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On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking
On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking
Taking a microscope to the beloved old phrase
Isla Greenwood
Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein 28 min
Beyond the Obsession with Numbers: Charles Eisenstein
Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.
Science and Nonduality
My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation 5 min
My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation
An inspiring declaration for our times.
When We Fight, We Win
When We Fight, We Win
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
CELDF
Power to the City 49 min
Power to the City (2014)
Is it time to give more power to the cities? VPRO backlight explores the growing and innovative power of the city in Eindhoven, Seattle and Hamburg. Where governments are stuck in their own ambition and party politics, the cities are bubbling with energy, optimism and vigor...
Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility 5 min
Raoul Martinez on The Myth of Responsibility
Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy. Our most visionary...
The RSA
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
Voices From The Anti-Trump Resistance 17 min
Voices From The Anti-Trump Resistance
On September 16-17 a major national gathering was held in Washington, D.C. called the People's Congress of Resistance, a broad and diverse coalition of organizers and community leaders formed to build the class-struggle wing of the anti-Trump movement.
TeleSUR English
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
We Can't Transform American Politics Till We Understand the Psychodynamics at Play
I’m republishing this article I wrote a few months before the 2016 election because it contains an analysis which is absolutely essential for anyone who wishes to participate in transforming American political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual reality. Some of it...
Rabbi Michael Lerner
This Cool Desert House Made from Plastic Bottles Tackles Two Problems in One
This Cool Desert House Made from Plastic Bottles Tackles Two Problems in One
An engineer in Algeria has developed an ingenious new house building technique on a desert refugee camp. He wanted to build a home for his grandmother that would beat the heat and sandstorms, and plastic bottles were readily available. Filled with sand and straw and encased...
Jeremy Williams
Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism 45 min
Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism
Peter Joseph is the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, a grassroots, worldwide organization that advocates an alternative economic system based on sustainability, cooperation and human need. His most recent book, ‘The New Human Rights Movement,’ delivers a startling exposé...
TeleSUR English
Four Kinds of Dystopia
Four Kinds of Dystopia
The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:
Darren Allen
An Introduction to World Socialism - a Post-Capitalist Society 3 min
An Introduction to World Socialism - a Post-Capitalist Society
The present economic system is based upon the class ownership of the means of living. It is not geared to meeting our needs but to making profits for those who own the world’s resources. The gap between the rich and everyone else is now greater than ever before. Oxfam reports...
The Socialist Party of Great Britain
British Diplomat Argues for Gentle Revolution to Anarchism 2 min
British Diplomat Argues for Gentle Revolution to Anarchism
Former British diplomat Carne Ross argues that representative democracy and capitalism are broken and that the only alternative is anarchism.
BBC Politics
Accidental Anarchist 86 min
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became...
123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo
123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo
Now that there are thousands of films on Films For Action, we realized the very best gems have really become buried all across our library, and for people new to this information, we needed a more guided way to dive in. Spread across 15 core themes, this collection aims to be...
Films For Action
These First Time Meetings Between Rescue Dogs & Their New Human Companions Will Melt Your Heart 4 min
These First Time Meetings Between Rescue Dogs & Their New Human Companions Will Melt Your Heart
Tracy's Dogs is a not-for-profit National Rescue & Transport Initiative for shelter dogs. The focus of the program is to rescue and rehabilitate dogs with pending euthanasia dates residing in kill shelters with the hope of putting them up for adoption to find forever...
OnlyGood TV
The Museum of Capitalism is Full of Intriguing Exhibits 3 min
The Museum of Capitalism is Full of Intriguing Exhibits
The Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, California is dedicated to "educating this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of capitalism." Visitors are asked to reflect on capitalism as if they resided in a post-capitalist era.
Quartz
Interview With a Volunteer Who Travelled to Rojava to Fight ISIS 8 min
Interview With a Volunteer Who Travelled to Rojava to Fight ISIS
Gary Oak recently returned from Syrian Kurdistan where he was a volunteer in the International Freedom Battalion. Here he talks about the revolution in Rojava.
Facts Don't Always Convince People - Here's Why and What You Can Do About It 3 min
Facts Don't Always Convince People - Here's Why and What You Can Do About It
Humans aren't rational creatures, and here's what we can do about it.
Social Good Now
How a Global Network of Fearless Cities Is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete
How a Global Network of Fearless Cities Is Making Racist Colonial Nation States Obsolete
Introducing a Global Network of Municipalist Cities
Richard D. Bartlett
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra 70 min
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)
RE-LEARNING HOPE is the story of Unitierra, an autonomous university in Oaxaca, Mexico that is immersed in, and has emerged from, the social and indigenous movements of the region. The film tells the story of this emergence of Unitierra and its powerful critique of...
After Coal, a Small Kentucky Town Builds a Healthier, More Creative Economy
After Coal, a Small Kentucky Town Builds a Healthier, More Creative Economy
A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.
Peter Slavin
20 Supporters of Universal Basic Income Throughout History
20 Supporters of Universal Basic Income Throughout History
The basic guaranteed income is one of those ideas, like land value taxation or the Tobin tax, that circles endlessly around. There are times when it’s obscure, and times when it’s being talked about again. It’s currently in the ascendant, and I suspect that it won’t be long...
Jeremy Williams
Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature 11 min
Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature
Children are running wild in the mud, climbing high into trees and playing with knives, but no one is telling them off. This is kindergarten, Danish-style.
SBS Dateline
Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia 53 min
Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia
Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies. In June 2015, while in the midst of arranging the launch of the Exeter Pound, a local currency for...
Dispatches From the Ruins 5 min
Dispatches From the Ruins
In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) and Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) to films and TV...
Dispatches from the Ruins
Sometimes We Must Change the Variables of Our Equation
Sometimes We Must Change the Variables of Our Equation
Doing the 'right thing' in life is super important. Miss a few car payments at eighteen, and those rates will jump. Overdraft by two dollars, a barely-working monthly budget becomes screwed by bank fees. Drive your car without affording proper maintenance, and your life (or...
Michael Emero
Why Our Imagination for Alien Life Is so Impoverished
Why Our Imagination for Alien Life Is so Impoverished
It astonishes me how much we seem to know about aliens. They build technology-driven civilisations and pilot spaceships across the galaxy. They create energy-harvesting structures around their stars. They beam interstellar greetings to us. We cannot be sure that, when our own...
Philip Ball
This 2-Part Primer Will Help You Think Like an Unschooler
This 2-Part Primer Will Help You Think Like an Unschooler
Many of us have difficulty explaining the concept of unschooling, life learning, or self-directed learning to those who are unfamiliar with it.  In an attempt to help unschoolers communicate their way of looking at things to the wider community, we have come up with the...
Carol Black & Neal Marlens
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump
Jason Hickel
Incredible Edible Todmorden - From Market Town to Food Producing Pioneers 13 min
Incredible Edible Todmorden - From Market Town to Food Producing Pioneers
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change...
5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society 7 min
5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society
David Graeber talks bullshit jobs and the concept of work under capitalism with Real Media and the Real News Network.
The Real News Network
No One Is Coming to Save You, Comrade.
No One Is Coming to Save You, Comrade.
No one is coming to save you, Comrade.
Dr. Bones
Kenya's Universal Basic Income Experiment 11 min
Kenya's Universal Basic Income Experiment
Give Directly, an NGO, has embarked on a pioneering economic experiment in rural Kenya. They are providing the residents of entire villages with a universal basic income through direct cash transfers.
Journeyman Pictures
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution
A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Nikola Tesla's Visions of the Future
Nikola Tesla's Visions of the Future
The ONE secret that Nikola Tesla wrested from nature on that fateful day in a Budapest park was the design for his most famous and important invention: the Alternating Current Induction Motor. Before Tesla’s breakthrough, all electricity and motors used a direct current...
Gavin Aung Than
Radical Hope: Life During the Climate Apocalypse
Radical Hope: Life During the Climate Apocalypse
Global organizer Joshua Kahn Russell on the shifting terrain of climate justice, the need for spiritual perspective in the movement, and learning to love contradiction in the age of Bernie and Trump.
David Olson
How to Hug the Man That Killed Your Wife
How to Hug the Man That Killed Your Wife
Today, the man that
Vegar Svanemyr
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly
A universal basic income (UBI) – an idea in which the government replaces all other forms of monetary assistance (welfare, social security, etc.) with yearly stipend – has enormous potential to radically transform our current unsustainable consumer economy based on individual...
Chris Agnos
The Circle of Life: How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything
The Circle of Life: How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.
George Monbiot
Buckminster Fuller In 3 Minutes 3 min
Buckminster Fuller In 3 Minutes
A short review of contributions from Buckminster Fuller.
Prosocial Progress Foundation
7 Key Concepts for Understanding Anti-Work Theory
7 Key Concepts for Understanding Anti-Work Theory
1. Work – The constrained performance of some skill (cognitive, emotional, physical etc.) in return for substituting your own ends with an economic reward, or in the ultimate hope of receiving some such reward.
Nick Ford
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
We’re currently touring through the US, meeting with activists: from urban neighbourhood organisers, to black bloc anarchists, back-to-the-land communalists, and progressive mega-campaigners.
Richard D. Bartlett
Trouble, Ep. 1 - Killing the Black Snake 30 min
Trouble, Ep. 1 - Killing the Black Snake (2017)
Trouble Season 1 Episode 1 "Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle". sub.Media looks beyond the mainstream narratives surrounding the Standing Rock encampment to get a better understanding of some of the camp's overlooked dynamics, including...
No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion
No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion
Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.
Patrick Stokes, Deakin University
Every Town Needs a Remakery
Every Town Needs a Remakery
The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their own things.
Jeremy Williams
A Robot Lawyer Is Assisting With Refugee Applications
A Robot Lawyer Is Assisting With Refugee Applications
When Joshua Browder developed the chatbot for DoNotPay, the original idea was just to help people out with their traffic ticket woes. DoNotPay has since successfully overturned more than 200,000 disputable parking tickets in London, New York, and Seattle. It’s also given free...
Dom Galeon and Kelsey Marquart
Revolution as Horizon, Not Apocalypse
Revolution as Horizon, Not Apocalypse
In this article, Smucker reveals how radicals can pursue a revolutionary horizon that "delivers the goods." The key is to arm ourselves with the strategic knowledge and orientation to start building the future we want now, in the shell of the old.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine
Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System From Inside the Death Machine
Free your mind, find your power, change the world
Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld
The Venus Project Plans to Bring Humanity to the Next Stage of Social Evolution. Here's How.
The Venus Project Plans to Bring Humanity to the Next Stage of Social Evolution. Here's How.
The Venus Project is the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s life’s work to present a sustainable redesign of our culture. The project lays out a sustainable world civilization where technology and science are applied to redesigning our social system with the prime concern being...
Daniel Araya with Roxanne Meadows
6 Habits of Highly Empathic People 4 min
6 Habits of Highly Empathic People
Are you a Highly Empathic Person? Discover the traits of those who are, and learn how we can use empathy to support both others and ourselves. Learn more here.
UPLIFT
The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication 6 min
The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent communication is a tool that we can use to resolve conflicts at both the individual and collective levels. By focusing on identifying the needs of individuals and groups instead of the assigning blame for circumstances, nonviolent communication has the potential to...
Marshall Rosenberg
The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law
The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law
Indigenous battles to defend nature have taken to the streets, leading to powerful mobilizations like the gathering at Standing Rock. They have also taken to the courts, through the development of innovative legal ways of protecting nature. In Ecuador, Bolivia and New...
Kiana Herold
The Age of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety
I began to experience the crippling power of anxiety in my third year of university. The panic attacks were one thing, but the most horrifying thing about anxiety, the thing that sustains it, is the insomnia. I would wake up in the middle of the night, heart racing, and...
Grace Blakeley
Why You Can Change the World 5 min
Why You Can Change the World
Though it looks like the world is set in its ways, it is in fact eminently open to change by those who dare to swim into the stream of history.
The School of Life
The Future of Cities 18 min
The Future of Cities
Oscar Boyson travelled to cities all over the world to learn about some of ways cities are changing, building and adapting for sustainability and livability. In places he couldn't visit he crowdsourced footage from residents. This film is made in collaboration with The...
Oscar Boyson
A New History for Humanity - the Human Era 8 min
A New History for Humanity - the Human Era
It is time to reframe how we think about our past. We need a new year 0 for humanity. But which one should we choose and why?
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: The Ultimate Guide to Activism That Doesn't Reproduce The Status Quo
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: The Ultimate Guide to Activism That Doesn't Reproduce The Status Quo
Compassionate activism is activism that is rooted in an underlying compassion for all beings. It is an activism that resists the strong urge we all face to dehumanize our opponents, as they often do to us, and we often do to them. This collection of articles and videos...
Tim Hjersted
Incredible Stories From 5 Inspirational Farms 12 min
Incredible Stories From 5 Inspirational Farms
In this series of 5 short films we visit five farms where incredible things sprout. From growing massive, 100-pound vegetables to giving injured animals another chance, these are the finest farms around.
Great Big Story
Welcome to the Real News: Truth Is Essential, but Not Pretty
Welcome to the Real News: Truth Is Essential, but Not Pretty
You may have heard that there is talk of a crackdown on "fake" news. Before a bankrolled bureaucrat starts filtering the media according to what they find personally acceptable, I feel it's my ethical responsibility to outline our true current situation first:
Michael Emero
You Only Pay for Time at This Cafe 2 min
You Only Pay for Time at This Cafe
In this cafe, the food and drink is free. You just pay 7 cents per minute to be there.
AJ+
Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton: Two Figures in a Derailed World
Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton: Two Figures in a Derailed World
What is the Way Out?
Dieter Duhm
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
The Four Qualities of Love 2 min
The Four Qualities of Love
Thich Nhat Hanh explains the Four Qualities of Love that can bring deep meaning to our lives.
UPLIFT
Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical, They're Human 8 min
Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical, They're Human
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is incomplete as we commonly know it. Later in his life, Maslow wrote about a stage beyond self-actualization. Nichol Brandford explains how to arrive at this final place.
Nichol Bradford
What Is Universal Basic Income? 2 min
What Is Universal Basic Income?
What is Universal Basic Income? Everyone’s talking about a ‘citizen’s income’ or ‘basic income’, but what on earth is it?! It sounds like a Utopian dream, but support for a flat, government-sponsored annual income is growing across the world. Exponents argue that it would...
The RSA
What Is Mutual Aid? 5 min
What Is Mutual Aid?
In a world ruled by ceaseless capitalist competition, where people are pitted to work against each other, anarchists offer a different vision: Mutual Aid. If you like videos like these consider supporting us - http://sub.media/donate To download this video visit...
sub.Media
Incredible Angela Davis Lecture Ties Together Liberation Struggles Past and Present 45 min
Incredible Angela Davis Lecture Ties Together Liberation Struggles Past and Present
In commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder in detention of Stephen Biko, the 17th annual Steve Biko lecture is delivered by Professor Angela Davis author, activist and Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department...
SABC News
Basic Income and the Future of Work
Basic Income and the Future of Work
There is no such thing as the dignity of work. It is not the right to employment but a guaranteed material existence that gives dignity to human life.
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark
The Secret to Effective Nonviolent Resistance 9 min
The Secret to Effective Nonviolent Resistance
We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent...
What Are Democratic Schools?
What Are Democratic Schools?
Imagine a school where children and teenagers are accorded all the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship; where students truly practice, rather than just read about, the principles of free speech, free association, and freedom to choose their own activities...
Alternatives to School
One Man's Epic Journey to Show The World Is Full of Good People! 5 min
One Man's Epic Journey to Show The World Is Full of Good People!
Rob Greenfield has a simple idea… that people are good and the world is a good place. So he decided to put his idea to the ultimate test by flying one way to a far off place with no money, no credit card, no cellphone, not even a toothbrush. Just the clothes on his back  and...
Robin Greenfield
This Off Grid Handmade Island is One of the Most Amazing Homes in the World 3 min
This Off Grid Handmade Island is One of the Most Amazing Homes in the World
Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gallery and garden. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, this is home: a labor of love 24 years in the making.
Great Big Story
My Favorite Definition of Privilege
My Favorite Definition of Privilege
My favorite definition of privilege is 'thinking something's not a problem because it's not a problem to you.'
Tim Hjersted
Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade
Recipe for Clinton / Kaine Lemonade
Hillary Clinton's pick of Tim Kaine for VP may trigger the sea change progressives have been dreaming of and working towards for decades. Please hear me out.
Michael Phillips
7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy
7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy
One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...
Tim Hjersted
Two Brilliant Thinkers Had the Same Solution to Political Oligarchy: Direct Democracy
Two Brilliant Thinkers Had the Same Solution to Political Oligarchy: Direct Democracy
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control. - Vandana Shiva
Yavor Tarinski
5 Ways the News Media Can Get Real
5 Ways the News Media Can Get Real
When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
Sarah van Gelder
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System
The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. - Murray Bookchin
Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi
DIY Economics of Happiness Workshop
DIY Economics of Happiness Workshop
The Economics of Happiness Workshop and Toolkit is a do-it-yourself tool for activists and others that want to kick-start effective global-to-local action in their area or within an existing group.
Local Futures
Placing The Children's Fire at the Centre of Institutions of Power 14 min
Placing The Children's Fire at the Centre of Institutions of Power
The Children's Fire is part of the Earth teachings of the elders of ancient America. Over time the elders came to understand that all human-created institutions needed to reflect the balance and wisdom observed in nature. The Children's Fire was a reminder of the first...
My First Journey With Psilocybin Mushrooms
My First Journey With Psilocybin Mushrooms
In May 2013, my whole world shifted. At the time, I was living in Amsterdam and I began to feel the call to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca.
Arianna Joy
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education
While teaching means different things in different places, seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills.
Meryn Callander
When We Attack Nature by Clearcutting Forests & Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves
When We Attack Nature by Clearcutting Forests & Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves
Growing up in southern England and Wales, we always lived close to the woods, streams, and hills of the nearby countryside. The towns were built to be dense and tight, so it was relatively easy to walk out of the buildings and away from traffic into a land of kingfishers...
Guy Dauncey
The New Mind Manipulators
The New Mind Manipulators
Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. These are the findings of a series of scientific studies that show how a few dominant institutions have the...
Jeremy Lent
Building a Local Peace Economy: We Have the Power
Building a Local Peace Economy: We Have the Power
When attending meetings with peace and justice activists, I often find myself the only business person in the room. Inevitably, someone makes a comment about the evils of business, or greedy capitalists, or some other negative comment that implies business people are the...
Judy Wicks
We Are Dreamers - A Guide to Lucid Dreaming 3 min
We Are Dreamers - A Guide to Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming is to be aware when you are dreaming and to have a degree of control over the dream.
Narratively
11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence
11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence
Lately, new ways to describe human interactions, social behaviours, and many facets of psychology have emerged on the social network scene. One of those descriptions is “high emotional intelligence.”
Raven Fon
6 Examples of Something for Nothing (And Why a Basic Income Should be the 7th)
6 Examples of Something for Nothing (And Why a Basic Income Should be the 7th)
I talk a lot about Basic Income, the concept that everyone should be provided a minimum guaranteed income to provide for basic human necessities (food, clothing, shelter). All over the world it is c
Matt Orfalea
Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design
Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design
The novelist Terry Pratchett once wrote, “people think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” However it seems these types of dichotomies are often both/and more than they are either/or. It is true that we are shaped by the stories that we...
Tommy Lehe
A Monthly Income Just for Being Human, and Other Sensible Ideas
A Monthly Income Just for Being Human, and Other Sensible Ideas
Unconditional basic income, a policy option that seems radical by American standards, is gaining new traction across Europe, Canada, and even a few places in the United States. Also known as “universal basic income,” the policy mandates a guaranteed stipend to every resident...
Leslee Goodman
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species 104 min
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)
United Natures explores the rights of Mother Earth, environmental philosophy, wisdom, spirituality, and the potential for a neo-indigenous future for humanity.
Turning of the Whales (trailer) 2 min
Turning of the Whales (trailer)
Fresh out of college, a skinny nerd with little or no social skills, my worldview heavily influenced by an Enlightenment notion of the 'human', I decided to dedicate my academic energies towards proving the existence of the soul. My map was unimpeachably detailed and...
Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being
Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Chip Richards
The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East
The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East
Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping to stop the advance of ISIS while also leading a radical democratic charge against capitalist ideology. Welcome to the Rojava phenomenon.
Rahila Gupta
The Turning of the Whales: What If We Are Not Alone? What If the 'Others' Have Been Here All Along?
The Turning of the Whales: What If We Are Not Alone? What If the 'Others' Have Been Here All Along?
When famed New Zealander psychologist, Dr Paul Spong, was first invited by the University of British Columbia to study the sensory apparatus of killer whales at the Vancouver Aquarium, he no doubt thought his time with the cetaceans would be like his other experiments in the...
Adebayo Akomolafe
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
Finding Warmth in a Dark Place: a Glimpse of #Nuitdebout
Finding Warmth in a Dark Place: a Glimpse of #Nuitdebout
Last weekend, Nuit Debout’s international working group organized two days of assemblies and action planning on the Place de la République in Paris. Some hundred people came from all over Europe and beyond to get to know this new movement in one of the heartlands of the...
Manuela Zechner
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