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44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
44 Reasons Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
Capitalism hasn't malfunctioned, been corrupted or gone astray. Its core mechanisms are working exactly as intended. What we call corporate or crony capitalism is just late-stage...
Miki Kashtan
This Speech by Fred Hampton Shows Why The Establishment Found The Black Panther Party So Threatening
This Speech by Fred Hampton Shows Why The Establishment Found The Black Panther Party So Threatening
Fred Hampton participated in a mock people’s trial, where he articulates why the Black Panther Party, and he as a leader within the party, was being viciously targeted by the US government.
Hampton Institute
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Gad Saad’s “suicidal empathy” thesis is the kind of shallow culture-war framing that sounds clever in a tweet but falls apart when you look at it seriously.
Tim Hjersted
Yes, Things Are Falling Apart. Here's What That Actually Makes Possible.
Yes, Things Are Falling Apart. Here's What That Actually Makes Possible.
History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.
Jeremy Lent
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.
Films For Action
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
In the end, call-out culture mirrors what the prison industrial complex teaches us about crime and punishment: to banish and dispose of individuals rather than to engage with them as...
Asam Ahmad
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
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!
Tim Hjersted
10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026
10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026
Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off...
Robert Reich
Four Kinds of Dystopia
Four Kinds of Dystopia
The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:
Darren Allen
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
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
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way
There is no alternative ("Tina") to capitalism?
Richard Wolff
The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living
The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living
Wisdom for aspiring leaders and change-makers of every kind
Stephen Mitchell
Our Greatest Opponent Isn't Evil — It's the Belief That Nothing Can Change
Our Greatest Opponent Isn't Evil — It's the Belief That Nothing Can Change
The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
Tim Hjersted
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?
Steve Bearman
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
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
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
Chris Hedges
The Real Reason White People Say 'All Lives Matter'
The Real Reason White People Say 'All Lives Matter'
Why “Black” Makes Us Uncomfortable
John Halstead
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.
Charles Eisenstein
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
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...
Tim Hjersted
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
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...
George Lakey
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Tim Hjersted
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
I’m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk...
Douglas Haddow
How to Start a Revolution in 2026
How to Start a Revolution in 2026
Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.
Roger Hallam
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
One "piece of the oppressor" that I have found in myself during my inner activist journeys is my use of shame as a method of engaging with the world's problems. Having learned that...
Tim Hjersted
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
It’s really hard to talk about guns and gun violence, primarily due to the fact that the NRA has spent an insane amount of money brainwashing American citizens with catchy bumper-sticker...
Michael E Sparks
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with an architecture of open design, time-based...
Peter Joseph
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified...
Local Futures
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
This is easily the best comic strip ever made.
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
“I Felt Like a Monster”: Israeli Soldiers Break Silence on Gaza—and the System Behind It
“I Felt Like a Monster”: Israeli Soldiers Break Silence on Gaza—and the System Behind It
The official narrative isn’t just cracking—it’s being dismantled by the very people who carried it out.
Joshua Scheer
What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone
What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone
How to be there for the people who need you most
Heather Plett
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out...
John Taylor Gatto
Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal
Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal
For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism.  Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate...
Chris Agnos
The White Man in That Photo
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...
Riccardo Gazzaniga
Chomsky, Epstein, and Us: Far More Is at Stake Than One Man's Legacy
Chomsky, Epstein, and Us: Far More Is at Stake Than One Man's Legacy
A comprehensive look at the evidence tell us criticism of Chomsky is absolutely warranted. This piece attempts to model what a fair and proportionate accountability process looks like.
Tim Hjersted
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
This Is What Humanity's Impact On The Planet Looks Like
This Is What Humanity's Impact On The Planet Looks Like
A new photo book from conservation experts aims to shine a light on humanity's impact on the planet and convince people to think about their contribution. Overdevelopment...
James Gerken
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
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...
George Monbiot
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important...
Tom Murphy
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
Oh No. Is Do the Math about to get hijacked for another long series about a Daniel Quinn book, like it was for Ishmael?
Tom Murphy
Understanding Patriarchy
Understanding Patriarchy
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men...
bell hooks
93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness
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
How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor
How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it...
Courtland Milloy
The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About
The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About
While millions of people are spellbound by falsehoods, actual threats go unheeded and unchecked.
Jeremy Lent
No, Iran Did Not Bomb Its Own School. Here Is What Actually Happened.
No, Iran Did Not Bomb Its Own School. Here Is What Actually Happened.
We've seen this pattern before.
Tim Hjersted
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
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...
Mandy Len Catron
Humanity's Visible and Ambiguous Maze
Humanity's Visible and Ambiguous Maze
Humanity’s Visible and Ambiguous Maze “I am tired, every day I must believe and hope, there is a moment where you say, I am tired” Jury, local biological produce market owner of Tierra...
Nayanci Lopez
An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
Dear white people, For as long as I can remember, I have always been white. Like you. I just didn’t know it.
Bayo Akomolafe
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.
Tim Hjersted
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