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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!
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
Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.
Vandana Shiva
41 min
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.
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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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...
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.
“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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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+.
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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Plastic pollution is recognized as a massive, global environmental issue, responsible for the deaths of over a million marine animals each year.
It is a danger to all marine life including birds, sharks, turtles and marine mammals, causing injury and death through drowning...
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Why do women discriminate against men at the Ima Keithel, the Mother's Market? This bazaar is the largest women-only market in the world. Men are allowed to shop, but otherwise they have to leave. The city even posts notices that men shouldn’t hang out at the Market, if...
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People of all ages offer words of wisdom to their younger counterparts.
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What are Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton going to do about Climate Change? We are under attack, and the attack is coming from climate change. Al Gore warns Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton of the the danger of burning fossil fuels at Senate Environmental Committee...
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Bernie Sanders is a politician with a heart. And a funny bone.
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Work in the cultural sector is often precarious, exploitative and individualised - but what are the alternatives?
Watch our visit to the communications design and print co-op Calverts in East London.
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In India, a large number of underprivileged children tend to drop out of school due to lack of coaching and learning aid. To help young students remain in school and complete their education, Tata Motors decided to initiate an intervention in more than 140 municipal secondary...
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As part of the Tata Affirmative Action Programme, Tata Motors has forged a partnership with the Ramakrishna Mission to empower local youth through skill development. This is a film I was a part of to help showcase the work TATA is doing for youth empowerment.
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Despite India's rapid economic growth, child malnutrition rates have not witnessed big improvements. As part of its CSR efforts, the Tata group, through Tata Motors, partnered with grass root organisations to try and address malnutrition which damages the physical and...
Stoma Brothers have a pertinent message for India
Stoma Brothers
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"You can't wake up the people who don't want to wake up 裝睡的人叫不醒!"
All around the world, sites sacred to indigenous people are besieged by mining, tourism, and other threats. Meet the groups safeguarding and restoring them.
Christopher McLeod
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Challenging the big myths about abortion.
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Four months after 24-year-old Sarah Reed died in Holloway prison in north London, women from pressure group Sisters Uncut hold a protest there to commemorate the 77 women who have died in British jails over the past decade, accusing the prison system of being institutionally...
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"Let's face it, America doesn't have a race problem, it has a race system. It's not broken, it's designed to work against you."
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No one likes sharing their most private information – not even the Home Office. The Government plans to collect it anyway. They say it will make you safer. It won't. Join Liberty’s campaign today and we’ll make sure your voice is heard. Protect privacy AND security.
People around the world are increasingly identifying as global citizens, according to a new BBC poll that shines a light on changing attitudes about immigration, inequality, and different economic realities.
Among all 18 countries where public opinion research firm
Nadia Prupis
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Airstrikes have hit an MSF-supported hospital in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, killing 27 people, including the last paediatricians in the Syrian city.
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Off the Cut provides unique insight into a community of boaters living on the Kennet and Avon canal. The film follows a family on their pedal powered boat as they embark on a journey in which their way of life, and that of the whole community, comes under threat.
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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! tells us about Trump-land and how the media is ruining this election.
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Do you think you are a refugee?
Do you want to know how to ask for international protection in Italy?
AsylEasy is a free and independent multilingual videoguide created by the Italian NGO Arci Catania. With the aim of facilitating access t
About six months ago, I wrote a post titled 6 Toxic Habits that Most People Think Are Normal. It became very successful. A lot of people commented and a lot of people shared and big grown-up websites who get paid to post smart grown-up things asked me if they could copy/paste...
Mark Manson
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An eloquent advocate for ethnic diversity in ecology and environmental studies, J Drew Lanham of Clemson University has developed a helpful set of field rules for his (very few) fellow black birdwatchers. In this short video, he gives a rundown of some of his best birding...
The recent collapse of BHS, which formally went into administration this week, is in part a story about a failing company in difficult economic times – but only in part.
It is also a clear example of the fundamental failure of modern shareholder capitalism. This is a model...
Duncan McCann
The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Soviet Union. The meltdown, explosions and nuclear fire that burned for 10 days injected enormous quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and...
Timothy A. Mousseau
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Stunning footage of a threatened land reinforces the sadness felt for what could be lost if the Jabiluka mine project destroys a World heritage site. For similar stories, see: Are Australian Laws Biased Against Aborigines?
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Part 1: Emma Thompson and sister Sophie have hatched a plan to take on the fracking industry. Their idea's a little mischievous, so it's all hush-hush for now. But soon all will be revealed soon.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was expected to do very well in the five primaries on April 26, but after the results, Bernie Sanders and his supporters face a critical moment in the election as the campaign fights for every possible delegate on the way to...
Kevin Gosztola
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Jeremy Hunt should stop telling us how reckless and dangerous the Junior Doctors' strikes are, because trained medical professionals clearly feel his policies are far more reckless and dangerous.
Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or chickens. We speak of training children, just as we speak of training horses. Our manner of...
Peter Gray, Ph.D.
They have been affected for the seven years already.
Adam Talbot
Feminist porn is sex on film showing women and men as sexual equals - that sex is something you do together, not just something that a man does to a woman
Harriet Williamson
I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends recently — in private where they felt comfortable letting their guard down — about the dirty little secret no one is supposed to talk about.
The shame people feel when they can’t find a job…
…or pay their bills.
…or go to the...
Joe Brewer
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In 2015, the state of Alabama closed 31 DMVs across the state. Many of these closures occurred in the Black Belt, a predominantly African-American region, directly impacting voter enfranchisement in a state that requires photo IDs at the polls. Directed by Margaret Brown
'The suffering caused by Chernobyl shows why we need to get rid of nuclear power for good,' says Greenpeace
Deirdre Fulton
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For nearly four months, the Aliso Canyon methane leak just north of Los Angeles spewed several thousand metric tons of potent greenhouse gases into the air before it was finally sealed in February. The disaster displaced residents, forced schools to close, and incited...
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Take the 360 degree video experience of solitary confinement in US prisons, which places viewers in a virtual segregation cell they can explore and interact with. It highlights the psychological effects of long-term solitary confinement for people who have experienced it...
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Time for a new story on how we honour the Great Lakes. A water-commons ethic and practice sees these waters as sacred, bioregional, a gift from the past, and a duty to protect into the future. Join this Great Lakes Commons today.
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Digging deep into Hillary's connections to Wall Street, Abby Martin reveals how the Clinton's multi-million-dollar political machine operates.
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Every drone flown by the U.S. military has inside a piece of the Democratic Republic of the Congo--a valuable mineral, of which the DRC has trillions of dollars worth buried underground.
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The Military Industrial Complex is the most powerful lobby there is. Here's why...
All the world’s a stage, one of Shakespeare’s most well-known monologues, is taken from his play As You Like It. It’s spoken by the weary traveller Jacques, and in the play’s context is a melancholy speech about the passing of time and inevitability of death. I’ve adapted it...
Gavin Aung Than
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In this moving and powerful talk, Sabah Choudrey talks about his life as a transgender Muslim and how his different identities collide.
Sabah is a UK-based Pakistani trans activist with a passion for his communities. He co-founded Trans Pride Brighton in 2012: the first...
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As the jury return their verdict at the inquest into the lethal crush at Hillsborough in 1989, David Conn analyses the evidence with the help of recently released footage from the day, to build a picture of how 96 Liverpool supporters died at the Sheffield stadium, and how it...
Britain is still a society deeply divided by class. The same schools, established church and universities dominate public life, but under the façade of immobility, changes are afoot.
Danny Dorling
59 min
A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain's worst football disaster.
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While everyone's in a flap over the Panama Papers, we're way more pissed off about the legal and more-or-less out-in-the-open ways that multinational corporations avoid paying tax in the countries from which they generate staggering profits.
The junior doctors contract would do nothing to deliver a 7 day NHS, experts agree. The government's refusal to back down is because they see doctors as a hurdle to their plans to dismantle what we understand by the NHS - plans which have been a long time in the making.
Steve Topple
60 min
"No Co-operation 停止運轉! No-Delay 不要拖延! No-Nukes 立即廢核!"