How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion

Attention is like a spotlight—whatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.

Paul Gilbert

The End of the Corporation?

It’s time to make the profit-maximising, shareholder-controlled corporation obsolete.

Marjorie Kelly

Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness

A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature...

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

The ‘design’ brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental...

Daniel Christian Wahl

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

Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit

Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were...

Nicole M. Aschoff

Bernie Sanders Faces a Media Rigged Against Him

CNN and CBS do it. NPR and PBS do it. They all do it.

Jeff Cohen

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

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...

Center for Nonviolent Communication

The Invisible Ideology Trashing Our Planet

If you get into debt buying your child branded trainers, if you fear redundancy, if you suffer anxiety about the future of the planet and you blame yourself for all of these things then...

Brendan Montague

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Some people are starting to talk about regenerative cultures as possible pathways towards a thriving future of people unfolding their unique potential within the context of the...

Daniel Christian Wahl

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

“Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems

Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously “shit-life syndrome”—and its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.

Bruce E. Levine

Bernie Sanders Isn't a Radical — He's a Pragmatist Who Fights to Un-Rig the System

Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich

Mark Weisbrot

Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en Territory

The uprising across Canada in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation land defenders shows no sign of stopping. As of February 11, ports, bridges, rail lines, highways and roads have been...

Joyce Nelson

Democrats Team up With Trump to Maintain Disastrous Healthcare System

Both Republicans and Democrats have blocked all attempts to build a rational, universal health care policy for the U.S. This is because capitalism prioritizes profit over the health and...

Mike Pappas

The Problem of Living Inside Echo Chambers

Pick any of the big topics of the day – Brexit, climate change or

C. Thi Nguyen

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...

Joshua B. Grubbs

America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy

Divide-and-conquer allows the oligarchy free rein. It makes the rest of us puppets, fighting each other on a made-up stage.

Robert Reich

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

The Candidate Who Best Represents Me Is The Only One Saying It's About Us

When Bernie says it's not about him, I see my values and fears and hopes represented in a way I never have before.

Cari Hernandez

The Vision of Wellbeing Economies

The concept of Wellbeing Economies (WE) does not attempt to explain the world through a central foundational economic model, nor does it recommend a particular path for achieving its...

Martin Oetting

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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Films For Action

"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” ~ Brené Brown

Justice Bartlett

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...

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...

Tim Hjersted

Hope Is an Imperative: Sparking an Ecological Design Revolution

While society prepares for the future of a world ravaged by climate change, environmental educator David Orr has spent years writing about how to reverse it. Orr advocates for an...

David Orr, Bioneers

The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy

Sanders believes that as our economy rapidly shifts to renewable energy, power companies should be publicly owned and controlled, and the biggest polluters should help underwrite the costs.

Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha

The New 'Black Codes'

The elites are acutely aware that without police terror and the U.S. prison system, which holds 25% of the world’s prison population, there would be intense social unrest.

Chris Hedges

Before the White Race Was Invented

Theodore W. Allen The Invention of the White Race Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control Volume Two: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (London and New York...

Jonathan Scott

Introduction To The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen

Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...

Jeffrey B. Perry

Anti-Fascist Activism & the Value of Nonviolence

This collection of articles from the Films For Action library looks at the tensions, disagreements and varying strategies within the anti-fascist movement from a variety of authors.

Films For Action

I Study Collapsed Civilizations. Here’s My Advice for a Climate Change Apocalypse.

I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a...

Chris Begley

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...

Noel Ignatin

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...

Sandew Hira

How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate

I made my way from the dark side to the light. And I hope it wasn’t too late.

Martin Oetting

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

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

We can create the more beautiful world we want for ourselves and future generations with a simple and powerful idea: "sharing"

Shareable

Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration

Valuing Ecosystem Function higher than material things is the paradigm shift that determines whether we understand the meaning of our lives and survive or whether we remain ignorant and...

Daniel Christian Wahl,

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

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...

Teri Lynn

Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires

We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. These five ideas would do that, while leaving global capitalism intact. Ultimately, only a...

Jeremy Lent

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...

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...

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...

Adolph Reed, Jr

Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament

We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of...

Michael Lerner

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...

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...

Amanda Abrams

It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge

Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans aren’t around, has steadily increased over the last 50 years. For example, we know now that...

George Nicholas

Converting Businesses to Cooperatives Just Got Easier

A coming wave of Baby Boomer retirements threatens the survival of many small businesses. This initiative is making employee-ownership a more viable option.

Isabella Garcia

Fighting for Reforms Isn't Enough. It's Time We Reach for Prison Abolition.

Our communities cannot be safe within a system that fights harm with greater harm.

Tanya Watkins

Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom

[…] have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and do try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t...

Daniel Christian Wahl

7 Pointed Questions for Corporate Media About Their Anti-Progressive Biases

Over the last year, corporate outlets have continuously portrayed progressive reforms as scarily left-wing despite poll after poll showing they are broadly popular.

Jeff Cohen

If Worker Pay Had Kept Pace With Productivity Gains Since 1968, Today's Minimum Wage Would Be $24 an Hour

In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States.

Dean Baker

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...

Paul Waters-Smith

The Madness of Fossil Fuel Subsidies

A system worried about global warming and the health impacts of air pollution should stop aiding companies that produce those public threats, writes Niklas Hagelberg.

Niklas Hagelberg

A Biden Nomination Means a Second Trump Term

I remember when I began to feel dread that Donald Trump would win in 2016. It was when I saw Hillary Clinton shimmy in the first Presidential debate. Trump was managing to attack her...

Paul Waters-Smith

On the Politics of 'Believing Women'

What we've seen as a result of Warren's statement is further perversion of the language of abuse and victimhood in a context it was never meant to be used.

Cari Hernandez

It Is Clear the Establishment and Corporate Media Would Prefer Trump Reelection to President Bernie Sanders

"One of Sanders' campaign slogans is 'Not me. Us.' That thought literally needs to become reality if Sanders is to address the challenges that await him."

William Grover

The Limits of Capitalism

At this point in human history, the limits of capitalism and the limits of our species’ life on Earth have converged. We have never been here before, and we cannot go back.

Laurie Adkin

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...

Daniel Denvir

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Believing otherwise corrodes us, corrodes freedom, and corrodes the world we live in

Chloé Valdary

There IS a Way Through This Crisis

How we build a better world in the face of climate catastrophe and social collapse.

Chris Taylor

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

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...

Chloé Valdary

Risk Rooted in Colonial Era Weighs on Bahamas Efforts to Rebuild After Hurricane Dorian

When Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas on Sept. 1, 2019, it packed winds of up to 185 miles per hour and a 20-foot storm surge. A day later, it ravaged...

Jason von Meding, David Prevatt and Ksenia Chmutina

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

How to live a more sustainable life? This question generates a lot of debate that is focused on what individuals can do in order to address problems like climate change. For example...

Kris De Decker

Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams...

Don Fitz

More Than 800 Scholars and Activists Sign Open Letter Demanding US End Support for Bolivia's Right-Wing Coup Regime

"We are outraged by the Áñez regime's violations of Bolivians' political, civil, and human rights, and by the deplorable use of deadly violence that has led to a mounting death toll."

Jake Johnson

How to Save the Planet and Ourselves

We must reduce carbon emissions by 40% in the next 12 years to have a 50% chance of avoiding catastrophe.

Chris Hedges

Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison

Educating inmates is cheaper than locking them up again, in addition to being the right thing to do. A new PBS documentary goes behind the scenes.

Mneesha Gellman/Emerson College

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

The tumbling dance of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can polish the rough rocks of your life story into precious gemstones.

Teri Lynn

Thinking Outside the Grid

Thirty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made...

Steven Gorelick

Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation

Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars to convince the public that they aren't responsible for climate breakdown. Is it a coincidence that climate skeptics believe and...

Union of Concerned Scientists

Syria’s Kurds Dreamt of a ‘Rojava Revolution’. Assad Will Snuff This Out

A brave social experiment looks doomed at the hands of Syria’s dictator

Kenan Malik

Imagine for a Moment.... a Future to Believe In

Just imagine living in an America that has the policies Bernie & Co. are pushing for. Poverty will be virtually eliminated. Medical and Student Debt Relief will be huge burdens lifted...

Michael Emero

A Few Thoughts on Practical Activism

This speech by Kira McPherson was delivered during the #ClimateStrike protest on September 20th, 2019 in Lawrence, Kansas.

Kira McPherson

35 Year Industry Veteran Takes on Climate Change Denial and Inaction With the Climate Trail

The Climate Trail is a "good, realistic, and sobering" free game about the post-apocalyptic world we face if we continue on our current path.

William Volk

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

Localism taps into a deep need for community and a sense of place. Nationalism, on the other hand, destroys our sense of interdependence with human-scale community and the living...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

What is ‘Energy Denial’?

The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted...

Don Fitz

Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites

We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.

Chris Hedges

Climate Change in the Age of the Resistance

It should be no secret that I love The Dark Crystal, and have since I was a small child in the '80's. I've always found the journey to discover a path to heal what is broken, without...

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

“Free, Fair and Alive” Is Now Published!

From cohousing and agroecology to fisheries and land trusts and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to “commoning as a way to emancipate themselves...

Free, Fair and Alive

As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs

As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society...

Jeremy Lent

Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments

In September of 2011, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis— a man who the best evidence suggested was innocent. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was murdered by...

Rob Urie

We Are All Indigenous

“All things are interrelated. Everything in the universe is part of a single whole. Everything is connected in some way to everything else. It is therefore possible to understand...

Robert Koehler

Our Invisible Government

The most powerful and important organs in the invisible government are the nation’s bloated and unaccountable intelligence agencies.

Chris Hedges

This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.

What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.

Justin Mcbrien

How to Live With the Climate Crisis Without Becoming a Nihilist

'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'

Peter Kalmus

Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside

Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response...

Catherine Tumber

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School. “Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever I’m with you.” ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic...

Ian Mackenzie

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified...

Local Futures

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

This charter was originally published in Spanish as a rallying call for Social Solidarity Economy initiatives within the Spanish territory. We have translated it to share its principles...

REAS

Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paine’s life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after...

Bruce E. Levine

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