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Keystone XL: This Isn't Over
Keystone XL: This Isn't Over
There’s a lot of uncertainty around TransCanada’s next move – they’re still expected to make a final decision this month whether to move forward with this pipeline – but one thing is for sure. We’re the biggest obstacle this project will face and no matter what TransCanada...
2 min
Mother Canada
Mother Canada
One man’s quest to have Canada’s largest war memorial erected in Green Cove, Cape Breton, is met with fervent responses from a community that’s divided on the issue. While some fight for the ecological integrity of the park, others are adamant that the project go forward in...
22 min
Black Snake Killaz: a #Nodapl Story
Black Snake Killaz: a #Nodapl Story (2017)
Black Snake Killaz chronicles the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline from April 2016 through March 2017. The film highlights actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and investigates actions taken by law enforcement, military, and...
120 min
ANICCA - Embracing Change
ANICCA - Embracing Change (2017)
ANICCA is a very personal, honest and inspirational documentary about key issues regarding our struggle with change: fear, courage, trust and the big challenge of accepting reality as it is. 
85 min
Decentralized Disaster Relief Fills Void
Decentralized Disaster Relief Fills Void
After uncovering total failure by the U.S. government to meet the needs of communities suffering in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Abby Martin meets the people who filled the void. S
26 min
What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?
What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals...
Paul Street
What Do People In The Iphone X Line Think of The Homeless?
What Do People In The Iphone X Line Think of The Homeless?
We interview people camping out for the new Iphone X to gain some insight into what it is like sleeping rough on the streets of sydney. 
4 min
Trump Expands Police-State Crackdown on the Left
Trump Expands Police-State Crackdown on the Left
At Trump's inauguration, around 200 protesters and journalists were mass arrested and now face up to 70 years in prison on baseless charges. Many other legal assaults on civil liberties are in the works around the country, from treating anti-fascists as "domestic terrorists"...
26 min
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
Frances Lee
Rosa Clemente & Abby Martin - No Savior in 2020
Rosa Clemente & Abby Martin - No Savior in 2020
Renowned Afro-Latinx activist and scholar Rosa Clemente sits down with Abby Martin to discuss her experiences running for Vice President, organizing under Obama versus under Trump, advice for new activists, identity politics and more. 
26 min
Voices From The Anti-Trump Resistance
Voices From The Anti-Trump Resistance
On September 16-17 a major national gathering was held in Washington, D.C. called the People's Congress of Resistance, a broad and diverse coalition of organizers and community leaders formed to build the class-struggle wing of the anti-Trump movement.
17 min
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
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 everywhere.
Martin Winiecki
Tiny House Warriors: Building Tiny Homes To Defend Against Oil Pipeline
Tiny House Warriors: Building Tiny Homes To Defend Against Oil Pipeline (2017)
Ten tiny houses are about to go head-to-head with a giant proposed oil pipeline. In what some area already dubbing the next 'Standing Rock', Kanahus Manuel, an activist of the Secwepemc Nation is spearheading a team of builders and volunteers from all over North America to...
11 min
Changing How We Think About Change
Changing How We Think About Change
“The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work, and it’s never going to work” This is the bold statement Deborah Frieze offers as she opens her TEDx talk. In this wonderful video, Deborah offers us a new map for navigating the potential for transformative...
Ash Buchanan
It's Seems Like BP Have Decided to Come Clean About Their Dirty Practices... or Have They?
It's Seems Like BP Have Decided to Come Clean About Their Dirty Practices... or Have They?
BP staff were being surprisingly honest about why the company is sponsoring the British Museum's new Scythians exhibition at its press launch this week. Or maybe they weren't really from BP at all...
2 min
Guided Meditation for Activists
Guided Meditation for Activists
A guided meditation to support self-forgiveness and compassion for others, especially for people aiming to reduce suffering in the world.
12 min
Thinking Strategically About Free Speech and Violence
Thinking Strategically About Free Speech and Violence
We should be careful before embracing ideas that might lead to catastrophe…
Nathan J. Robinson
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
I’m republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in transforming American political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual reality. Some of it...
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
March 2017 marks the 46th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971—while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfold—a group of peace activists broke into an FBI...
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Ever the Land
Ever the Land (2015)
For the past 150 years, the relationship between Tuhoe and the New Zealand government has been defined by longstanding grievances over severe colonization experiences such as illegal land confiscations and the devastating consequences of scorched earth policies. Then, in 2014...
90 min
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so many levels in the U.S....
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left After Charlottesville: Where To Go From Here
The Left can't allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
Robert Greene II
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events
Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.
Arno Arr Michaelis IV
A Vision for Revolution — Join the People's Congress of Resistance
A Vision for Revolution — Join the People's Congress of Resistance
Read the Manifesto "Society for the Many: A Vision for Revolution"
2 min
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns
Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting — namely, white supremacists from around the country, who had been harassing the...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right
Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right
Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violence. Let’s start there.
Kazu Haga
The Subversive Power of Joy
The Subversive Power of Joy
The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle.
Janey Stephenson
I Wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I See Its Premise as Flawed
I Wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I See Its Premise as Flawed
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violence
William Powell
Comedian Frankie Boyle Responds to Criticism of Tevor Noah's Characterization of Antifa
Comedian Frankie Boyle Responds to Criticism of Tevor Noah's Characterization of Antifa
Today I saw a few people I respect enough not to have muted taking a tilt at Trevor Noah for some bit where he called out antifa, and called them “Vegan Isis”. This will sound snobbish, but I often cringe when well meaning types on the left address comedy. They sometimes have...
Frankie Boyle
Tips for Building Coalitions
Tips for Building Coalitions
How do we build alliances across our varied agendas so as to have the greatest impact? And how do we involve what I call TWANYAS (Those Who Are Not Yet Activists) -- those who care, but have-not yet come forward?
Joyce S. Herman
The British Museum - Where Colonialism and Corporatism Clash with Culture
The British Museum - Where Colonialism and Corporatism Clash with Culture
The North America gallery at the British Museum – which is filled with Indigenous artefacts – is sponsored by JP Morgan, one of the main funders of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yes, that’s the same pipeline that is being forced through Indigenous people’s lands in North...
2 min
Airbnb and the Power of Anti-Fascist Markets
Airbnb and the Power of Anti-Fascist Markets
Anti-fascism comes in all shapes and forms. Whether it be the ultra-patriotic types harking back to the legacy of WWII, the III% who put that Identity Evropa kid in a chokehold in Texas, the black bloc protester who punched out Richard Spencer, the antifa rioters who trashed...
Logan Marie Glitterbomb
Disability: It's Not the End of the World
Disability: It's Not the End of the World
A group of people with physical and visual disabilities in the Est Region in Burkina Faso (West Africa) come together in a participatory video process to produce a film where they make their voices heard on their lived experiences, what development is for them and how they...
38 min
Don't Always Trust Your Perceptions
Don't Always Trust Your Perceptions
Breathing in, I see myself as still water. Breathing out, I reflect things as they are. Near the mountain, there is a lake with clear, still water reflecting the mountain and the sky with pristine clarity. You can do the same. If you are calm and still enough, you can...
Thich Nhat Hanh
Becoming Midwives for The Great Transition
Becoming Midwives for The Great Transition
Culture Designer Joe Brewer on the need for midwives on a planetary scale to help humanity make the transition to its new story.
3 min
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.
Nathan Heller
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
How the Left Can Stop Arguing and Beat Trump
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett
How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
"Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?"
Aviva Chomsky
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center
A Critique of Ally Politics
A Critique of Ally Politics
Dear Beloved Ones in Struggle,
M.
With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism
With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism
Over the course of the last several decades, anti-oppression politics have risen to a position of immense influence on activist discourse in North America. Anti-oppression workshops and reading groups, privilege and oppression checklists and guidelines, and countless books...
Common Cause Ottawa
In 'Open Effort to Escalate Racial Tensions' Trump to Fully Militarize Police
In 'Open Effort to Escalate Racial Tensions' Trump to Fully Militarize Police
Trump's plan to reverse ban on transfer of military equipment to police denounced by civil rights groups as "exceptionally dangerous and irresponsible"
Jake Johnson
Beautiful Powerful Direct Action for a Clean Energy Future
Beautiful Powerful Direct Action for a Clean Energy Future
Taking direct action against the dirty fossil fuel industry and for a clean energy future, Ende Gelände is a mass action movement focused around Germany's massive lignite mines and associated infrastructure. This video is from the second day of four days of direct action...
2 min
How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History
How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History
After the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, many people are asking themselves what they should do if Nazis rally in their city. Should they put their bodies on the line in counter demonstrations? Some say yes.
Laurie Marhoefer
Life After Hate: Trump Admin Stops Funding Former Neo-Nazis Who Now Fight White Supremacy
Life After Hate: Trump Admin Stops Funding Former Neo-Nazis Who Now Fight White Supremacy
Heather Heyer is the latest casualty in a number of deaths at the hands of white nationalists. Foreign Policy recently published an FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin that concluded white supremacist groups were "responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from...
12 min
Towards a Tranformative Anti-Fascism
Towards a Tranformative Anti-Fascism
The Relevance of Radicalized Peacebuilding to Antifa Praxis
Emmi Bevensee
Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism
Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism
Will progressives accept the empirical data behind the efficacy of nonviolence?
Angela Tripp
Pro Anti
Pro Anti
Antifa’s horizon is in toppling the legitimacy of extraction and ownership anchored in presumably natural foundations
Angela Mitropoulos
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
The rise of fascism has injected new venom into an old debate, preventing activists from seeing movement strategy clearly.
Ben Case
As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to Fight Supremacy
As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to Fight Supremacy
"The Boston counter-protest is now perhaps the largest anti-racist protest this year."
Jake Johnson
Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Ruling Against Major Pipeline
Anti-Fracking Activists Celebrate Ruling Against Major Pipeline
Court ruling "gives hope across the country for people facing the onslaught of oil and gas infrastructure."
Jessica Corbett
A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out on Charlottesville
A Reformed White Nationalist Speaks Out on Charlottesville
Christian Picciolini, former White Nationalist and founder of Life After Hate, talks to NPRs All Things Considered about his reaction to what unfolded in Charlottesville over the weekend, and about the divisiveness that's been growing in the country over the past several months.
Stacey Vanek Smith
The History and Importance of the Antifascist Movement
The History and Importance of the Antifascist Movement
President Trump is facing widespread criticism for his latest comments on the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. Speaking at Trump Tower on Tuesday, Trump said the violence was in part caused by what he called the "alt-left." President Trump’s...
33 min
Drawing Equivalencies Between Fascists and Anti-Fascists Is Not Just Wrong, It's Dangerous
Drawing Equivalencies Between Fascists and Anti-Fascists Is Not Just Wrong, It's Dangerous
We must be very wary of any attempts to excuse or normalize white supremacy.
Stanislav Vysotsky
Proud Mother Says Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer 'Was About Stopping Hatred'
Proud Mother Says Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer 'Was About Stopping Hatred'
"I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion," says mother of Heather Heyer. "No mother wants to lose a child, but I'm proud of her."
Jon Queally
The Future of Activism
The Future of Activism
The times certainly are a-changing.
Juan Manuel and Martin Kirk
Reporting on Climate Change Is Harmful if You're Not Offering Solutions
Reporting on Climate Change Is Harmful if You're Not Offering Solutions
Once-celebrated author and thinker Daniel Pinchbeck can't find an audience for his new book. He has a few ideas why.
Katie Bain
Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?
Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?
Even though Creative Commons licenses have been around for more than a decade, I am always surprised to learn that many progressive-minded activists, artists and academics – the people who should be most enthusiastic about the licenses – know nothing about them or at least...
David Bollier
A 'No Nukes' Nation to Trump: Resign!
A 'No Nukes' Nation to Trump: Resign!
In the shadow of Santa Monica’s legendary “Chain Reaction” monument, a clear message was sent to the unelected interloper in the White House: RESIGN!!!
Harvey Wasserman