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A hybrid model of assemblies may be the key to bringing in vast numbers of people into the process of forging a new world and governing the one we have.
Ben Palmquist
There's much more we can and should do. But this plan would get us moving in the right direction: expanding educational public goods that are democratic, ecological, and life-affirming.
TheLastFarm
96 min
Purpose asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies — and how can we change them? Director Martin Oetting follows two visionaries, Katherine Trebeck (founder of the Wellbeing Economy Governments alliance) and Lorenzo Fioramonti (who rises from...
In Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky retells the story from St. Augustine’s City of God in which a pirate, captured by Alexander the Great, is asked how he dares to molest the sea. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replies. “Because I do it with a little ship...
Jonathan de Noche
Myths are often treated as ahistorical, but here they are understood as alive and operating as memory systems that organize power in the present. This glossary names 100 and their function. They are the stories we live inside, defined.
Naya Diaz
5 min
The Epstein files - and the coverup - reveal all we need to know.
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.
Manuel Casal Lodeiro
8 min
Nepal has emerged as the blueprint for Gen Z activism worldwide. While covering youth movements, AJ+’s Anna Kook noticed that from Madagascar to Indonesia, organizers are looking to Nepal for inspiration on how to use social platforms to challenge power and mobilize their...
A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
Eric Blanc
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter
If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.
Tim Hjersted
The conversation about masculinity has long been poisoned by those who mistake dominance for strength and conquest for achievement. This corruption is not new—it is the logic of tyrants and slavemasters that men of conscience have resisted throughout history.
Tim Hjersted
The city is the solution.
Patrick Mazza
There's a pattern in left politics that's both understandable and ultimately self-defeating: we're brilliant at articulating what we oppose, but often struggle to define what we're for. We can catalog the horrors of capitalism and empire in exhaustive detail, but when pressed...
Tim Hjersted
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara
We've been trained to recognize collectivism only when it wears a hammer and sickle, but this renders today's most powerful authoritarian structures invisible.
Tim Hjersted
“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
Tim Hjersted
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 down his suggestions into actionable steps.
Tim Hjersted
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, "Kreisler" associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.
Cléo Mieulet
It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Richard Eskow
How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would post-growth have to put forward?
Florent Marcellesi
16 min
Imagine a world where the homes we live in, the clothes we wear, and even the sensors in our electronics weren’t manufactured, but grown. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, is shaking up everything from sustainable construction to meatless bacon. It’s turning agricultural...
44 min
Are corporations destroying America? From greedflation to wealth inequality, the U.S. economy is collapsing under late stage capitalism. This video explores why industries like healthcare, housing, energy, banks, and utilities should be nationalized and treated as public...
The Green New Deal is often framed as a response to climate change — but whether you see it as a crisis or a hoax, the real point is what it delivers here at home: millions of good jobs, lower energy bills, stronger communities, and true energy independence. It’s about...
Films For Action
In 2022, I did an Earth Day talk called Words vs Reality, and it cataloged three dozen or so terms that – from a systems perspective – would actually require new labels. For example, fossil fuels might better be labeled flammable fossils, or consumer might be human. After...
Nate Hagens
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 modernity-challenging ideas are packed into one novel.
Tom Murphy
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
44 min
In the face of widespread ecological destruction, social injustice, economic deprivation, there are powerful countercurrents. 'Ordinary' people in several parts of India are resisting the disruption of their lives by constructing alternatives in the form of sustainable...
23 min
In this provocative video essay, Kirby Ferguson dives headfirst into the brave new world of artificial creativity — specifically, AI-generated art — and the storm of wonder, fear, and ethical questions it’s kicking up.
445 min
Planet Local Voices is video and podcast series featuring cutting-edge thinkers, writers, movement-builders and activists from across the world, united by a planet local vision of ecological economies, healthy communities and local food systems.
In our search to understand the immense suffering caused by colonization, racism, and centuries of domination, it’s natural to feel anger, grief, even guilt. These are human responses to the recognition that something sacred has been desecrated—that entire peoples, cultures...
Tim Hjersted
20 min
In this video, we introduce the People's Library—a parallel economy where resources like housing, food, tools, and transportation are shared instead of hoarded, and where access is based on participation, not profit.
6 min
In this video, we explore how our dependence on paychecks to meet basic needs keeps us trapped in a cycle of survival—and how the People’s Library offers a real, community-powered alternative.
Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So here’s five of the most common objections, addressed plainly and clearly:
There's a question at the heart of the coming automation revolution that too few people in power are willing to answer honestly: Who will own the gains? Will it be the hedge funds, billionaires, and multinational corporations? Or will it be all of us — the people who built...
Tim Hjersted
58 min
There's a worst case scenario looming here, isn't there?
2 min
From award-winning filmmakers comes the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation, and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen.
Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...
Local Futures
Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the Earth from corporate globalization and create a society that honors all beings on the...
96 min
"A masterpiece! By far the most inspiring economics film I have ever seen. This film is a gift to humanity. Everyone should watch it." - Prof. Jason HickelAn intrepid group of economists is on a mission to flip our understanding of the national debt upside down.FINDING THE...
25 min
Can you imagine libraries of tools, clothing, and even housing? The library economy can be the bridge to an entirely new world of human flourishing. Let's explore what the library economy is, what may or may not be included, and what it might take to bring it to life.
29 min
In this perceptive and radical talk, Daniel Wahl PhD observes that we are standing at the dawn of the planetary era.
Socialism is one of the most vilified and misunderstood ideas in modern political discourse. The number one reason for this hatred? Most people have no idea what socialism actually is.
Tim Hjersted
13 min
A tour of MIUFI (Michigian Urban Farming Initiative) and interview with its manager - Quan Blunt.
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 weakness, and in their wake, we have the opportunity to build something far more life-affirming. A...
33 min
This 32 minute animation - in 4 Acts - describes the backdrop for The Great Simplification - an economic/cultural transition beginning in the not-too-distant future.
It is my deepest desire to see the emergence of the movement we need right now—one that is open, welcoming, broad-based, strategic, and oriented to our core human needs, one that can gain the power to make this world more balanced, just, and kind.
Starhawk
10 min
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How do we nourish our hearts and fortify our spirits so we can resist despair when the world looks so grim? How do we face the suffering of the world without being crushed by it? The answer is to cultivate practices of spiritual self-defense. These 15 principles are my compass.
Tim Hjersted
5 min
Voting like a radical means voting for our movements. This election and every election, #VoteLikeARadical 📣
The real extremists are the corporate and political elites who wear $5,000 suits and calmly explain why war, profit and greed are good on the evening news.
Heard that old saying "democracy is the tyranny of the majority? It was propaganda invented by elites.
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs...
Chris Hedges
86 min
Watch as several organizations move towards a more cooperative future by experimenting with open and non-traditional business models. Among them are a small craft-brew coop, a peer-to-peer open hardware lab and an urban agricultural social enterprise.
22 min
When it comes to the question of how we organise the land we inhabit and the resources therein, we’re presented with two paths: privatisation or nationalisation. The capitalist or the State. But an alternative exists in the commons, and it is no tragedy.
3 min
This short animation tells the story of the importance of our cultural values and their role in meaningful, durable systemic change. Join us on a journey that demonstrates the need to shift our mainstream cultural values to intrinsic values such as care, equality, creativity...
We need a human rights movement that challenges the orthodoxy of market capitalism, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
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
59 min
An overview of the evidence surrounding worker democracy. In summary: it's good, but far from perfect. Hope you enjoy the video and the new animations. - Unlearning Economics
4 min
The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
34 min
This 35-minute film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change.
43 min
This 42-minute film is bursting with examples of exciting localization initiatives across the world.
5 min
This short video urges people to spread the word about the need for an economic shift from global to local. This type of big picture activism can help tackle our social and environmental crises simultaneously.
7 min
The work-in-progress film will be an expansive deep dive into our socioeconomic system as the interconnected root cause of all our crises. It's about the two systems that are locked in battle on planet earth: the life system, and the money system.
3 min
When the Coronavirus Pandemic threw livelihoods into uncertainty and consequently spurred the creation of multiple direct government assistance programs, every American was given first-hand experience with the concept of Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI), an idea that has been...
6 min
Expert James Fadiman explains how psychedelics have the power to expand consciousness, enhance creativity, and deepen our connections to the world.
26 min
From the session: ONE, NOT TWO: SACRED WHOLENESS | 2018 Festival of Faiths
74 min
Globalized capitalism is destroying the biosphere while political unrest and war continue to dominate the headlines. Where might we turn for guidance in order to navigate these uncertain times?
12 min
For the Mescalero Apache Tribe, girls are not recognized as women until they have undergone the Sunrise Ceremony- an ancient, coming-of-age ceremony that lasts for four days.
Sermon for MLK Day from All Souls UU Kansas City
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
2 min
Underneath all of the sharpest divisions, human beings of any opinion tribe can still recognize certain fundamental truths. I like to touch those sometimes, so that I myself don’t get lost in the conflict. Conflict is loud. Fear is loud. Rage is loud. Bombs are loud, and so...
19 min
In a world where the dark, dystopian visions of Cyberpunk have long dominated our sci-fi imaginations, a new genre emerges as a beacon of hope: Solarpunk
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42 min
"I believe our cities should belong to us. They should be cooperative, co-creative, ecological, and egalitarian spaces, by and for the people. We have so much untapped urban potential just waiting to be explored. Join me as we determine how to build a solarpunk...
A few thoughts on a Sunday morning.
75 min
What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the film "Imprint" we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant future. A personal and poetic depiction of what it means to be fully human in...
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This is the official Film Trailer for “Zeitgeist | Requiem” by Peter Joseph. Fourth in the series, Peter Joseph continues to explore the incompatibility of modern capitalism with future human survival. Departing from the ideological dogmas of today, the work focuses on the...
60 min
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen is a Historian of Religion, Ph.d from Uppsala University in Sweden. His research into Afro-diasporic strategies for maintaining animist reality in the modern world has led him towards reading North European cultural history from the perspective of...
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"Hackers for Freedom", this 55-minute long documentary takes us to meet with those who, from India to the United States via Europe, are experimenting with the emancipation tools of "free software" in order to bring concrete solutions in a multitude of fields in which...
Deep within you are two powerful allies: your inner masculine and inner feminine. These complementary aspects of your fundamental nature, distinct from your gender identity, are a potent source of love, healing and success in the world. Each plays a crucial role in your...
Tiziana Dellarovere
103 min
One of the greatest works of classic literature. Lao Tzu shares timeless wisdom with the world. . . . Traditionally attributed to Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, the true authorship of the Tao Te Ching, as well as the date around which it was written (usually said to be 6th c...
Documentaries have an incredible power to create wiser, engaged citizens and thus a wiser Earth.
39 min
A film about the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe and the visionaries lighting the way.
4 min
Karim Sulayman is an Arab-American tenor from Chicago. Ten days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger to perform a trust experiment. Watch this silent video (set to Sulayman singing Sinead O'Connor's "In this...
5 min
Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz offers an animated view of what a next system grounded in democratized ownership of the economy and real sustainability would look like.
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Inspired by a Charles Eisenstein essay, crafted by Tonika Todorova and narrated by Charles.
5 min
How do we solve a problem like racism? Can simply being against racism bring about its destruction? No. To end hatred, we must know what we want to put in its place. In 1990 I met Roger Kelly, a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Since I was a child I had a question: “how can...
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Bestselling author and anthropologist Wade Davis addresses The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's 2017 College of Fellows dinner, held November 16, 2017 at the Canadian Museum of History.
18 min
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.
6 min
I grew up in what I felt like was a progressive society.In school we had broken through the idea of strict gender roles; we were taught that men and women could have any career that they wanted. On the playground boys and girls played together.
I am a trans-man, but as a...
3 min
Janine Benyus reveals the natural intelligence found in the patterns and designs of nature all around us. We live in a competent, brilliant planet and are surrounded by genius with perfect timing and coordination, all without top down laws and policies. The organisms have all...
It Tethers the Masculine Powers to Life, Directs them Toward Love, and Keeps Them Grounded in Beauty.
Charles Eisenstein
6 min
Dr. Nadine Harris has been studying the effects of early childhood adversity on health outcomes later on in life. In her 30 years of studying research, the findings are clear. Childhood trauma dramatically affects health across a lifetime. These are not some new findings...
9 min
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
80 min
Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first-ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression. His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers...
The greatest conspiracies are open and notorious — not theories, but practices expressed through law and policy, technology, and finance. Counterintuitively, these conspiracies are more often than not announced in public and with a modicum of pride. They’re dutifully reported...
Edward Snowden
3000 min
Do you ever feel like we're swimming in an ocean of bullshit? This ground-breaking and viral 50-part series from John Vervaeke seeks to understand why this is so, and answer the question: what can we do about it?
47 min
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...
47 min
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
25 min
Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to deal with the urgent...
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In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...