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Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness? 7 min
Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it’s called Politeness.
The School of Life
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...
James Gilligan
Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence
Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence
What is this world we’ve created for our youth? 7,000 dead to gun violence since 2012?! What is that? The weight that we are leaving for our youth is unbearable to bear witness to, but if we don’t… what kind of world will we have created?
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism
Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism
Researchers found unlikely heroes in keeping the world from authoritarianism  - magic mushrooms. Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London showed that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, makes people less likely to embrace...
Paul Ratner
The Queen's University Talk: Jordan Peterson on The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech 106 min
The Queen's University Talk: Jordan Peterson on The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech
Jordan Peterson: "I was invited to Queen's University March 5 to give the inaugural lecture/discussion of the Liberty Lecture series, funded by Faculty of Law alumnus, Gregory Piasetzki (LLB 1980). Dr. Bruce Pardy (https://law.queensu.ca/faculty-re
Jordan B Peterson
One Dimensional Woman 9 min
One Dimensional Woman
In this video, Zero Books looks at Nina Power’s 2009 feminist Tract “One Dimensional Woman” to find out how the book is holding up seven years later. Was Power right when she suggested that feminists should be perhaps a bit less concerned about representation and more...
Zer0 Books and Repeater Media
Are We Living in a Patriarchy? (Jordan Peterson vs. Angela Nagle) 10 min
Are We Living in a Patriarchy? (Jordan Peterson vs. Angela Nagle)
This video will ask the question “Do we live in a patriarchy?” In order to answer the question we examine the ideas of three different cultural critics: Angela Nagle, Jordan Peterson, and Nina Power.
Sublation Media with Douglas Lain
Radical Kindness Is Liberating: A Guide to Engaging with Wisdom Online
Radical Kindness Is Liberating: A Guide to Engaging with Wisdom Online
A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett.
Tim Hjersted
What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?
What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?
Are your emotional and psychological needs being fulfilled?
Chip Richards
Inside the Secret Chat Logs of American Nazis 4 min
Inside the Secret Chat Logs of American Nazis
ProPublica obtained chat logs capturing the members and aims of Atomwaffen Division, a notorious white supremacist group. When Sam Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen members cheered the death, concerned...
ProPublica
South Africa to Cut Ties With Israel 'Over Abuse of Palestinians'
South Africa to Cut Ties With Israel 'Over Abuse of Palestinians'
South Africa, a former apartheid state, has been vocal in its support for the Palestinian cause against the over 50-year-old Israeli occupation.
teleSUR
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! 61 min
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
The Staging Post follows two Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar and Khadim. Stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they built a community and started the school which inspired a refugee education revolution.
“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”
“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”
America, can we talk? Let’s just cut the shit for once and actually talk about what’s going on without blustering and pretending we’re actually doing a good job at adulting as a country right now. We’re not. We’re really screwing this whole society thing up, and we have to do...
Aging Millennial Engineer
War With North Korea - Propaganda vs. Reality 33 min
War With North Korea - Propaganda vs. Reality
On top of overtly genocidal threats, the Trump Administration has announced new terms: that they "will never accept a nuclear North Korea." But, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea already has nuclear weapons. Does that mean a war is imminent?
TeleSUR English
Becoming Mr. Roger's Neighbor 2 min
Becoming Mr. Roger's Neighbor
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a hugely important kids' show, but for more than you may think.
Great Big Story
It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean...
Patrick Cockburn
Up To The Last Drop: The Secret Water War in Europe 59 min
Up To The Last Drop: The Secret Water War in Europe (2018) ($5)
As Europe is going through a crisis that is not solely economical but also a crisis of moral values, millions of European citizens demand a response to a crucial question: is water for the European Union a commercial product or a human right? Until today, the European...
Check Your White Privilege?
Check Your White Privilege?
A significant question facing progressives today is whether the use of the term "white privilege" helps or hurts building the kind of solidarity needed to promote racial justice and reverse runaway inequality.
Les Leopold
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change, in One Short Take
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change, in One Short Take
Matt Bruenig presents a devastating challenge to those who call themselves libertarians, and explains why they have no choice but to deny climate change and other environmental problems.
George Monbiot
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck 8 min
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck
Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck. Will...
Pop Culture Detective
Samantha Bee Weighs in on Aziz Ansari and the #MeToo Backlash and It's Very On Point 8 min
Samantha Bee Weighs in on Aziz Ansari and the #MeToo Backlash and It's Very On Point
“What many failed to understand is that it doesn’t have to be rape to ruin your life, and it doesn’t have to ruin your life to be worth speaking out about,” Samantha notes early on. She closes with a simple request: “Men, if you say you’re a feminist, then fuck like a...
Full Frontal on TBS
Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility 5 min
Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility
Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy. Our most visionary...
The RSA
Abby Martin Meets Ahed Tamimi—Message From A Freedom Fighter 20 min
Abby Martin Meets Ahed Tamimi—Message From A Freedom Fighter
Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance--16 year old Ahed Tamimi.
TeleSUR English
Empire Files: In the Deadliest Country for Unions & Social Leaders 19 min
Empire Files: In the Deadliest Country for Unions & Social Leaders
In 2017, murders of social leaders, union organizers and indigenous activists in Colombia hit a new high since the historic peace agreement. In the past three years, more than 3,000 unionists have been murdered in a disturbing new trend which threatens all social progress.
TeleSUR English
“Consciousness: Past and Present” – The oppression of women, by Artist Shqipe Kamberi
“Consciousness: Past and Present” – The oppression of women, by Artist Shqipe Kamberi
We sat down to speak to Artist Shqipe Kamberi in Pristina, Kosovo regarding her recent personal art exhibition titled “Consciousness: Past and Present” displayed at the National Museum of Kosovo. Shqipe began actively pursuing the arts upon graduating from the Academy of Arts...
Njomza Miftari
Through Abdullah's Eyes 42 min
Through Abdullah's Eyes (2017)
When the war broke out in Syria, Abdullah had just enrolled in university to study law. The war intensified, and his home town of Dier Ezzor became a major battleground in the fight between Assad's forces, anti-government rebels, and eventually Daesh. Russian and American-led...
What Do People In The Iphone X Line Think of The Homeless? 4 min
What Do People In The Iphone X Line Think of The Homeless?
We interview people camping out for the new Iphone X to gain some insight into what it is like sleeping rough on the streets of sydney.
Boy Boy
The Mobilizing Passions of Fascism 26 min
The Mobilizing Passions of Fascism
Learn what fascism is, how fascists think, and what arguments motivate fascists to action. Based on the works of Robert Paxton, including "The Anatomy of Fascism" and "The Five Stages of Fascism." Once you know the mobilizing passions, the prevalence of fascist rhetoric and...
Sent to Haiti to keep the peace, departing UN troops leave a damaged nation in their wake
Sent to Haiti to keep the peace, departing UN troops leave a damaged nation in their wake
On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin, and Ilionor Louis
Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians 24 min
Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians
On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region.
TeleSUR English
Religion Is Not the Only Reason Rohingyas Are Being Forced Out of Myanmar
Religion Is Not the Only Reason Rohingyas Are Being Forced Out of Myanmar
Recent weeks have seen an escalation of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine, the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from atrocities – they are fleeing both on foot and by boat to Bangladesh. It is the latest sur
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Tom Johnson
Sea Prayer - A Powerful Immersive Film Honouring Syrian Refugees 6 min
Sea Prayer - A Powerful Immersive Film Honouring Syrian Refugees
A 360° illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini. Scroll to the right as the story progresses.
The Guardian
Reparations From Historical Slavery Could Be Used to End Modern Slavery
Reparations From Historical Slavery Could Be Used to End Modern Slavery
One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the...
Vishal Wilde
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Scent of Geranium - The Story of an Uprooted Iranian in America 4 min
Scent of Geranium - The Story of an Uprooted Iranian in America
Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined. This film is an autobiographical account of the director's experience with immigration.
Naghmeh Farzaneh
How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History
How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History
After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counter demonstrations? Some say yes.
Laurie Marhoefer
Towards a Transformative Anti-Fascism
Towards a Transformative Anti-Fascism
The Relevance of Radicalized Peacebuilding to Antifa Praxis
Emmi Bevensee
When Petitions Actually Matter: West Papuans Risk Their Lives to End Indonesia's Occupation
When Petitions Actually Matter: West Papuans Risk Their Lives to End Indonesia's Occupation
Just another clicktivist petition pushed by corporate NGOs with no connection to grassroots struggle? Not this time – West Papuans are risking beatings, arrest, and even death to sign a petition for their right to self-determination, coordinated with international support...
Connor Woodman
Pro Anti
Pro Anti
Antifa’s horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations
Angela Mitropoulos
Israel Demolishes Bedouin Village to Build Jewish-Only Town 14 min
Israel Demolishes Bedouin Village to Build Jewish-Only Town
Despite protests, the Israeli government will displace the Bedouin population of Umm al-Hiran to a temporary area until a new neighborhood is built for them nearby. However, residents won't be welcome to return to the new Jewish-only city of Hiran.
The Real News Network
My Father Was Killed by a Far-Right Terrorist but You’ve Probably Never Heard of Him 4 min
My Father Was Killed by a Far-Right Terrorist but You’ve Probably Never Heard of Him
Maz Saleem’s father who killed by a neo-Nazi terrorist, who then went on a bombing campaign - but you’ve probably never heard of him. Why?
Double Down News
Drawing Equivalencies Between Fascists and Anti-Fascists Is Not Just Wrong, It's Dangerous
Drawing Equivalencies Between Fascists and Anti-Fascists Is Not Just Wrong, It's Dangerous
We must be very wary of any attempts to excuse or normalize white supremacy.
Stanislav Vysotsky
White Supremacists Get Schooled in This Incredible Viral Twitter Thread
White Supremacists Get Schooled in This Incredible Viral Twitter Thread
Twitter user @JuliusGoat posted this incredible thread in response to the Unite The Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and quickly got hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes. Read it and share widely, it's epic!
Julius Goat
Plea Deals Are A Deal With the Devil 6 min
Plea Deals Are A Deal With the Devil
A plea deal is an arrangement to resolve a case without going to trial. This is an option most often taken by those who cannot afford bail and want to go home instead of wait days, months, even years locked up in jail. An estimated 177,624 innocent Americans pleaded guilty in...
Trump-Turnbull Call: Trading People Like Pawns Undermines the Goals of International Co-Operation
Trump-Turnbull Call: Trading People Like Pawns Undermines the Goals of International Co-Operation
What is the point of international co-operation in matters of shared concern? According to the UN Charter, its founding member nations were determined to achieve overarching societal progress based on human rights.
Amy Maguire & Jason von Meding
The State of Our Feminist Movements 2 min
The State of Our Feminist Movements
In today's global landscape, challenges inside and outside our feminist movements have sharpened, but so have we. So it's time to ask: what is the state of our collective movements today?
AWID
War, Profiteering Push Over 2 Billion to Lack Safe Drinking Water
War, Profiteering Push Over 2 Billion to Lack Safe Drinking Water
A new UN report has found that two billion people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water. However, the report covers just a small part of the global population and fails to address the impact that war and corporate profiteering have had on drinking water...
Whitney Webb
Surviving the Holocaust to Saving Refugee Children - The Incredible Story of Lord Dubs 4 min
Surviving the Holocaust to Saving Refugee Children - The Incredible Story of Lord Dubs
This man survived the Holocaust by fleeing to Britain as a child refugee. Now he’s helping to take the government to court to save other refugee children. This is the incredible story of Lord Alf Dubs.
Double Down News
How Modern Imperialism Creates Famine Around the World
How Modern Imperialism Creates Famine Around the World
Countries like Yemen, Chad and South Sudan have been devastated by famine and starvation in recent years, with millions of people suffering despite a global surplus of food. But the problem is not a lack of resources - they are starving due to the effects of unending Western...
Eric Draitser
Is It Really Not Racist to Oppose Immigration?
Is It Really Not Racist to Oppose Immigration?
In a wide-ranging interview about Britain’s relationship with Europe and the ongoing migration crisis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said that people who raise questions about the level of immigration into the UK should not be seen as racist. He said that to be...
Simon Goodman
This Beautiful Video Will Tell You All You Need To Know About Marriage Equality Without Saying a Single Word 2 min
This Beautiful Video Will Tell You All You Need To Know About Marriage Equality Without Saying a Single Word
Please share this with friends and loved ones.
GetUp! Australia
Al Jazeera Responds to the Qatar-Gulf Crisis 5 min
Al Jazeera Responds to the Qatar-Gulf Crisis
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain want Al Jazeera - including AJ+ - to be shut down. Here’s what Al Jazeera journalists think of that.
AJ+
Russell Brand Dissects Trump's Rhetoric Around The G20 6 min
Russell Brand Dissects Trump's Rhetoric Around The G20
Today's Trews reacts to events at the G20 and asks whether anything will actually change as a result.
Russell Brand
Worth Dying For - How Berta Cáceres' Murder Sparked a Backlash in Honduras 25 min
Worth Dying For - How Berta Cáceres' Murder Sparked a Backlash in Honduras
Berta Cáceres, winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment and possibly the most well-known land rights activist in the world, was murdered in her home a year ago. Berta's message to the world was that no one is beyond reach. Far from silencing her and her...
Journeyman Pictures
After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover 9 min
After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover
Two decades after the UK handed it back to China, President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for the first time to celebrate the anniversary. The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was designed to preserve democratic freedoms in the wealthy former colony. After troubled years of...
The Guardian
The History of Structural Racism in Kansas City 13 min
The History of Structural Racism in Kansas City
Michael Wesch meets up with
Michael Wesch
The War in Yemen is Now World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis 3 min
The War in Yemen is Now World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis
The world's largest humanitarian crisis is not in Syria. It's in Yemen. So says the United Nations, highlighting the grave consequences of a conflict that has left 18.8 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance, including 10.3 million who require...
Al Jazeera English
How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans
How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans
“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”
Julian Cola
Powerful Hamilton Mixtape Music Video Shows Immigrants Get the Job Done 6 min
Powerful Hamilton Mixtape Music Video Shows Immigrants Get the Job Done
Official music video for Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) by K'naan featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product.
Hamilton
Why We Need Net Neutrality 2 min
Why We Need Net Neutrality
The FCC is planning to repeal the strong net neutrality rules that we fought so hard to get in 2015. Why do we care? Vimeo is the home to so many makers, watchers, and all-around internet video lovers. Net neutrality makes sure there is room for creativity and equal access...
Trump's Travel Ban Will Have Lasting Negative Impacts On All Refugees 4 min
Trump's Travel Ban Will Have Lasting Negative Impacts On All Refugees
The Supreme Court allowed a partial version of Trump's executive order banning travel from 6 Muslim-majority countries to go into effect this summer. But the full order could have a lasting impact on how the US treats refugees.
Vox
Supreme Court Partially Lifts Block on Trump's 'Bigoted' Travel Ban
Supreme Court Partially Lifts Block on Trump's 'Bigoted' Travel Ban
"We'll be ready," said the ACLU in response to the announcement
Jake Johnson
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Yessenia Funes
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
Happy father’s day to the fathers, and to our fathers’ fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and all the way back to Grandfather Sky. Past there to before there were fathers, because all was just ONE.
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
One Law for the Poor at Grenfell Tower
One Law for the Poor at Grenfell Tower
In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served for the victims of the Grenfell fire? Or are our laws already too much shaped to the needs of the business class?
Steve Tombs and David Whyte
Trevor Noah on Philando Castil and Being Black in America 5 min
Trevor Noah on Philando Castil and Being Black in America
In response to the police shooting death of Philando Castile, Trevor shares his own experience as a black man facing law enforcement discrimination in America.
The Daily Show
AJ+ Check In With Refugees in Greece and Germany 25 min
AJ+ Check In With Refugees in Greece and Germany
In 2015 the AJ+ team followed groups of refugees as they made their way across Europe. Now, 2 years later, Dena Takruri catches up with some of the people she met to find out how they are getting on.
AJ+
Grenfell - A Symbol of All That Is Wrong 4 min
Grenfell - A Symbol of All That Is Wrong
In today's Trews I read from my recent blog about the Grenfell tragedy, which you can read here.
Russell Brand
Chalk Girl - The Protester at the Heart of Hong Kong's Democracy Movement 25 min
Chalk Girl - The Protester at the Heart of Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside the 'localist' youth. As elections loom...
The Guardian
Rapper Lowkey Gives Firsthand Account of Grenfell Fire 2 min
Rapper Lowkey Gives Firsthand Account of Grenfell Fire
"Austerity is a matter of life and death." Rapper Lowkey watched people die with his own eyes, this is what he thinks should happen to the criminals responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire.
Double Down News
Grenfell Tower Fire: Community Support and the Failure of Government 3 min
Grenfell Tower Fire: Community Support and the Failure of Government
Residents of Notting Hill say they are proud of the community, who have come out in force to help those who have lost everything in the Grenfell Tower fire. Locals worked tirelessly to provide food, water and clothing. However, with the search for friends and relatives...
Guardian News
The Grenfell Tower Fire Could Have Been Avoided
The Grenfell Tower Fire Could Have Been Avoided
This Government Must Be Held Responsible
Mona Kamal
Why Affordable Housing Needs to be a Right, Not a Privilege
Why Affordable Housing Needs to be a Right, Not a Privilege
It’s time to ensure that no American has to worry about where they and their families will sleep tonight, says housing consultant James Stockard.
James Stockard
How Palestinians Marked 50 Years of Israeli Occupation
How Palestinians Marked 50 Years of Israeli Occupation
There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people. The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish militias. A day before, the state of Israel was...
Marwa Fatafta
50 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine 5 min
50 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine
It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
Novara Media
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a civil rights milestone
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a civil rights milestone
Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Caty Borum Chattoo
Here I'll Stay 11 min
Here I'll Stay
In Jackson, Mississippi, a coalition of Latino, black, and white activists known as MIRA confronts local lawmakers, who introduced 12 anti-immgrant bills into the state legislature in 2017. Among those protesting in the state's capital: 13-year-old Yizel, whose parents are...
Field of Vision
Finding Home: Lack of Affordable Housing Is a Crisis Across the West
Finding Home: Lack of Affordable Housing Is a Crisis Across the West
House prices are through the roof. The banks are swimming in mortgage profits. Rents are sky high. Is it any wonder there are more people on the street?
Wayne Ellwood
Why Undocumented Immigrants Are Superheroes 8 min
Why Undocumented Immigrants Are Superheroes
The debate over illegal immigration always misses something important: Undocumented immigrants are actually superheroes. Think about it. They literally risk their lives to make a better future for themselves and their families, and they do all the things we citizens would...
Newsbroke (AJ+)
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia are Fuelling the Massive Humanitarian Crisis in in Yemen 7 min
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia are Fuelling the Massive Humanitarian Crisis in in Yemen
The worst thing that the British government is doing today is supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war.  It should be a national scandal, but at the moment, it isn’t even an election issue. David Wearing teaches Middle East politics and international...
Novara Media
Fear Trumps Facts: Why Theresa May Is Sticking With Her Migration Cap
Fear Trumps Facts: Why Theresa May Is Sticking With Her Migration Cap
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to “reduce and control” immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 – a level not seen for 20 years. This pledge caused some puzzlement. Even the Brexit secretary, David...
Robin Cohen
Living With Disabilities Under The Conservatives Cuts 15 min
Living With Disabilities Under The Conservatives Cuts
This is the story of people living and working with disabilities in modern Britain whose lives have been drastically affected by a series of Tory cuts, reforms and changes to disability benefits and a growing crisis in social care and housing.
Living with disabilities
Refugees Welcome - Creating Solidarity Across Borders 34 min
Refugees Welcome - Creating Solidarity Across Borders
In our current age of resurgent nationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia and increasing border militarization, it can be easy to lose track of the central role that migration has played in shaping the spaces we inhabit. The richness and depth of human history comes from the...
sub.Media
Picket Line - Striking US Workers Disillusioned by Trump 9 min
Picket Line - Striking US Workers Disillusioned by Trump
One week before Donald Trump was elected, 700 workers—many of whom were Trump supporters—walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in Waterford, NY, sparking a 105-day strike. In the wake of his win, the workers gets candid about Trump's advocacy for union-busting legislation.
Field of Vision
Return to High Chaparral 10 min
Return to High Chaparral
Last year, we visited a theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden that became a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. As strange as that sounds, this was a pretty good deal for about 500 people looking to start a new life. But...
David Freid
High Chaparral - The Wild West Theme Park in Sweden Welcoming Syrian Refugees 9 min
High Chaparral - The Wild West Theme Park in Sweden Welcoming Syrian Refugees
A theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden becomes a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.
David Freid
The Streets Barber - Giving Haircuts to the Homeless 1 min
The Streets Barber - Giving Haircuts to the Homeless
Nasir Sobhani of Melbourne, Australia, aka The Streets Barber, gives free haircuts to the homeless to help them feel clean, empowered, and understood. Life on the streets is rough, with homeless people often ignored or abused to the point that they no longer feel human -- and...
Nasir Sobhani
Dreams Deferred: The Struggle for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine 68 min
Dreams Deferred: The Struggle for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine (2011)
Travel to Israel and the West Bank to learn about the occupation and the nonviolent Israeli and Palestinian peace and justice movement that has received little coverage in mainstream U.S. media.
J. Hitchcock
Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s...
John Pilger
This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister 6 min
This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister
How did he do it? And what led to this incredible victory for humanity? It's a story for the ages... Intrigued? This clip is just an excerpt from the full movie. If you want to take things back to the very beginning, you can watch the full 30 minute movie here.
Chelsea Manning's Extraordinary Legacy Explained 3 min
Chelsea Manning's Extraordinary Legacy Explained
To coincide with Chelsea Manning’s release from Fort Leavenworth military prison, Guardian US chief reporter Ed Pilkington and Manning’s attorney, Nancy Hollander, explain the significance of her release and the impact of her legacy for the transgender community.
The Guardian
Challenging Christian Hegemony: The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism
Challenging Christian Hegemony: The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.[1] We live on the Earth as part...
Paul Kivel
Buying a Slave – the Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking 25 min
Buying a Slave – the Hidden World of US/Philippines Trafficking
Human trafficking is a hidden industry that brings in $150 billion in illegal profits every year. In the United States, tens of thousands are trafficked annually—the biggest clients being major hotel chains and foreign diplomats. The Philippines is one of the largest labor...
TeleSUR English
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
I was around 14 when I heard about Concentration Camps for the first time.
Dieter Duhm
We've Been Down This Road Before: A Brief Review of Immigrant Scapegoating in US History 4 min
We've Been Down This Road Before: A Brief Review of Immigrant Scapegoating in US History
Let’s Make History We Want to Remember is a collaborative video project about how immigrants have been targeted and scapegoated throughout US history, and a call to action to make a different kind of history.
MakeHistoryToRemember MakeHistoryToRemember
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
Because racism is both institutional and attitudinal, effective strategies against it must recognize this dual character. The elimination of institutionalized racism requires a conscious project of attitudinal transformation. The deliberate attempt to transform racist...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
The Fight - Documenting Disability Activists Caravan of Courage in Bolivia 30 min
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People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up of being ignored, a group of them marched across the Andes to the seat of the Government in La Paz, asking to speak with President Evo Morales. They are met with riot police, barricades, tear...
15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System
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Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and egalitarian world we all long for. The key is...
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Pressed Into Silence: West Papua, Indonesia and World Press Freedom Day
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As Indonesia hosts World Press Freedom Day, accusations of hypocrisy are growing louder. The Indonesian government is notorious for restricting journalism within the occupied territory of West Papua – something that West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor and Cyril Payen of...
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