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I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny.
John Pilger
For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer – and, often, alcohol.
Jamie Smolen
Donald Trump is the commander-in-chief of the biggest military force on Earth. There's no societal power above him, that's why he can do whatever he wants. What does he want? Or does he, perhaps, not have any own will, and is steered by other powers?
Dr. Dieter Duhm
It was the last day of a week-long holiday and although it was mid-morning we had already been to the beach. The beach had been beautiful.
Hannah Alexander
Any accounting of the commons without acknowledging the presence and interests of others will lead to their continued destruction, to our human detriment as well.
Laura Bridgeman
The surprising effects of a man's experiment with eliminating pornography from his life.
Dan Mahle
The other day I dreamed of a catfish being hooked in one of our lines during the 180 days I lived in the boreal forest. One of the reasons why I don't like living in civilization and eating food from the supermarket is that it is extremely easy to forget where food is coming...
Reflections on Global Grace Day 2017
Sabine Lichtenfels
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals...
Paul Street
We The People, in general, are a divided people. Pick any topic or issue, and there is bound to be some heated version of "Us and Them"- if not outright conflict over it. We seem to excel at creating staunch support bases for even the most unlikely of viewpoints: White...
"To those who have been used to privilege all their lives, equality may feel like oppression."
Sonali Kolhatkar
It's time for a global movement working for the healing of love at the core of a humane revolution.
Dara Silverman
How to Live an Inspired and Peaceful Life
Azriel ReShel
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
Frances Lee
On Oct. 15, 2017, the United Nations will withdraw its peacekeeping troops from Haiti, ending its 13-year mission there.
Siobhán Wills, Cahal McLaughlin, and Ilionor Louis
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it was natural, a given,” as he put it.
Courtland Milloy
Disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes result from a combination of natural hazards and social and human vulnerability. Calling them 'natural disasters' artificially naturalises the harms they cause.
Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding, JC Gaillard & Lee Bosher
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifesto laying out the possible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred everywhere.
What does it mean to be American? Citizenship, one may think, but the media and court of public opinion would disagree. True patriotism gets interpreted by some as angrily defending (with a religious fervor) statist symbolism and indoctrinated rites of "showing respect". They...
Those who decry the “politicization of sports” are only mad that it’s black athletes now.
Travis Waldron
“The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work, and it’s never going to work”
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
There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. Wisdom is the direct understanding of the fluidity of life. But the contradiction lies a little deeper than the mere conflict between the desire for...
Alan Watts
Newspapers love to dish up stories of inherent differences between the sexes, because we lap them up. Gavin Evans reflects on why we are still so susceptible.
Gavin Evans
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk
It is unusual for disasters to garner as much sustained coverage in the media as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have. Authors have been able to explore complex aspects of disasters in more nuanced ways than fleeting public interest generally allows.
Jason von Meding and Heidi Harmon
By putting the evil eye on nature, we take it off the humans who have science in their hands, but hold it behind their backs.
Cynthia Barnett
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving...
Chris Hedges
Recent weeks have seen an escalation of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine, the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from atrocities – they are fleeing both on foot and by boat to Bangladesh. It is the latest sur
Giuseppe Forino, Jason von Meding, Tom Johnson
We should be careful before embracing ideas that might lead to catastrophe…
Nathan J. Robinson
Our global civilization is currently undergoing a tremendous set of transitions that will ultimately result in the dismantling of much of the way that we currently live and the construction of a new “civilization model”. Over the next several months, I will be laying out many...
Jordan Hall
I’m 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
March 2017 marks the 46th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971—while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfold—a group of peace activists broke into an FBI...
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Had we designed cities with nature in mind, we'd see fewer issues around flooding, pollution and excessive heat.
David Suzuki
"Eventually, we need to move beyond discussions about tearing down symbols of white supremacy, and begin to strategize about how to tear down the systems that still prop it up."
Adam Sanchez
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 can't allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
Robert Greene II
Before I start, I’m going to lay my cards on the table: I don’t fit race and ethnicity boxes very well. Whenever I have to fill in one of those diversity questionnaires, I always tick ‘other’ because none of the options really describe me. My dad was born in Tanzania of...
Sonny Hallett
Organize a fundraiser for a peacebuilding non-profit across the street from their event, or somewhere close by.
Arno Arr Michaelis IV
Using humor and irony to undermine white supremacy dates back to the days of the Third Reich, from jokes and cartoons employed by Norwegians against the Nazi occupation to “The Great Dictator” speech by Charlie Chaplin.
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violence. Let’s start there.
Kazu Haga
The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle.
Janey Stephenson
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violence
William Powell
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
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
One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the...
Vishal Wilde
This is the first part in a series criticizing the ideas of white supremacy.
Emmi Bevensee
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
The Party for Socialism and Liberation expresses our condolences and solidarity to those who have suffered the loss of loved ones, been injured, or lost their homes and other vital possessions due to the ravages of Hurricane Harvey.
PSL
In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis.
Karlos Zurutuza.
Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have caused widespread devastation since the start of August. The disaster crippled the provinces of Son La, Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Lai Chau, situated within one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country.
Want a simple way to tell if humanity is taking the threat of global warming seriously? Ask yourself this question: Does Exxon Mobil pay more taxes than at least one U.S. citizen? That’s right. Just one.
Right now, the answer is a clear and resounding “No!” because Exxon...
Joe Brewer
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
We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.
Nathan Heller
Progressives need to fight for their values in a smarter, more inclusive way
Emily Crockett
"Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?"
Aviva Chomsky
Hate in America has become commonplace. What can we do to stop the hate?
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Dear Beloved Ones in Struggle,
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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
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
The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at Informed Comment wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality.
Juan Cole