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Matt Masur
There is no one right way to be an activist.
There is no one right way to change the world.
There is no one right philosophy of leftist politics.
There is no one right solution to the massive problems we're facing.
Beyond the media spin, the four reasons for this defeat.
Tony Brasunas
6 min
The Senator from Vermont remains optimistic about the country's future, and urges citizens to become more deeply involved in the political process.
6 min
Since Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election a short video has circulated around social media, in which the fictional news reporter Jonathan Pie delivers one of his typical ‘off the record’ pieces to camera, expressing his anger following the result. In...
Jack Kellam
*Especially from a white dude who makes some good points but buries them in a whole lotta condescension and sarcasm.
Anoosh Jorjorian
6 min
The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales – not about some particular government or...
6 min
A recent report found that 2015 was the deadliest year on record for environmental activists, raising concerns for those who continue to fight on the frontline, writes Liam Turner.
Liam Turner
The true sharing economy represents the end of the old ways defined by the pursuit of profit and competitive self-interest, while a new age of intergovernmental sharing and cooperation can only begin through the channel of ending hunger in a world that has such an abundance...
Mohammed Mesbahi
17 min
A short documentary profiling Iraqi refugees trying to assimilate to American culture after being displaced from Iraq due to the war. El Cajon, a county in San Diego, has one of the highest concentrations of Iraqi refugees in America. A majority of these refugees are known as...
17 min
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in US politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels...
C.J. Polychroniou
Stop Analysing and Act!
Paul Mason
2 min
Practical Mindfulness tools for Kids!
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2 min
“I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils”. These are words published nearly 25 years ago by American artist and prominent Aids activist Zoe Leonard in her poem I Want A Dyke For President. In 2016, as we watched Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battle it out for...
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7 min
Food Diaries is a docu-series exploring our broken relationship with food. Profiling food activists, to doctors, healers, and educators, this series brings up the questions we aren't asking. From food waste to healing ourselves to farming for self reliance, each subject takes...
7 min
The Trump victory is devastating. Devastating for communities of color, immigrants, women, Muslims and queer communities. Devastating for us.
Trump has given new voice to deeply rooted white supremacy, gender violence, xenophobia and hatred. Hatred of everything that we are...
Dawn Phillips
5 min
"366" by TAET VREMYA is an effort to live through the difficulties of the casual office life. A history that highlights from the world of illusions and arises the eternal questions.
5 min
5 min
According to UK campaign group, Frack-Off: "Fracking is a nightmare! Toxic and radioactive water contamination. Severe air pollution. Tens of thousands of wells, pipelines and compressor stations devastating our countryside and blighting communities. All the while...
5 min
“I can’t not do this, because I need the money…” — The thought underlying all exploitation which can be eliminated with one BIG idea.
Scott Santens
7 min
At the School of Life, we've pioneered a new form of Meditation we call Philosophical Meditation, designed to help with anxiety, sadness and a lack of direction.
7 min
8 min
The Safe Water Aids Project (SWAP) is an organization based in Kisumu, Kenya, that strives to improve the quality of life for locals who are living positively with HIV as well as those who do not have access to clean water. Their mission is to improve the quality of life by...
8 min
11 min
For three months, the Anywhere but Washington series has shed light on people and places shaping the presidential election. This final dispatch, from Nevada, captures the hope and despair behind a stunning election result - and explains the reasons behind Trump's remarkable...
11 min
3 min
We spoke with Dallas Goldtooth, of Sioux Dakota Nation and an organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network, about the protest against the Dakota Access pipeline. He called the protest a "movement out of love."
3 min
Couched in establishment lingo and perspective, relying upon shallow but credible-seeming misinformation, the Boston Globe reveals itself to be no ally of the people or the revolution.
Liam Miller
28 min
At the very moment when the government is reducing the ability of NHS mental health practitioners to serve those who are unwell , they are investing public money in dubious mental health programs. Unemployed people will be coerced by sanctions into compliance.
28 min
1 min
In an interview, a Greek fisherman told the reporter that "Refugee crisis has shown us our true humanity." Our fears have gotten the worst of us. Our individual concerns and prejudice became public opinion.
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6 min
This is a record following the New York City Anti-Trump Protest. Where thousands of citizens made their way from Union Square to Trump Tower to march against the recently elected Donald Trump. Carrying signs, stopping traffic and demanding to be heard; their voices chant...
6 min
14 min
From the incredible team who made Today I Rise - one of the most watched and loved films on this site - comes a short film documenting a conference they ran called Rising Women Rising World.
14 min
18 min
This is Laura's life: age 24; a Northerner; bar team leader for a large pub chain (and formerly a McDonald's manager); zero hours contract; on a minimum wage; no savings in the bank; trainers donated to her by a friend; boss spied on the workers' own secret Facebook group as...
18 min
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
Arun Gupta
Excerpts from the late David Fleming’s 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', chosen by the book’s editor, Shaun Chamberlin.
David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin
3 min
More than a hundred animals invaded the office of Bayer in Brussels to protest its intensive lobbying for TTIP and denounce their corporate power consolidation in acquiring Monsanto for $66 billion.
3 min
Normal is coming unhinged. For the past eight years it has been possible for most people (at least in the relatively privileged classes) to believe that society is sound, that the system, though creaky, basically works, and that the progressive deterioration of everything...
Charles Eisenstein
9 min
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never...
9 min
Dear Illegal Immigrant Parents of American Children:
Dear Youth,
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
The election of Donald Trump has left millions, maybe even billions of us in shock. Although we may be looking with bewilderment at the US today, we should remember that he is not an isolated phenomenon. He is a symptom of a sickness that is raging all around the world...
The Rules
I appreciate the anger over this year’s presidential election. I’m just as despondent that Trump will be our next president. But to those whose protests blew up my Twitter feed: I have to ask the question: Where were you when the Democrats nominated the wrong candidate this...
From my book Engines of Domination, p. 229-230
6 min
I think the world deserves to see the truth about #NoDAPL
6 min
"To those of you that care about diversity, about the environment, about the beauty of queer sexual orientations, about indigenous lands and their right to thrive, and about policing practices that have led to the deaths of many black men and women...I write." How do we...
Demos (“common people”) - kratia (“a power, authority”)
For many years, I’ve seen more and more of my rural and tribal neighbors pack their children off to school. Now, every morning between 8:00 and 9:00 am in this upwardly-mobile-yet-backward district, the country roads are full of children commuting to school, hoisting bags...
Suprabha Seshan
What is the Way Out?
Dieter Duhm
4 min
Now is the time for all Americans concerned with Native American Causes to stand up - to stand together in Unity to honor the Original Peoples of these Lands. Much success has resulted from public awareness and opinion on the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and...
4 min
Reflexivity and Optimism in times of Social Fragmentation
Progressives must unify to halt a slide into authoritarianism. A visionary left is better suited to lead this mission than routed establishment Democrats
Kate Aronoff
As every year, we celebrate the Global Grace Day on this November 9, 2016.
Dieter Duhm
Or, how to stop worrying and love staving off the dystopian nightmare that threatens.
Liam Miller
4 min
This 4-minute clip from Engines of Domination 2018 Director's Cut argues that technology itself has not caused today's human emergency. Instead, the emergency resulted from Domination making scientific technology an accessory to its destruction industry in the 16th century...
4 min
In recent months, WikiLeaks and I personally have come under enormous pressure to stop publishing what the Clinton campaign says about itself to itself. That pressure has come from the campaign’s allies, including the Obama administration, and from liberals who are anxious...
Julian Assange
2 min
For racer snakes, the emergence of marine iguana hatchlings is a feeding bonanza.
2 min
12 things we can't ignore as America votes.
Anthony Barnett
A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
Sarah van Gelder
Dear President Obama,
I write to respectfully but urgently request your intervention in the very troubling situation unfolding at and around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. As you know, over the past day, scores of law enforcement officers dressed in...
Bernie Sanders
The decision is yours today; would you like all the facts first?
Right to Clean Water & The Fight Against Eminent Domain
Western science and Indigenous worldviews are often seen as incompatible, with the Indigenous view usually being far less valued by society at large. But an inside look at Indigenous ways of knowing shows that they offer unique and dependable insights, in precisely the areas...
Lilian Na’ia Alessa
On November 9th, 1938 more than 1000 synagogues and 7000 Jewish businesses were burning all over Germany, set ablaze by the Nazis. Going down in history as “Kristallnacht” or the “Night of Broken Glass,” this dreadful event marked the beginning of the Holocaust, resulting in...
Martin Winiecki
When the polls close, a new battle will begin – to resist a racist climate denier, or to force a centrist Democrat to deliver genuinely progressive change
Rebecca Solnit
7 min
John Oliver is a great comedian. But he might be an even better corporate tool.
7 min
This is how a war begins
Charles Eisenstein
3 min
At Stedwick Elementary School projects are often used as the vehicle for the curriculum because it allows for both the growth of strong community in the classroom as well as engaging and supporting students in high levels of learning. In Ms. Nwoye’s fourth grade class a...
3 min
How tabloid fooled its readers over Brexit court case
Paul Mason
49 min
Short stories told by water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota.
49 min
10 min
In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the award-winning writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact of coral bleaching caused by climate change. In a personal but also universal story, Klein...
10 min
96 min
Documentary from Michael Horn (2007). Theyfly.com . Now presenting the most controversial UFO / ET case in history. The truth is exposed in this remarkable film about how one man's meetings with extraterrestrials lead him through dozens of countries, meeting many famous world...
96 min
Words are battling in my head and I cannot truly form a sentence empty of frustration.
3 min
Sure there are differences between Trump & Hillary. But don't you see all the similarities?
3 min
3 min
Burning Eye Books' Carpool Poetry presents: The Fuck Off Account by Agnes Török.
3 min
1 min
On Saturday 6 November a group of people gathered at The Bear Pit in Bristol, England, in answer to a call from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, who are defending their land and water from the Dakota Access oil Pipeline (DAPL). Following the call for people to...
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8 min
Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience... the only way to progress with social change.
8 min
24 min
With the Wikileaks release of thousands of emails belonging to John Podesta, very little is known in US society about Podesta himself. While he’s maintained a low profile, John Podesta is actually considered one of Washington’s biggest players, and one of the most powerful...
24 min
A poem for those that fight with the Sioux, with water, at Standing Rock.
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
Maria Popova
Feeling overwhelmed? Here are 4 Steps to get recentered.
Jacob Devaney
One cannot claim to be intersectional while at the same time being elitist and exclusionary. Everyone isn't hip to what heteronormativity, heterosexism, cisgendered, cissexism or many new-age terms mean. You can't write people off for not being where you are or prescribing to...
Djuan Wash
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around now for 10 years. From our early years focusing on local film screenings to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a DIY alternative...
My appeal to leftist comrades who think that not voting is a way to be a "principled" leftist, or that it's leftist to choose a third-party candidate so you can vote in good conscience. These are not leftist positions (Yes, I dare to assert a basic standard for distinguishing...
Chad Kautzer
6 min
I'm sure most of you are saturated with all the insanity of this election cycle for the US the presidency. As for myself, I have had enough. However, I want to explain my view as to how I see politics as a whole. I like to think of them like WWF wrestlers entering a match.
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52 min
By going back over the key events of the last two centuries of social history, the series reveals, for the first time, the origins and destiny of a political trend that has been fighting all masters and all gods for over 150 years.
52 min
6 min
Over the course of 1 hot summer month in St. Louis, Missouri, The Babel Project had the honor of running a media activism workshop with 5 incredible youth protesters to produce a film that told a story of Ferguson and Mike Brown Junior from their perspectives.
6 min
I’ve noticed lately that a lot of allies and accomplices I talk to about NoDAPL and other struggles will name what they are trying to contribute to the cause, and then promptly apologize that they can’t do more. Often, the apologies seem perfunctory, or even insincere, but...
Kelly Hayes
The joy and practice of learning to share
Tommy Alexander
In the 1990s an unusual encounter took place in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In plant rituals, shamans of the Achuar, a tribe living in pristine forest that had never been in touch with Western civilization, received the warning that the “white man” would try to invade their lands...
Martin Winiecki
7 min
Do animals and plants have consciousness? Are electrons alive? Thich Nhat Hanh in dialogue with University of Virginia Astrophysicist Dr. Trinh Xuan Thuan.
7 min
29 min
Beautiful. Listen to this.
29 min
12 min
Aaron looks at the facts when it comes to Britain and refugees.
12 min
2 min
Join Matthew Cooke and Susan Sarandon by pledging to withdraw your money from these big banks until they agree to:
1. Divest from Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
2. Pressure President Obama to halt construction and put a stop to...
2 min
Automatic voter registration has recently emerged a key tool in increasing the United States’ anemic voter turnout. The process is simple: Whenever an eligible citizen interacts with a government agency (typically the DMV), she is registered to vote
Mark Joseph Stern
New evidence points to a Western cover-up of Algerian state sponsorship of Islamist jihadists, to protect oil and gas interests
Nafeez Ahmed
18 min
My Life As A Call Centre Worker
The four-part WellRedFilms series on work kicks off with Susan’s story. She works with 1,000 other employees (80% women) at one of the largest call centres in the UK. She tells us what it's really like at the other end of the telephone.
18 min
The problems in the world are rooted in the minds of each and every individual. It’s a psychological problem that manifests in the physical world. The separation and division begins in our own minds first. When we see ourselves as separate from the rest of the world then we...
10 min
LEARN 10 SIMPLE HABITS YOU CAN FORM TO LITERALLY SAVE THE EARTH. SIGN UP for our newsletter to get positive SOLUTIONS for maintaining a SUSTAINABLE MIND, BODY, & PLANET! Nu proceeds go toward supporting the Arts and Promoting Sustainable Options for Earth Dwellers. Get...
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9 min
Tong Saruen and her family in the Ta Trav village were first identified for aid by the Trailblazer Foundation in 2012. Trailblazer is now working directly in 19 villages and indirectly in 16 other villages with partner NGOs encompassing 52 different villages, 35 communes and...
9 min
Before Trump ever called Clinton a “nasty woman,” these fierce ladies were getting it done—in the face of B.S. from the boys.
Kate Schatz
The solidarity economy proposes more transparency, much more democracy, much more participation, much more redistribution of wealth and goods of production. The solidarity economy fights for free software, for free knowledge, for freedom of access to information, completely...
Yavor Tarinski
16 min
In Iceland, the direct democracy Pirate Party made big gains in Sunday’s national elections, raising the prospect it will form a coalition government with other left-wing parties. The Pirates won 10 seats in Iceland’s 63-member Parliament, up from three in the last election...
16 min