47 min

Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime (2015)

Damaging the earth is a crime, right? That is what earth´s lawyer Polly Higgins thinks. Why earth destruction should be seen as a crime and what is it that brings earth lawyers Polly Higgins and Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón to fight for ecocide?

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

50 min

Kingsnorth: Portrait of a Recovering Environmentalist (2018)

Humanity has lost the battle against climate change. That is what Paul Kingsnorth thinks. The former environmental activist believes that we can´t stop climate change anymore. How should we live on knowing that climate change is a fact that can´t be denied anymore? A...

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

28 min

Charles Eisenstein: Unlearning For Change Agents - Full First Session

Hi everyone, I’m pleased to announce a new online short course I’ve created called Unlearning: For Change Agents.

Charles Eisenstein

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

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

80 min

Egypt: Revolution Interrupted? (2015)

For thirty years, President Hosni Mubarak had ruled Egypt by manipulating elections, crushing dissent, and jailing and torturing his opponents.

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

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

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

4 min

Manila's Zero Waste Neighborhoods

Plastic polluted neighborhoods in Manila are taking things into their own hands by creating systemic zero waste programs that collect all recyclables, compost all organics, and push for corporate accountability.

The Story of Stuff Project

13 min

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.

RepresentUs

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...

RepresentUs

The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How

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

Jeremy Brecher

27 min

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.

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

4 min

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...

City as Nature

68 min

100 Short Stories (2016) ($5)

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...

16 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...

TED

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

11 min

Public Shaming

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

Coffee Break

“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

3 min

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.

UnistotenCamp

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

15 min

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.

David Pakman Show

10 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...

Democracy Now!

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

6 min

5 Reasons MLK Supported a Universal Basic Income

Video by Matt Orfalea.

Matt Orfalea

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

82 min

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

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

14 min

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.

Empire Files

17 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.

Empire Files

30 min

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

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

9 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.

The Real News Network

5 min

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?

Ayishat Akanbi

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

17 min

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?

TEDx Talks

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

68 min

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.

Bret Weinstein

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

3 min

Confusing Them With Our Joy (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

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

9 min

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...

The Intercept

198 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.

Important for the World

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

154 min

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.

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

15 min

Niassa Elephant Defenders

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

World Bank Group

2 min

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (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.

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

55 min

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...

45 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...

Empire Files

57 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.

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

Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived

“The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.” —Noam...

Bruce E. Levine

5 min

Trauma at the Border

This short film exposes the emotional, psychological and physical damage that can be done when children are imprisoned – even with their families.

Brave New Films

No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.

It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to be reduced to net...

George Monbiot

6 min

Who was Fred Hampton?

A 6-minute video on who Fred Hampton was and why he was assassinated at the age of 21.

Hampton Institute

Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? — R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...

Daniel Christian Wahl

To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense

"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."

Jake Johnson

27 min

Is Facebook Censoring Political Pages?

Is it Spam or Censorship?

Matt Orfalea

46 min

A Solution to Facebook Censorship | Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman

The Solution to Facebook Censorship? Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman Support my work! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf Subscribe ▶https://www.youtube.com/orf Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...

Matt Orfalea

6 min

Jesus at The Polls

Sarah runs into her old pal Jesus at the polls. With returning guest star Fred Armisen.

I Love You

23 min

Julian Assange Gets Standing Ovation At TED Talk

Watch the entire TED Talk with Julian Assange in Part 2.

The Jimmy Dore Show

4 min

Meet the American Hero Fighting Corruption & Voter Fraud in Florida

Tim Canova for Congress!

The Jimmy Dore Show

85 min

Love And Revolution (2018)

July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...

I'm an Anarchist and I Vote

Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where...

Ryan Conrad

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

There are over 6,000 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potential to inspire action and raise awareness on just about every topic related to making the world a better place.

Films For Action

93 min

Who Cares? (2013) ($5)

“Just who is changing the world?”

49 min

Land of Hope and Glory (2017)

The hidden truth behind UK animal farming - featuring approximately 100 facilities across the UK and never before seen undercover footage. Activist Earthling Ed produces and narrates this 'UK Earthlings documentary' with over a decade of undercover footage and Animal...

Memory Reconsolidation and Dead Man Walking

How many men have come forward and confessed to committing rape or sexual assault in the public eye?

Josh Liveright

3 min

Edmund Hillary Fellowship: Build the Future in New Zealand

The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) brings together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and change-makers to build solutions to global problems from Aotearoa New Zealand. International Fellows receive exclusive access to New Zealand’s new Global Impact Visa, an open work visa...

Edmund Hillary Fellowship

2 min

1968 - The GlobalRevolt (trailer)

The four-part documentary 1968 – The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 – an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.

49 min

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016) ($3)

Tony Wrench of Wales had a natural building that radically challenged and altered the government’s policy on low impact housing. This paved the way for Lammas - the UK’s first planned ecovillage, on brilliant display in this film.

Seven Mantras of the New Revolution

Change comes in waves, like the ocean, like sound, or ripples on a lake. Sometimes it’s all action – Occupy, the Arab Spring, the summer of 1968. Sometimes it feels like nothing’s happening, nothing’s ever going to happen, no matter how hard you try. Or even that things are...

Chris Taylor

Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism

A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.

Colin Jenkins

65 min

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...

2 min

American Anarchist (trailer)

This is the story of one of the most infamous books ever written, The Anarchist Cookbook, and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at the age of 19 in the midst of the counter-culture upheaval of the late 1960s and early ‘70s.

Periods Are Beautiful

Women go through their female cycle around 450 times in their lifetime. 450 times of bleeding. But also 450 times of ”letting go, letting a dying thing leave their own body, becoming new, regenerating and waxing and waning, not unlike the moon and tides.”* Alas, the average...

Annika Mueller

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

The future we long for is alive and well in the more hopeful corners of our heart.

Chris Taylor

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