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The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) are the largest pro-pesticide lobby. This joyous action by EZLN targets their offices in Brussels. We Are Nature Defending Itself!
4 min
Tales of Resistance - The Battle of the Newbury Bypass (UK, 98mins, 2017, Jamie Lowe)
96 min
“Cryptography is the ultimate form of nonviolent direct action.” - Julian Assange
Sophie Toupin
No one is coming to save you, Comrade.
Dr. Bones
People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up of being ignored, a group of them marched across the Andes to the seat of the Government in La Paz, asking to speak with President Evo Morales. They are met with riot police, barricades, tear...
30 min
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
From our fellow change agents at United Earth….
6 min
This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in the not-too-distant future becomes the greatest...
33 min
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
Reactionary right-wing politics are on the rise in the west, and events are moving at a dangerous pace. In the wake of Trump’s ascendency to the US presidency, a toxic mix of white nationalism, Islamophobia, transphobia, violent misogyny, and anti-migrant hysteria is rapidly...
31 min
Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.
David Olson
For major protests today, it is standard to have a media strategy. For example, there can be individuals assigned to media liaison. The location and timing of an action can be chosen with an eye toward media schedules. Some actions are designed specifically to attract media...
Brian Martin
A “memetic” observation about all the resistance marches since Trump took office… the protests feed what they oppose.
There is a finite amount of emotional energy available in the world — the aggregate of all things that people are thinking about and acting on in any...
Joe Brewer
The world is falling apart, and it's my fault.
3 min
“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
We can do so much better than this.
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
– Instead of the small class of capitalists controlling society, we can make our own decisions about work and social life.
Stephanie McMillan
We’re all feeling the squeeze.
What can we do? ORGANIZE!
Workers Power
All that is sacred in this world has become threatened by a pathological cultural system of wealth extraction and hoarding... Awaken and take a stand for life on Earth.
Joe Brewer
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...
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Henrik Edberg
A Retrospective on Social Upheaval in France, 2015-2017
Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective
A Quest for Meaning is an inspiring journey that connects personal growth and social change. It tells the story of two friends, Marc and Nathanael, who leave everything behind to go question the workings of the world and look for alternative ways of thinking and living...
87 min
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
CW: description of a suicide attempt
On 19th April 2012, I overdosed whilst living in San Francisco. I had just had a therapy session, in which my and my therapist signed a “suicide contract” — one that said I agreed to calling her if I was feeling like I was going to do...
The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology.
10 min
Populism sure is getting bad reviews. All manner of evil is getting laid at its door: racism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, jingoism – and that’s just the start. The conventional view is that populism is an irrational and impatient response to modern dilemmas that are best...
Richard Swift
The Power of Humility, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Love
Jacob Devaney
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
A short review of contributions from Buckminster Fuller.
3 min
We’re currently touring through the US, meeting with activists: from urban neighbourhood organisers, to black bloc anarchists, back-to-the-land communalists, and progressive mega-campaigners.
Richard D. Bartlett
It’s November 9 2010, and I’m one of many students that have surrounded and taken over the Conservative Party headquarters at Millbank Tower in London. I’m angry, we are all angry, because the government is trying to triple the amount of money we have to pay to learn, develop...
Rhiannon Colvin
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
First they came for the Muslims, and we said: “Not this time, motherfuckers!”
ROAR Collective
What you need to know about the Organization of American States (OAS) and its attacks on Venezuela. The OAS has a long history of ignoring human rights' abuses in Latin America that benefit US interests while condemning those that challenge them.
2 min
Behind the headlines of the protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline, a pure and singular spiritual camp was committing itself in prayer to save the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s only water supply.
5 min
As Article 50 is triggered, here's what you can do to stop Britain's slide to the hard right.
Adam Ramsay
Just over a year ago we were convicted for our part in the Heathrow 13 action. We occupied the Northern runway at Heathrow, cancelling 25 flights, saving hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide from being emitted and protesting against the construction of the proposed third...
Plane Stupid
Meet Nita Kurmins GilsoMeet Nita Kurmins Gilson, the woman bringing fresh fruit to thousands of San Diegans in need. In 2009, Nita learned that 1 in 6 people in her county were going to bed hungry. She also saw an abundance of fresh produce going to waste all over the city...
2 min
James Butler examines the term Populism on this episode of Terms of Engagement.
6 min
People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into actions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable community members.
Lornet Turnbull
Campaigners block access to quarry supplying material to fracking industry, calling on suppliers to 'break the chain' that enables fracking against the wishes of locals.
Since the beginning of 2017, Republicans in over 18 states have proposed bills that would criminalize certain protest tactics. In Missouri, lawmakers want to make it illegal to wear masks, and in Tennessee, lawmakers want to give legal protections to drivers who hit...
5 min
Trouble Season 1 Episode 1 "Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle". sub.Media looks beyond the mainstream narratives surrounding the Standing Rock encampment to get a better understanding of some of the camp's overlooked dynamics, including...
30 min
'Donald Trump only cares about making his special interest pals richer even though our children will inherit a world ravaged by climate change'
Nika Knight
Every day, we’re treated to another barrage of outright falsehoods from the White House: Trump won the election by a landslide, Sweden is the crime capital of Europe, corpses are piling up in Bowling Green, anarchists are on George Soros’s payroll, nobody loves women or black...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Our aim is a society where people are guaranteed the necessities of life not because they’re sympathetic, but because they’re human beings.
Clio Chang
What makes people brave? Vanessa Baird takes a look at an under-examined quality that can change the world.
Vanessa Baird
On Saturday 18th March, the UN day against racism, 30,000 people marched against racism in London.
2 min
Three principles to help you avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world.
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip service to liberty and justice while obliterating the institutions and laws that make them...
Chris Hedges
Adapted from the feature documentary Not Without Us, Kandi Mossett from the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the health, environmental and social impacts of extractive industries on indigenous communities.
4 min
Pablo Picasso was feeling uninspired. The world’s most famous artistic genius had been commissioned to do a painting for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937, but all he had come up with in three months were some preliminary sketches that he didn’t like...
Gavin Aung Than
Mientras las tecnologías digitales están cambiando todo, seguimos teniendo instituciones políticas del siglo XIX.
Sin embargo, en los márgenes del poder actual, crece un movimiento que escapa de las trincheras ideológicas tradicionales, para dar cuerpo a otra forma de hacer...
10 min
If you want to sustain yourself for the work ahead, here’s some advice: It doesn’t matter whether the other side “deserves” anger.
Colin Beavan
David Milarch is an arborist from central Michigan. In 1991, Milarch had a near death experience that inspired a personal quest – to archive the genetics of the world's largest trees before they're gone and to replant global forests to fight climate change. This is the story...
11 min
DIVIDE IN CONCORD is a feature-length documentary that follows the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America.
2 min
April 1 to 7: Call for a Week of Solidarity
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self...
Skye C Cleary