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What Can Baltimore Learn from the Bay Area's 30% Decrease in Homicides?
What Can Baltimore Learn from the Bay Area's 30% Decrease in Homicides?
Bay Area violence interrupters say a sustained commitment to community-based violence reduction is key to reducing violence. 
5 min
The Farms of the Future
The Farms of the Future
Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...
Isabel Marlens
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change
Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth
Jo Confino
The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis
The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis
Ep. 1 // Rats in the Hallway // Working class women of color and young white socialists in an East Harlem join forces against a private equity slumlord. Read the story by Georgia Kromrei at indypendent.org/2018/02/rats-in-the-hallway.
26 min
Love School
Love School (2019) (trailer)
In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the “free love” utopian movements of the 1960s’ and 70’s, building upon the insight that the liberation of...
4 min
Strangers in Town
Strangers in Town (2018)
STRANGERS IN TOWN tells the story of how global migration unexpectedly transformed and enriched Garden City, Kansas. It brought great challenges to the community, including demands for housing, social services, education, and infrustucture. For the current students at Garden...
33 min
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness
Our way of being -- the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction -- is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is...
Bob Wentworth
This Love Letter to Resistance Will Light a Fire in Your Belly and Warm Your Heart
This Love Letter to Resistance Will Light a Fire in Your Belly and Warm Your Heart
The short film invites us on an intimate journey through the liberated territory of the Zad of Notre-dames-des-landes, a community in France who resisted an airport, and in doing so created a beautiful way of living with hope in these tempestuous times. 
4 min
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
"So what can I do, as an individual?"
Miki Kashtan
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Women’s March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
Amador Fernández-Savater talks with Guiomar Rovira, author of Networked Activism and Connected Multitudes, about punk, Zapatismo, technology, communication, and activist appropriation of the internet.
Guiomar Rovira and Amador Fernández Savater
Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs
Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs
To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of millions is through compassion and inclusion. It might feel good to rage at the...
Teodrose Fikre
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
5 min
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership is often seen as a very simple concept. “Mine, not yours,” a two-year-old might tell us. The reality, however, is far more complex, as the rights of owners are far from fixed. Indeed, the concept of what ownership means is itself subject to change. For this reason...
Steve Dubb
Confusing Them With Our Joy
Confusing Them With Our Joy (2018) (trailer)
2018-2019 fundraising trailer for the latest Cloudcatcher Media extravaganza! Support the Chuffed fundraiser at https://chuffed.org/project/confusing or get more info at http://www.confusingthemwithourjoy.com
3 min
We Have Been Groomed to Consume
We Have Been Groomed to Consume
With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and overspending than peace on earth or quality time with family...
Anja Lyngbaek
Brené Brown on True Belonging
Brené Brown on True Belonging
Have you ever felt like you just don’t belong? Like you’re a pink chicken in a field of graceful giraffes, or that perhaps you came to the wrong planet? Certainly many people seem to feel this way, either about their families, or their community, their sexuality and culture...
Azriel ReShel
Ripple Effect
Ripple Effect (2014)
RIPPLE EFFECT is a short documentary film that shows how essential a life skills education is to all young people. There are many issues facing our children: bullying, substance abuse, violence, lack of employability, and graduating high school. RIPPLE EFFECT demonstrates how...
35 min
There Is No Such Thing As A Bad Parent
There Is No Such Thing As A Bad Parent
Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.
George Siegal
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Are Our Shared Values Causing a Societal Crisis?
Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little throughout our lives. Whilst some of our other values...
Terry Sexton
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)
Tony Wrench of Wales had a natural building that radically challenged and altered the government’s policy on low impact housing. This paved the way for Lammas - the UK’s first planned ecovillage, on brilliant display in this film.
49 min
Why I Never Moved to Portland
Why I Never Moved to Portland
I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.
Sarah Kobos
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
For many marginalized people, social justice communities are an essential form of social and emotional support. They can bring the oppressed and isolated together and help keep them afloat in a world that is at turns indifferent and cruel. While these communities often aim to...
Prefigurology
What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?
What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?
Imagine you are born into a small community in which everyone knows each other. Your parents are valued in the community and are well supported. As a baby and young child, you are often held, carried, or wrapped against your mother or father, and they are very responsive to...
Eric Bowers
Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism
Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism
For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? How...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...
6 min
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
“Anthropologists have long known that Native Americans reared courageous, respectful children without using harsh coercive controls. Nevertheless, Europeans colonizing North America tried to “civilize” indigenous children in punitive boarding schools, unaware that Natives...
Reclaiming Youth International
Radical Municipalism: Fearless Cities
Radical Municipalism: Fearless Cities
Fear and uncertainty seem to have settled into our societies, not only among citizens, but also political leaders and transnational corporations who see their capitals and centres of power stagger in the face of the combined effects of slowing global economic growth, imminent...
Jenny Gellatly and Marcos Rivero
Eternal Forest
Eternal Forest (2018) (trailer)
As part of Raizvanguarda art residency in Gois, Portugal, Evgenia Emets worked on a film interviewing people from the local villages. Inspired by their memories, stories and visions of the forest, she created a series of poems, visual works and an art documentary. This art...
3 min
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?
Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
Juliana Breines
The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward
The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward
Eric K. Ward is currently the executive director of Western States Center. Western States Center’s mission is to connect and build the power of community organizations to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic...
Eric Ward
#MeToo and Liberation for All
#MeToo and Liberation for All
“I want to kiss you all over your smile.”
Miki Kashtan
Into Unity: A Journey into Ecovillage Living
Into Unity: A Journey into Ecovillage Living
"Together with others, I know I can get much further."
6 min
The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves
The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves
When most people think of romance, they think of flowers and chocolate, candlelight dinners and sunset walks, dancing, poetry, and diamond rings. These types of romance happen most consistently during the falling-in-love phase of a relationship. Further into the relationship...
Eric Bowers
Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective
Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective
Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives
SoFA Coop Circle
Holding Space for Outrage
Holding Space for Outrage
Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance
Heather Plett
How Patience with People Makes the World Better
How Patience with People Makes the World Better
People don't get "woke" overnight. Sometimes we have to be patient and help them get there.
9 min
Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization
Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization
True tribalism is a societal balance point
Lothar
Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead
Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead
When my mom was dying of cancer, I occasionally got messages from well-meaning people who wanted to offer what they thought was valuable information about how mom could cure her cancer. Eat raw food, take more vitamin C, stop drinking milk – all of those suggestions and more...
Heather Plett
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
“Bernard? Oh yeah, he’s great. He was always the principles guy.”
Kazu Haga
Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis
Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis (2018)
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.
100 min
How Can We Stop America's Deadly Epidemic of Loneliness?
How Can We Stop America's Deadly Epidemic of Loneliness?
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. —Albert Schweitzer Loneliness is a political issue—at least, it should be. Loneliness and isolation are killing us. Lest you think this is metaphoric, the statistics are chilling. In a study funded by the...
Michael Bader
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett. 
Tim Hjersted
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
This is the introduction to Eric Bower's book, Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places. To build successful relationships, it is essential to address the pain and emotional wounds that you carry from past relationships, particularly from your childhood relationships with
Eric Bowers
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children
Anne Manne, Robin Grille, Kali Wendorf
Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness
Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness
Not one person in this world has been able to escape the clutches of being hurt in life. I never really understood the truth of that statement until I spent two years sojourning from state to state. It was in my time of tribulation and witnessing a see a sea of humanity...
Teodrose Fikre
To Belong
To Belong (2016)
A collection of poignant love stories from the areas of Wandsworth, Battersea and Tooting in London. Stories of connection, of belonging, of home and identity. A collaboration between the project A Human Love Story and the Wandsworth Fringe in 2016.
37 min
We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers
We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers
"If we pass on kindness to others in immediate circumference, we can accomplish infinitely more than we can by chanting political slogans in cordoned areas and marching in restricted protest zones."
Teodrose Fikre
How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
After a year of working with people newly mobilized by the 2016 election, one organizing lesson feels particularly clear: People need to feel part of a community that is making change in order to stay engaged for the long haul. This realization may not be surprising, but it...
Eileen Flanagan
The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation
The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation
The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation). 
25 min
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics
This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...
Ejeris Dixon
Technology and Its Discontents
Technology and Its Discontents
Questioning the pro-digital consensus
Steven Gorelick
Nilüfer Uses Neighbourhood Committees to Increase Civic Action
Nilüfer Uses Neighbourhood Committees to Increase Civic Action
Nilüfer (Turkey) is the winner of the 2017 Transformative Action Award.
4 min
Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It
Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It
It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn’t help anyone
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
If MLK Sneezed (MLK's Last Speech)
If MLK Sneezed (MLK's Last Speech)
The night before his assassination, MLK delivered his most suspenseful, surprising, and inspiring speech — and it’s not “I Have a Dream”. In “If I Had Sneezed” MLK tells the mostly forgotten story of his near death experience — an attempt on his life, several years earlier...
5 min
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being
Alice Andrews
Films for Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action's Vision for the Future
Films For Action is a learning library for people who want to change the world. 
Films For Action
Environmental Crisis and Inner Crisis Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Environmental Crisis and Inner Crisis Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Reflections on Global Grace Day 2017
Sabine Lichtenfels
Meet the Pro Surfers Who Put Down Roots in Ireland to Grow Organic Food for the Community
Meet the Pro Surfers Who Put Down Roots in Ireland to Grow Organic Food for the Community
The story of a group of pro surfers who have left the international surfing circuit in order to grow organic vegetables at Moy Hill CSA Farm on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way.
7 min
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
Frances Lee