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Leave It to Beaver - How Rewilding Stops Flooding 40 min
Leave It to Beaver - How Rewilding Stops Flooding
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER -NATURE`S ROLE IN FLOOD DEFENSE Peter Smith - Rewilding Expert: Speaking at The Flood Expo 2015 Beavers, wild horses and even wolves can cut the costs of flood defence and all this can be achieved by saving the taxpayer a fortune
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The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The definitive critique of our economic system since its beginning to the present day.
Kevin A. Carson · 111,410 views · 98%
How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World 9 min
How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World
This is a clip from The Economics of Happiness. Watch it here (skip to the 10-minute mark to pick up where this clip ends)
87,623 views · 84%
The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled
The Problem With Society Isn't Greed. Greed Is a Symptom of a Deep Need Going Unfulfilled
A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m asked, What is the cause of greed? First I’ll say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiable
Charles Eisenstein · 75,545 views · 94%
War By Other Means 52 min
War By Other Means (1992)
John Pilger travels to many third world countries to investigate the devastating results of loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). This film shows how many wars today are not carried out at the barrel of a gun, but by the monetary policies of global...
45,267 views · 88%
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
For most of human history — several thousand generations of it, what historians curiously label "pre-history" — human societies lived with a basic sense of cultural relativity. What worked for one people didn't have to work for another. There was no universal template.
Tim Hjersted · 33,214 views · 75%
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy 37 min
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and ecological values, not global financial...
27,824 views · 90%
Beyond Extinction - Transition to Post-Capitalism is Inevitable
Beyond Extinction - Transition to Post-Capitalism is Inevitable
In Margaret Atwood’s powerful essay [It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything Change] on the reality of climate change — and its implications for the future of oil-dependent industrial civilization — she tells two vastly distinct stories of our future.
Nafeez Ahmed · 27,095 views · 95%
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer) 5 min
The Mona Lisa Curse (2008) (trailer)
In The Mona Lisa Curse, art critic Robert Hughes subjected present-day commercialisation of art to a withering criticism. It's a damning indictment of the general tendency of art to degenerate into flashy triviality to the degree that it subordinates itself to money-making...
16,044 views · 75%
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick 22 min
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick
Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals...
Libertarian Communist Platform · 16,031 views · 98%
Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe In, and What's Wrong with Libertarians
Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe In, and What's Wrong with Libertarians
"Anarcho-syndicalism is a conception of a very organized society, but organized from below by direct participation at every level, with as little control and domination as is feasible, maybe none."
Michael S. Wilson and Noam Chomsky · 15,293 views · 92%
IMF Report Admits IMF's Obsession with Capitalism Is Killing Prosperity
IMF Report Admits IMF's Obsession with Capitalism Is Killing Prosperity
"By releasing this report, the IMF has shown that 'trickle-down' economics is dead; you cannot rely on the spoils of the extremely wealthy to benefit the rest of us."
Jon Queally · 13,556 views · 94%
Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion 43 min
Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion
Oct 8th 2011, Marina Del Rey California. This program considers the quality of our beliefs, actions and intents within the overarching context of what supports good public health, prosperity and sustainability and what does not. The subjects of Politics, Economics and...
TZMOfficialChannel · 13,260 views · 94%
None of the World's Top Industries Would Be Profitable If They Paid for the Natural Capital They Use
None of the World's Top Industries Would Be Profitable If They Paid for the Natural Capital They Use
The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial processes can put pollutants in the air that increase public health costs, but the public...
David Roberts · 11,781 views · 81%
Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy 132 min
Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy (2014)
"Only power that is hidden, is power that endures."
7,325 views · 81%
My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House
My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House
On May 12th, I presented my analysis of the polling as of that time, headlining, “The Early Signs of Whom The Next U.S. President Will Likely Be: Presidential Polls Look Confusing Regarding Bernie, But Downright Bad Regarding Hillary & All Republicans.” Based on the net-favorab
Eric Zuesse · 6,838 views · unrated
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way 25 min
The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way (2013)
The Killing Fields is a documentary highlighting the importance that economics and taxation plays in wildlife conservation.
6,256 views · 94%
Libertarian Self-Marginalization 14 min
Libertarian Self-Marginalization
Go to the average mainstream libertarian venue on any given day, and you’re likely to see elaborate apologetics for corporate globalization, Wal-Mart, offshoring, Nike’s sweatshops, rising CO2 levels, income inequality and wealth concentration, CEO salaries, Big Pharma’s...
C4SS Feed 44 · 6,040 views · 100%
The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The future of the human species - if there is to be a future - must be radically green, red, black and female.
Robert Jensen · 4,878 views · 94%
Development in the Ecological Age
Development in the Ecological Age
Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and suburban, if modern medicine is widespread, if literacy and education are near-universal, if...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,422 views · 100%
Creating A Gratitude Economy
Creating A Gratitude Economy
In many spiritual circles, it is popular to talk about gratitude. Gratitude encompasses much more than a quickie “thank you.” It implies a much deeper state of mind, one that practitioners realize will position you to receive even greater abundance.
Joanne Poyourow · 4,112 views · 100%
It's the Planet Stupid!: Capitalism and The Destruction of the Commons
It's the Planet Stupid!: Capitalism and The Destruction of the Commons
There is a war going on right now between those who are working to protect the commons and the hard-core capitalists, who are working to privatize our economy, culture, ecology, environment and government.
John Atcheson · 3,492 views · 94%
Top 10 Feel Good Stories From Positive News
Top 10 Feel Good Stories From Positive News
For 22 years Positive News has pioneered solutions-based journalism. As they get ready to hand ownership to their readers and journalists with the launch of their community share offer, they look back at their content and reveal the most viewed online stories. Click on the...
Positive News · 3,014 views · 100%
The US-Saudi War with OPEC to Prolong Oil's Dying Empire
The US-Saudi War with OPEC to Prolong Oil's Dying Empire
Whoever controls the price of oil can play god with the global economy - that’s why the US and Saudi Arabia are leading the way to smash OPEC and re-create a new global oil cartel “No one can set the price of oil,” said Saudi oil minister Ali
Nafeez Ahmed · 3,007 views · 100%
Hidden Treasures You Didn't Know You Owned
Hidden Treasures You Didn't Know You Owned
Self-organized commons are undergoing a renaissance today as one of the most robust alternatives to modern-day capitalism. Mention the commons and most people conjure up the image of a bucolic English pasture. The commons were the fields and forests where medieval commoners...
David Bollier · 2,618 views · 100%
Veggie Oil Car from iTurnedGreen 8 min
Veggie Oil Car from iTurnedGreen
Economics professor Matt collects waste vegetable oil to fuel his converted diesel car. He saves money and helps to minimize his impact on the earth by using his veggie car.
iTurnedGreen · 882 views · unrated
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times 23 min
Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times
Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local...
Local Futures (Economics of Happiness) · 664 views · 75%
Creating Wildwood & How Can We Rewild Britain 42 min
Creating Wildwood & How Can We Rewild Britain
Wildwood Trust's Peter Smith explains the History of why Wildwood Trust was formed and our mission to Rewild Britain. In this lecture Peter explains the complex issues that will challenge us as we try to rewild Britain and make a space for nature. At the heart of the problem...
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Food Inc. 93 min
Food Inc. (2008) ($3)
For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
Robert Kenner · 230,716 views · 90%
The Top 10 Films That Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists
The Top 10 Films That Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists
One of the most entertaining yet unsurprising aspects of Occupy Wall St has been the response from traditional media. Whether intentionally playing dumb or genuinely clueless, the mainstream media has failed to inform the public and substantially address the key issues. But...
Tim Hjersted · 134,186 views · 100%
Occupy Love 85 min
Occupy Love (2013)
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper on a journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning.  ...
Velcrow Ripper · 56,656 views · 86%
The End of Poverty 105 min
The End of Poverty (2009)
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking...
Philippe Diaz · 35,171 views · 96%
Patriarchy Is Killing Our Planet
Patriarchy Is Killing Our Planet
The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources, writes Nafeez Ahmed.
Nafeez Ahmed · 28,181 views · 100%
Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown 105 min
Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...
PHubb · 14,946 views · 94%
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Could a New Economic Approach Save the Planet?
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Could a New Economic Approach Save the Planet?
To avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, the world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by US think tank Capital Institute.
Jo Confino · 13,458 views · 100%
How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature
How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature
As businesses increasingly embrace a not-for-profit culture, an end to overconsumption on a finite planet could finally be in sight. But given the huge lobbying power of vested interests, it will remain impossible to create a truly sustainable world until the illegitimate...
Rajesh Makwana · 11,413 views · 100%
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine
My new home of West Asheville is in the news. A local coffee shop, Waking Life Espresso, closed its doors after its owners Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens were outed for hosting a misogynistic blog. In addition to repulsive and degrading comments about women and details of...
Charles Eisenstein · 10,861 views · 91%
Basic Income FAQ
Basic Income FAQ
What's basic income?"A basic income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement" (src).What are the benefits of basic income?Benefits include, in no particular order:Eliminates the "unemployment trap". Under...
Reddit Wiki · 7,705 views · 100%
A Science of Behavior Applied to Society 20 min
A Science of Behavior Applied to Society
This film covers cutting-edge perspectives in the areas of child development, education, sustainability, cultural change, and economics. It was produced for the 11th International Conference on Behavior Studies, November 2014.
7,629 views · 69%
Austerity Has Failed: An Open Letter From Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel
Austerity Has Failed: An Open Letter From Thomas Piketty to Angela Merkel
The never-ending austerity that Europe is force-feeding the Greek people is simply not working. Now Greece has loudly said no more. As most of the world knew it would, the financial demands made by Europe have crushed the Greek economy, led to mass unemployment, a collapse...
Thomas Piketty, Jeffrey Sachs, Heiner Flassbeck, Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis · 6,726 views · 92%
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition 2 min
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition (trailer)
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets.
6,207 views · 75%
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted · 6,126 views · 50%
The Worker Self-Directed Enterprise: A "Cure" for Capitalism?
The Worker Self-Directed Enterprise: A "Cure" for Capitalism?
Dr. Richard Wolff is no shy flower when it comes to provoking thought; more "Thorny Rose" than "Sweet William."
Jerry Ashton · 5,258 views · 100%
Peak Oil F.A.Q.
Peak Oil F.A.Q.
Thanks and Disclaimer: This F.A.Q. is taken from "Life After The Oil Crash, compiled by Matt Savinar," which is no longer online. We are aware that the solutions of L.A.T.O.C. are more "self-sufficiency"oriented, rather than with building solidarity and community, which we...
Matt Savinar · 5,098 views · 75%
Sanders Is Right: Clinton Not Qualified to Be a Progressive President
Sanders Is Right: Clinton Not Qualified to Be a Progressive President
On 'quality control' and the Democratic Party
Peter Bloom · 5,080 views · 75%
10 Economic Myths We Need to Junk
10 Economic Myths We Need to Junk
Never underestimate the power of cherished ideas. They are clung to ever tighter when we are suffering reality’s harshest knocks.
Dinyar Godrej · 4,817 views · unrated
The Birds Are Sad
The Birds Are Sad
Here is one of those little things – tiny on the scale of the vast tragedies unfolding on Earth today – that got under my skin. A family living on wild land in Oregon in tipis, raising their daughter, is now threatened with eviction because the owners are forced to sell the...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,489 views · 100%
Worker Cooperatives: Retooling the Solidarity Economy
Worker Cooperatives: Retooling the Solidarity Economy
Building A Solidarity Economy Under the cooperative model, workers own the business, reducing injustice because they have a stake in the community and because an individual will find it hard to exploit oneself. Workers often buy into their jobs (upfront or amortized), vote...
Sebastian A.B. · 4,121 views · 100%
The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism-and the Birth of a Happy Alternative
The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism-and the Birth of a Happy Alternative
You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more. If we do our job well, the economy thrives; if for some reason we fail a
Richard Heinberg · 3,570 views · 75%
Inequality Is the Biggest Threat to the World
Inequality Is the Biggest Threat to the World
People often think that a certain level of inequality is normal in our societies, says the social geographer Danny Dorling. But the gap between the superrich and the rest of us has widened dramatically in the past 12 months. The author of a number of books including...
Danny Dorling · 3,557 views · 88%
Wealth Vs. Money
Wealth Vs. Money
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” The words are those of Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, speaking to Edward R. Murrow in 1955, as quoted recently in an essay by Paul Buchheit on Common Dreams. What was he thinking? Six decades later, the words have...
Robert C. Koehler · 3,510 views · 88%
2013: Hope or Despair?
2013: Hope or Despair?
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.” – Tom Atlee
Charles Eisenstein · 3,202 views · 100%
"Meritocracy" as Propaganda Lie and False Assumption
"Meritocracy" as Propaganda Lie and False Assumption
I witnessed this bumper sticker, decked out in bright red, white, and blue lettering, attached to the post holding my neighbors’ mailbox this week as I walked my dogs during unseasonably high temperatures. For my neighbors to display this placard proudly in their front yard...
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld · 2,937 views · unrated
Why We Need a Guaranteed Income. Soon.
Why We Need a Guaranteed Income. Soon.
A thought for Labor Day: In the not-too-distant future we might wait around for a package delivery, hurry off to class, grab a taxi downtown, meet the family for dinner, and then take the train home. All without being served by a single human being. No delivery person, no...
Paul Buchheit · 2,762 views · 94%
The Revolution Is Love - An Excerpt from Charles Eisenstein's Next Book
The Revolution Is Love - An Excerpt from Charles Eisenstein's Next Book
I'd like to share an excerpt of the book I'm working on. It is from the beginning... (It is a first draft so be gentle!)
Charles Eisenstein · 2,444 views · 88%
As .01% Face Extinction: Darth Vader, Scrooge, Professor Snape Offer Advice to Their Minions
As .01% Face Extinction: Darth Vader, Scrooge, Professor Snape Offer Advice to Their Minions
4-minute video of Darth Vader’s choice to serve love, family, and community rather than vicious psychopathic hatred: For those involved in support of
Carl Herman · 2,401 views · 75%
How a Carbon Tax-and-Dividend Plan Can Save Democracy and Civilization
How a Carbon Tax-and-Dividend Plan Can Save Democracy and Civilization
We are in trouble, folks. If the record high temperatures, extreme droughts, and hi
http://sustainableman.org/author/chrisagnos/ · 2,264 views · 88%
NC Republicans Raise Taxes on Working Families While Giving Huge Tax Breaks to Millionaires 7 min
NC Republicans Raise Taxes on Working Families While Giving Huge Tax Breaks to Millionaires
JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore.
The Real News Network · 2,154 views · 75%
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System 4 min
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System
We recognize at the very root of many of our systemic issues is an economic system that measures progress and success in only one metric - growth or profit. Economic growth means consuming more resources each year than were consumed in the prior year, which means that more of...
Sustainable Human · 2,138 views · 96%
The Meme Hustler
The Meme Hustler
The Meme Hustler Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk EVGENY MOROZOV [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our language. Old, trusted...
Evgeny Morozov · 1,912 views · unrated
Kind is the New Cool
Kind is the New Cool
When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...
Charles Eisenstein · 1,589 views · unrated
We Really, Really Need to Talk About Money
We Really, Really Need to Talk About Money
Dora Meade on finding out how money is really created and why we prefer not to talk about it
Dora Meade · 1,471 views · 75%
JP Morgan Will Not Be Criminally Prosecuted for Its Role in Madoff's Ponzi Scheme 5 min
JP Morgan Will Not Be Criminally Prosecuted for Its Role in Madoff's Ponzi Scheme
The Real News Network · 943 views · 50%
Evgeny vs. the internet
Evgeny vs. the internet
Evgeny Morozov wants to convince us that digital technology can’t save the world, and he’s willing to burn every bridge from Cambridge to Silicon Valley to do it By Michael Meyer (Philip Habib)   Depending on whom you ask, Evgeny Morozov is either the most astute...
Michael Meyer · 811 views · unrated
The Angry Birds Approach to Understanding Federal Government Spending Constraints
The Angry Birds Approach to Understanding Federal Government Spending Constraints
Most of us, as citizens responsible for making the choices which set our nation’s policy agenda, are nevertheless at a loss to understand the real constraints we face when it comes to matters of the annual federal budget, deficit spending, and long-term federal debt. This is...
Doug Bowles · 394 views · unrated
Why Sharing Is a Common Cause That Unites Us all
Why Sharing Is a Common Cause That Unites Us all
Given that a call for sharing is already a fundamental (if often unacknowledged) demand of engaged citizens and progressive organisations, there is every reason why we should embrace this common cause that unites us all.
Adam Parsons and Rajesh Makwana · 367 views · unrated
Enough Central Bank Jazz Hands
Enough Central Bank Jazz Hands
Why Labour should democratise the Bank of England
Paul Mason · 311 views · unrated
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. By hosting community film screenings and sharing them online, they offer a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.
Films For Action · 401,668 views · 100%
How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism
How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism
For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The beheadings, rapes, and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient...
Helena Norberg-Hodge · 56,616 views · 96%
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there, we...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk · 39,373 views · 100%
97% Owned 120 min
97% Owned (2012)
97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives...
30,162 views · 88%
"Don't Owe. Won't Pay." Everything You've Been Told About Debt Is Wrong
"Don't Owe. Won't Pay." Everything You've Been Told About Debt Is Wrong
With the nation’s household debt burden at $11.85 trillion, even the most modest challenges to its legitimacy have revolutionary implications.
Charles Eisenstein · 29,950 views · 100%
The Impossible Hamster 1 min
The Impossible Hamster
What the impossible hamster has to teach us about economic growth. A new animation from nef (the new economics foundation), scripted by Andrew Simms, numbers crunched by Viki Johnson and pictures realised by Leo Murray. We wanted to confront people with the meaning and...
Undercurrents Media · 29,797 views · 73%
Why I Teach White History Month in February
Why I Teach White History Month in February
If Whites learn about their radical history, their proud class struggles against the parasitic elites, their defiance of established religions and political powers, maybe they will stop fearing immigrants, “thugs,” and “welfare queens” and once again target corrupt...
Diallo Kenyatta · 18,763 views · 67%
The Zeitgeist Movement
The Zeitgeist Movement
Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists as the communication and "Activist Arm" of an organization called The Venus Project. The Venus Project was started many decades ago by Social/Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco and his life's work has been to address and...
Tim Hjersted · 14,715 views · 96%
It's Not "Corporatism," It's Not "Crony Capitalism," It's Capitalism!
It's Not "Corporatism," It's Not "Crony Capitalism," It's Capitalism!
Chances are if you are reading this, you have spent a fair amount of time discussing the [Occupy Wall Street movement]. Anyone with a basic familiarity with the protests is aware that the demonstrators represent a broad spectrum of ideologies, beliefs and goals.
Red Phoenix · 11,712 views · 100%
Europe Is Harbouring the Islamic State's Backers
Europe Is Harbouring the Islamic State's Backers
Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks
Nafeez Ahmed · 10,622 views · 100%
This Is What It Looks Like When You Realize How Toxic Your Job Is and You Do Something About It
This Is What It Looks Like When You Realize How Toxic Your Job Is and You Do Something About It
Deciding to offer Web Design in a Gift Economy changed my life. Here’s how.
Adrian Hoppel · 9,929 views · 100%
Sixteen Building Blocks of a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy
Sixteen Building Blocks of a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy
The transition from a capitalist to a cooperative economy could be one of the defining achievements of the 21st century.
Guy Dauncey · 9,769 views · 100%
Beyond Capitalism with a Human Face: A Radically Simple Way
Beyond Capitalism with a Human Face: A Radically Simple Way
Ted Trainer is one of the wisest, boldest, and most dedicated advocates of The Simpler Way.  In 2010 he published a book called, The Transition to a Sustainable and Just World, and I have to say that it is one of the best books I have ever read in my life. If you only have...
Samuel Alexander · 9,646 views · 100%
Basic Income: The World's Simplest Plan to End Poverty, Explained
Basic Income: The World's Simplest Plan to End Poverty, Explained
Happy Basic Income Day? May 1st may be better known as International Workers' Day, but some activists are trying to rebrand it. "Labor Day should not be about demanding ‘more jobs’ or higher wages," the official Basic Income Day website explains. "Labor Day should be about...
Dylan Matthews · 8,650 views · 100%
Eat Locally!
Eat Locally!
Supporting local farms is one of the best and easiest ways to eat healthy, reduce your carbon footprint, and strengthen your community.
Matthew Toplikar · 7,795 views · 75%
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Unless we come up with some better solutions Klein says, "this crisis will be exploited to militarize our societies, to create fortress continents." AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of...
Naomi Klein · 6,829 views · unrated
The Zombie Doctrine - Neoliberalism Rules The World
The Zombie Doctrine - Neoliberalism Rules The World
Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.
George Monbiot · 6,675 views · 100%
Bernie Sanders Voted for the 1994 Tough-On-Crime Law. But It's Complicated.
Bernie Sanders Voted for the 1994 Tough-On-Crime Law. But It's Complicated.
Here's the full story.
German Lopez · 6,537 views · 88%
The Anthropocene: It's Not All About Us
The Anthropocene: It's Not All About Us
We need to recognize we share the planet with millions of other life forms   Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an...
Richard Heinberg · 5,726 views · 75%
American Cartel: How America's Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy
American Cartel: How America's Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy
Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
Frank Castro · 5,276 views · 88%
Why You Can't Afford a Home 3 min
Why You Can't Afford a Home
We should all be able to afford a home in an area we want to live. But for many of us in the UK, with prices spiralling way beyond incomes, this isn’t a reality.  Instead, finding somewhere to live can often feel like a game. Why is this? And who are we actually playing...
New Economics Foundation · 5,165 views · 100%
What is Left Libertarianism?
What is Left Libertarianism?
Although it's pretty safe to say that no canonical definition of left libertarianism exists, there is a growing consensus around a certain body of concepts, priorities, and attitudes towards the State. Here is a collection of different perspectives from individuals who...
leftlibertarian.org · 4,886 views · 100%
Small Loans, Big Problems: The False Promise of Microfinance
Small Loans, Big Problems: The False Promise of Microfinance
Ever since Bill Clinton and the World Bank enthusiastically embraced the microfinance concept in the 1990s, we at Local Futures have been skeptical of its benefits, seeing it as part of a whole package of “market solutions” to our social and environmental crises that, in the...
Helena Norberg-Hodge · 4,457 views · 88%
The Distinctiveness of Left-Libertarianism
The Distinctiveness of Left-Libertarianism
Left-libertarianism in the relevant sense is a position that is simultaneously leftist and libertarian. It features leftist commitments to:
Gary Chartier · 4,258 views · 100%
The Case for a "Jazz Revolution" Against Corporate Capitalism
The Case for a "Jazz Revolution" Against Corporate Capitalism
Bottom up? Top down? Improvisation is the key to a middle way.
Keith Harrington · 4,241 views · 88%
What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn anJeff Neumann · 4,205 views · 88%
Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh - THAT'S Why We Need Unions
Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh - THAT'S Why We Need Unions
News reports tell us that more than 500 people have now died and more than 2,500 were injured in Savar, Bangladesh, while the toll in West, Texas stands at 15 dead and over 200 injured. Behind these two disasters is  a common thread of greed – and a common need for unionized...
Richard Eskow · 4,113 views · 75%
Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future
Positive thinking isn’t naive, it’s the best way to get things done
Angus Hervey · 4,024 views · 100%
This Revolution Will Not Be Schooled
This Revolution Will Not Be Schooled
How We Are Collectively Improvising a 'New Story' About Learning
Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain · 3,418 views · 88%
The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy
The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy
Disambiguation: According to the capitalist lexicon, the “Free Market” is the economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Any sensible person can recognize immediately that neither human beings nor resources...
Crimethinc · 3,383 views · 100%
Buen Vivir: A New Era of Great Social Change
Buen Vivir: A New Era of Great Social Change
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”― R. Buckminster Fuller
Jocelyn Mercado · 3,263 views · 88%
Sled Dogs to St. Paul: The Race For Clean Water 43 min
Sled Dogs to St. Paul: The Race For Clean Water (2012)
The film follows the dogsled run of former Minnesota State Representative Frank Moe, who mushed his team of 10 sled dogs from Grand Marais, MN to the Capitol in St. Paul in March, carrying with him nearly 13,000 petition signatures opposing sulfide mining. Frank guides his...
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Five Axioms of Sustainability
Five Axioms of Sustainability
My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society.
Richard Heinberg · 2,849 views · unrated
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