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The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization
The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization
Look to Norway and Sweden, where cooperative, socially democratic countries emerged after a frightening period of extreme polarization and social fracturing.
George Lakey
Where Does Compassion Really Come From?
Where Does Compassion Really Come From?
Can compassion be learned? The answer is yes! Sometimes, all it takes is truly paying attention to the people around us. Visit happify.com for guided meditations and fun activities to help you build compassion for yourself and others. 
2 min
The Four Reasons to Support a New Media Revolution
The Four Reasons to Support a New Media Revolution
As in most post-industrial societies, Britain’s media is in a radical state of flux. With the demise of the daily newspaper and news dissemination increasingly moving online, alternative and independent media sources have flourished. But the absence of a viable, generally...
Callum MacRae
From Across the Country, Gifts of Tiny Houses Arrive for Standing Rock
From Across the Country, Gifts of Tiny Houses Arrive for Standing Rock
How five large trees in remote Oregon ended up as winter housing for water protectors, including their first newborn baby.
Jane Braxton Little
Why the Changing Nature of Work Means We Need a Universal Basic Income
Why the Changing Nature of Work Means We Need a Universal Basic Income
We have a crisis of work. The secure, well-paid jobs of the past — many of them in manufacturing — are disappearing. What is replacing them is insecurity and uncertainty. Low-paid, part-time, temporary and seasonal work. The “feast or famine” of self-employment. The so-called...
Frances Coppola
How to Encrypt Your Entire Life in Less Than an Hour
How to Encrypt Your Entire Life in Less Than an Hour
“Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove Andy Grove was a Hungarian refugee who escaped communism, studied engineering, and ultimately led the personal computer revolution as the CEO of Intel. He died earlier this year in Silicon Valley after a long fight with Parkinson’s...
Quincy Larson
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
There is no one right way to be an activist. There is no one right way to change the world. There is no one right philosophy of leftist politics. There is no one right solution to the massive problems we're facing.
Tim Hjersted
How Cities Can Protect People Threatened by Trumpism
How Cities Can Protect People Threatened by Trumpism
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
Arun Gupta
Human Ingenuity and Challenging Domination
Human Ingenuity and Challenging Domination
From my book Engines of Domination, p. 229-230
Mark Corske
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Maria Popova
Films for Action: What We Are Here For
Films For Action: What We Are Here For
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around now for 10 years. From our early years focusing on local film screenings to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a DIY alternative...
Tim Hjersted
I Lived in a 38-Person Co-Op in San Francisco, and so Can You
I Lived in a 38-Person Co-Op in San Francisco, and so Can You
The joy and practice of learning to share
Tommy Alexander
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear
In the 1990s an unusual encounter took place in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In plant rituals, shamans of the Achuar, a tribe living in pristine forest that had never been in touch with Western civilization, received the warning that the “white man” would try to invade their lands...
Martin Winiecki
How to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Show; Or, Holding HRC's Feet to the Fire
How to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Show; Or, Holding HRC's Feet to the Fire
There's a simple solution: it's called the future.
Liam Miller
Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save Our Lives
Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save Our Lives
“Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away,” Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi wrote in a personal blog post over a decade ago. “Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house... Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise... Being poor is six dollars short on the...
Matt Stannard
Open Letter to Sanders' Supporters
Open Letter to Sanders' Supporters
In this Open Letter animation, Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence encourages Bernie Sanders' supporters that they don't need to "get over their anger," but harness it because it's a real power—and it can serve as the basis of a major transformation in the...
4 min
What If We Turned Every Window Into a Power Source?
What If We Turned Every Window Into a Power Source?
Transparent solar cell tech could transform our buildings - and make the world more sustainable. 
1 min
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
A short film covering the innovative research area of Cultured Meat and Cellular Agriculture. This film explores current developments in the field, as well as pondering what is next for this new science and the public perception of this interesting field of research.
13 min
Native Liberation: the Way Forward
Native Liberation: the Way Forward
These were the concluding remarks to the first annual Native Liberation 2016 Conference convened at the Larry Casuse Center in Albuquerque, NM on Aug. 13, 2016. Nick Estes is a co-founder of The Red Nation and a member of the Leadership Council.
Nick Estes
Abolish ALL Prisons, Private and Public
Abolish ALL Prisons, Private and Public
As momentum continues to grow against the colossal U.S. imprisonment system, the need for strategic targets is crucial, yet we are seeing an overbearing focus on private prisons. We are in a moment when reforms that appear to be “progressive” can actually entrench the...
Critical Resistance
A Real Solution to the Homelessness Epidemic
A Real Solution to the Homelessness Epidemic
When we see the suffering of people on the street, we, too, feel their pain whether we acknowledge it in our conscious minds or not.
Sustainable Human
What Is Universal Basic Income?
What Is Universal Basic Income?
What is Universal Basic Income? Everyone’s talking about a ‘citizen’s income’ or ‘basic income’, but what on earth is it?! It sounds like a Utopian dream, but support for a flat, government-sponsored annual income is growing across the world. Exponents argue that it would...
2 min
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. Far too often people struggling for democratic rights and justice are not aware of the full range of methods of nonviolent action.
Gene Sharp
What Are Democratic Schools?
What Are Democratic Schools?
Imagine a school where children and teenagers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship; where students truly practice, rather than just read about, the principles of free speech, free association, and freedom to choose their own activities...
Alternatives to School
Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
Healing a Suicide Attempt: Cartooning My Experience
In April 2012, I attempted suicide whilst living in San Francisco. It was - obviously - an incredibly intense time, but in many ways the time that followed the attempt was even more intense than the time that led to it.  The road I walked after my attempt was different to...
Amani Omejer
What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
On August 1 the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a coalition of over sixty organizations, rolled out “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice,” an ambitious document described by the press as the first signs of what young black activists...
Robin D. G. Kelley
Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials
Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials
In this film we take a tour of Adam and Sian's beautiful off-grid tiny house truck that was built using mostly reclaimed building materials on the back of a 1969 Bedford truck.
12 min
Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It's Important
Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It's Important
An explanation for why defeating Donald Trump—despite what we know about Hillary Clinton—should be the left's primary national electoral objective this November
Adolph Reed Jr.
One Earth, Two Social Fields
One Earth, Two Social Fields
Dallas, Ferguson, Nice. Turkey, Trump & Brexit. The simultaneous rise of global terrorism, of authoritarian strongmen and the far-right are the twin faces of our current moment. Even though Trump-type politicians and terrorism pretend to fight each other, on a deeper level...
Otto Scharmer
Are You Hopeful about the Future? I Am. With Eyes Wide Open. Here's Why.
Are You Hopeful about the Future? I Am. With Eyes Wide Open. Here's Why.
It is a delicate balance to know how much the world is messed up and still be hopeful about the future. This is something I dance with on a daily basis — while writing about systemic corruption, the angst that arises from&n
Joe Brewer
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
How to Find Your Soul Tribe in the Digital Age
Finding and connecting with your soul tribe is more important than ever—not just for connection but also to thrive in our modern society
Al Jeffery
Why You Don't Need to Change the World
Why You Don't Need to Change the World
Let’s say you’ve found a new sense of awareness or elevated consciousness —  suddenly you feel connected to the beauty of the world, you understand yourself better, and you’re filled with a drive to become better, to nurture yourself and the world around you.
Marc Angelo Coppola
15 Ways to Help Create a More Beautiful World
15 Ways to Help Create a More Beautiful World
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” ~Margaret Mead
Sofo Archon
Baltimore Elementary School is Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness
Baltimore Elementary School is Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness
When one of the kids at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in West Baltimore acts out, chances are she'll be sent not to the principal's office but to the Mindful Moment room, a soothing space with comfy cushions and beanbags, lit by glowing pink Himalayan salt lamps. It's...
3 min
Roman Krznaric: How Empathy Can Change the World
Roman Krznaric: How Empathy Can Change the World
Why we need to move empathy from personal emotion to collective moral concern -- Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s...
5 min
How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison
How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison
How can a traffic offense get you a ticket to prison?
David C. Couper
White Supremacy Cannot Have Our People
White Supremacy Cannot Have Our People
for a working class orientation at the heart of white anti-racist organizing
Chris Crass
There Are No Democratic or Green Saviors: Get in the Streets!
There Are No Democratic or Green Saviors: Get in the Streets!
Regardless of the outcome of November’s U.S. elections, what will count most is what happens in the streets. As Frederick Douglass put it plainly a century and a half ago, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did...
Pete Dolack
Top 10 Reasons to Continue Supporting The Movement Sanders Ignited
Top 10 Reasons to Continue Supporting The Movement Sanders Ignited
Hillary Clinton will trounce the self-destructive Donald J. Trump, but the neo-liberals secure total victory if the Sanders movement falls away
RoseAnn DeMoro
Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry
Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry
The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and...
SPLC
My Favorite Definition of Privilege
My Favorite Definition of Privilege
My favorite definition of privilege is 'thinking something's not a problem because it's not a problem to you.'
Tim Hjersted
10 Reasons Bernie Sanders Fans Should Support Basic Income
10 Reasons Bernie Sanders Fans Should Support Basic Income
Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income.
8 min
An Anti-Trump Electoral Strategy That Isn't Pro-Clinton
An Anti-Trump Electoral Strategy That Isn't Pro-Clinton
Can voter identification, registration, and protection efforts help not only defeat Trump, but build a mass movement for democratic socialism?
Jesse A. Myerson
What to Do When the Going Gets Rough
What to Do When the Going Gets Rough
Four ways to make it through trying times with an open heart
Pema Chodron
Solidarity Is About What You Do - Not Who You Are.
Solidarity Is About What You Do - Not Who You Are.
I am Black. I capitalize Black and leave white lowercased. Sure, it’s the accepted spelling, but really I do it because it feels good. My family lived in Missouri, but my mother crossed state lines to birth me in Kansas. Missouri was a slave state. Kansas was free, and she...
R.L. Stephens
Is the Revolution Internal or External?
Is the Revolution Internal or External?
Bringing together the inner and outer aspects of transformation may be the revolution of our times
Kavita Byrd
Forget Gerrymandering. Here's What We Need to Fix to Ensure Truly Fair Elections.
Forget Gerrymandering. Here's What We Need to Fix to Ensure Truly Fair Elections.
It's The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam
The Social Construction of Reality
The Social Construction of Reality
This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
3 min
The Iroquois Confederacy
The Iroquois Confederacy
In 1987, the United States Senate passed a resolution which acknowledged the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the resolution acknowledged the historical debt which the United States owes to...
Ojibwa
Withdraw Your Support from The Present System: Put Your Money Into a Black Bank or Credit Union
Withdraw Your Support from The Present System: Put Your Money Into a Black Bank or Credit Union
This is something everyone can do to take some of the power from the present system and put it into the people's hands. Find a bank near you: blackoutcoalition.org/black-u-s-banks/
3 min
What You Can Do Right Now About Police Brutality
What You Can Do Right Now About Police Brutality
Once again we find ourselves confronting the murder of another black man at the hands of police. The video showing Michael Slager fire eight times at a fleeing Walter Scott is irrefutable evidence of the police brutality that people of color fear. As with Trayvon Martin...
Ijeoma Oluo
How to Overcome The Forty-Year-Old Economic Story That Has Dominated Our Lives
How to Overcome The Forty-Year-Old Economic Story That Has Dominated Our Lives
It may seem hard, but it's not impossible. 
6 min
15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution
15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution
Charles Eisenstein is one of the first people I heard talk about the "new story," synthesizing a diverse movement that has been emerging for the last several decades. When I go back far enough, I first heard about these ideas from reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn when I was...
Tim Hjersted
Visions of Utopia - Experiments in Sustainable Culture
Visions of Utopia - Experiments in Sustainable Culture (2016)
Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States.
96 min
7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy
7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy
One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...
Tim Hjersted
Two Brilliant Thinkers Had the Same Solution to Political Oligarchy: Direct Democracy
Two Brilliant Thinkers Had the Same Solution to Political Oligarchy: Direct Democracy
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control. - Vandana Shiva
Yavor Tarinski
5 Ways the News Media Can Get Real
5 Ways the News Media Can Get Real
When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
Sarah van Gelder
Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents
Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents
Shefali Tsabary's latest book argues that parents need to focus more on themselves and less on their children.
Diana Divecha
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer