join us on a journey toward true community and a sustainable way of life for all!
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This is a clip from Hypernormalisation (at the 2 hr 29 mark). Watch the full documentary here.
The New York Times wants a system of censorship for the Internet to block what it calls “fake news,” but the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news”
Robert Parry
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The way Big Pharma treats American consumers, we shouldn't be surprised how cruel they are to lab animals. But one company is finally seeing some consequences.
You’re very … industrious.
This was how I was described by one resident when I was living and working in Sweden. And trust me – it was not meant as a compliment.
Because, as I discovered over time, although Swedes work hard and with dedication, they do not think their jobs...
BJ Epstein
My relatives in Maine are deplorables. I cannot write on their behalf. I can write in their defense.
Chris Hedges
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Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn't seem that way: They don't have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pretty passive. But odd as it sounds, plants can communicate with each other - especially when they're under attack. Richard...
On the night of February 21, 2010, a group of families driving a convoy of vehicles through the valleys of Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan came into the sights of a Predator drone crew operating out of Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
“That truck would make a beautiful...
Murtaza Hussain
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Treehoppers, a large family of insects found around the globe, live on plant branches, sucking nutrients from sap and frequently blending in with their surrounding to avoid the attention of predators. At first glance, the creatures appear rather boring as they stay relatively...
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#NoDAPL This is video of a Live Stream shot today showing innocent Water Protectors being fired upon with water cannons and tear gas, LRAD Noise Cannon, and Rubber Bullets! Mainstream Media is not covering this! This is still going on! Share this far and wide! This Live...
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StandWithAleppo Bana Alabed and her Mother show what life in war-torn Aleppo, Syria is like...Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlabedBana Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/AlabedBana/1OyJAOQeodyKb Children of Syria-Save The Children...
The U.K. surveillance bill known as the "Snooper's charter" is poised to become law after passing both houses of Parliament this week. It only needs to be approved by Royal Assent, which is expected to happen by the end of the year.
The Investigatory Powers (IP) Bill is, as
Nadia Prupis
In the ten days since the election, several thousand people have phoned and emailed my Seattle City Council office in their fury over my call to shut down Donald Trump’s agenda with massive peaceful protests on Inauguration Day.
Kshama Sawant
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The Humanity Party's® introduces their Economic Plan To End Worldwide Poverty - Official Release http://www.humanityparty.com Join the First Worldwide Political Party - For the People, By the People! © 2014 Humanity Party® ALL RIGHTS RESERVED VOTE HUMANITY PARTY 2016
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Permanent Culture documents the journey of Joseph, a man who once worked in exploitative sugarcane fields but then found work at Palos Farm. At this permaculture farm, Joseph has not only found more fulfilling work, but also acquired leadership and ecological knowledge that...
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Matthew has been a teacher for 37 years and will be retiring next summer. He loves teaching and knows he will miss it as a job. And will miss being a NUT activist.
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Dr. Sarkar is a retired physician from East India, who has put all his savings in building a clinic and a training center in one of the poorest areas of rural India. His vision is to train unqualified "quack" doctors so that they can be of service to their communities. He...
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Rick Messemaker and Ronald Glasbergen talked with the children of architect Louis Kahn at the exhibition dedicated to his work at the NAi, Rotterdam.
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Ronald Glasbergen in conversation with german philosopher Peter Sloterdijk about his latest book " Die schrecklichen kinder der Neuzeit".
Writing about the latest US elections like the US media writes about African countries.
Mohamed El-Dahshan
23 min
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, many peeps are freaking the fuck out. Well, step back, take a break and watch our analysis.
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Coping with extremes is part of life for people across the Himalayas. Uncertain summers follow freezing winters, as monsoon rains deluge the mountains, carrying the danger of landslides and floods. But in June 2013, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, conditions fatefully...
“Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove
Andy Grove was a Hungarian refugee who escaped communism, studied engineering, and ultimately led the personal computer revolution as the CEO of Intel. He died earlier this year in Silicon Valley after a long fight with Parkinson’s...
Quincy Larson
Sorry, but I don’t want Facebook to be the arbiter of what’s true. Nor do I want Google — or Twitter or any other hyper-centralized technology platform — to be the arbiter of what’s true.
But I’m glad to see platform companies at least acknowledging their role in helping...
Dan Gillmor
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#StandWithAleppo Bana Alabed and her Mother show what life in war-torn Allepo, Syria is like...Hi I'm Bana I'm 7 years old girl. I and my mom are tweeting live from East Aleppo. Account managed by mom...Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlabedBana Periscope...
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This is a video that needs to be seen by EVERY American right now. Trump isn't officially president yet and there is time to do something about it. PLEASE help get the word out about how the Electoral College works and how this arbitrary third-party determines election results.
The reckoning is here for progressives and the Democratic Party now that the unthinkable has happened. Most of America, shell-shocked, is asking how Hillary Clinton and the entire Democratic establishment could lose to a woman-bashing, Mexican-deporting, Muslim-hating...
Arun Gupta
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We feature a surprise address by Senator Bernie Sanders outside the White House on Tuesday during a global day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline that included demonstrations in over 300 cities. "Today we are saying it is time for a new approach to the Native...
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Mni Wiconi is Lakota for “Water is Life” - this short film features water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies trying to stop the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline - DAPL. Interviews in the film include Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman Dave Archambault...
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The US Government just released an advert about Donald Trump's Presidency and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics
George Monbiot
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Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government to demand action on climate change.
Now is the time to hold strong to our humanity. The world is changing quickly and much is at stake. It is even possible that our entire global civilization will collapse in our lifetime. This is a very difficult concept to sit with — yet sit with it we must, for now is a time...
Joe Brewer
Using Foucault and Felski to understand the uses, and emancipatory power, of literature.
Read this article and then share with your friends.
Matt Masur
There is no one right way to be an activist.
There is no one right way to change the world.
There is no one right philosophy of leftist politics.
There is no one right solution to the massive problems we're facing.
Beyond the media spin, the four reasons for this defeat.
Tony Brasunas
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The Senator from Vermont remains optimistic about the country's future, and urges citizens to become more deeply involved in the political process.
Since Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election a short video has circulated around social media, in which the fictional news reporter Jonathan Pie delivers one of his typical ‘off the record’ pieces to camera, expressing his anger following the result. In...
Jack Kellam
*Especially from a white dude who makes some good points but buries them in a whole lotta condescension and sarcasm.
Anoosh Jorjorian
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The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales – not about some particular government or...
A recent report found that 2015 was the deadliest year on record for environmental activists, raising concerns for those who continue to fight on the frontline, writes Liam Turner.
Liam Turner
The true sharing economy represents the end of the old ways defined by the pursuit of profit and competitive self-interest, while a new age of intergovernmental sharing and cooperation can only begin through the channel of ending hunger in a world that has such an abundance...
Mohammed Mesbahi
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A short documentary profiling Iraqi refugees trying to assimilate to American culture after being displaced from Iraq due to the war. El Cajon, a county in San Diego, has one of the highest concentrations of Iraqi refugees in America. A majority of these refugees are known as...
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in US politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels...
C.J. Polychroniou
Stop Analysing and Act!
Paul Mason
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Practical Mindfulness tools for Kids!
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“I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils”. These are words published nearly 25 years ago by American artist and prominent Aids activist Zoe Leonard in her poem I Want A Dyke For President. In 2016, as we watched Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battle it out for...
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Food Diaries is a docu-series exploring our broken relationship with food. Profiling food activists, to doctors, healers, and educators, this series brings up the questions we aren't asking. From food waste to healing ourselves to farming for self reliance, each subject takes...
The Trump victory is devastating. Devastating for communities of color, immigrants, women, Muslims and queer communities. Devastating for us.
Trump has given new voice to deeply rooted white supremacy, gender violence, xenophobia and hatred. Hatred of everything that we are...
Dawn Phillips
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"366" by TAET VREMYA is an effort to live through the difficulties of the casual office life. A history that highlights from the world of illusions and arises the eternal questions.
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According to UK campaign group, Frack-Off: "Fracking is a nightmare! Toxic and radioactive water contamination. Severe air pollution. Tens of thousands of wells, pipelines and compressor stations devastating our countryside and blighting communities. All the while...
“I can’t not do this, because I need the money…” — The thought underlying all exploitation which can be eliminated with one BIG idea.
Scott Santens
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At the School of Life, we've pioneered a new form of Meditation we call Philosophical Meditation, designed to help with anxiety, sadness and a lack of direction.
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The Safe Water Aids Project (SWAP) is an organization based in Kisumu, Kenya, that strives to improve the quality of life for locals who are living positively with HIV as well as those who do not have access to clean water. Their mission is to improve the quality of life by...
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For three months, the Anywhere but Washington series has shed light on people and places shaping the presidential election. This final dispatch, from Nevada, captures the hope and despair behind a stunning election result - and explains the reasons behind Trump's remarkable...
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We spoke with Dallas Goldtooth, of Sioux Dakota Nation and an organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network, about the protest against the Dakota Access pipeline. He called the protest a "movement out of love."
Couched in establishment lingo and perspective, relying upon shallow but credible-seeming misinformation, the Boston Globe reveals itself to be no ally of the people or the revolution.
Liam Miller
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At the very moment when the government is reducing the ability of NHS mental health practitioners to serve those who are unwell , they are investing public money in dubious mental health programs. Unemployed people will be coerced by sanctions into compliance.
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In an interview, a Greek fisherman told the reporter that "Refugee crisis has shown us our true humanity." Our fears have gotten the worst of us. Our individual concerns and prejudice became public opinion.
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This is a record following the New York City Anti-Trump Protest. Where thousands of citizens made their way from Union Square to Trump Tower to march against the recently elected Donald Trump. Carrying signs, stopping traffic and demanding to be heard; their voices chant...
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From the incredible team who made Today I Rise - one of the most watched and loved films on this site - comes a short film documenting a conference they ran called Rising Women Rising World.
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This is Laura's life: age 24; a Northerner; bar team leader for a large pub chain (and formerly a McDonald's manager); zero hours contract; on a minimum wage; no savings in the bank; trainers donated to her by a friend; boss spied on the workers' own secret Facebook group as...
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
Arun Gupta
Excerpts from the late David Fleming’s 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', chosen by the book’s editor, Shaun Chamberlin.
David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin
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More than a hundred animals invaded the office of Bayer in Brussels to protest its intensive lobbying for TTIP and denounce their corporate power consolidation in acquiring Monsanto for $66 billion.
Normal is coming unhinged. For the past eight years it has been possible for most people (at least in the relatively privileged classes) to believe that society is sound, that the system, though creaky, basically works, and that the progressive deterioration of everything...
Charles Eisenstein
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The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never...
Dear Illegal Immigrant Parents of American Children:
Dear Youth,
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
The election of Donald Trump has left millions, maybe even billions of us in shock. Although we may be looking with bewilderment at the US today, we should remember that he is not an isolated phenomenon. He is a symptom of a sickness that is raging all around the world...
The Rules
I appreciate the anger over this year’s presidential election. I’m just as despondent that Trump will be our next president. But to those whose protests blew up my Twitter feed: I have to ask the question: Where were you when the Democrats nominated the wrong candidate this...
From my book Engines of Domination, p. 229-230
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I think the world deserves to see the truth about #NoDAPL
"To those of you that care about diversity, about the environment, about the beauty of queer sexual orientations, about indigenous lands and their right to thrive, and about policing practices that have led to the deaths of many black men and women...I write." How do we...
Demos (“common people”) - kratia (“a power, authority”)
For many years, I’ve seen more and more of my rural and tribal neighbors pack their children off to school. Now, every morning between 8:00 and 9:00 am in this upwardly-mobile-yet-backward district, the country roads are full of children commuting to school, hoisting bags...
Suprabha Seshan
What is the Way Out?
Dieter Duhm
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Now is the time for all Americans concerned with Native American Causes to stand up - to stand together in Unity to honor the Original Peoples of these Lands. Much success has resulted from public awareness and opinion on the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and...
Reflexivity and Optimism in times of Social Fragmentation
Progressives must unify to halt a slide into authoritarianism. A visionary left is better suited to lead this mission than routed establishment Democrats
Kate Aronoff