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Voices of the Grandmothers 120 min
Imagine growing up with the dream seeds of a wise grandmother, whose inner knowing is distilled within her stories, myths, and songs. These messages serve as a map for you and the future...
One Veteran Spoke The Truth And Totally Stunned The Crowd, Then He Brought Them To Their Feet 5 min
This clip starting making the rounds while the Iraq War was still going on, and it was so interesting to me because I'd never seen a veteran address these things in such a brutally...
Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism's Pearl of Africa 17 min
Short documentary on Uganda's US-backed dictatorship, the country's freedom struggle from colonialism until today, and the geo-strategic role the regime plays for US Imperialism.
The Road to Home (trailer) - documentary about West Papua independence leader Benny Wenda 55 min
Documentary about Benny Wenda, the Nobel Peace Prize nominated West Papuan independence leader, in his ongoing struggle to free his people from Indonesian colonial rule.
I recently spent 4 weeks in hospital. This morning, lying in bed, in severe pain and unable to move, I had a strange feeling of missing hospital. Not the noisy and un-restful clinical...
Rights VS Responsibilities: "In Our Language, We Don't Have a Word for Rights. We Have Words for Responsibility." 3 min
There is a great deal of wisdom here, captured in this short film featuring Toghestiy and Mel Bazil. Filmed on stolen Gixtsan and Wet'suwet'en territories. Learn more about their project...
The Brilliance of Concision in U.S. Media, feat. Noam Chomsky 5 min
Noam Chomsky discusses the practice of "concision" in U.S. news and debate, and how this practice shapes and limits the information and perspectives that the public is exposed to.
A Very Heavy Agenda Part 3: Maintaining the World Order 212 min
“Without doubt it is the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” – Tom Secker [spyculture.com]
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era. But the real solutions lie...
Will Work For Free 126 min
Will Work For Free is a documentary by Sam Vallely on the subject of technological unemployment. This work is protected under fair use and will always be free.
Why You Can't Compare Covid-19 Vaccines 8 min
What a vaccine's "efficacy rate" actually means.
Earth Pilgrim 49 min
A spiritual journey into the ethereal landscape of Dartmoor with Satish Kumar, the world-renowned ecologist & creator of Resurgence magazine. Through changing seasons, Satish walks the...
A crash course in social democracy.
Unraveling the Syria War Chessboard 24 min
The war in Syria is an unparalleled crisis. Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command...
Healthy Homework Guidelines: A New Vision for Homework 5 min
Together we can transform homework and encourage schools nationwide to reexamine and reimagine homework practices to better support student engagement, health and learning with healthy...
How a Robbery was Disarmed... With a Glass of Wine 8 min
This incredible story has a lot to teach us about how we can be more effective agents for creating positive change in the world, and in involves the idea of "non-complementary behavior."
Pope Francis argues that modern economy's worship of 'god of money' leads to disenfranchisement and extremism
All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas.
Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Socialists? 19 min
For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we've seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this...
Anyone Can Change the World 2 min
What if you really could change the world? Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner, firmly believes that each and every one of us can and should contribute to creating a better world. In...
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do 6 min
In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected?...
Big Sugar 90 min
From its early days with ties to slavery, to modern times with its political ties, "Big Sugar" explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels.
Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield 25 min
The series documents Rob Greenfield's off the grid bike ride across America on a bamboo bicycle where he practiced sustainable living to the extreme. In 4,700 miles of cycling he used...
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. —Goethe
Wisdom for aspiring leaders and change-makers of every kind
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture 36 min
This 36-minute documentary follows the lives of 5 young explorers on their journey through the 5-week Ecovillage Design Education program in Switzerland, which navigates today's...
Dear Mothers, I’m writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
The numbers do not lie: women have long been underrepresented on the United States Supreme Court. In the court’s 228-year history, only four of the 112 justices have been female. Sandra...
Used and Betrayed - 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats 31 min
On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: “Support the troops.”
Conscience of a Nation: Winter Soldier II 30 min
This film documents the shocking testimony of U.S. soldiers and their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. This film is in support of veterans against these wars. Support the troops by...
Abby Martin’s Speech on US Sanctions & Economic Gangsterism 13 min
Abby's speech at the People’s Summit for Democracy, the progressive counter to Biden's imperialist ‘Summit of the Americas’ on June 9 2022.
Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist...
An annoymous poster to Antifa International writes: you antifa guys are actually more hateful and violent than any neo nazi group in the 21st century. its fucking disgusting and you...
Climate Change Babies 45 min
Climate Change Babies is an inspiring film for trailblazing parents around the world. During the Covid-19 pandemic, courageous and articulate moms, parents and grandparents from British...
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this...
This Concrete Dome Holds A Leaking Toxic Timebomb 42 min
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the...
Salmon Confidential 69 min
Salmon Confidential is a film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for...
American Psychosis | Chris Hedges 15 min
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges discusses modern-day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power, and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.
Sanders' message, his campaign, and the resounding support he is receiving nationwide has sent chills through those whose primarily loyalty is to the wealthy donors in mansions and...
There is an ancient and well-kept secret to happiness which the Great Ones have known for centuries. They rarely talk about it, but they use it all the time, and it is fundamental to...
Undergraduates ask me how to keep from getting cynical and demoralized, and my first question is how much mainstream news media they consume each day.
The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to...
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but they’re merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
How Culture Makes Us Feel Lost - Dr. Gabor Maté On Finding Your True Self Again 6 min
Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different...
101 Solutions to Global Climate Change 27 min
Peak Moment 26: Author Guy Dauncey's lively, optimistic solutions for Peak Oil and climate crisis are do-able here and now. Conservation, efficiency, proven technologies, and emerging...
Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai 10 min
Jon Jondai shares his life story of trying to find success in the city only to turn around and come back home to live a life of freedom.
How all three are surprisingly connected
Let me start by saying something that sounds controversial but actually isn't:
London, May 2009.  A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the...
The Democratic establishment and those in the media who support them keep making the same mistakes on Sanders and his movement.
The most powerful stories may be the ones we tell ourselves, says Brené Brown. But beware—they're usually fiction.
Israelism 84 min
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young...
Guy Dauncey on Solving the Environmental Crises: We Can Do It! 27 min
Peak Moment 218: Futurist Guy Dauncey's enthusiastic determination is absolutely infectious! The author of Climate Change: 101 Solutions to Global Warming sees multiple environmental...
You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois 6 min
Contrary to what you may have heard, you are needed in this world.
One of the best ways for the general public to take power back is to develop alternative currencies — both local and global — that allow people to trade outside of the...
As awareness spreads of the ecocidal consequences of our civilisation, I increasingly hear opinions to the effect that humanity is nothing but a plague, a parasite. A virus with shoes…
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 r
As an anarchist, as someone who believes neither in leaders nor the means by which we select them, I’m obviously at something of a disadvantage when it comes to making political...
This is what real revolution looks like. This is the future. Ron Finley in South Central LA was tired of living in a food desert and he decided to do something about it. He took back...
Honest Government Ad | US Supreme Court 4 min
The US Supreme Court has made an ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifesto laying out the possible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred...
Over the past century, our cities have been shaped — literally — for the benefit of the automobile and oil industries. Today, with global oil reserves headed toward irreversible decline...
Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South.
“You say laughter and I say larfter,” sang Louis Armstrong. The difference is subtle. Across the world, however, from the Amazon to the Arctic, tribal peoples say it in 4,000 entirely...
Forty-five years after Timothy Leary, the apostle of drug-induced mysticism, urged his hippie followers to "turn on, tune in and drop out", researchers have found that magic mushrooms do...
In your standard dictatorship, activists are brought out back and shot. In the United States' crypto-dictatorship, activists are bullied by the state until they go bankrupt, are...
We don’t buy from our neighbors, anymore. We buy from the firms our neighbors might work for. We don’t create value; we serve as employees. We have no relationships with our producers...
George Monbiot Exposes Coronavirus Corruption at the Heart of Government 9 min
Covid Corruption, Privileged Parasites & the Gilded Circle: Watch the full 18min interview with Monbiot on Corruption.
Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs 5 min
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances...
After you've finished reading this, there will be no doubt in your mind. Legalizing all drugs is the best way to lower the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction. If you...
When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of...
Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
Dear Mark, I hope this letter reaches you, and finds you well.
Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint 18 min
INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet'suwet'en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial...
It’s Not Terrorism When WE Do It
I intend to devote no more time to the upcoming presidential elections than walking to my local polling station on Election Day, voting for a third-party candidate, most likely the Green...
Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity 5 min
Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood...
Language is powerful. Language is deceptive. Propaganda is pumped into U.S. citizens heads daily without question or critical evaluation. The rhetoric  is chosen and the connotations as...
If we all treat one another with the best principles of human relationships, it is analogous to complying with Nature's biophysical principles by taking responsibility for our own behavior.
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” I think this is...
As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their
Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action 50 min
What happens when people work together to create solutions to the social, economic, and ecological issues we face today?
In a massive blow to multinational agribiz corporations such as  Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru has officially passed a law banning genetically modified ingredients anywhere within the...
1. “Capitalism is the accumulation of resources by means of exploitation in the production and sale of commodities for profit. Capitalist exploitation is an unequal exchange wherein...
Grocery Store Wars 6 min
Store Wars is a hilarious five minute mini-movie about a small band of organic vegetable puppets -- Cuke Skywalker, Ham Solo, Chewbroccoli and wise old Obi Wan Cannoli -- battling...
Each day there are opportunities for resistance, liberation, freedom, creativity, engagement, and meaning.
Today Leah Plante will again appear before a federal grand jury in Seattle, Washington, for the third time, and refuse to testify about her political beliefs and political associations...
Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal...
France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.
Spirited Away - Why Work Is Toxic 24 min
Hidden in the fantastic otherwordly narrative of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is an allegory about society’s toxic obsession with work. The Studio Ghibli classic was released in 2001...
We wanted a Tahrir moment, an American Spring, a new vision of the future, and they attacked us in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011 in the dead of the night with military precision...
Take some money from the wealthy, give it to the poor -- why not do it?
The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce 87 min
In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The...
You may want to think twice the next time you share a link to your favorite video.
Reboxetine is a drug I have prescribed. Other drugs had done nothing for my patient, so we wanted to try something new. I'd read the trial data before I wrote the prescription, and found...
Every age has its protest music, from blues to rock and roll, folk to punk. Today hip hop is leading the charge, challenging the staus quo and shining a light on the injustices that...
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food...
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live 15 min
How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to...
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