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Cause Film Festival 2015 - (Australia) Runner Up Best Film Winner - Public Voting Sophea's Dream is a snapshot of the life of one Cambodian girl determined to overcome the obstacles facing her and build a better future.
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Leftist: "If you think something will change if you vote for a different politician then you might not understand how the system works..."
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In the most shocking upset of the 2016 presidential campaign to date, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary. Sanders won 50 percent of the vote to Clinton's 48. During the campaign, Sanders focused heavily on his opposition to what he...
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She has a successful filmmaking career, a supportive wife and a transgender sister, but when it came to going public about her own transition, Lilly Wachowski didn’t have a choice.
Kasia Anderson
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This video playlist compiles all of acTVism Munich's work that include a wide range of topics - privacy, democracy, economy, politics and social issues.
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The moment Helen Steel confronts the former police spy who deceived her, before disappearing without a trace, is caught on camera at Sydney airport. The British social justice campaigner had flown from London to Australia to confront John Dines, finally seeing him...
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I trampled clumsily through the dense undergrowth, attempting in vain to go a full five minutes without getting snarled in the thorns that threatened my every move. It was my first field mission in the savannahs of the Republic of Guinea. The aim was to record and understand...
Laura Kehoe
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In 2015, evidence of slavery on a massive scale surfaced in the remote islands of eastern Indonesia.
Illegal fishing in Indonesian territorial waters had risen to an extreme level, but many of the Thai fishing boats responsible harboured a much worse secret aboard.
In the...
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“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of women” -Jawaharlal Nehru
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
Erik Olin Wright
Homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and the housing bubble are all rooted in privatized housing.
Jesse A. Myerson
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"Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil is an openly gay Indian royal family member who has been an inspiration for many Indians as well as people in abroad. Manvendra was disowned by his parents for his queer sexuality, yet he fought against the taboos and came out to the world with...
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Love is not always about getting hold of the things, sometimes it demands sacrifices and Sudip’s story of falling in love is adorable yet touchy.
Learn about the hidden negative psychological and sexual effects of circumcision and how these effects harm women in relationships with men. This article is based on research reports in the medical and psychological literature.
Ronald Goldman
An excerpt from his book "No Death, No Fear."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical depression within their lifetimes, and the rate is increasing with every generation.
Sara Burrows
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger
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Kyle Cease explains why you should never lose your inner child.
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Depression is the unavoidable by-product of not being who you really are
Nanice Ellis
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This International Women's Day we celebrate three women who are leading the way in rural Cambodia. Watch our video to meet Koem Toch, Nim Mao and Choung Hach.
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Exactly how will the wealthy and powerful who are the political establishment in this country put out the fire that this campaign has ignited?
Donna Smith
19 min
It all comes back to you and the power you have to choose how you want to respond.
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'The pundits might not like it,' Sanders said on Sunday night, 'but the people are making history.'
Deirdre Fulton
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As voters head to the polls in four states today, with Michigan seen as the top prize, the ongoing Flint water crisis has become a major campaign issue for Democrats. The crisis began when an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder switched the...
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More than 60 groups sign letter calling for full investigation into government spying on protest groups
Lauren McCauley
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An inspiring video on what it means to leave your legacy.
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In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunda
Adam Johnson
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How is women’s leadership differing from typical male models? What makes it a decisive gamechanger in today’s world? This video showcases extraordinary women who are reframing the role of women and the feminine; proposing different responses to confrontation; transforming the...
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Dutch volunteers in Greece are upcycling discarded boats and life jackets using the material to make bags for refugees. Floor Nagler is a Dutch textile student and she's giving workshops on how to turn boats into backpacks.
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Europe is disintegrating before our eyes. Open and democratic societies cannot be built on fear and hatred
Nick Dearden
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Robert Reich breaks down why Ted Cruz is more dangerous than Donald Trump.
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Google Trends is a great tool to use to figure out what people are talking about. Unfortunately what people are talking about is profoundly depressing.
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Activists disrupted the world's largest mining convention to hold a vigil for the people killed for opposing Canadian mining projects around the world, including Bertha Cáceras - an Indigenous leader from Honduras who was assassinated in her home four days ago.
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Voices of Ndiael a documentary by WOTS? Walking on the South (Enzo Monaco) www.wots.eu
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Recently, we were doing some work with a couple who were struggling in their relationship. They had been together for twelve years and had two children. It seemed that they fought about everything – about raising their children, about sex, about finances, and about where and...
Krishnananda and Amana
Are you passionate about the work that you do? What are you doing to maintain that? Being in action for the causes you are passionate about demands a lot and feeling burnt out at times is a normal reaction. Understand that experience as your innermost self calling you to tune...
Sofia Marbach
Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?
Chris Agnos
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Nature is the great teacher. The more you embrace nature, the more you feel free.
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Some of Detroit's schools are literally a mess. Budget cuts have led to maintenance problems, mold and mice. AJ+'s Dena Takruri dropped by Spain Elementary Middle School to talk with students, parents and staff to find out what's going on.
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Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society in What Kind of Creatures Are We?, a collection of lectures bringing together his areas of expertise from language and mind to society and politics. This book serves as both a concise summation of Chomsky's...
Noam Chomsky
How many of you can recall situations in which you felt unjustly treated or taken advantage of and you did not stand up for yourself? Or remember finding yourself in a situation where you felt small and insignificant? Or recall generally feeling overwhelmed? For me, it has...
Krishnananda
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Exert from the feature documentary Losing the Marshes, a true story of the Olympics
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We citizens of the Member States of the European Union, of the Schengen Area, the Balkans, of the Mediterranean, and of the Middle East as well as citizens of other countries in the world, who share our concerns, are launching an emergency appeal.
transform!
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Special districts spend more public money than all city governments combined. That's odd considering most of us don't know they exist.
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This week we take a look at the nefarious capitalist mechanism called free trade agreements, with a focus on world wide resistance to the TPP or Trans Pacific Partnership plus an update of anti-fascist resistance in Anaheim California.
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Good beer comes from collaboration, not competition. By working together, small-brewers everywhere are giving corporations a run for their money.
A.C. Shilton
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As the referendum on Brexit draws closer, arguments on both sides look increasingly unappealing - for those more interested in issues concerning social justice and democracy than corporate profit, Novara Media is providing a whole week of content dedicated to Europe, it's...
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This amazing couple take the best underwater photography we’ve ever seen, and they do it all without scuba gear
Matt Ayres
Researchers say northeastern Australia's wilderness is under increasing strain, with data showing a big uptick in deforestation over the last two years.
Morgan Erickson-Davis
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What do rising sea levels in Bangladesh, the break up of public utilities in Ghana and austerity in the UK have in common?
They’re all part of the same global story. The story of one global economy that connects various economic, political, environmental and societal crises...
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Mandatory minimum sentences are one reason U.S. prisons are so crowded. Here's a look at their impact.
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In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of a major project.
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News reporter Jonathan Pie gets annoyed at the so called "Clean for The Queen" campaign.
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For many years Saudi Arabia has spent billions on weapons systems – yet rarely put them to use. During Desert Storm (1990-91) there were reports that the Saudi military didn’t know how to operate much of its own high-tech equipment.
Vanessa Baird
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"To push through the streets is the ultimate freedom. But what happens when the streets do not welcome you? Or get you killed? Scorning their government-built joke of a skate park which is too dangerous to use, the heroes of Jas Boude leave the Cape Flats ghetto – where Table...
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WWF’s support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is...
Lewis Evans
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Polyland is a story of three couregous women from different minorities fighting prejudice in the Polish city Wroclaw, the European Capital of Culture 2016. What is it like to be black, muslim or LGBTQ in a place where 97% of the population are native polish and 92% declare...
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“There is a place between passivity and violence. I’ll meet you there.” – Rivera Sun
Nonviolent struggle is on the rise globally. Neither passive, nor inaction, this powerful way of working for change is proving Gandhi’s audacious claim that “nonviolence is the greatest...
Rivera Sun
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Sex, drugs and rock&roll, now thàt used to be cool. Someone who wants to be cool today, grows his own organic vegetables. Hip and trendy, or is there more to it?
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A wedding is the most special occasion in every one’s life. It is the happiest moment as well as difficult task to manage alone. There are many responsibilities in the wedding which should be perfect, as it is the one-time event of life. One cannot be handle those...
I know this is going to be hard for loyal Democrats to accept. But in this article, I will explain why loyal Democrats need to wake up and realize that, in this crazy 2016 Presidential Election, it is now either Bernie or Bust. Recently, I was in a room with a bunch of...
David Spring
America's Only Elected Female Socialist on Women and the Presidential Race
Kshama Sawant
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Ready for the latest beauty trend? This trick will make your face great again! #Trumping
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Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres has been assassinated in her home. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras.
Democracy Now
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Inspired Youth present a powerful photography and film project to show the human side of people experiencing homelessness. The project, funded by JRF small grants, was delivered in partnership with York Arc Light homeless charity and Scott Akoz Photography. The work focused...
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The media and the political class have called it — Bernie Sanders has lost the Democratic Presidential nomination. They are flat wrong, and not for the first time.
Paul Hilder
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Narrated by Martin Sheen and originally aired on PBS as part of its "Matters of Life and Death" series, this documentary from 1982 details the Centralia, Pennsylvania underground mine fire and its environmental effects on the town and residents above some 20 years after its...
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Animal Equality has pioneered a cutting-edge experience in animal protection. iAnimal is a virtual reality project that creates a 360 degree, immersive experience in which the viewer is transported inside factory farms and slaughterhouses. This film focuses on pigs. Use the...
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Soñadora follows the story of Andrea Haro, from her rural upbringing in Pintag, Ecuador to her move to Rumiloma, a small neighborhood outside of Quito. It is here that she discovered the birth of Manna Project International Ecuador and her love for the English language...
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Please help us raise funds to make this film www.crowdfunder.co.uk/islandofrefuge I began shooting this documentary about the refugee crisis back in November 2015. I have now returned after a month of filming on Lesbos in January. Please support the crowd funding campaign to...
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The times are urgent; let us slow down. Bayo Akomolafe calls a virtual community to gather round the prospects of a deeper revolution, a different politics of shared cultivation, as a response to the troubling challenges of our time.
It was high school. I was 16, and I was pissed off. My English teacher gave us a creative writing assignment: write anything about being in high school. Anything.
Mark Manson
Ultimately the goals of a radical feminism and socialism are the same — justice and equality for all people.
Nicole M. Aschoff
Whichever side emerges victorious, both Republicans and Democrats should face up to a much bigger truth: Neither party as currently constituted has a real future. Fewer and fewer Americans identify as either Republican or Democratic according to Gallup, and both parties are...
Mike Krieger
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We have entered a time which I refer to as the New Normal, and we need to understand that things are never going to be the same again. We have to get used to doing things differently - for these 'different things' will become our normal ways soon enough.
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On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks by U.S. police ever took place in West Philadelphia. 11 people-including five children-were killed in a deliberate massacre. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization...
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Bicimaximo is a social enterprise with a heart of a non-profit organization. With a passion for bicycles, Baker Nicholaou - the director and co-founder of Bicicmaximo - traveled from the United States to Nicaragua to open up a business in hopes of providing better quality...
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When we talk about US Power we talk about the size of the military or the Economy. We are leaving the most important bit out...
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Fred Hampton participated in a mock people’s trial, where he articulates why the Black Panther Party, and he as a leader within the party, was being viciously targeted by the US government.
Hampton Institute
Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
Frank Castro
Vote or Die. That's the dichotomy rap mogul P. Diddy popularized back in 2006 in an effort to marshal the nation's youth to the ballot box on election day. Fast forward two presidential elections later, as the American political machine gears up once again, how does Diddy...
Jean Allen and Frank Castro
Within conversations on the left, many of us use the term "capitalism," but we aren't all using it to mean the same thing. Among both its champions and opponents, capitalism acquired too many different meanings over the 200 to 300 years of its global ascendancy. I am...
Richard D. Wolff
I've voted Democrat all my life because I hold progressive positions on civil rights, health care, foreign policy, criminal justice and the environment. That gives me plenty of reasons to not vote Republican.
Russ Belville
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Could Donald Trump really win in 2016?? It seems like a ridiculous question, but Donald Trump's 2016 campaign has defied all the expectations from the pundits. Initially considered a joke candidate, he now leads the Republican pack in most national polls and the polls for the...
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Are Trump's 'random insults' actually random? Scott Adams makes a convincing case that Trump has been highly trained in neurolinguistic programming.
Donald Trump has a way with words—and with people. Yet despite his popularity, he has been a mystery to the media, which have...
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The boring, who-cares midterm snoozefest that was the most important election of your lifetime.
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A stream-of-consciousness reflection on the state of school, civilization, capitalism and the way we live our lives.
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"We are coming from the war to another war." - A Syrian refugee, speaking after clashes broke out on the Greece-Macedonia border.
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When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight champ
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Super Tuesday is a big deal, but it's also something we invented. We can probably do better, and we should use Democracy to do exactly that.
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Jimmy is a young man who has overcome the loss of vision and the extreme depression that came after.
Now a hammock weaver in Granada, Nicaragua, he is content with his life and has become more motivated than ever.
Jimmy is intelligent, articulate, friendly, and a role model...
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"A Traves de Sus Ojos" explores the work of a changemaker organization helping disabled youth outside of Antigua, Guatemala.
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Pregnant women being beaten by police in Calais Jungle.
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She's not the candidate of economic fairness, peace or a genuine progressive agenda. She's also not more electable
P.J. Podesta
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The first day of March will have another name this year: Super Tuesday. But what exactly does that mean?
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We get an energy high in our initial time with someone but the going can get rough when we settle into life together. Most of us are deeply wounded with shame, insecurities and fears, full of mistrust but at the same time desperately needy for love. We bring this woundedness...
Krishnanada Trobe
“The creation of today’s market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”
– Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine
Liberty! Human Rights! Choice! Prosperity! Freedom!
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Drew Serres
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Bernie, was a March and Rally for Bernie Sanders that took place in Union Square,in New York City, on February 27, 2016.
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