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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 115 min
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2015) ($5)
Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
6,421 views · unrated
The Robin Hood Army: Fighting Food Waste in India and Pakistan
The Robin Hood Army: Fighting Food Waste in India and Pakistan
The Robin Hood Army are taking on food waste in India and Pakistan by redistributing food waste from restaurants and weddings and giving it to the hungry
Dimple Vijaykumar · 3,122 views · 75%
Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Women and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.
Vandana Shiva · 15,544 views · 88%
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden! 48 min
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!
Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicines, colors, water, fragrances, and wildlife. This is the very best fast food!
8,530 views · 75%
No, Humans Are Not at The Top of The Food Chain
No, Humans Are Not at The Top of The Food Chain
Despite what many of those who advocate meat-eating would like to believe, humans do not sit at the top of the food chain. In any event, it’s a food web rather than a chain, due to the many complex interactions involved.
Paul Mahony · 9,416 views · 75%
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
There are plenty of reasons to boycott factory farms, including your health, animal welfare and the environment.
Kaye Spector · 5,790 views · 100%
Farming for a Small Planet
Farming for a Small Planet
People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...
Frances Moore Lappé · 3,858 views · 100%
How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey 7 min
How to Optimize Your Gut and Brain Bacteria | Dave Asprey
The importance of the microbiome has really come to the fore in the last five years. Viome, a company that analyzed the feces of 100,000 people, has discovered 10,000 new types of gut bacteria. Additionally, improved imaging technology led scientists to discover you don't...
Big Think · 4,260 views · -12%
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School 28 min
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)
This Afristar (www.afristarfoundation.org) produced educational documentary offers step-by-step instructions on how to establish a permaculture garden at a school.
1,675 views · unrated
Food Matters (2008) (trailer) 7 min
Food Matters (2008) (trailer)
"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." –Hippocrates With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is...
48,312 views · 68%
The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution
The Cradle-to-Cradle Solution
Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry—a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart · 15,014 views · 100%
Diet: The Disease of Our Generation 5 min
Diet: The Disease of Our Generation
64% of people in the UK are overweight or obese eating calorie dense but nutritionally empty food that is considered the norm,  or even healthy, in today’s society.
BenCoomberTV · 9,273 views · 97%
Eat Locally!
Eat Locally!
Supporting local farms is one of the best and easiest ways to eat healthy, reduce your carbon footprint, and strengthen your community.
Matthew Toplikar · 7,814 views · 75%
Davos and the Dangers to Democracy
Davos and the Dangers to Democracy
It’s an all-too-easy event to mock. It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty,  inequality and climate change. US comedian Jon Stewart has...
Nick Buxton · 3,112 views · 100%
Super Size Me 100 min
Super Size Me (2004)
"Super Size Me" is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days...
36,184 views · 66%
Hungry For Change 3 min
Hungry For Change (trailer)
Learn what you should really be eating. Straight facts about the disturbing reality that is our way of eating and living. Food like products that contain zero or next to zero nutritional value. We are a society of overfed and undernourished people who are seemingly oblivious...
26,402 views · 82%
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or Poison? 53 min
Genetically Modified Food - Panacea or Poison? (2005)
Having discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, corporate scientists can produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that Genetically Modified Food may not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked violent...
9,454 views · unrated
It's Not Thanks to Capitalism That We're Living Longer, but Progressive Politics
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 · 3,835 views · unrated
Coordinated State-Level 'Tax the Rich' Campaigns Kick Off Nationwide
Coordinated State-Level 'Tax the Rich' Campaigns Kick Off Nationwide
Labor organizations and advocates unite to launch a campaign for taxing the ultrawealthy to fund public goods and combat GOP budget cuts.
Brad Reed · 593 views · unrated
McLibel 2 min
McLibel (trailer)
Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history. McLibel is the inside story of how a single father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris as they are...
22,990 views · 85%
Making the Connection: How a Vegan Diet Can Benefit Us and The World 31 min
Making the Connection: How a Vegan Diet Can Benefit Us and The World
Food, fitness, nutrition, global food security, farming, the environment, animals, ethics - have you made the connection?
The Vegan Society · 11,225 views · 88%
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? 50 min
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? (2006)
Over nine months, director Mischa Hedges and his crew traveled the West Coast to learn more about our food system. While interviewing farmers, agricultural experts, nutritionists and activists, Mischa and his team learned that the standard methods of producing food do not...
1,465 views · unrated
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.
Errol Schweizer · 581 views · unrated
The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)
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 · 401,821 views · 100%
Food Inc. 93 min
Food Inc. (2008) ($3)
For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
Robert Kenner · 230,913 views · 90%
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First 60 min
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)
Why is it that some children thrive while others do not? Is it a matter of genetics, IQ, socioeconomic background or education? BRAIN MATTERS reveals that learning begins way before children go to school and that it's the experiences children are exposed to that determine...
Carlota Nelson · 20,369 views · 100%
Why aren't we talking about meat and climate change?
Why aren't we talking about meat and climate change?
Reducing your carbon footprint by eating less red meat rarely gets attention. This strategy has been recommended by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, epidemiologists writing in The Lancet and a host of other highly-regarded researchers and organisations. But it...
Judith Friedlander · 6,466 views · 100%
We Spend Almost a Trillion Yearly on War. That’s Insane.
We Spend Almost a Trillion Yearly on War. That’s Insane.
Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many.
Eric Blanc · 1,241 views · unrated
Chris Hedges: The Mafia State 13 min
Chris Hedges: The Mafia State
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel · 1,057 views · unrated
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner · 24,890 views · unrated
Sea The Truth 60 min
Sea The Truth (2010)
Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows an overview of the themes addressed in the film and a brief explanation.
20,211 views · 88%
The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods 57 min
The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods (2011)
For thousands across the UK, the new year usually means a new diet. But it's the supermarket rather than the health club that many are turning to. The low fat food industry is worth two billion pounds and there are more reduced calorie ready meals sold in January than at any...
16,607 views · 56%
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up? 2 min
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the...
Slate · 12,628 views · 100%
How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
The zombie apocalypse, of course, is a metaphor. It’s an allegory for the extremely unstable world we are living in at the moment.
john the baptist · 7,854 views · 92%
Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty'
Walmart Admits: 'Our Profits' Depend on 'Their Poverty'
Critics cite irony of annual report filing: 'This is a company that everywhere it goes it creates poverty'
Lauren McCauley · 5,680 views · 75%
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
How Permaculture Can Build Resilience and Meet Basic Needs During a Pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads, people are showing a growing interest in permaculture principles and techniques to heal their lives, communities and the planet.
Marina Martinez · 3,253 views · unrated
Do French Kids Have ADHD?
Do French Kids Have ADHD?
France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.
Marilyn Wedge · 201,705 views · 95%
Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being
Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Chip Richards · 105,026 views · 99%
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they won’t eat these eight foods.
April McCarthy · 103,754 views · 75%
Confessions of a Panama Papers Hit Man
Confessions of a Panama Papers Hit Man
As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate to admit it, but I helped forge the system that has now been exposed in the Panama Papers. It is a system of legalized crimes. How else can we describe it?
John Perkins · 12,510 views · 75%
Updated: 'End of capitalism': Bolivia hopes to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'
Updated: 'End of capitalism': Bolivia hopes to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'
Update 8/6, a clarification. The below article's quotes were taken a bit out of context: http://www.rt.com/news/bolivia-coca-cola-ban-770/
RT · 12,077 views · 100%
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about...
Vandana Shiva · 11,872 views · 100%
What's Happening in Egypt is a Precursor to a Global War Between the World's Elites and the Poor
What's Happening in Egypt is a Precursor to a Global War Between the World's Elites and the Poor
Radical Islam is the last refuge of the Muslim poor. The mandated five prayers a day give the only real structure to the lives of impoverished believers. The careful rituals of washing before prayers in the mosque, the strict moral code, along with the understanding that life...
Chris Hedges · 8,379 views · 75%
The Big FAT Lie 87 min
The Big FAT Lie (2018) ($5)
"In what is becoming a field of near-identical documentaries featuring similar experts, research, and opinion, Grant Dixon’s film stands apart with its unique, homegrown feel. His in-depth exploration of the whys and wherefores behind his own health scare introduces us to the...
8,005 views · unrated
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? 56 min
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
OYLER profiles how an innovative "community school" helped fuel a dramatic turnaround in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, part of a growing national movement to help poor children succeed by transforming schools to meet basic health, social, and nutritional needs. Before...
Amy Scott · 5,365 views · unrated
How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us
How Other Primates Self-Medicate - and What They Could Teach Us
Despite our advances in technology and medicine, we seem to be fighting a never-ending battle against a number of diseases and ailments. As viruses become more complex and bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it seems that the lab-made drugs we have become so dependent...
Sophia Daoudi · 5,067 views · 88%
What's Wrong with McDonald's?
What's Wrong with McDonald's?
This article is asking you to think for a moment about what lies behind McDonald's clean, bright image. It's got a lot to hide. "At McDonald's we've got time for you" goes the jingle. Why then do they design the service so that you're in and out as soon as possible? Why...
London Greenpeace · 4,560 views · unrated
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.
Jason Hickel · 4,506 views · unrated
The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? 43 min
The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? (2019)
For well over 400 million years, insects have played an essential role in the evolution of our ecosystem. While many may take them for granted, their extinction could spell catastrophe for the planet at large. Sadly, this scenario is currently playing out across the...
4,027 views · unrated
An Anarchist Response to Ebola
An Anarchist Response to Ebola
Anarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one? This article provides an...
Carwil Bjork-James with Chuck Munson · 3,447 views · 88%
Egg Producers Caught Conspiring to Shut Down a Vegan Mayo Startup
Egg Producers Caught Conspiring to Shut Down a Vegan Mayo Startup
Katie Herzog · 2,680 views · 25%
Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'
Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'
Cuts to food stamps and jobless benefits predictable result of 'neoliberal assault' on American people As Congress decides this week whether to re-institute emergency jobless benefits for millions of Americans and closes in on negotiations for a Farm Bill that could see...
Jacob Chamberlain · 2,188 views · 88%
On the Second Anniversary of OWS: Three Metamemes for the Future
On the Second Anniversary of OWS: Three Metamemes for the Future
Here at Adbusters, we see three big tactical breakthrough ideas, three metamemes, that have the power to veer this global trainwreck of ours from its date with disaster. Make no mistake, the crash is a brutal world – a barbarian reality. It’s a happening that none of us...
Adbusters · 2,112 views · 75%
Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.
Bernie Sanders · 347 views · unrated
Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom
Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom
​Venezuela was not liberated. Overnight, it became a US-occupied colony whose lands and resources will be stolen and exploited; whose people will be subjugated to a hostile foreign power; and whose future will remain uncertain.
Jordan Liz · 317 views · unrated
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted · 47,571 views · 92%
The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative
The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative
Lodged between two of the most populated countries on earth — India and China — Bhutan may be small at 700,000 souls, but it has a mighty role to play in showing the world how to preserve the environment, while also cultivating happiness in its human population. In fact, the...
Carolanne Wright · 30,391 views · 75%
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone
London, May 2009.  A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the financial center of the world, for more than forty years. Their presence is far from...
Rutger Bregman · 27,719 views · 95%
99 Reasons Why 2016 Was a Good Year
99 Reasons Why 2016 Was a Good Year
Our media feeds are echo chambers. And those echo chambers don’t just reflect our political beliefs; they reflect our feelings about human progress. Bad news can be a bubble too
Angus Hervey · 18,394 views · 88%
"Morally Bankrupt" Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion in Safety Net Cuts
"Morally Bankrupt" Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion in Safety Net Cuts
"Millions of Americans will lose access to life-saving programs because the GOP gave $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich."
Jake Johnson · 17,971 views · 100%
There You Go! 2 min
There You Go!
Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing.
Survival International · 17,002 views · 100%
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright
A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump
Jason Hickel · 12,286 views · 100%
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
Beautiful Trouble’s irreverent guide to activism in the time of pandemic
Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch · 11,875 views · unrated
Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror
Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror
In the Rojava region of Syria, despite the difficulties, people are organizing communes and women’s councils. Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist...
Tony Iltis & Stuart Munckton · 9,938 views · 75%
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
Steven Pinker's Ideas Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Jeremy Lent · 8,792 views · unrated
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
With regular life on pause, we have a chance to stop and question the path we are taking at the deepest level.
Jason Angell · 8,606 views · unrated
The Unofficial History of America™
The Unofficial History of America™
The history of America is the one story every kid knows. It's a story of fierce individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the service of a dream. A story of early settlers, hungry and cold, carving a home out of the wilderness. Of visionary leaders fighting for...
Kalle Lasn · 7,500 views · 100%
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
This summer, St. Luke’s Hospital started sending all new moms home from the hospital with a basket of fresh produce, recipes and literature about the importance of a healthy diet. All of the produce in the basket was grown on an organic farm on the hospital’s Anderson campus...
Jodi Helmer · 7,491 views · 100%
How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps
How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps
This article is probably not what you think. Read on to find out more.
Aaron Bleyaert · 6,395 views · 88%
Feminism Against Capitalism
Feminism Against Capitalism
Ultimately the goals of a radical feminism and socialism are the same — justice and equality for all people.
Nicole M. Aschoff · 5,683 views · unrated
Welcome to 1984
Welcome to 1984
The façade of democracy and the disempowerment of the citizenry by corporations has sparked a nationwide revolt. Elites, fearing unrest, will soon become ruthless. We must engage now in acts of sustained civic mobilization and civil disobedience or be crushed.
Chris Hedges · 5,645 views · 100%
More Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: This Time, They're Coming for Your Democracy
More Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: This Time, They're Coming for Your Democracy
Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
Sarah van Gelder · 5,361 views · 100%
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19
“Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to normal, or...
Charles Eisenstein · 4,956 views · 100%
The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People
The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People
The pandemic, economic collapse and the government’s response to them are going to not only determine the 2020 election but define the future for this decade and beyond. People are seeing the failure of the US healthcare nonsystem and the economy. The government was able to...
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers · 4,748 views · unrated
Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth
Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth
Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take over the company, Unilever changed its short-term strategy. Dutch Investigative journalism...
Daphne Dupont-Nivet, Anouk Ruhaak, Marije Schuurs, Emiel Woutersen · 4,219 views · unrated
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:
Gary Chartier · 4,049 views · 75%
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late
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 · 4,049 views · unrated
The 6-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America
The 6-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America
One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux is that more and more Americans are becoming "disposable," recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to the madness of winner-take-all capitalism...
Paul Buchheit · 3,614 views · 100%
12 Views of a Warming World
12 Views of a Warming World
Climate change is here, but from day to day, it may be hard to tell.
Raillan Brooks · 3,604 views · 50%
Flesh Choice: A Meat Lover's Guide to Giving It Up
Flesh Choice: A Meat Lover's Guide to Giving It Up
I once saw a turkey carcass in a New York City garbage can. It did not look good. I said to myself, I’m never eating meat again. A few hours later, I ate meat.
Sarah Miller · 3,537 views · unrated
Reporting on Climate Change Is Harmful if You're Not Offering Solutions
Reporting on Climate Change Is Harmful if You're Not Offering Solutions
Once-celebrated author and thinker Daniel Pinchbeck can't find an audience for his new book. He has a few ideas why.
Katie Bain · 3,427 views · 100%
The Problem of Living Inside Echo Chambers
The Problem of Living Inside Echo Chambers
Pick any of the big topics of the day – Brexit, climate change or
C. Thi Nguyen · 2,746 views · unrated
Open-Source Healthcare
Open-Source Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a...
Kevin Carson · 2,731 views · unrated
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally · 2,660 views · 88%
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
4 Not-So-Easy Ways to Dismantle Racism in the Food System
Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do it fix it.
Leah Penniman · 2,636 views · unrated
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media
Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of relating to the people that are being victimized, and the mainstream media seems to have...
Paul Buchheit · 2,326 views · 100%
Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture
Farmher in the Dell: Women in Agriculture
Itʼs a cool spring day in Merville, BC as Moss Dance, sole proprietor of Ripple Farm, unfurls irrigation lines along tightly spaced rows of lettuces. Itʼs early in the season, but there are already fresh greens, radishes and onions ready to harvest for the weekly farmersʼ market.
Nicole Shaw · 2,174 views · 100%
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Shut Down Canada Until It Solves Its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their...
David Swanson · 2,083 views · unrated
Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
How industrial-scale farming is actually becoming anti-science.
Vandana Shiva · 2,053 views · 88%
Five Ways the Meat on Your Plate Is Killing the Planet
Five Ways the Meat on Your Plate Is Killing the Planet
When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals – it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt and conclude that we should eat less meat.
Francis Vergunst, Julian Savulescu · 2,024 views · unrated
50 Non Profits I Support
50 Non Profits I Support
There are over 1.5 million non profits registered in the USA.  That is awesome!  Well sort of awesome actually.   It seems to me that if we have that many non profits we shouldn’t have as many problems as we do.  I really admire anyone who is going out of there way to make a...
Rob Greenfield · 1,959 views · 94%
Why Labor Day Matters
Why Labor Day Matters
Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...
Ralph Nader · 1,742 views · 75%
The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity
The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity
Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship The US still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan cold war build-up, the Vietnam war and...
Mark Weisbrot · 1,686 views · 75%
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
Democracy is fragile. If just one foundation is missing, the ropes of democracy can stretch, weaken, and break.
UBI.Earth · 1,552 views · unrated
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
An Appeal for a Creative Nonviolence
I was around 14 when I heard about Concentration Camps for the first time.
Dieter Duhm · 1,287 views · 100%
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.
Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton · 1,167 views · unrated
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
A “Political” Program for Anarchists
Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...
Kevin Carson · 1,124 views · unrated
The Great Deceleration
The Great Deceleration
In 2015, a major study of 24 indicators of human activity and environmental decline titled ‘The Great Acceleration’ concluded that, “The last 60 years have without doubt seen the most profound transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of...
Alex Jensen · 1,072 views · 88%
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
From Consumerism to Climate Change: 41 Outstanding Documentaries You Have to See
Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site has grown slowly to include 500 documentaries and 900 short films, trailers and...
Tim Hjersted · 6,138 views · 50%
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