Activism
After a week that saw a militarized police crackdown and the imposition of a nighttime curfew (for people protesting the shooting of Michael Brown), Amnesty International USA has taken an “unprecedented” step by sending a 13-person delegation to monitor the developments in Ferguson, Missouri. It is the first time Amnesty organization has deployed observers inside the United States. Amy Goodman speaks to Steven Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty International USA.
After removing the magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You for sale, Tesco is learning about exactly what makes for a good corporate brand. Hundreds and hundreds of subscribers have informed Tesco that they are boycotting the store chain as the story has gone wildly viral on the internet.
Alexis Brooks discusses the latest on the geo-engineering program and the growing movement to expose its reality to the masses with LOOK UP! creator, George Barnes It was just five short months ago when I first met with commercial photographer and film maker George Barnes about the issue of geo-engineering and its potentially grave […]
Is the destruction occurring not the litmus test of our own ‘humanity’ and what it means to be human? To feel? To be Conscious? To be awake, alive, sentient? How much violence is enough violence? When will we grow sufficiently weary of violence as a solution and turn our hearts to care for one another enough?
Israelis have been so traumatized by the savage suicide bombing campaigns of Hamas, that it is psychologically impossible for many to acknowledge that it has become an intimate strategic partner of the militant Israeli government.
Last Friday thousands of people marched through downtown Detroit to call attention to City Hall shutting off the water for residents behind on their bills. Meanwhile, General Motors and the city’s two sports arenas, which owe millions in unpaid water bills, have not had their water turned off.
Join Kimberly Gamble in this short video as she discusses her journey in discovering her purpose and the importance of finding and aligning with your own.
Empathy is a primary evolutionary force of mankind. It is part of our common universal language. We need to nurture and pass it on to the next generation as a heritage of a human culture. The survival of the species depends on our capacity to feel the pain of others as if it is our own. For this I say Chelsea Manning did a great service to humanity. She taught us all that it is this vulnerable love for our fellow human beings that can overcome the darkness in the world.
RootsAction and Jewish Voice for Peace ask for your signature on a powerful Open Letter condemning the rampant assault on human rights in Israel and Palestine.
We love LEGO. You love LEGO. Everyone loves LEGO. But when LEGO’s halo effect is being used to sell propaganda to children, especially by an unethical corporation who are busy destroying the natural world our children will inherit, we have to do something.
Alexis speaks with parent advocate for special needs families and author of A Unique Life Fully Lived – Karen Kain “My daughter Lorrin was like the Grand Canyon. Some go to the edge and see a big hole, and others witness one of God’s wonders.” – Karen Kain, author of A Unique Life Fully Lived […]
Brad Pitt has been partnering with Fort Peck, Montana Sioux and Assiniboine nation tribes to build 20 super green homes for residents whose income levels are at or below 60 percent the area’s mean income, with a percentage of the homes reserved for seniors and disabled veterans
To celebrate 4th of July, I thought it would be best to share with you, a few of the many valuable life lessons we can all learn from many great men and women who campaigned for human and civil rights and promoted freedom. People like Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln who issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. Martin Luther King who inspired the American civil rights movement and organized the 1963 March on Washington, where he gave his famous “I have a dream” speech. Eleanor Roosevelt who devoted her life to gaining freedom rights for others. Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. And many others.
Those who seek to live outside hierarchical systems of control have found themselves increasingly embattled as “civilization” has endlessly expanded.Numerous examples of people in the western world seeking to get off the grid, free from the imposed control of government, make it clear that the impetus is one felt throughout humanity.
Investigative journalist Will Potter shares his personal experiences and insights about the government’s use of power to silence truth and suppress dissent (including nonviolent protests) regarding what some large corporations are doing to harm the environment, animals, whales, and more.
