Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

Since, under present world conditions, everyone either is now, or has been, or will be at some time a target of social oppression, and since everyone is now, or has been, or will be in a non-target group in relation to some other group’s oppression, alliance-building is for...

Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

“In Wildness is the preservation of the World.” Thoreau says it in “Walking,” and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays, The Abstract Wild, questions how many of us have any idea what it means. Pe

Carol Black

An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence

I was around 14 when I heard about Concentration Camps for the first time.

Dieter Duhm

We Don't Need Them

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no reason to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves, like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose, they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow morning. ...

Joe Carpenter

Just Fix It: Showing up

What does it take to create change in a world in desperate need of it? Mike Prather explains the story of the dust mitigation and ‘restoration’ of the Owens Dry Lake.

5 min

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Because racism is both institutional and attitudinal, effective strategies against it must recognize this dual character. The elimination of institutionalized racism requires a conscious project of attitudinal transformation. The deliberate attempt to transform racist...

Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright

A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump

Jason Hickel

Community Repair: Pop-Up Alternatives to a Throwaway Society

A not-so-quiet repair revolution is taking place in communities across Britain. Consumers, fed up with having to throw away broken phones, toasters and other appliances, are instead meeting to learn how to repair them and to extend the lifetime of their products. These repair...

Christine Cole, Alex Gnanapragasam

'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Lawmakers Roll Out Plan to Expand Worker Ownership

'Giving workers a seat at the table and their fair share of the profits they help produce is one way to even up the playing field and give hardworking Americans a chance to create an economy that works for everyone'

Lauren McCauley

Incredible Edible Todmorden - From Market Town to Food Producing Pioneers

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change...

13 min

Hacking Apartheid - Cryptography Tools for Activists

“Cryptography is the ultimate form of nonviolent direct action.” - Julian Assange

Sophie Toupin

The Scottish Start-Up Making Roads with Waste Plastic

Engineer Toby McCartney explains how his Scottish start-up MacRebur is persuading councils to use local waste plastic to build roads. Two English councils have already started building roads this way.

3 min

What Happens When You Bring Meditation to Public Schools

Classrooms all over the country are trying something new: sitting and breathing.

5 min

The Bentley Effect (trailer)

The extraordinary tale of a community who defied the gas juggernaut. Filmed over five years, The Bentley Effect documents the highs and lows of the battle to keep a unique part of Australia gasfield-free. This timely story of a community’s heroic stand shows how strategic...

4 min

Calling All Pioneers of the New Paradigm!

From our fellow change agents at United Earth….

6 min

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution

A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...

Daniel Christian Wahl

15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System

Here are 4 excellent articles about how to end police brutality and reform our broken criminal justice system. Together they offer a holistic and comprehensive approach that should get us well on our way towards the more just and egalitarian world we all long for. The key is...

Films For Action

Cybersecurity for the People

Planning on going to a protest? You might not be aware that just by showing up, you can open yourself up to certain privacy risks — police often spy on protesters, and the smartphones they carry, and no matter how peaceful the demonstration, there’s always a chance that you...

3 min

4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System

Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do it fix it.

Leah Penniman

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most...

22 min

Most Colleges Prepare Us For a Future That Feels Wrong. Wouldn't It Be Amazing If Alternatives Were Widely Flourishing?

When I graduated from high school in 1985, college was the unquestionable next step for an intelligent, middle-class or upper-middle class young person. I entered an elite school not out of any particular ambition, but because the story that surrounded me said that this is...

Charles Eisenstein

We the People 2.0 (2017)

We the People 2.0 describes the growing people’s revolt against destructive corporate activities in the US to stop toxic dumps, mines, drilling, etc. Communities are seizing back the right to say no through local lawmaking, outlawing oligarchy.

91 min

How to Boil a Frog (2010)

There's plenty of serious documentaries on the world's environmental problems. How to Boil a Frog takes a different approach, mixing fast-paced comedy with hard-hitting facts to help make complex subjects both understandable and more engaging. The accompanying study guide...

53 min

Real Value (2013)

Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...

70 min

Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy Away from Disaster

If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is now, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). If the global...

Samuel Alexander

Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points

After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings working on social, economic, and...

Otto Scharmer

It’s Time for a National $15 Minimum Wage

It has been 10 long years since Congress passed legislation to raise the minimum wage. It’s time to raise it for all Americans.

Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)

“Without question, this is absolutely the best and most creative film on the future of humanity and the environment”. — Paul HawkenWhat if telling a story that gives hope by pointing out solutions was the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that...

120 min

Nature's Solution to the Water Crisis

How can we support this natural solution to ensure there is water for future generations?

2 min

Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.

We can do so much better than this.

Tim Hjersted

New Technology Brings Star Wars-Style Desert Moisture Farming a Step Closer

Luke Skywalker wasn’t just a farmer. In the original 1977 Star Wars film, the lead character was desperate to leave his home planet of Tatooine, where his family farmed moisture from the atmosphere using devices called “vaporators”. In the planet’s hot and dry desert...

Amin Al-Habaibeh

Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis

As we have entered a new century we face great crises both in society and in the natural world. Today we are not only still witnessing poverty, hunger and devastating wars: enormous environmental dislocations even threaten the stability of the planetary climate and vital...

Eirik Eiglad

If Workers Take Power

– Instead of the small class of capitalists controlling society, we can make our own decisions about work and social life.

Stephanie McMillan

Decriminalize Immigration, Free Movement for All!

The United States recently experienced its first wave of large-scale anti-immigration raids following the election of Donald Trump, who made the mass deportation of “illegal” immigrants a central part of his campaign. Although ICE officials claim that these raids targeted...

James C. Wilson

The House of the Nobodies — Where Everyone Is Welcome

La Casa de los Ningunos is an experimental community in the Bolivian capital city of La Paz, 12,000 feet up in the Andes Mountains. In a recent piece on the Casa, Sian Cowman explained the inspiration for the name, which also elegantly describes the Casa’s mission, “…Los...

Planet Local

Overworked? Underpaid?

We’re all feeling the squeeze. What can we do? ORGANIZE!

Workers Power

80 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth

Pachamama, our dear Mother Earth, is 4.5 billion years old. She is home to an estimated 8.7 million species of life! This wondrous web of relationships is truly a gift to be a part of, and we can thank our growing and evolving Mother Earth for the eyes and mind we have to...

Films For Action

The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right

We live in a world dominated by the principle of private property. Once indigenous people were dispossessed of their lands, the land was surveyed, subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. From high above, continents now appear as an endless property patchwork of green and...

Julian Brave Noisecat

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when everything seems hopeless, read this to get your hope on. 1. Hope can co-exist with other feelings. Grief and hope can co-exist. Fear and hope...

Abby Brockman

Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”

It has been said that we’re living through “The Age of Loneliness.” Loneliness is “epidemic” among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the numb

Planet Local

The Eco Co-Op Providing Access to Land for Sustainable Food Production and Living

The Ecological Land Co-operative (ELC) was set up to address the lack of affordable sites for ecological land-based livelihoods in England. There is an enormous disconnect between the combined cost of land and rural housing, and the income that is usually derived from...

5 min

How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly

A universal basic income (UBI) – an idea in which the government replaces all other forms of monetary assistance (welfare, social security, etc.) with yearly stipend – has enormous potential to radically transform our current unsustainable consumer economy based on individual...

Chris Agnos

The Circle of Life: How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

George Monbiot

21 Theses for a People's Ecology

The “21 Theses,” dated July 2014 and published in November 2015, marked the birth of the Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris. In May 2016 I had the opportunity to ask Patrick Farbiaz, one of its founders, what the cooperative meant by social ecology. He explained that it...

Janet Biehl and The Social Ecology Cooperative in Paris

Ho’oponopono for Earth Day

The Power of Humility, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Love

Jacob Devaney

A “Political” Program for Anarchists

Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...

Kevin Carson

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy. These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy: toxicity, monoculture, monopoly...

60 min

Finding Inner Peace Through Meditation with Filmmaker David Lynch

In “Finding Inner Peace,” David Lynch describes how his personal experience with meditation helped him to deal with anxiety, fear, and depression and taught him how to tap into the root source of creativity and bliss.

6 min

A Hacker Explains the Best Way to Browse the Internet Anonymously

While it may seem difficult these days to remain anonymous online, it's not impossible. We spoke with Kevin Mitnick, author of "The Art of Invisibility," who told us the one tool you should be using if you want to protect your identity.

2 min

Surviving Economic War in Venezuela - People Are Doing It For Themselves

Rebel Diaz went to Venezuela last month, where U.S. corporate interests are waging a devastating economic war on the Venezuelan people. In the face of hyperinflation and food shortages, groups of young people are coming together to create collective alternatives for survival,

5 min

The Edible Bus Stop: Community Gardens From Neglected Sites

The Edible Bus Stop transforms neglected sites across London's bus network into valuable community growing spaces. Originating as a guerilla garden project adjacent to a bus stop in South London, we transform once-forgotten spaces into thriving neighbourhood hubs that are...

2 min

THE BIG IDEA (Basic Income Guarantee) (trailer)

Hi, I’m Matt Orfalea and for 3 years I’ve been writing and making videos about the BIG idea of a Basic Income Guarantee (aka Universal Basic Income)

3 min

Every Town Needs a Remakery

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 repair their own things.

Jeremy Williams

Tamera - Taste of a New Culture

Tamera is an extraordinary intentional community in Portugal. A model for regional autonomy in energy and food, it is focused on creating a truly peaceful society, working harmoniously with nature. This short film looks at the many projects that have transformed the arid...

52 min

America's Greatest Enemy Is Our Own Self-Defeating Division

"Capitalism is Evil!" "No, socialism is Evil!" "You must love oligarchy!" "You must love communism!" Sound familiar? That's what passes for "debate" these days- beating each other over the head with divisive labels and any extreme straw-man arguments handy. Ideas become...

Michael Emero

How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City

Have you noticed all the cuts being made to your city budget? To schools and libraries, fire fighters and social services, and other public spending? Think you could do a better job managing the budget? Soon, you may have that chance.

Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner

Nine Legendary Activists Share Lessons On How To Win Social Change

Whether it's 1966 or 2016, one thing that hasn't changed much is how people organise and campaign for social and political advancement. Amidst rising political and social division, newsPeeks spoke with Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Cleaver, Devon Thomas, Angela Phillips, Erin...

15 min

Why Popular Assemblies Sweeping the Country Are Building Blocks of the Resistance

From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.

Sarah Lazare

Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss

"So much in society we are bombarded with a competitive approach and it is about reimagining that and reworking it!" A glimpse into the working lives of people from the Leeds Bread Co-op who can't imagine having a boss and are bringing the values of democracy, equality and...

3 min

Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine

Free your mind, find your power, change the world

Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld

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