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Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.
53 min
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
This charter was originally published in Spanish as a rallying call for Social Solidarity Economy initiatives within the Spanish territory. We have translated it to share its principles with English speaking audiences and Social Solidarity initiatives worldwide. This article...
REAS
The Curse of Abundance
The Curse of Abundance (2019)
Which come first, people or oil? When money and morality collide, there's only one winner. The Yasuni Park in Ecuador is a haven of biodiversity and home to indigenous tribes. It also holds a third of the country's oil reserves. Ecuador had agreed to keep the oil in the...
69 min
Right to Own: Giving Workers a Chance to Buy their Workplaces
Right to Own: Giving Workers a Chance to Buy their Workplaces
Too often, when businesses are sold, workers pay the price. Our new policy proposal would guarantee workers a right of first refusal, giving them a chance to bring their workplaces under democratic ownership. Learn more at: https://thenextsystem.org/rto
2 min
Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week
Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week
Working less would massively reduce our carbon footprint, and bring many other benefits besides
André Spicer
Workers Should Be in Charge
Workers Should Be in Charge
Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.
Peter Gowan
The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down
The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down
Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems of governance that would, first and foremost, protect them (the wealthy, landowning minority)...
Colin Jenkins
Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs?
Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)
Does your job make little to no sense? Does it seem like it wouldn't even matter if your job didn't exist? Would it even make the world better? Then you likely have a bullshit job. In this documentary, vpro and American anthropologist, David Graeber looks more closely at...
45 min
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.
Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton
Can the Government Just GIVE EVERYONE a Job?
Can the Government Just GIVE EVERYONE a Job?
Australia's treasurer is doing the rounds celebrating 5% unemployment... as if that's something to be proud of? That's celebrating a system in which hundreds of thousands of single parents, old people, and young people are locked out of paid work. Where eight people are...
12 min
Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos
Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos
Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine cows from Mexico being fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering...
Local Futures
Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
Economics 101 and Ecological Collapse
“The collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” – David Attenborough
Edward Fullbrook
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser
Honest Government Ad | The Economy
Honest Government Ad | The Economy
The Australien Government has made an ad about wages and the economy, and it's surprisingly honest and informative!
3 min
What Is Neoliberalism?
What Is Neoliberalism?
A short summary
Colin Jenkins
Omnipotent Amazon
Omnipotent Amazon (2018)
No company stores more data than Amazon, the former online bookseller. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world. Every second Euro in online trading is spent at Amazon. Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our economic system upside...
43 min
The Donut Economy: Why Our Economic Model Must Change
The Donut Economy: Why Our Economic Model Must Change (2017)
In Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, we see that markets are inefficient and growth is not the holy grail. It's time for a new economic model: doughnut economics. 
45 min
FRONTLINE: Trump's Trade War
FRONTLINE: Trump's Trade War (2019)
As the trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, FRONTLINE and NPR take a look at what led to the rising tensions and what’s at stake.
55 min
A Blueprint for 21st Century Public Ownership
A Blueprint for 21st Century Public Ownership
Problem: Privatisation. Solution: Public ownership.
2 min
White Widow (Modern Slavery, Farmer Suicide and Agriculture Crisis in India)
White Widow (Modern Slavery, Farmer Suicide and Agriculture Crisis in India)
White Widows portrays the tough and disadvantaged life of Indian cotton farmers in their village Dhanoli located in the region of Vidarbha, well known as the epicentre of farmer suicide. 
27 min
What Is: Oligarchy?
What Is: Oligarchy?
Robert Reich explains why American democracy has become an oligarchy.
3 min
Robert Reich: Why We Need a Wealth Tax
Robert Reich: Why We Need a Wealth Tax
Robert Reich explains why we must tax wealthy estates in order to reduce inequality.
4 min
China Is Not the Problem. Capitalism Is.
China Is Not the Problem. Capitalism Is.
Tom Friedman and Steve Bannon are, as usual, wrong. Hardship in the United States can’t be blamed on China’s “economic war” on democracy. It’s the fault of American corporations and elites.
Nicole M. Aschoff
Giants: Who Really Rules The World?
Giants: Who Really Rules The World?
Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book “Giants: The Global Power Elite” details the 17 transnational investment firms which control over $50 trillion in...
23 min
America's Reproductive Slaves
America's Reproductive Slaves
On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. That the two developments came at th
Chris Hedges
Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail
Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail
China has the world’s fastest and largest high-speed rail network — more than 19,000 miles, the vast majority of which was built in the past decade. Japan’s bullet trains can reach nearly 200 miles per hour and date to the 1960s. They have moved more than 9 billion people...
17 min
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk
Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk
Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the workplace.
16 min
Richard Wolff: Beyond Universal Basic Income
Richard Wolff: Beyond Universal Basic Income
Prof. Richard Wolff presents an in-depth analysis of UBI, showing its advantages over most welfare, safety net systems. An even better alternative would avoid capitalism's unnecessary production of unemployment because it utilizes technical progress (rising productivity) for...
30 min
Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead – Before It Takes Us All Down With It
Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead – Before It Takes Us All Down With It
The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.
George Monbiot
Peter Joseph - Critique of Jordan B. Peterson (vs Slavoj Zizek: "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism")
Peter Joseph - Critique of Jordan B. Peterson (vs Slavoj Zizek: "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism")
Peter Joseph addresses the opening arguments put forward by Jordan B. Peterson, from Peterson's debate with Slavoj Zizek called "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" - April 19th 2019 (Sorry for the typos. Mostly min. 46-48)
54 min
Not Capitalism, Not Communism: George Monbiot on Why We Need the Commons
Not Capitalism, Not Communism: George Monbiot on Why We Need the Commons
Cat Hobbs interviews activist and author George Monbiot on the potential of the commons, the idea of public luxury and more. 
21 min
The World's Happiest People Already Have a Green New Deal, and They Love It
The World's Happiest People Already Have a Green New Deal, and They Love It
Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
George Lakey
Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters
Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters
Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
7 min
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late
In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the...
Jeremy Lent
Andrew Yang: The Entire Socialism-Capitalism Dichotomy Is Out of Date
Andrew Yang: The Entire Socialism-Capitalism Dichotomy Is Out of Date
Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says we need a U.S. economy with qualities of both capitalism and socialism.
6 min
Robert Reich: What's the Real American Story?
Robert Reich: What's the Real American Story?
Robert Reich examines Trump's dark vision for America, and how to create a progressive message for the future. 
17 min
Robert Reich: The Monopolization of America
Robert Reich: The Monopolization of America
Robert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants. 
12 min
Robert Reich: Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest
Robert Reich: Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest
Robert Reich explains how government policies protect the wealthy and corporations, but leave ordinary Americans at risk.
5 min
Insane Trade!
Insane Trade!
The way trade works in the global economy can be insane – it wastes resources, worsens climate change, and undermines the livelihoods of millions of small-scale producers worldwide. Yet it is an almost unavoidable consequence of de-regulatory ‘free trade’ agreements and the...
3 min
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...
Herman Daly
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the world’s population have experienced...
Jason Hickel
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
Jeremy Brecher
The Market Theocracy
The Market Theocracy
The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Angela Nagle
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that...
Julia Adeney Thomas
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it
Adam Simpson
The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky
The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky
"Business leaders and elite intellectuals recognized that the public had won enough rights so that they can't be controlled by force, so it would be necessary to turn to control of attitudes and opinions...
5 min
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
Peter Cole
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
And we wouldn’t even have to tax the rich to pay for it.
Ellen Brown
The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman
The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman
Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty. Obviously we had to ask him how!
6 min
Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo
Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
3 min
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership is often seen as a very simple concept. “Mine, not yours,” a two-year-old might tell us. The reality, however, is far more complex, as the rights of owners are far from fixed. Indeed, the concept of what ownership means is itself subject to change. For this reason...
Steve Dubb
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.
Ellen Brown
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP.  And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset.
Jason Hickel
We Should Be ‘Screaming Mad’ About Amazon's ‘Corporate Welfare’
We Should Be ‘Screaming Mad’ About Amazon's ‘Corporate Welfare’
You may have heard by now that Amazon’s new headquarters will soon call the New York and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas home. This decision has engendered much criticism. But the Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson doesn’t think the vitriol is enough. “We should all...
4 min
Richard Wolff takes on Jordan B. Peterson
Richard Wolff takes on Jordan B. Peterson
Prof. Wolff responds to Jordan Peterson's assertions about Marxism.
5 min
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a social issue.
Tabita Green
Obama Admits Bipartisan Capitalist 'Washington Consensus' Fueled Far-Right & Multiplied Inequality
Obama Admits Bipartisan Capitalist 'Washington Consensus' Fueled Far-Right & Multiplied Inequality
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of the far-right and grossly exacerbated inequality.
8 min
Robert Reich: The Truth About Privatization
Robert Reich: The Truth About Privatization
Robert Reich explains why using the private sector for government services can have negative consequences.
5 min
Elements of the Democratic Economy: Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Elements of the Democratic Economy: Employee Stock Ownership Plan
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) enables full or partial ownership of a business by its employees through a pension plan or trust.
Stephanie Geller
The Turn Towards a Global Police State is Structurally Rooted in Capitalism’s Achilles Heel
The Turn Towards a Global Police State is Structurally Rooted in Capitalism’s Achilles Heel
(Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Professor William Robinson at the Nov 18 L.A. 
William I. Robinson