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On this week's episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race-from the "Brown Shirt" Trump movement to "corporate criminal" Hillary Clinton-and the reality of who has power in America. Known for his...
I often get asked by people about what they can do to change things, to change the world, when each of us is just one person, in the face of so much that we cannot even hope to control or influence.
What can we do? Why bother, given our powerlessness?
As we look back on the...
Nafeez Ahmed
21 min
Dump Trump was a rally and march, which took place in New York City, on December 20. 2015. The rally was outside Trump Towers, and the March was to some of the Major Media Outlets which Donald Trump has been using as a megaphone to preach UN-American hate and bigotry, against...
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The greatest challenges of our time is to end unjust distribution in the world and to fight climate change.
What is stopping us? And what can YOU do to make a difference?
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Actor Juliet Stevenson went to The Jungle for a day and came back with this plea for us to help and for our governments to do more.
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Jess Thom's tics from Tourette syndrome can be funny, but people often suppress their laughter for fear of causing offence. This, she says, shows how hard it can be to deal with people who are different from us. But by having an open conversation about disability and...
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BlackLivesMatter: A new generation of civil rights activists emerging from racism and violence in the USA.
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BBC Newsnight presenters discuss Stop the War's fundraiser dinner.
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On December 1st 2015, a day before UK government intervention in Syria was to be discussed in Parliament, many people gathered around the country to express their disagreement with the proposed action. On Sussex University campus around 50 people showed up to express their...
The threefold rise in hate crimes against Muslims since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks and the acceptance of hate speech as a legitimate form of political discourse signal the morbidity of our civil society. The body politic is coughing up blood. The daily amplification...
Chris Hedges
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.
T. Christian Miller, ProPublica and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project
78 min
Full length documentary following Chester P along his journey through Hip Hop, Homelessness and the Housing Crisis. Featuring Focus E15, Love Activists, New Era Estate residents, Streets Kitchen plus many more.
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Eight-year-old Sofia heard Donald Trump announce his intentions to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., and she got scared. She packed her bags just in case the military came to remove her from her home. Some military veterans chimed in. #IWillProtectYou
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Ricky Syers is an off-beat 50 year old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City’s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, an 86 year old community activist. They became friends and he made...
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Reggie is shocked to discover that, for young black and Asian gays and transsexuals, their harshest critics - and persecutors - often come from their own communities, or even their own families. Whether it's young Muslims threatened with exorcism, or West African Christian...
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Directed by Clara Mouton et Cléophée Moser
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In this orientation film, you'll follow the latest employee of Anfarm International!
For the second time in as many weeks activists in Canada have occupied and shut down Line 9 Endbridge’s 300,000 barrel per day oil pipe line. This action effectively shuts down the flow of bitumen oil from the Alberta Tar Sands into into the United States.
The activists...
Mike Roy
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This we bring you a recap of the COP21 climate clusterfuck in Paris, with Jim Hansen's reaction to the historic non-agreement and 350.org's condemnation of comrades who defied the protest ban. Over in Greece we look at the yearly riots that commemorate the police murder of...
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In what has become known as "The Homeland Incident," The Arabian Street Artists engineered a graffiti hack on the show Homeland by placing subversive messages written in Arabic on set. Homeland is not a Series is a message from the artists themselves. Directed by the Arabian...
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Cameron, Obama, and Putin have joined forces in a brand new take on the classic festive song “Do They Know It’s Christmas“, showcasing their heartfelt Christmas presents for the people of Syria. What is Christmas about if not reindeer, Obama dressed as Santa, and drone...
Podemos has won an important victory, but what has emerged is a situation that is all but ungovernable. It’s now up to the movements to enforce change.
Carlos Delclós
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A ROADTRIP THROUGHOUT EUROPE
“We went on a 5000 kilometer-long road trip throughout Europe. We travelled from Schengen, Luxembourg, the birthplace of a borderless Europe, all the way to Copenhagen, which will be in 2025 the first zero emissions world capital. Denmark on 2012...
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Architecture Inverse: Homegrown Neighbourhoods. This is the first in a series of 6 episodes in 7 (Colombia,Brazil, South Africa, Bangladesh, Phillippines, South Korea and France) countries and aims to present the potential of people living in informal settlments to build...
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On this week’s episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race—from the “Brown Shirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton—and the reality of who has power in America.
Known for his...
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In a five minute presentation, a Kenton student talks about their religion, and how it has been portrayed in the media.
It's not good enough to say the money comes from the XYZ Fund for Swell Americans; we need to know the wealthy individuals and corporate interests that are secretly pulling the levers.
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
On Sunday 20 December, Spain goes to the polls to give its verdict on four years of conservative government by prime minister Mariano Rajoy.
Kate Shea Baird
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Rastafari after Coral Gardens - The history of violence in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community
A feature-length documentary (running time 63 minutes) shot in DV, mini-DV and HD that also includes archival footage, reproductions of still photographs, and an...
In every culture that anthropologists have ever studied, people tell stories.
Marshall Duke
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These undercover videos supposedly showed Al-Qaeda in the drug trade. What they actually showed was more shocking. Produced in collaboration with ProPublica. For the full story, read more here.
If you watch the news, you'd think anti-Muslim hysteria is everywhere. Thankfully, that's not true.
Nur Lalji
The WTO is aiming to strengthen a 'corporate-driven free trade regime' while ignoring solutions that would protect small-scale farmers and increase food security, says La Via Campesina
Nadia Prupis
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When the TV cameras are turned off and the headlines have moved on, what happens to the police officers involved in the deaths of black men in America? AJ+ takes a look at four cases in the last 18 months.
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A science fictional commentary on "The Trans-Pacific Partnership" (TPP), agreement and "Social Media" effects on the next generation.
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Israel says it built the separation wall for security reasons to keep Palestinians from the occupied West Bank out of Israel. So why does 85% of the wall run inside the West Bank, rather than on the border with Israel? And how has it affected Palestinian communities?
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Why is the British government still selling arms to Saudi Arabia, when they could be used on civilians in Yemen? That's the question posed by a group of a lawyers who've produced a report for Amnesty International. The Foreign Office insists that the UK has one of the "most...
The construction of a new world is much more than an academic exercise.
Leonidas Oikonomakis
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On 4th Dec 2015, the world's biggest ore producer, Vale, held a shareholders' meeting and press conference at the Mayfair Hotel, London.
A month earlier, on 5th November, two tailings dams burst in the state of Minas Gerais in the south-east of Brazil. The dams were managed...
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Watch a short recap of the breathtaking art projection at the #Vatican, on St. Peter's Basilica.
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Paradise, California Police Officer Patrick Feaster shot an unarmed man who was climbing out of a car wreck. The victim, who was allegedly drunk driving, may be paralyzed due to the gunshot, but Feaster won't face criminal charges.
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Passionated like a child, Robert Coudray cultivate his garden since for than 20 years. It's a whole world created with one goal : giving back the desire to dream !
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Daniel was 3 years old when he begin to make bread. As soon as posible, he works in a backery.
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The neighborhood of La Merced is faced with structural changes from the "Integral Rescue Plan" promoted by the Government of the Federal District in Mexico city.
55 min
On November 23rd, 2015, Killer Mike sat down with Senator Bernie Sanders at The SWAG Shop in Atlanta, GA to discuss topics ranging from gun control to democratic socialism.
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When someone dies after an encounter with law enforcement, he leaves behind parents and children, loss and confusion.
What’s to be done when those people sworn to protect you are the same people who pull the trigger?
In Kern County, California, officer-involved deaths have...
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Director Theopi Skarlatos and producer Paul Mason present #ThisIsACoup, a four part documentary series telling the story of how the European Union destroyed the first radical left government in modern history. Directed by Theopi Skarlatos. Produced by Paul Mason.
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An RAF fighter flypast just at the moment I was filming apocalyptic skies converted great beauty into an anti war film.
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Democracy is something we can all agree on. But what does it actually mean? James Butler looks at the many ways the word gets used politically and what it means to attempt to run a government or an organisation 'democratically'.
This is my second quote adaptation from the great Robert F. Kennedy. It’s an extract taken from one of his most important speeches, titled ‘On the mindless menace of violence’, which Ke
Gavin Aung Than
The cowardly response of prominent climate organizations like 350.org and Avaaz to the protest ban during COP21 demands accountability.
Belinda Rodriguez and Ben Case
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Global Capitalism: December 2015 Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7:30pm "Saving Capitalism from Itself or Saving Us from It?
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Shrimp peeled in forced-labor factories in Thailand gets mixed into the global supply chain and sold in the U.S.
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The second installment in The Oomun Group's mini-series on how not to leave people to freeze to death on the same streets we throw up all over. The series documents a group of caretakers (or 'squatters' as they're referred to as in the UK) trying to find a shelter for winter...
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The #COP21 climate agreement may have been made, but the Marshall Islands' existence is still being threatened by climate change. Governments agreed to keep the rise in temperatures below 3.6° Fahrenheit pre-industrial levels, which is .9° off of what the Marshall Islands...
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Advertisers are using several psychological tactics to get us to buy a lot more this holiday season.
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The role of Saudi Arabia in the San Bernardino attack is being covered up. The United States benefits from Saudi money, so we've been covering for them for years. This isn't just immoral, it may lead to a Trump presidency.
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This totally free supplemental add-on content pack for our Women as Reward video examines how women’s bodies are used not just as a reward for in-game actions but also, via paid downloadable content, as a reward for spending actual money. We then address the most common...
This vision of education forming the basis of the educational model that Podemos proposes is openly opposed to the ruinous policies of privatization that began in Europe in the 1980s.
Cecilia Salazar-Alonso
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We brought together two people with a very large gap of 57 years between them and got them to ask each other questions about life and growing up. Our aim was to see if people from opposing stages of their lives could learn from each other.
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Seeds of Justice follows Ethiopian plant geneticist Dr Melaku Worede’s inspirational work to re-valorise farmers’ knowledge and protect their position as guardians of seed diversity. Treading in Melaku’s footsteps from his youth to the present day through his pivotal...
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Shaker Aamer was the last British resident of Guantanamo Bay. Speaking to the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, he describes what it was like to be held without trial for nearly 14 years.
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A series of airstrikes in Syria from December 13-14 reportedly killed dozens of people and left hundreds wounded in the Ghouta district in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. Some residents say the strike targeted a school, killing 10 children.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand people have fled for their lives to Europe this year. (At least three thousand four hundred and six people died in the Mediterranean sea.) Of that great mass of people, a few thousand have washed up Calais, France, trying to attempt the...
Kate Evans
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The people of the Liverpool Plains in NSW Australia have a message for the Shenhua Group in China, who want to build a massive coal mine in the middle of their farmland. From Cloudcatcher Media
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A film by Angélique Kourounis
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Over 1 million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon. Trapped in Transition is about the refugees trapped in transition in Beirut and near the Lebanese-Syrian border. Shot on location during October 2015 in the homes of the refugee families to share their personal stories of...
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ARE MILLION TREES IN BRAZIL WORTH LESS THAN A SINGLE TREE IN FRANCE?
See the reactions when two guys with axes appear in a fancy Paris Garden.
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A sea of red and white coats rancorously swarm down thousands of streets. Hundreds of people, dressed as Santa Claus, scream and sing as they drink heavily, form impromptu dance parties, and crowd public transportation.
Anon
“Chilling and authentic”: a review of Heval, the first in-depth eye-witness account of the war against ISIS by a Western volunteer who joined the YPG.
Daniel Falkiner
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A few years ago, those who warned us about the risks of technological unemployment were labelled as luddites, crazy, or techno-pessimists. Now some of the greatest economists agree that automation poses a serious threat to the economy, with jobs disappearing and inequality on...
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
Many of our current economic policies originated during times of scarcity. But now, says investor Albert Wenger, we live in an era of “digital abundance,” when creating new products...
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Set in the sweltering global warming heat on downtown Toronto, WAYS TO WATER is a dramatic short film that explores the metaphysics of water and human relationships - drawing heavily from the research of Dr. Masaru Emoto.
Emoto believed water to hold a memory, and conducted...
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While Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk spoke last Friday, another fight broke out in the Ukrainian Parliament. The general approach on social media and elsewhere has been to find this hilarious!!! It's really not.
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The feature documentary film follows the journey of a writer, compelled to make sense of the mysterious and powerful energy she felt at her aunt’s deathbed. Considering herself a skeptic, a series of strange coincidences leads her on an exploration of synchronicity – the...
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On December 9, activists stormed a bank in Paris and held a guerilla concert!
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D12 in Paris. This is just the beginning, and a beautiful beginning it was. Watch:
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Check out Living the Change: A Documentary Film Series - http://igg.me/at/livingthechange
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The reason this woman was molested was because of what she was wearing, but that is very different than saying the solution is for her to dress differently. In a moving dialogue appropriate for our time, she explores the issue of molestation and delivers a call to action for...
A photographer has claimed he witnessed a close-to-extinction Amazonian tribe breastfeed their pets until the animals are fully grown.The Awa tribe reside in the forests of eastern Brazil, and face a possible end to their culture, due to European colonists who have enslaved...
ninemsn
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Canadians greet the first group of Syrian refugees who just arrived in Toronto: "You are here and you are safe. You are here and you are loved. You are here and you can stay."
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There is enough wealth for all of us.
What if we decided that every human being has a right to income security?
How could a basic income change our lives?
Could this relieve our society from the stress and anger that comes with the rising inequality?
I'm in Paris now, preparing to speak tonight about climate change. It is a parallel venue, not mainstream, called Place 2 B, but even here I am afraid my message is going to be controversial. You see, I think there are deep problems with the standard climate change narrative...
Charles Eisenstein
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Earlier this year I wrote about LaPoinya and logging in Tasmania’s old growth forests.
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The German ship SS "St. Louis" departed from Hamburg for Cuba with almost 1,000 Jewish refugees on board on May 13, 1939. Most of the passengers had Cuban landing certificates. However, the Cuban government invalidated the certificates. When the "St. Louis" reached Havana on...
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One of the most overlooked and scary facts surrounding the issue of climate change and environmental destruction lies under the sea... Our oceans are being destroyed and overfished in a way that is SERIOUSLY alarming to say the least.
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Oregon white oaks or Garry oak (Quercus garryana) is an iconic tree of the Willamette Valley and Pacific NW. Its habitat has been reduced 95% by land conversion and changes in land management. This vanishing legacy has biological, cultural, and historic significance. The oaks...
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Large hydropower projects are often propagated as a "clean and green" source of electricity by international financial institutions, national governments and other actors. They greatly benefit from instruments meant to address climate change, including carbon credits under...
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The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the 'living forest', where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people are at the Paris...
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Sources and transcript: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/paris-attacks
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A stunning new video has emerged 15 years after Stanley Kubrick’s death in which Kubrick admits that the NASA moon landings were faked.
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ʬ The Secret Space Program: In this lecture Richard Dolan argues that the UFO phenomenon is infinitely more complex than many have previously suggested, and that human and non-human groups are behind what we call UFOs. Within the human, classified part, breakthroughs have...
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Part two of our extended interview with MIT American history professor Craig Steven Wilder examining how many of the nation's elite schools - including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth - are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the...
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Presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced that he would like to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., and most civil-minded people are outraged at the idea. Here's a quick round-up of the response.
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Mohammed Tuaiman becomes the third member of his family to be killed by what he called ‘death machines’ in the sky months after Guardian interview
Feeling powerless after the UK parliament voted for the bombing of Syria and not sure what to do next? Somewhere between overwhelming hopelessness and heading off to join the Kurdish YPJ (women’s protection units) there are a range of everyday acts of solidarity. Here are a...
Tabitha Bast
We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil
Rebecca Solnit