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Wonder Women Have Been Smashing the Patriarchy Since Classical Times
Wonder Woman is an unsettling superhero. More so than her male counterparts, she resists easy classification: shes neither an alien or a billionaire nor has she been exposed to some chemical to obtain her powers. The comic books cast her as a mystery to be unravelled and...
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 cant cover it all we also curate a ton of articles too. So this is our invitation to all of the social change writers...
Berlin Residents Pool Their Money to Buy City’s Electricity Grid
Returning power and profit to thepeople.
Calling in Call-Out Culture
For calling-in to work, it must be rooted deeply in kind speech
Earth to Trump: You Are on Your Own
'We move on and we move forward, together'
Wild Bees Can Help Honey Bees—How Your Yard Can Support Them
Although farmers have come to rely on imported honey bees, wild pollinators are hardier.
Films for Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
This collection of 122 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active participants in designing the transition...
Rational Self-Preservation Through Global Unity
Imagine a world where instead of eternally fighting each other in defense of our various cliques, cults, colors, creeds or groups, we began first defending all humans and the planet against our common threats: corruption, war, poverty, nationalism, and other divisive business...
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...
20 Supporters of Universal Basic Income Throughout History
The basic guaranteed income is one of those ideas, like land value taxation or the Tobin tax, that circles endlessly around. There are times when its obscure, and times when its being talked about again. Its currently in the ascendant, and I suspect that it wont be long...
Fear Trumps Facts: Why Theresa May Is Sticking With Her Migration Cap
Ahead of the British general election on June 8, the ruling Conservative party has renewed its commitment to reduce and control immigration to a net figure of under 100,000 a level not seen for 20 years. This pledge caused some puzzlement. Even the Brexit secretary, David...
This Facebook Comment About the UK Election Is Going Viral
This post has been flying around social media, winning lots of praise and shares. Chris Renwick, we thank you.
Want to Get “Back to the Land?” You’re Not Alone
Each generation has had one common desire: to live a more honest, ethical life of self-sufficiency and oneness with nature.
When Image Trumps Ideology: How JFK Created the Template for the Modern Presidency
Even at John F. Kennedys centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time a man who, in our minds eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.
Mourning the Manchester Bombing
Politics isnt something that can actually be put on hold
Ten Good News Wildlife Stories
While the news about endangered species is often not good, there are always instances of progress and positive storylines. From recently discovered populations of rare animals to canceled development projects, here is some good news we want to share.
Manchester Arena Attack: Amid the Horror, the Strength of an Incredible City Took Hold
The attack was the day that we had been warned about by security services. The day we hoped wouldnt happen. But it happened here. In Manchester, at the Manchester Arena where young girls, known as
The Self-Defeating Concept of “Resistance”
Bernies been taking more flak than ever from progressive rebels lately, and understandably so his recentcuddle partywith the White Helmets, a
The Wrongs of Counter-Violence
In the event of a major ISIS-inspired action in Britain, what principles do far-sighted and brave politicians need to observe? First published on 20 January 2017.
4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul
Plus 11 other key ideas to living well as an activist
Getting Assange: the Untold Story
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish states...
A Goal and Strategy for Anarchism
It should be quite obvious, but apparently its not, that we cant devise an anarchist revolutionary strategy until we have a clear idea of what it is were trying to achieve.
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?
How Working Less Could Solve All Our Problems. Really.
Shorter workweeks could help reduce accidents, combat climate change, make the genders more equal, and more, contends historian and author Rutger Bregman.
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.
Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!
The Santiago Theory of Cognition proposed by the Chilean biologists and neuroscientists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela offers a scientific way of understanding the process by which living systems engage in autopoiesis (self-creating or self-generating) through...
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 groups oppression, alliance-building is for...
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological and physiological benefits...
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."
What Schools Teach Without Teaching: American Myths and Powerlessness
All over America, school children are completing another academic year before theirsummer vacation. This invites the questions, what did theylearnand what did theydowith what they learned?
Politicizing Ecology - Beyond Technocracy and Constant Growth
For some decades now the human civilization has embarked on a journey to rapidly extract whatever resource it can from the planet as to maintain its current predominant doctrineunlimited economic growth. There are, as one could imagine, dire consequences resulting from this...
Why the Handmaid’s Tale Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes in Trump's America
Maybe its because were starting to see bits of Gilead all around us.
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
In Wildness is the preservation of the World.Thoreau says it in Walking, and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays,The Abstract Wild, questions how many of us have any idea what it means. P
Sometimes We Must Change the Variables of Our Equation
Doing the 'right thing' in life is super important. Miss a few car payments at eighteen, and those rates will jump. Overdraft by two dollars, a barely-working monthly budget becomes screwed by bank fees. Drive your car without affording proper maintenance, and your life (or...
Challenging Christian Hegemony: The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.[1] We live on the Earth as part...
Why Our Imagination for Alien Life Is so Impoverished
It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar greetings to us. We cannot be sure that, when our own...
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.
Terror Is in the Eye of the Beholder
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
I was around 14 when I heard about Concentration Camps for the first time.
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. Surely...
Ditch the “Animal Farm” Mentality to Break the Cycle of Fascism
As we resist Trump policies, try less fighting and speaking and doing to get our way and a lot more sitting and listening and questioning and being still.
This 2-Part Primer Will Help You Think Like an Unschooler
Many of us have difficulty explaining the concept of unschooling, life learning, or self-directed learning to those who are unfamiliar with it. In an attempt to help unschoolers communicate their way of looking at things to the wider community, we have come up with the...
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
Because racism is both institutional and attitudinal, effective strategies against it must recognize this dual character. The elimination of institutionalized racism requires a conscious project of attitudinal transformation. The deliberate attempt to transform racist...
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
Six years ago, Dave Booda was accused of rape. He didn't defend himself - instead, here's what happened.
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump
The "Dark Ads" Election: How Are Political Parties Targeting You on Facebook?
The Facebook election battle is in full swing, the Bureau can reveal, with at least 68 different types of political adverts tailored to individual social media users being paid for by the three main parties in the last month. The Bureau has been given access to the first...
Community Repair: Pop-Up Alternatives to a Throwaway Society
A not-so-quiet repair revolution is taking place in communities across Britain. Consumers, fed up with having to throw away broken phones, toasters and other appliances, are instead meeting to learn how to repair them and to extend the lifetime of their products. These repair...
'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Lawmakers Roll Out Plan to Expand Worker Ownership
'Giving workers a seat at the table and their fair share of the profits they help produce is one way to even up the playing field and give hardworking Americans a chance to create an economy that works for everyone'
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Before we go any further I would like to ask you what is your fundamental, lasting interest in life? Putting all oblique answers aside and dealing with this question directly and honestly, what would you answer? Do you know?
Trump Will Likely Win Reelection in 2020
MostAmericans dont like Trump.
What Do You Think It Means to Be Utterly and Totally Free?
None of the agonies of suppression, nor the brutal discipline of conforming to a pattern has led to truth. To come upon truth the mind must be completely free, without a spot of distortion.
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves. The wife has an image about the husband ...
How Taxpayer Money Provides the Research for Big Pharma
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharmas profits, so shouldnt the public be able to afford the drugs?
Killing the Things We Love
The increasingly unscrupulous propaganda machine of radical corporate capitalism is warping our humanity and driving us to destroy what is closest to our hearts, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker. The last hope of defeating this evil might lie in the strategic use...
Hacking Apartheid - Cryptography Tools for Activists
Cryptography is the ultimate form of nonviolent direct action. - Julian Assange
No One Is Coming to Save You, Comrade.
No one is coming to save you, Comrade.
Big Pharma's Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs While the World Looks the Other Way
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
Why Did I Name It “Dear White People?”
I have a problem with your title, likewhy do you feel the need to tell black stories for white audiences and not for your own community? A young black man in the front row wanted to know, his arms folded, as if hed come to ask that question and promptly leave before my film...
'God Have Mercy on Your Souls': GOP Passes Cruel, Destructive Trumpcare Bill
'By rushing this bill through Congress, Republicans are creating a manufactured crisis that will devastate millions of families'