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Intersectional feminism is nothing new. It’s just bigger and stronger than ever.
Dani McClain
30 min
In the run up to the 2015 general election, a war is going on for the right to live in London. Rapid gentrification – praised as "regeneration" by local councils and property developers, derided as "social cleansing" by critics – is breaking up established communities. In...
4 min
Kate Tempest performs her poem 'Progress' on Austrailian TV show Q&A.
An Interview With YPJ Commander Nisrîn Abdullah
Anon
25 min
Awel El-Khayt takes a closer look at the causes and consequences of sexual harassment and try and understand the mindset of the harasser and what motivates them. Men often find it difficult to understand how the fear of sexual harassment impacts the daily lives of Egyptian...
The president has reached the dubious milestone of being at war longer than any of his predecessors. And the conflicts aren’t ending anytime soon
Trevor Timm
8 min
The Libertarian Party is the best way to punish the Republicans for nominating Donald Trump. But who are these people? This video introduces Gary Johnson, John McAfee and Austin Petersen.
21 min
This one may be too much for you to contemplate but give it a try.
The façade of democracy and the disempowerment of the citizenry by corporations has sparked a nationwide revolt. Elites, fearing unrest, will soon become ruthless. We must engage now in acts of sustained civic mobilization and civil disobedience or be crushed.
Chris Hedges
2 min
Indigenous groups from across Brazil are protesting, saying the country's interim government and a new law could threaten their land rights. The proposed change to the constitution would give congress, which has strong links to agrobusiness, timber, mining and energy...
2 min
A young girl's life gets turned upside-down in these tragic second-a-day videos. This is what war does to children.
Leaders of more than two dozen Kayapó indigenous communities have rejected a $9 million offer from Brazilian state energy company Eletrobras to fund development projects in their region due to the the firm’s involvement in the construction of the Belo Monte dam, reports...
Rhett Butler
2 min
BBC Panorama investigates the ruthless world of the dog trade. Using secret filming they have uncovered some shocking truths about where and how these animals are being bred - including the conditions inside puppy farms that breed dogs for the UK market.
Death can be very painful and confusing. This is true for economic systems just as it is for personal loved ones. Moving on is just a hard thing to do.
It’s really tough to work through all the difficult feelings we have about loss. Will I see my grandmother again? What am I...
Joe Brewer
5 min
68 years after the Nakba, when most Palestinians were forced out of their homes during the creation of Israel, those who stayed behind are struggling to hold on to their homes. For residents like Basma, that means living with the constant threat of demolition, without sewage...
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
Between the mainstream media’s demonization of Donald Trump and the neocons jumping ship to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, a Clinton victory might prove grimly inevitable, but that will guarantee more neocon wars, says ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.
Graham E. Fuller
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.
George Monbiot
5 ways water can heal the mind and body and help you tap into your most calm and creative state of being
Carolyn Gregoire
Are we able to stop fracking and other threats to the environment from coming into our communities? Are we able to protect local farming from sewage sludge or factory farming? Are we able to protect workers and local economies from multi-national corporations?
CELDF
FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the...
Glenn Greenwald
I’m writing this article in a whisper. There’s something about the topic of masturbation that seems especially scary to broach. There are friends that I have known most of my life that I have never really talked about this with – and if I have it’s been furtively, with a...
Vanessa Kisuule
16 min
Emergency call centers are in desperate need of funding and new technology. Until we upgrade our 911 system, we should at least create more informative PSA's.
11 min
In April 2016, openDemocracy was in New York to hear from the Caravan Activists, a remarkable group of men and women who have lost sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and families to the 'war on drugs'. Now they campaign to change the system.
17 min
Cathy Newman's full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America's foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
On final day of two-week Break Free mobilization, demonstrations take place in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Turkey, and beyond
Deirdre Fulton
Last weekend, Nuit Debout’s international working group organized two days of assemblies and action planning on the Place de la République in Paris. Some hundred people came from all over Europe and beyond to get to know this new movement in one of the heartlands of the...
Manuela Zechner
1 min
In 1948, around 80% of Palestinians were forced out of their homes during the creation of Israel. That event is known as the Nakba, or "the Catastrophe." So where did they go? And how many Palestinians are there around the world now?
9 min
Beauty and fashion gurus are pretty, always in line with the current trends and loved by millions and millions of fans who voluntarily choose to blindly follow every single step of their heroes’ lives and at the same time adopt their wasteful behaviors by accumulating more...
44 min
The following video documents Hillary Rodham Clinton's career of right-wing politics, corruption, political posturing, and opportunism. Correction: Salvadore Allende committed suicide and was not murdered. But the U.S. was heavily involved in the military Coup in Chile while...
What's the point of being a progressive Democrat if you stand with the centre-right party establishment? This is the first and the last time a true champion of the people will come from within the system. Everyone else would just sell us out.
Saib Bilaval
45 min
Science Documentary - National Geographic, Drug Could Become A Pharmaceutical Of The Future
4 min
A brief encounter with children living on floating houses in the downstream of Mekong Detal in Long Xuyen, Vietnam. Their life, dreams, fears, and views on marriage.
26 min
This week Lee Camp continues his coverage of this year's election fraud. The fun never ends. From faulty voting machines, to voter purgings, to superdelegates with very mysterious connections to the Clinton campaign Lee takes us through the world of election scandal.
You've got the bumper sticker, you're in the Facebook groups, maybe you've even voted already. What if I told you, that's just the beginning?
'This spill shows why there is a new and vibrant movement in the Gulf of Mexico for no new drilling'
Nika Knight
2 min
This pop-up shop in one of Bangkok's hippest shopping malls showed consumers the suffering behind every exotic-skins bag, belt, jacket, and pair of gloves or shoes.
Official US defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram
Nafeez Ahmed
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AWARDS Best Forced Labour Film: UK Consumer - Unchosen Modern Slavery Film Competition 2014 www.unchosen-films.org/ Film of the Month/ Director of the Month/ Score of the Month [Sam Jones] - The Monthly Film Festival - April 2016 http://tmff.net/winners/best-of-april-2016/...
2 min
After hearing a 19th-century African-American song, Dr. Maya Angelou has never forgotten one important lyric: God put a rainbow in the clouds. Watch as Dr. Angelou shares how she honors those who employed kindness to help her, and find out how, she says, we can all "be a...
60 min
"Sunflowers Everywhere 遍地開花!" Anything is possible when you sowing the seeds of Democracy, Taiwan after the Sunflower Movement (2014~2016):
4 min
Bernie Sanders on Immigration. The Latino community is with Bernie. Viva Bernie!
13 min
Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legislative process, and run candidates who will listen to what they say.
Hillary Clinton wants American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world
Robert Parry
3 min
What does "a good day" mean to you?
32 min
A student initiative to bring to light one of the most heinous crime in the history of mankind, 'ACID ATTACKS'. 'Scarred' isn't just a film, it is the story of survivors who have lost not just their face but their identity. It is a message that must reach out to millions of...
"Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia."
Deirdre Fulton
10 min
This film captures some of the real experiences people are facing today in the light of the UK governments recent changes to the welfare system.
Dole Animators is a group of benefit claimants based in the UK who have worked together to make this animated documentary.
5 min
“The biggest casualty of humanity is the lack of communication, it’s the thing that breaks most relationships. It just feels so much better to talk and get it out.”
2 min
Truly Inspiring speech by Jim Carrey.
Depression and anxiety are rising rapidly among young people: what’s going on?
William Davies
In a moment the media missed or chose to ignore, Obama used classical reference to make a point.
4 min
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...
103 min
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...
28 min
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...
26 min
Lee Camp interviews serial protester, Reverend Billy Talen. Join the 'Redactivist' movement online...
26 min
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...
26 min
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...
26 min
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.
23 min
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...
2 min
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...
3 min
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...
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
2 min
Here's what happened when a group of women performed 'The Vagina Monologues' in an all-male prison.
6 min
Yes the wage gap exists - and it's not because women "choose" to be paid less.
3 min
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.
2 min
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.
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
2 min
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.
6 min
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...
6 min
Lisa Mckenzie, Jason Williamson and others discuss class inequality and prejudice in austerity Britain. Taken from the feature documentary Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain.
20 min
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...
Masters of Mankind: American Power and the Challenges of 2016
Noam Chomsky
68 min
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...
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
5 min
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...
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
19 min
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.
12 min
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...
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
4 min
“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...
10 min
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.
"Boundaries" draws attention to the oppression of male entitlement that women feel on a daily basis in everyday life.
Amanda Froelich
12 min
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.
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
1 min
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...
10 min
Song of the Last Place. (There is nowhere else to go.)
Anonymous whistleblower says "Panama Papers are, if nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society's progressively diseased and decaying moral fabric."
Deirdre Fulton
14 min
We are the disgruntled royalty, ungrateful, because we're ignorant of our grand status.
51 min
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.
3 min
Men of the world, women would like to thank you for your advice.
The true cause of immigration and the real enemy
2 min
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...
Exploring deep woods therapy in Japan
Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons