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In a moment the media missed or chose to ignore, Obama used classical reference to make a point.
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We live in a world were most people live in an urban environment, cut off from the origins of the food they consume. This short animated film takes us into the world of animal agriculture to expose how the animals who end up on our plates are raised and the effect this has on...
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Yanis Varoufakis considers himself a politician by necessity, not by choice. An economist and academic by training, he became Greece's finance minister amidst the country's financial crisis, creating an image for himself both beloved and reviled. He discusses his complicated...
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In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews climate change activist Tim DeChristopher about the deadly failure of industrial world to confront the effects of climate change. The two discuss how climate change has, and continues to trigger social tension and...
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Lee Camp interviews serial protester, Reverend Billy Talen. Join the 'Redactivist' movement online...
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In this episode of Redacted Tonight VIP, Lee sits down with former Redacted cast member, and current kick-butt journalist Sam Sacks. They discuss Sam's news site, The District Sentinel, what Bernie's loss in New York could mean for the rest of his campaign, and worst case...
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According to a new Harvard study, America ranks the worst in entire the Western World when it comes to having fair elections. That's crazy because the US is meant to be the land of the free and a shining beacon of democracy for the world. So why exactly are our elections so...
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Election fraud expert Richard Charnin has been on the election theft beat for over a decade. He has figured out the math so that you and I don't have to. And the math doesn't add up. On top of that, I talk with Lisa Barri - a witness to the Board of Election chaos in NYC.
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This short documentary is about the self sustaining community of Tamera, Portugal. In the film we speak with the residents of the community, who tell us how they made that originally dry land available for living, how they started organic agriculture, how they use biogas and...
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How can we create participatory workplaces that make decision making more democratic and compensation and job assignments more equitable? In this new animation from the Next System Project, building off Robin Hahnel's paper for our New Systems series, we explore the answer...
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THE HOMEBOY BAKERY STORY
In 1992, after the Los Angeles riots, Homeboy Bakery opened in Boyle Heights. The first of Homeboy's social enterprises, the Bakery started as a training ground for aspising bakers. Supplying fresh breads, pastries, and specialty goods to the walk-up...
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The heat burns hot between supporters of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton this election. I’m a Sanders supporter and, like many of us “Bernie or bust” types — I lose sleep thinking about a possible Clinton presidency. Part of the defeatism we see in Clinton supporters
Lizzie Maldonado
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Here's what happened when a group of women performed 'The Vagina Monologues' in an all-male prison.
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Yes the wage gap exists - and it's not because women "choose" to be paid less.
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As the world marks International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF figures reveal that 70 million more women than previously thought have been cut. The UK's leading FGM consultant Dr Comfort Momoh MBE explains what FGM is and its consequences.
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Nuit Debout ("Rise up at night") is a French social movement that emerged from opposition to the 2016 neoliberal labour reforms known as the "Loi Travail," and began on the 31st March 2016.
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At the 'Capitalism Tribunal' in Vienna, citizens from across the world are invited to prosecute or defend capitalism. The charges are then transferred from the digital sphere to physical space, in a real trial.
Pavlos Georgiadis
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Every bold advancement of progress in the United States is met by a racist backlash, says Steven Thrasher. So, he argues, it would make complete sense if Donald Trump became the next president. Until 2043, when America is mostly non-white, true political revolution will not come.
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An NHS waiting room. It waits for all of us, even as some of us - patients, carers, loved ones - wait IN it.
A dark cluster of trouble on an X-ray may have brought you here. Too few drops of serotonin; too many of cortisol. But now, this building, with all its people and...
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Lisa Mckenzie, Jason Williamson and others discuss class inequality and prejudice in austerity Britain. Taken from the feature documentary Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain.
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This video playlist compiles all of acTVism Munich's work for the month April 2016 that include a wide range of topics - privacy, democracy, economy, politics and social issues. This video playlist includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis and Srecko Horvat as...
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Masters of Mankind: American Power and the Challenges of 2016
Noam Chomsky
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This is a documentary film chronicling an act of overwhelming horror -- the honour killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British woman in suburban London in 2006, killed and "disappeared" by her own family, with the agreement and help of a large section of the Kurdish community...
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Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well?
John Schumaker
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The film Richard is a portrait of wandering piano tuner Richard Roberts while he explores the adventures of living without a fixed address. He classes himself as working homeless – a growing group who sleep rough by night, but then get up in the morning to go to work. Richard...
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The year 2015 has proven to be another year of temperature records. Data released by NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) show that in 2015, the global mean surface temperature – the yardstick scientists use to measure air
Kevin Trenberth
'Every day they destroy our country a little more,' says protester in Athens
Deirdre Fulton
Everything We Fear We Must Embrace
Ashley Simpo
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?
Anis Shivani
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John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.
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Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world. These shell firms enable their owners to cover up their...
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The media is wrong to characterise the issues surrounding the thousands of people attempting to travel into Europe as a ‘migrant crisis’, according to a briefing released today by campaign group Global Justice Now. Instead, attention should be drawn to the multiple crises...
Global Justice Now
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“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from...
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With a house that was starting to wear down and energy bills that were going up, Dawn McInnes recognized she and her two sons were living on the edge of fuel poverty.
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"Boundaries" draws attention to the oppression of male entitlement that women feel on a daily basis in everyday life.
Amanda Froelich
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A glimpse of the quietly devastating impacts of border closures- and reflections of some of those in Idomeni, Greece, seeking refuge and lives of less precarity.
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When I landed in Berlin on a snowy morning in January, there was a new voicemail from my mom on my phone. We didn’t get the chance to talk before my flight, but I travel often and didn’t think much of the missed call. I had just embarked on a trip through Germany and Greece...
Katie Salisbury
The towering canopies and dense understories of old-growth forests might be able to help protect biodiversity as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research
Mike Gaworecki
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Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices. Named Wikkelhouse, which translates from Dutch as Wrap House, the completed prototype comprises a series of...
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Song of the Last Place. (There is nowhere else to go.)
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Anonymous whistleblower says "Panama Papers are, if nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society's progressively diseased and decaying moral fabric."
Deirdre Fulton
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We are the disgruntled royalty, ungrateful, because we're ignorant of our grand status.
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For the last 30 years the salmon industry has polluted southern Chile, destroying natural shellfish banks, wiping out native fish populations and causing social damage.
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Men of the world, women would like to thank you for your advice.
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The true cause of immigration and the real enemy
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We are celebrating the 90th birthday of David Attenborough! Here at BBC Earth Unplugged we've teamed up with the legendary Aardman Animations, creators of Wallace & Gromit and Creature Comforts, to bring you two very special animations featuring iconic moments from Sir...
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Exploring deep woods therapy in Japan
Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons
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For 5 years the media has silenced the people of Syria, and given their voice to politicians from all sides. Time for that to end!
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In order to respond adequately, first we may need to mourn
Per Espen Stoknes
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13-year-old Hamza is a Syrian refugee in southern Turkey. He and his brothers have no school to go to and no father. So they work 12-hour days, six days a week, to support their family, or risk becoming desperate enough to return home to join the civil war.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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Three years ago my younger sister converted to Islam & began wearing a hijab. I admittedly hit a bit of a learning curve & had to rediscover what feminism means to me. I made a short video describing this new journey. I thought you might enjoy it & possibly relate. Peace & love
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Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.
Vandana Shiva
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Our mission is to enlighten and educate the general population about the grassroots issues of poverty and homelessness in Chicago, the US and abroad, and tell the story from the inside out.
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Because we’re all Mexican, right?
Ellie Guzman
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Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of protest policing, a set of strategies developed in the wake of 9/11 to preempt forms of mass protest at major events in the US and worldwide. The film tracks the development of the Miami model...
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Where's the just ice?
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When Johnny Perez spent three years in solitary confinement, his only human contact was a correctional officer who slid cold food through a metal slot in his door. He argues that this treatment takes away prisoners’ humanity, damages their mental health and makes it harder...
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The Netherlands is one of the countries that embraced wind-based technology the quickest, but not without some complaints. The Dutch often feel that the wind turbines are loud and ugly. Hoping to change public opinion, artist Daan Roosegaarde created an art piece, Windlicht...
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The UK’s Women’s Equality party was founded in 2015 as a reaction to how Britain’s 51 percent female population still isn’t properly represented in the halls of political power, earns substantially less than men, and how parental responsibilities aren't shared equally — which...
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With the largest evacuation in the history of the province of Alberta displacing nearly 100 000 people as large sections of Fort McMurray burn to the ground in the middle of a spring heat wave, it’s only natural for people affected to ask “why?” Why is this happening? What...
Nicholas Ellan
Urban Gardening: Managing the Risks of Contaminated Soil
Rebecca Kessler
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Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
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We're awake now. We're not going back to sleep.
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In a small village in Himalayan foothills of India, supported by travelers doing work exchange, we grow organic food and help injured and abused stray animals recovery in our home - "Badmash Peepal Farm". This is the story of what we do there.
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“How do we grow the economy?” is an obsolete question. Local initiatives across the world are looking for maturity instead as they rebuild caring, place-based communities and economies.
David Korten
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By nominating Trump and Clinton, the Democrats and Republicans have taken a massive dump on the hopes and dreams of the American people. Are we going to let them get away with it?
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Riveting look at the politics, big business and the medical industry that has made America the most prescription-addicted society in the world. America is less than 5% of the World's population but consumes 80% of the World's prescription narcotics. We have gone from being...
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For years, we've been told milk is essential.
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The third CANDiGRAM, asking what it means that so many people are creating their own YouTube Channels and baring their souls to the world. Includes a video of an otherworldly OMD Enola Gay fan cover.
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Two refugees on the island of Nauru set themselves on fire to protest the country's detention policies. One of them died from his injuries and the other is in critical condition.
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In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews co-directors Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn on their film “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret”. Together they discuss the extraordinary impact that the animal agriculture industry has on accelerating climate change...
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Woman (wo͝om′ən)
Defined as:
Female
Mother
Wife
Sister
Koromone Koroye
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Jedidiah quit a job that he loved to ride his bicycle from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. Filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher joined him along the way to find out why.
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Media has never been more consolidated. Six media giants now control a staggering 90 percent of what we read, watch, or listen to.
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A report on the peaceful direct action that shut down the Ffos-y-Fran coal mine in Wales
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A New Story For Humanity presents a beautifully and sensitively woven tapestry of the rich diversity that is the human family. Featuring interviews on the essential topics of our time: from cosmology to ecology, from ancient wisdom to current thinking, from leadership to...
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Rondo Alla Francese - Spring Riots 2016, France
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The coastal mangrove forest is the buffer between land and sea, playing the critical role of protecting the land and coastal communities from storms, wind and erosion. The short documentary takes us to an island in Southern Thailand illustrating how mangroves have depleted...
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If you think every election, every candidate, and every campaign is the same... you might have to think again.
In this topsy-turvy anti-establishment election year, is there really hope for old-school big-tent party revival?
Bernie Sanders can't do it alone.
Larry Cohen
While everyone is overly focused on distractionist drama and election results, America's real victories are being won without media fanfare. The political landscape is changing- and the establishment doesn't want you to notice.
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Who is the Military Industrial Complex. Most people think it's rich old white men in boardrooms. But that's just a small part of the story...
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Although this short film was made as a call to action on climate change on December 12 2015, its message is universal and timeless.
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For a lot of people born after the 1990s, the movie “Straight Outta Compton” may well be their first real exposure to the beating of Rodney King, or th
Dexter Thomas
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A substitute teacher in Michigan was fired for using the word “vagina” in an art history class and this isn’t the first time this has happened in Michigan. Why are people so afraid of the word “vagina”?
Vagina is part of a woman's anatomy. It isn't a dirty word. We all come...
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Greenpeace have leaked 248 pages of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts, confirming worst fears of environmentalists and social justice activists
In U.S. " there’s manufactured ignorance that prevents us from knowing about May Day," says historian
Andrea Germanos
Imagine you are a diplomat in the US government. You have just been informed that Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, is willing to negotiate a transfer of power to the opposition in return for blanket amnesty for all high level officials in his government. Also, imagine that...
Michael Holtzman
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Aerial reforestation, or seed bombing, is a method for repairing deforested land.
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HELLO AMERICA!—We have got to face and understand the effect Hollywood has on millions of people all over the world. When they first view those magic moving images in a theater or on a home screen, something happens and suddenly there is an intense desire to see more. On the...
The world is a pretty screwed up place. So how do we fix it when we ourselves are broken? This is the question that rarely gets asked — and it is a keystone piece of the solution to all the global crises in the world.
Global Warming? Can’t fix that and create healthy...
Joe Brewer
A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington...
Glenn Greenwald
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Alejandro Nieto was on his way to work as a security guard in San Francisco when he stopped in the park to eat a burrito. Police mistook his taser for a gun and shot him 59 times. The SFPD won't be charged in his death. Nieto's parents talk to AJ+.
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Capitalism is having a laugh at our expense. Surely that is the only reasonable explanation for the current shamelessness of Britain’s corporate elite. Having survived the financial crisis without the public, armed with pitchforks, hammering on their doors, perhaps they now...
Owen Jones
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"Although our countries are different, the exploitation of the workers is the same 對工人的剝削是超越國界的!" #AbandonedWorkers #關廠工人
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