TEDTalks Noticias y Política

Estados Unidos encierra a más gente que cualquier otro país del mundo, afirma la documentalista Eve Abrams, y entre un 1 y un 4 % de aquellos que están en la cárcel son inocentes. Eso son 87 000 hermanos, hermanas, madres y padres, principalmente afroamericanos, separados innecesariamente de sus familias, poniendo en espera sus vidas y sus sueños. Utilizando audios de sus entrevistas con gente encarcelada y sus familias, Abrams comparte historias conmovedoras de aquellos a los que les afecta la encarcelación masiva y llama nuestra atención para que le plantemos cara y nos aseguremos de que el sistema judicial funciona para todos.

Things are pretty shocking out there right now -- record-breaking storms, deadly terror attacks, thousands of migrants disappearing beneath the waves and openly supremacist movements rising. Are we responding with the urgency that these overlapping crises demand from us? Journalist and activist Naomi Klein studies how governments use large-scale shocks to push societies backward. She shares a few propositions from "The Leap" -- a manifesto she wrote alongside indigenous elders, climate change activists, union leaders and others from different backgrounds -- which envisions a world after we've already made the transition to a clean economy and a much fairer society. "The shocking events that fill us with dread today can transform us, and they can transform the world for the better," Klein says. "But first we need to picture the world that we're fighting for. And we have to dream it up together."

Si queremos aliviar las tensiones raciales que amenazan con desgarrar la estructura de la sociedad, deberemos desarrollar las habilidades para expresarnos abiertamente en situaciones de estrés racial. A través de la alfabetización racial, la capacidad de leer, reformular y resolver estas situaciones, el psicólogo Howard C. Stevenson ayuda a padres e hijos a reducir y controlar el estrés y el trauma. En esta charla inspiradora y pronunciada desde una maravillosa calma, Stevenson nos explica que decodificar la amenaza racial puede ayudar a los jóvenes a generar confianza y defenderse de manera productiva. Translated by Lidia Cámara de la Fuente Reviewed by Paula Motter

The prevailing image of where refugees live is of temporary camps in isolated areas -- but in reality, nearly 60 percent of them worldwide end up in urban areas. TED Fellow Robert Hakiza takes us inside the lives of urban refugees -- and shows us how organizations like the one that he started can provide them with the skills they need to ultimately become self-sufficient.

Si queremos aliviar las tensiones raciales que amenazan con desgarrar la estructura de la sociedad, deberemos desarrollar las habilidades para expresarnos abiertamente en situaciones de estrés racial. A través de la alfabetización racial, la capacidad de leer, reformular y resolver estas situaciones, el psicólogo Howard C. Stevenson ayuda a padres e hijos a reducir y controlar el estrés y el trauma. En esta charla inspiradora y pronunciada desde una maravillosa calma, Stevenson nos explica que decodificar la amenaza racial puede ayudar a los jóvenes a generar confianza y defenderse de manera productiva.

Bhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thinking about capitalism as a firm, unchanging ideology, he suggests that we should think of it as an operating system -- one that needs upgrades to keep up with innovation, like the impending take-off of drone delivery services. Learn more about the past and future of the free market (and a potential coming identity crisis for the United States' version of capitalism) with this quick, forward-thinking talk.

What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a force for justice.

The democratic process is messy, complicated and often inefficient -- but across Africa, activists are redefining democracy by putting protest at its center. In an illuminating talk, political scientist Zachariah Mampilly gives us a primer on the current wave of protests reshaping countries like Tunisia, Malawi and Zimbabwe -- and explains how this form of political dissension expands our political imaginations beyond what we're told is possible.

Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other grown men for 23 and a half hours a day. In a moving talk, he tells the story of how he was freed -- and his current mission with the African Prisons Project: to set up the first law school behind bars and empower people in prison to drive positive change.

On one awful night in 1995, Ples Felix's 14-year-old grandson murdered Azim Khamisa's son in a gang initiation fueled by drugs, alcohol and a false sense of belonging. The deadly encounter sent Khamisa and Felix down paths of deep meditation, to forgive and to be forgiven -- and in an act of bravery and reconciliation, the two men met and forged a lasting bond. Together, they've used their story as an outline for a better, more merciful society, where victims of tragedy can grow and heal. Prepare to be moved by their unimaginable story. "Peace is possible," Khamisa says. "How do I know that? Because I am at peace."