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The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.
Chris Hedges
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
He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war
Robert C. Koehler
Everyone’s talking about that incident on the Lincoln Memorial — But here’s what the Indigenous People’s March actually wanted the public to know. CGTN's Lisa Chiu talked to Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project about land rights, and the U.S...
5 min
All suffering begins and ends in our brains.
Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, it’s the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship that’s an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our...
Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.
Ruth Conniff
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it
Adam Simpson
"Business leaders and elite intellectuals recognized that the public had won enough rights so that they can't be controlled by force, so it would be necessary to turn to control of attitudes and opinions...
5 min
Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and...
62 min
Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.
Christopher Beem
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
Peter Cole
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
RoseAnn DeMoro
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
Video by Matt Orfalea.
6 min
Audience Question: Can you give examples of white identity politics?
5 min
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...
Sarah Peyton
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
2 min
This article was first published in “Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down.” Read more about the action guide here.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
You can help us spread this documentary, which we've decided to share online for free, by supporting our work here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13006106
82 min
"Dedicated to all those who sacrifice everything to make the world safer and better for all of us.
2 min
On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page of what appeared to be the Washington Post had people stopping in their tracks. The headline read: “UNPRESIDENTED: Trump hastily departs White House, ending crisis.”
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...
Gerald Coles
Gillette's newest ad, 'The Best a Man Can Be', has created a social media firestorm in the last few days. Rebel Wisdom sat down to discuss the reaction, the cultural context behind it and their response to the ad. Drawing on their interviews with Warren Farrell, Cassie Jaye...
33 min
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
Chaos erupts in Baltimore, MD as an unarmed black man called Freddie Gray sustains fatal injuries while in police custody. The city of Baltimore is in a state of emergency, curfews are put in place, the national guard is sent out. This a documentary covering life and times in...
43 min
Tears in the Bayou is a documentary that takes you through the madness in the inner city of Houston, Texas.
107 min
I have not found a word that captures the exact line that I am looking for. Commitment may be a bit too strong, and tends to connote “should,” thus invoking the non-choiceful energy of obligation and duty. “Intention” is not strong enough, in my mind, to carry the unwavering...
Miki Kashtan
Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable. The kind of love that reminds us that “open hearted” is not a metaphor, but a literal description of a way to be in our bodies. The kind of love that transforms...
Simon Mont
Boost your morale with unexpected good news you won’t find in the mainstream media
EcoHustler
And we wouldn’t even have to tax the rich to pay for it.
Ellen Brown
The same people who praise Wikileaks now used to call them terrorists for practicing award-winning journalism. -
9 min
Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty. Obviously we had to ask him how!
6 min
Robert Reich explains why we must limit the influence of donors and lobbyists on Washington.
4 min
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
3 min
[Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novel A Rain of Night Birds was reviewed on our website by Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this piece, Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of...
Deena Metzger
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
David Korten
"In what is becoming a field of near-identical documentaries featuring similar experts, research, and opinion, Grant Dixon’s film stands apart with its unique, homegrown feel. His in-depth exploration of the whys and wherefores behind his own health scare introduces us to the...
87 min
In Part II of our series Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin addresses the surprise order from Trump that he was "ending the war" in Syria.
14 min
In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that has expanded US wars and occupations.
17 min
George Monbiot on the true and bloody legacy of Christopher Columbus
6 min
Chris Hedges speaks about his new book, "America, the Farewell Tour."
30 min
Hidden in the depths of the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains is a world few have seen. Complex geology, climatic conditions, and impassibly rugged river canyons have inspired some of the greatest technological feats of history — technology created by life over billions of...
55 min
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…
"Efficacy is the ability to produce a desired result. But are the results we're achieving, the ones we intent? Our intelligence is remaking the world before our eyes. What kind of future do you want to see?"
82 min
More than 50 years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most extensive pieces of civil rights legislation, people of color across the United States still are engaged in a battle to protect their right to vote. Voting Matters follows one dynamic woman working...
2 min
The latest UN climate talks, known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states – Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as “climate villains&
Nicholas Beuret
From Trump in the U.S. to Bolsonaro in Brazil, ordinary people in large democracies are discontented and shifting right, what can progressives do about it? Cornel West in conversation with Sharmini Peries.
9 min
Rapper KYLE on race, toxic masculinity, depression and being the happiest rapper alive!
7 min
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
5 min
I am constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced...
Teodrose Fikre
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
An independent documentary exploring both the beauty and betrayal of Tulum, Mexico - and what can be done to change it.
*Available with Spanish subtitles - simply click the CC button on the video player.
31 min
I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy that’s baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years I’ve been here. The forest sustains. As do you and I. Tangled beings brought together by strange and...
Suprabha Seshan
What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that dislike, without apology. What would you do?
17 min
A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.
Ellen Brown
Tomas Björkman is the author of three books: The Market Myth (2016), Världen vi skapar (eng. The World we Create) (2017) and, together with Lene Andersen, The Nordic Secret (2017).
19 min
“…we lack an overarching narrative to connect the many smaller ones: a powerful ‘meta-narrative’ to serve as a new foundation for our shared symbol world that we are all co-authors of. This book has been written in search of such a narrative.” — Tomas Bjorkman, The World We...
Brent Cooper
I have felt that learning to deal with painful emotional states is one of the most important aspects of growth. It affects our love relationships and how we deal with the inevitable disappointments, losses and rejections that life brings. It also determines our ability to...
Krishnananda
Two of the most supportive things parents can do for their children are healing their own attachment trauma (thereby further developing their own neural pathways for emotional regulation and secure attachment) and reclaiming disowned parts.
Eric Bowers
Thanks to 251 amazing people, we hit our fundraising goal for 2018!
David Pakman's long-form analysis of Jordan Peterson, and more specifically the movement that has been created around him, including its ideology, shortcomings, and more.
22 min
Three Arrows, a Youtube channel that covers the history of the far right, describes their personal journey into the rabbit hole of anti-SJW content on Youtube.
22 min
A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York...
20 min
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, and author of his most recent book with Greg Lukianoff "The Coddling of the American Mind," joins David Pakman to discuss politics, tribalism, and much more.
29 min
Threats of global catastrophe won’t move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal.
Charles Eisenstein
When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP. And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset.
Jason Hickel
In this speech at the Students For Liberty conference in Vancouver, B.C. Bret Weinstein discusses the inner workings of the regressive left.
68 min
Or Whatever Number You Choose
I recently got an email from a friend, asking me to take a look at an alternative way of thinking about greenhouse gases. He forwarded a link to a long scroll of a webpage dense with text. My friend said he hardly understood it “beyond the fact that it refutes the science of...
Nathanael Johnson
You may have heard by now that Amazon’s new headquarters will soon call the New York and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas home. This decision has engendered much criticism. But the Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson doesn’t think the vitriol is enough.
“We should all...
4 min
Science and spirituality are mutually illuminating, and mutually dependent.
Satish Kumar
One of the most powerful things you can to do to change the world is to cultivate your own optimism. To quote futurist Alex Steffen:
Sally Bolger
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
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The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
Thomas M. Hanna
Watch on Vimeo | 3,6 million kg of food is wasted every day. 870 million people could be fed only with the world’s wasted food (FAO). 800 million people are starving around the world. 1/3 of the food ends up in the trash while 198 000 hectares are used to produce food that is...
84 min
Prof. Wolff responds to Jordan Peterson's assertions about Marxism.
5 min
Can we reclaim Christmas for the masses?
Ruth Kinna
To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a social issue.
Tabita Green
Activism is normal; what’s strange is that we don’t see it that way.
Laurence Cox
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of the far-right and grossly exacerbated inequality.
8 min
The smartest thing the Swedish and Norwegian left did was to avoid getting baited by their Nazi antagonists into street-fighting and mounting chaos. Instead, they modeled self-discipline and used the disruptive, nonviolent power of noncooperation to force a power shift.
George Lakey
On the great vanishing happening before our eyes
Subhankar Banerjee
Incoming members of the US Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have both come out in favor of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement — the first House members to ever do so. Critics, however, suggest that BDS is anti-Semitic and undermines a two-state...
9 min
Robert Reich explains why using the private sector for government services can have negative consequences.
5 min
Buddhist Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most respected and celebrated teachers in the world.
198 min
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
1. The State of the Spirit, 2018
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Ben Burgis, author of the upcoming book “Give Them an Argument: Logic For the Left" answers the question “Did Karl Marx Kill Millions?” During the video, Burgis calls out Peterson and Shapiro for hypocrisy as they champion free speech and the need for open debate while...
28 min
To combat fake news, Facebook has partnered with the Atlantic Council, a think tank that represents some of the most powerful state and corporate interests in the world.
Their board of directors includes people who have misinformed the public into war and toppled...
10 min
An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) enables full or partial ownership of a business by its employees through a pension plan or trust.
Stephanie Geller
Hi everyone. This might be another one of those serious posts, so please take a few deep breaths and eat some dark chocolate. While perusing an online group, I witnessed a conversation between several colleagues, and it was disheartening. A difference of perspectives led to...
Vu Le
As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker says a frightening erosion of human personality lies at the heart of the problem.
John F. Schumaker
[T]he biggest enemy of society’s security is the state and the private organization’s belonging to it.
Selma Irmak, member of the Democratic Society Congress[1]
Introduction
Police arbitrariness and impunity are a common trait across the world. In the U.S. the...
As world leaders struggle to agree on a plan to curb global emissions at the U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Democracy Now! looks at Costa Rica’s plan to go fossil-free beginning next year. It will be the first country in the world to decarbonize its economy.
12 min
(Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Professor William Robinson at the Nov 18 L.A.
William I. Robinson
Fish are intelligent, sensitive creatures and like many other animals, they explore, travel, socialise, hunt and play. Some species care for their young and use tools as humans do. Fish are sentient animals capable of suffering and feeling pain.
Most fish have highly...
3 min
Ted Franklin argues that climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal.
Ted Franklin
A Force More Powerful is a documentary series on one of the 20th century’s most important and least-known stories: how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. It includes six cases of movements, and each case is approximately 30 minutes long.
154 min
When we allow ourselves to fall victim to hatred, we are doing our opponents’ work for them.
Susan L. Rhodes and Charles R. Schwenk