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In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species.
Come of Age does not offer tips on how to be a better senior citizen or how to be...
Stephen Jenkinson
Follow the journey of a Game~B pioneer who—with the help of the three stewards—awakens to the realization that she must find her tribe and prevent humanity's current path toward self-termination by playing a new game.
19 min
The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?'
So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them.
Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back!
Dr. Aaron Thierry
What if we imagine a more hopeful future?
5 min
A national Homes Guarantee is a plan that will ensure every person in the U.S. (or any country) has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. It comes straight from people impacted by the nation's housing crisis and builds from a long tradition of...
3 min
The greatest conspiracies are open and notorious — not theories, but practices expressed through law and policy, technology, and finance. Counterintuitively, these conspiracies are more often than not announced in public and with a modicum of pride. They’re dutifully reported...
Edward Snowden
I am a black woman in America.
I am a woke black woman who has been woke before woke was cool.
I also love America.
Valerie Elverton-Dixon
Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to deal with the urgent...
25 min
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...
52 min
This guide is for people who are ambivalent about voting in elections. It directly addresses the objections of the "don't vote" position while finding common ground. To summarize the position of this guide: "Year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the...
Activism today, call it engaged citizenship, ought to have more humility than it often does, and perhaps a bit more compassion and curiosity, too.
No matter how great our understanding, we'll always have something valuable to teach and something valuable to learn.
In all 50 states and around the world, Campaign Nonviolence has been building a culture of active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. We share skills and tools with which people can practice nonviolence toward themselves, one another...
Campaign Nonviolence, Rosie Davila
This beautiful and timely animation speaks to the spiralling levels of anxiety and depression the UK and other rich nations are experiencing by revealing the often silenced links between these mental health crises and the current economic system, including not only the...
6 min
Ever wonder how I make my videos? Here's a good starting point! – Second Thought
18 min
Acclaimed journalist Dave Zirin of The Nation magazine tackles the politics of manhood, militarism, nationalism, and race in the NFL, America's most popular and influential sports league.
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AWAKE tells the dramatic story of the historic #NODAPL native-led peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, which captured the world's attention as one of the biggest stories of 2016.
90 min
Greg Thomas is a passionate cultural commentator on the topic of race, and the history of black America, particularly related to musical history. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller they talk about the contribution of black American music, misconceptions...
34 min
Britain's leading environmental thinker presents his most audacious idea yet, in this 6-minute short film from director Franny Armstrong (THE AGE OF STUPID, McLIBEL) and the animation team at Brewery VFX.
6 min
We’ve got a plan, it’s called Project 3.5 The idea is a simple one: To build a movement that’s too big for the government and the fossil fuel industry to ignore, and to do it one door at a time.
11 min
National treasure, actor and comedian Stephen Fry called on the British public to support Extinction Rebellion. Speaking to camera Fry, said: “Reasonable people, I think, understand that something has to be done about fossil fuels, most of all about our insatiable appetite...
8 min
Planet Local shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.
51 min
The story of how a mining town recovered from its legacy of pollution and prospered by building community around the battle to save their beautiful river.
Born in the California Gold Rush, Nevada City was once the scene of some of the most destructive environmental...
57 min
Woven together with excerpts from Robin Wall Kimmerer's seminal "Braiding Sweetgrass," this immersive short film grounds viewers into concepts of indigenous wisdom, the power of spending uninterrupted time in nature, the spiritual dimension of environmental work, and how joy...
6 min
A new biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by actor Peter Coyote, A Cloud Never Dies weaves together original film and photographic archives, telling the story of a humble young Vietnamese monk and poet whose wisdom and compassion were forged in the...
28 min
Sonya explores the impact of calling out and calling in people who have caused harm. She offers us a third alternative - “calling on”. We often think that discerning someone’s intent is instinctual when it is just not the case. Sonya proposes that those who are the source of...
18 min
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was perhaps the most widely documented act of political violence in history. The New York Times obtained, analyzed and mapped out thousands of cellphone videos, police bodycam recordings and internal police audio to provide the most...
41 min
What we need then for the social gospel to become a reality is more of a collective awakening, with more and more people becoming free of their lesser views and motivations.
King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and...
112 min
Here’s the story of how Extinction Rebellion's symbol spread around the world and became an icon in just a few years.
4 min
In these times of great transitions, Mother Earth speaks to us in a call for empowerment and greater intimacy with Her as a way to a Regenerative Future. This is an invitation to join the movement for a Transformative Culture, a culture where being part of Nature is our...
7 min
The so-called psychedelic renaissance is here. Proponents claim that the drugs can alleviate an array of psychological suffering. But while they try to gain medical acceptance, they ignore the structural factors that cause suffering in the first place. We need a revolutionary...
Mike Pappas and Dimitri Mugianis
John Perkins once told me a story of bringing a group to have an audience with the Dalai Lama. A woman asked him, “Is it important to pray for peace?” The Dalai Lama said, “Yes, praying for peace is very good, but if that is all you do you are wasting your time.”
Charles Eisenstein
Radical climate hope, explained.
12 min
I read a story the other day about a couple in Germany. They had enjoyed a harmonious marriage for more than 20 years until the time of Covid, when each adopted beliefs directly opposed to the other. Their arguments became more and more violent, until last year they split up.
Charles Eisenstein
We've all seen those "heartwarming" stories about kids with cancer selling lemonade to pay for their chemo, or janitors being gifted a car because they've walked ten miles to work every day for twenty years, or all the other sugar-coated dystopian failures of our capitalist...
21 min
Illuminati Theory is a conspiracy theory often used to explain the corruption that pervades the systems that dominate us. But is it a useful or accurate explanation? Or is there a better alternative? The truth is out there. Let's find it. - Saint Andrewism
34 min
"It's Black History Month, so it's about time we talked about the recuperation of Black radicals like Dr. King and Nelson Mandela. Everyone and their mother likes to claim MLK as their own, and use his words as a rhetorical weapon, but what did he actually believe? This one...
22 min
"This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible” and every time I have watched it since. Because to me, it is a true story. Whether actually true or metaphorically true, it doesn’t matter. It...
10 min
“This beautiful film is the perfect antidote to the cynical narrative that says people are inherently selfish... This film will melt your heart. Guaranteed.”
– Rob Hopkins, author; co-founder Transition Network
39 min
Cooperatives are a great way to bring democracy into the workplace. They can either be built from scratch or by converting existing businesses into worker-owned cooperatives. For retiring business owners as well as entrepreneurs, selling a business to employees is a way to...
Cat Johnson
Farmers and activists fight together to stop Data Centers and the mega-sized 7,200 acre Indiana Enterprise Center in New Carlisle, Indiana.
39 min
Transparent Film / ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
84 min
If you get tired of being told that climate change is all your fault because you eat meat, don't use paper straws, or drive a car, this video is for you. While there are things we can all do to reduce our personal greenhouse gas emissions, the idea of the "individual carbon...
18 min
Movements like Black Lives Matter often start out as radical demands for change, but somewhere along the way they get consumed, defanged, and turned into meaningless symbols. How does this happen?
20 min
A Western environmental documentary, "A Fistful of Rubbish" is set in the Tabernas Desert in Spain - Europe's only desert. An area known for being the backdrop of many famous Western films, sadly is being trashed. But now, with the help of some locals, an unexpected cowboy is...
14 min
Courage doesn’t have to look dramatic or fearless. Sometimes it looks more like quiet perseverance.
Amy L. Eva
Three Sisters, Women of High Degree is the result of 7 years of collaboration and filmed conversations between three Yimardoowarra Marninil, Nyikina women from the Fitzroy River, Lucy Marshall, Jeannie Warbie, and Anne Poelina, and French-Australian filmmaker Magali McDuffie.
48 min
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories is a new documentary which will be released in 2022: watch this space for more information!
1 min
CW: Includes discussion about sexual assault, torture, and scenes of police brutality.
English and Spanish, with hard-coded English subtitles.
32 min
Beloved teacher, activist, and Zen Buddhist master, Thich Nhat Hanh, has died peacefully at 95.
Tim Hjersted
"He inspired so many good people to dedicate themselves to working for a more just and compassionate world."
Jessica Corbett
The Third Harmony tells the story of nonviolence, humanity’s greatest (and most overlooked) resource.
"I am exhilarated and grateful to the filmmakers for bringing forth such a fine gift for the future of life on Earth. Hurray! and deep bows." - Joanna Macy, deep ecologist...
44 min
(This essay is the final installment of a series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,
Charles Eisenstein
How do you move past the worst thing to ever happen in your life?
In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group...
85 min
Leading visionaries of The Great Turning respond to key questions relevant to the challenges of our times:
93 min
While it's often easy to fall into doomerism, remaining dedicated, principled, and optimistic is critical to the success of any movement. Let's talk about revolutionary optimism and what it can do for us.
15 min
Join Bill Pfeiffer as he discusses his journey to embracing an indigenous world view and how this approach can help save our planet. This video is a production of Lake Erie Institute and is made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
37 min
Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.
Over 500 Scots fought in the Spanish Civil War which devastated Spain 70 years ago. Emotions and memories of this extraordinary conflict are still alive and poignant. This two-part documentary series, narrated by actor David Hayman, remembers the major conflict through...
92 min
The pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking. It's deepened the chasm between mainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian.
88 min