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As every year, we celebrate the Global Grace Day on this November 9, 2016.
Dieter Duhm
Or, how to stop worrying and love staving off the dystopian nightmare that threatens.
Liam Miller
4 min
This 4-minute clip from Engines of Domination 2018 Director's Cut argues that technology itself has not caused today's human emergency. Instead, the emergency resulted from Domination making scientific technology an accessory to its destruction industry in the 16th century...
In recent months, WikiLeaks and I personally have come under enormous pressure to stop publishing what the Clinton campaign says about itself to itself. That pressure has come from the campaign’s allies, including the Obama administration, and from liberals who are anxious...
Julian Assange
2 min
For racer snakes, the emergence of marine iguana hatchlings is a feeding bonanza.
12 things we can't ignore as America votes.
Anthony Barnett
A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
Sarah van Gelder
Dear President Obama,
I write to respectfully but urgently request your intervention in the very troubling situation unfolding at and around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. As you know, over the past day, scores of law enforcement officers dressed in...
Bernie Sanders
The decision is yours today; would you like all the facts first?
Right to Clean Water & The Fight Against Eminent Domain
Western science and Indigenous worldviews are often seen as incompatible, with the Indigenous view usually being far less valued by society at large. But an inside look at Indigenous ways of knowing shows that they offer unique and dependable insights, in precisely the areas...
Lilian Na’ia Alessa
On November 9th, 1938 more than 1000 synagogues and 7000 Jewish businesses were burning all over Germany, set ablaze by the Nazis. Going down in history as “Kristallnacht” or the “Night of Broken Glass,” this dreadful event marked the beginning of the Holocaust, resulting in...
Martin Winiecki
When the polls close, a new battle will begin – to resist a racist climate denier, or to force a centrist Democrat to deliver genuinely progressive change
Rebecca Solnit
7 min
John Oliver is a great comedian. But he might be an even better corporate tool.
This is how a war begins
Charles Eisenstein
3 min
At Stedwick Elementary School projects are often used as the vehicle for the curriculum because it allows for both the growth of strong community in the classroom as well as engaging and supporting students in high levels of learning. In Ms. Nwoye’s fourth grade class a...
How tabloid fooled its readers over Brexit court case
Paul Mason
49 min
Short stories told by water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota.
10 min
In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the award-winning writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact of coral bleaching caused by climate change. In a personal but also universal story, Klein...
96 min
Documentary from Michael Horn (2007). Theyfly.com . Now presenting the most controversial UFO / ET case in history. The truth is exposed in this remarkable film about how one man's meetings with extraterrestrials lead him through dozens of countries, meeting many famous world...
Words are battling in my head and I cannot truly form a sentence empty of frustration.
3 min
Sure there are differences between Trump & Hillary. But don't you see all the similarities?
3 min
Burning Eye Books' Carpool Poetry presents: The Fuck Off Account by Agnes Török.
1 min
On Saturday 6 November a group of people gathered at The Bear Pit in Bristol, England, in answer to a call from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, who are defending their land and water from the Dakota Access oil Pipeline (DAPL). Following the call for people to...
8 min
Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience... the only way to progress with social change.
24 min
With the Wikileaks release of thousands of emails belonging to John Podesta, very little is known in US society about Podesta himself. While he’s maintained a low profile, John Podesta is actually considered one of Washington’s biggest players, and one of the most powerful...
A poem for those that fight with the Sioux, with water, at Standing Rock.
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Maria Popova
Feeling overwhelmed? Here are 4 Steps to get recentered.
Jacob Devaney
One cannot claim to be intersectional while at the same time being elitist and exclusionary. Everyone isn't hip to what heteronormativity, heterosexism, cisgendered, cissexism or many new-age terms mean. You can't write people off for not being where you are or prescribing to...
Djuan Wash
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around now for 10 years. From our early years focusing on local film screenings to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a DIY alternative...
My appeal to leftist comrades who think that not voting is a way to be a "principled" leftist, or that it's leftist to choose a third-party candidate so you can vote in good conscience. These are not leftist positions (Yes, I dare to assert a basic standard for distinguishing...
Chad Kautzer
6 min
I'm sure most of you are saturated with all the insanity of this election cycle for the US the presidency. As for myself, I have had enough. However, I want to explain my view as to how I see politics as a whole. I like to think of them like WWF wrestlers entering a match.
52 min
By going back over the key events of the last two centuries of social history, the series reveals, for the first time, the origins and destiny of a political trend that has been fighting all masters and all gods for over 150 years.
6 min
Over the course of 1 hot summer month in St. Louis, Missouri, The Babel Project had the honor of running a media activism workshop with 5 incredible youth protesters to produce a film that told a story of Ferguson and Mike Brown Junior from their perspectives.
I’ve noticed lately that a lot of allies and accomplices I talk to about NoDAPL and other struggles will name what they are trying to contribute to the cause, and then promptly apologize that they can’t do more. Often, the apologies seem perfunctory, or even insincere, but...
Kelly Hayes
The joy and practice of learning to share
Tommy Alexander
If we want to escape from the wetiko disease of our current capitalist culture, we need a credible concept for a new nonviolent global society and for transforming the old matrix of fear and violence into a new matrix of trust, compassion and cooperation.
Martin Winiecki
7 min
Do animals and plants have consciousness? Are electrons alive? Thich Nhat Hanh in dialogue with University of Virginia Astrophysicist Dr. Trinh Xuan Thuan.
29 min
Beautiful. Listen to this.
12 min
Aaron looks at the facts when it comes to Britain and refugees.
2 min
Join Matthew Cooke and Susan Sarandon by pledging to withdraw your money from these big banks until they agree to:
1. Divest from Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
2. Pressure President Obama to halt construction and put a stop to...
Automatic voter registration has recently emerged a key tool in increasing the United States’ anemic voter turnout. The process is simple: Whenever an eligible citizen interacts with a government agency (typically the DMV), she is registered to vote
Mark Joseph Stern
New evidence points to a Western cover-up of Algerian state sponsorship of Islamist jihadists, to protect oil and gas interests
Nafeez Ahmed
18 min
My Life As A Call Centre Worker
The four-part WellRedFilms series on work kicks off with Susan’s story. She works with 1,000 other employees (80% women) at one of the largest call centres in the UK. She tells us what it's really like at the other end of the telephone.
The problems in the world are rooted in the minds of each and every individual. It’s a psychological problem that manifests in the physical world. The separation and division begins in our own minds first. When we see ourselves as separate from the rest of the world then we...
10 min
LEARN 10 SIMPLE HABITS YOU CAN FORM TO LITERALLY SAVE THE EARTH. SIGN UP for our newsletter to get positive SOLUTIONS for maintaining a SUSTAINABLE MIND, BODY, & PLANET! Nu proceeds go toward supporting the Arts and Promoting Sustainable Options for Earth Dwellers. Get...
9 min
Tong Saruen and her family in the Ta Trav village were first identified for aid by the Trailblazer Foundation in 2012. Trailblazer is now working directly in 19 villages and indirectly in 16 other villages with partner NGOs encompassing 52 different villages, 35 communes and...
Before Trump ever called Clinton a “nasty woman,” these fierce ladies were getting it done—in the face of B.S. from the boys.
Kate Schatz
The solidarity economy proposes more transparency, much more democracy, much more participation, much more redistribution of wealth and goods of production. The solidarity economy fights for free software, for free knowledge, for freedom of access to information, completely...
Yavor Tarinski
16 min
In Iceland, the direct democracy Pirate Party made big gains in Sunday’s national elections, raising the prospect it will form a coalition government with other left-wing parties. The Pirates won 10 seats in Iceland’s 63-member Parliament, up from three in the last election...
2 min
America has used its history of struggle and protest to gain the freedoms it has today, says Owen Jones. But, he argues, the country is now in grave peril. He says the US must draw on its proud history of positive action to avoid a Trump victory.
Harriet Paintin and Hannah Kirmes-Daly spent a week at the refugee camp during its last days, collecting portraits, hopes and thoughts of its residents.
Harriet Paintin, Hannah Kirmes-Daly
While it's not entirely clear who coined the phrase "socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the rest," its ability to provoke — and, more importantly, to describe — is beyond question.
Jake Johnson
Prayer circles, rubber bullets, and a buffalo stampede at the major protest in rural North Dakota.
Antonia Juhasz
76 min
Utilizing casual unrushed surroundings, intimate extended interactions, and unscripted freewheeling conversations, citizen-journalist Cee documents a diverse team of real world, out of this world, and down to earth activists who reveal that their world is shared and united...
Our society seems to harden and love for our peers harder to give. We amaze ourselves over it, disapprove of it and place blame with the mad individual. Imagination however teaches us to take in to account the conditions of the environment -parents, school, friends, societal...
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." / "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." - John Quincy Adams
3 min
More like "alien tribes" than rival parties. That's how the Pew Research Center describes how the two sides in an increasingly divided America see each other.
48 min
O ano de 2016 já entrou para a História como aquele em que atingiu o seu auge o movimento estudantil secundarista em nosso país: em Outubro de 2016, mais de 1.100 escolas e universidades públicas foram ocupadas pelo Brasil afora. Neste documentário, buscamos revelar a...
2 min
The words of John Trudell, who walked on late last year, ring out in this video by filmmakers Heather Rae, Cody Lucich and Ben Dupris, who recently spent time with the water protectors near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation who are trying to stop the Dakota Access oil...
The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.
Jason Tebbe
“The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover. The daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.”
Gavin Aung Than
5 min
Unknown to most, the amount of homeless individuals and families in the UK is at its highest point in a generation, and continuing to rise. Although some government and private assistance is in place, it's not nearly enough to tackle the ongoing epidemic.
6 min
A voyage across the US-Mexico border, stitched together from 200,000 satellite images. Directed by Josh Begley. Read more here.
The more I look at the USA, the less I see the land of the free and the home of the brave.
95 min
Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.
Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr.
28 min
Documentário, curta-metragem, 28 min, Maio de 2016, um filme de Eduardo Carli de Moraes.
'Like Robin Hood, because Robin Hood was a pirate, we want to take the power from the powerful to give it to the people.'
Common Dreams
This piece is very personal because, as an Indigenous woman, my analysis is very personal, as is the analysis that my friends on the frontlines have shared with me. We obviously can’t speak for everyone involved, as Native beliefs and perspectives are as diverse as the...
Kelly Hayes
My story is just one of more than 65 million. I’m one of the lucky ones who gets to share it.
Ahmed Abdalrazag
25 min
acTVism Munich Playlist October 2016
This video playlist compiles all of acTVism Munich's work for the month October 2016 which includes a wide range of topics - privacy, democracy, economy, politics and social issues. This video playlist includes interviews with Joseph...
We are in an age of spillages and fundamental breaches in the borders of things. From the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to the ‘insurgency’ of Syrian refugees, to the surprising revelations that with the NSA the Americans spy on everyone else, and to the...
18 min
Uma produção A Casa de Vidro; um filme de Eduardo Carli de Moraes.
The world doesn't stop being sacred because we start to understand it - and that's mostly because understanding is not a relation of exteriority or of final approximations, but of ongoing participation.
The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda.
John Pilger
311 min
We must start taking full responsibility for our lives so that no harm is done to the earth by the choices we make and no harm or suffering done to other people by the choices we make. In nearly every aspect of our lives we are forced and coerced to destroy the Earth and...
5 min
Water protectors have extended their camp beyond the overflow site, just north of the Standing Rock reservation, to the pipeline easement line. The Oceti Sakowin declared eminent domain on land bought by Dakota Access and set up their new
"From one death for every 269 arrivals last year, in 2016 the likelihood of dying has spiraled to one in 88," says UNHCR spokesman
Deirdre Fulton
3 min
Prince Ea announces who he's voting for. It's probably not who you think.
This election year has been absolutely unprecidented, even for people who have no real interest in politics. The television tells us that one of the two most untrusted, disliked candidates in living memory will become our next President- while simultaniously mocking and...
26 min
With just weeks until the U.S. presidential election—and with both mainstream candidates embroiled in unprecedented scandal—Abby Martin interviews one of the progressive alternatives, socialist candidate Gloria La Riva.
La Riva is a long-time organizer in the anti-war and...
6 min
On October 22, just before dawn, hundreds of people, including many families, gathered and prepared to march toward the Dakota Access pipeline construction site near Standing Rock, North Dakota. Dozens of officers, backed by military trucks, police vans, machine guns, and...
The British government recently gave the green light for Heathrow airport’s third runway. It was heralded by its supporters as a vital boost for jobs and growth – and proof that the UK was “open for business”. The transport secretary, Chris Grayling, referred to the decision...
Matthew Adams
36 min
#WhoWeAre is a campaign to share the stories of people whose actions show us compassion and to send a message of empathy, hope and optimism.
2 min
Join Emerge America's #WhySheRuns campaign to support female candidates and encourage more women to running for office. More information is available at www.emergeamerica.org/whysheruns.
27 min
Author, Activist and Former California State Senator Tom Hayden talks in depth with the author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, about the state of the fourth branch of government: journalists.
When my father was seven he and his best friend Phil cut their index fingers open and placed them together to create a “blood pact” that they would always be brothers. To this day I still call Phil my uncle and cannot think of anyone that my father has showed more inalienable...
Bianca Vivion
When Arundhati Roy was preparing, in 2014, for a trip to Moscow to meet Edward Snowden, she was troubled by two things.
Jake Johnson
10 min
From Chile's marble caves to the blue buildings of Jaipur in India, here are eight stunning places that showcase awesome natural and man-made sights.
6 min
Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning film I, Daniel Blake tells the story of a man who is denied disability benefit after a heart attack and who is then subsequently caught in a bureaucratic nightmare – along with Katie, a young woman with two children to protect. Loach...
2 min
Soon Hillary Clinton will likely become the first female president of the United States. Maude Garrett tells her what she should expect.
The 'new story' - that longed for milieu when all is right with the world and things are set straight - seems to be taking its sweet time coming. Why?
In addition to advising on all three mega-mergers, Credit Suisse is playing a big role behind the scenes of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Wenonah Hauter
Let's all take a moment to clear our aching, overstuffed heads. Empty your mind of every piece of political rhetoric you've heard for one moment. Now please, for the sake of human lives everywhere, give serious consideration to the fact that there's only one candidate running...
4 min
In 2016 the meaning of masculinity is something of a minefield. But at a time of war, of financial scandal, of terrorism and violent crime - is manhood itself to blame? Grayson Perry answers the question what is it about men?
8 min
Hello! We are Oh Wonder, a musical duo from London.
This is my ballot. It arrived in the mail where I live in Washington state — and I’ve already sent it back to the elections committee. Note how I didn’t vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinto
Joe Brewer
3 min
The Professor of Geography examines social inequality and the geodemographics of the UK, using maps created by Oliver O'Brien (UCL, CASA) in 2012 and updated in 2015. You can further explore the maps here.