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This Is What Humanity's Impact On The Planet Looks Like
A new photo book from conservation experts aims to shine a light on humanity's impact on the planet and convince people to think about their contribution.Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshootincludes photos and essays exploring man's complicated relationship with the planet.
Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis
The backyard of New South Wales is facing its biggest threat yet invasive gasfields. Betrayal by governments has meant protectors are fighting to save the things they love. The Pilliga, Great Artesian Basin, Liverpool Plains all are at risk.
37 Photos of Recent Migrant Journeys To Inspire Solidarity and Empathy
In record numbers, people are escaping regions plagued by warfare, instability, disasters, poverty, or systemic persecution. The United Nations announced last year that forced displacement had topped 50 million globally, and early tracking indicates that number may increase...
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...
How Prison Labor Is the New American Slavery and Most of Us Unknowingly Support It
If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery
The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All The Aliens?
The universe is unbelievably big trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why dont we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary...
Seven Everyday Things Poor People Worry About That Rich People Never Do
It isnt just poor peoples lives which differ from rich peoples lives it's poor people's thoughts that differ from everyone else's.
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
The Craigslist Property Ad That Got More Than A Million Views in a Couple of Days
Hello, I am selling unconditional love for $0. Infinite square feet lot. Includes refreshing air, sunshine, the Earth, beautiful mountains and the ocean. A stunning 'classic' heritage made 4.5 billion years ago. Address: Earth, Solar System, Milky Way. Available now to...
What Happens When You Post Nazi Propaganda about Migrants in the Daily Mail Comments Section?
Over the past couple of weeks,@DMReporterand I (@BestoftheMail) have been getting more and more aghast by the tone of some of the coverage of the migration in Europe. This is especially apparent in newspaper comment sections where it now seems that literally anything...
Forget Facebook, Abandon Instagram, Move To A Village
People who live in a traditional village that means a community of about 150 people are far better off than the rest of us.
How Men Continue to Interrupt Even the Most Powerful Women
The numbers do not lie: women have long been underrepresented on the United States Supreme Court. In the courts 228-year history, only four of the 112 justices have been female. Sandra Day OConnor became the first female justice in 1981, almost two centuries after the courts...
The Uncurious, Continuing, Stubborn Refusal to Grasp Bernie Sanders
The Democratic establishment and those in the media who support them keep making the same mistakes on Sanders and his movement.
Key & Peele - Negrotown
What if there were a magical place where blacks could escape the indignities, dangers and inconveniences of racism?
A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
On October 3, a U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked a hospital run by Mdecins Sans Frontires in Kunduz, Afghanistan, partially destroying it. Twelve staff members and 10patients, including three children, were killed, and 37 people were injured. Acco
6 Artists Illustrate What Debt Means to Them
For our Debt Issue, we explored ways we could turn the tables on the bankers, rethink the soul-crushing nature of debt, and find routes to get out of it.Because the shame and powerlessness of debt can overwhelm our senses and perceptions, wedecided to ask our favorite artists...
Why We Need Big Picture Activism
Despite the countless grassroots projects already under way, the global economic juggernaut can seem too powerful to stop. But because more and more of us are becoming aware of how disastrous the global economy is for people and the planet, I believe that the chances for...
Beyond Extinction - Transition to Post-Capitalism is Inevitable
In Margaret Atwoods powerful essay [Its Not Climate ChangeIts Everything Change] on the reality of climate changeand its implications for the future of oil-dependent industrial civilizationshe tells two vastly distinct stories of our future.
For 40 Years, Liberals Have Accepted Defeat and Called It “Incremental Progress.”
Bernie Sanders offers a different way forward.
Realize You Are the Earth
We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.
Why V for Vendetta Author Alan Moore Says You Should Support Jeremy Corbyn
As an anarchist, as someone who believes neither in leaders nor the means by which we select them, Im obviously at something of a disadvantage when it comes to making political endorsements of any kind. That said, I wasnt born an anarchist.
Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint
INVASION is a new film about the Unistoten Camp, Gidimten checkpoint and the larger Wet'suwet'en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people.
Pope Francis: Capitalism Is 'Terrorism Against All of Humanity'
Pope Francis argues that modern economy's worship of 'god of money' leads to disenfranchisement and extremism
This Is the Worst Time for Society to Go on Psychopathic Autopilot
From authoritarian power grabs to Andrew Neils nonsensical eulogy, the reaction to the Paris attacks proves that we havent learned from our past mistakes
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological worldthe world of life. The world of life, strangely enough, is not in danger (though thousands and perhaps even millions of species are). Even...
Activists Illustrated - Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Latin American Artist Mara Mara Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations
A Better Analogy for Sexual Assault
Emma Lindsay responds to an all too common argument about womens responsibilities with respect to alcohol and rape
What Shall We Love?
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center...
Unity
100 celebrities narrate this enlightening documentary that re-examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, ponders our place in the universe, while taking viewers on an epic journey through the history of civilization and beyond. In this compassionate and inspiring...
Grocery Store Wars
Store Wars is a hilarious five minute mini-movie about a small band of organic vegetable puppets -- Cuke Skywalker, Ham Solo, Chewbroccoli and wise old Obi Wan Cannoli -- battling against Darth Tader, evil lord of the Dark Side of The Farm. Can these Organic Rebels rescue...
Blind Man and His Armless Best Friend Have Planted Over 10,000 Trees in China
It doesnt happen often, but every now and then you hear a story about people overcoming all odds to help others and it completely changes your perspective of the world. The story ofJia Haixia and Jia Wenqiis certainly one of these.
What You Do for a Living Doesn’t Interest Me- I Want to Know What You Ache For
It doesnt interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.
Resilience Is Futile: How Well-Meaning Nonprofits Perpetuate Poverty
Two years ago, I was hired as a campaign coordinator for a community initiative in South L.A. I got the job because Id been an organizer for labor unions, and I was eager and thrilled. Id be coordinating The Belong Campaign,part
Living Through an Age of Unraveling
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller
5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth
From left to right: Starhawk, Julia Butterfly Hill, Majora Carter, Vandana Shiva, and Patricia Gualinga. August 26th isWomens Equality Day, a day to honor when American women gained the right to vote, 95 years ago. In honor of womens equality, we present 5 fearless women...
Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World
Mycologist Paul Stamets breaks down many of the discoveries he's made studying mycelium - and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.
Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism's Pearl of Africa
Short documentary on Uganda's US-backed dictatorship, the country's freedom struggle from colonialism until today, and the geo-strategic role the regime plays for US Imperialism.
Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity
Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video...
Society as a Failed Experiment
Theres little dispute among social scientists that most of our major public programs are counter-productive on their own terms. There is also little analysis of this phenomenon as a pattern in need of an explanation and a solution.
After Brexit and Trump: Don't Demonise; Localise!
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era. But the real solutions lie not in hatred, but relocalisation.
The Old Paradigm’s Demoralizing Orthodoxies Make Us Confuse Despair With Realism
Undergraduates ask me how to keep from getting cynical and demoralized, and my first question is how much mainstream news media they consume each day.
The Ghosts in Our Machine
The Ghosts in Our Machine is a journey of discovery into what is a complex social dilemma, one that needs to be considered morally significant. In essence, humans have cleverly categorized non-human animals into three parts: domesticated pets, wildlife, and the ones we dont...
Mitt Romney tells 533 lies in 30 weeks, Steve Benen documents them
Ive written about or linked to a great deal here chronicling Mitts mendacity to borrow Steven Benens phrase.
PBS FRONTLINE:  Medicating Kids
In 'Medicating Kids,' FRONTLINE examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. Are these medications really necessary--and safe--for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying, yet age-appropriate, behavior?
Why You Can't Compare Covid-19 Vaccines
What a vaccine's "efficacy rate" actually means.
Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry's marketing practices, media scholars and...
How Films for Action Began, and Where It's Headed
This is a little window into our strategy to help catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here's Why.
A crash course in social democracy.
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
London, May 2009. A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Obey
This is a film based on the book "Death of the Liberal Class" by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges.
Solidarity with the Syrian people
Stand in solidarity with the people of Syria calling and dying for their freedom and right to choose their leaders.
Why Radical Leftists Should Support Bernie Sanders
Leftists can fantasize that they are doing a great service to humanity by scoffing at Bernie, but theyre merely isolating themselves from the rest of the country.
Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Socialists?
For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we've seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at why so many young people are attracted to socialism...
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
In this documentary Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of the secret government. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected, top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret...
The Films For Action Challenge on FB: How Many of these 100 Activist Documentaries Have You Seen?
Films For Action recently released a Facebook App that features a top-100 compendium of documentaries made to change the world...
Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender
Deep within you are two powerful allies: yourinner masculineandinner feminine. These complementary aspects of your fundamental nature, distinct from your gender identity, are a potent source of love, healing and success in the world. Each plays a crucial role in your overall...
In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
Dear Mothers, Im writing you today because I can no longer contain the ache in my gut and fire in my heart over an injustice that you and I are bearing the brunt of.
Psychologists Explain Why Coming to Grips with Critical 9/11 Perspectives Is So Difficult
"I don't need to look at the evidence." "I wouldn't believe it even if it WERE true." "I refuse to believe that that many Americans could be that treasonous. Someone would have talked."
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture
This 36-minute documentaryfollows the lives of 5 young explorers on their journey through the 5-week Ecovillage Design Education program in Switzerland, which navigates today's challenges as opportunities to build a regenerative future for all.