50 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systems—of empire, domination, and exploitation—are showing signs of weakness, and in their wake, we have the opportunity to build something far more life-affirming. A...

It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance

We must challenge the logic of empire and violence—both state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the profit-driven healthcare system.

Tim Hjersted

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless wars—none of these can be addressed if the public is systematically misled about their causes or distracted by manufactured moral panics with little...

Films For Action

The Real "Climate Scam" Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It

Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisis—it sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation aren't accidents; they're the business model.

Tim Hjersted

Revenge of the Deplorables?

Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.

Les Leopold

UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza

A United Nations report, published in October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to...

Chris Hedges

The Movement We Need

This series of writings is an experiment—a new way of writing a book that invites you all to participate in. I’ve written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we don’t talk about those), and seen publishing...

Starhawk

13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement

This series of writings is an experiment—a new way of writing a book that inviting you all to participate in. I’ve written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we don’t talk about those), and seen publishing...

Starhawk

The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations

Trump’s mass deportation plan, though framed as a way to protect American jobs, actually helps corporations exploit workers and harms the U.S. economy. Here’s how: 🧵

Tim Hjersted

This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason

It's true.

Tim Hjersted

A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Throughout the history of our nation, this amendment has...

Keeling Baker

Doubling Down: the Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.

“Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction of natural resources, and a view...

Richard Moser

Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible

Amid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trump’s return to “absolute” power, as authorized by the Supreme Court, there are two notes in particular that deserve a deeper dive.

Chuck Idelson

Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World

In a world marked by division, inequality, and growing despair, navigating daily life with integrity and purpose can feel overwhelming. Yet, even amid this brokenness, profound change is possible through acts of radical compassion.

Tim Hjersted

The Politics of Cultural Despair

It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.

Chris Hedges

10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won

The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

Daniel Hunter

Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice

NOTE: In the days leading up to the election, NDN Collective was invited to participate and contribute to a video with other organizers and activists, calling upon the movement to “Vote Like a Radical,” inspired by the essay authored by April Rosenblum.

NDN Collective

Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most

This is a guide to think less like a voter and more like an activist.

Tim Hjersted

Protest/Not Voting Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism

Strategic materialism + activism > symbolic protest at the ballot box.

Tim Hjersted

Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election

As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024:

We the Undersigned

Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!

We are living through this generation's WW2 moment. What will we tell our children when war crimes, including the crime of collective punishment, was committed against the Palestinian and Lebanese people with the complicit support of the United States of America?

Tim Hjersted

Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements

"It’s one thing to criticize neoliberalism; it’s quite another to imagine that a fascist regime will provide better conditions for our movements to flourish."

Tim Hjersted

We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy

Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.

David Fridley, Richard Heinberg

The 98.96% Difference Between REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS

Actual Roll Call Voting Records on 20 Issues That America Cares About

Richard Greene

A Strategy to Unite Green Party and Democratic Voters

A concerted campaign to vote Green in Red states and Blue in Swing-States could be the key to shaking up the political system and uniting progressives.

Tim Hjersted

The Myth of Far-Left Extremism: How Common-Sense Ethics Are Framed as Radical

The real extremists are the corporate and political elites who wear $5,000 suits and calmly explain why war, profit and greed are good on the evening news.

Tim Hjersted

The Tyranny of the Majority Myth: How Elites Tricked Us Into Fearing Democracy

Heard that old saying "democracy is the tyranny of the majority? It was propaganda invented by elites.

Tim Hjersted

The Tragedy of Weaponized Hurricane Conspiracy Theories

The tragedy of the theory that the U.S. government is manipulating hurricanes is that it redirects anti-establishment energy back towards support for the status quo.

Tim Hjersted

Division by Design: How Enemy Images Are Used in Polarizing Societies

A brief primer on "enemy images" and how power structures deploy them to rally support for military and political agendas.

Tim Hjersted

Should Progressives Abandon Harris? Not If Getting an Arms Embargo Is Our Goal.

Do the Democrats deserve to be abandoned for their complicity in supporting genocide? Absolutely. Is this a wise strategy, if getting a ceasefire and arms embargo is our goal? History and Trump suggests no. It will make the task far more difficult for our movements.

Tim Hjersted

Will There Ever Be a Criminal Trial for the People Wilfully Destroying Life on Earth?

Fossil fuel executives have funded a massive, 50-year-long campaign to lie to the American people, cloud the science, and buy off Republican politicians. Untold millions will die and suffer as a result, but will their ever be one iota of accountability?

Thom Hartmann

Palestinian Nonviolence Relies on Global Non-Silence

This article from May, 2010 should haunt the world. - Spread Knowledge

Yousef Munayyer

20 Principles I Wish Were More Popular on the Left

It would really warm my heart if these concepts were more popular in the left:

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

How to Defeat the Billionaire Class

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs...

Chris Hedges

The Cautious Case for Harris

A Kamala Harris presidency will not fundamentally change the neo-liberal status quo, but what wins can we get?

Vincent Pagliaccio

Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

"It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel. Yet the Biden delegates in the convention hall responded with a crescendo of roaring admiration."

Norman Solomon

Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Democracy and Leading Us Towards Fascism

We need a human rights movement that challenges the orthodoxy of market capitalism, writes Peter Joseph.

Peter Joseph

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Inspire a More Beautiful World

A better world is possible. These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people rejecting despair, fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living the more beautiful world into being.

Films For Action

Right to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.~Matthew Desmond[1]The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because...

Yavor Tarinski

The Last Thing This Country Needed

Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.

Branko Marcetic

You Saved Julian Assange

After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges: Nero’s Guests

I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig’s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza. He calls for a permanent ceasefire...

Chris Hedges

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

“We think these things that are happening across college campuses are a sideshow. No, they are the show. If we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever.” - CEO Alex Karp

Caitlin Johnstone

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending...

Norman Solomon

Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist.

Chris Hedges

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell.

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner

The US military is presented as an institution that does protecting; defending; “saving.” But fundamentally, it is an institution of killing. Of mass killing. Throughout our country’s entire history there have been service members who could not grapple with that fact; who...

Mike Prysner

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

This is the unedited first response to the title prompt, using Copilot with GPT-4.

Tim Hjersted

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity

The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.

Martin Winiecki

Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles

Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within a “living tradition” of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and...

Unitarian Universalist Association

From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities

[C]itizens today no longer even approximate the high and eminently human standard of citizenship that was established in the Hellenic world—a meaning that must be recovered, as well as the personal and social training, or paideia, for producing citizens.~Murray...

Yavor Tarinski

The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience

As we enter Black History Month, it is important to understand how management race science was developed to divide and conquer the workforce as it struggled against long odds to form labor unions.

Les Leopold

Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves

In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...

Charles Eisenstein

Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War

Sermon for MLK Day from All Souls UU Kansas City

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case

"This is the true patriotism—no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars," said KM Ofer Cassif

Jon Queally

14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians

Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S. media narratives that have dehumanized the Palestinian people.

Media Education Foundation

The Death of Israel

Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own death sentence.

Chris Hedges

Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote

In the Bible’s first semi-mythic story of what we now call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abraham dies decades after he has endangered the lives of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. His two sons come together to mourn and bury their dangerous father. As a result, Isaac...

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF

Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children. Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a...

Juan Cole

Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.

It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.

Chris Hedges

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