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Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.

560 min · 200,045 views · 4.8 stars

Plutocracy II - Solidarity Forever

"Absolutely brilliant on numerous levels. While there have been many other important documentaries about individual strikes and/or strike movements, Plutocracy has succeeded at generalizing the political lessons of an entire era in U.S. Labor history from a working-class...

120 min · 1,609 views · 5 stars

Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America

The following video explores the influence billionaires have had through massive public relations campaigns, fake "grass roots" movements like the Tea Party, and funding of right-libertarian organizations like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity. Featuring: Noam...

20 min · 34,981 views · 4.8 stars

The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy

From luxury skyscrapers -- taller, more expensive and exclusive than ever before -- the dark shadows of plutocracy are spreading across the commons of democracy.

23 min · 6,080 views · 4.3 stars

Struggling Against All Odds: A Review of Plutocracy III: Class War

Tim Goulet reviews the third installment of the radical working-class history documentary Plutocracy by filmmaker Scott Noble.

Tim Goulet · 3,860 views · unrated

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again. This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the film Plutocracy by Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here (free).

15 min · 76,350 views · 4.5 stars

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” —Jay Gould Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the first entry of a multi-part series directed by filmmaker Scott Noble. The movie assembles a...

Bill Blunden · 108,132 views · 4.4 stars

Violent American History You Didn't Learn in School

Chuck Keeney interview on the Battle of Blair Mountain, Mine Wars, "The Matewan Massacre," & the other origin of the term "Rednecks." Watch Plutocracy if you're interested to learn more.

40 min · 2,702 views · 4 stars

Scott Noble's History of Resistance

Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Marker’s documentary work in style and approach, Noble’s films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...

Ron Jacobs · 1,267 views · unrated

The Incredible Period of History After The Civil War That America Forgot

Americans should know about this period of history. Because the history of racism is also the history of power, and who holds it. And this story continues to this very day.

6 min · 20,158 views · 4.9 stars

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Racism is real but race is not. "Black" and "White" were labels invented in the 15th century - made up to divide us. Is it time to let these labels go? Prince Ea believes the answer is yes.

4 min · 25,503 views · 5 stars

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

"In a time when many are questioning institutional integrity across society, seeking accurate and relevant information to help make sense of our supposedly post-truth era, Noble shines a spotlight into our dark past while providing a crucial class context often missing or...

104 min · 22,189 views · 5 stars

Left Wing, Right Wing,......All the Same Bird.

It would be wonderful if we could simplify the conversation, debate, or what many call, the national narrative by removing labels, end useless name calling, and stop playing into the hands of the masters of the system which uses every method imaginable to divide and thereby...

Rick Frank · 44 views · 4 stars

Why I Teach White History Month in February

I have abandoned Black History Month and have been celebrating White History Month every February since 2013.

Diallo Kenyatta · 16,997 views · 3.7 stars

Bill Moyers on Plutonomy (2010)

Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix.

4 min · 7,435 views · 4.5 stars

Bill Moyers at the Howard Zinn Lecture (2010)

The first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture is delivered by veteran journalist, Bill Moyers. Citing Zinn as his inspiration, Moyers focuses on the challenges facing our democracy. He decried what he says has been a 30-year trend toward plutocracy, where the rich get richer at the...

116 min · 5,315 views · 4.7 stars

Sanders’ Jaw-Dropping Call for Revolution

In case you haven’t heard, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called for political revolution. That’s gargantuan news, which poses an equally gargantuan paradox to wrap our heads around. Now, it’s not as if some civic-minded voice in the wilderness like...

Revolt Against Plutocracy · 4,496 views · 5 stars

How Not to Fight the 1%

In an article that will no doubt make “progressive” hearts go pitty-pat (“The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows,” Bloomberg, August 7), Jeanna Smialek suggests that top 1%’s wealth is far greater even than official statistics indicate – and that because so much...

Kevin Carson · 12,061 views · 4.7 stars

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

"A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today." - Michael Parenti, Historian, Author The Face of Imperialism

264 min · 61,721 views · 4.6 stars

Jeb Bush V. Hillary Clinton: The Perfectly Illustrative Election

Jeb Bush yesterday strongly suggested he was running for President in 2016. If he wins the GOP nomination, it is highly likely that his opponent for the presidency would be Hillary Clinton.

Glenn Greenwald · 1,755 views · unrated

Why I Didn't Vote Trump or Hillary

This is my ballot. It arrived in the mail where I live in Washington state — and I’ve already sent it back to the elections committee. Note how I didn’t vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clint

Joe Brewer · 4,768 views · 4.5 stars

Making America Great Again?

Reflexivity and Optimism in times of Social Fragmentation

Craig Bridges · 179 views · unrated

What Is Anarchism?

This video is from the Anarchadia.com website which was blocked by the CIA.

91 min · 412 views · 5 stars

The Pitchforks Are Coming... for Us Plutocrats

Memo: From Nick Hanauer To: My Fellow Zillionaires

Nick Hanauer · 149 views · unrated

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 · 4,504 views · 4 stars

12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor

Collective action to right wrongs or help the suffering under neoliberal ideology is wrong, unfeasible, or some combination of the two.

Noah Berlatsky · 2,009 views · unrated

The Ghosts of 'New Democrats' Are Haunting Us

“Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”

Norman Solomon · 25,546 views · unrated

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 · 4,549 views · unrated

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Today's school children are engulfed by corporate apps, software, and textbooks biased toward the corporate definitions of an economy and myths about "free markets."

Ralph Nader · 4,389 views · 4.5 stars

Varoufakis : Media is Guilty Of “Terrorism”, Elite Think Democracy Is Irrelevant

What Greek Ex-Finance Minister had actually suggested, is that his country pay an increased sum of money back, but over a longer time period, enabling the economy to grow over time. The creditors refused. When Prime Minister Tspiras announced a referendum would take place...

Sophie McAdam · 298 views · unrated

To Move Forward, We Must Learn from Our Progressive Past

Yesterday's ideas about curbing the ultra-rich's power remain just as relevant as ever. Our contemporary billionaires, most Americans would agree, are exploiting our labor and polluting our politics. Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful — and more democratic —...

Sam Pizzigati · 2,251 views · unrated

American Cartel: How America's Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy

Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.

Frank Castro · 5,096 views · 4.5 stars

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 · 9,901 views · 5 stars

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 · 9,858 views · 5 stars

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 · 6,093 views · unrated

After the Eviction

Last night, in what seems to be part of a coordinated crackdown on occupations across the country, Zuccotti Park was raided. Thousands of us who had subscribed to the text alert system, or who got emails or phone calls or panicked Twitter messages, went to Wall Street. But we...

Astra Taylor · 2,866 views · unrated

Confronting the Culture of Death

The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.

Chris Hedges · 870 views · unrated

Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness

Peace to you; if you’re willing to fight for it” – Fred Hampton The “founding fathers” deliberately arranged a system of governance that would protect the wealthy minority from the majority. Over time, as it fused with capitalism, this arrangement transformed the US...

Colin Jenkins · 7,198 views · 4.3 stars

What Schools Teach Without Teaching: American Myths and Powerlessness

All over America, school children are completing another academic year before their summer vacation. This invites the questions, what did they learn and what did they do with what they learned?

Ralph Nader · 6,300 views · 5 stars

I Don't Want Your Leaders

In 2017, I wrote a lot about how dangerously centralized our political system in the U.S. has become, and how we need to decentralize governance in order to restore power, liberty and policy experimentation to the local level. This notion that a sprawling and culturally...

Michael Krieger · 276 views · unrated

Spirituality in a Time of Crisis

In times like these, in times of great crisis, when, as Yeats memorably put it, the ‘centre cannot hold’ and the ‘blood-dimmed tide is loosed’, then our first response must be to find another, deeper centre. This work, of finding an impassable place that provides both a...

Pete Steggals · 714 views · unrated

A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination

Nurses, philosophers, and trade unions have over the past 12 months all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better — places to live.

Sam Pizzigati · 3,194 views · 4 stars

This Economic Collapse Is a 'Crisis of Bigness'

Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened

Paul Kingsnorth · 2,354 views · 5 stars

Beyond Trump: How the US Went off the Rails

Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems.

John Atcheson · 3,676 views · unrated

I Don't Give a Damn About the First (Insert Identity Here) CEO or President

Do you know what literally repulses me these days? Hearing about the first so and so to get accepted into the exclusive club of the aristocracy. Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the latest first black president or first woman CEO. Who cares! I don’t know how we have arrived...

Teodrose Fikre · 8,027 views · unrated

Blockchain Revolution: Open Source Democracy for the 99%

"The revolution in this era may not need pitchforks, as the ‘peasants’ can just stop paying for the plutocracy." “The Pitchforks Are Coming ... For Us Plutocrats”! This is how self-proclaimed unapologetic capitalist Nick Hanauer addressed the explosion of global economic...

Nozomi Hayase · 5,740 views · unrated

Obedience Is the True Character Flaw

If you publicly dissent from and act against prevailing United States orthodoxies and the reigning US power structure, chances are good you will face personal and/or professional defamation and the charge of psychological unreliability and instability. It will be said that...

Paul Street · 4,436 views · 4.8 stars

Man Kills Himself Holding 'Tax The 1%' in Front of Capitol-and Nobody Hears About It

When 64-year-old Vietnam vet John Constantino burned himself to death on the DC Mall in October of 2013 I couldn’t stop thinking about this man and his act. Who was he? What compelled him? What was his life’s story? What were his political views, his life’s station, etc? I...

Thirty Three and a Third · 13,773 views · 4.5 stars

Libertarian Self-Marginalization

Go to the average mainstream libertarian venue on any given day, and you’re likely to see elaborate apologetics for corporate globalization, Wal-Mart, offshoring, Nike’s sweatshops, rising CO2 levels, income inequality and wealth concentration, CEO salaries, Big Pharma’s...

14 min · 5,838 views · 5 stars

Daniel Ellsberg: Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama

It is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013.

Daniel Ellsberg · 4,429 views · 3 stars

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days of feudalism has been corrupted in some form, "captured" in other words, by monied, elite...

Tim Hjersted · 12,443 views · 3.8 stars

F*ck the Party Establishment!

What's the point of being a progressive Democrat if you stand with the centre-right party establishment? This is the first and the last time a true champion of the people will come from within the system. Everyone else would just sell us out.

Saib Bilaval · 12,709 views · 4.5 stars

A Monthly Income Just for Being Human, and Other Sensible Ideas

Unconditional basic income, a policy option that seems radical by American standards, is gaining new traction across Europe, Canada, and even a few places in the United States. Also known as “universal basic income,” the policy mandates a guaranteed stipend to every resident...

Leslee Goodman · 7,623 views · unrated

If Your House Is On Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change

I first met nature writer and philosophy professor Kathleen Dean Moore in 2004. I had already dog-eared my copy of her first collection of essays,Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, when she came through town to read from her next book, Holdfast: At Home in the...

Mary DeMocker · 2,971 views · unrated

What is Left Libertarianism?

Although it's pretty safe to say that no canonical definition of left libertarianism exists, there is a growing consensus around a certain body of concepts, priorities, and attitudes towards the State. Here is a collection of different perspectives from individuals who...

leftlibertarian.org · 4,589 views · 5 stars

20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy

The economic collapse of 2008 came at the end of three decades of stagnant wages that resulted in record household debt and made it apparent that the economy does not work for most Americans.

It's Our Economy · 16,508 views · 5 stars

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