Since March 2015, a Saudi-Emirati led coalition has relied on U.S. support and participation in its airstrikes and blockade against Yemen. Barrages of bombardment targeting civilian infrastructure, plus a paralyzing air, sea and water blockade have exacerbated suffering as Yemenis face near-famine conditions and widespread diseases, including cholera. Author, speaker, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence

A day of art and music to express not just how it hurts to live with the constant assault of mineral extraction, but how immense is people's love for their home place. That was the focus of The Ground Beneath Our Hearts, a community-generated spectacle that unfolded in ten places around the world on September 12, 2015. This video tells the story of what happened.

Energy Justice Shale Convergence Wyoming County, PA March 13 - 16, 2015 Presented by Faith Zerbe Water Watch Director, Delaware Riverkeeper Network This presentation was part of the Community Enforcement & Legal Strategies workshop. Per the organizers: "Participants will explore an array of legal strategies and issues pertaining to shale gas development, including community monitoring projects, eminent domain, permit appeals, local ordinances, and more." This particular presentation...

Laila Hasan is a Palestinian from a village in the Hebron District in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. She is the co-founder of the Women in Hebron embroidery and sewing cooperative. Laila will tell of some of the obstacles Women in Hebron faced when they opened a shop in Hebron's Old City at the height of the second intifada. She will also share stories of life in the villages around Hebron. Translator and Assistant: Jawakin Kamil Introductory remarks by Jim Clune, Broome County Peace Action.

A Family's Fight to Protect Their Land Catherine & Megan Holleran take viewers on a tour of their family's property, currently under eminent domain threat from the Constitution Pipeline, which will carry fracked gas from the wells of Pennsylvania to upstate New York. They are joined in the second half of the video by Alex Lotorto of Energy Justice Network.

Clare Grady is one of seven Catholic plowshares activists who entered Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares”.

The Middle East: U.S./NATO Plan Video from the No Foreign Bases conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. Presenters: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK; Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center; Bahman Azad, Organizational Secretary, U.S. Peace Council

Steven Druker is a public interest attorney who founded the Alliance for Bio-Integrity and, as its executive director, initiated a lawsuit that forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods — which revealed that the agency had covered up the warnings of its own scientists about the risks and has been consistently misrepresenting the facts. His influential book, Altered Genes Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has...

Sane Energy Project's goal is to replace shale gas infrastructure with renewable infrastructure. We oppose the development, transport, and export of fracked shale gas ("natural gas"). We support a rapid switch to renewable energy and the goal of zero fossil fuel dependence by 2030, as outlined by the 2009 Stanford University Study. Sane Energy Project is a grassroots group, formed in January of 2011 to oppose the Spectra Pipeline, the first of several high-pressure, large diameter shale gas...

Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig.org every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

The Opening Session of the ''No Foreign Bases'' Conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. This video features a presentation by David Vine, entitled ''History and Economic Costs of U.S. Foreign Military Bases.''

An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech against war. A new movement to end all war is growing. Maria Santelli, executive director of Center on Conscience and War, founding director of the New Mexico GI Rights Hotline. Jarrod Grammel, conscientious objector.

Video from the No Foreign Bases Conference, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD. The Environmental and Health Impact of U.S. Foreign Military Bases Panel Chair: Nancy Price, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Noam Chomsky, often referred to as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," spoke in Syracuse, NY on May 11, 2011. His wide-ranging talk touched on U.S. foreign policy and wars, corporate media, the globalized economy, and popular pressure for democracy, among other topics.

Mickey Z. draws the connections between our everyday food choices, genetically modified organisms, animal cruelty, and the corporate power structure. His workshop immediately followed the New York City March Against Monsanto. This edit contains no profanity. From Wikipedia: Michael Zezima (known as Mickey Z) is a writer, editor, blogger and novelist living in New York City. He writes a bimonthly column, "Mickey Z. Says", for VegNews magazine and he has also appeared on the C-SPAN network's...

Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig.org every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

Video from the Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases (aka No Foreign Bases Conference), held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.

Plenary 6 from the Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases (aka No Foreign Bases conference), held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.

The converging crises of fascism, endless war, climate change, mass migrations, and economic/racial/gender oppression create unprecedented urgency for united, radical action – in the street and in the voting booth. At previous Left Forums – and over the past many decades – progressives have debated the merits of working to “reform” the Democratic Party versus building a united independent radical political front.

Earl Dotter began his photographic career after completing his studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1968 he joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) and was assigned to the Cumberland Plateau Region of Tennessee. Over time, he was welcomed into the homes of coal mining families. He came to know and respect their culture and struggles — a relationship that continues to this day. After his VISTA assignment concluded, he remained in the area to photograph the...