Jennifer Lawrence talks with Trevor Potter at Unrig 2018

Last year at Unrig Summit, Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Trevor Potter, a Republican and the forrmer commissioner of the U.S. Federal Election Commission to learn how to legally bribe politicians.

13 min

Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis

Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's wrong with legal corruption in our...

13 min

The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How

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

Jeremy Brecher

The Swedish Schoolgirl That Took Davos To Task On Climate Change (2019)

Greta and the Snowman: From Greta Thunberg to the man who's measured the weather every day for nearly half a century, it is private citizens leading the charge on climate change prevention. This report profiles these two extraordinary characters.

27 min

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

Making Art Without Money (Nature Mandala)

Ecological artists Patrick M. Lydon (USA) and Suhee Kang (Korea) infiltrate the world's largest MUJI store (無印良品) near Osaka, Japan. Inside they ask shoppers to stop shopping, slow down, and re-connect with nature. Together with shoppers, they build an interactive 'Nature...

4 min

100 Short Stories (2016)

With typical irreverence, director Neal Livingston interweaves tales of predatory capitalism, eco-activism, and contemporary life in Atlantic Canada, engaging in an offbeat and often humorous exploration of energy policy, governance, and regional culture, in a diaristic...

68 min

Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy

How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals -- to fight extreme force without using force in return. To answer the question of why and...

16 min

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

Public Shaming

Public shaming is an old phenomenon given new life by social media.

11 min

“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

Unist'ot'en and 150 Years of Resistance

150 years ago, the architects of Canadian confederation dreamed of a Canada united from coast to coast. They dreamed, also, of unfettered access to Indigenous lands, of the elimination of the “Indian problem” standing in the way of a white settler future.

3 min

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

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

The Truth About Political Correctness

David Pakman's long-form investigation into political correctness, including a history of the term, and whether it is too liberally or conservatively applied in modern culture.

15 min

Chase Iron Eyes: Trump’s Mocking of Native Americans Gives License to Others to Denigrate My People

Democracy Now: As we continue to look at the video that has gone viral showing a group of Catholic high school students apparently mocking an indigenous tribal elder near the Lincoln Memorial, we speak to Chase Iron Eyes, an activist and lead attorney for the Lakota People’s...

10 min

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

Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side

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

Ruth Conniff

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

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

5 Reasons MLK Supported a Universal Basic Income

Video by Matt Orfalea.

6 min

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

The People's Spring (2019)

You can help us spread this documentary, which we've decided to share online for free, by supporting our work here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13006106

82 min

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

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

7 Reasons to Keep the Faith in 2019

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

EcoHustler

Trump's Syria Deception

In Part II of our series Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin addresses the surprise order from Trump that he was "ending the war" in Syria.

14 min

Trump is Expanding the US Empire

In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that has expanded US wars and occupations.

17 min

Chris Hedges - America the Land of the Desperate and Doomed - Dec 2018

Chris Hedges speaks about his new book, "America, the Farewell Tour."

30 min

Dr. Cornel West on the Global Shift Right

From Trump in the U.S. to Bolsonaro in Brazil, ordinary people in large democracies are discontented and shifting right, what can progressives do about it? Cornel West in conversation with Sharmini Peries.

9 min

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?

5 min

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

What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis

What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that dislike, without apology. What would you do?

17 min

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

Bret Weinstein: How the Magic Trick is Done

In this speech at the Students For Liberty conference in Vancouver, B.C. Bret Weinstein discusses the inner workings of the regressive left.

68 min

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

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

Confusing Them With Our Joy (2018) (trailer)

2018-2019 fundraising trailer for the latest Cloudcatcher Media extravaganza! Support the Chuffed fundraiser at https://chuffed.org/project/confusing or get more info at http://www.confusingthemwithourjoy.com

3 min

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

In front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Howard Zinn Book Festival in San Francisco earlier this month, historian Mark Bray and I debated the value of using violence to quell the growth of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Anti-racism trainer Molly McClure was the moderator.

George Lakey

The Truth About Israel, Boycotts, and BDS

Incoming members of the US Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have both come out in favor of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement — the first House members to ever do so. Critics, however, suggest that BDS is anti-Semitic and undermines a two-state...

9 min

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhist Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most respected and celebrated teachers in the world.

198 min

The State of the Spirit, 2018

1. The State of the Spirit, 2018

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?

Hi everyone. This might be another one of those serious posts, so please take a few deep breaths and eat some dark chocolate. While perusing an online group, I witnessed a conversation between several colleagues, and it was disheartening. A difference of perspectives led to...

Vu Le

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What's Next Is up to Us

Ted Franklin argues that climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal.

Ted Franklin

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2011)

A Force More Powerful is a documentary series on one of the 20th century’s most important and least-known stories: how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. It includes six cases of movements, and each case is approximately 30 minutes long.

154 min

If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him

When we allow ourselves to fall victim to hatred, we are doing our opponents’ work for them.

Susan L. Rhodes and Charles R. Schwenk

Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence

[Note: This essay was just published in the Fall 2019 theology journal, "Oneing," by Fr. Richard Rohr and the Center for Action and Contemplation. To order a copy, visit: www.cac.org ]

Rev. John Dear

How Would Mother Jones Eulogize George H.W. Bush?

Mother Jones would have us pray for George H.W. Bush, who died at age 94, but also for his victims, many of whom, children included, were buried without pomp, or were simply disappeared

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

Niassa Elephant Defenders (2018)

Poachers have decimated the elephant population in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, but Niassa’s rangers are determined to save them from extinction.

15 min

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018) (trailer)

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland explores the death of Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation, was found dead in her jail cell three days later.

2 min

The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness

My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about what’s unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species? Our era has been dubbed the Anthropocene because for the first time we humans...

Frances Moore Lappé

Bringing Down A Dictator (2011)

In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But he underestimated his opponents, led by a student...

55 min

Randy Credico Exclusive Tell-All with Abby Martin on Wikileaks & Roger Stone

In this exclusive extended interview, Abby Martin speaks with Randy Credico who tells his side of the story on his role in the Russia investigation, his upcoming interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and true nature of his relationship with Trump campaign advisor...

45 min

The Alex Jones Deception (2017)

The following documentary examines far-right radio host Alex Jones, and the affect his fear-mongering and conspiracy theories has had on the public. Also explored is his relationship with Donald Trump, and the numerous contradictions of Alex Jones.

57 min

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.

Frances Lee

Democratic Party "Leadership" Is Upside Down

No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles.

Norman Solomon

It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism

When I read this in the morning paper, my heart stopped: Just 40 minutes away from me, the white mother of black children in New Jersey was repeatedly harassed via Facebook by a stranger, who told her that her children should be hung.

George Lakey

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