100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great

The Green New Deal is often framed as a response to climate change — but whether you see it as a crisis or a hoax, the real point is what it delivers here at home: millions of good jobs, lower energy bills, stronger communities, and true energy independence. It’s about...

Films For Action

How “Anti-Establishment” Conspiracies End Up Serving the Establishment

I’ll be honest: my favorite conspiracy theories are the ones that sound anti-establishment, rebellious, and free-thinking — but in practice, they do the establishment’s work for them. The ones that get people so convinced they’re resisting power that they never notice how...

Tim Hjersted

Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself

When rulers isolate people to keep control, they also plant the seeds of their own downfall.

George Cassidy Payne

Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?

In 2022, I did an Earth Day talk called Words vs Reality, and it cataloged three dozen or so terms that – from a systems perspective – would actually require new labels. For example, fossil fuels might better be labeled flammable fossils, or consumer might be human. After...

Nate Hagens

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons

Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important modernity-challenging ideas are packed into one novel.

Tom Murphy

The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons

Oh No. Is Do the Math about to get hijacked for another long series about a Daniel Quinn book, like it was for Ishmael?

Tom Murphy

My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons

We’re awkwardly caught between being too intelligent to work as well as turtles and mushrooms, but not intelligent enough to be like angels or gods. The flaw, then, is intelligence, which gives us enough power to screw up the world. It’s a special curse.Yet, we need not...

Tom Murphy

A Localism Manifesto

With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.

Michael Shuman

B’Tselem Admits Israel Is Committing Genocide

With B'Tselem admitting that Israel's actions in Gaza are genocidal, it's looking increasingly difficult for cowardly western leaders to keep pretending Israel isn't committing genocide

Another Angry Voice

Act While It Still Matters

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” – Omar El AkkadWhen he posted on October 25, 2023, he also shared video of Gaza, in three...

Wim Laven

Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America

The displaced and bereaved in Gaza, and the disappeared in America, are not the only ones experiencing injury. We who witness and cannot stop it also lose confidence in our ability to effectively support decency and justice.

Abba A. Solomon

The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives

Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.

Films For Action

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law.

Chris Hedges

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

Chris Hedges

Warning Unheeded: A Black Woman’s Reckoning

Ignored Warnings, Predictable Consequences, Disastrous Outcomes

InflexionPoint Podcast

Profiting From Genocide

The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.

Chris Hedges

Gaza’s Hunger Games

Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine.

Chris Hedges

War Deja Vu

The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations.

Chris Hedges

Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.

Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran Friday has killed not only high-ranking military officials, but also six Iranian scientists, including two prominent nuclear experts. Nearly 80 civilians, including children, were also reported dead and over 300 were injured after Israeli...

Tim Hjersted

Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?

Let’s talk about memory, forgiveness, and the selective outrage that props up the logic of endless war.A commentor told Films For Action on a recent post:

Tim Hjersted

The Rule of Idiots

In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

Chris Hedges

How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo

A persistent fiction continues to capture the imagination of a significant segment of the American public — the notion that Donald Trump is, or ever was, an “anti-establishment” figure. It is a narrative so easily disproven by evidence and logic that one must ask why it...

Tim Hjersted

Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party

During Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, which many mistook for an act of moral courage, he never once mentioned the atrocities committed by our so-called ally, Israel. No acknowledgment of the white phosphorus dropped on civilian neighborhoods, no mention of the starvation...

Tim Hjersted

Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect

In our search to understand the immense suffering caused by colonization, racism, and centuries of domination, it’s natural to feel anger, grief, even guilt. These are human responses to the recognition that something sacred has been desecrated—that entire peoples, cultures...

Tim Hjersted

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

On April 3, Sen. Bernie Sanders forced votes on the floor of the Senate on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, specifically S.J. Res. 33 and 26, each intended to stop the transfer of particular weaponry to Israel.

Elizabeth West

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

This writing began with the premise that humans are not alone in this world, and that our largest problems are rooted in imagining ourselves alone. The original focus was on climate change. During the years of writing, society fell apart in multiple ways. I found myself...

Shodo Spring

From Despair to Possibility: Regeneration as an Antidote to the Great Unraveling

While a lot of time, energy, and resources will be necessary to stop the erosion of civil rights and defend democracy during a second Trump administration, it’s essential that we don’t neglect the equally important work of building alternative systems and cultures.

Don Hall

Universal Basic Income: Answering The Common Objections

Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So here’s five of the most common objections, addressed plainly and clearly:

Tim Hjersted

Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation

There's a basic question hanging over the future of work that almost no one in power is asking out loud:

Tim Hjersted

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

Let's get something clear: undocumented immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens. This isn't speculation. It's not "just one study." It's the consistent finding of virtually every serious analysis over decades. Study after study has shown that immigrants, both...

Tim Hjersted

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

Our real opponents are the billionaires, the war profiteers, and the politicians in both parties bought by corporate money—not the few imperfect allies we have in power, and not the working class people who vote or think differently from us.

Tim Hjersted

American Concentration Camps

Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

Chris Hedges

The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt

Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses or misdemeanors is the “war on drugs” rebranded. And it’s true—just like the war on drugs, mass deportation doesn’t solve the root causes of anything. It scapegoats vulnerable people, militarizes...

Tim Hjersted

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, our democracy is dead.

Thom Hartmann

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...

Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

Yes. It's a Genocide - The Evidence Is Overwhelming

When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a party—including Israel and the...

Films For Action

Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew

Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...

Local Futures

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.

Chris Hedges

The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

Bernie Sanders has always been more flawed than many on the left would like. His refusal to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, along with several of his foreign policy votes over the years, have been disappointing. Bernie's latest mistake was at a "

Tim Hjersted

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

In response to Bernie Sanders and AOC's "Fight Oligarchy" tour, the same chorus of voices rings out: “Don’t be fooled by these so-called progressives! They’re just sheepdogging for the Democrats!” They say it's just another trap designed to herd our revolutionary energies...

Tim Hjersted

We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said

We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.

Films For Action

The Right's Wokeness Problem

Paul Graham’s recent essay on “wokeness” is useful—not because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.

Tim Hjersted

Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does

Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.

Hanna Homestead

The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.¹

Tim Hjersted

Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims

How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifesto—unchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.

Jane Prescott

Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name

Elon Musk’s attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:

Tim Hjersted

10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game

Alright folks. Real talk. We’ve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. That’s not a bug in the system—it’s the system working exactly as designed.

Tim Hjersted

We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance

Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musk’s email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.

Daniel Hunter

Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism

Because of the structure of American society and politics, the Democratic Party is the only institution positioned to challenge, defeat, and reverse the Trump administration’s ongoing destruction of our constitutional order.

Alan Minsky

Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations

The cynical choreography of empire follows a familiar script: first, a nation is shattered by war; next, the vultures descend to divide the spoils.

Films For Action

Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy

Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the Earth from corporate globalization and create a society that honors all beings on the...

Films For Action

How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine

"The Democratic Socialists of America condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. We stand in solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of this war, and...

Films For Action

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

Trump winning twice is not an accident. It’s the result of the abject failure of a [liberal] political strategy that ignores financial reform and attempts to nudge the Democratic Party forward based more on identity than class.

Les Leopold

The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents

Tearing down the few allies we have in power is a gift to the establishment. The problem isn't their imperfections. It's that there's only a few of them instead of hundreds.

Tim Hjersted

#DemEnter + #DemExit: A Unified Playbook for Beating Corporate Democrats and Republicans

How do we take on the corporate establishment that has captured both the Democratic and Republican parties? This article proposes a strategy that unifies the two main approaches.

Tim Hjersted

The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”

The right’s fixation on “equality of outcome” as a specter haunting the Western world is not merely a misunderstanding. It is a deliberate fabrication, a straw man conjured to divert attention from the real issue: inequality.

Tim Hjersted

Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own

There is no question that the Democratic Party, once the party of the working class, is now the party of the professional managerial class.

Les Leopold

Now That Trump Is in Office, Who Is Really Running the Country?

For years, conservatives during Biden’s presidency asked: “Who’s really running the country?”The irony is that the same forces conservatives claimed were pulling Biden’s strings—corporate interests, think tanks, and wealthy donors—are equally, if not more, influential in...

Films For Action

Trump's Neofascism Is Here Now. Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Resist

America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting

Robert Reich

Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model

This playbook is inspired by the insights of George Lakey and the transformative movements of Norway and Sweden in the early 20th century. These nations, once marked by extreme poverty and inequality, achieved remarkable economic justice and democracy through collectiv

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