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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.
10 min
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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
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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.
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.
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.”
'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
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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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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
Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter
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Reboot, to begin again a fresh start.
Because sometimes a system is so messed up the only solution is to beboot and try again.
Reboot is the origin story that tells how Captain Cannabis® was created.
A humble group of college age musicians were finally getting their big...
Feeling trapped on the corporate ladder? You’re not alone… our work culture has become uncaring, toxic and rather dangerous to our well-being.
Sigmund Fraud
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Marking International Day of Action Against Chevron, anti-Chevron protesters around the world are demanding justice for the company's human rights violations and environmental damage.
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Artist Grayson Perry explores contemporary masculinity, visiting ultra-male worlds to explore the changing lives and expectations of men in Britain today, and reflecting on his own prejudices and identity.
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From shells to sunflowers, dragonfly eyes to bee hives, you can find amazing connected paterns throughout nature.
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Gang rapes happened under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, in some cases instigated by his secret police. But since the revolution to overthrow Mubarak, activists say the attacks against female protesters and journalists are becoming more frequent and more vicious. A record...
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn
I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer
Lodged between two of the most populated countries on earth — India and China — Bhutan may be small at 700,000 souls, but it has a mighty role to play in showing the world how to preserve the environment, while also cultivating happiness in its human population. In fact, the...
Carolanne Wright
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." - Robert A. Heinlein
On May 13 the American news media reported that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had recruited U.S. Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota—a major oil drilling state—to help him draft his energy policy. Cramer has said he does not believe...
Richard Heinberg
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(English subtitles with CC button)
After 40 years of unsustainable salmon farming in southern Chile, the negative effects have finally taken its deadly toll on local fish and shellfish. This 5 minute video shows very clearly what caused the biggest environmental disaster so...
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Today’s industry is quickly catching onto the modest fashion trend, but the hijab is much more than a fad. While more and more businesses are seeing it as a lucrative commodity, the headscarf is a religious garment just as much as a political one. For generations, it has been...
Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda
Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping to stop the advance of ISIS while also leading a radical democratic charge against capitalist ideology. Welcome to the Rojava phenomenon.
Rahila Gupta
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We all have it. Now, let's talk about it. Watch on for an intimate conversation about women and body hair.
'The fight against corporate control of our food is global'
Nika Knight
I used to get made fun of for my big front teeth. Once, when I got home from school, I found my mom’s nail file and tried to file them down. The edge of the nail file caught on my lip after I sawed away for a few minutes and punctured a hole in my cheek. I sat there, crying...
Rosemary Donahue
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The obscure research that predicted Donald Trump. For more, read Amanda Taub's feature "The rise of American authoritarianism".
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For the first time in his life, Daniel Blake, a fifty-nine-year-old British carpenter, is obliged to apply for welfare after suffering heart problems. Although his doctor has put him on sick leave and told him he mustn't work, he is obliged to go job-hunting or else he'll be...
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Primaries and caucuses are a surprisingly undemocratic part of the democratic process. John Oliver discusses our convoluted system for choosing presidential nominees.
As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate to admit it, but I helped forge the system that has now been exposed in the Panama Papers. It is a system of legalized crimes. How else can we describe it?
John Perkins
There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.”
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John Fullerton
Masculinity is having a moment — but it's not a good one.
Alex Mierjeski
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It's not just black people. Cops kill a surprising percentage of all homicide victims. This makes it even harder to understand what Black Lives Matter opponents like Heather Macdonald are talking about. FURTHER READING: The Danger of the 'Black Lives Matter' Movement By...
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People all across the globe take to the streets in love to March Against Monsanto and help create a brighter future for everyone...
It is an honour to make this video. Please share far and wide to ripple our story of hope further with the world.
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When famed New Zealander psychologist, Dr Paul Spong, was first invited by the University of British Columbia to study the sensory apparatus of killer whales at the Vancouver Aquarium, he no doubt thought his time with the cetaceans would be like his other experiments in the...
How to be there for the people who need you most
Heather Plett
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RE-LEARNING THE LAND is the story of a Blackfoot community in southern Alberta, Canada, and how they have re-taken control of their education system within Red Crow Community College. The film traces the decolonization of their learning and the development of an innovative...
In the struggle for a more just society, we will be aided, not hurt, by our shared nature.
Bhaskar Sunkara & Adaner Usmani
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Renowned Cellular Biologist and author, Bruce Lipton, says the tremendous changes happening in the world today are like a late stage caterpillar. The creature has eaten its full and is now ready for its old self to die and be born anew.
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The following documentary examines the many parallels between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. Trump's right-wing populism, Islamophobia, racism, and nationalism has gained him support from white supremacists who say their groups are growing drastically thanks to Mr. Trump.
45 min
The Global Survey of Circumcision Harm (GSCH) was launched because the medical community has never investigated the long-term adverse physical, sexual, emotional or psychological consequences of infant/childhood circumcision on the health of adult men.
From his film Whose...
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Fox & City is a 2d animation project that was created for showing the linear walking exercise of the animated character. In consideration of aesthetic; collage technique, which is created by different found footages and original drawings was chosen.
When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone.
Kostadin Kushlev
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"Do you know what irony is?" BP is sponsoring an exhibition called 'Sunken Cities' at the British Museum. You could NOT make this up. So theatrical action group "BP or not BP?" crashed the press launch with a giant artwork, in solidarity with communities fighting BP in Egypt.
We have been told a great lie about capitalism — that everyone who works hard in life will be successful, make a lot of money, and have a good life.
Joe Brewer
4 min
Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text — even Vanilla Ice lyrics? PatrickJMT describes the Ramsey theory...
4 min
There's so much pressure on us to be always rational, calm and sensible: it's time also to say a word about the essential normality of a little madness.
5 min
When talking about refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who - just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals... Only when you sit down...
20 min
The following video explores the influence billionaires have had through massive public relations campaigns, fake "grass roots" movements like the Tea Party, and funding of right-libertarian organizations like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity. Featuring: Noam...
In countless ways over the last 35 years, our society has become less economically equal and more dominated by corporate power. Less just and more jailed. Vast urban and rural areas decline as government subsidizes economic elites. Funds for education and social services are...
Jeff Cohen
6 min
In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected? Instead, Tulley believes the most effective way to keep children safe is to give them a little...
54 min
Cape Town, South Africa is one of the rape capitals of the world. One in three women can statistically expect to be raped in South Africa in her lifetime. This harrowing documentary contains interviews with rape survivors who share their experiences in horrific detail. Not...
3 min
What is Bernie Sanders' political revolution?
What no other candidate will tell you...
by Matt Orfalea
www.youtube.com/Orf
Is it weird to call Captain America an anarchist? Yes, yes it is. Of course, there’s a ton of different versions of the character throughout the canon, from the hyperpatriotic and jingoistic to the I-hereby-renounce-my-US-citi...
Sadie the Goat