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MLK: Road to Revolution and the Promised Land 17 min
MLK: Road to Revolution and the Promised Land
17 min · Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.
UNREDACTED: Debunking Every Pro-Capitalism Argument! 27 min
UNREDACTED: Debunking Every Pro-Capitalism Argument!
27 min · In this special episode of Unredacted Tonight, Lee Camp takes on capitalism, market economics, and the myths of the “free market” using comedy, data, and real-world examples. From...
FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America 14 min
FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America
14 min · What really happened in the United States in 1933?
Columbia Professor Is Secret Israeli Spy And She's At The Heart of Mahmoud Khalil Scandal 8 min
Columbia Professor Is Secret Israeli Spy And She's At The Heart of Mahmoud Khalil Scandal
8 min · The shocking truth behind the Columbia University deportation scandal, the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmud Khalil, and the role of Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, a former Israeli military...
Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor 18 min
Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor
18 min · Sonya explores the impact of calling out and calling in people who have caused harm. She offers us a third alternative - “calling on”. We often think that discerning someone’s intent is...
Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening 40 min
Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening
40 min · LeeCampBook.com
Trees Matter 8 min
Trees Matter
8 min · Through music, dance, song and stunning visuals, the importance of protecting, preserving and planting urban trees is artfully expressed in this unique collaboration involving members of...
Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People. Here's How We Fix It 21 min
Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People. Here's How We Fix It
21 min · Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually...
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards 12 min
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards
12 min · We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people - we must examine privilege and power in our relationships with our children, the world’s most vulnerable citizens...
This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay 19 min
This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay
19 min · Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's...
Marriage 2.0 -- a system update for lifelong relationships | Liza Shaw | TEDxHickory 19 min
Marriage 2.0 -- a system update for lifelong relationships | Liza Shaw | TEDxHickory
19 min · Liza is the Director of Marriage and Family Therapy Services in Hickory, NC and a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). She received her...
I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young 10 min
I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young
10 min · Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she'd like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration...
Why we love, why we cheat | Helen Fisher 25 min
Why we love, why we cheat | Helen Fisher
25 min · http://www.ted.com Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a...
Polyamory | Leon Feingold | TEDxBushwick 20 min
Polyamory | Leon Feingold | TEDxBushwick
20 min · Polyamorous relationships consist of individuals of multi-partner relationships and families. Leon offers an insight through his journey in finding polyamory as the means to creating...
Bayard Rustin: An unsung hero of the civil rights movement 5 min
Bayard Rustin: An unsung hero of the civil rights movement
5 min · Learn about the life of Bayard Rustin, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a gay rights activist, and one of Martin Luther King’s closest advisors. -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr...
The Atlantic Slave Trade: What too Few Textbooks Told You 6 min
The Atlantic Slave Trade: What too Few Textbooks Told You
6 min · Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its...
Notes of a Native Son: the World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer 5 min
Notes of a Native Son: the World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer
5 min · James Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic whose essays in “Notes of a Native Son” explored race, sex and class distinctions. -- In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000...
The Great Realisation 4 min
The Great Realisation
4 min · A bedtime story of how it started, and why hindsight’s 2020 🛌 🧸 by Probably Tomfoolery.
CNN Hilariously Shills For Billionaire Bloomberg! 11 min
CNN Hilariously Shills For Billionaire Bloomberg!
11 min · CNN cannot hide their biases. They are a voice for the mega-wealthy. So it's no surprise that they're boosting the candidacy of the billionaire Michael Bloomberg. They brought on a...
How to Stop Poverty: Start a Worker-Owned Cooperative | Jim Brown 18 min
How to Stop Poverty: Start a Worker-Owned Cooperative | Jim Brown
18 min · Why is chronic poverty tolerated in America? Is our economic system flawed? Through personal stories and insights, University of Alabama professor J. Palmer (Jim) Brown explores the...
CNBC Anchor Nearly Chokes On Air When Told The Truth (Web Exclusive) 7 min
CNBC Anchor Nearly Chokes On Air When Told The Truth (Web Exclusive)
7 min · Mad Money host Jim Cramer called fossil fuel investments toxic in an interview on CNBC the other week and it was hilarious to watch his interviewer try to square Cramer's opinion with...
Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy | Katherine Trebeck 16 min
Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy | Katherine Trebeck
16 min · Katherine is the Policy and Knowledge Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. She has over eight years’ experience in various roles with Oxfam GB - as a Senior Researcher for the Global...
My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini 21 min
My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini
21 min · At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did...
You Are Not Your Body | Janine Shepherd 20 min
You Are Not Your Body | Janine Shepherd
20 min · We often define ourselves by things that are "outside" us: relationships, work, family — even our own bodies. But what would it mean to have your life dramatically altered and your body...
An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins 19 min
An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins
19 min · John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who...
We’re Doing Dying All Wrong | Ken Hillman 15 min
We’re Doing Dying All Wrong | Ken Hillman
15 min · As a world leader in managing the care of very sick people, Ken Hillman’s breakthrough methods of treating critically ill patients have become the gold standard in Australia, the U.S...
Biomimicry Explained with Drawings & Examples 5 min
Biomimicry Explained with Drawings & Examples
5 min · Sustainability Illustrated presents the concept of Biomimicry:
The Secret Language of Trees 5 min
The Secret Language of Trees
5 min · Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi, called mycorrhizae.
How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee 13 min
How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee
13 min · When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have great conversations – and most of us don’t converse very well.
Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan 16 min
Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan
16 min · Chris Jordan is all in on beauty. After photographing sea birds dying by the dozens from consuming bits of plastic, Chris had a revelation: It was time to refocus in his lens on the...
What would happen if everything was free? | Colin R. Turner | TEDxGalway 19 min
What would happen if everything was free? | Colin R. Turner | TEDxGalway
19 min · Challenging social norms is never easy, but, Colin argues, our social norms have created a crisis - and challenge them we must if we are to move to the next phase of our continuing...
How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey 16 min
How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey
16 min · The latest research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. So how do we harness our attention to focus deeper, get distracted less, and even become more...
How to Green the World's Deserts and Reverse Climate Change | Allan Savory 23 min
How to Green the World's Deserts and Reverse Climate Change | Allan Savory
23 min · "Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the...
How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson 12 min
How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson
12 min · In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for...
Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy 16 min
Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy
16 min · How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals ...
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley 18 min
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley
18 min · Ideas aren't good or bad because of what licenses people slap on them. Just relate to the ideas themselves.
Creating Freedom: Raoul Martinez at TEDxWhitechapel 18 min
Creating Freedom: Raoul Martinez at TEDxWhitechapel
18 min · Much about who we are is determined by the lottery of our birth. We inherit genes we didn't ask for, and are faced with a world we played no part in creating. In short, we are shaped by...
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis 17 min
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis
17 min · What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that...
Supporting Education Through Community Engagement (TEDx Talk 2013) 12 min
Supporting Education Through Community Engagement (TEDx Talk 2013)
12 min · "How can we best utilize our communities to support the education of our children while also encouraging community participation?"
Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels 12 min
Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels
12 min · In June this year, I spent two and a half months converting a 1986 Toyota Hiace into my home and office. Watch the camper conversion process and also see a tour of the finished van...
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy 4 min
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy
4 min · There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy...
Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory 23 min
Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory
23 min · Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives: Stepping Outside Our Moral Matrix - Jonathan Haidt 18 min
The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives: Stepping Outside Our Moral Matrix - Jonathan Haidt
18 min · Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right, or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the...
The Boy Crisis: A Sobering look at the State of our Boys - Warren Farrell Ph.D. 13 min
The Boy Crisis: A Sobering look at the State of our Boys - Warren Farrell Ph.D.
13 min · What is causing a worldwide Boy Crisis and how do we resolve it. A sobering look at the current state of Boys in our society and what we must understand before we can help them.
My Son Was a Columbine Shooter. This is My Story. 16 min
My Son Was a Columbine Shooter. This is My Story.
16 min · Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and 1 teacher. She's spent years excavating...
The Failure Of Success 13 min
The Failure Of Success
13 min · In his talk "The Failure Of Success", Dr. George Land gives us a brief history of human innovation and talks about the importance of creativity.
Earth Overshoot Day Explained 3 min
Earth Overshoot Day Explained
3 min · This video explains our Ecological Footprint and Earth Overshoot Day with a particular focus on the #movethedate campaign to move back the day of ecological overshoot.
Be the Change in the Messed up World - ​Rob ​Greenfield at Tedx 18 min
Be the Change in the Messed up World - ​Rob ​Greenfield at Tedx
18 min · Individual actions can amount to change at a large scale. In his talk, Rob explains how this applies to environmentally friendly living. His extreme activism initiatives, such as the...
The Philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci 5 min
The Philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci
5 min · What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that...
How Good Boundaries Can Free You 15 min
How Good Boundaries Can Free You
15 min · Your story is shaped by what you are saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to. Every single person on the planet knows the challenge of boundary setting. But being clear about what you will, and will...
Universal Wisdom Meditation 12 min
Universal Wisdom Meditation
12 min · This guided meditation is offered as a way of connecting to our deeper purpose as a unique expression of the Universal Wisdom to support the co-creation for a new planetary story...
Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm! 6 min
Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm!
6 min · From our fellow change agents at United Earth….
The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism 5 min
The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism
5 min · In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of...
How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe? 4 min
How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?
4 min · In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The location was apparently empty, and the whole endeavor was risky – what, if anything, was...
How to Grow Happiness in the Brain 17 min
How to Grow Happiness in the Brain
17 min · Mithu Storoni is an author, a University of Cambridge-trained medical doctor (MD), certified in Ophthalmology, and also holds a PhD in Neuro-ophthalmology. Her book, 'Stress-Proof'...
Everyone Is a Story | Nora Jaccaud 12 min
Everyone Is a Story | Nora Jaccaud
12 min · Nora Jaccaud is the co-creator of Human Postcards, an ongoing web series of 60-second video portraits capturing the powerful messages of everyday people from around the world. In this...
What Is a Gift Economy? - Alex Gendler 4 min
What Is a Gift Economy? - Alex Gendler
4 min · What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week...
Why Are We so Attached to Our Things? 4 min
Why Are We so Attached to Our Things?
4 min · After witnessing the "violent rage" shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget - a founding father of child psychology - observed something...
The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film 5 min
The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film
5 min · Narcissism isn't just a personality type that shows up in advice columns; it's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. But what causes it? And can narcissists...
Can Plants Talk to Each Other? 4 min
Can Plants Talk to Each Other?
4 min · Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn't seem that way: They don't have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pretty passive. But odd as it...
How Dystopian Stories Provide Cautionary Tales for Now and the Future 6 min
How Dystopian Stories Provide Cautionary Tales for Now and the Future
6 min · The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler...
Beyond the Culture of Contest 18 min
Beyond the Culture of Contest
18 min · Michael Karlberg is a professor in the Department of Communication at Western Washington University. He completed his Ph.D. in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in...
The Future of Race in America: Michelle Alexander at Tedx 24 min
The Future of Race in America: Michelle Alexander at Tedx
24 min · Michelle Alexander posits that mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system in the United States. After the Civil Rights Movement, a “wave of punitive” legislation swept across...
How Did Hitler Rise to Power? 5 min
How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
5 min · Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have...
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live 15 min
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live
15 min · How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to...
What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee? 6 min
What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?
6 min · About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning...
The Origin of Countless Conspiracy Theories 4 min
The Origin of Countless Conspiracy Theories
4 min · Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found...
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do 6 min
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
6 min · In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected?...
How to Upgrade Democracy for the Internet Era 13 min
How to Upgrade Democracy for the Internet Era
13 min · Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legislative process...
Brown, Trans, Queer, Muslim and Proud 15 min
Brown, Trans, Queer, Muslim and Proud
15 min · In this moving and powerful talk, Sabah Choudrey talks about his life as a transgender Muslim and how his different identities collide.  Sabah is a UK-based Pakistani trans activist...
The Gift 7 min
The Gift
7 min · The Gift is the story of an ordinary couple, when he gives her a small sphere pulled out his chest, she can't separate herself from her new gift… even after they break up.
Should You Trust Unanimous Decisions? 4 min
Should You Trust Unanimous Decisions?
4 min · Imagine a police lineup where ten witnesses are asked to identify a bank robber they glimpsed fleeing the scene. If six of them pick the same person, there’s a good chance that’s the...
Be Kinder: Jennifer Wood at Tedxhamburg 18 min
Be Kinder: Jennifer Wood at Tedxhamburg
18 min · It should never happen again, but it does. Genocide after the Holocaust continues to happen. What can we do? This talk explores how kindness and empathy can be cultivated, and how we can...
Food Security by Nammalvar at Tedx Trichy 22 min
Food Security by Nammalvar at Tedx Trichy
22 min · Nammalvar, an agriculturist from India explain food security and the need for organic farming in our developing world.
How Stress Affects Your Brain 4 min
How Stress Affects Your Brain
4 min · 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...
Basic Income and Other Ways to Fix Capitalism | Federico Pistono | Tedxhaarlem 20 min
Basic Income and Other Ways to Fix Capitalism | Federico Pistono | Tedxhaarlem
20 min · 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...
A BIG Idea, a Bot Idea -- How Smart Policy Will Advance Tech | Albert Wenger | Tedxnewyork 18 min
A BIG Idea, a Bot Idea -- How Smart Policy Will Advance Tech | Albert Wenger | Tedxnewyork
18 min · 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...
Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature? 12 min
Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature?
12 min · Marine scientist and ocean advocate Wallace "J." Nichols explores the neuroscience of our brains on nature, and posits that our love of the natural world holds the key to preserving it.
Will Potter: the Shocking Move to Criminalize Nonviolent Protest 5 min
Will Potter: the Shocking Move to Criminalize Nonviolent Protest
5 min · In 2002, investigative journalist and TED Fellow Will Potter decided to take a break from his regular beat, writing about shootings and murders for the Chicago Tribune. He went to help a...
Robots Stealing My Jobs 7 min
Robots Stealing My Jobs
7 min · Every Job I've Ever Had Has-Been (or Will-Be) Automated
When I See Them I See Us: Black-Palestinian Solidarity 3 min
When I See Them I See Us: Black-Palestinian Solidarity
3 min · Over 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists affirm Black-Palestinian solidarity in our new video. Featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice...
It's Time for Porn to Change | Erika Lust | Tedxvienna 12 min
It's Time for Porn to Change | Erika Lust | Tedxvienna
12 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It's time for porn to change #changeporn Erika Lust is an independent erotic filmmaker and...
Journey to Ecuador's Secret Oil Road 9 min
Journey to Ecuador's Secret Oil Road
9 min · In an exclusive investigation for reported.ly, journalist Nina Bigalke travelled to an oil concession deep in the Amazon rainforest to film an illegal access road, the existence of which...
Margaret Heffernan: Why It's Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work 15 min
Margaret Heffernan: Why It's Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work
15 min · Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most...
The Right to Be Rescued 14 min
The Right to Be Rescued
14 min · “The Right to be Rescued” is a short documentary that tells the stories of people with disabilities affected by Hurricane Katrina. Released days before the 10th anniversary of the storm...
Defining Sustainability and Discovering the Root Causes of Unsustainability 8 min
Defining Sustainability and Discovering the Root Causes of Unsustainability
8 min · This short film presents a simple definition of sustainability based on natural cycles and a scientific consensus, as well as the four root causes of unsustainability.
We're #NotOnTheMenu - Restaurant Workers Challenge Sexual Harassment and Call for One Fair Wage 3 min
We're #NotOnTheMenu - Restaurant Workers Challenge Sexual Harassment and Call for One Fair Wage
3 min · If you’re a woman living off tips, you’re practically guaranteed to deal with sexual harassment. We’re tired of being told to accept it as ‘just part of the job.’ We are tired of feeling...
Why Humans Run the World | Yuval Noah Harari | TED Talks 17 min
Why Humans Run the World | Yuval Noah Harari | TED Talks
17 min · Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree...
US Police Killings in 2015: Inside the Shocking Numbers in 2 Minutes 2 min
US Police Killings in 2015: Inside the Shocking Numbers in 2 Minutes
2 min · The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and, as of 1 July 2015, 547 people have been killed by law enforcement. (This video shows the figures up to 29 June...
What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning? 15 min
What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning?
15 min · Peter Hutton is the principal of Templestowe College, one of the most innovative schools in Australia. He has developed a radical solution, empowering students to control their own...
Understanding The Peace Code In The Human Brain 19 min
Understanding The Peace Code In The Human Brain
19 min · Ground-breaking discoveries about early childhood and the human brain have offered vital clues about the roots of human violence and social disharmony. Our brains’ empathy centres grow –...
Connected Walls 8 min
Connected Walls
8 min · 25 years after the physical Berlin Wall came down and ended the “Mauerkrankheit”, 41 separation walls are still dividing entire populations. By diminishing dialogue perspectives, they...
Mark Ruffalo Reads Eugene Debs 5 min
Mark Ruffalo Reads Eugene Debs
5 min · Actor Mark Ruffalo reads union leader Eugene Debs' famous "Canton, Ohio" speech. Part of a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove)...
The Surprising Truth about Rejection | Cam Adair | TEDxFargo 15 min
The Surprising Truth about Rejection | Cam Adair | TEDxFargo
15 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Cam Adair tells a story of our society's collective nightmare: rejection. It's a story we've all...
Why We Should Give Everyone a Basic Income 17 min
Why We Should Give Everyone a Basic Income
17 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Rutger Bregman (1988) studied at Utrecht University and the University of California in Los...
Pay Attention to Nonviolence 10 min
Pay Attention to Nonviolence
10 min · Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? Filmmaker Julia Bacha has spent the last 8 years documenting Israelis and Palestinians who are trying to end the conflict using peaceful means. There are...
Clint Smith: The Danger of Silence 4 min
Clint Smith: The Danger of Silence
4 min · "We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," says slam poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece...
Slavery & The Qatar 2022 World Cup 3 min
Slavery & The Qatar 2022 World Cup
3 min · Take action for a slavery-free 2022 World Cup at www.walkfree.org/qatar Migrant workers in Qatar are living, working and dying in modern slavery to bring the world the 2022 World Cup...
How to Start an Empathy Revolution 17 min
How to Start an Empathy Revolution
17 min · Empathy can be a force for radical social change, but only if we understand how to unleash it.
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx 13 min
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx
13 min · Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be...
Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men 19 min
Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men
19 min · This should really get your brain thinking in entirely new ways.
How to Inspire Grassroots Change in Your City 11 min
How to Inspire Grassroots Change in Your City
11 min · Kristin Stith and Paul Klein are MBA students and full time professionals in Reno, Nevada. In this video they describe how you can start a grassroots movement of change in your city...
Evgeny Morozov: How the Internet strengthens dictatorships 12 min
Evgeny Morozov: How the Internet strengthens dictatorships
12 min · http://www.ted.com TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with...
The 'Sexy Lie' We Should Be Talking About 12 min
The 'Sexy Lie' We Should Be Talking About
12 min · "I am here today to talk about a lie." That's how politics professor Caroline Heldman opened her Jan. 2013 TEDxYouth San Diego talk on the topic of sexual objectification. "I'd like to...
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless 11 min
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless
11 min · With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.
Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx 10 min
Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx
10 min · Nature's beauty can be easily missed - but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David...
How To Occupy The Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie @ TEDxVictoria 2013 13 min
How To Occupy The Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie @ TEDxVictoria 2013
13 min · Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie's most recent film, Occupy Love...
Wonderful World of Worms: Cathy Nesbitt at TEDx The Annex Women 9 min
Wonderful World of Worms: Cathy Nesbitt at TEDx The Annex Women
9 min · Cathy Nesbitt discusses "The Wonderful World of Worms: The Unsung Heroes". Imagine worm composting in every home, every business, every school ... In the spirit of ideas worth spreading...
This film will change the way you see dignity! 5 min
This film will change the way you see dignity!
5 min · A short film on poverty, dignity, and the unconquerable nature of the human soul. I consider this to be my first formal short film. Winner of the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD- Manhattan...
LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing 16 min
LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing
16 min · The triple bottom line for business is people, planet, profit. What is it for housing? A group of people in Leeds, England have built a cohousing project that sets a triple-benefit bar...
Michael Sandel: Why We Shouldn't Trust Markets with Our Civic Life 15 min
Michael Sandel: Why We Shouldn't Trust Markets with Our Civic Life
15 min · In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends...
The World Becomes What You Teach 17 min
The World Becomes What You Teach
17 min · This video is a popular TEDx talk by Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (www.HumaneEducation.org). She is a pioneer in the comprehensive humane...
Raw: Deadly Typhoon Ravages Philippines 2 min
Raw: Deadly Typhoon Ravages Philippines
2 min · Deadly flooding in the Philippines from a typhoon has claimed dozens of lives. A governor says at least 33 drowned when water dumped by the storm rushed down a mountain and engulfed the...
Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization 4 min
Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization
4 min · Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from...
Justin Hall-Tipping: "The Future of the Power Plant Is No Power Plant" 12 min
Justin Hall-Tipping: "The Future of the Power Plant Is No Power Plant"
12 min · What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how...
TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph: The Big Question 10 min
TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph: The Big Question
10 min · Peter Joseph is a director, writer, producer, editor, composer and creator of the Zeitgeist movies series. He is an independent filmmaker who has written, directed, narrated, scored and...
Turning the Farm Bill into the Food Bill - TEDxManhattan - Ken Cook 14 min
Turning the Farm Bill into the Food Bill - TEDxManhattan - Ken Cook
14 min · By tradition, it’s called “the farm bill.” To EWG it ought to be the “food bill.” And instead of spending billions of your dollars in ways that harm water quality and wildlife, it should...
Dave Meslin: Redefining Apathy 7 min
Dave Meslin: Redefining Apathy
7 min · In this Tedx talk, Dave Meslin argues that it isn't apathy that keeps people from engaging in politics. People do care, he argues, but the barriers to participation make it prohibitively...
Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil 18 min
Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil
18 min · Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for...
It's Not All Hopeless! Here Are Seven Ways We Can Win the Sustainability Endgame 15 min
It's Not All Hopeless! Here Are Seven Ways We Can Win the Sustainability Endgame
15 min · Think it's all hopeless? Think there are too many problems and our children's future is doomed? In 16 minutes, renowned and inspiring speaker Guy Dauncey explains why pessimism is the...
Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World 18 min
Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World
18 min · Mycologist Paul Stamets breaks down many of the discoveries he's made studying mycelium - and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.
James Howard Kunstler: The Tragedy of Suburbia 22 min
James Howard Kunstler: The Tragedy of Suburbia
22 min · In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is...
Howard Zinn's Speech on Civil Disobedience 9 min
Howard Zinn's Speech on Civil Disobedience
9 min · Part 1:
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