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John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

This is easily the best comic strip ever made.

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley · 17,850,540 views

The White Man in That Photo

Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and it certainly deceived me for a long time.

Riccardo Gazzaniga · 12,968,704 views

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

Oops.

2 min · 9,343,373 views

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.

David Cain · 4,206,943 views

This Facebook Comment About the UK Election Is Going Viral

This post has been flying around social media, winning lots of praise and shares. Chris Renwick, we thank you.

Chris Renwick · 4,107,872 views

Paramedic's Response to "Burger Flippers" Making an Equal $15/Hour is Beautiful

Jens Rushing, like so many people, took to Facebook to rant about something. Rushing, a paramedic, wrote an angry post about fast food workers winning a $15/hr wage that has since gone viral. But instead of getting angry that his skilled job only pays him the same amount, he...

Craig Carilli · 3,429,646 views

I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated More Uniquely Than This

The story shared by Israel and Palestine has been told in several stunning films, but I don't think I've ever seen it told like this.

3 min · 3,335,374 views

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

4 min · 3,146,936 views

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

Can you put this video into words? It's a clip from the phenomenal documentary Samsara, directed by Ron Fricke, who also made Baraka. If you're interested in watching Samsara, you can

6 min · 2,998,651 views

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace." "Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full of hope? Where are you, wise women covered in wounds? Where are you?"

4 min · 2,573,498 views

The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money

The motto of Dauphin, Manitoba, a small farming town in the middle of Canada, is “everything you deserve.” What a citizen deserves, and what effects those deserts have, was a question at the heart of a 40-year-old experiment that has lately become a focal point in a debate...

Whitney Mallett · 2,528,565 views

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Liam O'Ceallaigh · 1,803,910 views

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out – I’ve thought about writing her one of those “Now I’m Dead, Here’s My Letter Of Advice For...

Caitlin Moran · 1,737,300 views

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Call-out culture refers to the tendency among progressives, radicals, activists, and community organizers to publicly name instances or patterns of oppressive behaviour and language use by others. People can be called out for statements and actions that are sexist, racist...

Asam Ahmad · 1,641,298 views

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!

Films For Action · 1,632,647 views

Law Professor's Epic Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint

A first year law school student wrote a complaint about her professor having worn a Black Lives Matter T-shirt during class. The professor’s response is priceless.

Social Design Notes · 1,465,434 views

This Text Message Exchange Between a Mother and Daughter is Pure Gold

When Belinda Hankins got a text message from her 13-year-old daughter, who was shopping for period products, it started an exchange that will resonate with women everywhere. Enjoy.

Belinda Hankins · 1,444,277 views

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives to work towards burgeoning systems and ideologies. Despite misconceptions, there are tons...

Kathleen Harris · 1,261,443 views

10 Words Every Girl Should Learn

"Stop interrupting me."

Soraya Chemaly · 1,160,036 views

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.

Bruce E. Levine · 1,143,652 views

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. The guys who run those companies – and they are mostly guys – have gotten rich on the backs of literally all life on Earth. Their business model relies on the destruction...

Jordan Engel · 1,068,749 views

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in...

2 min · 1,029,851 views

Comic Strip of Alan Watts' Lecture: What If Money Was No Object?

An amazing cartoon made by Gavin Aung Than, which is inspired by this great lecture of the philosopher Alan Watts.

Gavin Aung Than · 982,579 views

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Luther Standing Bear was an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief who, among a few rare others such as Charles Eastman, Black Elk and Gertrude Bonnin occupied the rift between the way of life of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains before, and during, the arrival and subsequent...

Wisdom Pills · 919,746 views

Watch the Beautiful Two-Minute Ad Asking the Washington Football Team to Change Its Name

With the owner of the team vowing "NEVER" to change its name, Native American tribes around the country launched a national campaign to do just that.

2 min · 756,344 views

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means's most famous speech.

Russell Means · 722,527 views

Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us

Update: NASA is now clarifying its role in this study. NASA officials released this statement on the study on March 20, which seeks to distance the agency from the paper: "A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use...

Tom McKay · 716,597 views

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all incentive to work, they are repeating dogmas that are as old as the invention of capitalism...

Yasha Levine · 680,721 views

A Hauntingly Beautiful Short Film About Life and Death

The Life of Death is a touching handdrawn animation about the day Death fell in love with Life.

5 min · 668,147 views

Schooling the World (2010)

If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.

66 min · 651,184 views

Human (2015)

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?

382 min · 602,090 views

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives.

Washington's Blog · 589,323 views

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

There’s no class in high school on how to not be a shitty boyfriend or girlfriend. Sure, they teach us the biology of sex, the legality of marriage, and maybe read a few obscure love stories from the 19th century on how not to be. But when it comes down to actually handling...

Mark Manson · 588,620 views

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They routinely contaminate homes and classrooms and drinking water. A growing chorus of doctors...

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko · 578,810 views

Inside Job (2010)

2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and...

108 min · 557,464 views

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary

Deep Ecology Hub · 541,474 views

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in...

George Lakey · 538,219 views

Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'

Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial...

Chris Hedges · 529,604 views

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

For decades, Noam Chomsky has been the agent provocateur when it comes to critiquing the US mainstream media. He co-authored ‘Manufacturing Consent’, a seminal work on mainstream journalism and its role in the mechanics of power.

5 min · 527,717 views

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.

Films For Action · 520,165 views

Every Town Needs a Remakery

The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their own things. There’s a big vision behind it: “we want to generate a repair...

Jeremy Williams · 517,138 views

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Appreciate others for what they have done. Don't apologize for simply existing.

Yao Xiao · 509,662 views

Project 2025 Explained in Schoolhouse Rock Style!

The song that could save America. Share widely.

5 min · 502,671 views

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found myself standing on a bridge at midnight, staring into a man’s eyes for exactly four...

Mandy Len Catron · 502,187 views

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.

Katherine Reynolds Lewis · 458,741 views

Welcome to Marinaleda: The Spanish Anti-Capitalist Town With Equal Wage Full Employment and $19 Housing

With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative.

Jade Small · 452,627 views

Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch

Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.

Mark Greene · 449,046 views

25 Thought-Provoking Pieces From A Prize-Winning Polish Cartoonist

Pawel Kuczynski is a Polish artist who specialises in images that make you think hard about the world we live in.

Pawel Kuczynski · 444,308 views

Greece - What You Are Not Being Told by the Media

According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could...

Chris Kanthan · 443,782 views

John Pilger: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Endless Violence Begin to End

In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and...

John Pilger · 406,334 views

The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)

Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. By hosting community film screenings and sharing them online, they offer a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for anyone or anything.

Films For Action · 400,151 views

F*ck That: A Guided Meditation for the Realities of Today's World

Just acknowledge that all that sh*t is f*cking b*llshit — you're here now, in this place, with your inner stillness. Take in a deep breath ... now breathe out. Just feel the f*cking nonsense float away.

2 min · 391,259 views

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

If everyone watched this it could transform the world.

31 min · 388,953 views

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There...

65 min · 386,913 views

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called...

George Monbiot · 386,829 views

In 1969, a Boy Snuck into John Lennon's Hotel Room with a Recorder. It Went Like This.

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview...

5 min · 371,693 views

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of cyclical violence has made understanding the roots of this conflict (not to mention...

Tim Hjersted · 351,457 views