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Check Your White Privilege?
Check Your White Privilege?
A significant question facing progressives today is whether the use of the term "white privilege" helps or hurts building the kind of solidarity needed to promote racial justice and reverse runaway inequality.
Les Leopold · 7,914 views · unrated
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals
2014 Book Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Michael Hoexter · 2,168 views · 4 stars
A Vote Against Bernie Sanders Is a Vote for the End of Human Civilization
A Vote Against Bernie Sanders Is a Vote for the End of Human Civilization
Frightening commentary has emerged among liberals committing to a protest-vote against both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Proponents argue that, in some undescribed way, their protest-vote will send to these front-runners the “signal” that they are not entitled to our...
Ariän El-Taher · 1,163 views · 5 stars
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?
Tim Hjersted · 7,388 views · unrated
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 · 5,341 views · 5 stars
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012
2012 was another big year for break-out films in the social change genre. With most of the bases covered for all of the major problems we're facing, more and more films this year focused on the solutions side of the equation, giving a voice to the uplifting stories of people...
Tim Hjersted · 81,248 views · 5 stars
A History of Beliefs about the New World Order in Popular Culture
A History of Beliefs about the New World Order in Popular Culture
As a conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarian one-world government.
various writers · 9,544 views · unrated
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
Kevin Carson · 986 views · unrated
Noam Chomsky's Roadmap to a Just World: People Reanimating Democracy
Noam Chomsky's Roadmap to a Just World: People Reanimating Democracy
Noam ChomskyI'd like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not - and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they're framed almost reflexively in terms of...
Noam Chomsky · 4,211 views · 4 stars
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted · 46,964 views · 4.7 stars
The Meme Hustler
The Meme Hustler
The Meme Hustler Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk EVGENY MOROZOV [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our language. Old, trusted...
Evgeny Morozov · 1,813 views · unrated
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted · 5,868 views · 3 stars
From Democracy to Freedom
From Democracy to Freedom
Democracy is the most universal political ideal of our day. George Bush invoked it to justify invading Iraq; Obama congratulated the rebels of Tahrir Square for bringing it to Egypt; Occupy Wall Street claimed to have distilled its pure form. From the Democratic People’s...
Crimethinc · 1,698 views · unrated
93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness
93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness
This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.
Films For Action · 518,360 views · 4.6 stars