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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.
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.
Thembela Ntongana
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.
Ann Jones
“Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot
Evelyn Rennich
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.
Mark Greene
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...
Thomas de Zengotita
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...
Gerald Sussman
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...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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.
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...
Nishin Nathwani
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.
Dr Dominic Pimenta
The fundamental aim of black voters should be to put a smile on Martin Luther King, Jr's face from the grave.
Dr. Cornel West
Remember the black presidential discussion in 2007 and 2008?
Bruce A. Dixon
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...
Thomas Estabrook
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...
Tony Iltis & Stuart Munckton
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...
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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...
Kristen Brown
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?
Laura Grace Weldon
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...
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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...
Charles Ferguson
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...
Ajamu Baraka
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...
Julie Drybrough
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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.
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.
Peter Gelderloos
With a net income of more than $1 billion Elsevier is one of the largest academic publishers in the world.
Ernesto Van der Sa
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...
John Jewell
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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.
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.
Andrea Germanos
If proper oversight is not developed, Snowden’s legacy will have served only to reinforce one thing: the intrusiveness of global surveillance.
Didier Bigo
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...
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
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.
Jeremy Hance
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...
Sometimes silences speak volumes.
Patrick Bond
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.
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...
12 min
Documentary: Slum Echoes -- Street Angels Foundation Uganda Street Angels is a small charity coming from Kisenyi ,the oldest slum/ghetto in Kampala.
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
7 min
A short trailer of an upcoming documentary. Israeli people unable to get their stories into the world. Child Trafficking, corruption and human rights violations. Distressing scenes.
9 min
The controversial tradition at the heart of African culture has now reached the shores of Europe. Today, over 500 British girls are estimated to have undergone the procedure of female genital cutting.
Many young girls would get excited at the prospect of going on holiday...
16 min
A documentary about the history of black religion in America, investigating atheism. Dedicated to Legacy Gray, my best friend, who inspired this film and always amazes me with her wisdom!
2 min
We are what we buy at the mall, see at the multiplex, and hear on our iPods. Author Thomas De Zengotita discusses our new "Mediated" life.
James Westcott
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 seeks to find 'common solutions to common problems,' says former Greek finance minister
Nadia Prupis
As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory
Andy Baio
8 min
At 95, Katie Lee is still mourning the loss of her beloved Glen Canyon-and still writing, singing, cussing and fighting to bring it back.
9 min
After hundreds of years of isolation, here’s how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity — and their health.
1 min
Based on an ancient story about hunger and sharing, this animated video is an “allegory of the spoons” and teaches us that when we struggle to feed only ourselves, everyone goes hungry. But when we focus on our neighbour’s hunger, we discover there are ways to feed everyone.
6 min
(Warning: Graphic content) A compilation of Larken Rose audio clips taken from various radio interviews. Edited by Harvey Lester ( http://www.facebook.com/harveylester84) If you appreciate videos like this, and would like to see more, please consider donating. Thanks!
'Women all over the country can write about the damage done to their lives by the rigged economy and the special place in hell they work to escape daily when trying to fight back.'
Donna Smith
"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."
Lauren McCauley
Text Analytics Program Proves Quran Less Violent Than The Bible
Curtis F
theintercept.com
The Guantánamo in New York You’re Not Allowed to Know About
Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani
theintercept.com
Here’s What Hillary Clinton’s Paid Speaking Contract Looks Like
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Zaid Jilani ✉zaid.jilani@theintercept.comt@ZaidJilani
58 min
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In the mounting, panicky attempts of elites to derail the Sanders candidacy, one strand dominates.
Bill McKibben
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During the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, Beyoncé's backup dancers called for justice for Mario Woods, a 26-year-old killed by the SFPD.
18 min
This week we look at the growing fascist movement in Europe and what people over there are doing to fight back. On the break we have Sindicato Latino, a hip hop collective based in Europe and made up of Latinx migrants. We wrap things up with an anti-election rant and an...
When you see the depressing story of Leonardo DiCaprio and the Oscar award, you begin to believe in misfortune or some evil spirits. How come he's still got none? That's a real mystery not only for his fans but to all of us caring about good actors receiving the awards they...
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This clip from upcoming feature documentary "The World Is My Country" introduces the origins of and need for a World Passport.
On Saturday over a hundred meetings of misogynists for "legalised rape" were planned by puke-up artist Roosh V. The push-back was fierce, immediate and completely unsurprising given that virtually no one agrees with his mad manifesto. What was widely acknowledged was the...
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They rarely give interviews, but Massive Attack have put images of refugees centre stage in their latest shows and the band believes we "will be judged in history" by how we respond.
22 min
Nammalvar, an agriculturist from India explain food security and the need for organic farming in our developing world.
20 min
Activists in custody, protests shut down, warrantless house arrests, and the COP21 strangled by anti-terrorist measures, a look back on the first months of the state of emergency in Paris.
3 min
As All That Is is One, then the One must be God, and the One must be You. You Are God!
2 min
Poet, teacher, activist and more-pay tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou and listen to her read her unforgettable poem "Phenomenal Woman."
A dystopian warning from the future
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There are 8 to 10 thousand forced marriages in the UK every year. As authorities are accused of taking 'honour' crimes too lightly, girls who resist or refuse a marriage can face abuse, torture, even death.
"We have kidnappings, abductions, sexual offences. Anything that you...
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There's nothing more American than Football. There's also nothing more socialist. Brian Dunkleman Takes On the Stigma of Socialism.
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“Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli was arrested last December on securities fraud charges. He hiked up the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000% and is accused of running his company like a Ponzi scheme. On Feb. 4, he appeared at a congressional hearing and plead the Fifth.
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At the Democratic town hall debate on February 3, 2016, Moderator Anderson Cooper of CNN had asked if Hillary Clinton made a mistake when she delivered three speeches to Goldman Sachs, receiving $675,000 in payments. “That’s what they offered,” she said with a shrug, continuing:
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'War Horse' author Michael Morpurgo and actors Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake have joined forces to make a powerful new 5 minute film especially for you. Please watch and share.
Russ Mittermeier, long-time Chair of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group and Executive Vice-Chair of Conservation International has spent the better part of the last 46 years working on the conservation of primates and their tropical rain forest habitats. During this time...
Russ Mittermeier
Greenham was an alternative world, an anti-nuclear protest by hundreds of thousands of women activists. At 'Bringing Greenham Home', we relived the spirit with films and talks from those who were there.
Sophie Mayer
"From conflict to collaboration, we now celebrate the protection of areas of cultural and ecological importance while ensuring economic opportunities for the communities exist long into the future."
Nadia Prupis
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As people around the world march against the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Sierra Club's Ilana Solomon breaks down how the trade agreement will affect the fight against climate change.
C. G. Jung believes that we need to go through three births in our lifetime. The first is our physical birth, then the birth of our Ego, and spiritual birth of Consciousness. In accordance with that fact, we also undergo three phases of development in our life. In the first...
Is it a strange coincidence or a conscious design of human mind that the word“listen” and “silent” have the same letters, how do we answer this harmony of these two words and it’s mutual connotation…
The crack in your being that pain inflicts is a sacred gift where openness, love, compassion, vulnerability and new inner wisdom can emerge and connect with the world.
William Timothy Walker
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"I've heard that there are more stars in our Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Is this possible?"
Awesome question, and a great excuse to do some math.
As we learned in a previous video, there are 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way...
The Ecuadorian government has signed two contracts with the China-based Andes Petroleum consortium, to work on the oil blocks known as 79 and 83; blocks that overlap with the territory of the Sápara indigenous people.
Isabel Riofrio
Yesterday, after the posting of an article concerning the murder of Janese Talton Jackson, I went on a rant. I don’t usually go on rants, but I’m tired. I’m tired of women being killed for telling men no. I’m tired of the #notallmen brigade showing up to defend men when rape...
Daniel Johnson
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We are told that social mobility is the cornerstone of a fair society. A just nation is where talent is all you need to get the the top. But, argues Matthew Taylor, social mobility in an unequal society like ours actually makes people less happy, as there is so far to fall.
3 min
'Leap' is a feature documentary about the possibility and process of upgrading your thoughtware: what it takes, how it goes. 'Leap' follows the lives of 5 people from different walks of life as they take a leap of faith and transform their lives through the power of...
15 min
“Life in Syntropy” is the new short film from Agenda Gotsch. It tells the story of Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch, who bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest in 1984 and transformed it into a remarkably biodiverse working farm that...
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Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can...