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The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies 30 min
The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies
The Bloom Part I looks at the “Fundamental Frequencies” of the Transformational Festival experience—how they immerse participants in a world of INSPIRATION, restoring a deeply felt sense of CONNECTION, and supporting processes of HEALING for those involved.
30 min · 23,429 views · 91%
The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World 51 min
The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World
Part II of The Bloom explores how Transformational Festivals have become incubators and spaces for “Practicing The New World”, where the festivals are produced using a model of CO-CREATION, utilizing an ethos of PARTICIPATION to create these remarkable realities and MODELLING...
51 min · 20,766 views · 84%
The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred 70 min
The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred
Part III of The Bloom “New Ways of The Sacred” looks at how Transformational Festivals are venues for an active engagement with ancient, universal themes of MYTHOS, RITUAL and THE SACRED, exploring ways which both honor the traditional, while reflecting our unprecedented...
70 min · 19,888 views · 100%
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? 177 min
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)
The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares) that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom. It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic...
177 min · 28,969 views · 92%
The Meatrix 10 min
The Meatrix
Take the red pill and watch the critically-acclaimed, award-winning first episode of The Meatrix Trilogy. Join Meo as he goes on a journey into the "real world" to see the horrific truth of what’s really going on with the food we eat today. Topics covered are industrial...
10 min · 12,593 views · 89%
Big Agriculture's Exploitation of Migrant Workers 15 min
Big Agriculture's Exploitation of Migrant Workers
The big business of farming in the US is booming but undocumented migrants make up more than half of the farming workforce. They are ripe for exploitation and face low salaries, substandard housing, risk of injury, pesticides and heat stroke. Some literally work themselves to...
15 min · 4,179 views · 100%
American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian 30 min
American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian (2000)
The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million...
30 min · 149,900 views · 91%
The Power of Nightmares 180 min
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
The Power of Nightmares is a BBC documentary 3-part film series. The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More...
180 min · 90,723 views · 96%
PBS FRONTLINE: The Secret History of the Credit Card 56 min
PBS FRONTLINE: The Secret History of the Credit Card (2004)
The average American family today carries 8 credit cards. Credit card debt and personal bankruptcies are now at an all time high. With no legal limit on the amount of interest or fees that can be charged, credit cards have become the most profitable sector of the American...
56 min · 20,860 views · 81%
The New Rulers of the World 52 min
The New Rulers of the World (2001)
The New Rulers Of The World analyzes the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater - two thirds of the world's children live in poverty - and the gulf is widening like never before.The film turns the spotlight on the...
52 min · 25,458 views · 94%
My Urban Report Interviews Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen 2 min
My Urban Report Interviews Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen
Talking about the importance of new media in the lead-up to the 2008 elections. The importance of black American voices being represented in the media, whether through established channels or channels they've set up themselves. Afro-netizen.com is a great alternative news...
2 min · 3,328 views · unrated
The Century of the Self 230 min
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests? (Includes all parts of this multi-part series.)
230 min · 92,916 views · 95%
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 157 min
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative...
157 min · 76,389 views · 95%
The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce 87 min
The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce (2004)
In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former employees take action. They're part of a...
87 min · 31,318 views · 93%
The New American Century 94 min
The New American Century (2009)
This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders...
94 min · 22,009 views · 100%
The Root of All Evil? The God Delusion & The Virus of Faith 93 min
The Root of All Evil? The God Delusion & The Virus of Faith (2006)
"There are would-be murderers, all around the world who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they are motivated by what they think is the highest ideal..." - Richard Dawkins.
93 min · 14,689 views · 83%
Debunking "The Great Global Warming Swindle" 14 min
Debunking "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
Two short debunkings of the British documentary that claimed people are not responsible for global warming. The audio quality of the presentation in part 1 is poor, but this and the video in part 2 are the best video responses we've found that directly critiques the main...
14 min · 11,320 views · 88%
September 11th Revisited v.2 83 min
September 11th Revisited v.2
Dry, factual, and overwhelming scientific evidence favoring support for the controlled demolition theory of WTC buildings 1,2 & 7. It won't win any awards for entertainment factor, but if you like your facts hard and your evidence scientifically vigorous, you can't go wrong...
83 min · 9,280 views · 75%
A Sustainability Renaissance Man 27 min
A Sustainability Renaissance Man
Earth needs humans to figure out our shared destiny, says Alan Seid, whose interest is both the outer and inner dimensions of sustainability. Outside there's ecology, social systems and economics (e.g., in Permaculture). Inside is the psychological dimension of personal and...
27 min · 8,147 views · 100%
Peak Oil - Visually Explained 3 min
Peak Oil - Visually Explained
A quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil. This is the culmination of the creator's year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak...
3 min · 7,120 views · 75%
9/11 - Two Screens, Two Pills 10 min
9/11 - Two Screens, Two Pills
An examination of the two main 9/11 information paradigms - mainstream media VS the internet. Most of the 9/11 info in the mainstream media is based on the official 9/11 report. Most of the 9/11 info online supports the 9/11 inside job theory. This is an attempt to explain...
10 min · 6,313 views · 62%
Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust 27 min
Local Currencies - Replacing Scarcity with Trust
Francis Ayley established over a dozen local currencies in the UK before moving to the U.S. He contrasts our standard, scarcity- and debt-based money system with local currencies in which "there's always as much as you need." Local currencies like his Fourth Corner Exchange...
27 min · 5,690 views · 75%
Energy and Climate Initiatives in Santa Barbara 27 min
Energy and Climate Initiatives in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara is serious about lowering carbon emissions. Guided by a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions study, they’re adding solar panels to city buildings, requiring lower energy usage for new buildings, switching to biodiesel and hybrid vehicles, and giving free bus...
27 min · 4,794 views · unrated
The Crisis of Credit Visualized 11 min
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center...
11 min · 4,381 views · 100%
FOX Attacks! Decency... with Bill O'Reilly Leading the Way 4 min
FOX Attacks! Decency... with Bill O'Reilly Leading the Way
Most of you are aware that under the guise of "news" Fox has offered its viewers a steady stream of bias pertaining to social and political issues since its inception in 1996. From attacking Black America to pushing for war with Iran, from demonizing bloggers to distorting...
4 min · 4,367 views · 100%
Free Bees - 9/11's a Lie (Stayin' Alive) 3 min
Free Bees - 9/11's a Lie (Stayin' Alive)
This video won't stay up long, enjoy it while it lasts...The 'Free Bees' are looking for help in spreading their '9/11's a lie' music video and song far and wide. Reluctantly they have decided that even though they're extremely proud of the work, they are releasing it...
3 min · 4,259 views · unrated
A Little Light'll Do Ya - Defending Democracy in America 55 min
A Little Light'll Do Ya - Defending Democracy in America
Blacked out or dismissed as 'conspiracy theories' by corporate news outlets, reports of massive vote fraud in the 2004 presidential election circulated on the internet and independent media. As the Jan. 6th, 2005 deadline for a challenge to the Electoral College vote drew...
55 min · 4,209 views · 19%
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy 28 min
Brookside Farm - Growing Food, Growing Energy
Take a whirlwind tour of the one-acre Brookside Energy Farm with Jason Bradford and Christoffer Hansen at planting time. Along with perennials, annuals, a food forest, and dryland crops (grains), they're growing Jerusalem artichoke and dale sorghum to produce both food and...
28 min · 4,134 views · unrated
Propeller Sustainability Series: "SHELTER, Part 5" 9 min
Propeller Sustainability Series: "SHELTER, Part 5"
In this final installment of the "Shelter" segment of the Sustainability Series, we meet Dr. Eugene Tsui, a non-traditional architect whose design inspiration comes from nature and all the brilliant systems and methods found therein. Dr. Tsui shows us city designs inspired by...
9 min · 4,074 views · unrated
The Empire Strikes Barack 5 min
The Empire Strikes Barack
The second installment in a Star Wars themed parody of the 2008 presidential election, featuring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among others.
5 min · 3,652 views · 75%
Hipster Olympics: A battle of Apathetic Grandeur 8 min
Hipster Olympics: A battle of Apathetic Grandeur
A double, triple (?) dose of irony is used to capture the essence of the hipster in the yearly "Hipster Olympics" - quite a tee off of champions - the kind who don't stand for anything. Pretty funny stuff. I can't help but want to say to these people, "Hey! Haven't you heard?...
8 min · 3,553 views · 0%
McCain's 10 Mansions: What slumping economy? 4 min
McCain's 10 Mansions: What slumping economy?
John McCain is soaring to new heights of hypocrisy on his wife's personal jet. He flies around the country bent on duping the public into believing he's "one of them," a regular guy who can empathize with Americans facing an overwhelming economic crush. What's more, he...
4 min · 2,997 views · 100%
The Future of Your Skin Is In Your Hands 5 min
The Future of Your Skin Is In Your Hands
The guarantees that cosmetic companies give on their miracle beauty cures are as useless as the products themselves.
5 min · 2,786 views · 25%
What Would Jesus Buy? 91 min
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
Religion aside for a moment, there’s a terrible addiction that has swept across this country, and it’s one of the nation’s best kept secrets. Mostly everyone will tell you that it’s a really bad thing, but nobody can seem to stop doing it. And it doesn’t come cheap, nearly...
91 min · 61,156 views · 87%
Garbage Warrior 3 min
Garbage Warrior (trailer)
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing.
3 min · 45,512 views · 94%
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy 118 min
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)
This is a powerful 10-part compilation that (in important ways) pulls aside the veil of Official myths and Lies about "freedom", "democracy", and “human rights” being the basis of U.S. foreign policy.
118 min · 35,873 views · 96%
The Israeli Lobby 50 min
The Israeli Lobby (2007)
Is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the U.S. relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer...
50 min · 28,921 views · 81%
The Permaculture Concept 53 min
The Permaculture Concept (1989)
The word permaculture, coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture. Through a series of publications, Mollison, Holmgren and their associates documented an approach to...
53 min · 25,135 views · 92%
Bill Moyers Journal: Whistleblower Exposes Health Industry 26 min
Bill Moyers Journal: Whistleblower Exposes Health Industry
Bill Moyers interviews Wendell Potter, the former head of Public Relations at Cigna Health Insurance. Potter worked for nearly 20 years within the health insurance industry with great success before his conscience got the better of him.
26 min · 8,630 views · 94%
I.O.U.S.A. 81 min
I.O.U.S.A.
By now, you may have heard about our acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A., a film that boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. The film has been a huge hit, getting rave reviews from Roger Ebert and others...
81 min · 8,621 views · 50%
Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists 25 min
Corporate Couple Become Permaculture Activists
Asking “wouldn’t it be wonderful if our city could feed itself?” Joe Leitch ponders everybody in Portland planting a chestnut tree. Pam Leitch relates how they both left the corporate world after reading the book “Your Money or Your Life”. As educators on sustainability and...
25 min · 8,552 views · 100%
Sick for Profit: Greenwald Tears Into Insurance Company CEOs 5 min
Sick for Profit: Greenwald Tears Into Insurance Company CEOs
UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley owns $744,232,068 in unexercised stock options. CIGNA’s Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it...
5 min · 7,315 views · unrated
Whistle Blowers Try to Expose Health Concerns & Get Fired 10 min
Whistle Blowers Try to Expose Health Concerns & Get Fired
A perfect example of both, why you can't trust big news organizations to tell you the truth, and why you should stick to organic food whenever possible. This clip is taken from the film "The Corporation". An excellent piece showing the systematic problems with corporations in...
10 min · 5,838 views · 88%
Bill Moyers: The Iraq War and Big Oil 6 min
Bill Moyers: The Iraq War and Big Oil
Bill Moyers nails it. A concise summary of Big Oil's ties to the Iraq war. Bill Moyers Journal airs Friday nights on PBS. Check local airtimes or comment at The Moyers Blog at www.pbs.org/moyers.
6 min · 5,777 views · 100%
Bill Moyers on Media Reform 39 min
Bill Moyers on Media Reform
In a powerful speech legendary journalist Bill Moyers praised the media reform movement as "the most significant citizens' movement to emerge in this new century." With over 3,500 people in attendance Moyers said that the work of activists has "challenged the stranglehold of...
39 min · 5,754 views · 83%
Daylight Robbery: What Happened to the $23 Billion? 58 min
Daylight Robbery: What Happened to the $23 Billion? (2008)
When the US goes to war, corporate America goes too. There are contracts for caterers, tanker drivers, security guards and even interrogators, many of them through companies with links to the White House. Jane Corbin investigates claims that as much as $23 billion may have...
58 min · 5,716 views · unrated
This Film Not Yet Rated (trailer) 2 min
This Film Not Yet Rated (trailer)
The MPAA, a US lobbying organization for the movie industry, maintains a rating system first implemented in 1968. This system, with its age based content classification using letter grades G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 (formerly X), has become a cultural icon. But behind its...
2 min · 5,525 views · 100%
Maxed Out (trailer) 2 min
Maxed Out (trailer)
Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-cycle, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all...
2 min · 4,957 views · 100%
"Uh Oh, It Looks Like You've Got a Case of the Humans." 1 min
"Uh Oh, It Looks Like You've Got a Case of the Humans."
This was a global student animation awards winner in 2006. Produced by Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, Reza Rasoli - Otis College of Art & Design. Editor's Note: Of course, it's worth noting this video suffers from "The Great Forgetting," which is common to most of the civilized...
1 min · 4,692 views · 42%
Bailout Protest - Lawrence, KS 4 min
Bailout Protest - Lawrence, KS
Bailout protest on October 10th, the first of many. The people are waking up. Unlikely individuals are teaming up. We've had enough and the message is spreading in the streets. Dennis Moore, local to Lawrence's 3rd District in the House of Representatives voted twice to...
4 min · 4,352 views · unrated
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