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A Movement Too Big to Fail
A Movement Too Big to Fail
There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights...
Chris Hedges · 5,526 views · unrated
10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement
10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement
There are many things you can do to be part of this growing movement—and only some of them involve sleeping outside.
Sarah van Gelder · 4,675 views · 100%
Keep Going and Do Not Stop (A Communiqué in Solidarity with the Occupy Movement from Cairo)
Keep Going and Do Not Stop (A Communiqué in Solidarity with the Occupy Movement from Cairo)
To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice.
our comrades from Cairo · 3,699 views · unrated
FCC Chief to move on Net Neutrality Proposal
FCC Chief to move on Net Neutrality Proposal
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is putting together a net neutrality proposal and plans to take action on the controversial issue as early as next month, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation. Details of the proposal...
Kim Hart · 2,770 views · 100%
Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets
Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets
I think now is a good time to be talking about Bucky’s vision of a World Game.  We have the technology to do this and a new administration could easily provide the funding.  I don’t think any of this material is Utopian or far out, but if you do, let me know why.
Brainsturbator · 6,862 views · unrated
The Transition Movement Comes to America 27 min
The Transition Movement Comes to America
One response to the global crisis that is gaining enthusiastic momentum is the Transition Towns movement. Jennifer Gray, a pioneer in the Transition Initiative in the UK and cofounder of Transition US, describes it as “a community-led response to the twin crises of peak oil...
peakmoment · 4,499 views · unrated
Bill Maher: Democrats Have Moved To The Right And The Right Has Moved Into A Mental Hospital 8 min
Bill Maher: Democrats Have Moved To The Right And The Right Has Moved Into A Mental Hospital
Bill Maher followed up his criticism of President Obama by taking on the entire political spectrum, accusing Democrats of selling out and Republicans of being "religious lunatics and Civil War reenactors.
4,228 views · 100%
Be a Part of This Movement. Be a Part of This Story. 6 min
Be a Part of This Movement. Be a Part of This Story.
It's happening. A movement of movements representing millions of people in every country of the world, all working to create an ecologically sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
THE SHIFT Movie · 82,722 views · 88%
Sir! No Sir! The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War 49 min
Sir! No Sir! The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (2005) ($3)
This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose...
50,524 views · 82%
2011: Embrace the Resistance, It’s Time to End Injustice
2011: Embrace the Resistance, It’s Time to End Injustice
The riots of 2010 are over and a new year is upon us. It has been over seven months since the convergence against the G20, which saw grassroots organisations and anti-authoritarians mobilize in a groundswell of active resistance, only to face a brutal counterattack by...
Ab Irato · 5,195 views · 100%
Leaked EPA Memo Links Pesticide to Mysterious Bee Deaths
Leaked EPA Memo Links Pesticide to Mysterious Bee Deaths
An internal EPA memo released Wednesday confirms that the very agency charged with protecting the environment is ignoring the warnings of its own scientists about clothianidin, a pesticide from which the German agrichemical giant, Bayer racked up about $262 million in...
Tom Philpott · 6,387 views · 100%
The WikiLeaks Cables: Small Revelations That May Cause a Big Idea to Take Hold
The WikiLeaks Cables: Small Revelations That May Cause a Big Idea to Take Hold
Let's start with what the U.S. embassy cables released by WikiLeaks this weekend are not.
Arianna Huffington · 3,234 views · 100%
Co-Chair of 9/11 Inquiry: American Government Covered Up State Assistance to Hijackers
Co-Chair of 9/11 Inquiry: American Government Covered Up State Assistance to Hijackers
It's front page news today that:
Washington's Blog · 3,215 views · unrated
Pelosi Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement
Pelosi Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement
House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she supports the growing nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement, which began on the streets of downtown New York City in mid-September.
Jessica Desvarieux · 2,544 views · 100%
The Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed to Destroy Individual Thought?
The Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed to Destroy Individual Thought?
I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are spending far too much money on schooling, not too little. I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up — and that all this money and all these people...
John Taylor Gatto · 17,968 views · 100%
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A...
David Corn · 3,389 views · 100%
The Day: Moby and MoveOn Protest Budget Cuts on the Poor 3 min
The Day: Moby and MoveOn Protest Budget Cuts on the Poor
Moby has teamed up with MoveOn.org by starring in and lending his new single "The Day" off of the forthcoming album "Destroyed" to a hard-hitting video that protests attacks on America's most needy. In the "The Day -- Moby and MoveOn Protest Budget Cuts on the Poor", the...
MoveOn · 4,692 views · 100%
The Zeitgeist Movement
The Zeitgeist Movement
Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists as the communication and "Activist Arm" of an organization called The Venus Project. The Venus Project was started many decades ago by Social/Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco and his life's work has been to address and...
Tim Hjersted · 14,730 views · 96%
NCMR 2011: The Heart of the Movement
NCMR 2011: The Heart of the Movement
Megan Tady · 3,436 views · unrated
The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Toronto Black Bloc Gets Green Light to Rampage 4 min
The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Toronto Black Bloc Gets Green Light to Rampage
A photo Journalist describes his experience following the black bloc as they rampage through the streets of Toronto during the G20 Summit, entirely unhindered by police, despite an unprecedented 1 billion dollar security budget. Over 900 peaceful protesters were arrested...
CanadiansNanaimo · 3,795 views · 50%
Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants - The no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators
Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants - The no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators
Greg Palast · 4,141 views · unrated
Campain ends torturous treatment of Bradley Manning!
Campain ends torturous treatment of Bradley Manning!
Supporters of accused WikiLeaks source vow to fight on for open trial and freedom
the Bradley Manning Support Network · 3,881 views · unrated
Judge Allows American To Sue Donald Rumsfeld Over Torture Claims
Judge Allows American To Sue Donald Rumsfeld Over Torture Claims
A judge is allowing an Army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq to sue former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld personally for damages.
Nedra Pickler · 3,824 views · unrated
Former CIA analyst accosted during Clinton speech about tolerating free expression
Former CIA analyst accosted during Clinton speech about tolerating free expression
The official position of the US Secretary of State is that countries around the world should respect their citizens' rights to free speech, free expression and free assembly -- and that's precisely what Sec. Hillary Clinton said during a Tuesday speech at George Washington...
Stephen C. Webster · 3,371 views · unrated
The Reality of Me 720 min
The Reality of Me (2011)
The TROM documentary is trying to present, in a simplistic way, the world in which we, human beings, live. The world discovered so far, not some idea or personal choice. Moreover we tried to present alternative solutions to current problems and took into account the future...
23,892 views · 88%
Understanding The Riots – Where Next?
Understanding The Riots – Where Next?
Since last Saturday, a situation has escalated around the UK, with eruptions of long-repressed anger in most major cities. Whilst this anger may have certainly, at times, taken on forms that we disapprove of, we all know where this anger comes from. We are all suffering at...
islingtonalarm · 5,345 views · unrated
The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation 97 min
The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation
The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and...
Linguistic Team International · 15,354 views · 67%
Paul Hawken: The World's Largest Social Movement Has No Name 6 min
Paul Hawken: The World's Largest Social Movement Has No Name
Paul Hawken speaking about the world's largest social movement, consisting of hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizations that address social and environmental justice. Hawken's explores how this movement came into being and why no one saw it coming or even recognized...
captaindarwin · 11,167 views · 75%
The Zeitgeist Movement: EXPOSED 9 min
The Zeitgeist Movement: EXPOSED
All the accusations against the Zeitgeist Movement turned out to be true. Here is the video proof.
infinit yes productions · 9,922 views · 58%
The Future of #OCCUPY: What's next for the movement?
The Future of #OCCUPY: What's next for the movement?
The initial phase of the #OCCUPY movement was marked by several weeks of viral growth that peaked on October 15 with a global day of action. In the next phase, there will be a turn towards addressing the deep philosophical and strategic questions of how to escalate this...
Adbusters · 3,707 views · unrated
Kucinich: Takes House Floor, Moves for Cheney Impeachment 25 min
Kucinich: Takes House Floor, Moves for Cheney Impeachment
November 6th 2007 speakers session. Calling for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney for criminal acts.
CapNewsNet · 2,410 views · unrated
Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It
Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It
I'll have more coming out about this in a few days, but there have been two disgusting developments in the realm of plutocratic intervention on behalf of Wall Street that everyone protesting should take note of.
Matt Taibbi · 2,713 views · unrated
The Fourth World War 76 min
The Fourth World War (2003)
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being...
13,028 views · 52%
We Can't Wait for the Politicians, We Have to Create the Future that We Need Ourselves
We Can't Wait for the Politicians, We Have to Create the Future that We Need Ourselves
Very, very few people can ever say that they are in the single most important place they could possibly be, doing the single most important thing they could possibly be doing -- that's you, here, now. You are the movement that we need if we are going to win in the few years...
Bill McKibben · 6,631 views · unrated
Semper Fi: Occupy Marines Bringing Reinforcements To Occupy The Nation
Semper Fi: Occupy Marines Bringing Reinforcements To Occupy The Nation
What began as the gathering of just a few US Marines has now become a major organized movement to get Marines and military personnell of all branches to Occupy America nationwide. You can thank Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas for that. His actions last week have inspired service...
Stephen D. Foster Jr. · 4,986 views · 100%
Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity 5 min
Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (trailer)
Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video...
36,147 views · 95%
The Top 10 Films on 9/11 Truth
The Top 10 Films on 9/11 Truth
9/11 has always been one of the most difficult subjects for news organizations to cover with integrity. The majority of media has forced the debate into two black and white extremes: either Osama bin Laden did it and the government is blameless or "the government did it" and...
Films For Action · 35,725 views · 100%
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You 6 min
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You (trailer)
While advertising is the visible component of the corporate system, perhaps even more important and pervasive is its invisible partner, the public relations industry. This video illuminates this hidden sphere of our culture and examines the way in which the management of "the...
13,088 views · 100%
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods
The main purpose of this book is to try to persuade revolutionaries to shift the sites of the anticapitalist struggle and to select new battlefields. I identify three strategic sites for fighting - neighborhoods, workplaces, and households - that I believe will not only...
James Herod · 11,882 views · 75%
Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty
Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty
The town of Sedgwick, Maine, currently leads the pack as far as food sovereignty is concerned. Local residents recently voted unanimously at a town hall meeting to pass an ordinance that reinforces its citizens' God-given rights to "produce, process, sell, purchase, and...
Ethan A. Huff · 10,176 views · 100%
Stop Spending Money: How Consumerism Takes Its Toll on Our Happiness
Stop Spending Money: How Consumerism Takes Its Toll on Our Happiness
There’s no doubt that the U.S. culture is famous for its promises of happiness. As age-old as the idea of the “American dream” is the idea that working hard and making money to create the life you want will lead you to happiness and bliss. It’s made painfully obvious in...
Jennifer Kongs · 9,813 views · 100%
Toxic Mimics 4 min
Toxic Mimics
Toxic mimics take a very real, necessary, creative, life-affirming, and most of all relational urge and turn it -- pervert it -- until it does not further any mutual relationships at all but instead superficial relationships based on domination and control. Toxic mimics can...
pennilesscripple · 7,106 views · 62%
Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist 2 min
Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist
The top ten signs in 2 minutes or less. For the concerned citizen on the go!
ZeloZol · 6,974 views · 75%
Incarcerex - when the goin's get tough, take some drugs 2 min
Incarcerex - when the goin's get tough, take some drugs
A funny parody of the relentlessly silly drug commercials Big Pharma is always clogging up the airwaves with. Tell Congress it's time for a new bottom line in U.S. drug policy, one that focuses on reducing the problems associated with both drugs *and* the war on drugs. Take...
5,866 views · 100%
Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Huff & Puff It Down - Towards a Vibrant Indy-Media Ecology
Arianna Huffington has betrayed us, so let's huff and puff her house down.
Micah White & Tim Hjersted · 4,356 views · 100%
An Engineer Examines a Town’s Energy Future 27 min
An Engineer Examines a Town’s Energy Future
How much energy does a town consume? Brian Corzilius sleuthed that out for Willits, California, and got a big surprise: in this community of 13,000 people, nearly 25% of personal after-tax earnings (about $30 million annually) leaves town to pay for energy - gasoline, diesel...
peakmoment · 4,204 views · unrated
The Onion: Torture Made Green 2 min
The Onion: Torture Made Green
Panelists discuss ways to wage a greener war in Iraq, such as driving biodegradable tanks and shocking detainees' testicles with wind power.
The Onion · 4,202 views · 88%
Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community 27 min
Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community
Peak Moment TV: Communities Magazine editor Diana Leafe Christian concisely spells out what the successful 10% of intentional communities do: common vision and purpose, fair participatory decision-making, clear agreements in writing, good balance of right and left-brain...
peakmoment · 3,934 views · unrated
Human-Scale Tools for a Sustainable World 28 min
Human-Scale Tools for a Sustainable World
At Smith and Speed Mercantile on Orcas Island, hand tools line the walls and tables along with organic wool comforters and non-toxic paints. It's an extension of Kathleen Smith and Errol Speed's off-grid homestead where they work at "the speed of living," using hand tools...
peakmoment · 3,496 views · unrated
Conservative Radio Host Waterboarded. Says it's ABSOLUTELY TORTURE 2 min
Conservative Radio Host Waterboarded. Says it's ABSOLUTELY TORTURE
A video clip of conservative radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller being water-boarded. The host had originally defended water-boarding, but now believes that it is torture.
Superplatanoman · 3,343 views · unrated
WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
"Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them."
Fred Branfman · 6,307 views · 100%
How Liberty Park’s Ragged Utopia Is Changing the World
How Liberty Park’s Ragged Utopia Is Changing the World
CREATING COMMUNITY: (Above) Chris O’Donnell, 24, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, takes a break at the Occupy Wall Street encampment. The kitchen has been serving free meals to as many as 1,000 people a day. (Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales)   “Who is ready to defend our park?” the...
Nicholas Powers · 4,087 views · unrated
The End of Poverty 105 min
The End of Poverty (2009)
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking...
Philippe Diaz · 35,199 views · 96%
Four Things You Can Do to Defend Organic Against the GMO Alfalfa Threat
Four Things You Can Do to Defend Organic Against the GMO Alfalfa Threat
Members of the sustainable food movement are furious and, frankly, we have a right to be. Last month's decision by the USDA to fully deregulate GE alfalfa isn't just a minor skirmish in a long and exhausting battle. It threatens the existence of organic farming and...
Films For Action · 14,990 views · 75%
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Unless we come up with some better solutions Klein says, "this crisis will be exploited to militarize our societies, to create fortress continents." AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of...
Naomi Klein · 6,832 views · unrated
6 Threats to Free and Open Access to the Internet
6 Threats to Free and Open Access to the Internet
Many of us believe the Internet to be open and free for us to explore all known information.  Indeed, it is true that we currently can surf to any active website with our browser, and we can start a website or blog on any topic we wish to discuss.  And it is quite a profound...
Activist Post · 5,515 views · unrated
Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
It's been a long time coming. Now it's final. Lisa Jackson and the EPA have gone to the mountaintop and announced their veto of the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers · 3,713 views · 100%
Technocalyps 180 min
Technocalyps (2006)
Technocalyps is a three-part documentary series on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.
32,892 views · 75%
Ten Things To Do When You’re Feeling Hopeless
Ten Things To Do When You’re Feeling Hopeless
These days, I’m more likely to feel hopeless than sad, more likely to feel as if nothing is ever enough, as if nothing really makes a difference, as if our whole human civilization is unraveling and there is nothing I or anyone can do about it. It’s a different feeling from...
Dave Pollard · 19,410 views · 75%
What's It Going to Take to Heal the Apathy in Our Society?
What's It Going to Take to Heal the Apathy in Our Society?
With a growing awareness of mounting ecological, economic and social problems, there exists many growing currents of response.
Tim Hjersted · 14,934 views · 100%
Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food
For many years now, I have fed my family food from the dumpster. It’s not because I can’t afford to shop at grocery stores like other, normal folks. It’s because supermarkets across the nation toss perfectly good meats, cheeses, eggs, and produce into the trash every single day.
Jeremy Seifert · 8,686 views · 100%
Adbusters: The Left Built Huffington, and We Can Tear It Down Too
Adbusters: The Left Built Huffington, and We Can Tear It Down Too
The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home.
David Edwards · 7,864 views · unrated
Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology
Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology
One of the most frequent criticisms leveled against the sustainable agriculture movement is that its proponents want to send farmers back to 19th-century hard labor, with hand weeding and harvesting. Here's an incredibly cool group of eco-minded "farmer-scientists" who aren't...
Bonnie Azab Powell · 7,207 views · 100%
Huffington’s Plunder
Huffington’s Plunder
I was in New York City on Thursday night at the Brecht Forum to discuss with the photographer Eugene Richards his powerful new book “War Is Personal” when I was approached for an interview by a blogger for The Huffington Post. I had just finished speaking with another...
Chris Hedges · 6,682 views · 100%
Why the Planes Were Not Intercepted on 9/11: The Wall Street Lawyer and the Special Ops Hijack Coordinator
Why the Planes Were Not Intercepted on 9/11: The Wall Street Lawyer and the Special Ops Hijack Coordinator
Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted?  A rough answer is that the failure of the US air defenses can be traced to a number of factors and people.  There were policy...
Kevin Ryan · 6,488 views · unrated
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: “To Destroy This Invisible Government”
Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy: “To Destroy This Invisible Government”
“To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in...
Zunguzungu · 6,177 views · 100%
Soul Of A Citizen: 'From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist'
Soul Of A Citizen: 'From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist'
When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. Here's a striking example of one such transformation.
Paul Loeb · 5,602 views · 100%
Michael Moore To Rachel Maddow On Wisconsin: 'This Is War' (Video)
Michael Moore To Rachel Maddow On Wisconsin: 'This Is War' (Video)
Jack Mirkinson · 5,038 views · 100%
“I used to be an activist.”
“I used to be an activist.”
“Back in the 60’s I was an activist too, but you’ve just got to learn how to be realistic.” These words seem to form a brick wall that many of us have run up against. The good-hearted person that just can’t help out anymore because they’ve gotten cynical or exhausted...
Daniel Giles Helm · 4,661 views · 100%
Hypocritical US Smuggles Weapons Into Argentina
Hypocritical US Smuggles Weapons Into Argentina
BBC News reports that Argentina has accused the US of trying to smuggle weapons and satellite phones into the country after cargo on a US military plane was seized last week. Based on the assumption that Argentina’s claims are accurate this issue displays yet another...
Punk Johnny Cash · 4,594 views · 100%
Malayasia: Bidayuh villagers set fire to logging camps, 13 heavy machines
Malayasia: Bidayuh villagers set fire to logging camps, 13 heavy machines
Residents from 10 Bidayuh villagers this week set fire to five logging camps and thirteen heavy machines in a stark protest against logging activities on their land, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
Intercontinental Cry · 4,361 views · unrated
Save Yourself to Save the World
Save Yourself to Save the World
In a country dealing with debt, unending wars, worsening inequality, instability and social injustice, is it possible to bring about any real change? What's the path to contribute to the resolution of big, global problems on an individual level?
Dylan Ratigan · 3,733 views · 75%
Revealed: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
Revealed: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
These days, with Facebook and Twitter and social media galore, it can be increasingly hard to tell who your "friends" are.
Stephen C. Webster · 3,496 views · 100%
Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model?
Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model?
Chris Hedges’ new TruthDig column, Huffington’s Plunder, raises a topic that seems to provoke a lot of uneasiness in the liberal blogosphere. It points a spotlight on the business model pioneered by one of the country’s most prominent progressive voices, Arianna Huffington.
Stan · 3,438 views · 100%
Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
Ryan Singel · 2,889 views · unrated
This Amazing Music Video Wants Us to Kick Our Plastic Bag Addiction 3 min
This Amazing Music Video Wants Us to Kick Our Plastic Bag Addiction
Not only have these two artists solved the greatest existential question facing modern society (paper or plastic?), they did it while singing a mind-blowing parody of Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind." My hat is off to them. - Tim Hjersted
Ben Zolno · 19,313 views · 100%
Link Up, Get Organized! Join the Movement for Economic Change
Link Up, Get Organized! Join the Movement for Economic Change
Across the world millions of people are actively resisting the process of corporate globalization while simultaneously building viable local alternatives. Effective (and enjoyable!) change, in both cases, requires collective action – linking hands with like-minded people –...
International Society for Ecology and Culture · 8,312 views · 100%
The Story of Stuff 21 min
The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption...
The Story of Stuff Project · 31,826 views · 87%
So How Did We Get Into This Mess? - a 20 Minute Summary That Goes Back 10,000 Years 20 min
So How Did We Get Into This Mess? - a 20 Minute Summary That Goes Back 10,000 Years
An excerpt from What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire (Part 3: The Locomotive Power).  Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning. What is it...
SpartacusMoriarty · 16,938 views · 75%
Carbon Nation: How To Really Tackle Climate Change 82 min
Carbon Nation: How To Really Tackle Climate Change (2010)
Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan documentary that illustrates why it's incredibly smart to be a part of the new, low-carbon economy: it's good business, it emboldens national and energy security, and it improves health and the environment.
13,017 views · 75%
Other Economies are Possible! Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity
Other Economies are Possible! Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity
Consider this: thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects are in the process of creating the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism.   It might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker, consumer, and housing...
Ethan Miller · 10,911 views · 100%
A Link between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never. 4 min
A Link between Climate Change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never.
An op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
SWTAFX · 3,618 views · 75%
Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion 43 min
Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion
Oct 8th 2011, Marina Del Rey California. This program considers the quality of our beliefs, actions and intents within the overarching context of what supports good public health, prosperity and sustainability and what does not. The subjects of Politics, Economics and...
TZMOfficialChannel · 13,269 views · 94%
Transfer Your Money From Big Banks To Community Banks 5 min
Transfer Your Money From Big Banks To Community Banks
JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, a few friends were having dinner wondering what personal actions they could take to help limit the power of the big banks and create a more sane, stable financial system. How, they wondered, could they help end the era of Too Big To Fail? The financier...
moveyourmoneyproject · 8,556 views · 88%
Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World 8 min
Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World
Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, addresses Occupy Wall St, offering thoughts on the Media, Violence & Solutions going forward. Please share. The Revolution is Now.
The Zeitgeist Movement · 5,919 views · 92%
350.org: Because the World Needs to Know 1 min
350.org: Because the World Needs to Know
350 is the most important number in the world. This number is the safe line for our global climate and a start line for a global movement. Join 350.org to take action in your community, engage our world's leaders, and build an international movement to solve the climate...
350.org · 2,984 views · 50%
Occupy World St.: From NYC to Everywhere 12 min
Occupy World St.: From NYC to Everywhere
All over the globe people are rising up and demanding their rights in a worldwide rally of discontent as over 1,500 protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement spread around the world on Saturday, October 15th.
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The Story of Citizens United v. FEC 9 min
The Story of Citizens United v. FEC
The crisis of corporate influence over American democracy is the latest subject of award-winning Internet filmmaker, Annie Leonard.
The Story of Stuff Project · 8,852 views · 100%
Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers, 9/11 Commissioners Themselves Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers, 9/11 Commissioners Themselves Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
The two main players in releasing the Pentagon Papers were Daniel Ellsberg and United States Senator Mike Gravel.
Washington's Blog · 3,996 views · 100%
Martin Luther King: Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam 23 min
Martin Luther King: Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967. Part 1 is a 2 minute highlight. Part 2 is the full speech.
FreeAssange1 · 11,363 views · 100%
Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must
Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must
The book you're holding carries a message that your first instinct will be to distrust. That message is, We can change the world. It's risky these days to make such a promise because it sounds like one of those meaningless "awaken the inner giant" - type bromides: If you can...
Kalle Lasn · 11,244 views · 100%
An Open Message to the 99% (Occupy Wall St) 5 min
An Open Message to the 99% (Occupy Wall St)
Revolutions are dangerous and unpredictable beasts, and for a population to enter into one without fully understanding what is at stake is much like handing a loaded 45 automatic to a toddler. Following is advice to the Occupy Wall St movement, stressing the single point of...
AtlantisTelegraph · 6,260 views · 75%
All Power to the People! The Black Panther Party & Beyond 116 min
All Power to the People! The Black Panther Party & Beyond (1996)
All Power to the People! examines problems of race, poverty, dissent, and the universal conflict of the “haves versus the have nots”. U.S. government documents, rare news clips, and interviews with both ex-activists and former FBI/CIA officers, provide deep insight into the...
Lee Lew-Lee · 6,065 views · 62%
After Peaceful Oakland General Strike, Occupation of Building Leads to Police Confrontation
After Peaceful Oakland General Strike, Occupation of Building Leads to Police Confrontation
Last night, after one of the most remarkable days of resistance in recent history, some of us within Occupy Oakland took an important next step: we extended the occupation to an unused building near Oscar Grant Plaza. We did this, first off, in order to secure the shelter and...
some friends of Occupy Oakland · 4,090 views · unrated
Dealing With Uncertainty: Why Reaching Out to Young People Is so Important
Dealing With Uncertainty: Why Reaching Out to Young People Is so Important
What does a young kid do when she realizes that the map she's been given by her parents and school teachers to navigate this world is almost entirely outdated?
Tim Hjersted · 17,076 views · 98%
The Story of Cosmetics 8 min
The Story of Cosmetics
The Story of Cosmetics examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced by Free Range Studios and hosted by Annie Leonard, the eight-minute film reveals the implications for consumer and worker...
The Story of Stuff Project · 14,397 views · 100%
The Kochs and the Guv Stir Up a Hornets' Nest
The Kochs and the Guv Stir Up a Hornets' Nest
Thank you, Scott Walker! And you, too, Charles and David Koch! Thanks for being so ham-handed in pushing your self-serving, virulently anti-union agenda on the schoolteachers, health care workers, park rangers and other public employees of Wisconsin.
Jim Hightower · 10,859 views · 100%
Calm Before the Storm 27 min
Calm Before the Storm
Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most of the best opportunities to manage collapse. He asks, “how far down the staircase of...
peakmoment · 5,874 views · unrated
Buy This Bankrupt Satellite to Share Internet With the Poor
Buy This Bankrupt Satellite to Share Internet With the Poor
Tim Hjersted · 3,443 views · 88%
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