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I keep thinking since the horrific police assassinations in Dallas that we’ve been here before. It’s not that so many police officers have been summarily executed. It’s that a palpable tension still exists between police and black people in our country, despite the efforts of...
David C. Couper
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.
Ronan Burtenshaw with Paul Mason
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If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.
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The Untouchables (2014) - a documentary about how the Holder Justice Department refused to prosecute Wall Street Fraud despite overwhelming evidence. Watch On Youtube HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsD5--JP61k
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Copenhagen-based director Martin Garde Abildgaard talks about documenting conceptual artist Ai Weiwei’s first major exhibition in Greece at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens:
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As Africa faces its biggest humanitarian crisis in decades, 'The Burning Question' explores the links between hunger and drought in African countries like Malawi and developed countries continued reliance on the fossil fuels that drive climate change.
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It's been a rough week, and a hard one for Black Lives Matter. But I'm very confident that #BLM is winning, and it will eventually make a better world for all of us. This video explains why... FURTHER READING: Here is the link to the Red State article by Leon H.
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Powerful footage, filmed by a refugee, shows the terror of being on an overcrowded rubber dinghy as it sinks during the crossing between Turkey and Greece. Thousands of people have died trying to make the same journey.
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Bill Nye is feeling down. He's visiting his therapist – Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger – wondering why he doesn't feel like himself lately. He feels as if a horrible weight is on his shoulders. The therapist listens sympathetically, and diagnoses the cause. Bill is suffering from...
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In the aftermath of the Leave vote, people will need to find ways to calmly hear each other and bridge divides. Ultimately, we will need to unite against the corporate forces that undermine our wellbeing, not against immigrants who are victims as well.
Kristen Steele
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If you're not worried about the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the Snoopers' Charter), you don't know enough about it. Visit Privacy International and join the campaign against new Government snooping powers.
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Every year, supermarkets in the UK throw away an estimated 40million tonnes of perfectly edible food, often for perplexing reasons. FareShare is a charity that diverts some of this waste, redistributing it to organisations that work with vulnerable people.
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I want you all to take a deep breath with me now. Seriously. Ready? Gently breathe in... fill your lungs... now slowly fully exhale out. Then say it with me: This revolution is just beginning.
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When you think of Europe, wild animals roaming through open fields isn't the first thing that comes to mind, right? Well, you might be surprised to learn that 18 percent of Europe's land is protected nature. Thanks to the efforts of one organization, Europe's wildness is also...
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"It is simply inconceivable that...May should be crowned prime minister without even having won an election in her own party, let alone the country"
Nadia Prupis
South Africans have been appalled during 2016 by images of graduates “begging” for jobs at traffic lights. Their pleas are a stark depiction of the country’s grave youth unemployment crisis. This, and the broader
Lesley Le Grange
Increasingly we are lost in a world of binary codes: zero or one, Republican or Democrat, black or white, female or male, good or bad.
Eleonora Zbanke
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Apologising doesn't generally come easily - but it always tends to pay off beautifully.
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Documentary An Interesting Look At race And Racism South Africa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5et9KrUQ0
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Alex Mott visits India on the trail of the Vedas and ancient stone working techniques. As with sites in Egypt and around the world, the physical evidence is right in front of you - but how they did it is still a mystery.
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Alex Mott visits Egypt, researching the pyramids and claims of ancient technology. The Darwinian theory of linear evolution struggles to accommodate some of these artefacts - and human history may need rethinking.
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Alex Mott visits Bosnia, investigating the claims of pyramids and ancient structures. It's possible the Valley of the Pyramids is the work of intelligent hands - but Mother Nature can also produce some fairly amazing things herself.
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It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
José Martín
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What exactly conjures those scattered moments in the mind to play during sleep? How can the visions seen in these dreams and nightmares effect the sleeper? See On Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3BHoOa_Pas
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Amid heightened tensions and fear for safety after deadly Dallas sniper ambush, Black Lives Matter protests against police violence took to the streets in major American cities and the UK
Nika Knight
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"Loved Ones" is a series of short documentaries that follow the work of Lisa Ganser, an artist and anti-police terror activist. This first episode is dedicated to people with disabilities that have been killed by police in the United States. An audio-described version...
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After tonight's #BlackLivesMatter vigil, I don't have the words to speak to how powerful and moving this event was. It appeared there was about
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How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to empower the transformation of a now-gentrifying neighborhood gripped in poverty in his...
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When people ask me, “Who will protect us,” I want to say: Who protects you now?
Mychal Denzel Smith
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We are born without values, beliefs or principles. We absorb these from our immediate surroundings as we grow up and over time. However, when these principles are turned into weapons, we start the slow decline from humanity and compassion into extremism and segregation: "us"...
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Buying the War How Big Media Failed Us (2008) See this documentary HD on Youtube : https://youtu.be/dGBjsL5a01Q
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The Government wil decide on July 18th 2016 to renew Trident or not.
Campaigners, Trident Ploughshares, spent the month of June protesting against Trident at AWE Burghfield.
Can we stop Trident Nuclear weapons?
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I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile being killed by the police. Last night, I wanted to say something that hasn't been said a hundred times before. It finally dawned on me that there...
Michelle Alexander
Garner sold loose cigarettes; Alton Sterling hawked CDs — and they both died at the hands of police
Daniel Denvir
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also."
Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might...
Zak Cheney Rice
This may be hard to hear but the truth isn't aided by mincing words.
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Resistance has arrived - the world's most destructive industry has a secret it doesn't want you to know about, Jack Tomlins goes undercover to reveal the truth.
Will he survive?
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We spend a day with the Guardian Angels, a second-wave resurgence of the 70's crime fighting group that says it's back protecting the streets and subways of New York City after a series of slashings earlier this year.
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The other day I was speaking to a small audience at a music festival and thought to allude to Brexit to make a point. Some in the circle looked a bit mystified, so I asked, “Everyone knows what Brexit is, right?” It turned out that quite a few of them did not.
Charles Eisenstein
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In 2013, the richest 300 people in the world were more wealthy than the poorest 3 billion combined. Since then, the disparity has continued to grow because every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor countries than they give in aid.
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www.tackletaxhavens.com is a global campaign designed to raise public awareness of tax havens: what they are, the damage they do and how we can tackle them together. Taxes are the most efficient and sustainable means of supporting vital public services like education...
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In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat”.
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin
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On Sunday, a troupe of singing merfolk invaded the British Museum to celebrate the museum's climate-trashing sponsor, BP, and its new exhibition 'Sunken Cities'. Rising sea-levels might be great news for merfolk but they're disastrous for the rest of us. So now we need your...
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Its long, sputtering history tells us that we change what we use only after we change how we think.
Natalie Shure
Does it matter that these titans are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.
Vanessa Baird
Outside the Chilcot announcement on Wednesday an anti-war rally gathered. In its ranks were a number of military veterans. They are, unsurprisingly, an increasing presence in the anti-war movement: organised, dedicated, passionately angry.
Joe Glenton
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At the time of this publishing, 559 people were killed by police in 2016. And disproportionately, these people were black. They include Alton Sterling — who was killed in an encounter with police while selling CDs outside a supermarket in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was tased...
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Two 28 year old men, hiding behind the badges given to them by the city of Baton Rouge and the power given to them by the system that says white is right, murdered a black man, a husband, a father.
Erica Joy
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Watch this pair of armchairs discuss the politics of Britain!
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“This is full acknowledgement of what has been clear for a long time: orangutan conservation is failing.”
Loren Bell
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Conservationists can now point to the largest dam removal project in the U.S. as a success story. The ecosystem of Washington's Elwha River has been thriving since the removal of its hydroelectric dam system. Recent surveys show dramatic recovery, especially in the near shore...
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On 7 July 2012 Liberate Tate installed a 16.5 metre, one and a half tonne wind turbine blade in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in a guerrilla performance by over 100 members of the art collective. The artwork, called The Gift, was submitted to be part of Tate’s permanent...
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Few journalists know the cruelty of government censorship as well as James Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, targeted for several major stories implicating criminality by the US war machine and its national security state.
Having just ended a...
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This documentary tells the story of how a national forest service evolved from seeing trees as its primary resource, to seeing the forest whole.
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This excerpt from The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein looks at our relationship to technology, civilization, nature and our sense of self.
Charles Eisenstein
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When San Francisco police raided a popular late-night hangout for transgendered people in the city's impoverished Tenderloin district in 1966, the patrons unexpectedly fought back. It was the first known instance of collective, queer resistance to police intimidation in...
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Kristina Paltén, a lone Swedish woman, wanted to challenge her own and other's prejudices against Islam by running across Iran.
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There 'has to be a judicial or political reckoning' for Blair's role in Iraq War, one critic charges
Nika Knight
In Northern Italy's Emilia Romagna region co-ops produce 30 percent of the GDP. Here are six things we can learn from it.
John Duda
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Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated — even preventing them from hugging their children...
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Lord Chilcot’s inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war has taken seven years and cost more than £10m. On Wednesday 6 July 2016 he will publish his report, which is expected to criticise former prime minister Tony Blair, the intelligence services, diplomats and the...
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Remaining calm around people who annoy us is one of the great life skills. It's also a teachable and learnable skill. Want help reaching your own state of calm?
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As a crop, corn is highly productive, flexible and successful. As a system, the same is not true.
Dr. Jonathan Foley
Top tips for engaging with girls to boost their self-esteem and value their intellect
Lisa Bloom
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Tom, Sarah, and their daughter Neesa all live in a tiny 20sqm off grid cabin on a property on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Instead of paying rent, they share the work of looking after the land with the owners and both families share in the farm's abundant produce.
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The winners of the the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2016 competition have been announced. This contest provides an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography, by both amateurs and professionals. The competition aims to inspire...
David Sim
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Whether you voted Leave, or Remain, or didn't, we all had our motivations - and our hopes for the country after the referendum. But can we find any consensus on what should happen now? A journalist talks post-Brexit strategies with two Leave voters, two Remain voters, and...
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The arms dealers profiting from Europe's refugee tragedy
Mark Akkerman
For years the signs have been on the wall. The Tea Party in the United States. Golden Dawn in Greece. The Alternatif für Deutschland. UKIP’s inexorable rise in the UK. Etc. etc. We saw these signs. We analysed their historic and political causes. We developed a cosmopolitan...
Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis
Within the last 30 years, while we’ve chased bogeymen overseas and here at home, our Democracy has fallen. We have been taken over; defeated; our voices neutered; our freedoms trampled; our democracy vanquished.
No invading force accomplished this; no jackboots echoed across...
John Atcheson
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Reporter Pie is dismayed at the Remain's reaction to Brexit!
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We talk a lot about Patriotism, especially around July 4th, but we need also to take to heart its five basic principles.
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Economic globalization is destroying livelihoods and replacing them with assembly-line drudgery. But there is a path forward.
Ashish Kothari
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La Papouasie est l'une des régions les plus sauvages et les plus isolées de la planète. Ses ressources naturelles assurent l'essentiel des richesses de l'Indonésie, qui en a fait une province, annexée de force il y a 50 ans.
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Today I marched for Europe. I marched with babies in slings and buggies and toddlers on shoulders. I marched with teenagers and 20-somethings who bristled with betrayal. I marched with flat-capped socialists and hippies blowing bubbles. I marched with people in wheelchairs...
Once upon a time, a magician came to a village. Under an ancient tree, in the village square, the villagers gathered as the word spread.
The magician proclaimed, “I have a magic wand.”
- “Well, what can you do with it?” Villagers asked.
- “I can convert anything into a...
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acTVism Munich Video Playlist June 2016
1) Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky discuss Basic Income Guarantee:
Note: This video was previously published via Films for Action. Click here to see the video.
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In the following video, Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky...
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Days after Britain and the world reeled from the result of the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, it’s back to business as usual for the House of Lords. This week the Investigatory Powers Bill was given its second reading, and it’s interesting to see how th
Kristopher Wilson
A 30-year war has been waged on the working class, migrants, the poor, women, people of colour, disabled people, and refugees. We should be countering racism and xenophobia whilst supporting acts of power, resistance, and collective action against the establishment, not...
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Artist Favianna Rodriguez and political commentator Van Jones have a lot in common. They both came up through the grassroots activism scene of the Bay Area in the late 1990s. They both run non-profit organizations/initiatives — respectively, CultureStrikeand
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A lot of people have woken up to the uncomfortable reality that racism exists in Britain. So what can you do about it?
Wretched of the Earth
The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal
George Monbiot
As ISIS loses territory, it returns to mass-casualty attacks against civilians. That's why military-first approaches to terrorism are doomed to failure.
Phyllis Bennis
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In Guatemala , the ancestors of those lands grew corn and considered a sacred grain. For centuries , this cultive was the basis of the culture and feeding for hundreds of communities.
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The following interview with STWR’s founder, Mohammed Mesbahi, examines both the contemporary political and profounder spiritual implications of sharing the world’s resources in relation to the escalating climate emergency. Beginning with a policy-related discussion of the...
Mohammed Mesbahi
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Everyone has heard about bee declines, but with so much attention focused on domesticated honeybees, someone has to speak up for the 4,000 species of native bees in North America. Natural history photographer Clay Bolt is on a multi-year quest to tell the stories of our...
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We built a mobile studio to hear firsthand from people living on the street about the challenges of homelessness.
This video was produced in solidarity with the #SFHomelessProject, a coordinated media effort to cover the causes of and solutions to homelessness on June 29...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, poet, philosopher and one of the leading figures of the transcendentalism movement. Besides writing Civil Disobedience, which inspired
Gavin Aung Than
It might feel good to mock “Becky with the bad grades,” but focusing on her lets the real power players in her anti-affirmative action case off the hook.
Jon Booth
You better sit down for this one because it will blow your mind. You are probably aware that we on a global quest to rid the world of Evil, one smart-bomb at a time. Yet, for some strange reason, every place that we bomb Evil into oblivion seems to become more messed up than...
gjohnsit
A central question for this moment in history is how do we collectively navigate a crescendoing wave of crises and move toward planetary resilience and thriving?
Joe Brewer
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as “the bad guy.” Every time we see an enemy it is because our minds have projected them onto the world. If we didn’t create them first in our thoughts and perceptions, they literally would not exist.
But...
Joe Brewer
My new film How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change debuted on HBO June 27th.
Josh Fox
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What is good, what is bad?
Why do we say that a certain person or a certain thing is good or bad?
What determines our decision?
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Filmed at the pro-Corbyn demo on 27.06.16 with Paul Mason (Journalist), John Hilary (War on Want), David Graeber (Writer) and others discuss underlying causes of Brexit and the Labour Party coup.
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Animated Trailer inspiring submissions to the #Film4Climate Global Video Competition: www.film4climate.net
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A broken Abdullah Kurdi buried his two toddlers and his wife in their hometown of Kobani, Syria even as thousands of his fellow refugees continued on their harrowing quest for safety -
Abby Zimet
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The complexity of love, in 13 words that don't directly translate into English.
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Even in the best of times, escaping the grind for a small foreign island seems a preferred choice. And the 58 residents of Inishturk, a charming, heavily sheeped island off the west coast of Ireland definitely prefer it. But things may be changing for that sleepy island...
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A mistake that budding creatives often make in their youth is to throw away their early artistic attempts out of insecurity/misplaced perfectionism. But what an inexperienced artist lacks in technical ability is often made up for with inspiration.
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