People's Climate March -- Aerial Footage

More than 300,000 people marched in New York City for the People’s Climate March on September 21, and some 2,600 solidarity events took place around the world. This video was taken from a drone in New York City and provided to Democracy Now! anonymously.

Antimatter Explained

This is real physics, not a comic book storyline: every type of particle has an anti-particle that is its mirror image. But why is there so much more matter than anti-matter?

A History Of The Minimum Wage

In dollars and cents, the minimum wage has only gone up, but in purchasing power it's had its ups and downs. See when it went up and since when it's gone down.

Subway Flashmob: Bolero

The Symphony Orchestra of Bilbao (Basque country, Spain) in a flashmob musical performance of Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

Friday Nite Videos -- October 3, 2014

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Subway Flashmob: Bolero. A History Of The Minimum Wage. Anti-matter Explained. People's Climate March -- Aerial Footage. Bill O'Reilly's Anti-Terrorist Mercenaries.

Precariat of the World Unite?

Tim Strangleman Working-Class Perspectives
It's important that we don't just see working-class people as passive victims of neo-liberalism. Often it is precisely workers occupying the lowest rungs of the labor market who exercise both voice and agency. We need to recognize the shared humanity working-class people hold in common.

Tidbits - October 2, 2014

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Reader Comments - Ten Points Towards a Two-State Solution; Students Walk Out Suburban Denver Schools; Indiana Autoworkers and Two-Tier Contracts; Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism; War on Drugs Damages Black Social Mobility; Freelancer Economy; Transformative Utopias and Human Rights; Climate Change Rally; Banned Books; Texas Schoolbooks; ISIS, Iraq and Syria; Freedom University Georgia; Immigrants; Cuba Training World's Doctors

An Israel Equal for All, Jewish or Not

Patricia Marks Greenfield The Washington Post
Israel is out of step with much of the world. Over time, nations have become more ethnically and religiously diverse; populations have become more urban and educated; and economies have become more commercial. In response to these social and economic changes, many nations have left behind the notion of a favored state religion. It is time for Israel to do the same. It must be a fully secular state.

War and Climate Change: Time to Connect the Dots

Sheila D. Collins, Truthout Op-Ed Truthout
When President Obama spoke at the UN last week, it was as if climate change and war were distinct ontological categories when in fact climate change is both a catalyst of conflict and a result of it. Competition over resources - land, water, energy - has always been the ground of conflicts within and between nations despite the fact that they may be clothed in the trappings of ethnic, religious or national rivalries.