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Where Are the Voices of Indigenous Peoples in the Thanksgiving Story?
Where Are the Voices of Indigenous Peoples in the Thanksgiving Story?
Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
Sarah B Shear
No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.
No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.
It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to bereduced to net...
George Monbiot
7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves
7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves
Fall leaves are not a nuisance. Theyre part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.
Return to Now
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do [] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD IDO? R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Crucifying Julian Assange
Crucifying Julian Assange
What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.
Chris Hedges
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
Theres nothing they need, nothing they dont own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a hilarious inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry...
George Monbiot
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automaticwe have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
This Facebook Post about the Kansas Midterms is Going Viral
This Facebook Post about the Kansas Midterms is Going Viral
121,000 likes and 36,000 shares attest to a powerful story about how change is fought for.
Davis Hammet
Let's Hear It for Men!
Let's Hear It for Men!
Stepping up in the era of Me Too and Total Shutdown.
Chris Taylor
80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?
"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler."
Martin Winiecki
Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Hate Plays Into Hands of Right-Wing Media
Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Hate Plays Into Hands of Right-Wing Media
Media coverage of tragedies like shootings and bombings is frequently politicized, particularly when jihadism is a factor in perpetrators motives. In its coverage of the recent outbreak of conspiracy-fueled far-right wing terrorism, however, many media outlets have rushed to...
Justin Anderson
The Cult of Trump
The Cult of Trump
Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical...
Chris Hedges
Brené Brown on True Belonging
Brené Brown on True Belonging
Have you ever felt like you just dontbelong? Like youre a pink chicken in a field of graceful giraffes, or that perhaps you came to the wrong planet? Certainly many people seem to feel this way, either about their families, or their community, their sexuality and culture. We...
Azriel ReShel
Beyond Body Image
Beyond Body Image
This thing we call female body-image - the relationship which women have to our own bodies - is, without doubt, in need of urgent attention. I know from my own deep exploration of the subject, that as a woman, I am unable to really separate my own sense of self from the...
Ayla Amano
A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet
A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet
How to make simple living go viral.
Julyan Davey
I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where...
Ryan Conrad
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson
Tim Hjersted
100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness
100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness
There are over 6,000 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potentialto inspire action and raise awareness on just aboutevery topic related to making the world a better place.
Films For Action
There Is No Such Thing As A Bad Parent
There Is No Such Thing As A Bad Parent
Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.
George Siegal
Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men
Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men
In response to my recent newsletter, which I named Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy, I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways they pointed me to the reality that the word...
Miki Kashtan
If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn’t the Only Answer
If You Want to Save the World, Veganism Isn’t the Only Answer
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years from an estimated half a million people in 2016to more than 3.5 million 5% of our population today. Influential documentaries such as
Isabella Tree
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?
To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?
Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements from the Leave camps now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release 350 million a week for the NHS to the former Chancellor George...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly
Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly
The Wholeness of Life Kanyiniis best expressed in English as the combination of the two words Responsibility and Unconditional Love, but it is actually a relationship; it is an enormous caring with no limit it has no timeframe: it is eternal. Uncle Bob Randall In our...
Anneloes Smitsman
Time to Wake Up: the Neoliberal Order Is Dying
Time to Wake Up: the Neoliberal Order Is Dying
Inmy recent essay, I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives supporting what we might loosely term our current neoliberal order rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are of course deeply...
Jonathan Cook
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
Jonathan Cook
The Benefits of Working Out in Nature
The Benefits of Working Out in Nature
I was at the beach the other day with some friends and after a rousing game of apprehend the frisbee before it nails an unsuspecting stranger, we all settled on the sand to chat and observe our fellow beachgoers.
Brock Armstrong
Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, but Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People
Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, but Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People
Columbuss treatment of the Tano people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide erasing the memory of the Tano from our nations classrooms
Bill Bigelow
Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy
Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy
The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities has concluded. The report, entitled Testing Theories of American...
Zachary Davies Boren
Raise Your Son to Be a Good Man, Not a ‘Real’ Man
Raise Your Son to Be a Good Man, Not a ‘Real’ Man
Michael Kimmel
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little throughout our lives. Whilst some of our other values...
Terry Sexton
Memory Reconsolidation and Dead Man Walking
Memory Reconsolidation and Dead Man Walking
How many men have come forward and confessed to committing rape or sexual assault in the public eye?
Josh Liveright
Brett Kavanaugh, Patriarchy, and Bursting the Ruling-Class Bubble
Brett Kavanaugh, Patriarchy, and Bursting the Ruling-Class Bubble
"Elites" aren't accustomed to adversity, being challenged, or having their birthright entitlements questioned. They coast through their prep schools and Ivy League, and slide into their preordained adult lives without ever experiencing the daily struggles of working people...
Colin Jenkins
Mean, Kind or Non: Which Type of Racist Are You?
Mean, Kind or Non: Which Type of Racist Are You?
"Despite our best efforts to eradicate racism, it comes backlike a toxic weed because we fail to pull it up by its root."
Carlos Hoyt
Why Women – Including Feminists – Are Still Attracted to 'Benevolently Sexist' Men
Why Women – Including Feminists – Are Still Attracted to 'Benevolently Sexist' Men
If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?
Pelin Gül and Tom R. Kupfer
US Government Admits It's Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba
US Government Admits It's Making Fake Social Media Accounts to Spread Propaganda in Cuba
The United States has repeatedly accused the Russian and Iranian governments of using social media to spread disinformation and foment chaos. Under US government pressure, Big Tech corporations have banned large numbers of accounts accused (in some cases falsely) of being...
Ben Norton
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She...
Silvia Federici
Initiation Into a Living Planet
Initiation Into a Living Planet
Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what you knew and what you were. From the rubble of the ensuing collapse, a new self is born into a new world.
Charles Eisenstein
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Change comes in waves, like the ocean, like sound, or ripples on a lake. Sometimes its all action Occupy, the Arab Spring, the summer of 1968. Sometimes it feels like nothings happening, nothings ever going to happen, no matter how hard you try. Or even that things are...
Chris Taylor
Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness
Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness
Peace to you; if youre 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 government...
Colin Jenkins
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.
Colin Jenkins
Here's Why You Should Think Twice about Killing Spiders in Your Home
Here's Why You Should Think Twice about Killing Spiders in Your Home
I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Dont kill the next spider you see in your home.
Matt Bertone
Our Current Leadership Is Unsustainable
Our Current Leadership Is Unsustainable
Environmentally, socially and psychologically our society is unsustainable. If consumption continues to increase at current rates, by 2050 we will need 3 Earths to sustain us (United Nations, 2015). Socially, income inequality is at the highest level in 50 years in OECD...
Terry Sexton
Periods Are Beautiful
Periods Are Beautiful
Women go through their female cycle around 450 times in their lifetime. 450 times of bleeding. But also 450 times of letting go, letting a dying thing leave their own body, becoming new, regenerating and waxing and waning, not unlike the moon and tides.* Alas, the average...
Annika Mueller
Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential
Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential
Movement, perception, thinking, effortless achievement and healing are inherent to lifethey happen by themselves. When we observe children learning to walk or speak, ecosystems regenerating themselves, or animals self-organizing, we notice theres a masterful way of...
Martin Winiecki
It's Time to Decriminalize Immigration, Say Top Texas Dems
It's Time to Decriminalize Immigration, Say Top Texas Dems
Two top candidates say Congress should decriminalize unauthorized border crossings entirely, while aspiring U.S. Sen. Beto ORourke argues asylum-seekers should be exempted from illegal entry prosecution.
Roque Planas
Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World
Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World
The future we long for is alive and well in the more hopeful corners of our heart.
Chris Taylor
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Our Un-Soulful Economy
Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal. This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees? Do they have souls? Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...
Terry Sexton
Films For Action's Big Redesign Is Now Live!
Films For Action's Big Redesign Is Now Live!
The biggest changes include:
Films For Action
Identity Beyond Politics
Identity Beyond Politics
We exist within a system of global violence that forces us into relationships of domination with each other, creates a situation where the material safety of some is dependenton the oppression, life energy is extracted for profit, and human existence entails the destruction...
Simon Mont
Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century
Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century
Seven decades on, Israel is geopolitically embattled and the Jewish community is increasingly polarized around the issue of occupation. The occupation Israeli military control over the Palestinian West Bank and the borders of Gaza Strip is five decades old. Entire...
Benjamin Steinhardt Case
Patreon Update: A Big Thank You! + New Rewards & More
Patreon Update: A Big Thank You! + New Rewards & More
Hello fellow travelers, explorers, pioneers and visionaries! First I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has thrown their support behind us in the first few months since we launched our Patreon campaign! I can't say how much it means to me and our team to have...
Films For Action
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Since publishing my essayUn-Identity: Climbing Down the Other Side of Peak Liberalism, Ive connected with dozens of other leftists around the world burned out on the hypocrisy and stagnancy of liberal identity politics. Many of us share common experiences of trauma and...
Pat Mosley
Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime
Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime
Trumps White supportersnot immigrantsare bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.
Mike Males
Engines of Domination 2018 Director's Cut Full Script
Engines of Domination 2018 Director's Cut Full Script
The Greatest Tool Ever Invented
Mark Corske
1968: a Missed Chance for Socialism
1968: a Missed Chance for Socialism
Precisely 50 years ago, the international anti-imperialistic students movement culminated in the uprisings in France. At that time, Dieter Duhm, a psychoanalyst and sociologist, was a spokesman of the new left in the German students movement and coined the slogan, Revolution...
Dr. Dieter Duhm
Is It Time for a Post-Growth Economy?
Is It Time for a Post-Growth Economy?
The growth-driven economic model we have adopted is killing our planet.
Jason Hickel
Ceos Vs. Workers
Ceos Vs. Workers
People in a sense are disposable. We work somebody to the point of no return, and we get rid of them and get somebody else in. Its not a culture where people are respected, are nourished. We have to ask ourselves if thats the kind of economic culture we are comfortable with...
Meagan Day
A Broken Idea of Sex Is Flourishing. Blame Capitalism.
A Broken Idea of Sex Is Flourishing. Blame Capitalism.
In this world, women are marketed as toys and trophies. Are we surprised when some men take things literally?
Rebecca Solnit
Reminder: Women Migrants Are Fleeing Countries the U.S. Helped Decimate
Reminder: Women Migrants Are Fleeing Countries the U.S. Helped Decimate
The violence driving people to seek shelter in the U.S. has its roots in American foreign policy.
Molly Redden
A Jobless Economy
A Jobless Economy
We need an economy that finally cements the most fundamental freedom: to decide how we live our lives. One simple policy can deliver that.
Samuel Miller McDonald