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"Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation" by Max Hammer 1 min
Primary Author name: Dr. Max Hammer Authors on title page: Dr. Max Hammer, With secondary contributing authors Dr. Barry J. Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler Book Title: "Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation" This book is available in...
"Deepening Your Personal Relationships" by Dr. Max Hammer W/ Barry J. Hammer + Alan C. Butler 1 min
Book Title: "Deepening Your Personal Relationships"  Subtitle: "Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication"  Primary Author: Dr. Max Hammer, with secondary contributing authors Dr. Barry J. Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler. Available in soft cover print and electronic...
Green Film Fest invites you to join us for this special event to meet The Yes Men (Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum) and see their latest film The Yes Men Are Revolting.
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System 4 min
We recognize at the very root of many of our systemic issues is an economic system that measures progress and success in only one metric - growth or profit. Economic growth means consuming more resources each year than were consumed in the prior year, which means that more of...
How to De-Arrest a Comrade 2 min
A group of Secwpemc women shut down a treaty vote being held by the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council (NStQ) in Williams Lake, i so called British Columbia, "Canada". One person was briefly detained by police but released after the women surrounded the cop car. For more info...
My First Acute Psychotic Episode - Translated In Sound 18 min
PSYCHOSIS is an accurate translation in sound of my first acute psychotic episode. It is an audio work in five sections where I try to recreate all the feelings, experiences, sensations and emotions I had while in that mental state. My mission is to make the darkness...
SEASPIRACY - What You Should Know About Fish & The Ocean 15 min
SEASPIRACY: What You Should Know About Fish, The Ocean, and More! By Friendly Activist The Friendly Activist YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFriendlyActivist EDUCATIONAL VEGAN CONTENT https://www.patreon.com/thefriendlyactivist?ty=h The Friendly Activist Website...
DOUBLESPEAK- A Film About Climate Change 4 min
Doublespeak highlights the contradictory actions of President Obama and the British Prime Minister, David Cameron when it comes to addressing the urgent threat of climate change. The film uses archive footage from speeches and news reports to paint a picture of how...
Devastating Effects of Solitary Confinement 2 min
Candie Hailey was sent to solitary confinement just six weeks after she landed at Rikers Island jail. A month after she got out of solitary, she was sent back for 95 days. After years in jail, she saw her day in court and was found not guilty.
When it comes to homelessness, sleeping rough in a shop doorway is just the start of the problem. From young people living with parents because of unaffordable rents, families sleeping in homeless hostels, or couples teetering on the edge of mortgage arrears, many of the...
The Flint water crisis exposes like nothing else the toxic cynicism of America's ruling class, writes Jesse Jackson. In their privileged view, the victims of the lead poisoning are disposable 'unpersons' that matter less than General Motors' auto parts. But now they, and...
Bernie Bae - Music Video 3 min
Talk Bernie To Me!
Why does our empathy seem to have limits? Why can't we extend our compassion to the whole world?
And why you should too.
The Power of Sanders and Trump Explained 5 min
People seem to find the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump mystifying. It's really quite simple. They have a constituency the Republicans and Democrats have ignored for decades...
Stand up Sunday Trailer 1 min
Trailer for the upcoming "Stand Up Sunday" documentary, an interview with Black Lives Matter organizers from Louisville, KY.
Stand up Sunday: an Interview With Black Lives Matters Activists From Kentucky 9 min
Stand Up Sunday is a group of Black Lives Matters activists from Louisville, KY. With a dynamic approach to social justice reform and racial and economic equity, the organizers have been eliciting policy change in a wide range of issues from schools to housing, hunger to...
Justice for UC Workers 2 min
On Jan 31, 2015, UC Berkeley students staged a silent protest at the Grand Opening of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to bring awareness to the deplorable conditions of university contract workers.
Dejame Aclarar Los Hechos 8 min
Después de la muerte de Sandra Bland, las mujeres negras de Oakland, California relatan lo que quieren que sepamos si mueren en custodia policial y hablan sobre lo que realmente significa ser mujer y ser negra en un estado policial. Este mensaje se esta traduciendo a 10...
Let Me Set the Record Straight 8 min
Black women from Oakland and San Francisco, CA discuss the death of Sandra Bland, what they would want the world to know about them if they were in police custody, and what it means to be a black woman in the United States under our current police and prison system.
CHO TÔI PHÁT BIỂU SỰ KIỆN 8 min
Trong phim ngắn này, phụ nữ da đen từ Oakland, Cali cho chúng tôi nghe những gì họ muốn chúng tôi biết nếu họ chết trong trại giam, và thảo luận về các thực tại của cuộc sống là người da đen và là phụ nữ trong một nhà nước cảnh sát.
SUV Taggers 1 min
Trailer for SUV TAGGERS, an award-winning, festival favorite short film (4:25). Two 'bad boy' environmentalists with a sense of humor place embarrassing but truthful bumper stickers on highly polluting, dangerous SUVS in the malls of California. A great discussion starter for...
GOINGGREEN -- Every Home an Eco-Home 25 min
Trailer for a half-hour, family-friendly video that presents eco-living basics with humor and down-to-earth examples, narrated by Tony Shalhoub.   GOINGGREEN answers the question, What can I personally do to help solve the environmental problems facing us today? GOINGGREEN...
What Does Justice Scalia's Death Mean? 2 min
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death has raised a lot of questions about what comes next. Here's what you need to know about the months ahead.
Kendrick Lamar Raps About Travyon Martin at the Grammys 1 min
Kendrick Lamar freestyled about Trayvon Martin at the 2016 Grammy Awards in a political powerhouse performance.
Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists 57 min
The powerful story of how art saved the lives of talented homeless and indigent men and women who, despite a daily struggle for survival, create art in the worst area of Los Angeles known as Skid Row, the homeless capital of America. It’s also about the ubiquity of art in...
Hunting The Horned Horse 9 min
Science meets fantasy in this animated short film about poaching and extinction that uses unicorns as an allegory for real animals. It takes a scientific look at unicorns as if they were real animals and asks what our relationship could have been with this species.
Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Presidential Election and the Rise of Islamophobia 9 min
Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the 2016 US presidential election and the rise of Islamophobia.
People often think that a certain level of inequality is normal in our societies, says the social geographer Danny Dorling. But the gap between the superrich and the rest of us has widened dramatically in the past 12 months. The author of a number of books including...
The Devil 8 min
“You don't know what we are”: a battle-cry that is almost a statement of intent. Made of archival and found footage, The Devil is composed of fragments and testimonials from the Black Panther Party struggle against oppression, composing a visual essay that documents the...
The Song of Grandmother Cricket 11 min
When nature is exploited it's time for the people to come together. When an old woman comes around, she brings with her a song and the rain that follows.  At first the villagers welcome her but when the rains turn to floods she is turned away.  Grandmother Cricket aka Abeula...
If You've Ever Wondered What We're Here For... We Came to Dance! 3 min
We began with rhythm. From the beating of our mother’s heart to the first kick in our mother’s womb.  We were born to move.  ‘We Came To Dance’ combines this rhythm that we all share, with the rhythm of music, dance and an epic piece of spoken word that unravels over the...
He was 12, playing with a toy gun, in a locale with open-carry laws. Tamir Rice was executed for being a black boy
Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order
U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary...
Super Bowl 50 is the first National Football League championship to happen since it was reported that much of the pro-military hoopla at football games, the honoring of troops and glorifying of wars that most people had assumed was voluntary or part of a marketing scheme for...
In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations...
Those Calling for a Boycott of Goods From Illegal Israeli Settlements Could Face Sanctions in UK 8 min
Local councils and other public bodies have been warned they could face severe penalties if they try to boycott Israeli goods and products or disinvest in companies that operate there.
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It’s just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if you don’t come up with something quick.
I am starting to hate the European Union. But I will vote to stay in.
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”  ...
Loving-kindness meditation is also known as metta meditation.
I understand it hurts, and it hurts really badly. No one deserves to be treated the way you were. No one deserves to feel emotional pain tearing through their body or bringing them to their knees. You did nothing to deserve this and it is not your fault.
So what? So You are literally All That Is. You are literally infinite, You are literally eternal, You are literally God. And more importantly, You are literally Me! This changes everything.
1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé's new song and video. I don't think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person I have, in the last week, been expected--and, at moments, obligated--to respond to them is...
In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular embrace identity politics. It can be an important first step towards the development of socialist consciousness – if it leads on to an understanding of the class nature of...
Spectres, Joylessness, and the contours of ressentiment
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress 3 min
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration.  It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...
The Questions We Never Ask 5 min
We may have many answers...but do we ask the right questions? My name is Spencer Cathcart and this is the first short film I have released since "The Lie We Live" in 2015. In this video I question our relationship with life on this planet.
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Voting 14 min
Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal.
A group of about 50 University of Cape Town students from the Rhodes Must Fall movement erected what they call Shackville on upper campus – a corrugated iron shack, a portable flush toilet, bins and a braai stand.
Former Black Panther Ericka Huggins on Panther Legacy and #BlackLivesMatter 3 min
Speaking ahead of the network televition premier of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Tuesday, February 16 at 9 pm on PBS Independent Lens) former Black Panther Ericka Huggins talks about activist selfcare, intersectionality and the importance of the Black Lives...
A crash course in social democracy.
“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot
Men and women both suffer from a culture that discourages us from expressing complex emotions. The answer is deeper listening, and it's the key to healthier, more engaged lives.
9/11. It was to have been the end of irony, remember? Superficial celebrity culture was over; a new age of seriousness was upon us. Of course, the way media celebrities focused on their own mood as the consequence of September 11 was in itself an irony so marvelous you knew...
It is clear that the rig-the-vote wing of the Democratic Party, from Deborah Wasserman Schultz to the “liberal” commentators and regular pundits on MSNBC, PBS, and the most of the other mainstream media, is seriously weakening the party’s chances in November. Wasserman...
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over...
Following the Lives of a Diverse Range of South Africans for 21 Years 329 min
The South Africa ‘UP’ series follows the personal journeys of a diverse range of young South Africans who were born in the apartheid era, filming them every seven years as they grew up through the country's dramatic political changes.
A Hauntingly Beautiful Short Film About Life and Death 5 min
The Life of Death is a touching handdrawn animation about the day Death fell in love with Life.
The debate around privilege has spilled over the boundaries of the academic left and is slowly starting to emerge in wider discussions about inequality. Yet, despite its increasing popularity, the lexicon of privilege seems to find itself awkwardly aligned with the very...
Jeremy Hunt's decision to impose a contract makes as little sense as the rest of his narrative about the junior doctors and a '7 day NHS' - unless you unpick the real story.
The fundamental aim of black voters should be to put a smile on Martin Luther King, Jr's face from the grave.
Remember the black presidential discussion in 2007 and 2008?
In deliberating on what to write about for this latest edition of the Hair of Samson, it was suggested that I write about Bernie Sanders. I was initially somewhat skeptical of this endeavor. After all, it is quite obvious that Sanders is not a socialist but a social democrat...
In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils. Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist...
"What I Thought I Saw" Traveling Photography & Story Exhibit 3 min
What I Thought I Saw... Thousands of people have participated in the "what I thought I saw" Exhibit, a traveling exhibit that has been on both coasts and in between. A visual tour, viewers experience firsthand the disconnect between their first impressions based on an image...
Immersed in middle class American life, I am the mother of a teenage son and daughter, and I live in a medium sized town outside of Philadelphia. If that conjures images of navigating complex social media relationships, painful negotiating sessions around cash, google...
The Lotus Flower - Don't Bulldoze the Calais Jungle 3 min
This week, a huge portion of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais is due to be bulldozed. We can not sit back at let this happen...
We hear a lot of talk about the oppression of women, but do we really hear any talk about the oppression of men? Quite frankly, I never have. At least not in the way I'm about to explain. As a life coach and hairstylist for 25 years, I have had my share of up close and...
Working in a retail job, you think you’ve become accustomed to bad behavior on the part of children as well as parents. But you are appalled to see a mother use an umbrella to spank a small boy. Will intervening threaten the child or endanger your job?
I witnessed this bumper sticker, decked out in bright red, white, and blue lettering, attached to the post holding my neighbors’ mailbox this week as I walked my dogs during unseasonably high temperatures. For my neighbors to display this placard proudly in their front yard...
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, it is now utterly clear that the Clinton team disastrously misjudged the American electorate. This is not an accident. It derives from the Clintons' gradual evolution from idealists to hardened insiders, America's decline into...
I confess, I am a culturally alienated, old, disconnected 1960s and ‘70s radical trying to live and struggle for revolutionary change in a world that might have passed me by, because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black...
A few days after Paris Terrorist attacks, I’m in the pub with some friends and colleagues and I’m in conversation with someone about the attacks. Her response was very much aligned to mine, a sense of: more love/ less aggression = good response to the situation. Control...
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The Loving Story 77 min
This Oscar-shortlisted film is the definitive account of the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage: Loving v. Virginia. Married in Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter returned home to Virginia where their...
Of Love, Romance and other Aliases
In the land formerly known as Aotearoa New Zealand, Snoopman reveals why exactly Aotea-Mower is primed for a zombie-like walk into tyranny via the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its fraternal mega cartel deal siblings.
The Empire's War on the Border 50 min
Join Abby Martin as she investigates why there are thousands of bodies on the US Mexico border--and uncovers a hidden war--in this full-length documentary, originally aired as a two-part series. Discover what is not only a shockingly high body count, but a humanitarian...
The arrest of two Spanish puppeteers accused of “promoting terrorism” in a play reveals the violence of the state in a way that satire never could.
With a net income of more than $1 billion Elsevier is one of the largest academic publishers in the world.
The latest polls are telling us that the British public are moving in droves to the Brexit camp: YouGov has found that 45% would vote to leave the EU against 36% who would vote to stay while 19% declared themselves as “don’t knows”. As The (eurosceptic) Times put it...
The Price of Gold 3 min
The dangers of working in the South African gold mines have long been documented. A forthcoming court hearing highlights the injustice of mine workers who contract silicosis and are sent home, too sick to work, with little or no compensation.
Everything Is Going to Be Alright 5 min
Children, parents and teachers share how they support good mental health in their families, and the lessons they've taken about managing anxiety through the the last 5 years and thousands of earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand. Kotuku Creative and The Worry Bug Project...
In  2014  we have learned from the Living Planet Report (1) published by the Worldwide Fund For Nature that over a period of 40 years from 1970 to 2010 the populations of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish have declined by 52% due to human environmental impact. Well done...
'In the environment in which we live we must defend ourselves from the wild beasts,' Prime Minister says.
If proper oversight is not developed, Snowden’s legacy will have served only to reinforce one thing: the intrusiveness of global surveillance.
How Iran's Election Could Make History 3 min
Iran is about to hold a national election that could shape the country's future for a generation — potentially even more so than the presidential elections in 2009, when "green movement" protests signaled public outrage with the regime, and in 2013, when voters elevated the...
Battling Cancer With Style 4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
Does Your Chocolate Do Good? 2 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
The Atama plantation may never happen, but that uncertainty hasn’t prevented investors from potentially making a profit by clearing native forests and ruining ideal gorilla and chimpanzee habitat.
Maya Angelou - Human Family 2 min
Human Family - I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality. The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse...
Why Bernie Sanders Is No George Mcgovern 6 min
As soon as a candidate like Bernie Sanders makes any headway, pundits bring up George McGovern and Barry Goldwater. This video points out why these historical analogies are bullshit and suggests a better one.
Care of the New Born in Mulago Hospital 11 min
Mulago  is most probably the busiest hospital in the world. According to the last statistics, in the maternity ward, over 33.000 babies per year are born here. This means  an overage of 90 babies each day.  Mulago it's the referral hospital for many small surrounding villages...
Slum Echoes - Street Angels Foundation Uganda- 12 min
Documentary: Slum Echoes -- Street Angels Foundation Uganda Street Angels is a small charity coming from Kisenyi ,the oldest slum/ghetto in Kampala.
Borderlines 3 min
This Kampaign video is about the current situation in The Jungle, Calais, France. Away from the spin of the UK and French governments! http://www.facebook.com/kampaign
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