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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.
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...
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...
“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?
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
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...
[Full 8-minute Transcript, 29 February 2016]
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...
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...
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.
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.
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?
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
Drew Serres
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Join the conversation: #WomenNotObjects Twitter: @Not_Objects Instagram: @WomenNotObjects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womennotobjects
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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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.