69 min

The Curse of Abundance (2019) ($5)

Which come first, people or oil? When money and morality collide, there's only one winner. The Yasuni Park in Ecuador is a haven of biodiversity and home to indigenous tribes. It also holds a third of the country's oil reserves. Ecuador had agreed to keep the oil in the...

Flag of Distress/What to a Migrant Child Is July 4th?

A Poem For Freedom

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming

In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections. Worse yet, another report gave humanity...

Thomas Linzey

Was Austerity a Scam?

Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless figures continue to rise. Is this...

Eamonn Kelly

26 min

How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners

On a narrative level The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about the power of hope in the face of extraordinary hardship. But underpinning Andy Dufresne’s story we also find a blistering critique of the prison system and criminal justice policy in the United States. The film’s...

Pop Culture Detective

Workers Should Be in Charge

Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.

Peter Gowan

I’m a Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'

It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.

Anna Lind-Guzik

The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange

LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly...

Chris Hedges

11 min

5 Heroic Truth-Tellers Wrongly Charged with Espionage

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Matt Orfalea

3 min

XY Chelsea (trailer)

Produced by Pulse Films, XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017.

27 min

White Widow (Modern Slavery, Farmer Suicide and Agriculture Crisis in India)

White Widows portrays the tough and disadvantaged life of Indian cotton farmers in their village Dhanoli located in the region of Vidarbha, well known as the epicentre of farmer suicide.

9 min

Iran Economic Sanctions Kill as Effectively as Bombs

The Trump administration's illegal economic sanctions against Iran makes it impossible to import essential medicines, says CEPR's Mark Weisbrot.

The Real News Network

23 min

Giants: Who Really Rules The World?

Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book “Giants: The Global Power Elite” details the 17 transnational investment firms which control over $50 trillion in...

Empire Files

America's Reproductive Slaves

On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. That the two developments came at the

Chris Hedges

103 min

Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011) ($3)

“Modern slavery.” It sounds like a paradox. Hasn’t humanity progressed? Didn’t we leave slavery dead on the battlefields of the American Civil War? Didn’t social reformers like Lincoln and Wilberforce legislate against such cruelty over a hundred years ago? So we had thought...

3 min

Teach Us All (trailer)

Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when they desegregated Central High, America's schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Contemporary Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles present a microcosm of the...

3 min

100 years: One Woman's Fight For Justice (trailer)

From Fire in the Belly Productions, 100 Years documents the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell's courageous fight for justice for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were cheated out of billions of dollars by the United States Government.

Classifying Bodies, Denying Freedoms

I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty I’d never...

Che Ramsden

Elegant Simplicity and Right Relationship

A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.

Satish Kumar

The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice

Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.

Sandew Hira

73 min

Confronting the Truth: Truth Commissions and Societies in Transition (2007)

Confronting the Truth shows how countries which have experienced massive human rights violations have created official, independent bodies known as truth commissions.

8 min

Jews Say It's NOT Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel | 5 Inspiring Jewish Voices for Peace

Jewish activists, journalists, & even lobbyists say criticizing Israel is NOT anti-semitic.

5 Inspiring Jewish Voices for Peace

70 min

Combat Obscura (2019) ($7)

Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his unit's official videographer, tasked with shooting and editing footage for the Corps’ recruiting purposes and historical...

9 min

AIPAC Exposed | 5 Times AIPAC Got Caught Controlling American Politics

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5 Times AIPAC Got Caught Controlling American Politics

Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is

Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.

Sarah Gertler

64 min

Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs

It’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted are in entertainment media. Most popular comedic actors engage in this type of humor. Jokes are typically designed to demean, humiliate, control, or emasculate a male character for being the...

Pop Culture Detective

5 min

Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages

Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans.

Robert Reich

8 min

The Indian System (trailer)

Until recently, historians have failed to uncover the truth behind the war of 1862 in Minnesota. In this movie, filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild portrays his grandfather, Medicine Bottle. He tells a Dakota oral history of the 1862 war, the hangings of the Dakota 38 Plus 2, and the...

16 min

Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy

How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals -- to fight extreme force without using force in return. To answer the question of why and...

TED

3 min

Unist'ot'en and 150 Years of Resistance

150 years ago, the architects of Canadian confederation dreamed of a Canada united from coast to coast. They dreamed, also, of unfettered access to Indigenous lands, of the elimination of the “Indian problem” standing in the way of a white settler future.

UnistotenCamp

Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism

In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Women’s March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

King's Vision Is Still Defiant

He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war

Robert C. Koehler

5 min

Chase Iron Eyes on Native American Land Rights, Identity

Everyone’s talking about that incident on the Lincoln Memorial — But here’s what the Indigenous People’s March actually wanted the public to know. CGTN's Lisa Chiu talked to Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project about land rights, and the U.S...

CGTN America

The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power

Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it

Adam Simpson

6 min

5 Reasons MLK Supported a Universal Basic Income

Video by Matt Orfalea.

Matt Orfalea

Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs

To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of millions is through compassion and inclusion. It might feel good to rage at the...

Teodrose Fikre

154 min

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2011)

A Force More Powerful is a documentary series on one of the 20th century’s most important and least-known stories: how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. It includes six cases of movements, and each case is approximately 30 minutes long.

Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence

[Note: This essay was just published in the Fall 2019 theology journal, "Oneing," by Fr. Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation. To order a copy, visit: www.cac.org ]

Rev. John Dear

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

INTRODUCTION TO JUST TRANSITION“Indigenous prophecy meets scientific prediction. What we have known and believed, you also now know: The Earth is out of balance. The plants are disappearing, the animals are dying, and the very weather – rain, wind, fire itself – reacts...

Indigenous Environmental Network

We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.

First, you have to admit that you have a problem . . . Hi there. If you are here, it is probably because you have come to the conclusion that our political system is no longer “fixable” by ordinary means and that some sort of deep structural changes need to be made. If you...

Jordan Hall

86 min

Nothing To Hide (2017)

NOTHING TO HIDE questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights. People generally agree that mass surveillance regimes are inherently invasive and authoritarian. Yet at...

2 min

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (trailer)

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland explores the death of Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation, was found dead in her jail cell three days later.

7 min

The Journey of Compassion (2018) | Homelessness Short Film

Arthur McNeil is a formerly homeless long distance runner who raises money for shelters on cross-country runs. This film attempts to capture Arthur's story and warm character in a short documentary film. This documentary focuses on themes of homelessness, gentrification, and...

Homelessness Short Film

Military “Service” Serves the Ruling Class

One cannot serve both the one percent and the 99 percent as their interests are at odds with each other. Although many join for righteous reasons, actions speak louder than intentions. Actions of the U.S. military has always been death, destruction, anguish of the working...

Will Griffin

5 min

Trauma at the Border

This short film exposes the emotional, psychological and physical damage that can be done when children are imprisoned – even with their families.

Brave New Films

This Facebook Post about the Kansas Midterms is Going Viral

121,000 likes and 36,000 shares attest to a powerful story about how change is fought for.

Davis Hammet

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

In response to my recent newsletter, which I named “Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy”, I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways they pointed me to the reality that the word...

Miki Kashtan

Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, but Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People

Columbus’s treatment of the Taíno people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide — erasing the memory of the Taíno from our nation’s classrooms

Bill Bigelow

Mean, Kind or Non: Which Type of Racist Are You?

"Despite our best efforts to eradicate racism, it comes back like a toxic weed because we fail to pull it up by its root."

Carlos Hoyt

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She...

Silvia Federici

3 min

Alt-Right: Age Of Rage (trailer)

In the first year of Donald J. Trump's presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the alt-right movement, while Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.

7 min

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

Adam Ruins Everything

It's Time to Decriminalize Immigration

Two top candidates say Congress should decriminalize unauthorized border crossings entirely, while aspiring U.S. Sen. Beto O’Rourke argues asylum-seekers should be exempted from illegal entry prosecution.

Roque Planas

23 min

Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons

Healing Trauma dives into the inner struggle of former gang members whose abusive childhoods inevitably lead to an anger that resulted in a criminal lifestyle and landed them in prison. Upon their release, these former gang members found their redemption with Homeboy...

Brave New Films

3 min

BLACKkKLANSMAN (trailer)

A Spike Lee joint. From producer Jordan Peele. Based on some fo’ real, fo’ real sh*t. Watch the #BlacKkKlansman trailer now - in theaters August 10. https://www.facebook.com/blackkklansman https://www.instagram.com/blackkklansman/ https://twitter.com/BlacKkKlansman...

Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century

Seven decades on, Israel is geopolitically embattled and the Jewish community is increasingly polarized around the issue of occupation. The occupation – Israeli military control over the Palestinian West Bank and the borders of Gaza Strip – is five decades old. Entire...

Benjamin Steinhardt Case

55 min

White Right: Meeting The Enemy (2017)

In this Emmy-winning documentary, acclaimed Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan meets U.S. neo-Nazis and white nationalists including Richard Spencer face to face and attends the now-infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville as she seeks to understand the personal and...

Deeyah Khan

57 min

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency (2018)

Political power—armed central authority, with states and war—is it part of human nature?

Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime

Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.

Mike Males

23 min

The Day The Voices Raised

This short documentary talks about the process of KBN’s women workers struggle against sexual harassment in the workplace. In the opening, an ex-women labor of KBN told her story about sexual harassment at her factory. Women Workers Committee collect data on sexual harassment...

Viddsee

10 min

White Supremacy and the Second Amendment

The sanctity of the Second Amendment for all Americans is a myth. It is a myth today and it has been a myth from the beginning. Gun rights in this country were forged on the idea that white people had the right to take native people's land by the barrel of the gun. They were...

The Intercept

Is It Time for a Post-Growth Economy?

The growth-driven economic model we have adopted is killing our planet.

Jason Hickel

A Broken Idea of Sex Is Flourishing. Blame Capitalism.

In this world, women are marketed as toys and trophies. Are we surprised when some men take things literally?

Rebecca Solnit

Reminder: Women Migrants Are Fleeing Countries the U.S. Helped Decimate

The violence driving people to seek shelter in the U.S. has its roots in American foreign policy.

Molly Redden

Displacement Battles on Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape the Politics of Housing

Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Democracy Collaborative’s offices in Washington discussed the best thinking and work happening on both sides of the Atlantic...

Isaiah J. Poole

31 min

Path To Radicalization: A Mother Turns to Hate (2018)

Jacob Goodwin, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, was charged with injuring a black counterprotester in the wake of the August Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. As Goodwin awaits trial, his parents become increasingly more involved in Goodwin’s extremist...

‘Abolish ICE’ Doesn't Mean What Conservatives Say It Does

Abolishing ICE is not about lawlessness or open borders but about upholding our constitutional principles of defending people’s freedom from big government, government overreach and racial discrimination

Cesar Vargas and Yesenia Mata

7 Reasons Why We Should Have Open Borders

Let’s be honest, most people are already in favour of free movement – at least for themselves. Aisha Dodwell explains why we should extend it to everyone

Aisha Dodwell

5 min

The Secrets of a Privileged Childhood

When we think of a privileged childhood, we often think of swimming pools, nannies and expensive education. In fact, of course, the only childhoods that properly deserve the word 'privileged' are those in which there was an abundance of love.

The School of Life

In 'Stunning Indictment' ICE Officers Call for Own Agency to Be Dissolved Amid Growing Outrage Over Immigration Policy

"It was never about crime. Never about MS-13. Always just about hurting less privileged people of color. All at the expense of actually protecting America."

Julia Conley

13 min

A Lighthouse for Gaza | Envisioning Peace in Israel-Palestine

From June 21st-23rd, a group of 50 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the “Lighthouse”, between kibbutz Be’eri and the border of Gaza, to envision the possibility of change in the Middle East.

Envisioning Peace in Israel-Palestine

Calls to Abolish ICE Grow as Encampments Multiply Across United States

It was about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of Monday, June 25 when armed Federal Protective Service officers returned to the Portland, Oregon office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE personnel had not been back since June 19, when protesters began disallowing easy...

Shane Burley

140 min

Human Flow (2017) ($4)

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful...

The American Way of Tearing Families Apart

Don Lash, author of When the Welfare People Came: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System, looks at the many U.S. policies — past and present — that have separated children from their parents.

Don Lash

40 min

Protecting Country (2018)

Protecting Country is an independently produced film bringing the voices of the contemporary Adnyamathanha, Gurindji, Tanganekald, Yankunytjatjara Anunga, Mirning, Narunnga Aboriginal Australian people forward who are united in their stand AGAINST the present and planned...

9 min

Alaska Natives' Fight for the Land

Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation — this is their story.

Bring Julian Assange Home

The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.

John Pilger

2 min

Forget Winnetou! Loving In The Wrong Way (trailer)

Most films about Native Americans concentrate on European perspective or indigenous experience in North America, but there are Natives abroad, and our film shares the lives and daily experience of being “loved in the wrong way” in “Indian crazy” Germany. There are many forms...

10 min

Counter Mapping

In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...

America’s Treatment of Palestinians Has Grown Horrendously Cruel

No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold.

Razan Azzarkani

The Coming Collapse

It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.

Chris Hedges

9 min

Phony Right-Wing Victims

This video picks apart the right-wing Day for Freedom video, examines how the alt-lite uses the Streisand Effect to spread its message, and points out that Karl Marx was a champion of free speech.

Zer0 Books and Repeater Media

39 min

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (2016) ($3)

“Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement” is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and others.

66 min

Injustice: a film about Crime, Prison and Us (2018)

2016-17 saw the worst prison riots in decades. Across the country the prisons estate exploded as warned by campaigners and prisoners. The flames of the riots cast a light on the so-called prison crisis. Look hard and you’ll see it’s not that prisons are in crisis, prisons are...

22 min

The Hidden War on Trans Rights

In 2016, more than 50 bills were introduced in Congress targeting Trans people. Since Trump took office, dozens of pieces of landmark legislation have been cancelled, severely rolling back Trans rights.

Empire Files

Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion

Is all inclusion good inclusion?

Toshio Meronek

Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?

In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by “antifa,” a loose international network of radical anti-fascist groups that aims to shut down far-right talks and rallies. For antifa...

Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin

Deaths of Despair: How Inequality Kills

Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...

Alan Nasser

The Climate “Doomsday” Is Already Here

We have already altered the planet — and many have already been harmed by it.

Joe Brewer

37 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

These documentaries expose the ugly truth about war and the governments who wage them. The US government is focused on in this collection because I am based in the US, and it is every citizen's duty to call out and name the crimes of their government.

Tim Hjersted

Decrying System That Favors 'War and the Wealthy,' Poor People's Campaign Unveils Agenda to Combat Poverty, Racism, and Militarism

"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."

Jake Johnson

'Horrifying' Video Shows Israeli Soldiers Shouting With Joy After Sniping Unarmed Palestinian in Gaza

"While this shows one individual soldier's act, it is made possible by criminal orders from the top that authorized use of lethal force against unarmed protesters that has resulted in hundreds being shot."

Jake Johnson

120 min

The New Human Rights Movement - Peter Joseph

Peter Joseph speaks at The University of Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.

Peter Joseph

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

Fifty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Left struggles to speak with the kind of moral clarity King exemplified — but that shouldn't stop us from trying.

Robert Greene II

The End of the "End of History"

In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.

Eli Friedman and Andi Kao

Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel Became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship

Randomly shooting into crowds is more than just threatening people with death. It is a means of terrorizing the dissidents.

Juan Cole

Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified by Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch

Jewish Voice for Peace is horrified by the Israeli response to the #GreatReturnMarch, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Gaza are marching peacefully inside of Gaza. At the time of this writing, at least eight Palestinians have been killed and over 500 injured

Jewish Voice for Peace

A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household

Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income

Paul Buchheit

25 min

Life Sentences for Charity Work - Free the 5!

The Holy Land Foundation Five are Palestinian political prisoners sentenced up to upwards of 65 years in US prison for providing aid to refugees.

TeleSUR English

23 min

3 Lessons of Revolutionary Love in a Time of Rage - Valarie Kaur

What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a...

Valarie Kaur

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