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How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich
Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold. The law places a 2.25% tax...
Adam Ziemkowski and Rebekah Liebermann
Accidental Anarchist
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became...
86 min
Month of Rolling Resistance Reclaims Power From Dirty Frackers
Month of Rolling Resistance Reclaims Power From Dirty Frackers
Lancashire County Council and local residents said NO to fracking. The government overturned that decision and allowed fracking firm Cuadrilla to drill at a site on Preston New Road near Blackpool. Now local residents, councillors and concerned citizens are taking direct...
10 min
James Cromwell's Fiery Final Interview Before Jail for Taking a Stand Against Fracking
James Cromwell's Fiery Final Interview Before Jail for Taking a Stand Against Fracking
Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell has reported in upstate New York after he was sentenced to a week behind bars for taking part in a nonviolent protest against a natural gas-fired power plant. Cromwell says he’ll also launch a hunger strike. He was one of six activists...
14 min
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in...
George Lakey
Marginalized People Don't Need Politeness, They Need Power
Marginalized People Don't Need Politeness, They Need Power
There’s an ever-percolating fight happening in left-of-center spaces about the tactics of the “call out” and shaming culture. This fight is rarely productive. Critics of those tactics argue they are counterproductive; defenders counter that these critics are really just...
Freddie deBoer
One Graph Shows How Morally Outraged Tweets Stay Within Their Political Bubble
One Graph Shows How Morally Outraged Tweets Stay Within Their Political Bubble
Thousands of people around the world have excitedly made a forceful political point with a well-honed and witty tweet. All it takes is 140 characters to make a pithy argument, and man it feels good to get a few retweets.
Olivia Goldhill
On Left Activism: Breaking Up Is Easy, but Sticking Together? That's the Real Test of One's Ideals
On Left Activism: Breaking Up Is Easy, but Sticking Together? That's the Real Test of One's Ideals
There is good reason for people on the left to have divisiveness on their minds. In the news and on social media, the leftists that are shown most often are those that are ranting and raging at each other, calling each other out over this badly-phrased thought or that...
A. E. Elliott
The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism
The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism
Fighting capitalism remains the only path toward women’s full liberation.
Erica West
Councilors Take Direct Action Against Fracking, "You've Left Us No Choice"
Councilors Take Direct Action Against Fracking, "You've Left Us No Choice"
Lancashire residents and councilors took part in a 13-person lock-on at fracking company Cuadrilla's flagship fracking site at Preston New Road. The action is part of the Rolling Resistance, a month of taking creative action against Cuadrilla and the fracking supply chain...
3 min
Beneath Dramatic G20 Clashes, a Deep Demand for a Better World
Beneath Dramatic G20 Clashes, a Deep Demand for a Better World
Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites
Jessica Corbett
A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics
A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics
A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.
Kelton Sears
The NFL Can’t Handle the Political Radicalism of Colin Kaepernick
The NFL Can’t Handle the Political Radicalism of Colin Kaepernick
By directly challenging white supremacy, racism and imperialism, Colin Kaepernick is making himself a household name for all the right reasons. And the NFL, its billionaire owners and the corporate errand boys of sports journalism simply cannot stand it.
Eric Draitser
Why We Should Stop Using the Word "Activist"
Why We Should Stop Using the Word "Activist"
Contesting power isn’t a hobby or a subculture—it’s a collective project pervading all facets of our lives.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Naomi Klein: We Must Kill Our 'Inner Trump'
Naomi Klein: We Must Kill Our 'Inner Trump'
The author of 'No Is Not Enough' says we must tackle our “inner Trump” in order to create a better world. Part of a 20min interview with OpenDemocracy, which you can watch in full here.
2 min
Worth Dying For - How Berta Cáceres' Murder Sparked a Backlash in Honduras
Worth Dying For - How Berta Cáceres' Murder Sparked a Backlash in Honduras
Berta Cáceres, winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment and possibly the most well-known land rights activist in the world, was murdered in her home a year ago. Berta's message to the world was that no one is beyond reach. Far from silencing her and her...
25 min
After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover
After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover
Two decades after the UK handed it back to China, President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for the first time to celebrate the anniversary. The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was designed to preserve democratic freedoms in the wealthy former colony. After troubled years of...
9 min
Meet The Protectors Who Built a Fortified Camp to Stop Oil Drilling
Meet The Protectors Who Built a Fortified Camp to Stop Oil Drilling
Oil companies estimate that 100 billion barrels of oil lie beneath the south of England. But a new breed of activists is opposing any drilling. Claire Marshall has been living with some of the protesters, who built a large wooden fort on a proposed drill site at Leith Hill in...
12 min
How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans
How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans
“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”
Julian Cola
Bay Area Nonprofit Transforms Businesses Into Worker-Owned Cooperatives
Bay Area Nonprofit Transforms Businesses Into Worker-Owned Cooperatives
There's been a lot of talk about where the Baby Boomer generation will live as they age. Several interesting, sharing-based housing alternatives such cohousing and senior villages have emerged as potential options. But what about all the businesses that Baby Boomers own? What...
Cat Johnson
Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning
Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning
Pierre Fulton was black. He was poor. He had struggled his entire life. He had been in trouble with the law as a youth. Armed robbery, drug distribution, and gun possession were all on his record. It was now 2015 and Pierre was thirty. He had turned his life around. He got a...
R.L. Stephens
Peter Joseph on The New Human Rights Movement - w David Pakman
Peter Joseph on The New Human Rights Movement - w David Pakman
Thanks to David Pakman. Get the book: http://www.thenewhumanrightsmovement.com 
24 min
100 Days Of 45
100 Days Of 45 (2017)
A mesmerizing compilation of clips from every single day of the 45th President's first 100 days. Like the films Alex is forced to watch in A Clockwork Orange - this breakneck, experimental documentary is a barrage of the media chaos that reshaped our reality. Each day ticks...
63 min
Be the Change in the Messed up World - ​Rob ​Greenfield at Tedx
Be the Change in the Messed up World - ​Rob ​Greenfield at Tedx
Individual actions can amount to change at a large scale. In his talk, Rob explains how this applies to environmentally friendly living. His extreme activism initiatives, such as the “Trash Me” campaign he ran in New York in 2016, are meant to awaken our consciousness on the...
18 min
Organizing in 'Small Town USA'
Organizing in 'Small Town USA'
On March 8, a crowd of over 50 protesters in Geneva, New York, (population 13,261) occupied the office of Republican Congressman Tom Reed. The occupation was part of a women’s strike organized in connection with International Women’s Day by the Geneva Women’s Assembly.
Liberation Staff
The Trap of Righteousness
The Trap of Righteousness
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. —Goethe
Charles Eisenstein
We Don't Have Time to Hate
We Don't Have Time to Hate
This sermon was given at the ECM in Lawrence, KS in April 2015. 
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
Happy father’s day to the fathers, and to our fathers’ fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and all the way back to Grandfather Sky. Past there to before there were fathers, because all was just ONE.
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
This Trump Pipeline Prank Should Win an Activism Oscar
This Trump Pipeline Prank Should Win an Activism Oscar
President Trump loves pipelines, and he says everyone else does too. So he shouldn't have a problem with one being built through one of his buildings, right?
2 min
Hawaii's Homeless Community Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
Hawaii's Homeless Community Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
With barely enough shelter to house even 11% of the homeless people on its main island, Hawaii lawmakers struggle for solutions amid rising costs of living and low wages. But one group of homeless Hawaiians has taken matters into their own hands, forming a highly organized...
5 min
La Zad - The Largest Autonomous Zone in Europe
La Zad - The Largest Autonomous Zone in Europe
Decades ago, there was a local campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes, in western France. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organized autonomous zone, known as the ZAD. Over 40,000 people take part...
28 min
The Message: We Need Juneteenth Today
The Message: We Need Juneteenth Today
On Sunday, June 18th, 2017, Tai Amri Spann-Ryan gave a powerful and moving sermon at the Lawrence, KS Unitarian Fellowship in celebration of Juneteenth and the on-going struggle for liberation. The talk audibly left the crowd speechless for several seconds afterward. It is...
23 min
Moving the Giants
Moving the Giants
In 1991, arborist David Milarch had a near-death experience that inspired a personal quest to reforest our planet. He would harvest the genetics of the world's oldest trees, initiate tree-planting efforts to combat climate change, and help restore the planet’s health...
11 min
Colin Kaepernick Is Being Blackballed by Billionaire NFL Owners. Here's Why.
Colin Kaepernick Is Being Blackballed by Billionaire NFL Owners. Here's Why.
Colin Kaepernick took a courageous and principled stand last season by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games. This was done in response to a society that continues to systematically, culturally, and institutionally devalue black lives. This devaluation is...
Colin Jenkins
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Mystifies Racism and Obscures the Material Ways We Can End It
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Mystifies Racism and Obscures the Material Ways We Can End It
Liza Bramlett was a slave. She lived on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, during the 19th century. White men raped her repeatedly throughout her life. They traded her body amongst themselves in exchange for calves and piglets. In the end, Liza gave birth to 23...
R.L. Stephens
Liberation Theory: a Working Framework
Liberation Theory: a Working Framework
Liberation is both the undoing of the effects and the elimination of the causes of social oppression. The achievement of human liberation on a global scale will require far-reaching changes at the institutional level and at the level of group and individual interactions...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
A 5 Step Plan to Resist Trump's Shock Doctrine
A 5 Step Plan to Resist Trump's Shock Doctrine
Shock. It’s a word that has come up a lot since November— for obvious reasons. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about shock. Ten years ago, I published “The Shock Doctrine,” an investigation that spanned four decades from Pinochet’s U.S.-backed coup in 1970s Chile to...
9 min
Sea Shepherd are Taking Direct Action to Safeguard Marine Life
Sea Shepherd are Taking Direct Action to Safeguard Marine Life
In their mission to stop fishing of the endangered totoaba fish, the Sea Shepherd crew finds other animals caught up in fishing nets.
4 min
Why Corbyn Won
Why Corbyn Won
The Tories may still be in power at the end of the night, but Jeremy Corbyn won today. Yes, I know this is shameless spin, but hear me out: the last few weeks have vindicated the approach of the Labour left and its international cothinkers under Corbyn. This is the first...
Bhaskar Sunkara
How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time
How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time
The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some...
Stacco Troncoso & Ann Marie Utratel
This Election Could Be My Last; It Will Change All Our Destinies and I'm Treating It Like My First
This Election Could Be My Last; It Will Change All Our Destinies and I'm Treating It Like My First
The 94-year-old campaigner fought in the Second World War and says he still wants to defend his country
Harry Leslie Smith
Seize The Moment: This Is Our Chance to Corbynize This Trumped Up World
Seize The Moment: This Is Our Chance to Corbynize This Trumped Up World
The world needs an actual popular elected response to US aggression against the world’s poor and the earth’s climate.
David Swanson
The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape
The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape
Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist theory. I've often thought that this belief in not voting almost represents a sort of reli
Tim Hjersted
Films for Action — A Social Change-Oriented Alternative to Medium
Films For Action — A Social Change-Oriented Alternative to Medium
Films For Action is a library for all the best social change films on the internet, cataloged in one place. But because there is so much to cover, and films can’t cover it all — we also curate a ton of articles too. So this is our invitation to all of the social change...
Films For Action
Calling in Call-Out Culture
Calling in Call-Out Culture
For calling-in to work, it must be rooted deeply in kind speech
Gabe FromMaui
With Grief and Anguish in Portland, Here Are Some Principles to Help Carry You Forward
With Grief and Anguish in Portland, Here Are Some Principles to Help Carry You Forward
There is a lot of grief and anguish in Portland. The killings of the two men standing up to defend women of color were horrific and jarring to everyone in the city of what their sense of community is. But life and politics go on. Here are some principles you may find useful...
Arun Gupta
Refugees Welcome - Creating Solidarity Across Borders
Refugees Welcome - Creating Solidarity Across Borders
In our current age of resurgent nationalism, anti-migrant xenophobia and increasing border militarization, it can be easy to lose track of the central role that migration has played in shaping the spaces we inhabit. The richness and depth of human history comes from the...
34 min
Why Social Change Is Slow
Why Social Change Is Slow
Without collective action, social change will be slow.
4 min
Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia
Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia
Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies. In June 2015, while in the midst of arranging the launch of the Exeter Pound, a local currency for...
53 min
The Self-Defeating Concept of “Resistance”
The Self-Defeating Concept of “Resistance”
Bernie’s been taking more flak than ever from progressive rebels lately, and understandably so — his recent cuddle party with the White Helmets, a
Caitlin Johnstone
The Evolution of American Protest Music
The Evolution of American Protest Music
Music is a critical form of expression in American politics — especially in times of political and social unrest. Dating back to the early days of colonization, American protest songs have shifted in style and form. The earliest protest songs were written in an era of oral...
7 min
4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul
4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul
Plus 11 other key ideas to living well as an activist
Drew Serres
A Goal and Strategy for Anarchism
A Goal and Strategy for Anarchism
It should be quite obvious, but apparently it’s not, that we can’t devise an anarchist revolutionary strategy until we have a clear idea of what it is we’re trying to achieve.
James Herod
Enough Talk About Intersectionality. Let's Get on With It
Enough Talk About Intersectionality. Let's Get on With It
Feminists today are occupied by seemingly endless Twitter debates. But this is a politics of representation: our attention needs to move towards a politics of change. What are we not doing while so many of our movement's resources are being used like this?
Chitra Nagarajan
A Design School for Planetary Collapse
A Design School for Planetary Collapse
Storm clouds gather for a future that will be turbulent and dangerous. We need designers ready for this future.
Joe Brewer
Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally
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
The Revolution Is Acceptance
The Revolution Is Acceptance
"Waiting for some distant point in the future when we're all magically agreeing with one another to begin working together, is like deciding to climb Mount Everest on the condition that we'll help each other only after we've reached the top."
David Heaps
Bayard & Me
Bayard & Me
Bayard & Me is a short doc about how the openly gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Martin Luther King, adopted his partner Walter Naegle in the 1980s for legal protections. In this intimate love story...
15 min
Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease
Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease
The persecution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE members and all the radicals of four decades ago is not ancient history. It is the genesis of the present.
Chris Hedges
We Don't Need Them
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