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The convention has come and gone and as the nation turns its attention towards the general election the Democrats hold hands and bask in the glow of their newly found unity. Not. In fact, Facebook has turned into the bloody field of a civil war battle and those old...
Digital media pioneer turned heretic Jeff Einstein discusses the obscene Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in central Idaho.
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The real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life: Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian boy who ran away from home to join the army. Najah Aboud was a 19-year old Iraqi who had been conscripted to fight in the war, leaving behind his wife and son. Both...
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The Australian Government released this advert today about Census Day (August 9), and its surprisingly helpful and informative.
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Sooooooooo … can you tell I’m a new dad? My w
Gavin Aung Than
28 Stunning Photos Of The World’s Largest Cave
Kid Krunk
His most disturbing connection to Russia has nothing to do with money
Matthew Gault
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go next?
Michael Edwards
The Presidential election is not a radical nor revolutionary litmus test so let’s stop making it one.
Nelini Stamp
Many Christians Have Pretended To Care About Morals For 40 Years - Now Is The Opportunity To Prove It.
I spent about nine months in an isolated cell behind a one-way mirror. It was cruel, degrading and inhumane
Chelsea E Manning
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In 2015, the State Government of São Paulo's planned mass closure of schools provoked a campaign of resistance from High-School pupils in the form of hundreds of occupations and street mobilisations.
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Too many headlines and stories right now are contributing to a polarized society, but media could instead play an important role in revealing our shared humanity
Zenobia Jeffries
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John Oliver covers the Democratic convention and the unconventional state of our democracy.
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When Martin, a South Sudanese refugee, happens upon a bull he believes is his spiritual totem, he decides to rescue it from the abattoir he works in. Once home, the bull begins to jeopardise Martin's family's chance at fitting in. Martin is torn between his ancient cultural...
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On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the Move compound, killing 11 people, including five children, and destroying an entire neighborhood. The countercultural group lived communally and had a history of violent encounters with police.
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Written and directed by Paul Mason, former Economics Editor of Channel 4 News and BBC's Newsnight, Astoria follows a Syrian refugee's journey to the West. Once there, an encounter with the past in a Budapest hotel draws a parallel between Europe's historical and current...
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I went backstage at the biggest political show on earth- and found America telling stories about itself
Laurie Penny
The Byron burger chain is facing a wave of protests and condemnation for helping the Home Office organize a series of immigration raids on its London restaurants that led to the arrest of 35 of its workers from Albania, Brazil, Nepal and Egypt last week.
And whil
Corporate Watch
This is the incredible list of links compiled by redditor marisam7 on r/EnoughTrumpSpam maks the case that Donal Trump is indeed a fascist
marisam7
Burger restaurant chain Byron hit the headlines for allegedly lying to their staff and calling fake meetings so immigration officials could swoop and make arrests. It's an incident that's been met with outrage, we were invited to join a group of activists as they took matters...
Michael Segalov
In the war movie The Way Ahead, David Niven is in charge of a platoon of working class conscripts, who skive their way through basic training. In their first real battle they’re forced to launch an attack on the elite Afrika Korps. As they go over the top Niven quips: “This...
Paul Mason
My favorite definition of privilege is 'thinking something's not a problem because it's not a problem to you.'
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People tend to be scared of what they don't understand, and they tend to throw boxes and labels at things to contain them and categorise them because it makes people feel more secure.
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Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income.
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An Introduction to the Socialist Party of Great Britain part of the World Socialist Movement.
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Fresh strike took place in same area where US is said to have killed scores in airstrikes last week
Andrea Germanos
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The problems with 'winner take all' or 'first pass the post' voting, explained via the animal kingdom.
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This does not preclude voting for third parties at the local and state levels, which is where third party power needs to grow before a presidential campaign could win.
gblues
Something strange happened on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.
Katherine Krueger
The insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign was a big step forward in building the progressive populist political alignment we need. We have to figure out how to keep building after this election cycle. But first we must mobilize to defeat hate, bigotry, and the growing threat of...
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
https://www.efa.org.au/privacy/census-2016/
Electronic Frontiers Australia
An argument for collective expression.
Visit Lake Tanganyika, one of Zambia’s most impressive sites, and find out more about the beauty and abundance of Africa! In the 1800s, English scientists Richard Burton and John Speke explored what they thought to be a source of Nile, and found out that Ruzizi River, which...
Welcome to Goa’s sandy beaches, the tourist companies say. You’ll enjoy the sand, and you’ll enjoy the waves. However, there is one thing that prevents foreigners from flocking on an all-Indian resort whole year round, and it is the monsoon. Monsoon is also known as the rainy...
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Official video for Ahmed by Lowkey ft. Mai Khalil contains devastating truths about war, migration and the underlying systemic issues that surround them.
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The decision to leave the EU was disappointing. But now we’re outside the union, we need to be honest about the part that money plays in our society
Stephen Hawking
Travelling in Rojava is to witness a revolution experimenting with a form of stateless, direct democracy with women’s liberation, race and class equality at the heart of it. Rahila Gupta's epic 6-part article gets to the heart of the Rojava Revolution.
Rahila Gupta
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Donald Trump Blames Black Lives Matter for Crime. That's nuts. This video uses his data, and Watergate, to pick apart his argument and show how he's failing statistics and basic ethics. FURTHER READING: Gallup Poll on Trust in Government information can be found here...
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Can voter identification, registration, and protection efforts help not only defeat Trump, but build a mass movement for democratic socialism?
Jesse A. Myerson
Luz Sosa came to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as a disappointed Bernie Sanders delegate. But she is leaving fired up to take on big political fights in her home town of Milwaukee.
Isaiah Poole
As wildfire rages in California, flooding affects millions in India and China, and eggs are fried on sidewalks in Iraq, scientists say global climate catastrophe is surpassing predictions
Nika Knight
Both Trump and Clinton are scary bad news. There's plenty of time to make a decision. You don't have to answer to anyone when you make it. Whichever decision you make, make it part of a long-term plan.
Michael J. Dumas
It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."
Jeff Cohen and Salim Kujitawala
Four ways to make it through trying times with an open heart
Pema Chodron
Why “Black” Makes Us Uncomfortable
John Halstead
5 min
We pride ourselves on living in a sexually liberated age. But we haven't in fact begun to know how to face up to, or discuss, our true sexual natures.
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Taking action requires practice, and that means training for it. Simply put, we have not been training to build the skills necessary for actively evolving the institutions of our civilization — so we are not skilled in the practices needed to do the work.
Most social change...
Joe Brewer
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GIVE US SPACE is a feature documentary about the complexity of the housing crisis in London. Filmed over 2013-2014, the film focuses on housing as a human need and Human Right, interviewing people and following empowering grass-roots movements, and housing struggles, while...
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Native American Boarding School Video. Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement(A.I.M) reflects on his experiences with Native boarding (residential) schools. Dennis escaped several times from the boarding schools. Survivors of Native boarding school have...
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Sometimes, words just aren’t enough, but there are other ways to get ideas across. These images will help you understand what depression feels like.
Sherrie
If you’ve struggled with depression at any point in your life, you’ve probably heard some well-meaning soul say “just try to get some exercise, it’s good for your mood!” Annoyingly, they’re right; I don’t think that exercise can single-handedly cure depression or treat its...
Sarah Kurchak
Many Americans are rightfully scared shitless of Donald Trump; in particular marginalized people. But for many of us, we do not have the privilege of it being the first time we are truly afraid for our lives.
Morgana Visser
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On La Gomera, a small island in Spain’s Canary Islands, the last speakers of a language without words reside. "El Silbo," a whistled communication used in rural and isolated areas, is dying out as islanders embrace digital communication and move to cities and the mainland...
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The illusion of power IS a kind of real power. There is a lesson in this for the majority of humanity.
Joe Brewer
7 min
A short film about the humanitarian consequences of the political crisis.
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The day after Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the Democratic National Convention and urged his supporters to work to ensure his former rival wins the presidential race, we host a debate between Clinton supporter Robert Reich, who served as labor secretary under President...
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Emails appear to violate White House policy
Nika Knight
3 min
Now you can Enjoy a magic world of SAMSKARA fulldome show in VR format. This show is a result of collaboration between digital artist Android Jones and 360Art fulldome studio production powered by Fulldome.pro https://youtu.be/tdIrQzlDAeI - SAMSKARA SHOW. Teaser E3 2016. 360...
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Brilliant comic, part of the Seeing Wetiko series, from The Rules.
Christina Tran
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The series documents Rob Greenfield's off the grid bike ride across America on a bamboo bicycle where he practiced sustainable living to the extreme. In 4,700 miles of cycling he used just 160 gallons of water, burned less than one gallon of gas, never turned on a light...
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It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals. I am sketching out here opinions based on information, they may prove right, or may prove wrong, and they’re intended just to challenge and be part of a wider...
Tobias Stone
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How to Be There for the People who Need you Most.
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When you shrink the United States' population down to 100 people this is what you get. The United States has over 2,000,000 prisoners. Who are they? What are they in for?
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Watch how Europeans gave away African land they never owned, then expressed anger when Africans resisted. The film is called Africa: A Voyage of Discovery, Episode 6: The Magnificent African Cake. Don't miss the part between the 2-5 minute mark.
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Cynicism and despair are among democracy’s worst enemies.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
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The list of resources mentioned in this talk is online at this link: http://www.ncrtc.eu/fileadmin/Callahan_Academy/NCRTC/Articles/Ways_To_Freedom_Resources.pdf
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Dear fellow JillB4 Hill folks and Berniecrats, a part of me really does not want to expend energy posting to all my center-left groups about the necessity of preventing Trump from winning the election. The necessary historical context in which to look at how detrimental a...
Monday morning saw Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former DNC chair, booed offstage at the Florida Democratic Delegation Breakfast; while it was transpiring, MSNBC's caption read that she was being cheered. A concise example of establishment media trying to force a positive...
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Unseen Tears Native American boarding school documentary. Native American Residential schools / boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada have had a lasting impact on Native communities. Native American families in Western New York and Ontario continue to feel the impact of the...
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I am Black. I capitalize Black and leave white lowercased. Sure, it’s the accepted spelling, but really I do it because it feels good. My family lived in Missouri, but my mother crossed state lines to birth me in Kansas. Missouri was a slave state. Kansas was free, and she...
R.L. Stephens
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On the eve of the Democratic Convention a large group of Bernie Sander supporters marched in Philly, the site of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to say Bernie or Bust. Video Ninja Andalusia Knoll filed this report
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Bringing together the inner and outer aspects of transformation may be the revolution of our times
Kavita Byrd
It's The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam
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I hope all of my teachers see this. - Prince EA
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Psychedelic drugs could be the key to making you happier and healthier. So why won't we research them?
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"Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy [...] the greatest and most savage slavery out of the extreme of freedom." Plato's The Republic.
A personal project filmed and edited at the 2016 Republic National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and...
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The beautiful and mind-bending illusions in Canadian artist Robert Gonsalves’ paintings have a fun way of twisting your perception and causing you to question what in his paintings, if anything, is real.
Most of his stunning paintings have an unclear boundary between the...
Dovas
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Supergroup Prophets of Rage descended upon Cleveland during the Republican National Convention to givea voice to those not represented in the political process.
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If you had to flee your country, what’s the one piece of technology you would take with you?
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This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
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'When it comes to climate change, there’s precious little time for lesser evils; the physics—as scientists are quick to tell us—has put humanity on a deadline.' - Kate Aronoff
Jon Queally
In 1987, the United States Senate passed a resolution which acknowledged the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the resolution acknowledged the historical debt which the United States owes to...
Ojibwa
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This is something everyone can do to take some of the power from the present system and put it into the people's hands. Find a bank near you: blackoutcoalition.org/black-u-s-banks/
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Alan Watts discusses choice and the thoughts process behind it. Our choices are fundamentally what shape our character, and more importantly our life as a whole.
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If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery
Sara Burrows
Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine for VP may trigger the sea change progressives have been dreaming of and working towards for decades. Please hear me out.
What does the meat industry do to people’s mental health?
Andy West
Both inner and outer change are essential for political transformation.
Michael Edwards
Nominating a political clone like Sen. Tim Kaine is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want a higher turnout
John Atcheson
What’s in it for you?
*Author's note: Hey Guys! I'm just a high school freshman/teen girltrying to figure stuff out, or atleast I hope I do someday. This is just some high school striy tat I wrote decribing the various incidents. Ihope you ys like reading it as much as I...
An action to bring together a unified transformation team, key-holders for unlocking next culture for everybody.
Erik Lawyer
In May, the ABC’s first female managing director Michelle Guthrie was introduced by the ABC Board as bringing “business expertise, international contacts, a record in content-making across an array of platforms, a deep understanding of audience needs and corporate...
Nicholas James
On #BlackLivesMatter, moral injury and activism
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
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We all know it sucks to be lonely, but is it actually essential for our survival? Here's more on why loneliness might be a good thing.
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They say things have to get worse before they get better. Well, here's our inflection point, if we seize it.
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All over the world there is a feeling that something is deeply wrong. It is often felt more than seen, an unnamed darkness that keeps millions (even billions) of people disconnected from the reality of authentic life-affirming experience. Too many of our so-called leaders are...
Joe Brewer
Once again we find ourselves confronting the murder of another black man at the hands of police. The video showing Michael Slager fire eight times at a fleeing Walter Scott is irrefutable evidence of the police brutality that people of color fear. As with Trayvon Martin...
Ijeoma Oluo
Intellectually lazy. Willfully ignorant. Blinded by privilege. Drunk with prejudice. These are some of the words that come to mind when I think of the 30 percent of Americans in 2016 who agree “our country has made the changes needed to give blacks equal rights to whites.”...
Anthony DiMaggio
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It may seem hard, but it's not impossible.
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