Media Edge

"16 Women and Donald Trump" (4 minutes)

16 women have come forward to report being sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump. Seeing their stories together is incredibly powerful, and damning.

It's time to hold him to account.



"The Laura Flanders Show" (27 minutes)

This show comes from Whitakers, North Carolina and the annual gathering of the Southern Movement Assemblies  -- a living experiment in popular democracy and local self governance. Plantation politics, monopoly capitalism, incarceration instead of peace: a lot of the worst of the American experience has it roots in the US South, but so does much of the best, from slave revolts, to abolition, to organized labor and civil rights. If the country goes as the South goes, what grassroots progressives do here matters.



"Say No To Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" (1 minute)

Members of the native Gwich'in tribe say the refuge is sacred land and should not be drilled for oil.

Footage provided by Patagonia.



"How to Transform Apocalypse Fatigue into Action on Global Warming" (15 minutes)

The biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes. He's spent years studying the defenses we use to avoid thinking about the demise of our planet — and figuring out a new way of talking about global warming that keeps us from shutting down. Step away from the doomsday narratives and learn how to make caring for the earth feel personable, do-able and empowering with this fun, informative talk.



"War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State" (70 minutes)

This film highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.