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A stirring speech by the legendary cosmologist Carl Sagan, on the evolution of human consciousness. Decades old but still highly applicable today.
"More of us flee from war, oppression and famine today, than at any other time in human history, and the world impoverishes...
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Putting Our Aspirations to the Test
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Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
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Alex Jones and Roger Stone interrupted The Young Turks live coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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With Trump securing the Republican candidacy, the question unavoidably rises if a fascist is now running for president. The short answer is: “No, but…”
Maximillian Alvarez
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A father awakes to begin looking for work. His wife prepares breakfast in her uniform as their daughter asks if she can go on a school field trip. Daily routines can differ widely depending on a family's legal status in the United States. That's the premise of the first...
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A social justice group that invites white people to fight racism is spreading like wildfire in the US. From 12 to 150 chapters in two years. Clearly a whole lot of white people are interested in fighting systemic injustice. But how? This week's guests have dedicated their...
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What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the Republican National Convention.
Laurie Penny
No matter who we vote for or who gets elected, the revolution must continue. These films remind us why.
Charles Eisenstein is one of the first people I heard talk about the "new story," synthesizing a diverse movement that has been emerging for the last several decades. When I go back far enough, I first heard about these ideas from reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn when I was...
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Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit or thought-form driven by greed, excess and selfish consumption. It deludes it host into believing that consuming the life force of others for self-aggrandizement or profit is a logical and morally upright way to live.
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Dear Democrats,
unknown Redditor
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Street artist MissMe, the Artful Vandal, offers a very personal, very intimate take on the many little hits that broke her and on how she recovered from the one big blow to re-make herself and become the powerhouse that she is today.
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Streamed live on Jul 19, 2016
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Audio sync is a bit off in beginning - it levels off - stay with it. Debbie talks about liberal hypocrisy in supporting in DEED with Hillary Clinton what Donald Trumps says in WORD. Here are the LINKS...
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A report on the first two days of the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, which got off to a slow, but weird start. Video Ninja: Heatscore Music: Run the Jewels
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Michelle Alexander posits that mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system in the United States. After the Civil Rights Movement, a “wave of punitive” legislation swept across the nation, targeting Black and Brown communities.
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This is "Steady The Buffs" by AF Film. This is a very unique remembrance film which tries to explore what remembrance really means. Visiting a remembrance event, interviewing historians and talking to people in the street leads the viewer to wonder whether remembrance has...
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This week, our movement hits the streets for #FreedomNow, two days of nationally coordinated actions calling for a divestment from the policing strategies that have failed us.
Movement for Black Lives
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PORTUGUESE VERSION: https://youtu.be/8c6E14beSyY
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Art offers a way of challenging power, rather than replicating oppression patterns or power dynamics. Play also allows social actors to disarm the audience. In this #flashmob action, CF reminded the public of how beautiful animals are by creating a human wall of artwork from...
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Companies like Chick-fil-A promote the idea that some lives are more worthy than others. And that is the root of all that is wrong with our world.
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Companies like Chick-Fil-A promote the idea that some lives matter more than others. And that is the root of all that is wrong with our world.
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On day 2 of #CFUnited2016 we went down to Wall Street and reclaimed the Charging Bull for all bulls and all other nonhuman animals exploited by the violent capitalist system that Wall Street has built its fortune on. Fuck capitalism!
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#CF disrupted the Bernie Sanders rally at St. Mary’s Park, South Bronx. For over 20 minutes, the group stood among the estimated 27,000 Bernie supporters, chanting, “Animals’ lives are their right! We have just begun to fight!” We also held a bright orange banner that said...
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Starbucks mission statement says ‘Being present, connecting with transparency, dignity and respect.’ They use slick marketing, humanewashing, and carefully crafted empty words to reassure their customers that they can feel good about buying their products, when in reality...
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CF stands by all of our siblings. Until every animal (human and non-human) is free!
**SPANISH video here: https://youtu.be/rPHJx5FCg1k **
**SLOVENIAN video here: https://youtu.be/2s6WFcUtBD0 **
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This campaign has generated significant press hits http://collectivelyfree.org/press/ ** Activists in 18 different cities worldwide are calling attention to the exploitative culture that Starbucks perpetuates. From coffee workers in Ethiopia getting less than a dollar a day...
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Opening with the voice of Howard Schultz, chairman and CEO of Starbucks, the video tells the story of Joshua, a calf killed mere hours after his birth simply because he was a byproduct of the dairy industry. Every year Starbucks alone uses 140 million gallons of cow's milk...
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Activists with Collectively Free staged a disruption of a quintessential July 4th pastime - the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. During the awards ceremony, two activists, covered in (fake) blood jumped onto the stage, held signs that read, "Does Taste Justify the...
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Before Referendum Day:
‘Don’t worry,’ said Twitter. ‘There’s plenty reasonable people in the UK who won’t vote to leave.’
Referendum Day:
The UK voted to leave.
America, the unthinkable sometimes happens.
Tom Mitchell
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The Republican Party didn't always sound this way. In fact, their party platform in 1956 was downright progressive on certain issues.
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Writer and Poet Clint Smith on the moment black lives began to officially matter, and the long history of pre-smartphone police brutality and state-sanctioned racism that preceded it.
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A coalition airstrike reported on Tuesday that killed at least 85 civilians—one more than died in the Nice attack in France last week—wasn’t featured at all on the front pages of two of the top US national newspapers, the New York Times and LA Times, and only
Adam Johnson
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Stories of asylum seekers, made by asylum seekers: This animation video was created, narrated and animated in a participatory workshop.
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Bassem explores the Second Amendment and the gun culture that fosters business promos like "Buy an engagement ring, get a gun for free!"
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Sagan's ability to convey his ideas allowed many people to understand the cosmos better—simultaneously emphasizing the value and worthiness of the human race, and the relative insignificance of the Earth in comparison to the Universe. He hosted and, with Ann Druyan, co-wrote...
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A group of people in Lithuania were invited to an audition and while they were waiting they were secretly filmed as they were asked to translate a racist message someone had received in Lithuanian. Their responses are pained and uncomfortable but show support and solidarity...
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Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States.
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A spoken word film about enjoying nature and spending more time outdoors. Our environment and our climate is what keep us alive. If we look after our planet, it will look after us in return. Written, Performed & Directed by Gary Turk.
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One of the most maddening sides of modern life is that the media always under-reports the crucial stories, while hyping nonsense. We could get enraged and pious; but we’re better off understanding how human nature works. Getting stern isn’t going to help.
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Turkey’s president exploits the recent attempted coup against him to crack down on opponents.
Chris Brazier
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Anti-nuke campaigners spent a month shutting down the atomic bomb factory in Burghfield The peace group Trident Ploughshares were joined by a number of other groups for the demonstrations throughout June 2016 Their aim is to make it as difficult as possible for AWE Burghfield...
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In her book, All the Single Ladies, Rebecca Traister traces the long history of marriage and its varied purposes in the United States. She also argues that the unprecedented rise in independent, unmarried women demands shifts in power dynamics and policy. It’s completely...
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Comedian Frankie Boyle publishes critical article on his Facebook page after it was pulled by The Guardian newsaper
Frankie Boyle
One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control. - Vandana Shiva
Yavor Tarinski
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"Basic Income would be great cause it'd put me out of business. We shouldn't have a country where people have to pay me money to find out what they're eligible for, which is stupid! I should not be in business."
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Black Lives Matter is a powerful and influential movement for justice and empathy. Because the movement is challenging systems of racial oppression in the United States, there are a lot of negative reactions and social media misinformation about it.
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How many more disaffected black men have to self-radicalize before we take their claims seriously?
Tavis Smiley
When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
Sarah van Gelder
Shefali Tsabary's latest book argues that parents need to focus more on themselves and less on their children.
Diana Divecha
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi
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Around the time of President Obama's first inauguration, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some towns were getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest communities in the USA — and moved in.
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Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer
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With Donald Trump the official Republican candidate for America's presidency, Panorama visits the racially divided town of Bakersfield in California. Reporter Hilary Andersson meets the Trump supporters who back his calls to oust 11 million illegal immigrants and ban Muslims...
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A video about animals embodying once thought human exclusive emotions like love, grief, happiness, joy and anger. We grant them way too little in their capacity to feel. This video nicely refutes and challenges common misconceptions that humans are unique in their diversity...
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Since Turkey’s failed military coup on Friday, more than 6,000 people in the civil service, security forces and military have been arrested. Writers and journalists fear that Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will use the failed putsch as grounds to...
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Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting early on Sunday, July 17 in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.
Frank Rudy Cooper
In this time of unprecedented global change, we need to be rooted in reality more than ever. Yet it is quite clear — by simply tracking all the ways people make an exodus from “the real” on a daily basis — that we are not doing this individually or as a collective...
Joe Brewer
For half a century, Stokely Carmichael's slogan "Black Power" has resonated in the fight against anti-Black racism and oppression in the U.S.
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The UK Parliament on Monday debated whether to renew Trident, Britain's aging nuclear weapons system.
Deirdre Fulton
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Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen...
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The attempted coup against Turkish President Erdoğan might have failed, but plenty of problems still await him.
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Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why?
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This is George.
He was a good little monkey and always very curious.
Today George and the man with the yellow hat were in Cleveland to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“George,” said the man, “I’m going to
Eric Olsen
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Cleveland, the second poorest city in the US is set to hold the 2016 Republican convention. Since the housing crisis, the city has lost 17% of its residents, many due to predatory practices. Community organizers point out that Donald Trump advocated some of the practices that...
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Children Sex Workers, Las Vegas Shocking Truth Watch This Documentary On Youtube HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cI4Tr573Z0
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Documentary The Brain What Is Reality ? Watch On Youtube HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoWys2bzYw
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The fallout from the failed military coup in Turkey extended through the weekend, as the number of people arrested rose to about 6,000 and world leaders continued urging restraint from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has said the plotters would pay a "heavy...
Nadia Prupis
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Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
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A very large high pressure system in the Arctic has counter clockwise winds. (In the northern hemisphere high pressure systems should have clockwise winds.)
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This is the second video for our nonprofit campaing to keep the oceans clean for those who live there.
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We made this video as a contribution to create consciousness to keep the ocean clean forthe animal who live there.
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The Belfast Palestine Arts Festival provides a platform for Palestinian cinema, art and culture in Belfast, featuring Palestinian artists, bringing a fresh perspective on Palestine's economic, social and cultural life. The festival is organised by a team of dedicated...
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We All Love Animals is a short little video about our love towards animals being contradicted by our daily actions.
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In part 1, we learn why Tyrion Lannister has a knack for staying alive. He is constantly getting into trouble and talking his way out. But Tyrion's genius is replicable if you learn how he thinks. And one of the first things he thinks of is what other people want. That is how...
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He did promise he would, so that helps to explain some of the anger and disappointment with his endorsement.
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Flugennock chronicles the art and activism of political cartoonist Mike Flugennock. Flugennock's comics have circulated for more than thirty years. Based in Washington D.C.,Flugennock's marijuana fueled posters have promoted smoke ins, marijuana legalization, protests...
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NEVOAZUL is a magazine about less and more where minimalism, consumerism and sustainability merge with art, literature and culture. Together we can open a debate about how social responsability, sustainable behavior and ethical fashion could make a difference in our future.
Few people can argue that Bruce Lee had an easy life. Growing up in the streets of Hong Kong and Macao, Lee had to fight for his life all the time, often against very unequal odds.
Many parallels exist between the modern activist and the life of Bruce Lee. Embattled and...
Vishwa Jay
Today must begin a #RevolutionaryLove
David Eric Larson
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Documentary Chinese Media: USA The Worst Place On Earth (Eng Subs) Watch On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xCGmdCksm0
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Published on Jul 14, 2016
Rosie Warren reviews the changing face of the Journalism industry, looking at the winners and losers in the digital age.
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He's playing the long game. If Sanders had gone third party, split the votes and then Trump got elected, it would have divided the left and set back the momentum and gains the Sanders/progressive movement has made another 10 years. The center of America would blame the...
On Structural Racism and Daily Inaction
Garrett Bucks
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‘Economics is for everyone’, argues legendary economist Ha-Joon Chang in our latest mind-blowing RSA Animate. This is the video economists don’t want you to see! Chang explains why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics. He pulls back the...
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Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed in the film by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who fell in love and were married in 1958.
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Anarchism is often used as a synonym for chaos, but as a political philosophy it is a way of organising our society through cooperation and mutual aid, without elected leaders or hierarchy. Surely that's something we can all get behind?
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Expedition researchers have found thousands of species in Madidi National Park – and even uncovered some new ones.
Morgan Erickson-Davis
There's been quite a lot of anger, disappointment and attention on Bernie's decision to endorse Clinton the last couple weeks. But I've started to believe this attention on Bernie has become a big distraction from the fact that the work was always going to be up to us. The...
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A just society has fair laws. But most societies aren't like that. So what can you do? The opponent of slavery, Henry David Thoreau, gave one answer in his essay 'On Civil Disobedience': follow your conscience and break the law on moral grounds rather than be a cog in an...
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What’s your blueprint for a just society? Your answer probably reflects who you are and the situation you find yourself in. If you’re rich, you may well be in favour of the freedom to earn and enjoy the fruits of your efforts; if you’re poor you’re likely to be more...
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We are so busy and so obsessed with our phones, we rarely take a break to do that vital and rather philosophical thing: stare out of the window.
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Saving lives should not be tied to making profits.
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A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. The professor’s response is priceless.
Social Design Notes
What if black people are actually dying at the hands of good apples more often than people want to believe? What if grand juries and juries have kept letting officers off the hook, because they judge the offending officers to be “good apples,” who must therefore have just...
Deborah Foster
No one wants to be called fragile. And if you’re white, what you feel reading the title of this article may be indicative of the term. “White fragility” refers to white people’s low emotional tolerance for discussing topics of race and racism.
Katherine Kirkinis and Sarah Birdsong
The new Tory leader will no doubt introduce a cap for migrants. Probably an orange cone with an ‘M’ on the front that gives out an electric shock if they stray too close to a golf course
Frankie Boyle
In 1991, when video was released of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, Alton Sterling of Louisiana was 12 years old. Philando Castile of Minnesota was seven.
Sarah Kendzior