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Only Nature Can Save Us Now
Only Nature Can Save Us Now
Faced with climate change and mass extinction there is only one thing to do. Stop trying to save the world.
Chris Taylor
This Love Letter to Resistance Will Light a Fire in Your Belly and Warm Your Heart
This Love Letter to Resistance Will Light a Fire in Your Belly and Warm Your Heart
The short film invites us on an intimate journey through the liberated territory of the Zad of Notre-dames-des-landes, a community in France who resisted an airport, and in doing so created a beautiful way of living with hope in these tempestuous times. 
4 min
Jews Say It's NOT Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel | 5 Inspiring Jewish Voices for Peace
Jews Say It's NOT Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel | 5 Inspiring Jewish Voices for Peace
Jewish activists, journalists, & even lobbyists say criticizing Israel is NOT anti-semitic. 
8 min
Brilliant Short Film Imagines Parallel Earth Saving Themselves From Fate of Earth
Brilliant Short Film Imagines Parallel Earth Saving Themselves From Fate of Earth
10 years after the premiere of THE AGE OF STUPID, here's Franny Armstrong's new short film, WHAT IF?  In a parallel universe, Fred Miliband, Carolyn Lukas, Zack Harries, Jon Snowflake, Kris Peckham, Jonathan Pie and the President of the Maldives battle to save the people of...
9 min
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a...
Anja Lyngbaek
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis
Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis
Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's wrong with legal corruption in our...
13 min
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
Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
Robert Reich: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages
Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans. 
5 min
5 Reasons Why Milton Friedman Supported Guaranteed Income
5 Reasons Why Milton Friedman Supported Guaranteed Income
The latest video by Matt Orfalea.
7 min
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
"So what can I do, as an individual?"
Miki Kashtan
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the “Mesquite Manifesto” addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.
Gary Paul Nabhan
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find “best practices” elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own...
George Lakey
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
The Plummery is a suburban home where a backyard permaculture garden measuring only 100sq/m (1076 sq feet) produces over 400kg/900 pounds of food year-round. Kat Lavers describes her approach to gardening, including vertical and biointensive growing, and how important it is –...
9 min
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What has been the media’s role and have they done enough to make amends? We’ll talk to Lynn Paltrow, one of the lawyers representing...
27 min
How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson
How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a...
12 min
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck away our ideas. I did. I’d tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I’m not capable of making a difference. I’d sit on my ideas, get on with my life, and then feel...
Colin Beavan
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
Douglas Rushkoff's just released book "Team Human" is a passionately argued manifesto "for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age." Released this week, the manifesto's 100 points outline the many reasons and ways to"“reassert the human agenda." In true Shareable style...
Courtney Pankrat
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
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
RoseAnn DeMoro
5 Reasons MLK Supported a Universal Basic Income
5 Reasons MLK Supported a Universal Basic Income
Video by Matt Orfalea.
6 min
The People's Spring
The People's Spring (2019)
You can help us spread this documentary, which we've decided to share online for free, by supporting our work here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13006106
82 min
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page of what appeared to be the Washington Post had people stopping in their tracks. The headline read: “UNPRESIDENTED: Trump hastily departs White House, ending crisis.”
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Core Nonviolence Commitments
Core Nonviolence Commitments
I have not found a word that captures the exact line that I am looking for. Commitment may be a bit too strong, and tends to connote “should,” thus invoking the non-choiceful energy of obligation and duty. “Intention” is not strong enough, in my mind, to carry the unwavering...
Miki Kashtan
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
The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness
The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…
Patrick Lydon
Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations
Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations
The latest UN climate talks, known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states – Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as “climate villains
Nicholas Beuret
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
5 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
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis
What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that dislike, without apology. What would you do?
17 min
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
Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working
Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working
Threats of global catastrophe won’t move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal.
Charles Eisenstein
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
Want to Change the World? Try Grounded Optimism
Want to Change the World? Try Grounded Optimism
One of the most powerful things you can to do to change the world is to cultivate your own optimism. To quote futurist Alex Steffen:
Sally Bolger
The Public Ownership Solution
The Public Ownership Solution
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
Thomas M. Hanna
How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played
How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played
In front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Howard Zinn Book Festival in San Francisco earlier this month, historian Mark Bray and I debated the value of using violence to quell the growth of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Anti-racism trainer Molly McClure was the moderator.
George Lakey
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
Buddhist Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most respected and celebrated teachers in the world.
198 min
The State of the Spirit, 2018
The State of the Spirit, 2018
1. The State of the Spirit, 2018   
Rabbi Michael Lerner
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
Fossil-Free Costa Rica: How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction
Fossil-Free Costa Rica: How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction
As world leaders struggle to agree on a plan to curb global emissions at the U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Democracy Now! looks at Costa Rica’s plan to go fossil-free beginning next year. It will be the first country in the world to decarbonize its economy.
12 min
The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What's Next Is up to Us
The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What's Next Is up to Us
Ted Franklin argues that climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal.
Ted Franklin
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2011)
A Force More Powerful is a documentary series on one of the 20th century’s most important and least-known stories: how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule.  It includes six cases of movements, and each case is approximately 30 minutes long.
154 min
If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him
If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him
When we allow ourselves to fall victim to hatred, we are doing our opponents’ work for them.
Susan L. Rhodes and Charles R. Schwenk
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment
Our food system is linked to an economic system that is fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C
An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency
Richard Smith
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
INTRODUCTION TO JUST TRANSITION “Indigenous prophecy meets scientific prediction. What we have known and believed, you also now know: The Earth is out of balance. The plants are disappearing, the animals are dying, and the very weather – rain, wind, fire itself – reacts...
Indigenous Environmental Network
We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.
We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.
First, you have to admit that you have a problem . . . Hi there. If you are here, it is probably because you have come to the conclusion that our political system is no longer “fixable” by ordinary means and that some sort of deep structural changes need to be made. If you...
Jordan Hall
Want to End Sexual Harassment? Landmark Study Finds Ousting 'Bad Men" Isn't Enough
Want to End Sexual Harassment? Landmark Study Finds Ousting 'Bad Men" Isn't Enough
The most potent predictor of sexual misconduct goes beyond individual perpetrators.
Emily Peck
The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about what’s unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species? Our era has been dubbed the Anthropocene because for the first time we humans...
Frances Moore Lappé
Bringing Down A Dictator
Bringing Down A Dictator (2011)
In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But he underestimated his opponents, led by a student...
55 min
No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous
No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous
I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.
Frances Lee
It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism
It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism
When I read this in the morning paper, my heart stopped: Just 40 minutes away from me, the white mother of black children in New Jersey was repeatedly harassed via Facebook by a stranger, who told her that her children should be hung.
George Lakey
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? — R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture
Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)
A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures' systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to reduce the distance...
23 min
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler."
Martin Winiecki
A Solution to Facebook Censorship | Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman
A Solution to Facebook Censorship | Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman
The Solution to Facebook Censorship? Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman Support my work! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf Subscribe ▶https://www.youtube.com/orf Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
46 min
Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs
Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs
This film tells the story of one small family practicing urban sufficiency. They live on 1/10th of an acre in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. By living more simply and utilizing alternative technologies this household draws 75-80% less electricity from the grid than the...
16 min
A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet
A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet
How to make simple living go viral.
Julyan Davey
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson
Tim Hjersted