Every Challenge Can Be Overcome: 6 Ideas for Getting Started

There is no time for hopelessness. Here are some ideas for what we can do – now – to fight back against the attacks we know are coming.

Ed Goddard

SAVING ASSANGE: Defending Wikileaks (2020)

SAVING ASSANGE is an archive-driven, compilation, internet documentary that uses extracts from news bulletins, broadcast programs, TV docs, talk shows and other online content to revise the Assange saga and argue the legal, moral and ethical case for Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

48 min

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

In this excerpt from LOVE SCHOOL, author and visionary Charles Eisenstein speaks to the importance of surrounding ourselves with a supportive community that can give us the courage we need to step into the unknown, into new ways of being.

6 min

Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters.

"This is a poignant situation. A woman is feeling pretty beat down in a pretty dark place who loves art, but shuts down when the question "what's the point?" inevitably creeps into her mind."- Charles Eisenstein

7 min

Be the Voice of the Voiceless | Joaquin Phoenix's Oscars Speech

"Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow." - River Phoenix

3 min

Navigating Echo Chambers

The beliefs and stories that we hold are not the result of an independent choice by the neo-liberal separate self choosing from the marketplace of ideas. Belief is a collective function. The echo chamber effect can operate both ways. - Charles Eisenstein

10 min

Radical Dharma – Interview with angel Kyodo williams (Podcast)

In this in-depth interview, Reverend angel Kyodo williams reflects on our widespread crisis of story, the failure of institutional religions to offer a new way forward, and her philosophy of Radical Dharma—a path to individual and collective liberation. A Sensei in the...

39 min

It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics

Ignore the usual fairytale. Democracy, unions, healthcare and education: these are the forces that matter

Jason Hickel

What Do We Want? Unbiased Reporting! When Do We Want It? During Protests!

The new decade is just days old, but in one respect it is already shaping up like the last one: with mass protests around the world. Rallies for democracy overseas and

Danielle K. Kilgo

Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson

Sierra Robinson is a seventeen-year-old farmer, homeschooler, and environmental activist from Vancouver Island, BC.

12 min

Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection

Practicing Nonviolent Communication guides us to reframe the way we listen to others and express ourselves by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, needing and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. In this context the word need...

Center for Nonviolent Communication

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.

Tim Hjersted

Canceling | ContraPoints

Contrapoints' 100 minute video essay on "cancel" activism.

100 min

Krystal Ball Interviews Contrapoints on Her Blockbuster Cancel Culture Video

Natalie Wynn explains why cancel culture is harmful. Watch the full video essay here.

11 min

Think Twice Before Shouting Your Virtues Online – Moral Grandstanding Is Unhealthy

In an era of bitter partisanship, political infighting and ostracization of those with unpopular views, Americans actually agree on one thing: 85% say political discourse has gotten worse over the last several years, according to Pew Research.

Joshua B. Grubbs

Unist'ot'en Day 31 Update: We're Not Leaving.

As Canada prepares to violently invade our lands, we have no fear. We are peacefully living on our lands and upholding our laws, as we always have.

5 min

The New Year: Molding a New Reality

If you can dream it, you can do it,” is a famous quote attributed to Walt Disney or one of his staff.

John Perkins

We Are The Political Revolution

5 min

My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini

At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out?

21 min

Why Climate Action Is the Antithesis of White Supremacy

Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation

Rebecca Solnit

An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins

John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not “play the game" were assassinated or overthrown.

19 min

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

"The challenge of building trust across divides is universal and inescapable. Can we move from a culture of blame and avoidance to an acceptance of shared responsibility for a new future?" - Initiatives of Change International

Rob Corcoran

Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes

“There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it, to prevent the worst, and then you go on to deal with the fundamental roots of what’s...

Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Not All Politics Is Identity Politics

In the often polarizing and intense debates on identity politics you often encounter three talking points from those who oppose those who criticise identity politics. First, that all politics is identity politics. Second, critics of so called “identity politics” ignore the...

Ralph Leonard

The Confederation as the Commune of Communes

Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale.

Debbie Bookchin, Sixtine van Outryve

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming | Paul Hawken

The visionary goal of Project Drawdown, founded by Paul Hawken, is to actually reverse global warming by drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back down to pre-industrial levels. All the practices and technologies documented in Paul’s best-selling "Drawdown" book are already...

33 min

The Four Levels of Action | Will Grant

Each of us is empowered to engage in solutions in a way that is not stressful or overwhelming. It is through the sheer numbers of individuals doing their part that we will see massive positive changes on our planet! -

3 min

Connecting to "Them"

"If I were talking to a 65-year-old man from Tennessee who watches Fox News, I would not articulate the story of interbeing. I would speak from an understanding of the story of interbeing, and I would try to speak in a way that communicates to him and will be received."...

9 min

Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real

There's overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change; 97 percent of scientists agree that humans have created conditions that are drastically reshaping the planet's climate, with disastrous results, and one scientist noted in September 2018 that the scientific...

JR Thorpe

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game

"Voting is a chess move, not a valentine. And here's the joy of being politically engaged all year round every year; you get to work with a whole lot of chess pieces and players and strategies and longterm visions, so you don't agonize over whether this little hop with a pawn...

Tim Hjersted

BURKINABÈ RISING: The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso (2018)

A small landlocked country in West Africa, Burkina Faso is home to a vibrant community of artists, musicians, & engaged citizens who carry on the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Sankara, killed in a coup d'état led by his best friend and advisor Blaise Compaoré, who then ruled...

72 min

Anti-Fascist Activism & the Value of Nonviolence

Films For Action

Black Worker, White Worker (1972)

In one department of a giant steel mill in northwest Indiana a foreman assigned a white worker to the job of operating a crane. The Black workers in the department felt that on the basis of seniority and job experience, one of them should have been given the job, which...

Noel Ignatin

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

The Theory of Enchantment by Chloé Valdary is a framework that seeks to end polarization in our society by teaching communities how to be in relationship with one another.

1 min

A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality

"Intersectionality calls for the recognition of multiple forms of oppression and exploitation and the need for solidarity. These are ideas that should be supported by everybody. So where does the need come from to criticize the concept of intersectionality from a decolonial...

Sandew Hira

Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism

In the face of economic, social, and ecological breakdown, the inevitable transition is comming. And what it requires from us is beyond the realms of 'activism'.

18 min

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Getting in touch with our feelings and sharing "I-statements" is a known strategy for communicating nonviolently and bettering our chances of being heard.

Teri Lynn

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is all in on beauty. After photographing sea birds dying by the dozens from consuming bits of plastic, Chris had a revelation: It was time to refocus in his lens on the awesome beauty of the planet.

16 min

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

Focusing on identities in our political conversations is divisive and restrictive. How can we shift the conversation back to principles?

Christine Louis-Dit-Sully

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

“The people who do most of the dying are people from the poorest backgrounds”

2 min

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

As a child, I was the shy kid who kept to herself. I rarely shared my inner world with others outside my close friendship circle, and even as an adult, my auto-default is still to hold my tongue.

Teri Lynn

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

Many of us with radical politics likely formed them in response to histories of trauma and abuse – sometimes in the form of discrete, identifiable traumatic events, sometimes in the form of cumulative interpersonal micro-traumas (e.g. rejections, invalidations, humiliation...

Prefigurology

The Political Economy of Anti-Racism

This essay originated as a kind of stump speech, an effort to spell out and update an argument about the uses of anti-racism and anti-discrimination that I’ve been making for some time to audiences that might or might not be familiar with it. The idea of publishing some...

Walter Benn Michaels

Black Politics After 2016

Many pundits and scholars have remarked on how the 2016 election reflected the significance of race in American politics. One strain of commentary to that effect contends that Trump’s election revealed a deep commitment to racism among white voters, especially working-class...

Adolph Reed, Jr

Control is a Trap

At the root of many mental health problems is experiential avoidance. As touched upon in a previous entry, experiential avoidance is trying to avoid, suppress, or get rid of certain private experiences (i.e. emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, memories), regardless of...

Prefigurology

Yes, You Can Change Someone's Mind

There’s something fascinating about stories that recount a major change of heart. Like the one of C.P. Ellis, a White member of the KKK, and Ann Atwater, a Black community activist, who in 1971 were thrown together as co-chairs of a group focused on school desegregation in...

Amanda Abrams

Envisioning The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible

"I use the phrase the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think it's impossible." - Charles Eisenstein

8 min

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

“We undermine how easy it is for us to become the people that we dislike” - Ayishat Akanbi

6 min

Why You Should Take a Chance on the Socialist

The media is trying very hard to send a certain presidential campaign down the memory hole. They omit it from infographics. They decline to report its policy announcements (like the excellent Thurgood Marshall Plan for public education,

Paul Waters-Smith

How Much Good Can One Person Really Do?

One of the reasons the world is in the state that it is, is because everybody mortgages what is really pulling at their heart to do something abstract. For the thing that they think they have to do for the numbers to work out. - Charles Eisenstein

21 min

Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation (trailer)

HEALING FROM HATE examines the root causes of hate group activity through the bold work of those battling intolerance on the front lines, including Life After Hate, an organization founded by former Skinheads and neo-Nazis, now engaged in transforming attitudes of...

2 min

What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like

We have a decade to transform the US economy to stave off climate catastrophe, and Bernie Sanders has the only agenda to do so and the only mobilization strategy to get it done. No plan for a better future is worthwhile if environmental crisis renders our future unimaginably...

Daniel Denvir

What Kids Need Most | Dr. Gabor Mate

This video is dedicated to all the children of the world. Let us end the cycle of trauma that prevents the healing of our species and the world.

7 min

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

Contrary to what you may have heard, you are needed in this world.

6 min

The Importance of What Neither Side is Saying

I have a new motto that's helped me clear the fog in the political realm. In any polarized debate, the important thing is in what neither side is saying, and what both sides unconsciously agree on. - Charles Eisenstein

5 min

U.S. Assassination of Iran's General Soleimani & History of Intervention in Iran

In this interview with the national co-director of the antiwar organization CODEPINK, Ariel Gold, we discuss the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani. Furthermore we contextualize the current crisis by examining U.S. involvement in Iranian politics since...

12 min

Boycotting Amazon Won't Work

It will take real collective action — not just canceling your Prime subscription — to force the company to change its labor practices

Justin Ward

Running Back and Forth with a Fire Hose

The opioid addictions, the school shootings, the dronings, the prison industrial complex, the rising number of homeless, the one-crisis-after-another and for a while you might run with your fire hose, trying to put out one fire after another. But at some point you burn out...

7 min

Will We Have to "Make-Do with Less" to Sustain Life?

When we talk about sustainability, there's an implication there, that is present in the question "what is it that we want to sustain?" Read "Climate: A New Story" for free at CharlesEisenstein.org/books

8 min

Why I Refuse to Avoid White People

In the days since the white supremacists marched into Charlottesville, Va., my Twitter feed has lit up with advice from black pundits, activists and even friends: “It’s time to stop talking about racism with white people.” “Whiteness is always protected, even at its...

Chloé Valdary

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