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America, can we talk? Let’s just cut the shit for once and actually talk about what’s going on without blustering and pretending we’re actually doing a good job at adulting as a country right now. We’re not. We’re really screwing this whole society thing up, and we have to do...
Aging Millennial Engineer
When police officers are sued for corruption or brutality — and when, as more frequently happens, the case is settled — it is almost always the city that employs them that picks up the tab for the damages awarded. This may be changing, with the focus now on events in Baltimore.
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
What can we do to create a culture where none of our children grow up to become killers?
"If we pass on kindness to others in immediate circumference, we can accomplish infinitely more than we can by chanting political slogans in cordoned areas and marching in restricted protest zones."
Teodrose Fikre
History tells us “whiteness” has always been a construct used to exclude certain groups from equal rights
Matthew Rozsa
"Millions of Americans will lose access to life-saving programs because the GOP gave $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich."
Jake Johnson
After a year of working with people newly mobilized by the 2016 election, one organizing lesson feels particularly clear: People need to feel part of a community that is making change in order to stay engaged for the long haul. This realization may not be surprising, but it...
Eileen Flanagan
The Third Wave and Charles Eisenstein
The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean...
Patrick Cockburn
This paper by Michael Shuman, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissione
Michael Shuman
The need for students to learn about racism in American society existed long before I began teaching a course called “White Racism” at Florida Gulf Coast University earlier this year.
Ted Thornhill
Depending on where you start on this journey it can take many many years to unlearn what we are conditioned to believe by our toxic culture.
Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?
In 1999, Dee Hock, founder of Visa, quipped, “It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.” But 18 years later, pessimism can feel like the new realism.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
We are living in a time of turmoil for the Earth. Species extinction, deforestation, climate change, rising sea levels, and many other problems face the planet we call home.
Dr. Barry Taylor
What comes to many people’s minds when they think of homeschooling?
Granola-eating Hippies
Christian missionaries
Anarchists
General weirdos
It’s been a roller coaster year for Sammy Rangel, the executive director of Life After Hate — a non-profit organization that encourages people to leave violent extremist groups by offering them support and a community of other “formers.” From losing its government...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...
Ejeris Dixon
Questioning the pro-digital consensus
Steven Gorelick
The wealthy have taken everything from us, and continue to find ways to take even more. It is never enough for them. And, year after year, their political puppets in both capitalist parties ensure that their rivers and avenues of unfathomable, flowing wealth never dry up or...
A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.
Bethany Webster
A major internal contradiction with capitalism is that it needs workers to also be consumers. While owners (and the system in general) constantly seek to drive down wages, they also seek to continue selling their products and services. The problem is that when workers have...
Neoliberalism is a mature stage of capitalism - a reciprocal process of concentrated wealth taking control of the public agenda via government. Capitalist economists like Milton Friedman were instrumental in paving the way for neoliberalism. The idea gained prominence in...
Taking a microscope to the beloved old phrase
The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms...
Chris Hedges
“So many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them.”
Maria Popova
Think of your most noticeable feature. Maybe it’s your radiant smile, or your long, piano-playing fingers. Maybe it’s your stellar jump shot, or the way you recite Shakespearean sonnets at the drop of a hat. Or maybe it’s your penchant for scientific knowledge. But whatever...
Katherine J. Wu
DETROIT—The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journa
Chris Hedges
A significant question facing progressives today is whether the use of the term "white privilege" helps or hurts building the kind of solidarity needed to promote racial justice and reverse runaway inequality.
Les Leopold
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
CELDF
Matt Bruenig presents a devastating challenge to those who call themselves libertarians, and explains why they have no choice but to deny climate change and other environmental problems.
George Monbiot
It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn’t help anyone
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that Films For Action has launched a
Important official legal disclaimer: This is a short work of fiction. Any resemblances to real people, people you may know, people you think you may know, etc., is entirely deliberate.
John Savage
Starting with the most relevant at the top, these are the best documentaries that capture the spirit and motivation of the #OWS movement.
Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than substantive. They mostly fall into one of these four categories.
The tweets either get his framing established first, knowing that whoever frames first...
George Lakoff
[Warning: There are some big words here. Not the best words like yours, but big words nonetheless]
Bayo Akomolafe
Dear President Trump,
I am Nigerian, from Nigeria, a shithole non-Norwegian type country in West Africa – widely considered the largest black nation on...
Chasing economic growth gains us nothing but global warming. We should follow the lead of tiny Costa Rica, where life expectancy is soaring
Jason Hickel
More than 100 U.S. House and Senate candidates pledge to move off fossil fuels.
Wenonah Hauter
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
The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being
Alice Andrews
People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...
Frances Moore Lappé
The pro-and anti-GMO positions will remain polarized until larger questions about the future of food production are addressed.
Charles Eisenstein
“Trailer trash” remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. This slur rests on fundamental cultural assumptions about people who live in trailer parks: that they are simple-minded, lawless, reckless with fertility, and indifferent to...
Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish
Three steps to help you see the truth and get back on track.
Gilbert Ross
The Northern California Fibershed aims to skirt the rampant waste of resources in the apparel industry.
Araz Hachadourian
Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world.
Look, I know you think the fact you feel upset or angry or anxious is important. That it matters. Hell, you probably think that because you feel like your face just got shat on makes you important. But it doesn’t. Feelings are just these
Mark Manson
Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome.
Jeremy Lent
She had been an outspoken advocate for police accountability since her father’s chokehold death in 2014.
Dominique Mosbergen
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...
Despite endless capitalist greed and militarism, people are still fighting for a just world.
Nick Buxton
Scream about the debt and deficit. Then shrink revenue by slashing taxes and spend a ton of money on wars of choice. Repeat.
Ben Schreiner
We sat down to speak to Artist Shqipe Kamberi in Pristina, Kosovo regarding her recent personal art exhibition titled “Consciousness: Past and Present” displayed at the National Museum of Kosovo. Shqipe began actively pursuing the arts upon graduating from the Academy of Arts...
I take my “binoculars” and observe the news coming from around the world. I see young people fighting for the Islamic State. I know what atrocities they commit, and the delusional ideas these actions are rooted in, yet I also know that they’re looking for the home and...
Dr. Dieter Duhm
Why infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible, and why the alternative can actually be beautiful.
Jason Hickel
Behaving according to one’s moral principles can make others feel implicitly judged.
Juliana Breines Ph.D.
Notwithstanding its many flaws and centuries of criticisms, capitalism is still the dominant economic system globally. What made it so resilient?
Lorenzo Fioramonti
Recognizing the design flaws in our default programming is the first step to envisioning the world we know is possible.
Judith Schwartz
Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago. It’s called the Corporation.
Jeremy Lent