Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness

People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000...

Emily Esfahani Smith

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

There’s no class in high school on how to not be a shitty boyfriend or girlfriend. Sure, they teach us the biology of sex, the legality of marriage, and maybe read a few obscure love stories from the 19th century on how not to be. But when it comes down to actually handling...

Mark Manson

The Innovation of Loneliness

What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely? Quoting the words of Sherry Turkle from her TED talk - Connected, But Alone. (ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html) Also Based on Dr. Yair Amichai-Hamburgers hebrew article -The Invention of...

4 min

Get Apocalyptic: Why Radical is the New Normal

Feeling anxious about life in a broken economy on a strained planet? Turn despair into action.

Robert Jensen

With Detroit's Bankruptcy, Anarchists Have Begun Project "Free Detroit" - Starting a Community

The city of Detroit isn’t looking too pretty to date. On July 18th as many know, Detroit filed for bankruptcy after falling an estimated $20 billion in debt to over 100,000 creditors. Due to the inability for the city government to provide for goods and services it once...

Ezra Van Auken

Mondragon: The Loving Society That Is Our Inevitable Future

My first visit to Mondragon was in 1979. I had been searching the globe for years for a Relationship Age society which was also fully integrated into the modern world. My initial reaction to Mondragon was utter amazement. I had never expected to find such a mature and...

Terry Mollner

4 Tips to Find - and Keep - Happiness!

Happiness, or the lack thereof, lies at the root of what makes life meaningful. But figuring out what exactly constitutes happiness,especially in a culture like the Unites States that tends to conflate moneywith meaning, proves to be elusive. It's not enough, the new...

Bob Banner

The Battle of Balcombe

Fracking company Cuadrilla have descended on the small West Sussex village of Balcombe, where 85% of the residents have said they are opposed to fracking and supportive of those taking action to stop it. Residents and their supporters have set up the Balcombe Community...

3 min

Taksim Commune: Gezi Park And The Uprising In Turkey (2013)

This short documentary tells the story of the occupation of Gezi Park, the eviction on July 15, 2013, and the protests that have continued in the aftermath. It includes interviews with many participants and footage never before seen.

32 min

Inner-City Nature Reserves: You Won't Know How Awesome They Are Till You Have One Yourself

A glimpse into the life of one of the first inner city designated nature reserves in the UK and what this space has come to mean to the community who cherish it.

7 min

Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4

What would it mean for us to reclaim July 4th not as a celebration of militarism, but as a celebration of our interdependence?

Michael Lerner

Street Politics 101 (2013)

In the spring of 2012, a massive student strike in opposition to a tuition hike rocked the streets of the Montréal for over six months. Protest and militant street actions became part of the daily and nightly reality of this Canadian metropolis. Several times during this...

33 min

Civic Engagement: Community Disaster Relief Wagon

Circus Maximus flew from Seattle with his partner Karissa to help out in NJ after Hurricane Sandy. Using skills that he already had as a caterer, he decided to create The U-HUNGRY Cafe to mobilize and distribute food to shore towns without electricity and whose cars had...

3 min

"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food

“People are realizing that we can’t rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that’s happening is our greatest opportunity,” says New Mexican farmer and activist Miguel Santistevan. This awakening has sparked the revival of local, sustainable food systems.

Tory Field and Beverly Bell

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

How we see the world determines how we act. Western thought sees us at war with each other over resources. In Indigenous philosophy, we are all related as individuals in balance with nature. This video juxtaposes these two world views and delivers some startling facts.

5 min

Unveiled & Lifted (2013)

Unveiled and Lifted, a new documentary experience fuses music, art and insight to create an engaging assessment of the current problems facing humanity along with potential solutions for pro-active alleviation. Focusing on self empowerment, self rule, individualism and 'being...

109 min

Frustrated With Growing Up? Watch This Video

Apparently, empathy and enlightenment can be found right at the check-out counter. So can boredom and frustration. Freedom is realizing I have the choice.

9 min

Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh - THAT'S Why We Need Unions

News reports tell us that more than 500 people have now died and more than 2,500 were injured in Savar, Bangladesh, while the toll in West, Texas stands at 15 dead and over 200 injured. Behind these two disasters is a common thread of greed – and a common need for unionized...

Richard Eskow

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

A century ago, industrialists like Andrew Carnegie believed that Darwin’s theories justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality. They left us with an ideological legacy that says the corporate economy, in which wealth concentrates in the hands of a few, produces...

Eric Michael Johnson

Money & Life (2013)

Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?

86 min

What You Read is an Ethical Choice

Your information diet is an ethical choice of yours, so when you’re on the Huffington Post looking at say the Kardashians and you click on the Kardashians, understand that you are not only reading that article, but you’re also voting for that article.

Clay Johnson

From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy

1. Green Worker Cooperative’s Co-op Academy?, The Bronx, N.Y. Ideas for co-ops may flourish, but few people understand exactly how to make theirs real. The Co-op Academy is providing answers. Founded four years ago by Omar Freilla (who recently made Ebony magazine’s list...

Claudia Rowe

Engaging People: Stories About Citizens Revitalizing Democracy

Engaging People is a web series of short documentaries about people who are engaged and actively making change in their communities. They serve as models of service, volunteerism and political action every day and in crisis situations, illustrating what it means to be an...

6 min

The Eviction Free Zone

In South Minneapolis, eight family have declared their community an Eviction Free Zone. Support them by signing their petition at: http://start2.occupyourhomes.org/

2 min

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

Q. In a freed market, who will stop markets from running riot and doing crazy things? And who will stop the rich and powerful from running roughshod over everyone else?

Charles Johnson

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)

It’s a fact. In Europe, 1.5 million workers co-own their enterprises. They are called worker cooperatives, social cooperatives or participative enterprises. The documentary TOGETHER reveals, through extensive research and exclusive interviews, why those enterprises show a...

39 min

Urban Roots (trailer)

Urban Roots is the next documentary from Tree Media. Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark MacInnis, the film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit.

3 min

Development in Bad Waters (2013)

Many of us still don’t know the difference between charity and development. While the total amount of foreign aid to Bangladesh since its independence is nearing $50 billion, the income gap has continued to increase. The inequalities persist in a range of human living...

61 min

Want to Change the World? You'll Have to Get Your Hands Dirty

As a filmmaker, it’s a rare privilege to stumble upon a completely unique story—in the case of my new documentary, Grasp the Nettle, a motley collection of land

Dean Puckett

Awra Amba: Utopia in Ethiopia (2010)

Men of quality do not fear equality. A message about equality from Awra Amba, the amazing egalitarian village in Northern Ethiopia, where men and women enjoy equality at home and at work.

28 min

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

A video about the many cooperatives in Maleny, Australia, and the beneficial effects they have on the local community. It includes interviews with people from the Maleny Credit Union, the health food store, environmental coops and the kindergarden.

33 min

The Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy

Our little group of a dozen families was running out of time. After meeting every weekend for three years to plan our hoped-for cohousing community, and after investing much of our savings to acquire a few acres of land, it looked as though our dream would fail. We couldn’t...

Sarah van Gelder

The Story of Food is Free

The Food is Free Project is creating a repeatable model of growing food and community. It is our vision and wish to empower you with the knowledge and know-how to transform your block and neighborhood step-by-step. Using salvaged materials we are building front yard...

3 min

6 Portraits of the Solidarity Economy

In a solidarity economy, our needs are met by exchanging goods, services, resources, and knowledge in ways that advance core values of justice, democracy, cooperation, and ecological sustainability. Portraits of the Solidarity Economy is a film series exploring the stories...

15 min

Occupy Love (2013)

Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper on a journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. Humanity is waking up to the fact that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The resulting...

85 min

Resistencia (trailer)

Honduras; A military coup d'etat pushes landless farmers to carry out the most audacious takeover in recent memory.

4 min

How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories

As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their

Peter Gray

Everyday Rebellion (trailer)

Everyday Rebellion is a documentary about the power of the peaceful protests and the new forms of civil disobedience in a time of global upheaval. Featuring Femen, The Yes Men, Srdja Popovic, Reverend Billy And The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, John Jackson, Monica Hunken, Amin...

4 min

Moses (trailer)

20 years on the streets. 5 years in the making. The astonishingly true story of a homeless man struggling between the hope of a second chance & the gravity of the streets. A feature doc sparked by a fiction short.

5 min

Anarchism: the A word

‘Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.

Uri Gordon

Fixing the Future: Creating Local Jobs and Building Prosperity (2010) (trailer)

Host David Brancaccio tackles one of the toughest challenges facing Americans today: How does our country create jobs that pay well and build prosperity? Brancaccio travels across America uncovering innovative community and small business projects pioneered by inspirational...

5 min

42 Ways to Build a Liberated Society Beyond Capitalism

It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and resources out of capitalist civilization and putting them into building a new civilization. The...

James Herod

"They Take Our Jobs!" - Aviva Chomsky on 21 Myths about Immigration

Aviva Chomsky's 2007 book "They Take Our Jobs!" provides a careful analysis of the overheated rhetoric around immigration policy in the United States, debunking the 21 biggest myths and stereotypes in today's debate. Here are 8 of the 21:

60 min

The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy

Disambiguation: According to the capitalist lexicon, the “Free Market” is the economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Any sensible person can recognize immediately that neither human beings nor resources...

Crimethinc

Wind Power, Not Trump Power

Donald Trump has declared war on wind farms! So why is the world’s biggest windbag in a flap? Well, if you were on the 12th hole of his golf course in Scotland and stood on your tippy toes and squinted out to sea you might just see some of the offshore wind turbines that...

Andrew Butler

You've Been Trumped (2011) (trailer)

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon. At stake is one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness.

3 min

Cultural Creatives 1.0: The (R)evolution

Featuring many key figures from Europe and the U.S., this is the first documentary film to look with scientific thoroughness at the world of Cultural Creatives. It shows that a great mass of people think differently from the way propagated by the media and promoted by the...

81 min

Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe's largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation

October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France -- Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah! Here we go! I think I’ve got it?” The plastic pitch of a...

laronceblog

Gandhi's Children (2011)

This is a visually stunning, powerful, and engaging documentary. The director's personal journey across India captures the stories of the marginalized, powerless and oppressed who are living in dire conditions, while the corporate India is boasting of a superpower economy...

54 min

Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution (2011) (trailer)

Growing Change follows the filmmaker's journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger. It's a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges.

2 min

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview is a documentary exploring the depths of the current human condition and the emergence of a worldview that is recreating our world from the inside out. Weaving together insights and findings from biology, psychology, network...

65 min

Journey to Rockmont: Three Days of Light - A Consciousness Shifting Story (2012)

Join gonzo journalist Brendon (aka Skull Babylon) as he sets off on a journey to reunite with long lost new found friends and spirit family at the Three Days of Light consciousness festival and retreat. Synopsis: Through this story we see first hand accounts of the youth and...

80 min

Face It, Your Politics Are Boring As F-ck

You know it's true. Otherwise, why does everyone cringe when you say the word? Why has attendance at your discussion group meetings fallen to an all-time low? Why has the oppressed masses not come to its senses and joined you in your fight for world liberation?

Nadia C.

Time to Form an Affinity Group: Direct Action on Climate Change and Preparing for Frankenstorms

Imagine six months from now a social movement that no longer waits for elected politicians to lead and engages in direct action against the fossil fuel industry and their lobbying power. ~ By Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins

Creating A Gratitude Economy

In many spiritual circles, it is popular to talk about gratitude. Gratitude encompasses much more than a quickie “thank you.” It implies a much deeper state of mind, one that practitioners realize will position you to receive even greater abundance. Gratitude – together...

Joanne Poyourow

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Teaching you how to meet your neighbors, grow food together, share the harvest and create a life that excites you.

The Food is Free Project

Trickle-Up Democracy

I know we’re not supposed to say such things, but I have lost faith in national politics. Yes, I’ll [continue to vote in] elections and do my part to get the less sold-out, less anti-communitarian candidate in office. But I no longer look to the top tier of centralized...

Douglas Rushkoff

We Societies

Thom Hartmann describes a society based on cooperation and the idea that we're all in this together. Compares our current "me" society with a potential "we" society.

5 min

Occupy Sandy (2012)

"Occupy Sandy," which debuted at a surprise outdoor screening above a gas station in Lower Manhattan on Nov. 28, documents the Occupy movement's volunteer efforts to assist the most hard-hit New Yorkers in the wake of last month's storm.

24 min

Guerrilla Composting - How its Done!

With a humorous spirit, The Urban Farming Guys present: How to use guerrilla tactics to get several tons of free compost (BLACK GOLD) with very little effort. For several years now, this rag-tag team of urban permaculture entrepreneurs have been baking up the finest compost...

4 min

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