Films For Action: A Library for People Who Want to Change The World

Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)

[For best viewing experience, use headphones, external speakers or TV speakers.] This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on th

84 min

“United States” to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire

The global expanse of US military bases is well-known; but it's actual territorial empire is largely hidden. The true map of America is not taught in our schools. Abby Martin interviews history Professor Daniel Immerwahr about his new...

40 min

The Electronic Waste Challenge: A Global Perspective

Growing electronic waste (e-waste or WEEE) volumes from consumers are a challenge for low and middle income countries. Informal recycling of valuable and hazardous components creates an income opportunity for the poor, but poses major...

10 min

Fantastic Fungi | Louie Schwartzberg (trailer)

When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes...

3 min

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School. “Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever I’m with you.” ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pul

Ian Mackenzie

Planet Local: A Film Series about the Beautiful Local Food Movement That's Changing the Way We Grow Food

Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities...

Local Futures

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement

Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing...

56 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems

‘Use and value diversity’ is one of the ten core principles of permaculture — for good reason. Studies have shown that small, diversified farms can yield more than twice as much food per acre when compared to large monocultures. Crop...

63 min

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. In today’s global economy, food can...

53 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food

These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that aren’t made by mega-corporations; foods that aren’t full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that weren’t...

58 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions

Small farms around the world may be thriving, but farmers, particularly those just starting out, face a lot of challenges. Accessing affordable land is a BIG one, along with finding start-up capital, and competing with traditional...

83 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

For young people not raised on the land, getting into farming can seem daunting. Even for people who have worked on farms before, it is easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed when it comes to starting a farm of one’s own. This week...

45 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

As we’ve seen, the food system is broken. But we’ve also seen young people returning to the land and learning about farming for the first time; we’ve seen others choosing to carry on the food traditions that their ancestors have...

36 min

Yuval Noah Harari - Global or Local?

“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.” Yuval Noah Harari Music: A Big Idea, End Credits & Elemental - H. Scott Salinas & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Narration...

10 min

Joe Rogan Interviews Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders is a 2020 Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party and is currently serving as the U.S. Senator of Vermont.

67 min

The Land for Our Food

👎Industrial Agriculture: - Destroys soil - Produces tons of emissions - Pollutes water - Destroys biodiversity 👍Ecological/small-scale farming: - Regenerates soil - Captures carbon - Produces more food per acre compared to...

34 min

Mindful Travel in Ladakh

In the high altitude desert of the Tibetan Plateau, Ladakhi people have carved a living from the mountains for a thousand years. Tourism in Ladakh, first commencing in 1974, has developed into a robust industry with new economic...

14 min

The Meaning of Life - Deep Therapy for Existential Crisis and Despair (Non-Dogmatic)

Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics Charles Eisenstein takes on the question "Why are we here?" in this new online course being offered...

3 min

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy - Guerrilla Translation!

This charter was originally published in Spanish as 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...

REAS

Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or...

Bruce E. Levine

Russell Brand & Gabor Mate | Damaged Leaders Rule The World

Russel Brand speaks with Dr. Gabor Maté on the latest episode of the Under the Skin podcast.

93 min

Trump the Magician: The Real Function of Racism and Xenophobia

Donald Trump is a con artist. He is practicing one of the oldest tricks in the book, borrowing a page from every magician who seeks to fool and dazzle their audience by distracting their attention at a critical moment in the act...

Brian Becker

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local...

30 min

Lost Nation Road

Spiritual activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician Gregory Hoskins craft a love letter to endings on the nights of grief and mystery tour.

25 min

The Curse of Abundance (2019) ($5)

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...

69 min

The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great awakening has arrived just in time...

Ronnie Cummins

Jim Acosta Refuses to Defend Free Press & Julian Assange EXTENDED

***Full extended version*** I asked Jim Acosta about the Trump administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute Julian Assange for practicing journalism. Jim Acosta promotes his book “Enemy of the People” about...

11 min

Perpetual Motion

Carpe Diem - Seize the day. While every day might not be good, there is always something good in every day. Life is filled with adventures and experiences. Life is about living. Find what drives you. Find what motivates you to get up...

8 min

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...

2 min

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

Want to Tackle Inequality? Then First Change Our Land Ownership Laws

What is the most neglected issue in British politics? I would say land. Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership and control have been captured by a tiny number of people. The results include soaring...

George Monbiot

Are We Done Fighting?

We need ways to build healthier relationships with people who have perspectives different from our own.

Matthew Legge

‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump's Persecution of Assange

In the endless brain fart cyclone that is the Trump era, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has made a name for himself posing as a martyr of the free press. While US mass media have made a theatrical WWE performance of Trump’s...

Caitlin Johnstone

Jim Acosta Refuses to Defend the First Amendment in Julian Assange Case

I asked Jim Acosta about the Trump administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute Julian Assange for practicing journalism. Jim Acosta promotes his book “Enemy of the People” about defending the First Amendment @...

5 min

Abby Martin, Chomsky, Greenwald, Varoufakis - Experts, Journalists & Activists: Best of 2018-2019

Dear supporters of acTVism Munich, We’ve come a long way together, thanks to your donations and the commitment of our dedicated volunteers. We’ve built a truly independent non-profit & bilingual media network, which does not rely on...

9 min

How to Defeat Moral Grandstanders (and Stay Classy while Doing It) | Brandon Warmke

These effective strategies can minimize harmful moral grandstanding – in yourself and in others. Moral grandstanding may have very serious consequences for social discourse, but calling it out and shaming moral grandstanders is...

7 min

Ego Not Bad

A short film by the creators of A Quest for Meaning.

26 min

Flag of Distress/What to a Migrant Child Is July 4th?

A Poem For Freedom

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

Why the Julian Assange Case Threatens a Free Press

6 Pulitzer prize winners explain.

11 min

The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming

In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections...

Thomas Linzey

Seeking the Good Life in America: Alternative Ways to Live Sustainably (2011) ($2)

Join Joy on her journey to visit intentional communities as she searches for a place to call home. Follow along on a road trip with her for a personal glimpse into her adventure visiting three well-established Virginia based...

62 min

Passive House Revolution (2013) ($3)

Create a Low Energy Home: Join the Passive House Revolution! Passive House Revolution catches you up to all of the most important developments in efficient building and home design over the last 20 years. Applying an innovative...

45 min

Was Austerity a Scam?

Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless...

Eamonn Kelly

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

To celebrate Plastic Free July we're bringing you the inspiring story of a zero waste/waste free family in Hobart, Australia. Lauren, Oberon, and their kids have found ways to produce almost no rubbish - they've only filled one small...

9 min

How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners

On a narrative level The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about the power of hope in the face of extraordinary hardship. But underpinning Andy Dufresne’s story we also find a blistering critique of the prison system and criminal justice...

26 min

European Paganism and Christianization

In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked – Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of religious beliefs, most of which are...

Jordan Engel

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

American Exceptionalism, American Innocence, and What Comes Next: An Interview With Danny Haiphong

The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From...

Colin Jenkins

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...

Colin Jenkins

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...

45 min