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There is no such thing as the dignity of work. It is not the right to employment but a guaranteed material existence that gives dignity to human life.
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark
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Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman show can be read as an allegory for the present. Like the fictional town of Seahaven, our own world is experiencing a series of ruptures, like the recession of 2008, the Arab Spring, the killings of young black men by police and our...
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It's time to shine the harsh light of truth on the players and policies in our farce of "politics" and this "election" year. It's time to re-evaluate what this group is really about, and what direction it takes in the future. It's time to get serious here, folk
It's not the best movie in terms of story-telling, but as an addition to the ever growing number of Civil War movies it's an excellent one and a very necessary one. Not a box office success, but a movie with great educational value.
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A film by Rónán Atkins. As part of a master's thesis project in Architecture with University College Dublin.
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On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline’s construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken...
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Increasing urbanization, shifting climates and pollution makes fresh water- humanity's most precious resource. Multinational Corporations are stepping in to purchase groundwater and distribution rights wherever they can and are commodifying what many feel is a basic human right.
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This is a video version of my presentation "The link that too many ignore: Australian climate change campaigners and the livestock sector".
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Cisse is a refugee tailor from Ivory Coast, and he says 'even the king's vest is made by a tailor'. Watch a short video about how a team at a social enterprise in Switzerland is looking for innovative ways to create opportunities for Cisse in his new home country.
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When the world was new and people were innocent, nothing was owned. There was no concept of possession. Everything in creation simply was, including us.
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One of my followers (Martin Bishop) recently shared an album of screenshots he took of a survey that was generated when he shared one of my videos to his FB wall (video linked below). It, of course, was highly political in nature and talked about Bernie Sanders forming an...
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Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets. This involves species banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of land, full of endangered species, to enable them to sell “nature credits.” Companies whose actions destroy...
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Reverend James Seawood grew up in the 1950s in Sheridan, Arkansas, and attended an all-black school.
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When a real-life firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot drop in on a classroom, these kids have their assumptions turned around.
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A bonobo ape has learned how to start fires, cook his own food, put them out, and much, much more...
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Shifting to new paradigms to replace dysfunctional ones.
Floris Koot
30 min
The Abortion Diaries gives voice to an important but silenced community: women who have had abortions. Over a million American women will have an abortion each year. The Abortion Diaries dispels the stigma of abortion by presenting the abortion stories of twelve diverse women.
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Seeding Fear is a short documentary Executive Produced by Neil Young that tells the story of Michael White, a fourth generation farmer, who went toe to toe with Monsanto.
10 min
In any case, Hollywood and its famous people affect popular society and the ordinary lives and buys of general individuals.
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"It's just that we get so messy. It's not that we're doing lots of wrong things but our minds are so messy. We don't keep it simple. And we end up making the life that we're living so inordinately complicated - completely unnecessarily. It's such a shame to end up feeling in...
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I recently spent 4 weeks in hospital. This morning, lying in bed, in severe pain and unable to move, I had a strange feeling of missing hospital. Not the noisy and un-restful clinical environment that being in hospital provides, but the being able to press a buzzer and get...
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
Maria Popova
13 min
We must shape a future in which technological progress means freeing people to work fewer hours for fairer compensation and to devote themselves to social advancement.
John Nichols
6 min
Tommy Edison, who's been blind since birth, responds to one of the most popular questions about living without sight - "what are a blind person's thoughts about racism?"
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Discover the story of two Michigan natives + adventurers and their 500-mile, fossil-free journey across the Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along the route of Line 5, a 63-year-old pipeline that threatens our inland waters and Great Lakes.
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A South African high school has been accused of racism over the way it treats its black students. Pupils at the Pretoria High School for Girls - which used to be whites only under the apartheid regime - say they have been told that they must straighten their "afro" hairstyles...
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Ha-Joon Chang is a professor of economics at Cambridge University and a best-selling international author. Author and journalist Owen Jones asked him to provide an argument against much of today's prevailing economic thought. Isn't austerity necessary? Do we have capitalism...
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Massive 'toxic' sister deals continue to threaten Europe and globe
Lauren McCauley
Friends,
Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not saying that Trump and I shared the same agent or lawyer or stylist or, if we did, that that would have anything to do with...
Michael Moore
5 min
You may have heard about how the left side of your brain controls some things and the right side others, but what if these two sides are actually separate entities?
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On The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, Lawrence explains why a protest by Native Americans in North Dakota reminds us of the history American always tries to forget.
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We live compromised lives; knowing we get hired less, paid less, and promoted less, and will likely die earlier from illness or violence. We are very much living the 3/5th lives that was intended for us when the framers compromised our humanity away.
One of the things I've been reflecting on a lot lately is the importance of holding simultaneous realities in our hearts and awareness at the same time. When it comes to ending the violence and divisions of racism, nationalism, and other historical conflicts, I see many...
The irony of internet freedom was on full display shortly after midnight July 16 in Turkey when President Erdogan used FaceTime and independent TV news to call for public resistance against the military coup that aimed to depose him.
Elizabeth Stoycheff and Erik C. Nisbet
Brexit creates an opening for change in Britain, but who will rise to the challenge and how? Anthony Barnett introduces his forthcoming book.
Anthony Barnett
The epoch is thought to have begun in the 1950s, when human activity set global systems on a different trajectory
Deirdre Fulton
They mindlessly consume wealth — and destroy the planet.
Joe Brewer
9 min
We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent...
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American television is awash with ads for prescription drugs, with as many as 80 per hour being screened. Vox looks at how this came about and what direct consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals is doing to our health.
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'Negotiations with the U.S. have de facto failed, because of course as Europeans we couldn't allow ourselves to submit to American demands'
Nika Knight
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Powerful! Caleb Stephens speaking before the Sisters With A Purpose march for justice in Lawrence, KS - 7.22.16. This is how solidarity lives.
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Imagine a school where children and teenagers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship; where students truly practice, rather than just read about, the principles of free speech, free association, and freedom to choose their own activities...
Alternatives to School
The Syrian War, today. On a Tuesday 15th March 2011, the protests for democratic reforms started in the streets of Deraa. Five years later, Syria has become a state of chaos. How has a peaceful protest against Syria’s President become a deadly civil war, leaving more than...
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YouTube creators make money from advertising. If they want to talk about Syria, or any other war zone, they don't get paid. That's a problem.
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Short documentary on the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.
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The irony is that in the greatest period (1963-1965) of national recognition of Black grievances since Reconstruction there was no Congressional Black Caucus and not a single Black mayor of a major American city.
From an early age Blacks are socialized to live defensively and to absorb the mental body blows that come from the day-to-day indignities that are hoisted upon us by the very people who are hired to uphold ‘the law’ but instead engage in lawlessness.
Black residents of Baltimore should not be required to honor a contract that has not been fulfilled and be doubly-taxed by the mental stress incurred from the fear of those in uniform who are terrorizing their neighborhoods.
Culture is a matter of the heart. The heart needs time and space to shape the places that it meets.
Who are we without this? Where do we exist emotionally?
These photos were (predominantly) taken in Downtown Los Angeles in the 1990's. On Saturday afternoon the daily mask...
Rolf Versteegh Fine-Art Photography/Film/Video
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What is so refreshing about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is that they recognise the inherent tension between economic development and the ecology of our planet. Or so it seems. The preamble affirms that “planet Earth and its ecosystems are our home” and underscores...
Jason Hickel
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Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible...
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A new way of living is in the process of formation. Capitalism as we know it has reached the limits of its ability to adapt. A networked Alternative is already in the works- You can see it in the cooperative businesses on the rise and the tough time traditional parties are...
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Since childhood, Willie Nelson has been living by the golden rule. In this episode of "Hey Willie," the superstar talks about applying the golden rule to his everyday life and lending a helping hand to those in need.
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Recent years have seen a proliferation of recuperated workplaces around the globe, laying the foundations for a truly democratic workers’ economy.
Dario Azzellini
I once read a Dear Abby column responding to a letter from a girl who, as I recall, was in middle school. She was asking for advice about an awkward incident that happened to her at school: a boy asked her out with her peers watching, and she turned him down. She was...
Thousands join protest camp as supporters are holding a rally in Washington D.C. on Wednesday outside of Army Corps hearing
Lauren McCauley
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Once a Cold War era nuclear missile silo, this silo was abandoned, flooded and left to be forgotten in the desert of Washington state, USA. Now open to scuba divers, the silo offers a unqiue perspective on what was once the ultimate weapon of war.
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Directed by Jon Jonson: http://jonjonson.com Subtitles available in English,German,Italian,Hungarian and Thai. Based on "The Egg", by Andy Weir: http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html Main actors: Jordon Ellen Stevens [God]...
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When we live connected to a community, we are more likely to become champions for one another, not just for ourselves.
Sarah van Gelder
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After Donald Trump proposes an ideology test for potential Muslim immigrants, Jordan Klepper quizzes the presidential hopeful's supporters.
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Why Is There an Armed Revolution Going on in the Philippines? In 1898, after 300 years of rule, Spain sold The Philipines to the United States for $20million. In 1946 the US granted independence to The Philippines but continued their military presence and economic hold on the...
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I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that this is just a hobby. It should be obvious to most that this is not a...
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The straw that broke the camel’s back was a New York Times comment section.
“There is no such thing as white privilege. It’s something the liberal media created. Black people and white people have the same opportunities now. Stop being sheep and get over it.”
In response...
Jonah Smith-Bartlett
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'I think people make quite positive assumptions about my mental health, because I'm outwardly very energetic, very enthusiastic. Actually, when I've been at my most energetic that's been a response to very difficult personal times' Aaron Bastani talks mental health...
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You meet them, you get to know them, you date them, you learn about them. You have sex with them. Finally, you love them. You live with them. You marry them. You have kids with them. You grow old with them. Is this, the love journey? Is it the only one?
In April 2012, I attempted suicide whilst living in San Francisco. It was - obviously - an incredibly intense time, but in many ways the time that followed the attempt was even more intense than the time that led to it.
The road I walked after my attempt was different to...
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Oxfam has hit out at the British government's position on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, as accusations continue that civilians have been deliberately targeted as Yemen's conflict continues. The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, will be in Riyadh for talks about - amongst...
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A selection of films from DocFest
Richard Swift
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The Australian Government finally released this advert today about the treatment of children in its jails and offshore detention centres, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Tunisia is the most successful Arab Spring country. If we really care about the future of the Middle East, we should be focusing on Tunisia, rather than managing Region's other disasters.
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Ten years after Al Gore's movie, the climate debate in the US has devolved into nonsense.
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Racism is a term on which a great deal of discourse does and should turn in all realms of social work theory, practice, policy, and research. Because it is a concept heavily freighted with multiple and conflicting interpretations and used in a wide variety of ways, the idea...
Carlos Hoyt, Jr.
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This is a mere glimpse of a perspective we are missing as we've been watching Syria for the past five years. In the near future, a child will raise his/her hand in class and ask: "How could Israel, Germany, United States - and everyone who knew about the holocaust, let it...
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His name is Manuel. 71 years old. Widowed. Carpenter. Owner of a coffee lot at Roça Monte Café (Sao Tome and Principe). Land from which everything springs, without asking permission.
Manuel has a wide and broad smile, with lines of poems. He tells a unique story of a country...
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Allow me to share a few personal anecdotes…
My dear aunt recently passed away from bone cancer at just 60. To make sense of her passing, I went through a period of blaming the doctors, her Christian Science background (which doesn’t believe in medicine), my aunt for not...
Chelsea Rustrum
On August 1 the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a coalition of over sixty organizations, rolled out “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice,” an ambitious document described by the press as the first signs of what young black activists...
Robin D. G. Kelley
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Charter schools are privately run, publicly funded, and irregularly regulated. John Oliver explores why they aren't at all like pizzerias.
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Cultural diversity gives us strength and resilience! Indonesia has 726 languages making it the second most diverse in the world. Based on Dadang Pohon Tua's song, "Siapa Lagi Kalau Bukan Kita" ("If Not Us Then Who"), each singer sings the chorus in their mother tongue language.
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In this sedition we bring you an exclusive interview with prison inmate Melvin Ray, secretly filmed inside Holman Prison in Alabama. Melvin is a member of the Free Alabama Movement, a National organization against mass Incarceration and prison slavery.
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A lot of us are banking on heaven for ourselves and hell for certain others, but spiritual teacher Rob Bell urges us to think about those concepts as states of consciousness, and rethink the nature of the afterlife.
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"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you...
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Moazzam Begg speaks with Albert Melise, his former Guantanamo Bay guard about his film, The Confession, life after Guantanamo and how by coming together we can end the cycles of violence.
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Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict. The Confession captures the entirety of Begg’s story, from his forced confession and testimony as a free man, to his experience as a British Muslim and living the War on Terror.
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Last week I joined activists and campaigners from across the globe who came to Canada for the World Social Forum. A major topic of discussion was the problems with TTIP-style free trade agreements and how we can stop them.
Nick Dearden
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In this film we take a tour of Adam and Sian's beautiful off-grid tiny house truck that was built using mostly reclaimed building materials on the back of a 1969 Bedford truck.
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Despite what the media tells you, the Democrats will not take the House in November. Here's why.
David Daley
2 min
This is a visual representation of how few Americans voted for Trump and Clinton in the primary elections. Vote FOR America, not AGAINST the "other party."
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An explanation for why defeating Donald Trump—despite what we know about Hillary Clinton—should be the left's primary national electoral objective this November
Adolph Reed Jr.
18 min
Michael Karlberg is a professor in the Department of Communication at Western Washington University. He completed his Ph.D. in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. His research examines the struggle to create a more just and...
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First Nations electronic DJ trio A Tribe Called Red's new album, We Are the Halluci Nation is led by the track “R.E.D.,” which features Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Canadian-Iraqi MC Narcy, an
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"It didn't stop & it won't stop with Omran if the world doesn't act."
Deirdre Fulton
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Prince Ea tells a remarkable emotional story, based on real-life events.
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At what moment can you classify yourself as an adult? People of all ages were asked for their responses, and the answers vary pretty wildly.
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My mother died of cancer five years ago. While most of the cells in her body grew and reproduced at a rate that merely kept her alive, there were a few rogue cells that mutated and changed — reprogramming themselves as greedy individuals who cared about nothing except rapid...
Joe Brewer
7 min
Shon Faye looks at the politics of mental illness. The biases of how it's defined, who gets diagnosed and how people affected can resist discrimination and cuts to vital services.
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What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond
Adolph Reed Jr.
We've been told for decades health is about what we eat, but recent findings in the field of mind-body medicine are showing there's a whole lot more too it than just that and most of it has to do with your mind.
Wherever you are, you've probably seen people glued to their phones looking for Pokémon to capture - perhaps you're a Pokémon trainer yourself? Not to take anything away from the pursuit of these virtual creatures, but it is in the real world that the most fantastic and...