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What We've Learned About Climate Change in the Last 30 Years | Bill McKibben
What lessons can we draw from three decades of struggles to address the existential threat of climate disruption? What do our failures reveal about the flaws of our political system and the economic nihilism of the fossil fuel industry? What strategies are most likely to lead...
Jamie Kilstein, SJWs, & Tribalism
Jamie Kilstein on SJWs & Tribalism  0:15 WTF is SJW? 3:35 SJWs Can Be Right-Wing Too! 10:00 Jamie Kilstein vs The Headlines 32:28 Speaking with the Enemy? 49:08 Problems with Tribalism 53:48 Outro Intro Music: Free Isaiah Rashad x J Cole Type Beat -Purpose
Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison
Educating inmates is cheaper than locking them up again, in addition to being the right thing to do. A new PBS documentary goes behind the scenes.
Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action
What happens when people work together to create solutions to the social, economic, and ecological issues we face today?
3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences
The tumbling dance of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can polish the rough rocks of your life story into precious gemstones.
Thinking Outside the Grid
Thirty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made some simple adjustments to their way of life. Six hundred thousand gallons of gas could be...
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest
Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce Parry (of the BBC's Tribe, Amazon & Arctic) embarks on an immersive odyssey to explore the...
It's Not Medicare for All Unless It Has These 5 Qualities
Polls show that over 70% of the country supports Medicare for All! But what does it mean? Some politicians are trying to turn to Medicare for All into a catch-all term that means any kind of health care reform. But Medicare for All means something specific: a single...
A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan
Produced by S.O.U.L. Documentary, this is a film on the life’s work of late, legendary visionary Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project. The movie features never before seen archival footage and the inspirational last interview of his life.
Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change?: Bayo Akomolafe
In this talk connecting Yoruba indigenous philosophies, historical accounts of transatlantic slave crossings, new materialist/feminist insights, Bohr’s scientific theory of quantum indeterminacy, Deleuze’s musings about ‘assemblages’ and ‘rhizomes’, and contemporary concerns...
Stay Woke, Bitches!
After I made a viral video exposing disgusting & dishonest media smears about Bernie Sanders and his supporters, I started getting smeared too. Recently, my video work from up to more than 10 years ago has been taken out of context to paint me as a racist, sexist...
Collaboration: on the Edge of a New Paradigm?
This documentary, which was produced and directed by Alfred Birkegaard and Katja Gry Birkegaard Carlsen, explores how the Internet is changing the way in which we do science and create knowledge. It takes the viewer on a journey from Danish biology papers all the way to...
Have Humans Fucked It All Up? - A Deep Ecology Perspective with John Seed
Humanity is a part of nature and playing our perfect role just like the bees, flowers, sharks and trees. Intelligence with feeling and compassion for our predicament.
Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation
Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars to convince the public that they aren't responsible for climate breakdown. Is it a coincidence that climate skeptics believe and share the exact same talking points?
Rising Up | Bernie 2020
The corporate media covers Bernie's campaign while millions of people around the country rise up. // Matt Orfalea 
The Destruction of Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary
The remarkable creation and the senseless destruction of a precious wetland and mangrove in Barbados. SUSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClVKVfaFGUZjIcKhq2fMW_Q?sub_confirmation=1 - Website: www.graemehall.com - Facebook...
Syria’s Kurds Dreamt of a ‘Rojava Revolution’. Assad Will Snuff This Out
A brave social experiment looks doomed at the hands of Syria’s dictator
Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint
INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet'suwet'en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people.
Your Life in 1 Minute
This is the average Westerner’s life, condensed in a single minute.
Take Me to the River - Stopping the Quindaro Toxic Landfill in Kansas City, KS (1994, 2004)
A documentary on environmental racism and the successful campaign by a Kansas City community to stop a super-toxic waste dump/landfill from being cited in their community. While this program may seem dated, most of the issues raised by the program persist worldwide.
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed
All our knowledge comes from nature and yet nature is a source of many mysteries.
You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film
You Can’t Evict An Idea reveals the strengths and weaknesses of leaderless activist groups and 100% consensus decision making. The challenges inherent in using disruptive protest to change the world are as relevant to the climate change protests today (such as Extinction...
Radical Honesty – What If We All Told The Truth?
Video essay on the ubiquity of lying, both in the stories we tell as well as in real life, and why perhaps we should try being a little more honest.
Zack Geist: Dispelling the Mystery of Debt
This conversation with Zack Geist addresses the phenomenon of debt, both from a theoretical standpoint and in very practical terms (at least for US listeners). Zack operates a business that liberates people from student loans and other debt. We discuss the morality of debt...
Imagine for a Moment.... a Future to Believe In
 Just imagine living in an America that has the policies Bernie & Co. are pushing for. Poverty will be virtually eliminated. Medical and Student Debt Relief will be huge burdens lifted; Medicare for All and Tuition-Free College ensure that those issues never happen again...
"The Doomsday Machine" | Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - Former Nuclear War Planner & Whistleblower
In this interview we talk to a former U.S military analyst of the RAND corporation and whistleblower of the Pentagon papers, Daniel Ellsberg, about his personal journey and why he decided to blow the whistle in 1971. Furthermore we delve into his recent book “The Doomsday...
Bernie Sanders Gets Stuff Done | 5 Amazing Victories
Bernie Sanders has an incredible record of accomplishing the impossible. Here are 5 of Bernie Sanders amazing victories for everyday Americans. - Matt Orfalea 
A Few Thoughts on Practical Activism
This speech by Kira McPherson was delivered during the #ClimateStrike protest on September 20th, 2019 in Lawrence, Kansas.
Of Course You've Messed Up
This is a film for those moments when we (again) hit rock bottom, when we're back in that old familiar place where nothing feels right, we hate ourselves and the future looks bleak. It's so easy to be sad - but maybe there could be another option? Maybe we could learn to make...
35 Year Industry Veteran Takes on Climate Change Denial and Inaction With the Climate Trail
The Climate Trail is a "good, realistic, and sobering" free game about the post-apocalyptic world we face if we continue on our current path.
Resist Globally, Renew Locally
A recent discussion forum among the members of The Great Transition Network focused on “The Promise and Pitfalls of Localism.” My friend and colleague Brian Tokar started the discussion by noting that even though there is a resurgence of progressive action at the local level...
What is ‘Energy Denial’?
The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan...
Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.
Robert Reich: The Secret GOP Plan to Keep Power
Despite the fact that Republicans continually receive fewer raw votes in national elections, they could regain control of the House through gerrymandering.
Climate Change in the Age of the Resistance
It should be no secret that I love The Dark Crystal, and have since I was a small child in the '80's. I've always found the journey to discover a path to heal what is broken, without destroying "evil," but by unifying the dark and the light within us. It's just art though...
The Endless Growth Paradigm
These days, city living feels much more difficult than it used to be. It seems everyone has a ‘town planning’ issue or gripe. What’s yours? This animation explores why we need to break from a system of endless economic and population growth. Otherwise, our neighbourhoods will...
“Free, Fair and Alive” Is Now Published!
From cohousing and agroecology to fisheries and land trusts and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to “commoning as a way to emancipate themselves from a predatory market/state system. 
As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs
As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society before it’s too late.
Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments
In September of 2011, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis— a man who the best evidence suggested was innocent. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was murdered by self-appointed community ‘guardian’ George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Then Michael Brown...
We Are All Indigenous
“All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand something only if we can understand how it is connected to everything else.”
Our Invisible Government
The most powerful and important organs in the invisible government are the nation’s bloated and unaccountable intelligence agencies.
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Amazon Rainforest Fires - Avoid This Trap | Charles Eisenstein
The grief is so strong. What do I do with that energy? I've noticed kind of a trap, a diversion, that says "take that energy and hate somebody with it. Blame somebody with it."
How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside
Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. “I want you to panic,” the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly...
Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the resurgence of white supremacists in America. An investigation into how the violent and infamous rally in Charlottesville became a watershed moment for the white supremacist movement. Correspondent A.C. Thompson shows how some of those...
COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required
Common Notions is a film about the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver, BC, and about education, learning, friendship, and youth liberation.
The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed
As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.
“United States” to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire
The global expanse of US military bases is well-known; but it's actual territorial empire is largely hidden. The true map of America is not taught in our schools. Abby Martin interviews history Professor Daniel Immerwahr about his new book, 'How To Hide An Empire,' where he...
The Electronic Waste Challenge: A Global Perspective
Growing electronic waste (e-waste or WEEE) volumes from consumers are a challenge for low and middle income countries. Informal recycling of valuable and hazardous components creates an income opportunity for the poor, but poses major health and environmental risks and also...
Fantastic Fungi
This is the film of the century!- Films For ActionWhen so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film...
Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities
Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School.  “Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever I’m with you.” ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pul
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement
Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the...
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems
‘Use and value diversity’ is one of the ten core principles of permaculture — for good reason. Studies have shown that small, diversified farms can yield more than twice as much food per acre when compared to large monocultures. Crop diversity significantly contributes to...
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food
These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that aren’t made by mega-corporations; foods that aren’t full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that weren’t made in factories that harm the...
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...
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers
For young people not raised on the land, getting into farming can seem daunting. Even for people who have worked on farms before, it is easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed when it comes to starting a farm of one’s own.