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Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
Now is a good time to choose what you believe. Are we here to tend the webs of connection, to care for one another and our beautiful earth, as the core of not only indigenous but every major religion would tell us? Or are we here to maximize our material gain and destroy all...
Starhawk · 767 views · unrated
Planet of the Humans 100 min
Planet of the Humans (2019)
A Note from Films For Action (Last Updated 5/26/2020):  While we believe the film is worthy of a good critique, we don't support the campaign to have the film removed from Youtube. Please join us in promoting critical engagement with the fi
148,304 views · 65%
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011
2011 will likely be remembered in America as the year that the nation's youth finally started to wake up - all that bubbling knowledge of the world's problems, all the discontent and disillusion with our broken system finally burst into a flurry of creative action. Our...
Tim Hjersted · 40,934 views · 100%
Films for Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans
Films For Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans
Why we took it down. Why we ultimately decided to put it back up (including this note). Plus our critiques and thoughts on the film.
Films For Action · 39,095 views · 71%
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner · 24,892 views · unrated
How Films for Action Began, and Where It's Headed
How Films For Action Began, and Where It's Headed
This is a little window into our strategy to help catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift
Tim Hjersted · 24,699 views · 100%
Anarchy Lives: Rojava 8 min
Anarchy Lives: Rojava
There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where civilian females, instead of asking for permission, instead of waiting for outside help, have taken...
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After Brexit and Trump: Don't Demonise; Localise!
After Brexit and Trump: Don't Demonise; Localise!
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era. But the real solutions lie not in hatred, but relocalisation.
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Rupert Read · 15,641 views · 100%
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Change comes in waves, like the ocean, like sound, or ripples on a lake. Sometimes it’s all action – Occupy, the Arab Spring, the summer of 1968. Sometimes it feels like nothing’s happening, nothing’s ever going to happen, no matter how hard you try. Or even that things are...
Chris Taylor · 11,722 views · 75%
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions 83 min
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions
Small farms around the world may be thriving, but farmers, particularly those just starting out, face a lot of challenges. Accessing affordable land is a BIG one, along with finding start-up capital, and competing with traditional producers in the market. But so are things...
Access to Land Network · 10,968 views · unrated
You've Been Sleeping, And It's Time To Wake Up! (Zen Hand Clap)
You've Been Sleeping, And It's Time To Wake Up! (Zen Hand Clap)
Awake from your slumber of cynicism! Awake from your slumber of despair!
Velcrow Ripper · 10,640 views · 50%
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration 36 min
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration
As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.
Spencer MacDonald · 10,231 views · unrated
The Burden of the New Story
The Burden of the New Story
The 'new story' - that longed for milieu when all is right with the world and things are set straight - seems to be taking its sweet time coming. Why?
Adebayo Akomolafe · 10,169 views · 96%
23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans
23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans
So you just watched Planet Of The Humans, and your spirits are feeling pretty crushed.
Tim Hjersted · 9,789 views · 50%
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 · 9,665 views · 100%
Goodbye Democracy and Capitalism
Goodbye Democracy and Capitalism
Shifting to new paradigms to replace dysfunctional ones.
Floris Koot · 5,990 views · 81%
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Over the years, I’ve probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay I’ve written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. aren’t chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein · 5,705 views · 100%
Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever
Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever
“Horrendous inequity whereby a few hundred people possess half of Earth’s wealth as more than one billion live on less than $1.50/day is evil incarnate and will kill us all… The human family will only avert biosphere collapse if we choose to live more simply, share more with...
Dr. Glen Barry · 5,529 views · 100%
Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe's largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation
Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe's largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation
October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France -- Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah! Here we go! I think I’ve got it?”  The plastic pitch of a...
laronceblog · 4,483 views · 100%
Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities
Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities
A letter to a community organizer and networker overwhelmed by the potential impact of global crises on his community
Tom Atlee · 4,185 views · unrated
Revolt and Change Our Lives
Revolt and Change Our Lives
It's a sign of a really good essay when bits of it linger with you for days after you've read it and it keeps popping up in your mind. Naomi Klein's "Why Science is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet" is one of those. Her theme?...
Joanne Poyourow · 3,927 views · 100%
Detroiters Question “World’s Largest Urban Farm”
Detroiters Question “World’s Largest Urban Farm”
Patrick Crouch practices the kind of gardening that Detroit has recently become famous for. The typical plot at Earthworks Urban Farm, where he serves as program manager, is cultivated on borrowed land and in close proximity to houses and apartment buildings. These plots...
James Trimarco · 3,572 views · unrated
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
"In disputes upon moral or scientific points, let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.” - Arthur Martine
Tim Hjersted · 3,455 views · 100%
Money and the Divine Masculine
Money and the Divine Masculine
I recently attended a ceremony at the Tamera village in Portugal in which the officiant invoked “the healing of money.” Immediately a vivid image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his...
Charles Eisenstein · 3,101 views · 100%
Reconciling Differences & Building Solidarity
Reconciling Differences & Building Solidarity
This is Part 2 of 3 articles in Generation Alpha's ‘Shades Of Green’ series. Read part 1 here.
Kari McGregor · 2,995 views · 100%
The Revolutionary Potential of Solidarity Economy
The Revolutionary Potential of Solidarity Economy
The solidarity economy proposes more transparency, much more democracy, much more participation, much more redistribution of wealth and goods of production. The solidarity economy fights for free software, for free knowledge, for freedom of access to information, completely...
Yavor Tarinski · 2,984 views · 75%
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 · 2,633 views · 100%
World on Fire
World on Fire
Brazil’s Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, covering an area nearly the size of Britain. Only today, it isn’t so wet. After a summer of drought, catastrophic fires are raging that have devastated 2.4 million hectares of land already this year. (That’s more than...
Charles Eisenstein · 2,414 views · 100%
The Ecosexual Awakening
The Ecosexual Awakening
From the anthology Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love I hesitate to start an essay with definitions as if I could compel you with force of logic to accept conclusions that follow irrefutably from premises. Nor would that be very sexy: an imposition rather...
Charles Eisenstein · 2,352 views · 75%
Shades of Green: A Movement in Search of a Narrative
Shades of Green: A Movement in Search of a Narrative
RETURN OF THE JEDI – This is the last of Generation Alpha's ‘Shades Of Green’ trilogy. Read part 1 here and Part 2
Kari McGregor · 2,137 views · 75%
50 Non Profits I Support
50 Non Profits I Support
There are over 1.5 million non profits registered in the USA.  That is awesome!  Well sort of awesome actually.   It seems to me that if we have that many non profits we shouldn’t have as many problems as we do.  I really admire anyone who is going out of there way to make a...
Rob Greenfield · 1,961 views · 94%
Will the Poor Always Be With Us?
Will the Poor Always Be With Us?
Poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity.
Jim Tull · 1,961 views · 75%
Fukushima, Climate change, Near-Term Extinction: Resignation vs. Surrender
Fukushima, Climate change, Near-Term Extinction: Resignation vs. Surrender
All things die and all things live forever; But our task is to die, To die making roads, Roads over the sea. – Antonio Machado Recently a reader of my website asked me to clarify the difference between resignation and surrender. When faced with catastrophic...
Carolyn Baker · 1,886 views · unrated
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?...
David Bollier · 1,604 views · 100%
Lifeboat Culture: Planning Future-Proof, ‘Too Small to Fail’ Communities
Lifeboat Culture: Planning Future-Proof, ‘Too Small to Fail’ Communities
Building a lifeboat culture is about taking action and preparing communities to be sustainable and functional in the face of a global, national or regional economic and environmental collapse. Unless we rapidly move through the stages of climate grief, from paralysis to...
Andrew Willner · 1,483 views · 100%
Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs
Pilgrimage Open to All: Bring Your Own Beliefs
The Sustainable Food Trust’s Future of UK Farming conference at Fir Farm this April will feature a pilgrimage from the source of the River Dickler to Hill Barn, hosted by Guy Hayward and Will Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust (BPT). Ahead of the conference I decided to j
Bonnie Welch · 1,372 views · unrated
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
I was around 14 when I heard about Concentration Camps for the first time.
Dieter Duhm · 1,290 views · 100%
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
A promising commons-based approach for the digital age.
Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel · 1,135 views · unrated
How to Win: Lessons From the Zad
How to Win: Lessons From the Zad
Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives.
Greg Frey · 1,015 views · 100%
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?
Since April 1 in some parts of the world is a traditional day for playing tricks and elaborate jokes (mostly on one’s friends), I found myself musing about the world I would like to see and had some fun taking about five minutes to jot down the following list (without...
John Foran · 968 views · unrated
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
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.
Dave Booda · 337,864 views · 98%
Supermarket Secrets 99 min
Supermarket Secrets (2007)
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenized, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialize in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore...
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Dakota Access Pipeline Permit Denied
Dakota Access Pipeline Permit Denied
'For the first time in Native American history, they heard our voices.'
Nika Knight · 17,817 views · unrated
'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Is a Slick Marketing Piece Full of Half-Truths and Distortions
'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Is a Slick Marketing Piece Full of Half-Truths and Distortions
Davis Guggenheim's 2010 film Waiting for Superman is a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions. The film suggests the problems in education are the fault of teachers and teacher unions alone, and it asserts that the solution to those problems is a greater...
Rick Ayers · 14,524 views · 100%
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor 33 min
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor (2014)
Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high. From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops, temps are hired to do some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs. While...
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Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food 6 min
Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food
In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje discuss the issues with the supermarket system and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing.
The Future of Food · 6,180 views · 100%
Anatomy of the Deep State: Beneath Veneer of Democracy, The Permanent Ruling Class
Anatomy of the Deep State: Beneath Veneer of Democracy, The Permanent Ruling Class
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington...
Mike Lofgren · 4,208 views · 100%
Police In Oakland Used Tactics That Aren’t Permitted In War Zones
Police In Oakland Used Tactics That Aren’t Permitted In War Zones
A week ago, police fired rubber bullets, bean bags, and canisters into the crowd of protesters in Oakland. Their brutality almost cost Marine veteran Scott Olsen his life. And it turns out, the police used tactics that aren’t even allowed to be used in war zones.
Stephen D. Foster Jr. · 3,938 views · unrated
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism – 'disposition matrix' – the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
Glenn Greenwald · 3,717 views · 100%
Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
Breaking: EPA Vetoes Largest Mountaintop Removal Permit: New Era of Civility in the Coalfields?
It's been a long time coming. Now it's final. Lisa Jackson and the EPA have gone to the mountaintop and announced their veto of the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers · 3,714 views · 100%
The People's Supermarket: Communal, Cheap and Democratic
The People's Supermarket: Communal, Cheap and Democratic
Would you be willing to spend four hours stacking shelves in a supermarket? Regularly? For nothing? And do a spot on the tills, and quite a lot of floor-mopping? Well, it certainly makes a change from hanging out at Starbucks, I suppose.
Rosie Millard · 3,542 views · 100%
Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo 6 min
Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo
"All I’ve ever wanted was to be Superman. Growing up, I did what all kids do: I ran around wearing a cape, I dressed up for  Halloween, I played with the action figures, I watched the movies and TV shows. But I  also picked up on more important things.
Angel Eduardo · 3,049 views · unrated
This New Superman Comic Brilliantly Sums Up the Struggle Against Police Brutality
This New Superman Comic Brilliantly Sums Up the Struggle Against Police Brutality
DC Entertainment has undergone some major changes as part of its summer revamp, and one of the most compelling characters to come out of the latest series is a comic book superhero we all thought we knew: Superman.
Kyle Jaeger · 2,707 views · 75%
Time to Transform Bernie's Campaign Into a Permanent Organization
Time to Transform Bernie's Campaign Into a Permanent Organization
The biggest question for Bernie Sanders and his supporters is whether they’ll transform his presidential campaign into a permanent organization that can carry his political revolution forward in the long-term; or whether, like Occupy Wall Street, it will quickly disappear.
Miles Mogulescu · 2,379 views · 100%
Superman and the Case for Open Borders 66 min
Superman and the Case for Open Borders
What does Superman tell us about the ethics of closed borders?
Literate Machine · 1,736 views · unrated
Israel Is Caught in a Permanent State of War
Israel Is Caught in a Permanent State of War
An interview with Israeli academic and activist Idan Landau, who says "as long as the US and Europe continue to insulate Israel from the moral consequences of its policies," things are likely to go from bad to worse.
C.J. Polychroniou · 1,256 views · unrated
Claim Your Own: The Orlando Shooter Was a Product of US Hypermasculinity
Claim Your Own: The Orlando Shooter Was a Product of US Hypermasculinity
Like so many others, I’ve been at a loss for the past two days, trying to make sense of the heinous act of anti-queer mass murder in Orlando. The following are some of my scattered thoughts on the topic, some of which I originally posted in a couple of rants on social media...
Tariq Khan · 899 views · unrated
How Supermarkets Rewired the Planet 29 min
How Supermarkets Rewired the Planet
The supermarket is one of the strangest and most powerful inventions in human history. Grocery shopping is often perceived as a simple, mundane activity. And for many, access to food has never been more effortless. But supermarkets hold far more power than we realize.
PBS Terra · 718 views · unrated
Iran Rejects Trump Talks Permanently; Us Troops Object To War! Trump Manipulates Market 30 min
Iran Rejects Trump Talks Permanently; Us Troops Object To War! Trump Manipulates Market
Kyle Kulinski highlights several key points regarding the US war with Iran, including market manipulation and military morale.
Secular Talk · 712 views · unrated
The TRUTH About Zohran’s Supermarkets 22 min
The TRUTH About Zohran’s Supermarkets
In this video, Spencer Snyder discusses the forgotten history of public markets, the role of the Robinson-Patman Act in keeping chains in check, and how deregulation in the 1980s fueled today’s food deserts.
Breaking Points · 620 views · unrated
Abby Martin in Venezuela - Supermarkets to Black Markets 22 min
Abby Martin in Venezuela - Supermarkets to Black Markets
Abby Martin talks to Venezuelans on the streets of Caracas and investigates the main claim that there's no free press, and that there is no food in the supermarkets. Using hidden cameras, she takes you through local grocery stores and the underground black market currency...
TeleSUR English · 471 views · 100%
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