The Relentless Factories of Hatred, Fear and Lies: on the Global Ultraconservative and Reactionary Waves

There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the impoverished middle classes. Such double war requires a vast, ideological-mental industrial complex sprawled across the planet.

Boaventura De Sousa Santos

The Polarization Trap

Over the past decade I’ve watched with alarm the widening polarization of the body politic across Western societies (and to some extent globally). As commonly recognized, the public is split into irreconcilable political factions who disagree not only on the interpretation of...

Charles Eisenstein

Classifying Bodies, Denying Freedoms

I was in my early teens when I accompanied my grandmother on a Christmas errand to deliver boxes of biscuits to each of her surviving maternal cousins. Although our extended family was big we were also close, so I was surprised when the last box was for an aunty I’d never...

Che Ramsden

Elegant Simplicity and Right Relationship

A left wing and a right wing belong to the same bird. The moment we see that we are all related, we start to see solutions.

Satish Kumar

To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words

Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn’t one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.

Steven Newcomb

'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim

What do the Australian’s columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter

Jason Wilson

The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice

Within some parts of the activist movement the concept of White Privilege is quite popular. Let us take a decolonial look at the concept.

Sandew Hira

Is 5G Worth the Risks?

This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.

Iishana Artra, PhD

Socialists Win in Spain With Green New Deal

Spaniards threw their weight behind a Green New Deal programme by re-electing the pro-climate Spanish Socialist party (PSOE).

Natalie Sauer

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness (The Spirit of Nonviolent Communication)

Our way of being — the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction — is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is about...

Bob Wentworth

Five Early Lessons From Extinction Rebellion

How the new movement for ecological justice is reimagining the world by reimagining the art of protest, protection and healing.

Chris Taylor

Anatomy of a Trump Supporter

A farmer in the Midwest, a Donald Trump supporter in 2016, complained last week that his farm was in danger of going bankrupt owing to the combined effects of climate change and the tariff-wars, initiated by Trump, that have caused corn and soybean prices to collapse while...

Peter Gabel

Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead – Before It Takes Us All Down With It

The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one.

George Monbiot

The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline

Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world: unity, planning, and nonviolent discipline.

Hardy Merriman

So Many Animals Are Going Extinct That It Could Take Earth 10 Million Years to Recover

It took the Earth 10 million years to recover from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.

Aylin Woodward

The World's Happiest People Already Have a Green New Deal, and They Love It

Green New Deal advocates in the United States should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.

George Lakey

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives.

Greg Frey

We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late

In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the...

Jeremy Lent

Films For Action's $5/Mo Supporters Can Watch These Paradigm Shifting Films for Free

Thanks to the filmmakers we've partnered with, our $5/mo+ supporters can instantly watch the 12 pay-per-view films below for free, and we plan to add more to this support tier over time. Check out the video below to watch the trailers for 5 of the 12 films back-to-back.

Films For Action

Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?

Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians, so far, have remained on the sidelines of this struggle.

Mike Pappas

Rethinking the Normalization of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era

"We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive."

Henry A. Giroux

The Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet

The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.

Michaela Haas

Only Nature Can Save Us Now

Faced with climate change and mass extinction there is only one thing to do. Stop trying to save the world.

Chris Taylor

What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for ‘Deep Adaptation.’ What we really need is ‘Deep Transformation.’

Jeremy Lent

Why You Shouldn't Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty

We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.

Tamara Pearson

AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans

DO YOU KNOW what really annoys me about the media’s coverage of U.S. politics, and especially the Democratic Party?

Mehdi Hasan

Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left

“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...

Bruce E. Levine

Basic Income - Ensuring a Future for Humanity's Children

There are clever people who make algorithms for the financial services sector. Remember those crumbs that used to fall from the rich man’s table? They’re all accounted for now. Every last one, down to the tiniest minuscule crumb that you can’t even see. They get collected by...

Eamonn Kelly

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...

Herman Daly

How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?

Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the world’s population have experienced...

Jason Hickel

A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians

Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.” Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.

Bruce E. Levine

Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is

Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.

Sarah Gertler

Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”

I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a...

Anja Lyngbaek

The White Saviour: Imperialism's ‘Last Bitter Struggle for Life’

“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” ― Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia

Rowen Ball

The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How

18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality

Jeremy Brecher

The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics

When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change…

Angela Nagle

The Market Theocracy

The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.

Angela Nagle

Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico

Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been “liberalized” – opened up to unfettered corporate investment and...

Alex Jensen

Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”

“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that...

Julia Adeney Thomas

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

"So what can I do, as an individual?"

Miki Kashtan

Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead

For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the “Mesquite Manifesto” addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.

Gary Paul Nabhan

How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength

The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find “best practices” elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own...

George Lakey

It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy

It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.

Bill McKibben

Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline

The world is facing a mass extinction of species. All species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other cnidarians, and plants have declined, in many cases, severely. Human civilization has had a negative...

Earth Day Network

Five Signs a Man Is Connected to His Heart

Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.

Bryan Reeves

What Covington Catholic Students Should Know About the Church's History With Indigenous People

Leaders at Covington diocese and Catholics in general are likely unfamiliar with the church’s brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it.

Mary Annette Pember

Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News

I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that...

David Cain

No Impact Man's Guide to Activism

So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck away our ideas. I did. I’d tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I’m not capable of making a difference. I’d sit on my ideas, get on with my life, and then feel...

Colin Beavan

5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'

Douglas Rushkoff's just released book "Team Human" is a passionately argued manifesto "for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age." Released this week, the manifesto's 100 points outline the many reasons and ways to"“reassert the human agenda." In true Shareable style...

Courtney Pankrat

“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors

Joanna Macy talks about three tasks needed to bring in a world of spiritual progress: create new institutions, change the culture, and stop the worst of the damage. At Metta we feel that the worst of the damage has been to the human image – who are we and what can we become...

Prof. Michael Nagler

What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson

One might think that by now progressives would figure out that vilifying Peterson almost always redounds to his advantage. One would be wrong

J Oliver Conroy

The Wall Is Not Beautiful

Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be “totally effective...

Sandra Lubarsky

My Message to Davos Elites: Act as If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.

"Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don't. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."

Greta Thunberg

Confronting the Culture of Death

The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.

Chris Hedges

Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism

In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Women’s March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

King's Vision Is Still Defiant

He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war

Robert C. Koehler

The Point Is to Change It

All suffering begins and ends in our brains.

Josh Liveright

What if a City Were Designed by Trees?

Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, it’s the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship that’s an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our...

Patrick Lydon

Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side

Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.

Ruth Conniff

The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power

Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it

Adam Simpson

Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'

Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.

Christopher Beem

MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.

If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.

Peter Cole

10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020

What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?

RoseAnn DeMoro

No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes

Amador Fernández-Savater talks with Guiomar Rovira, author of Networked Activism and Connected Multitudes, about punk, Zapatismo, technology, communication, and activist appropriation of the internet.

Guiomar Rovira and Amador Fernández Savater

From Personal to Global Trauma: the Through-Line

When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...

Sarah Peyton

Why Americans Need to Act Like the Majority We Already Are

This article was first published in “Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down.” Read more about the action guide here.

Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom

On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page of what appeared to be the Washington Post had people stopping in their tracks. The headline read: “UNPRESIDENTED: Trump hastily departs White House, ending crisis.”

Sarah Freeman-Woolpert

Education, Jobs and Capitalism

American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...

Gerald Coles

Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs

To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of millions is through compassion and inclusion. It might feel good to rage at the...

Teodrose Fikre

Core Nonviolence Commitments

I have not found a word that captures the exact line that I am looking for. Commitment may be a bit too strong, and tends to connote “should,” thus invoking the non-choiceful energy of obligation and duty. “Intention” is not strong enough, in my mind, to carry the unwavering...

Miki Kashtan

The Love We Deserve

Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable. The kind of love that reminds us that “open hearted” is not a metaphor, but a literal description of a way to be in our bodies. The kind of love that transforms...

Simon Mont

7 Reasons to Keep the Faith in 2019

Boost your morale with unexpected good news you won’t find in the mainstream media

EcoHustler

Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks

And we wouldn’t even have to tax the rich to pay for it.

Ellen Brown

Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility

[Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novel A Rain of Night Birds was reviewed on our website by Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this piece, Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of...

Deena Metzger

From Me to We. A World-Changing Resolution for the New Year

In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.

David Korten

The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness

The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…

Patrick Lydon

Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations

The latest UN climate talks, known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states – Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as “climate villains&

Nicholas Beuret

Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think

I am constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced...

Teodrose Fikre

Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land

Ownership is often seen as a very simple concept. “Mine, not yours,” a two-year-old might tell us. The reality, however, is far more complex, as the rights of owners are far from fixed. Indeed, the concept of what ownership means is itself subject to change. For this reason...

Steve Dubb

Old Mother Forest

I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy that’s baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years I’ve been here. The forest sustains. As do you and I. Tangled beings brought together by strange and...

Suprabha Seshan

This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work

A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.

Ellen Brown

The World We're Creating: Metamodern Philanthropy and Social Transformation

“…we lack an overarching narrative to connect the many smaller ones: a powerful ‘meta-narrative’ to serve as a new foundation for our shared symbol world that we are all co-authors of. This book has been written in search of such a narrative.” — Tomas Bjorkman, The World We...

Brent Cooper

Dealing With Painful Emotions

I have felt that learning to deal with painful emotional states is one of the most important aspects of growth. It affects our love relationships and how we deal with the inevitable disappointments, losses and rejections that life brings. It also determines our ability to...

Krishnananda

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Two of the most supportive things parents can do for their children are healing their own attachment trauma (thereby further developing their own neural pathways for emotional regulation and secure attachment) and reclaiming disowned parts.

Eric Bowers

We Did It! - 2018 Fundraising Goal Reached!

Thanks to 251 amazing people, we hit our fundraising goal for 2018!

Tim Hjersted

Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working

Threats of global catastrophe won’t move people to action. Only the heart can inspire zeal.

Charles Eisenstein

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP. And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset.

Jason Hickel

A Prayer for 2019

Or Whatever Number You Choose

Josh Liveright

Here’s a Better Way to Argue about Climate Change

I recently got an email from a friend, asking me to take a look at an alternative way of thinking about greenhouse gases. He forwarded a link to a long scroll of a webpage dense with text. My friend said he hardly understood it “beyond the fact that it refutes the science of...

Nathanael Johnson

Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind

Science and spirituality are mutually illuminating, and mutually dependent.

Satish Kumar

Want to Change the World? Try Grounded Optimism

One of the most powerful things you can to do to change the world is to cultivate your own optimism. To quote futurist Alex Steffen:

Sally Bolger

The Public Ownership Solution

The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.

Thomas M. Hanna

An Anarchist Guide to Christmas

Can we reclaim Christmas for the masses?

Ruth Kinna

What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like

To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a social issue.

Tabita Green

The Everyday Power of Movement Activism

Activism is normal; what’s strange is that we don’t see it that way.

Laurence Cox

How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played

The smartest thing the Swedish and Norwegian left did was to avoid getting baited by their Nazi antagonists into street-fighting and mounting chaos. Instead, they modeled self-discipline and used the disruptive, nonviolent power of noncooperation to force a power shift.

George Lakey

Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode

On the great vanishing happening before our eyes

Subhankar Banerjee

We Have Been Groomed to Consume

With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and overspending than peace on earth or quality time with family...

Anja Lyngbaek

The State of the Spirit, 2018

1. The State of the Spirit, 2018

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Elements of the Democratic Economy: Employee Stock Ownership Plan

An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) enables full or partial ownership of a business by its employees through a pension plan or trust.

Stephanie Geller

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