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Decadence: The Meaninglessness of Modern Life is a six-part Australian television documentary series hosted by Pria Viswalingam. The series examines the decadence and meaninglessness of modern, western life. It is also posed the question: 'If we live in such a great and...
How should we understand the violence, counterviolence and civil unrest that mark the current era in American policing?
James J. Nolan
It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion
Jason Hickel
3 min
A documentary about the Diaspora that a group of Welsh artists is stuck in since the urban 'regeneration' of a city centre.
The ‘Winston Churchill note’ has entered circulation in England, honouring a man who swilled on champagne while 4 million men, women and children in Bengal starved due to his racist colonial policies.
Crimes of Britain
“I am the Shaman of rust,” proclaims Jonny, both to an admirer of his painting and to us, the audience of this quirky yet riveting film. Massimo Salvato should take enormous satisfaction from his vision, which is as much an exploration of form as an exposition of its...
Taini Polypheme
6 min
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department and died a week later from a severe spinal cord injury. In the past, injuries and killings of African Americans in police custody have received little media attention, but Gray’s death pushed...
13 min
rEvolutionary short film, whose mission statement is to inform and empower us all to invoke Global Permaculture using fundamental principles of NATURAL LAW, applied to social and environmental issues.
4 min
We asked a group of women to share with us their life experiences and answer one question: “If you could tell your younger self anything, what would you say to her?”
In “To the Girl I Was,” these women reflect on their pasts and remind us of the strength that comes from...
5 min
In a world ruled by ceaseless capitalist competition, where people are pitted to work against each other, anarchists offer a different vision: Mutual Aid.
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A timeline of the earth's average temperature since the last ice age glaciation
xkcd
Instead of buying the items she coveted, this artist made paintings of them. Here’s what she learned after a year of not shopping.
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn
5 min
Not even the bitter cold weather deters Allan Law from his mission to help the hungry.
45 min
In commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder in detention of Stephen Biko, the 17th annual Steve Biko lecture is delivered by Professor Angela Davis author, activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department...
After years of hating the iconic photo, Kim Phuc came to embrace it as a powerful tool to teach peace.
Abby Zimet
Edward Snowden fled the country and risked his own life to expose our government's Orwellian spying and constant, widespread privacy violations. He revealed to the world that nearly every major telecom, corporation, and method of digital communication is illegally being bulk...
91 min
This video is from the Anarchadia.com website which was blocked by the CIA.
33 min
Big ocean creatures are being washed up on beaches because all of our corporations deadly chemical sink to the bottom, and all the media does is gawk at their dead bodies, and pretend they are mysterious undiscovered creatures. This video is from the Anarchadia.com website...
92 min
Synopsis The truth does not exist. There is only the manipulation of reality. And you are the best example. Have you heard of the Bilderberg club? Do you know who integrates and what are its objectives? I should know because they already control everything... or so you claim.
2 min
Apple's Jony Ive releases Apple's thinnest ever product. Its tax bill.
90 min
This documentary is a personal story filmed over four critical years in the life of Bethlehem, as it is being encircled by a 24-foot concrete wall. Leila Sansour, the filmmaker, was born and spent much of her life in the city. She left it as a teenager, pledging never to...
The Louder Voice
September 2016
"I have to speak up. How can our world be like this? How did things get so complicated and ugly? How has our country, our world, become so divided? I need to help people see how vital it is that we come together now." These thoughts...
M Lockley
2 min
Beauty isn't dependent on the external appearance. In this daring street experiment, Jae West co-founder of The Liberators International dives into vulnerability in Times Square, New York City to highlight this powerful message.
Cannon Ball, ND – While many Americans passively support the Standing Rock Sioux’s fight to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, aside from showing up in Cannon Ball, North Dakota (which many simply can’t do) – to actively participate in the protests – most...
Jay Syrmopoulos
The concept of purpose is so significant in society on account of its justifications of our existence and demand to make efforts in sustaining this. However, in doing so we may be disconnecting ourselves from the natural order of things. Perhaps our existence is simply...
44 min
Documentary about the comedy-musical duo Flight Of The Conchords
9 min
Fort McMurray residents were forced to flee a huge wildfire that destroyed much of their city in Canada's Alberta province in May 2016. About 88,000 residents were evacuated from the oil-rich region during the fire, the costliest natural disaster in Canada's history.
5 min
It's more complex than women earning 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. When there is talk about the gender wage gap, often the statistic heard is, “Women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man makes.” While this is factually correct, it does not encompass the nuances of...
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After Donald Trump visits an African-American church in Detroit, Roy Wood Jr. breaks down the GOP presidential hopeful's attempt to bolster support among black voters.
This infographic is part of a special Yes magazine report: Banking on Justice: The Bankers Doing Civil Rights Work in the Mississippi Delta.
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn
7 min
Created in anticipation of a favourable outcome at the Paris Climate Change Conference 2015 (30th Nov - 11th Dec) in controlling Climate Change. "For our Children and their Children too" Lets write a new chapter Music / Lyrics written and recorded by PaoloC Video by Dave Thompson
I have just come out of my third stay in hospital this summer. It’s sucked, but there have been many things I’ve picked up along the way that helped empower me during my hospital stays and made them suck a little less.
1. Get friends to bring you food
Researcher Kristin Neff reveals the benefits of going easy on yourself: less anxiety, less conflict, and more peace of mind.
Kristin Neff
2 min
Excruciating up-to-the-minute coverage of some irrelevant bullshit story that has no ramifications whatsoever.
I recently took up the challenge to talk about inner transition in the garden of an eco-village project in Värmland County, Sweden. A lot of sun, beautiful place, no flip-chart or power points. Here is a short account of what I talked about.
Stephen Hinton
8 min
The stream of consciousness refers to the passage of many thousands of images and ideas through our minds every day, very few of which we manage to arrest and examine in any detail. Accurate self-knowledge depends on patiently sitting on the bank of the stream of...
45 min
The Zeitgeist Movement's Peter Joseph shares the truth about economics, society, and the social orders implemented to undermine the true value of life on Earth, in this uncensored interview on Buzzsaw. How globalization, exploitation, and social philosophy are manipulated to...
It’s a tough call to select 10 images from the more than 18,000 that Greenpeace has produced in the last 12 months. But this selection gave me a chance to look back at the amazing work that’s happening across the world.
These are not the most beautiful images, but they...
Sudhanshu Malhotra
Emergency request for a restraining order was filed in response to the holiday weekend desecration of sacred sites
Lauren McCauley
6 min
We are facing an online epidemic of violence against women. Of threats and harassment. We must #ReclaimTheInternet.
48 min
Last 20 april 2013 Bangladesh and India have signed a deal to establish Bagerhat Rampal 1320 MW coal- based thermal power plant construction, in that deal both the governments have violated the law by taking decision to destruct the amazing inhabitant of natural beauty and...
6 min
Right now thousands of badgers are being needlessly shot as part of a scheme to deal with TB in cattle. This is happening despite overwhelming scientific evidence which shows that badgers and cows do not interact, that bTB is not spread between the species and that it is a...
Okay, apologies for the length, but bear with me on this. It's time for the masses to receive some truthful perspective instead of just the usual sponsored fear and hopelessness.
Earlier this year, I wrote about a cache of bitter writings by Woody Guthrie that I had discovered while conducting research for a book on the balladeer.
Will Kaufman
3 min
It's a straightforward question, the answer is incredibly complicated.
Most people who engage with contemporary politics will be familiar with the theory of Social Democracy. This is the ideology which is today espoused by the likes of
Libsoc Blogs
9 min
The UK is in the middle of a deep housing crisis. Successive Conservative and Labour governments have failed to build enough houses, let the unregulated private rental sector spiral out of control and allowed home ownership to fall dramatically. Conservative policies...
4 min
A little piece I wrote when asked, "What does Indigenous Sovereignty mean to you?" for Concordia University's 2016/2017 Student Agenda. Video taken by my sister, as we welcome the day by a little lake in Québec.
Picture this: you hurt yourself, and you go to the doctor to talk about knee surgery. What would you think if your doctor was required — by law — to tell you that the operation would increase your chance of bone cancer? Or that repairing your torn ligament would increase your...
Meredith Clark
What does it mean to be happy in a modern consumer society? John F Schumaker argues that our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction.
John Schumaker
2 min
Palm oil, an ingredient in half of all packaged foods worldwide, has a bad reputation because it’s associated with the clearing of virgin rainforest to make way for plantations, threatening wildlife and
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
6 min
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...
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.
6 min
A film by Rónán Atkins. As part of a master's thesis project in Architecture with University College Dublin.
8 min
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...
4 min
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.
19 min
This is a video version of my presentation "The link that too many ignore: Australian climate change campaigners and the livestock sector".
4 min
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.
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.
16 min
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...
87 min
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...
3 min
Reverend James Seawood grew up in the 1950s in Sheridan, Arkansas, and attended an all-black school.
2 min
When a real-life firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot drop in on a classroom, these kids have their assumptions turned around.
2 min
A bonobo ape has learned how to start fires, cook his own food, put them out, and much, much more...
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.
10 min
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.
In any case, Hollywood and its famous people affect popular society and the ordinary lives and buys of general individuals.
4 min
"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...
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?"
28 min
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.
4 min
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...
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?
4 min
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.
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...
9 min
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.
'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
7 min
Powerful! Caleb Stephens speaking before the Sisters With A Purpose march for justice in Lawrence, KS - 7.22.16. This is how solidarity lives.
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...
5 min
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.
17 min
Short documentary on the Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.
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.