Library
7,801-7,900 of 18,781 results
6 min
He's a former astronaut and leading NASA scientist: but when Piers Sellers was diagnosed with terminal cancer - he asked himself - was continuing to study the effect of climate change really worth the bother?
Men wielding helium balloons stepped out of a car in Kampala’s bustling downtown on the morning of August 1, releasing them one by one into the open sky. Onlookers watched and wondered what the colorful display was all about.
Phil Wilmot
3 min
Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gallery and garden. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, this is home: a labor of love 24 years in the making.
57 min
From Shakti Butler, the director of The Way Home: Women Talk About Race in America and Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible , comes a new film that asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity.
"Democracy needs a moral compass," said Green Party nominee Jill Stein. "We must be that moral compass."
Lauren McCauley
2 min
Jaureguiberry's elementary school is giving kids in Uruguay a first-hand look at environmental sustainability. The school was built with recycled materials, and students grow indoor and outdoor edible gardens.
Do you suffer from loneliness? Feel isolated and distant from other people? Do you long for connection? Strive and hope to be noticed? To be loved? To be heard? To be touched? To be seen?
Well you are not alone. Or perhaps I should say, your feeling of being alone is widely...
Joe Brewer
5 min
WARNING: Contains Graphic Images -- Viewer Discretion Advised. Music & Lyrics by Kim Cheshire and Kevin Bennett Directed by Stephen James King Featuring: Patrick Chong, Renee Lim, Aluet Kuai, Joy Hruby, Genevieve Lemon, Darcey Wilson, Julian Pulvermacher, Darcy Clarke, Verena...
How can a traffic offense get you a ticket to prison?
David C. Couper
7 min
"In other words, the White House looks on this as a great joke?" Short film "When AIDS Was Funny" directed and produced by Scott Calonico.
7 min
The Stimulator interviews Kristian Williams author of "Our Enemies in Blue" http://kristianwilliams.com/
2 min
This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racist policing of borders. Ash Sarkar reports on the #ShutDown
The Economic Enigma of Money vs Life: [A Social Value Disorder]
28 min
Get ready to discover a natural, whole-body approach to managing Type 2 diabetes. Most people view diabetes as a dead-end street. Once you receive a diagnosis, your only option is to manage the symptoms with a restricted diet, close monitoring of blood sugar, and expensive...
I received the following comment from a police officer in Sweden after my recent post “Using Force: A Reflection and Some Suggestions for Police.” I think these comments bear publishing here as a post.
David C. Couper
In the vast emptiness of space there are an unimaginable number of galaxies, each galaxy containing billions upon billions of stars. Looking at one galaxy we find an average star that hosts eight unassuming planets – four gas orbs, and four rock orbs. But one of these planets...
Rua Lupa
Colonial feminism is based on the appropriation of women’s rights in the service of empire and has been widely utilised in justifying aggression in the Middle East. But is it liberal?
Deepa Kumar
212 min
“Without doubt it is the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” – Tom Secker [spyculture.com]
10 min
www.atitlanorganics.com How to keep chickens. Chicken house design with real-time composting. Learn how to keep happy healthy hens and chickens in your backyard. This video presents, in full detail, how to build and maintain deep bedding under chickens. The hens turn the...
What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance.
George Monbiot
A new legal opinion penned by two former Justice Department officials bolsters warnings that the proposed merger between agroindustrial giants Bayer and Monsanto "is a five-alarm threat to our food supply and to farmers around the world."
The white paper (pdf) by Maurice E...
Deirdre Fulton
8 min
This incredible story has a lot to teach us about how we can be more effective agents for creating positive change in the world, and in involves the idea of "non-complementary behavior."
7 min
Veteran Toastmaster, Lance Miller, presents a satirical talk about war and politics.
7 min
Raull Santiago is a human rights defender from Rio de Janeiro. In March 2014, he co-founded the collective Papo Reto (Straight Talk), a group of citizen journalists documenting life in the Complexo do Alemão favela. The intention of the group is to draw attention to what is...
The criminalization of poverty is a global phenomenon of mistreatment and prejudice faced by the poorest members of society due to their economic circumstances, often influenced by and perpetuating racism and other forms of discrimination. It can manifest itself in various...
Alex Besser, Alix Vadot, Ava Rose Hoffman, Eli Nemzer and Nashwa Al-sharki,
4 min
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about meditation. In fact, says Karen Maezen Miller, that’s pretty much all that meditation is — the process of seeing how much you’ve misunderstood meditation and everything else.
Karen Maezen Miller
1 min
We express ourselves in the choices we make every single day, so why not express your thoughts on issues that matter to you by voting? Let your voice be heard! Vote this November!
4 min
Written and directed by João Pedro Toledo
The editorial staff of Othering & Belonging: Expanding the Circle of Human Concern,
Daisy Rockwell
9 min
If Trump weren't so dangerously close to being the next president, his campaign would be hilarious.
As an Indigenous woman who organizes in the hopes that both Black and Brown people might know greater freedom, safety and self determination, I am no fan of electoral politics.
Kelly Hayes
for a working class orientation at the heart of white anti-racist organizing
Chris Crass
Regardless of the outcome of November’s U.S. elections, what will count most is what happens in the streets. As Frederick Douglass put it plainly a century and a half ago, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did...
Pete Dolack
Pope Francis argues that modern economy's worship of 'god of money' leads to disenfranchisement and extremism
Nika Knight
Hillary Clinton will trounce the self-destructive Donald J. Trump, but the neo-liberals secure total victory if the Sanders movement falls away
RoseAnn DeMoro
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
5 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
8 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and...
SPLC
15 min
A group of Auckland Uni Students, Tuākana Arts Mentors, and Scholars share a variety of views in response to trailers of Disney's Moana. They push beyond them in the Spirit of Maui, working with the global interest for mainstream pop-culture and media, in order to share some...
A man is offering kids a shoulder to cry on.
Elyse Wanshel
Visiting China is like taking trip a hundred years into the future and a thousand years into the past - at the same time.
China is a place where every encounter, every sight and even every conversation brings more questions than answers.
Is China a harbinger of the future?
Or...
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.
54 min
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...
2 min
The Australian Government released this advert today about Census Day (August 9), and its surprisingly helpful and informative.
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
15 min
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.
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
18 min
John Oliver covers the Democratic convention and the unconventional state of our democracy.
15 min
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...
4 min
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.
8 min
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...
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.'
3 min
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.
8 min
Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income.
8 min
An Introduction to the Socialist Party of Great Britain part of the World Socialist Movement.
Fresh strike took place in same area where US is said to have killed scores in airstrikes last week
Andrea Germanos
6 min
The problems with 'winner take all' or 'first pass the post' voting, explained via the animal kingdom.
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...
5 min
Official video for Ahmed by Lowkey ft. Mai Khalil contains devastating truths about war, migration and the underlying systemic issues that surround them.
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
5 min
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...
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.
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