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And why the 'vote / don't vote' debate has been one of the greatest strategic disasters of our time.
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Donald Trump may just win the Republican Nomination for President. People can get used to anything. Today we'll point out why you shouldn't get used to the idea of President Trump.
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Being the best female surfer in Brazil wasn't enough to secure Silvana Lima the sponsorship she needed for her surfing career. In an image-driven market, she wasn't considered pretty enough to get full sponsorship for the first 13 years of her career. Silvana refused to let...
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The Saudi regime; a champion human rights violator; provides much of the world’s oil and a booming market for arms trading nations. It also supplies the ideology (and more?) that fuels al-Qaeda and ISIS. But the kingdom’s rich cloak of immunity may be wearing thin.
The New Internationalist Team
The so-called “Heathrow 13” Plane Stupid climate activists have been given suspended prison sentences for trespassing on the airport’s runway. The case – and the decision of the judge to hand down custodial sentences at all, even if they were suspended – illustrates the way...
Graeme Hayes and Brian Doherty
Offering unconditional pay to all citizens allows 'people the freedom and flexibility to do more of what they want to do,' says UK politician
Deirdre Fulton
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Whats happening on the ground.
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Police have cordoned off the a section of the camp at the back entrance . immigration officials are going door to door.
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Our main story this week is about Donald Trump. We can't believe we're saying that either.
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Free To Shine is an Australian based organisation working in the rural villages of Cambodia. We find girls who are at high risk of being sex trafficked and after assessing their risk, we enroll our girls into their local school and secure an ongoing sponsor to support them...
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Which is the relationship between slepwalking and debt? This is the question that raises "$omnambulism", a project created by Fresca Films bcn and ODG.
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Which is the relationship between sleepwalking and debt? This is the question that raises "$omnambulism", a project created by Fresca Films bcn and ODG.
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Senator Cory Booker talks about his latest book "United" and how America has been shaped by love.
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Yes. I’m one of those people. I’m totally on Team Bernie and so excited to be a part of the political revolution. Since I’ve maintained for at least fifteen years that “Campaign Finance Reform (which does not have a sexy ring to it at all!) is the single most important...
Patty Jane
An American Photographer Explores Gender Equality and Sexism in one of the Most Equal Countries on Earth.
Emily von Hoffmann
“Patriarchy has no gender.”
― bell hooks in Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
bell hooks’ quote is a clear reminder that patriarchy does not just describe male actions of domination, but also how some organizations and cultural narratives function.
Patriarchy...
Drew Serres
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Donald Trump and his campaign rhetoric against Muslims is a major issue for Dr. Suzanne Barakat, sister of Deah Barakat, a victim in the Chapel Hill shooting. Here's what she has to say to the current leading Republican 2016 Presidential candidate.
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I'm cool with you removing me from your friends list if you don't like this post. You can even disown me if you like. But Donald Trump isn't a good person, nor would he be a good president. I can understand a difference in politics. I can understand if you don't like a...
Jeremy Nix
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Get down with the new podcast: http://wp.me/p7dyui-B Below The Fold welcomes April Reign creator of #OscarsSoWhite, managing Editor of BroadwayBlack.com and Editor at Large of NU Tribe Magazine to discuss the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and this unique historical moment informed...
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Right now, millions of people are being thrown off their land because large corporations are being given special rights. The World Bank is driving this trend with its Doing Business rankings.
Get involved, take action: http://ourlandourbusiness.org/
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Bernie Sanders is a Feminist.
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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have different views when it comes to foreign policy. (& rebuilding the American middle class)
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A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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The author wanted to honor a new generation of young women. Women who are determined to achieve their goals and be themselves, and who are so ready to take down any barrier and inspire others.
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How do you define yourself? An inspiring lecture from the late Alan Watts.
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The director Spike Lee endorsed the Vermont senator on Tuesday. He’s the latest in a series of black intellectuals to recognise Sanders’ superiority over Clinton
Steven W Thrasher
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The 'Love' of money is the root of much evil. So go on then. Get rich or try sharing.
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Income inequality is rising and working Americans feel like they aren't getting ahead. Welcome to the rigged economy. Here's how it works.
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By Snoopman
Smelly Flag of Tricks
Think of a smell. A fishy-smell.
One of the most important passages in my book Engines of Domination, pages 260-262
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This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.
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Kathleen Kerridge's family food budget is £40 per week - to feed five people. She says there is a big gap between the public perception of poverty and what it means for people like her.
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On Wednesday, 24th February, thirteen individuals who blockaded a runway to protest against expanding Heathrow airport are likely to be sent to prison, which would make them the first climate activists to receive a prison sentence in the UK.
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A short documentary-style film about the flaws and consequences of labeling.
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Video clips from 30 years of Bernie Sanders' speeches comparing what he said then to what he's saying now. Speaks for itself.
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"Those responsible, where are they?" Water supply and delicate ecosystem contaminated by spate of oil spills in Amazon
Nika Knight
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With the academy awards coming up, Last Week Tonight asks: Hollywood whitewashing...how is this still a thing?
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This is the definitive feature documentary about American Indian activist, Leonard Peltier. His story is told within the context of the American Indian Movement, the US federal government, and the multi national companies interested in mining the land in South Dakota.
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Goood morning slaves! This week we bring you, "White Canada has a Black History" In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new year. Also street battles in Athens, where anarchists and...
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In remote southwest Sahara, the indigenous Tuareg tribe — variously used and discriminated against by former strongman Muammar Qaddafi — fight for their place in a post-revolutionary Libya.
Living deep in Libya’s desert near large oil fields and lucrative smuggling routes...
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It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation.
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The HIV world is used to things moving fast, in a way that most medicine just doesn’t.
The reasons for this are complex, but include: strong research funding, focused and effective activism, and often younger, more dynamic and ambitious health professionals who recognised...
Francois Venter, Polly Clayden, Anele Yawa and Marcus Low
Meanwhile, new report shows how major trade deals like TTIP are a serious threat to democracy and the environment
Deirdre Fulton
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I am. We are. Love is…infinite.
Love is spinning with us through the echoes of time.
Flowing on this rhyme divine.
Reconnect our selves with that eternal shine.
Hivemind.
Trust.
Let go. Be here. Be present.
I am. We are. Love is…infinite.
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We are delighted to share a short film about The Bridge. We wanted to create something a bit different which gave a sense of the work without too much detail.
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We asked this East Londoner how a pop-up garden brought his neighbourhood together and made friends out of strangers.
Jasleena Grewal
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Nomadic Community Gardens breathe life into disused parts of cities, which become places where nature and community thrive. This short film shows one such project near Brick Lane in East London.
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A documentary about the Refugee Crisis through the actions of Doctors of World Greece. Dedicated to all those who never completed their journey
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Here are some facts you need to know while debating gun control.
The debate over gun regulation in the US seems intractable, but there is one fact that both sides can agree on: Mass shootings are just the tip of a very complicated problem. In this video we run though 18...
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A father and son are sitting on a bench. Suddenly a sparrow lands across them.
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Composed, Produced and Directed by DocBlackDaWho - https://www.facebook.com/DocBlackdaWh... Poem and Concept by Dorian Grayskull https://www.facebook.com/NicodemusPoe... © Mean Business 2016
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An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014.
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If only there were as many people invested in the healing of the ‘racial divide’ as there were promoting it…
Thaddeus Howze
Both parties embrace all the wrong education reform ideas. Why is it so hard to invest in kids and teachers?
I know, the “b” word is a drag, if not a complete mystery, for most of us. It’s a word few attempt to spell, let alone re-imagine. Yet aside from a number of outliers, most companies today continue to embrace a bureaucratic structure of operation. While it’s hard to dispute...
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This clip is from the series Mr Robot, in which young anti-social computer programmer Elliot works as a cybersecurity engineer during the day, but at night he is a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the mysterious leader of an underground group of hackers to join their...
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Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, former cricket star Shane Warne questioned the theory –...
Paula Kover
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Ten years ago "Steven" came to Britain seeking asylum. He was refused and told to return to his country. But he can’t because that country doesn’t recognise him. With no nationality, he has no rights to the basics most people take for granted: healthcare, education, and...
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Abortion is theoretically legal, but some states make it practically inaccessible.
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Universal health care doesn't have to mean higher taxes.
Leonid Bershidsky
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We are conditioned throughout our lives to accept the status quo. Eating meat is one of those conditions. We are taught to treat certain animals differently to others. This is called Carnism. We have a choice to reject the notion that eating animals is ok, the choice is yours...
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"Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles."
Sarah van Gelder
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Matt Frei enters the colourful and mad world of presidential hopeful, Donald Trump - whose meteoric political rise comes amid one of the most controversial political campaigns America has ever seen. Trump’s plans to ban Muslims from entering the States and to build a wall to...
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It should never happen again, but it does. Genocide after the Holocaust continues to happen. What can we do? This talk explores how kindness and empathy can be cultivated, and how we can deepen our understanding of the Holocaust through the authentic sites, service and oral...
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Blackfish already made a splash in the animal captivity scene, and now Zoochosis, a short documentary about the very unnatural behaviors that captive animals exhibit in artificial zoo environments, is adding more waves.
Jessica Ramos
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Ensuring a good welfare for animals housed in zoos, is not an easy job. It might not even be something we will ever really get a perfect grip on. Animal species have evolved over many years and their physical, physiological, social and behavioral traits have been developed in...
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In this episode of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges sits down with two residents of agribusiness capital Salinas, California: civil rights attorney Anthony Prince and radical councilman José Castañeda. Together, the two have been fighting against the corporatization of...
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In this first segment of Chris Hedges’ conversation with Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the two diagnose the problems plaguing the US political system. They focus on the dysfunction of a two-party system dominated by corporate interests, and that system’s refusal to solve...
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More than 20 years ago, a psychology student doing his training at one of Argentina's oldest psychiatric wards kept being asked by his family and friends what it was like to work in there. So he came up with an idea: to let the patients explain in their own words.
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Kunkush the cat was a beloved member of a family who became refugees when they fled Iraq for the safety of Europe. Travelling through Greece, family and cat became separated. Kunkush was found and fostered in Berlin, where an international online search was co-ordinated in...
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The documentary DARFUR DIARIES features interviews with many victims of the devastating genocide taking place in the area. The filmmakers seek to shine some light on this dark chapter in human history.
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A young Republican man comes to New York for the first time to be a delegate at the 2004 Republican National Convention and falls into an unlikely affair with a girl he knew in college -- a Democrat who has returned to the city to protest the convention.
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Despite its coastal beauty and colonial architecture, Nicaragua's oldest city, Granada, is mired in unemployment, poverty and violence. It is the poorest city in Central America where 80% of the population survives on less than $1 per day. The picturesque streets are littered...
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Diana DeGarmo (American Idol) stars as Frankie, the front woman of a struggling rock band, The Altos. When Nicolette, the daughter of the new mafia don, takes an interest the band, a cascade of events takes Frankie towards unexpected romance.
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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which led to the incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans. We spoke with people who lived through it.
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"...Patriarchy is not the rule of men over women, it's the rule of the binary - the insistence that there really are sides, and that each is a pre-existing category unto itself, fixed and hallowed, one superior to another."
According to Rio specialists, the actions currently being taken against mosquitos given the spread of Zika will not have the expected effect until there is a "real environmental revolution" in Brazil.
Carolina Torres
The resemblances to interwar Italy are unmistakable, and the results are gradually turning out to be almost as fatal.
Cihan Tugal
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Immunotherapy is a gene-editing cell treatment that uses a cancer patient's own immune system to fight cancer cells. And scientists say it has an over 90% success rate. Lead researcher Stanley Riddell at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center says, "We are at the...
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Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece, says that it's because you can be in politics today but not be in power — because real...
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Americans should know about this period of history. Because the history of racism is also the history of power, and who holds it. And this story continues to this very day.
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Machines could take 50% of our jobs in the next 30 years, according to scientists. While we can’t predict the future, we can imagine a world without work – one where those who own the tech get rich from it and everyone else ekes out a living, propped up by an increasingly...
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George Takei talks about his experience as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 leading to the mass incarceration of innocent Japanese Americans. This is...
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The Olive Branch for Children is a grassroots organization that helps remote communities in Tanzania assess their primary needs and establish programs that target the most vulnerable.
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The Olive Branch for Children is a grassroots organization that helps remote communities in Tanzania assess their primary needs and establish programs that target the most vulnerable.
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BikeSurfBerlin is a free bicycle lending project in Berlin. It allows everyone the opportunity to cycle in a relatively safe city environment without the need to leave a deposit or pay to use the bikes. It relies on the generosity
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If Whites learn about their radical history, their proud class struggles against the parasitic elites, their defiance of established religions and political powers, maybe they will stop fearing immigrants, “thugs,” and “welfare queens” and once again target corrupt...
Diallo Kenyatta
Weirdness is good. It sets us apart and allows us to be wholly different from the rest of the world, while still being innately the same. Humans tend to forget that what makes us weird are the things we are passionate about, and the levels that passion can reach.
We forget...
Jon Westenberg
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Lead contamination in the water supply of Flint, Michigan, has forced residents to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water while still paying some of the highest water bills in the country. In this Democracy Now! special report, we go from Flint to Mecosta County...
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Fiona Oakes - For the animals gives an insight into the inspirational story of Fiona Oakes: the fastest woman to run a marathon on every continent plus the North Pole. Fiona has been vegan all her adult life, and runs to prove that veganism is not prohibitive to performance.
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Most scientists today believe consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, yet if you look deep enough into this assumption, you will find that it is physically impossible.
At least not with the current knowledge we have in physics.
This insight was termed by the...
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Throughout the history, one of the deepest questions mankind has asked itself is the question of its true identity: who am I?
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Video of Performance Premiere at Berliner Festspiele, July 4th 2016.
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Sculptor Jason diCaires Taylor creates underwater botanical gardens made of inert stone not only for our viewing pleasure but to help rebuild our dying coral reefs.
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The Young Lords were a Latino activist group that took action to improve conditions in their communities and also advocated for Puerto Rican independence. Former major members came together to tell the story of the Young Lords and what is needed of Latino activism today.
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Synopsis :
-1950 : on the coast of Japan, an American woman is visiting a village with her military husband and a group of friends. Breaking away from the group, she meets with Namiko, a young ama fisherwoman.
-Au Japon dans les années 50, une jeune américaine visite un...
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This YouTube audio tape by Dr. Max Hammer should be very helpful for people who are seeking to develop psychologically healthy, fulfilling, interpersonal relationships, with true love, good communication, and empathic experiential intimacy. Furthermore, Dr. Hammer's...
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- Today, we go to Flint, Michigan, for a Democracy Now! special on the ongoing Flint water crisis. In 2014, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder switched the source of the city's drinking water from the Detroit system, which they'd been...
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