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Lucy Purdy explores how the concept of ‘rewilding’ could be applied not just to the natural world, but to ourselves
Lucy Purdy
2 min
This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management with its own coins, the Eco; and finally, the self-sustaining community Tamera also in Portugal. The...
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How Do Bourgeois Democratic Elections in the US Work?
A decade and a half into the 21st century, the answer is that they work badly. Very badly. The basic function of the government—what Marx called the general staff of the capitalist class--in bourgeois democracies is to...
Jimmy Higgins
For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy—while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with meaningful work, loving relationships, and a thriving natural world.
Sarah van Gelder
19 min
This is a shortened version of the award-winning feature-length documentary film, The Economics of Happiness. Cut down from 68 minutes to less than 20, it provides an introduction to the concept of localization - a systemic alternative to corporate capitalism - and shows how...
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The release of Pixar's Finding Dory could spell trouble for the blue tang, a species of tropical fish that the character Dory is based on.
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Most of us have never taken part in a poll about politics, says Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi, but we will happily believe the results and even let them affect how we decide to vote. Instead, she argues, the media should be helping people come to a decision by...
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Universities have become detached places for the pursuit of career advancement — a fantasy world in these turbulent times.
Joe Brewer
2 min
Turkey's President Recep Erdoğan believes it's a woman's duty is to make babies ... at least 3 of them. He says it's un-Islamic for families to use birth control. Here's a look back at some of Erdoğan's memorable mansplaining moments.
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On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper...
Richard Heinberg
In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked for hugs and boys joked about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?
Jessica Valenti
Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the ideology's death. They were only about 40 years late. As Naomi...
Benjamin Dangl
Ours is like the story of a man slave who is convinced by his master that he has been set free but is kept on a very long leash that only the master is aware of. And so the master determines how far he can get with the leash on and then goes ahead to set up a hut with a bed...
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All over France people are rising up. A clip from the film Network is followed by footage of the protests, strikes and riots sweeping across France. Read more here.
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'Business leaders who refuse to look into the realities of their own supply chains are misguided and irresponsible.'
Deirdre Fulton
2 min
Fresh out of college, a skinny nerd with little or no social skills, my worldview heavily influenced by an Enlightenment notion of the 'human', I decided to dedicate my academic energies towards proving the existence of the soul. My map was unimpeachably detailed and...
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Let’s deal with the facts. Hip-hop was primarily created by black and Latinx youth living in the South Bronx in the 1970s. During that time, highways were being built through poor neighborhoods, destroying the fabric of these communities. Along with budget cuts to programs...
Talib Kweli Greene
The water crisis in the West has renewed debate about the effectiveness of major dams, with some pushing for the enormous Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to be decommissioned.
Abrahm Lustgarten
11 min
openDemocracy founder Anthony Barnett discusses DiEM25, Brexit and European democracy with Yanis Varoufakis. Recorded at the Another Europe is Possible event in London, 28 May 2016.
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On 23 June Britain will decide by a referendum whether it will remain in the European Union or if it will leave - the so-called Brexit option. The opinion polls show the race is a close one as the national debate gets louder and louder.
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THE WORM IS TURNING tells the story of how corporate agribusiness is taking over the world's food production in the name of 'efficiency' and 'feeding a starving world' - while actually destroying economies, people's health, and the ecology of the world.
103 min
Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos, lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Kurt Cobb
5 min
The set of ideas we can call Romanticism is responsible for making our relationships extremely difficult. We shouldn’t give up on love; we should just recognize that it’s more a skill we can actively practice, and less an emotion that we have no control over.
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In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?...
David Bollier
15 min
Eleanor Penny explains why Britain needs to remain in the EU despite it's structural racism and lack of democracy.
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A friend recently said to me, “Kyer, if I were in your financial situation, I’d be freaking out.”
Kyer Wiltshire
My first impression at OuiShare Fest was a weird utopian blockchain mania: a poorly understood but massively hyped technology that will somehow fix all our social, political, and economic inequities. As I got to know some of the people here though, I started to see through...
Richard D. Bartlett
To defeat the current upsurge in right-wing populism, progressives will need to disrupt, defuse, and – critically – compete for portions of its constituency.
Tarso Luís Ramos
12 min
Richard Seymour reviews coverage of the Koch brothers, taking a look at their 'philanthropic' concerns, their right-wing media influence, anti-climate science activism and their political donations. http://multimedia.telesurtv.net/v/media-review-544842/
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The presidential elections in Haiti early this year resulted in chaos and a state of insecurity among the people of the Caribbean nation. This reflects the impact of foreign economic interests, mainly from the US, that targeted the country's development and influenced the...
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One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now unfolding in France make our course more relevant than ever. (The syllabus was published in “Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A...
George Lakey
12 min
Richard Seymour reviews media coverage of Bernie Sanders' campaign to become Democratic candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Unlike other candidates, Sanders' campaign does not receive much coverage. If it does, the reporting focuses on negative headlines and...
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Richard Seymour reviews the media coverage of social networking site Facebook. As one of the largest media corporations in the world, Facebook has a considerable influence on its individual users and world politics. Why exactly is the company so successful and what are its...
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Matt Kennard reviews the media coverage of incarceration and the prison system in the US, which has the highest prison population in the world. Government policies and the private sector business interests have created a 'prison-industrial complex' seeking even higher numbers...
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The Tapajós River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in the entire Brazilian Amazon. But this river in the heart of the rainforest and the people and ecosystems that depend on it face a serious threat.
Alia Lassal
In the 1964 film classic, Dr. Strangelove, Slim Pickens is seen riding a nuclear bomb down to his certain death – and perhaps to the end of us all – while he calmly inventories his survival equipment.
John Atcheson
We fail our duties as citizens if we remain silent about the realities of war
S. Brian Willson
In the last few months basic income—an unconditional cash payment to every member of the population—has been getting more and more attention in the media and social networks. Three items are especially interesting.
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark
“It finally clicked. I have bad self esteem when it comes to men.” — Journal Entry, October 27, 2015
Zee Chang
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Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its...
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Scientists are increasingly warning of the potential that a shutdown, or even significant slowdown, of the Atlantic conveyor belt could lead to abrupt climate change, a shift in Earth’s climate that can occur within as short a timeframe as a decade but persist for decades or...
Mike Gaworecki
“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979)“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience’s head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in the...
John W. Whitehead
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way...
John Pilger
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This is my body is a spoken word piece by Agnes Torok, a commentary on people judging, grabbing and commenting on her body. She talks about the all the incredible things she can do with her body and how she shouldn't be seen as a sex object. Support Agnes is her work here.
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Comedians James Adomian (Bernie Sanders) and Anthony Atamanuik (Donald Trump) bring two of the most controversial candidates in history, head-to-head, or rather bald-to-toupee, in the debate everyone wants -but Trump is too chicken to agree to!
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In a world in turmoil caused by war, economic pressures and environmental problems, it is easy to forget that we are not the only species living and surviving on this planet.
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Trump recently waffled about debating Sanders; he said he would for $10M to charity. He must not have expected the money to materialize. It did; and he bailed. But why? It would only weaken Clinton – which, as the presumptive nominee, Trump theoretically would want.
Liam Miller
9 min
Human Dimensions TV documented something very powerful happening! American Indians joined hands with American Cowboys in a unified movement to REJECT the Keystone XL Pipeline and PROTECT Mother Earth. Concerned members of Tribes from South Dakota and ranchers and farmers from...
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The Daily Show look beyond the campaign trail rhetoric to find out what Donald Trump had to say about poor people and women before he was trying to become President.
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Darkness reigns in Liberia. More than 15 years after rebel forces systematically destroyed the energy system during the civil war, only 4% of the population has access to electricity from the grid. Beyond the capital of Monrovia, there simply is no grid.
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"Journey Home" is a screenplay for a compelling & entertaining work of socially conscious cinema. It's been called a "landmark film" and "divinely inspired." Please visit us and become part of a movement that will inspire minds and change hearts.
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The Sierra Club along with a host of other environmentally conscious organizations hosted a rally against Offshore Drilling in Washington, DC that featured the voices of Indigenous People from Alaska whose traditional way of life is threatened by fossil fuels.
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I’m dealing with massive cognitive dissonance right now. Multiple, contradictory beliefs and perceptions inhabit my mind, each compelling on its own terms. How do I choose?
Charles Eisenstein
Henry David Thoreau once wrote the words, "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Though Thoreau lived in his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond many years ago, those words hold a deep truth. Wildness can mean so many different things to so many different people, but...
We Are Wildness
These days, feminism is on fleek. Touted by everyone from Dove to Barbie to Taylor Swift, consumer capitalism has made feminism sexy, fun, cool—and remarkably easy to claim as your own. But the price tag has been the meaning of the movement itself.
Marcie Bianco
Solidarity is not a one-way charity undertaking by privileged activists, but a multidimensional process that contributes to the emancipation of everyone involved.
Dilar Dirik
4 min
The makers of MOST dangerous product on US market are protected from legal liability like no other manufacturer. How did this happen? And why we must end this special status.
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Big oil companies are greenwashing themselves by sponsoring the arts, but Art Not Oil are fighting back.
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On Morality and Fear
TTRP
To build a lasting movement for climate justice, activists must decouple hope from victory and confront their fatigue head-on
Forrest Watkins
5 min
A short 2-part film exploring the training of participatory video facilitators amongst the Yaqui and Comcaac communities in Sonora, Mexico.
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“Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great...
Joanna Macy
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An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial capital.
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As part of our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series, Lane Kenworthy delves into a model for Social Democracy that he believes would be beneficial for a next system. Kenworthy claims that higher government involvement – as exemplified by Denmark, Finland, Norway...
Lane Kenworthy
18 min
Hounded is a short film that explores the intensity of emotions evoked by one creature; the Red Fox. Through a series of interviews, Hounded seeks to offer a balanced and in-depth view into the issues that hound the fox.
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Neoliberalism encourages us to treat every aspect of our lives as if it were on sale in a marketplace: is it an anti-spiritual project?
Deborah Grayson and Charlotte Millar
Progressive renewal lies in a deep recognition that we are not choosing our current lives.
Ronan Harrington
It is a sunny April Saturday and I’m running late to an event. This itself is not remarkable – but this time it is because the street I’m looking for in Lambeth is not marked on my map. When I find the launch for Switched On London, I discover I’m not the only one puzzled by...
Fanny Malinen
We can all feel it — the mental disease of late-stage capitalism is causing widespread depression, an epidemic of suicides, chronic feelings of guilt and shame, and a general malaise of powerlessness.
Joe Brewer
11 min
The Try Guys recreate famous photos of male celebrities and are photoshopped with their ideal body types.
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Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper.
Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...
Vegard Gjerde
Many changes happening around us remain unclear. We need better names and stories for them.
Joe Brewer
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner
On Globalization and The Costs of Exporting the American Dream
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick
Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...
Steven Gorelick
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On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: “Support the troops.”
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'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says unionist.
Andrea Germanos
The second thing NPR wants you to know about Hillary Clinton and foreign policy—after “she’s experienced”—is “she’s more hawkish than President Obama.” White House correspondent Scott Horsley (All Things Considered, 5/17/16) says:
Jim Naureckas
11 min
The lack of diversity in film and television dominated the debate during awards season. But away from the Oscars, the UK picture is also bleak: the film Bafta acting nominees have been almost exclusively white for two years running. Leah Green looks beyond the headlines to...
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In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
Sarah van Gelder
2 min
A full story about two Advertising Creatives who left their job for 6 months and created the first social awareness library in the world.
To fill the gallery, they traveled the word and produced the campaigns entirely on their own, and invited everybody to customize them –...
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This thought-provoking series is not about whether God exists or not. It explores more challenging questions such as "what happens as we move on and leave religion behind?", "what will guide and inspire us in a world free of all Gods?", "how can an atheist find a meaning in...
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Is melancholy at the heart of great transformative art?
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I’m eleven years old. I’m in the deep end of a swimming pool, small wet hands fastened on to the pool ladder. My instructor bends over.
“Let go,” she says.
“I will,” I tell her.
“Let go now.”
Priya
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More than 4000 Syrian refugees have died trying to cross the Mediterranean. With The Sea Cemetery, we call everybody to support refugees who only dream of an honourable life.
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Within this video you will meet a courageous gold mine resistance community - lead by Guatemalan women - fighting to defend the Water, Nature, and Life of their territory. The video is accompanied by a written article on the T.A.S. website for those who wish to receive a...
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Aaron Bastani, famously pro-Brexit left commentator gives his four reasons why the EU can't be relied upon for democracy, social justice and freedom.
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Chris Hedges on revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg in the context of the upcoming US election.
Chris Hedges
The 23rd June 2016 is likely to be a miserable day for anyone with an even remotely left-leaning conscience. The weeks before are already overcast with a feeling of inescapable gloom reminiscent of that which consumes a student, the clock ticking down on an exam in which they...
Bertie Russell
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In October 2015, Sheridan Hookimaw, a thirteen year old First Nations girl from Attawapiskat, Canada, took her own life by a river. Hers was not the first or the last suicide. Hundreds of suicide attempts by children and adults alike have soon followed in Sheridan's wake, a...
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What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Chip Richards
French logging company and official partner of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is deforesting a huge area of rainforest in southeast Cameroon without the consent of local Baka who have lived there and managed the land for generations
Survival International
On 25th May, African Liberation Day, we celebrate the continued struggle for the freedom of the continent, its people and all oppressed people around the world.
The Rules
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Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Žižek...
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On Tuesday night, a load of VIP guests - including officials from BP and the Egyptian government - arrived at the British Museum to launch the new 'Sunken Cities' exhibition. Activist performers "BP or not BP?" were also there - and refused to leave...
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Alex MacLean is one of America’s most famed and iconic aerial photographers. His perspective on human structures, from bodies sunbathing at the beach to complex, overlapping highway systems, always seems to hint at a larger symbolic meaning hidden in the mundane. By...
Written by Carol Linnitt - Photographs by Alex MacLean
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
The Democratic party has done everything in its power to alienate me—and, I suspect, my generational peers of similar political proclivities.
Let’s start with the Political Compass. Back in high school, quite some years ago, our Civics teacher had us take the Political...
Germaine Wensleydale
Here’s an amazing fact: It’s 2016 and humanity is collectively moving toward a future that nobody wants. We are literally going somewhere that will hurt every single one of us.
Mass extinctions are terrible things. Impoverished societies create the conditions for radical...
Joe Brewer