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Are You Struggling to Make Sense of the World?
Are You Struggling to Make Sense of the World?
Three steps to help you see the truth and get back on track.
Gilbert Ross
The 150-Mile Wardrobe: a Solution for One of the World’S Most Polluting Industries
The 150-Mile Wardrobe: a Solution for One of the World’S Most Polluting Industries
The Northern California Fibershed aims to skirt the rampant waste of resources in the apparel industry.
Araz Hachadourian
Films for Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world. 
Films For Action
F**k Your Feelings!
F**k Your Feelings!
Look, I know you think the fact you feel upset or angry or anxious is important. That it matters. Hell, you probably think that because you feel like your face just got shat on makes you important. But it doesn’t. Feelings are just thes
Mark Manson
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?
Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome.
Jeremy Lent
Activist Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 After Heart Attack
Activist Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 After Heart Attack
She had been an outspoken advocate for police accountability since her father’s chokehold death in 2014.
Dominique Mosbergen
Does Films for Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values
Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around since 2006. From our early years focusing on local film screenings in Lawrence, Kansas to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a...
Films For Action
10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 That Give Us Reason to Hope
10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 That Give Us Reason to Hope
Despite endless capitalist greed and militarism, people are still fighting for a just world.
Nick Buxton
The 10 Step Scheme for One-Sided Class War
The 10 Step Scheme for One-Sided Class War
Scream about the debt and deficit. Then shrink revenue by slashing taxes and spend a ton of money on wars of choice. Repeat.
Ben Schreiner
“Consciousness: Past and Present” – The oppression of women, by Artist Shqipe Kamberi
“Consciousness: Past and Present” – The oppression of women, by Artist Shqipe Kamberi
We sat down to speak to Artist Shqipe Kamberi in Pristina, Kosovo regarding her recent personal art exhibition titled “Consciousness: Past and Present” displayed at the National Museum of Kosovo. Shqipe began actively pursuing the arts upon graduating from the Academy of Arts...
Njomza Miftari
The Good News
The Good News
I take my “binoculars” and observe the news coming from around the world. I see young people fighting for the Islamic State. I know what atrocities they commit, and the delusional ideas these actions are rooted in, yet I also know that they’re looking for the home and...
Dr. Dieter Duhm
In Defense of Degrowth
In Defense of Degrowth
Why infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, and why the alternative can actually be beautiful.
Jason Hickel
Why Some People Resent "Do-Gooders"
Why Some People Resent "Do-Gooders"
Behaving according to one’s moral principles can make others feel implicitly judged.
Juliana Breines Ph.D.
Why Capitalism Wins. and How a Simple Accounting Move Can Defeat It
Why Capitalism Wins. and How a Simple Accounting Move Can Defeat It
Notwithstanding its many flaws and centuries of criticisms, capitalism is still the dominant economic system globally. What made it so resilient?
Lorenzo Fioramonti
The Design Flaw at the Core of Humanity's Malaise
The Design Flaw at the Core of Humanity's Malaise
Recognizing the design flaws in our default programming is the first step to envisioning the world we know is possible.
Judith Schwartz
AI Has Already Taken Over - It's Called the Corporation
AI Has Already Taken Over - It's Called the Corporation
Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago. It’s called the Corporation.
Jeremy Lent
Why the Documentary Must Not Be Allowed to Die
Why the Documentary Must Not Be Allowed to Die
I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny.
John Pilger
How to Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain
How to Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain
For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer – and, often, alcohol.
Jamie Smolen
Trump: a Catalyst for the Peace Movement?
Trump: a Catalyst for the Peace Movement?
Donald Trump is the commander-in-chief of the biggest military force on Earth. There's no societal power above him, that's why he can do whatever he wants. What does he want? Or does he, perhaps, not have any own will, and is steered by other powers?
Dr. Dieter Duhm
What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year
What Happened When One Family Decided to Go Outdoors Three Hours a Day for a Year
It was the last day of a week-long holiday and although it was mid-morning we had already been to the beach. The beach had been beautiful.
Hannah Alexander
What Whales Have to Teach Humans About Capitalism
What Whales Have to Teach Humans About Capitalism
Any accounting of the commons without acknowledging the presence and interests of others will lead to their continued destruction, to our human detriment as well.
Laura Bridgeman
One Man’s Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for A Year and Why I’m Not Going Back
One Man’s Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for A Year and Why I’m Not Going Back
The surprising effects of a man's experiment with eliminating pornography from his life.
Dan Mahle
We All Live off the Land
We All Live off the Land
The other day I dreamed of a catfish being hooked in one of our lines during the 180 days I lived in the boreal forest. One of the reasons why I don't like living in civilization and eating food from the supermarket is that it is extremely easy to forget where food is coming...
Juan Pablo Quinonez
Environmental Crisis and Inner Crisis Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Environmental Crisis and Inner Crisis Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Reflections on Global Grace Day 2017
Sabine Lichtenfels
What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?
What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals...
Paul Street
The Divided States of Hypocrisy: Americans, Prisoners of Language.
The Divided States of Hypocrisy: Americans, Prisoners of Language.
We The People, in general, are a divided people. Pick any topic or issue, and there is bound to be some heated version of "Us and Them"- if not outright conflict over it. We seem to excel at creating staunch support bases for even the most unlikely of viewpoints: White...
Michael Emero
Trump and the GOP Fuel Fantasies of White Victimhood
Trump and the GOP Fuel Fantasies of White Victimhood
"To those who have been used to privilege all their lives, equality may feel like oppression."
Sonali Kolhatkar
Ending Sexual Violence Requires a New Culture
Ending Sexual Violence Requires a New Culture
It's time for a global movement working for the healing of love at the core of a humane revolution.
Dara Silverman
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
Frances Lee
Sent to Haiti to keep the peace, departing UN troops leave a damaged nation in their wake
Sent to Haiti to keep the peace, departing UN troops leave a damaged nation in their wake
On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin, and Ilionor Louis
How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor
How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it was natural, a given,” as he put it.
Courtland Milloy
Why Natural Disasters Aren’t All That Natural
Why Natural Disasters Aren’t All That Natural
Disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes result from a combination of natural hazards and social and human vulnerability. Calling them 'natural disasters' artificially naturalises the harms they cause.
Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding, JC Gaillard & Lee Bosher
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifesto laying out the possible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred everywhere.
Martin Winiecki
The Real Problem With Trump Is He's a Great American.
The Real Problem With Trump Is He's a Great American.
What does it mean to be American? Citizenship, one may think, but the media and court of public opinion would disagree. True patriotism gets interpreted by some as angrily defending (with a religious fervor) statist symbolism and indoctrinated rites of "showing respect"...
Michael Emero
The NFL Has Always Been Political
The NFL Has Always Been Political
Those who decry the “politicization of sports” are only mad that it’s black athletes now.
Travis Waldron
Changing How We Think About Change
Changing How We Think About Change
“The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work, and it’s never going to work” This is the bold statement Deborah Frieze offers as she opens her TEDx talk. In this wonderful video, Deborah offers us a new map for navigating the potential for transformative...
Ash Buchanan
The Wisdom of Insecurity
The Wisdom of Insecurity
There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. Wisdom is the direct understanding of the fluidity of life. But the contradiction lies a little deeper than the mere conflict between the desire for...
Alan Watts
Deliver Us From Venus and Mars: Why Aren’t We Free From Gender Stereotypes Yet?
Deliver Us From Venus and Mars: Why Aren’t We Free From Gender Stereotypes Yet?
Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes, because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.
Gavin Evans
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk
Show Up, Stand up and Step Up: Bold Action in the Wake of Storms
Show Up, Stand up and Step Up: Bold Action in the Wake of Storms
It is unusual for disasters to garner as much sustained coverage in the media as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have. Authors have been able to explore complex aspects of disasters in more nuanced ways than fleeting public interest generally allows. 
Jason von Meding and Heidi Harmon
Nature Isn't On a Rampage. That Would Be Us.
Nature Isn't On a Rampage. That Would Be Us.
By putting the evil eye on nature, we take it off the humans who have science in their hands, but hold it behind their backs.
Cynthia Barnett
The Great Flood
The Great Flood
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges
Religion Is Not the Only Reason Rohingyas Are Being Forced Out of Myanmar
Religion Is Not the Only Reason Rohingyas Are Being Forced Out of Myanmar
Recent weeks have seen an escalation of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine, the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from atrocities – they are fleeing both on foot and by boat to Bangladesh. It is the latest su
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Tom Johnson
Thinking Strategically About Free Speech and Violence
Thinking Strategically About Free Speech and Violence
We should be careful before embracing ideas that might lead to catastrophe…
Nathan J. Robinson
The Coming Great Transition
The Coming Great Transition
Our global civilization is currently undergoing a tremendous set of transitions that will ultimately result in the dismantling of much of the way that we currently live and the construction of a new “civilization model”. Over the next several months, I will be laying out...
Jordan Hall
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
I’m republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in transforming American political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual reality. Some of it...
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
March 2017 marks the 46th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971—while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfold—a group of peace activists broke into an FBI...
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
For More Resilient Cities, Stop Trying to Conquer Nature
For More Resilient Cities, Stop Trying to Conquer Nature
Had we designed cities with nature in mind, we'd see fewer issues around flooding, pollution and excessive heat.
David Suzuki
Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy Into Schools
Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy Into Schools
"Eventually, we need to move beyond discussions about tearing down symbols of white supremacy, and begin to strategize about how to tear down the systems that still prop it up."
Adam Sanchez
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so many levels in the U.S....
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left can't allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
Robert Greene II
Cultural Appropriation: Whose Culture Is It Anyway, and What About Hybridity?
Cultural Appropriation: Whose Culture Is It Anyway, and What About Hybridity?
Before I start, I’m going to lay my cards on the table: I don’t fit race and ethnicity boxes very well. Whenever I have to fill in one of those diversity questionnaires, I always tick ‘other’ because none of the options really describe me. My dad was born in Tanzania of...
Sonny Hallett
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.
Arno Arr Michaelis IV
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting — namely, white supremacists from around the country, who had been harassing the...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right
Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right
Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violence. Let’s start there.
Kazu Haga
The Subversive Power of Joy
The Subversive Power of Joy
The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle.
Janey Stephenson
I Wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I See Its Premise as Flawed
I Wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I See Its Premise as Flawed
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violence
William Powell
Comedian Frankie Boyle Responds to Criticism of Tevor Noah's Characterization of Antifa
Comedian Frankie Boyle Responds to Criticism of Tevor Noah's Characterization of Antifa
Today I saw a few people I respect enough not to have muted taking a tilt at Trevor Noah for some bit where he called out antifa, and called them “Vegan Isis”. This will sound snobbish, but I often cringe when well meaning types on the left address comedy. They sometimes have...
Frankie Boyle
Tips for Building Coalitions
Tips for Building Coalitions
How do we build alliances across our varied agendas so as to have the greatest impact? And how do we involve what I call TWANYAS (Those Who Are Not Yet Activists) -- those who care, but have-not yet come forward?
Joyce S. Herman