If MLK Sneezed (MLK's Last Speech)

The night before his assassination, MLK delivered his most suspenseful, surprising, and inspiring speechand its not I Have a Dream. In If I Had Sneezed MLK tells the mostly forgotten story of his near death experiencean attempt on his life, several years earlier. by Matt...

5 min

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

This is an argument against identity politics, but it is not an argument against feminism, or queer liberation, or anti-racism work. It is instead an argument that the oppressions usually combated through identity politics a strategy based on the affirmation of Identity...

Imminent Rebellion

Generation Revolution (2017) ($1)

Introducing the powerful stories of Londons new generation of black and brown activists, Generation Revolution explores the successes and unexpected challenges these inspiring young people face. Motivated by the desire for a more equal future, they embark on the rewarding but...

72 min

Abby Martin Meets Ahed Tamimi—Message From A Freedom Fighter

Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance--16 year old Ahed Tamimi.

20 min

Empire Files: In the Deadliest Country for Unions & Social Leaders

In 2017, murders of social leaders, union organizers and indigenous activists in Colombiahit a new high since the historic peace agreement. In the past three years, more than 3,000 unionists have been murdered in a disturbingnew trend which threatens all social progress.

19 min

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

Films For Action is alearning library for people who want to change the world.

Films For Action

Activist Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 After Heart Attack

She had been an outspoken advocate for police accountability since her fathers chokehold death in 2014.

Dominique Mosbergen

Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values

It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around since 2006. From our early years focusing on local film screenings in Lawrence, Kansas to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a...

Films For Action

10 Amazing Social Movement Struggles in 2017 That Give Us Reason to Hope

Despite endless capitalist greed and militarism, people are still fighting for a just world.

Nick Buxton

Debunking the Gandhi Myth: Arundhati Roy

On The Laura Flanders Show: Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi. And Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com.

26 min

Keystone XL: This Isn't Over

Theres a lot of uncertainty around TransCanadas next move theyre still expected to make a final decision this month whether to move forward with this pipeline but one thing is for sure. Were the biggest obstacle this project will face and no matter what TransCanada does...

2 min

Mother Canada

One mans quest to have Canadas largest war memorial erected in Green Cove, Cape Breton, is met with fervent responses from a community thats 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 (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 (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

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?

The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flawsracism, 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?

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

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

How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life

Azriel ReShel

Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Heres how that can stop.

Frances Lee

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

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

A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifestolaying outthepossible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred everywhere.

Martin Winiecki

Tiny House Warriors: Building Tiny Homes To Defend Against Oil Pipeline

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

The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work, and its never going towork 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?

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

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

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

Im 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

March 2017 marks the 46th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfolda group of peace activistsbroke into an FBI office...

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Ever the Land (2015) ($4)

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

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 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

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

Read the Manifesto "Society for the Many: A Vision for Revolution"

2 min

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

Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violence. Lets start there.

Kazu Haga

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

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

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

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 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, thats the same pipeline that is being forced through Indigenous peoples lands in North America...

2 min

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

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

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

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?

We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe were doing it wrong.

Nathan Heller

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

"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

Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?

The Southern Poverty Law Center

A Critique of Ally Politics

Dear Beloved Ones in Struggle,

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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

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

Taking direct action against the dirty fossil fuel industry and for a clean energy future,Ende Gelnde 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 taking...

2 min

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

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...

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