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Watch this pair of armchairs discuss the politics of Britain!
“This is full acknowledgement of what has been clear for a long time: orangutan conservation is failing.”
Loren Bell
3 min
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...
12 min
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...
27 min
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...
31 min
This documentary tells the story of how a national forest service evolved from seeing trees as its primary resource, to seeing the forest whole.
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
54 min
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...
60 min
Kristina Paltén, a lone Swedish woman, wanted to challenge her own and other's prejudices against Islam by running across Iran.
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
15 min
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...
6 min
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?
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
6 min
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.
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...
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
4 min
Reporter Pie is dismayed at the Remain's reaction to Brexit!
2 min
We talk a lot about Patriotism, especially around July 4th, but we need also to take to heart its five basic principles.
Economic globalization is destroying livelihoods and replacing them with assembly-line drudgery. But there is a path forward.
Ashish Kothari
16 min
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.
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...
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
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
59 min
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.
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
18 min
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...
4 min
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...
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
15 min
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?
4 min
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
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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So much in our culture emphasises long-term love; it may be time to hear a word or two in praise of the short-term approach.
Privilege discourse has noble intentions but it seems that it is used far too often in practice to guilt and shame others for things they don't have control over. If education and empathy (and not shame) is the goal, it might be better to scrap the whole privilege framework...
Brexit win has much to teach Democrats about Trump threat, warns senator, and elites ignore frustrations of workers and the poor at their own peril
Jon Queally
It’s been a couple of days since the shocking referendum result, and it feels no better than it did on the night.
In fact, if anything, it feels worse. Many of the worst fears of Remain activists seem to be coming true. Reports of racism and xenophobia are soaring in the...
Alex Scrivener
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Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism.
29 min
Puerto Rico’s massive debt has been discussed at length in Congress and the media, all omitting the most important fact: the history of being a colonial subject for over 500 years, still owned and controlled by the United States.
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We interviewed Daniel Casado, chilean environmental photgrapher for our webseries called "Retratos" (Portraits).
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The Flint water crisis is an example of a problem occurring across the world: when officials try to run government like a business by reducing funding for public utilities and undermining democratic accountability it's local communities who pay the ultimate cost.
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking...
John Pilger
Why are some women more invisible than others? To grow new anti-patriarchal movements like Black Lives Matter, we need to start opening our eyes.
Akiba Solomon
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Rio is hiding poor people. The 2016 Olympics are set to begin in just over a month in Rio de Janeiro. As the city prepares to receive an influx of international visitors, it is building new infrastructure and transportation systems to accommodate the surge. But the city is...
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The two major parties have proven they don't deserve majority government. And thanks to Australia's complex, opaque preferential voting system, we can break this Team Red/Team Blue nonsense once and for all.
Britain’s EU referendum has unleashed a complex set of crises and challenges. Vanessa Baird tries to look ahead.
Vanessa Baird
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The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, and it looks like it may not be an especially smooth transition.
The country is in a very grave crisis. That’s what we should be talking about, not the internal travails of the Labour Party. The Brexiteers have no plan; they began backtracking on their promises within hours, which may well produce a firestorm of fury in the coming months...
Owen Jones
Analysis of the Brexit Vs the EU sitiuation
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"You know how important it is to protect your family. But you may not know that some of America’s poorest citizens cannot afford to arm themselves against those who would limit their freedoms. That’s why the National Rifle Association is proud to partner with Smith &...
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Doping scandals have cast a shadow over the Olympic Games. Until we eliminate drugs from sports, we should at least update our athlete promos.
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Between 2009 and 2011, Shane Bauer spent nearly two years locked up in an Iranian prison as one of the jailed American hikers. Last year, he went back to jail-this time as an undercover journalist working as a guard at a private prison in Louisiana.
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The Democratic Party deserves a reformation. It can either choose to embrace a more progressive agenda and modify its primary nomination rules, or risk losing in November. Because the process that made it possible for Hillary Clinton to clinch the nomination was anything but...
Here we are. The Post-Brexit world, the birds are still singing, the pound has stuttered, Labour capitulates, it’s still raining and one Etonian PM looks set to be replaced by another.
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Britain remains in a widening crisis days after voters chose to leave the European Union. British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his resignation. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a coup within his own party as more than a dozen members of his shadow cabinet...
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An original song by performed on Mount Tamalpais to honor Oscar Grant and the People of Color who are oppressed and die at the hands of police violence every day. Give thanks to Brandon Vance, Tommy Reed, Kokou Katamani, Jahan Khalighi and all of the Chabot College students...
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This short film looks at the sport of roller derby and interviews the women of the Rose City Rollers who talk about how it has allowed them to celebrate, love and appreciate their bodies.
A second Spanish general election in six months saw gains for the right-wing PP, which is again expected to form a government. But the insurgent left has also shown that it is here to stay, writes Oscar Reyes.
Oscar Reyes
On Friday, June 24th, 2016, a majority of people voting in a referendum in the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union.
Rhyd Wildermuth
The labor movement is far from dead—if anything, the upsurge of labor unrest and class-based mobilization since 2008 signals that the tide is turning.
Beverly Silver
All of us have those times where we talk down to ourselves. We feel inferior, and belittle ourselves with harsh words. Sometimes, we are our own worst enemy. It’s important to remember, we will never be able to achieve self-love if we only focus on what we hate.
Raven Fon
Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates
Lauren McCauley
"The uprising has begun. The question now is, who will lead it going forward?"
Lauren McCauley
Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them from default. Most governments, including ours, will probably comply.
Chris Hedges
Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations. Progressives must unite to stop the UK turning into a Thatcherite wasteland
Paul Mason
These simple mantras can help us overcome suffering
Thich Nhat Hanh
We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the disintegration of the globalized systems lead to fascist violence and molecular civil...
Martin Winiecki
Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing...
Co-authored with Cherise Charleswell
The following is a statement by the Left Unity Executive Committee following the outcome of the referendum vote in the UK:
Left Unity
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Here's the first instalment of our Public Information Broadcast series. Publicly informing you on the subject of battery farming. FULL CREDITS: Featuring the acting talent of Candice Palladino.
Britain’s vote last night to leave the European Union will be a disaster for the climate — both physical and political — on both sides of the Atlantic.
Kate Aronoff
A working-class revolt has taken place, and frustration is spilling out in all sorts of directions. If Britain is to have a future, the escalating culture wars have to stop
Owen Jones
In 2013, President Obama, speaking at a fundraiser in Medina, Washington — home to a small community of wealthy donors — expressed a sentiment that has become all too common among Democratic Party liberals.
Jake Johnson
Things are changing. A major crack has appeared in the edifice of globalization, and the neoliberal order that has dominated the world’s economy since the end of World War II is now in danger.
Richard Eskow
Cameron resigns, markets roil, and right-wingers cheer as Brexit becomes reality
Nika Knight
We all have our view on the long-term prospects associated with an exit from the EU.
Olivier Vardakoulias
Farewell cosmopolitan Britain – hail mean, delusional (and rather elderly) little England.
Vanessa Baird
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Voters have voted in favor of Brexit: British exit from the European Union. That means that in the coming months, British and European leaders will begin negotiating the terms of Britain's departure.
Britain's exit will affect the British economy, immigration policy, and...
Since the June 6 California primary, the historic upheaval that coalesced around Bernie Sanders’ campaign has continued to defy the demands of the political establishment, but has also increasingly turned into a search for the way forward. After a powerful, year-long mass...
Kshama Sawant
What now for the radical left in Labour and beyond?
Paul Mason