39 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...

Emergence Magazine

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

12 min

Beyond Sustainability: A Call for Regeneration | Sierra Robinson

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

Sierra Robinson

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

100 min

Canceling | ContraPoints

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

ContraPoints

11 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.

The Hill

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

5 min

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.

UnistotenCamp

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

5 min

We Are The Political Revolution

Sign up to host a launch party: https://www.actionnetwork.org/forms/our-plan-to-win-the-gnd-2020-launch-parties

Sunrise Movement

21 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?

TEDx Talks

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

19 min

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.

TEDx Talks

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

33 min

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...

Paul Hawken

3 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! -

Will Grant

9 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."...

Charles Eisenstein

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 community is

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

72 min

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...

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

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

1 min

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.

Chloe Valdary

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

18 min

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'.

TheRulesOrg

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

16 min

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.

TEDx Talks

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

2 min

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

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

Double Down News

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

8 min

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

Charles Eisenstein

6 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

Double Down News

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

21 min

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

Charles Eisenstein

2 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...

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

7 min

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.

Sustainable Human

6 min

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

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

Sustainable Human

5 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

Charles Eisenstein

12 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...

acTVism Munich

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

7 min

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...

Charles Eisenstein

8 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

Charles Eisenstein

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

3 min

The Uprising (trailer)

Musician and activist Pravini Baboeram presents “The Uprising”, a music documentary that tells the story of resistance against racism in Europe. With commentary and experiences from academics and activists, the Dutch-Indian singer/songwriter offers a decolonial perspective on...

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

20 min

Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change?: Bayo Akomolafe

In this talk connecting Yoruba indigenous philosophies, historical accounts of transatlantic slave crossings, new materialist/feminist insights, Bohr’s scientific theory of quantum indeterminacy, Deleuze’s musings about ‘assemblages’ and ‘rhizomes’, and contemporary concerns...

Science and Nonduality

18 min

Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)

INVASION is a new film about the Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint and the larger Wet'suwet'en Nation standing up to the Canadian government and corporations who continue colonial violence against Indigenous people.

29 min

Take Me to the River - Stopping the Quindaro Toxic Landfill in Kansas City, KS (1994, 2004)

A documentary on environmental racism and the successful campaign by a Kansas City community to stop a super-toxic waste dump/landfill from being cited in their community. While this program may seem dated, most of the issues raised by the program persist worldwide.

71 min

You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film (2018) ($4)

You Can’t Evict An Idea reveals the strengths and weaknesses of leaderless activist groups and 100% consensus decision making. The challenges inherent in using disruptive protest to change the world are as relevant to the climate change protests today (such as Extinction...

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; Medicare for All and Tuition-Free College ensure that those issues never happen again...

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

6 min

Of Course You've Messed Up

This is a film for those moments when we (again) hit rock bottom, when we're back in that old familiar place where nothing feels right, we hate ourselves and the future looks bleak. It's so easy to be sad - but maybe there could be another option? Maybe we could learn to make...

The School of Life

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

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

“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 from a predatory market/state system.

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 before it’s too late.

Jeremy Lent

13 min

Amazon Rainforest Fires - Avoid This Trap | Charles Eisenstein

The grief is so strong. What do I do with that energy? I've noticed kind of a trap, a diversion, that says "take that energy and hate somebody with it. Blame somebody with it."

Charles Eisenstein

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

38 min

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Common Notions is a film about the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver, BC, and about education, learning, friendship, and youth liberation.

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 livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...

Local Futures

56 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement

Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the...

Spencer MacDonald

53 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution

When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.

Kindling

83 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions

Small farms around the world may be thriving, but farmers, particularly those just starting out, face a lot of challenges. Accessing affordable land is a BIG one, along with finding start-up capital, and competing with traditional producers in the market. But so are things...

Access to Land Network

36 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

As we’ve seen, the food system is broken.

Spencer MacDonald

11 min

Jim Acosta Refuses to Defend Free Press & Julian Assange EXTENDED

***Full extended version*** I asked Jim Acosta about the Trump administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute Julian Assange for practicing journalism. Jim Acosta promotes his book “Enemy of the People” about defending the First Amendment @ the Newseum...

Matt Orfalea

Are We Done Fighting?

We need ways to build healthier relationships with people who have perspectives different from our own.

Matthew Legge

‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump's Persecution of Assange

In the endless brain fart cyclone that is the Trump era, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has made a name for himself posing as a martyr of the free press. While US mass media have made a theatrical WWE performance of Trump’s occasional mean words toward Acosta

Caitlin Johnstone

5 min

Jim Acosta Refuses to Defend the First Amendment in Julian Assange Case

I asked Jim Acosta about the Trump administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act to prosecute Julian Assange for practicing journalism. Jim Acosta promotes his book “Enemy of the People” about defending the First Amendment @ the Newseum, the First Amendment museum...

Matt Orfalea

9 min

Abby Martin, Chomsky, Greenwald, Varoufakis - Experts, Journalists & Activists: Best of 2018-2019

Dear supporters of acTVism Munich, We’ve come a long way together, thanks to your donations and the commitment of our dedicated volunteers. We’ve built a truly independent non-profit & bilingual media network, which does not rely on advertisements and state or corporate...

acTVism Munich

7 min

How to Defeat Moral Grandstanders (and Stay Classy while Doing It) | Brandon Warmke

These effective strategies can minimize harmful moral grandstanding – in yourself and in others.

Big Think

The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming

In May, an international group of scientists warned that over a million of the Earth’s species are being driven to extinction; before that, researchers reported the climate was warming faster than even the most pessimistic projections. Worse yet, another report gave humanity...

Thomas Linzey

Was Austerity a Scam?

Austerity in Ireland resulted in over 10,000 homeless people, the crisis overseen by a government ideologically opposed to the concept of social housing. Now a property boom is taking place that is enriching an elite while the homeless figures continue to rise. Is this...

Eamonn Kelly

Scott Noble's History of Resistance

Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Marker’s documentary work in style and approach, Noble’s films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...

Ron Jacobs

6 min

Coordinates

They say it's the end of the world. We say it's the beginning of the next.

Woodbine NYC

71 min

Charles Eisenstein Full-length Interview from Living the Change

“Going around New Zealand making a film … like that's not gonna get you anywhere, that's irrational, impractical, unrealistic…”

Happen Films

11 min

5 Heroic Truth-Tellers Wrongly Charged with Espionage

Thanks for watching! - Matt Orfalea

Matt Orfalea

Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University

The Fridays For Future (FFF) climate strike by high school students may well be one of the most important, yet hardly covered stories by the US media today. During the week of March 15th alone, 1.6 million strikers were counted across 125 countries. This environmental...

Otto Scharmer

The Big Picture

Humanity has a lot of problems these days. Climate change, increasing economic inequality, crashing biodiversity, political polarization, and a global debt bubble are just a few of our worries. None of these trends can continue indefinitely without leading to a serious...

Richard Heinberg

3 min

XY Chelsea (trailer)

Produced by Pulse Films, XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017.

56 min

Policing Identity Politics in Trump's America: Briahna Joy Gray at The Harvard Law Forum

Briahna Joy Gray is a leading Millennial writer on identity politics, racial justice and economic power. She is a contributing editor at Current Affairs and has been featured in New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Guardian. She is the co-host of SWOTI (Someone's Wrong on...

The Harvard Law Forum

21 min

Pushing Back on Grievance Studies with Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Mike Nayna: In an attempt to expose academic fields corrupted by postmodern ideology, Helen Pluckrose, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay spent a year submitting intentionally broken papers to academic journals. Their secret project was cut short when an investigative...

Michael Nayna

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: Only Love Can Save Us From Climate Change

Leading spiritual teacher warns that if people cannot save themselves from their own suffering, how can they be expected to worry about the plight of Mother Earth

Jo Confino

26 min

The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis

Ep. 1 // Rats in the Hallway // Working class women of color and young white socialists in an East Harlem join forces against a private equity slumlord. Read the story by Georgia Kromrei at indypendent.org/2018/02/rats-in-the-hallway.

Awen Films

If Life Wins There Will Be No Losers

How can we create a worldwide, permanent shift to regenerative culture in every sphere of life?

Ruth Gordon

22 min

Privilege

According to the theory of Privilege, everybody is born into different circumstances, and those circumstances make certain outcomes in life more likely relative to those born into different circumstances. Circumstances that render a higher likelihood of a fulfilling life are...

Counter Arguments

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

If you have had a spiritual practice or have experience with personal growth workshops, you have no doubt heard many times that letting go of attachment increases happiness and well-being. The principle is simple, but exactly what does it mean to let go of attachment, and...

Miki Kashtan

What’s Wrong with Activism?

Over the years I have often been asked how I became an activist. The question of how individuals as individuals become involved in social change movements, fascinating as it may seem, can carry equally fascinating assumptions about activism itself. It may imply a voluntary...

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

103 min

Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011) ($3)

“Modern slavery.” It sounds like a paradox. Hasn’t humanity progressed? Didn’t we leave slavery dead on the battlefields of the American Civil War? Didn’t social reformers like Lincoln and Wilberforce legislate against such cruelty over a hundred years ago? So we had thought...

Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Review – The Best Criticism of Identity Politics

This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity

Ben Tarnoff

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