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Wanted: Men Who Love
Wanted: Men Who Love
Every female wants to be loved by a male. Every woman wants to love and be loved by the males in her life. Whether gay or straight, bisexual or celibate, she wants to feel the love of...
bell hooks
Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil.
Chris Hedges
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
The definitive critique of our economic system since its beginning to the present day.
Kevin A. Carson
Audre Lorde: "Learning From the 60s" (1982)
Audre Lorde: "Learning From the 60s" (1982)
"Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies' work by destroying each other."
Audre Lorde
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
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
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 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
How AI Could Be Used to Revolutionize Democracy and Challenge State and Corporate Power
How AI Could Be Used to Revolutionize Democracy and Challenge State and Corporate Power
The same technology that could create the most powerful surveillance state in history could also create unprecedented tools for decentralisation.
Kiran Pillai
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
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
In Love With the Darkness: Finding Hope in a Cynical, Burning World
In Love With the Darkness: Finding Hope in a Cynical, Burning World
These past several weeks have been riddled with news that could douse the flame of even the brightest of spirits.
Katherine Cross
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and...
Daniel Quinn
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
Tim Hjersted
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
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
We Need to Confront an Unjust, Ecocidal system, But Let's Do It Without Hate
We Need to Confront an Unjust, Ecocidal system, But Let's Do It Without Hate
Normal is coming unhinged. For the past eight years it has been possible for most people (at least in the relatively privileged classes) to believe that society is sound, that the...
Charles Eisenstein
When Monsters Walk Among Us
When Monsters Walk Among Us
To imagine Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu, or other architects of authoritarian violence simply as monsters risks placing them outside history, as if...
Henry A. Giroux
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
Should We Put Juveniles Away for Life? Meet the Teen Who Sparked a Debate
Should We Put Juveniles Away for Life? Meet the Teen Who Sparked a Debate
Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a...
Dan Birman
The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves
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...
Yasha Levine
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
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
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other...
Norman Solomon
AI Has Already Taken Over - It's Called the Corporation
AI Has Already Taken Over - It's Called the Corporation
Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago.
Jeremy Lent
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
Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model
Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model
This playbook is inspired by the insights of George Lakey and the transformative movements of Norway and Sweden in the early 20th century. These nations, once marked by extreme poverty...
Films For Action
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks...
Tim Hjersted
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event.
What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.
Justin Mcbrien
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
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...
Russell Means
Industrial Civilization Has Halved the Number of Trees on the Planet
Industrial Civilization Has Halved the Number of Trees on the Planet
Trees 'store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services'
Andrea Germanos
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
The food industry is no longer a free market.  In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's becoming the most glaring example of corporate-government fascism in America. Actual monopolies...
Eric Blair
Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It
Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It
I'll have more coming out about this in a few days, but there have been two disgusting developments in the realm of plutocratic intervention on behalf of Wall Street that everyone...
Matt Taibbi
Society as a Failed Experiment
Society as a Failed Experiment
There’s little dispute among social scientists that most of our major public programs are counter-productive on their own terms. There is also little analysis of this phenomenon as a...
David Swanson
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
This charter was originally published in Spanish as a rallying call for Social Solidarity Economy initiatives within the Spanish territory. We have translated it to share its principles...
REAS
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
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
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
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
George Lakey
Prospective Congo Palm Oil Plantation Wrecking Prime Great Ape Habitat
Prospective Congo Palm Oil Plantation Wrecking Prime Great Ape Habitat
The Atama plantation may never happen, but that uncertainty hasn’t prevented investors from potentially making a profit by clearing native forests and ruining ideal gorilla and...
Jeremy Hance
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systems—of empire, domination, and exploitation—are showing signs of...
Tim Hjersted
Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State
Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
Nick French
The Triumph of Triviality
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker
10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class
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...
Kathleen Harris
When War Crimes Become Normal: the Price of Impunity
When War Crimes Become Normal: the Price of Impunity
If we truly believe that all human life has equal value, then we must demand that those who order and carry out attacks on civilians face the same scrutiny and consequences, whoever they...
Barzin Jafartash Amiri
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
A Localism Manifesto
A Localism Manifesto
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Michael Shuman
'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim
'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim
What do the Australian’s columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive
Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive
A century ago, industrialists like Andrew Carnegie believed that Darwin’s theories justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality. They left us with an ideological legacy...
Eric Michael Johnson
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