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Don't Eat It! This Anti-GMO Music Video Aping Michael Jackson's "Beat It" is Super Sweet 8 min
Don't Eat It! This Anti-GMO Music Video Aping Michael Jackson's "Beat It" is Super Sweet
In this parody of "Beat It," GMO executives have taken over the food chain, so a group of dedicated citizens march to face them off in an epic battle, but something nefarious and unexpected happens...
Raamayan · 8,589 views · 91%
With Detroit's Bankruptcy, Anarchists Have Begun Project "Free Detroit" - Starting a Community
With Detroit's Bankruptcy, Anarchists Have Begun Project "Free Detroit" - Starting a Community
The city of Detroit isn’t looking too pretty to date. On July 18th as many know, Detroit filed for bankruptcy after falling an estimated $20 billion in debt to over 100,000 creditors. Due to the inability for the city government to provide for goods and services it once...
Ezra Van Auken · 8,476 views · 75%
Sweat The Small Stuff 2 min
Sweat The Small Stuff
From eating local food to taking shared showers, here are eight ways to reduce your impact on the planet that will make your life better too.
GOOD Magazine · 8,140 views · 81%
Visualizing The Edible City in 3 Minutes 3 min
Visualizing The Edible City in 3 Minutes
Watch an animation that shows how to turn a conventional community into an edible city. Learn how to transform unproductive spaces into agricultural landscapes that help fight obesity and reduce food deserts.
ASLA · 7,769 views · 92%
We Have Met the Environment, and It Is Us
We Have Met the Environment, and It Is Us
Clearly, we have a catastrophic problem on our hands. But climate change isn’t it. In fact, climate change isn’t a problem at all – to be precise, climate change is merely a very acute symptom of a much, much larger matrix of problems that, if left undiagnosed, will rapidly...
Alyce Santoro · 7,112 views · 88%
Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4
Celebrate Interdependence Day on July 4
What would it mean for us to reclaim July 4th not as a celebration of militarism, but as a celebration of our interdependence?
Michael Lerner · 6,764 views · 100%
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love 28 min
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love
Judy Wicks’ love of place has made widening ripples on a global scale. She’s the founder of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), a national network of sustainable, small businesses. After moving onto a quaint street in Philadelphia, she learned it was slated...
peakmoment · 6,337 views · 100%
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The Forms of Violence That Our Corporate Media Never Talks About
The corporate media loves to talk about violent protesters, while the biggest forms of violence in our society go unchallenged.
Mickey Z. · 6,218 views · 100%
Pieces of Madrid 18 min
Pieces of Madrid
This short documentary from the excellent Global Uprisings crew explores ongoing resistance and self-organization in the midst of the economic and social crisis in Madrid, Spain. As social conditions continue to deteriorate across the country, people have been turning to the...
6,044 views · 75%
Want to Change the World? You'll Have to Get Your Hands Dirty
Want to Change the World? You'll Have to Get Your Hands Dirty
As a filmmaker, it’s a rare privilege to stumble upon a completely unique story—in the case of my new documentary, Grasp the Nettle, a motley collection of land r
Dean Puckett · 5,481 views · 100%
Oil Addiction 4 min
Oil Addiction
If we're addicted to oil, our twelve-step program should begin with admitting that we have a problem. As the price of oil creeps higher, finding new energy sources is more important than ever. But the search for alternatives, combined with environmental disruptions, is...
GOOD · 5,351 views · unrated
Israel Is Captive to Its 'Destructive Process'
Israel Is Captive to Its 'Destructive Process'
Raul Hilberg in his monumental work “The Destruction of the European Jews” chronicled a process of repression that at first was “relatively mild” but led, step by step, to the Holocaust. It started with legal discrimination and ended with mass murder. “The destructive process...
Chris Hedges · 5,351 views · 100%
Introducing Petrolify® - The Power of Petroleum in One Little Pill 2 min
Introducing Petrolify® - The Power of Petroleum in One Little Pill
Imagine there was a pill you could take every day that would provide you with wealth, freedom, and luxuries beyond the imagination of even the wealthiest kings of yesteryear. Taking this pill would give you the equivalent of hundreds of slaves, working for you 24/7, to grow...
Post Carbon Institute · 5,239 views · 96%
Trends Analyst Predicts Global Youth Uprising, ‘Progressive Libertarians’ in 2011
Trends Analyst Predicts Global Youth Uprising, ‘Progressive Libertarians’ in 2011
An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression.
Stephen C. Webster · 4,917 views · 100%
Teaching People to Hate Their Own Govt. Is at the Core of the Project to Destroy the Middle Class
Teaching People to Hate Their Own Govt. Is at the Core of the Project to Destroy the Middle Class
Teaching the middle class to hate their government was an essential part of the plan to implement Corporate Feudalism.
Dennis Marker · 4,864 views · 75%
10 Films to Inspire Your Inner Environmental Superhero
10 Films to Inspire Your Inner Environmental Superhero
In one vision of the distant future, after global warming has melted the ice caps and left the planet covered in water, Kevin Costner grows fish gills, lives on a trimaran, and battles pirates as he sails in search of the legend of “Dryland.”
Christopher Zumski Finke · 4,709 views · 75%
Changing the World One Bike Rider at a Time 28 min
Changing the World One Bike Rider at a Time
A weekly free bike coop where you can use mechanics’ tools and expertise to fix your bike? Free clinics where schoolkids or neighbors learn to maintain or build their own bikes from used parts? Chauncey and Dash Tudhope-Locklear make a living repairing bicycles, but...
peakmoment · 4,301 views · 75%
Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sand: Protests in Texas delay the Keystone pipeline while opposition to it grows
Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sand: Protests in Texas delay the Keystone pipeline while opposition to it grows
It was a dreary late- September morning in the East Texas woods outside of Winnsboro, chill and drizzly. Everything was wet or damp except for the spirits of four young people sitting in a tree stand. They were perched 30 feet above the path of the Keystone XL pipeline...
Peter Gorman · 4,189 views · unrated
New Study Shows How Wal-Mart Devastates Small Businesses
New Study Shows How Wal-Mart Devastates Small Businesses
Walmart cuts more than just prices -- it cuts small businesses and jobs, according to a new study released by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Weighing in on the debate about whether Walmart should enter New York City, the study found that between 30 and 41 small...
Janean Chun · 4,127 views · unrated
Creating A Gratitude Economy
Creating A Gratitude Economy
In many spiritual circles, it is popular to talk about gratitude. Gratitude encompasses much more than a quickie “thank you.” It implies a much deeper state of mind, one that practitioners realize will position you to receive even greater abundance.
Joanne Poyourow · 4,119 views · 100%
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Planet
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Planet
Do you agonize over the little venial eco-sins of everyday life? Every gallon of gas, every extra minute of a hot shower, each flush?
Eric Moll · 4,046 views · 75%
The People Who Wouldn't Mind If the Pacific Northwest Were Its Own Country
The People Who Wouldn't Mind If the Pacific Northwest Were Its Own Country
The first thing we heard when we pulled into the Finney Farm was the clattering of drums, followed by a high-pitched howling noise.
Allyce Andrew · 3,747 views · 100%
Dubai and the Fantasies of Civilization
Dubai and the Fantasies of Civilization
Dubai is an interesting city. A thriving futuristic metropolis in the heart of the desert considered to be the crown jewel of modernity with indoor ski resorts, gulf courses, fully computerized metros, giant air-conditioned shopping malls, and the tallest skyscrapers in the...
Adon Apamea · 3,711 views · 75%
Cooperating to Replace Capitalism
Cooperating to Replace Capitalism
SolidarityNYC is a New York City-based group which works to create links between social movements and the "solidarity economy." The latter consists of cooperatives, small businesses, non-profits and other economic activities which "reinforce values of justice, ecological...
Dru Oja Jay · 3,562 views · unrated
The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Development Paradigm
The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Development Paradigm
During the 15 years, I lived and worked in Asia as a development professional from 1978 to 1992, I witness a troubling paradox. GDP was growing, incomes were rising, there was an expanding middle class, and a few people were getting fabulously rich. Development seemed to be...
David Korten · 3,510 views · 100%
A World Without a Financial System
A World Without a Financial System
An overriding concern of many people participating in protests since 2010 has been the financial system. From the September 17, 2011 protests against financial institutions and the symbolism of Occupy Wall Street to the widespread discussion of alternative currencies, money...
Heather Marsh · 3,446 views · unrated
Where to Eat If You Want to Support Restaurants That Pay Their Workers a Living Wage
Where to Eat If You Want to Support Restaurants That Pay Their Workers a Living Wage
Good ole’ Costco made national news again during this year’s State of the Union. Why? Because Costco is a corporate empire that pays livable wages.
Maria Myotte · 3,383 views · 100%
The State, Occupy and Disaster: What Radical Movement Builders Can Learn From The Case Of Occupy Sandy
The State, Occupy and Disaster: What Radical Movement Builders Can Learn From The Case Of Occupy Sandy
Nearly two years ago a group named Occupy Sandy organized an unprecedented response to the unprecedented disaster that was Hurricane Sandy. Occupy Sandy, which was sparked by a few radical activists wh
Easton Smith · 3,016 views · 100%
15 Ways To Create A Summer Of Sharing
15 Ways To Create A Summer Of Sharing
With Summer Solstice right around the corner for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the peak time to be outside, among friends, enjoying all that the season has to offer. And what better way to celebrate than by doing a whole lot of sharing?
Cat Johnson · 2,881 views · 100%
Climate Strike: All Storms Lead to Wall Street
Climate Strike: All Storms Lead to Wall Street
The city has been shut down. Bridges and subways and airports are closed. There is no school, no shopping, no work. The stock exchange is shuttered. The circuits of capital are disrupted indefinitely. A state of emergency--but not the sort we had hoped for on May Day. This...
Talib Agape Fuegoverde · 2,834 views · unrated
Mobilize to Stop Planet Fever: A 10-Point Action Plan for System Change Not Climate Change
Mobilize to Stop Planet Fever: A 10-Point Action Plan for System Change Not Climate Change
When we, as human beings, get a fever, we immediately get worried and take action. After all, we know that if our body temperature rises to 1.5ºC, let alone 2ºC [3.6 ºF] above the normal average, there can be severe damage, while an increase of 4-6ºC [7.2-10.8 ºF] or more can...
Climate Space · 2,804 views · 100%
How Did Leaders Respond to the People's Climate March?
How Did Leaders Respond to the People's Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon took place two days later with the participation of 100...
Pablo Solon · 2,778 views · 75%
Some Outrageous Facts about Inequality
Some Outrageous Facts about Inequality
Studying inequality in America reveals some facts that are truly hard to believe. Amidst all the absurdity a few stand out. A homeless person sits under blankets at a Wall Street subway station in New York City. (Credit: AP/Mark Lennihan)
Paul Buchheit · 2,637 views · unrated
Occupy KwaMashu - Shack Dwellers Evicted Ahead of UN Climate Conference 2 min
Occupy KwaMashu - Shack Dwellers Evicted Ahead of UN Climate Conference
Just days before the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban South Africa (COP17) residents of KwaMashu Above (an area north of Durban) had their houses destroyed and all their possessions and food stolen from them in an unlawful eviction. There were told by local officials...
occupycop17 · 2,339 views · 75%
Deep Green: Solutions To Stop Global Warming Now (2012) (trailer) 2 min
Deep Green: Solutions To Stop Global Warming Now (2012) (trailer)
Travel to 9 countries with Matt Briggs to uncover the best ideas, cutting-edge technologies and restorative solutions to help curb climate change. You can view the full program or the chaptered version.
2,016 views · 75%
A Life of Activism Gives You Hope, Energy and Direction
A Life of Activism Gives You Hope, Energy and Direction
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very large and very real social and environmental problems that beset our world. I am not now talking about a false sense of optimism based on ignoring the several very real crises we face.
Maude Barlow · 2,005 views · 100%
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means's most famous speech.
Russell Means · 730,763 views · 89%
American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian 30 min
American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian (2000)
The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million...
150,039 views · 91%
No Impact Man 91 min
No Impact Man (2009) ($4)
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year. It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic...
126,945 views · 75%
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The definitive critique of our economic system since its beginning to the present day.
Kevin A. Carson · 111,516 views · 98%
Lessons Learned from a Year without Showering
Lessons Learned from a Year without Showering
It has been one year since my last shower. Yes, I know that sounds crazy and a year ago I would have agreed with you. I was a regular showering guy for the first 26 years of my life. Well, maybe not every single day, but just about.
Rob Greenfield · 98,849 views · 89%
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You. 5 min
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.
A good friend of mine, Ian Mackenzie recently shot this short film The Meaning of Death – Stephen Jenkinson.  Hope you are as moved as I was by the film. IN JANUARY this year, I flew out to attend my first full session of the Orphan Wisdom school, founded by Stephen...
Stephen Jenkinson · 69,768 views · 82%
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times 66 min
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up...
46,465 views · 94%
How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories
How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories
As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their
Peter Gray · 44,755 views · 100%
The Old Paradigm’s Demoralizing Orthodoxies Make Us Confuse Despair With Realism
The Old Paradigm’s Demoralizing Orthodoxies Make Us Confuse Despair With Realism
Undergraduates ask me how to keep from getting cynical and demoralized, and my first question is how much mainstream news media they consume each day.
Arlene Goldbard · 39,658 views · 100%
Meat The Truth 70 min
Meat The Truth (2008)
Although many films have convincingly succeeded in drawing public attention to the issue of global warming, they have repeatedly ignored one of the most important causes of climate change, namely: intensive livestock production. Meat the Truth has drawn attention to this by...
31,847 views · 96%
Films For Action Launches New Website, a "Learning Library for People Who Want to Change the World"
Films For Action Launches New Website, a "Learning Library for People Who Want to Change the World"
Lawrence, KS -- After 12 months in development, Films For Action has launched its new website - a head-to-toe redesign that lays the foundation for a vibrant community-powered news site dedicated to inspiring positive social change. At the heart of the new site is a...
Films For Action · 30,727 views · 80%
Caring Too Much. That's the Curse of the Working Classes
Caring Too Much. That's the Curse of the Working Classes
"What I can't understand is, why aren't people rioting in the streets?" I hear this, now and then, from people of wealthy and powerful backgrounds. There is a kind of incredulity. "After all," the subtext seems to read, "we scream bloody murder when anyone so much as...
David Graeber · 28,527 views · 100%
A Farm For The Future 48 min
A Farm For The Future (2008)
More than 96 per cent of all the food grown in Britain is reliant on synthetic fertiliser. Without it there would be serious trouble. But without artificial fertiliser there's not enough nutrients for the crops to grow, and without ploughing there is nothing to aerate the...
28,299 views · 96%
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 · 24,685 views · 100%
This is the Definitive Argument Against Drug Prohibition. It's Time We Legalize All Drugs.
This is the Definitive Argument Against Drug Prohibition. It's Time We Legalize All Drugs.
After you've finished reading this, there will be no doubt in your mind. Legalizing all drugs is the best way to lower the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction. If you already know the drug war has failed, skip to the middle for an alternative policy. You will be...
Jack A. Cole (Retired Narcotics Undercover Officer) · 24,376 views · 100%
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World 77 min
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)
Many people do not realize that permaculture is much more than about growing fruit and vegetables, it is a whole view incorporating the environment, energy, resources, housing, technology, education, healthcare, the arts, spirituality, psychology, philosophy and agriculture...
21,525 views · 94%
5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for all Americans
5 Reasons to Consider a No-Strings-Attached, Basic Income for all Americans
Half of all Canadians want it. The Swiss have had a referendum on it. The idea's not as far-fetched as it sounds What if you could receive a guaranteed basic yearly income with no strings attached? Didn’t matter how much money you made now, or in the future. Nobody would ask...
Lynn Stuart Parramore · 21,149 views · 98%
Sea The Truth 60 min
Sea The Truth (2010)
Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows an overview of the themes addressed in the film and a brief explanation.
20,194 views · 88%
Recipe For Change | Building an Earthship in Ushuaia 62 min
Recipe For Change | Building an Earthship in Ushuaia (2014)
Recipe For Change follows the story of Earthship Biotecture in Ushuaia, Argentina as they and a group of academy students build a two-room simple survival Earthship. Earthships are fully off the grid buildings which catch th
20,158 views · 94%
In Transition 2.0 3 min
In Transition 2.0 (trailer)
In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localising their economies and...
17,215 views · 100%
The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"
The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"
In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people believe the world should be, according to the mainstream propaganda pertaining to liberty and...
Colin Todhunter · 16,191 views · 100%
The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution
The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution
Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry—a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart · 14,981 views · 100%
17 Days In Community: A Manifestation of Love 55 min
17 Days In Community: A Manifestation of Love (2014)
O.U.R. Ecovillage is a sustainable educational center and a presentation ground situated in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Their activities are rooted in Permaculture standards and give educational opportunities for natural architecture...
14,900 views · 81%
The Zeitgeist Movement
The Zeitgeist Movement
Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists as the communication and "Activist Arm" of an organization called The Venus Project. The Venus Project was started many decades ago by Social/Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco and his life's work has been to address and...
Tim Hjersted · 14,754 views · 96%
Who Killed Economic Growth? 6 min
Who Killed Economic Growth?
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. Richard Heinberg proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic...
Post Carbon Institute · 14,320 views · 75%
A Timeline of Climate Change Denial and the Special Interests that Have Funded It
A Timeline of Climate Change Denial and the Special Interests that Have Funded It
HistoryCommons.org has compiled an incredible historic resource that documents the rise and escalation of the climate denial industry over the last 15 years. Without editorializing the content, these articles summarize 178 headlines (often with multiple news article sources...
HistoryCommons.org · 14,058 views · 100%
The Right to Save Seed 5 min
The Right to Save Seed
The Right To Save Seed is an animated movie which explains when farmers can resow their seed in Europe. With the help of Magnum, Agata, Dali and Mona Lisa -- four varieties of potatoes that really exist -- the movie covers different legal situations with humour and a lot of...
Open Solutions for Seeds · 13,154 views · 100%
Films For Action: Providing a Go-To Resource for the Best Social Change Videos Free to Watch Online
Films For Action: Providing a Go-To Resource for the Best Social Change Videos Free to Watch Online
With excellent independent media sites like Common Dreams, Truth Out, Grist, and others providing progressive news and perspective in written form, Films For Action has dedicated itself to filling in the progressive video niche.
Films For Action · 13,035 views · 100%
10 Practical Tools for Building a Resilient Local Economy
10 Practical Tools for Building a Resilient Local Economy
The economy is changing. Dramatically. Coping with these changes means changing the way we do things. The path of the future involves root level, radical changes. Things we have always considered “normal” won’t work anymore. We must think LOCALLY, and act now to begin growing...
Environmental Change Makers · 12,848 views · 88%
Priceless 56 min
Priceless (2012)
PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date . . . and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion of fellow-citizens, includ
12,521 views · 75%
6 Portraits of the Solidarity Economy 15 min
6 Portraits of the Solidarity Economy
In a solidarity economy, our needs are met by exchanging goods, services, resources, and knowledge in ways that advance core values of justice, democracy, cooperation, and ecological sustainability. Portraits of the Solidarity Economy is a film series exploring the stories...
Alex Ramírez-Mallis · 10,314 views · 100%
Libcom's Guide to Organising
Libcom's Guide to Organising
The problem: We wake up every day to go to work, taking orders from a manager. We sit at work counting down the minutes until we go home, counting down the days until the weekend, counting down the weeks until our next holiday, wishing our lives away. Or worse, we can't find...
Libcom · 10,243 views · 92%
A Must View Collection of the Best Animal Rights Films Free to Watch Online
A Must View Collection of the Best Animal Rights Films Free to Watch Online
In the spirit of the popular Wall of Films we created back in 2012, we wanted to roll out a series of visual walls each crafted around a unique theme. Our first is dedicated to the rights of mother Earth and all our relatives. Check it out here.
Films For Action · 9,836 views · 75%
Eyewitness to Israeli Occupation: Time to Call a Spade a Spade
Eyewitness to Israeli Occupation: Time to Call a Spade a Spade
Ten years ago, I spent my 21st birthday in Palestine.  It was a fairly perfect scenario.  In the UK, you traditionally reach adulthood at 21.  You are presented with a symbolic key.  I was presented with a shocking realisation: what I saw on the news was not true.  What I...
Kerry-anne Mendoza · 9,339 views · 100%
Hey, Corporations, Pesky Tree Huggers Interfering With Your Profits? No Problem, Just Call Donny Rico 3 min
Hey, Corporations, Pesky Tree Huggers Interfering With Your Profits? No Problem, Just Call Donny Rico
Donny Rico here to deliver a message to all you long-haired hippie activist types complaining about the environment and human rights. Be warned: things have changed in America and you need to keep your mouths shut. Corporations are the top of the food chain and you need to...
AmazonWatch · 9,280 views · 95%
What to Do About ISIS
What to Do About ISIS
Start by recognizing where ISIS came from. The U.S. and its junior partners destroyed Iraq, left a sectarian division, poverty, desperation, and an illegitimate government in Baghdad that did not represent Sunnis or other groups. Then the U.S. armed and trained ISIS and...
David Swanson · 8,906 views · 100%
Development in Bad Waters 61 min
Development in Bad Waters (2013)
Many of us still don’t know the difference between charity and development. While the total amount of foreign aid to Bangladesh since its independence is nearing $50 billion, the income gap has continued to increase. The inequalities persist in a range of human living...
7,621 views · 84%
Is the New World Order Extreme Socialism or Totalitarian Capitalism?
Is the New World Order Extreme Socialism or Totalitarian Capitalism?
I give a little chuckle each time I hear one label the New World Order a push toward world socialism- if only such were the case.
Grant J. Kidney · 7,363 views · 94%
7 Ways You Can Help Clean Energy Eat Big Oil’s Lunch
7 Ways You Can Help Clean Energy Eat Big Oil’s Lunch
Bill McKibben and the folks at350.org have decided to target the pernicious financial influence of the fossil fuel industry and its front groups. On the day following the election, they kicked off a 21-city “Do the Math” tourto “mount an unprecedented campaign to cut off the...
Asher Miller · 7,274 views · 100%
International Energy Agency Reports Peak Oil Happened in 2006
International Energy Agency Reports Peak Oil Happened in 2006
The Beginning of a New Era  It can no longer be labeled a crackpot theory, a distant predi
Matthew Toplikar · 7,232 views · 94%
The Top Ten Arguments In Favor Of Capitalism 9 min
The Top Ten Arguments In Favor Of Capitalism
Wherein the most popular arguments for capitalism are looked at more closely.  Sources: Worldwide, 13% of workers feel engaged with their work
7,215 views · 100%
Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets
Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets
I think now is a good time to be talking about Bucky’s vision of a World Game.  We have the technology to do this and a new administration could easily provide the funding.  I don’t think any of this material is Utopian or far out, but if you do, let me know why.
Brainsturbator · 6,874 views · unrated
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Why Climate Change Science Is So Threatening to Right-Wing Ideologues
Unless we come up with some better solutions Klein says, "this crisis will be exploited to militarize our societies, to create fortress continents." AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of...
Naomi Klein · 6,834 views · unrated
Kick It Over (Neoclassical Economics)
Kick It Over (Neoclassical Economics)
Deep in a recession and with scary ecological scenarios looming, now may be the ripest moment we’ll ever have to power-shift global capitalism onto a new path. Adbusters #85 asks economics students around the world to join the fight to revamp Econ 101 curriculums and...
Films For Action · 6,802 views · 75%
Climate Change’s ‘Evil Twin’: Ocean Acidification 12 min
Climate Change’s ‘Evil Twin’: Ocean Acidification
A three-year assessment from a team of international scientists will detail how the phenomenon dubbed “climate change’s evil twin” is shaping up to be a global problem. The rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean will have widespread impacts to be felt for “tens of thousands...
AMAP · 6,768 views · 100%
Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician
Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician
Liquid Democracy is one of the boldest contemporary innovations in democratic decision-making. The idea uses web technology that allows users to interact in new ways. Its primary innovators are located in Berlin, and Germany has been the first to adopt and apply Liquid...
Jose Ramos · 6,270 views · 75%
A Celebrity Death, Addiction, and the Media - Dr. Gabor Maté
A Celebrity Death, Addiction, and the Media - Dr. Gabor Maté
It is always big news when a celebrity is stricken dead by a substance overdose. What never makes the news is why such tragedies happen.
Dr. Gabor Maté · 6,173 views · 81%
Employee-Owned Businesses Ignored by Mainstream Media
Employee-Owned Businesses Ignored by Mainstream Media
A bold new threat to the economic status quo brings on a press blackout.
Gar Alperovitz and Keane Bhatt · 6,123 views · 100%
Film review: Why ‘Thrive’ is best avoided
Film review: Why ‘Thrive’ is best avoided
What do you do when you are the heir to the Proctor and Gamble fortune and you have spent years surrounding yourself with new agey thinking and conspiracy theories?  You make a film like ‘Thrive‘, the latest conspiracy theory movie that is popping up all over the place.  I’ve...
Rob Hopkins · 6,111 views · 50%
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
It’s time we put economics into some sort of physical scientific context that makes sense.
Richard Register · 5,888 views · unrated
Soul Of A Citizen: 'From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist'
Soul Of A Citizen: 'From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist'
When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. Here's a striking example of one such transformation.
Paul Loeb · 5,603 views · 100%
Documentary Film Flowchart: Choose a Great Film Based on Your Mood
Documentary Film Flowchart: Choose a Great Film Based on Your Mood
Documentary films are not only wildly entertaining, but also serve as a powerful and engaging educational tool. As quality documentary films continue to be produced around the globe, we encourage teachers to take advantage and enlighten their students with some of these...
Chris Ingrao · 5,557 views · 75%
A Movement Too Big to Fail
A Movement Too Big to Fail
There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights...
Chris Hedges · 5,528 views · unrated
The Vanishing of The Bees (trailer) 7 min
The Vanishing of The Bees (trailer)
The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this...
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Eight Pseudoscientific Climate Claims Debunked by Real Scientists
Eight Pseudoscientific Climate Claims Debunked by Real Scientists
Most people who deny that human activity is warming the planet just dismiss a massive body of scientific evidence as a big hoax.
Bill Moyers & Company · 5,503 views · 100%
Arise (2013) (trailer) 2 min
Arise (2013) (trailer)
On every continent, women are taking the lead to protect and restore the natural environment, and are empowering others to respect the earth. Arise presents the stories of a diverse group of 13 women in five countries who have initiated solution-oriented environmental...
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The Power of Three Words: 'Not-for-Profit'
The Power of Three Words: 'Not-for-Profit'
Ever since we started writing and speaking about our current book project, How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050, we have been amazed by one phenomenon in particular. When we have a chance to explain to people what not-for-profit (NFP) enterprise...
Jen Hinton and Donnie Maclurcan · 5,299 views · 100%
Global Economic Sharing: The Most Important Debate of Our Time?
Global Economic Sharing: The Most Important Debate of Our Time?
Almost everywhere we look, there is an emerging debate on the im
Share The World's Resources · 5,014 views · 100%
Forget the gloom—new ways of living and organizing our economy are flourishing
Forget the gloom—new ways of living and organizing our economy are flourishing
The last couple of days have been gloomy ones. I kept checking in with the vague and dire reports from the nuclear-power bleeding edge in Japan. For part of the time I was also immersed in a post about truly awful things going on in the U.S. poultry industry. While digging...
Tom Philpott · 4,992 views · unrated
Labor: the New Gold Standard
Labor: the New Gold Standard
This article proposes issuing Hour-denominated currency nationwide, to stimulate creative and ecological economies, make grants to community groups, and make interest-free loans. Twenty years ago I started printing money.  Soon after, residents of Ithaca, New York, began...
Paul Glover · 4,984 views · 100%
6 Reasons Female Nudity Can be Powerful
6 Reasons Female Nudity Can be Powerful
Last week, in the midst of what appears to be infinite fascination [2] about Lena Dunham’s nudity, I saw a fundraiser for the documentary “Free the Nipple [3]“ and also, by coincidence, talked to Facebook spokespeople
Soraya Chemaly · 4,883 views · 50%
Is Our Addiction to Fast Fashion Just Another Form of Terrorism?
Is Our Addiction to Fast Fashion Just Another Form of Terrorism?
As the death toll in the Rana Plaza building collapse outside the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka climbs past 400, the kinship between our purchasing decisions and the loss of life is becoming harder to ignore. This has been the deadliest industrial disaster to hit the...
Amy DuFault · 4,848 views · 75%
The alternative approach to poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa
The alternative approach to poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa
Over fifty years have passed since most African nations gained their independence. Since then, and despite the expenditure of over $1 trillion in aid, poverty has, according to the World Bank, nearly doubled. But, the idea of aid was to reduce poverty and close the gap in...
Africanhomestay · 4,685 views · 100%
Everyday Rebellion Video Series: Great Tips For Activists
Everyday Rebellion Video Series: Great Tips For Activists
Everyday Rebellion is a fantastic film that premiered in Berlin in September 2014. The filmmakers also have a website full of great resources, including video blogs. Here are some of the best:
Andrew Butler · 4,437 views · 100%
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