Don't Occupy Wall Street, Ditch It!

I personally support the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, especially the spotlight it has cast on the shocking level of inequality in our country. But the movement oddly conveys a very mainstream message that Wall Street can and should be fixed. Just clean up our existing...

Michael Shuman

After Peaceful Oakland General Strike, Occupation of Building Leads to Police Confrontation

Last night, after one of the most remarkable days of resistance in recent history, some of us within Occupy Oakland took an important next step: we extended the occupation to an unused building near Oscar Grant Plaza. We did this, first off, in order to secure the shelter and...

some friends of Occupy Oakland

Permaculture in Costa Rica

Permaculture course in Costa Rica that explores the core principles of Permaculture Design and applications with the intention of meeting human needs as individuals, within society and community, as well as creating harmony with ecological systems.

45 min

The Chain of Obedience

The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were run by those who followed the rules.

2 min

An Open Message to the 99% (Occupy Wall St)

Revolutions are dangerous and unpredictable beasts, and for a population to enter into one without fully understanding what is at stake is much like handing a loaded 45 automatic to a toddler. Following is advice to the Occupy Wall St movement, stressing the single point of...

5 min

Occupy What? A Short Guide to Real Change

What should happen to bring an an end to the corrupt and unjust economic system we have today.

3 min

Keep Going and Do Not Stop (A Communiqué in Solidarity with the Occupy Movement from Cairo)

To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice.

our comrades from Cairo

Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists

Starting with the occupation of a park next to Wall Street on September 17, a new movement is spreading across the country in which people gather in public spaces in protest against social inequalities. We’ll present

Crimethinc

A Movement Too Big to Fail

There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights...

Chris Hedges

The Banker (#RobinHoodTax)

Campaign video by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy, about the Robin Hood Tax, a tiny tax on bank transactions that could raise hundreds of billions for public services and to tackle poverty and climate change at home and around the world.

3 min

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall St)

A look into the "HOW" of the Occupy Wall Street movement: The consensus process. The community of occupiers at Liberty Plaza have sparked the process of building a movement that now transcends any one physical landmark. The tools to keep the movement alive belong to all of...

8 min

Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion

Oct 8th 2011, Marina Del Rey California. This program considers the quality of our beliefs, actions and intents within the overarching context of what supports good public health, prosperity and sustainability and what does not. The subjects of Politics, Economics and...

43 min

Peter Joseph Speaks @ Occupy LA (Occupy Wall St)

Peter Joseph of The Zeitgeist Movement speaking at Occupy LA (Occupy Wall ST) Oct 15 2011, offering some excellent perspective on the growing movement.

22 min

We - Arundhati Roy (2006)

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror...

64 min

Haiti Earthship Project: Overview

After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, members of the Earthship Biotecture crew visit Haiti to build an off-grid, sustainable housing unit and teach Haitians how to build the structures themselves. By giving power back to the people, HOPE is renewed and a real solution...

15 min

What's Organic About Organic? (trailer)

WHAT’S ORGANIC ABOUT “ORGANIC?” rings the alarm for the need to develop an ecological consciousness. The film illustrates that the organic food debate extends well beyond personal choice and into the realm of social responsibility.

2 min

Subconscious War (2011)

Subconscious War is a short documentary on media, reality, and the culture of violence, It covers the prophecies of Aldous Huxley and Neil Postman's grim assessment of our Brave New World and relates these to our violence and the cultural influences that fosters it today.

29 min

The Elephant on Campus | Dennis Littky

a snippet of michael's interview with radical educator dennis littky.

2 min

Long Before Greta and Leonardo, There Was Garry!

Martin Sheen introduces a new film that reveals how citizens can gain the power to actually outlaw the threats to our very survival!

2 min

Dumpster diver says: Trader Joe’s must stop wasting food

For many years now, I have fed my family food from the dumpster. It’s not because I can’t afford to shop at grocery stores like other, normal folks. It’s because supermarkets across the nation toss perfectly good meats, cheeses, eggs, and produce into the trash every single day.

Jeremy Seifert

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. It is a sprawling film, shot on location...

90 min

FDR's Second Bill of Rights

FDR's Lost tape of his proposal for a second bill of rights for economic security for all americans.

2 min

The Secret of Oz (2009)

Thirteen years ago, in a documentary called "The Money Masters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is...

110 min

Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class

Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus/Nation Books) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a...

45 min

Trudell (2005)

"The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most bloodthirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization." - John Trudell At its most basic...

53 min

Food Matters (2008) (trailer)

"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." –Hippocrates With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society...

7 min

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

This series will attempt to roughly give some examples as to how the urban environment can be altered so that cities can not only sustain themselves but also become ecologically rich environs benefiting mankind and servicing nature. In order for us to do so, we must create...

Nathan Revercomb

Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again

As a sustainability-loving transportation planner, I was thrilled to learn that Dr. Kee Yeon Hwang would be visiting Vancouver and talking about the project that has made Seoul, Korea a legend in urban planning circles: the

Kamala Rao

Power Shift 2011 - Bill McKibben Speaks

Is it too much to dream of an America where polluters are held accountable for their disasters? Is it too much to dream of an America where people aren’t burdened with the cost of pollution? Is it too much to dream of an America where citizens are in charge of our energy...

16 min

Amy Goodman at NCMR 2011

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, delivered a rousing speech about the power of the people to change the media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10, 2011. The conference was hosted by the national nonprofit Free Press. Find out more at...

18 min

Lawrence Lessig: Rootstrikers

Money is corrupting our democracy. Our country's founders intended our government to be dependent upon the people alone—but today, lawmakers spend up to 70% of their time raising money for their reelection campaigns. In 2010, it cost an average of $8.5 million to win a Sena

23 min

Start a Films For Action Chapter in Your City

Films For Action

Big Idea: Ecocity Economics

The ongoing economic crisis that began with the unraveling of wildly inflated real estate prices and the Wall Street derivatives bubble in 2007 and the crash into near depression in October of 2008 resulted in trillions of dollars of public bail out money for banks and...

Richard Register

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

I think now is a good time to be talking about Bucky’s vision of a World Game. We have the technology to do this and a new administration could easily provide the funding. I don’t think any of this material is Utopian or far out, but if you do, let me know why.

Brainsturbator

Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods

The main purpose of this book is to try to persuade revolutionaries to shift the sites of the anticapitalist struggle and to select new battlefields. I identify three strategic sites for fighting - neighborhoods, workplaces, and households - that I believe will not only...

James Herod

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

“Every child,” wrote pioneer botanist Luther Burbank, “should have mud pies, grasshoppers, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet...

Mike Weilbacher

The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.

86 min

Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion

Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies...

83 min

The Weather Underground (2002)

"Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." -- Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals called The Weathermen announced...

91 min

The End of Suburbia (2004)

"We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of "The End...

52 min

Peace Pilgrim: An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk (2002)

This is a powerful documentary about an extraordinary woman. At age 44, Mildred Norman left her life circumstances and became Peace Pilgrim -- walking coast to coast for peace for nearly 30 years, living on faith and sharing her wisdom and exhuberance generously with people...

62 min

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

"We know it's too much to ask, but if we could encourage every city official, business owner, student, and citizen to read this book, it'd be amazing. Besides being incredible in terms of seeing the building of "civilization" differently (which relates to city-building and...

Daniel Quinn

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (2003) (trailer)

If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which...

5 min

The Root Problem Is the Root Solution: How We Can Fix Our Democracy and Create a Sustainable Future

So, I was trying to get my friend to read a recent issue of Adbusters magazine.

Tim Hjersted

Propaganda and Language of the State

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 well as the implied half truths are more powerful than what is directly said. We see this...

Punk Johnny Cash

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

A middle class white guy comes to grips with peak oil, climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle.

123 min

Empire: Social networks, Social Revolution (2011)

Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?

26 min

Other Economies are Possible! Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity

Consider this: thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects are in the process of creating the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism. It might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker, consumer, and housing...

Ethan Miller

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

The book you're holding carries a message that your first instinct will be to distrust. That message is, We can change the world. It's risky these days to make such a promise because it sounds like one of those meaningless "awaken the inner giant" - type bromides: If you can...

Kalle Lasn

Dirt! The Movie (2009) (trailer)

DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.

2 min

Farmer-Scientist Group Wants to ‘Hack Society’ through Open-Source Technology

One of the most frequent criticisms leveled against the sustainable agriculture movement is that its proponents want to send farmers back to 19th-century hard labor, with hand weeding and harvesting. Here's an incredibly cool group of eco-minded "farmer-scientists" who aren't...

Bonnie Azab Powell

Filmmakers Propose Online "Swarm Offensive" Against Climate Change

This beautifully animated short video argues that grassroots efforts to deal with climate change can be more effective if they adopt the tactics of open source technology, using databases and social networks to "tap into our collective genius" to tackle the toughest of global...

15 min

Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil

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, we need to face the challenges of the imminent post-oil reality. Seizing foreign oil...

Richard Register

The Mystery of Science

John Todd's work is something of a mystery, even to himself. He and his colleagues build mini-ecosystems that turn sewage into irrigation water, restore dying lakes and streams, filter polluted canals, and process sludge. They call them living machines. They can assemble...

Olive Dempsey

The Tragedy Of The Mental Commons

Driving to the airport to pick up a friend, I stop at a red light. My eyes wander to a bus-stop bench across the intersection. 'Norma Whitfield - Your Real-Estate Connection.' Wham. Before I even have time to react, the advertisement has entered my mind and lodged itself...

Kevin Arnold

Imagine

John Lennon's "Imagine" covered by A Perfect Circle, and video edited by Peter Joseph, who made the video as an introduction to Zeitgeist Day 2010. Remix culture at its best!

5 min

Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video (2007) (trailer)

Examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality. Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and...

5 min

Changing Education Paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

12 min

The Next Net

The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network - its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation - is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them ...

Douglas Rushkoff

The Evilness of Power (2008)

THE EVILNESS OF POWER examines the ways in which power and hierarchy affect individuals, society, and the world at large. It's possibly the best film on the subject ever made. Produced by Jonathan Shockley.

92 min

Date Added
Views
Length	min
Topics