US Retreats From Afghanistan: Truth Behind The Empire’s Defeat
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/us-retreats-from-afghanistan-truth-behind-the-empires-defeat
Abby Martin explores what’s missing from coverage of Biden’s announcement of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism’s Pearl of Africa
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/uganda-dictatorship-imperialisms-pearl-of-africa
Short documentary on Uganda’s US-backed dictatorship, the country’s freedom struggle from colonialism until today, and the geo-strategic role the regime plays for US Imperialism.
The Truth About Food Insecurity
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-truth-about-food-insecurity
We live in a world with a rapidly growing population. Some people would have you believe that food insecurity is caused by overpopulation, or that we’ve reached the earth’s carrying capacity. Is...
Why You Can’t Compare Covid-19 Vaccines
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-you-cant-compare-covid19-vaccines
What a vaccine’s “efficacy rate” actually means.
In the US, the first two available Covid-19 vaccines were the ones from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Both vaccines have very high "efficacy...
Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Socialists?
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-are-so-many-young-people-becoming-socialists
For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we’ve seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this episode...
NBA Legend Charles Barkley Says “We’re So Stupid Following Our Politicians”
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/nba-legend-charles-barkley-says-were-so-stupid-following-our-politic
“I think our system is set up where our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power.” ...
DIVIDE & RULE : The Plan of The 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE | Vandana Shiva
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/divide-and-rule-the-plan-of-the-1-to-make-you-disposable-vandana-shi
Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, physicist, food sovereignty advocate, and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than...
Killer Mike: Amazon Using Slave Labor to Enrich the Richest Man in the World
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/killer-mike-amazon-using-slave-labor
Killer Mike delivered a powerful speech at a rally for Alabama Amazon warehouse workers who are fighting to unionize. If their efforts succeed, it could be the spark that ignites successful Amazon...
Killer Mike Torches ’Evil’ Jeff Bezos for Using Slave Labor at Amazon
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/killer-mike-torches-evil-jeff-bezos-for-using-slave-labor-at-amazon
Killer Mike delivered a powerful speech at a rally for Amazon warehouse workers attempting to unionize.
The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-hardest-thing-ive-ever-loved-creating-a-transformative-culture
The movie “The Hardest Thing I´ve ever loved” is an independent film from “The Great Relation” that follows the lives of 5 young explorers through their journey of the 5 weeks Ecovillage Design...
20 Signs You’re Emotionally Mature
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/20-signs-youre-emotionally-mature
However old we might be, none of us is ever quite emotionally mature - but having a list to hand of what maturity consists of might be a way of keeping score and nudging ourselves in the right...
How Community Organising Could Change the Game for the British Left | Chardine Taylor Stone
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-community-organising-could-change-the-game-for-the-british-left-
It could transform politics.
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The Problem With American Education
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-problem-with-american-education
Americans from across the political spectrum tend to agree that our education system is failing our students. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at three of the biggest problems the...
How Smoked Salmon Is Destroying Our Minds | George Monbiot
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-smoked-salmon-is-destroying-our-minds-george-monbiot
Smoked Salmon... it’s a metaphor.
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8 Toxic Things Parents Say To their Children
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/8-toxic-things-parents-say-to-their-children
Do you wonder about the toxic people in your life? What if your mother is toxic? What if your father is toxic? Or what if both of your parents are toxic. Regardless of whether your family members...
The Confederacy Was a Con Job on Whites - and Still Is
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-confederacy-was-a-con-job-on-whites-and-still-is
I’ve lived 55 years in the South and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades — but for a reason that might surprise you.
I know the South well. We lived...
Creating the Conditions for Belonging and Breathing in a Toxic Environment | john a. powell
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/creating-the-conditions-for-belonging-and-breathing-in-a-toxic-envir
Bridging or breaking? That is the sharp choice we face today as a society and as individual citizens. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, has long been...
So You’re Still Being Publicly Shamed
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/so-youre-still-being-publicly-shamed
Review of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (Riverhead Books, 2015)
The excesses of what’s now called “cancel culture” are usually associated by mainstream and right-wing media with...
Never Forget how the Media Sold, Enabled & Whitewashed the Iraq War
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The Art of Letting Go (Taoism Documentary)
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-art-of-letting-go-taoism-documentary
February, 2012, my wife, Gayoung, and I were moving back to Asia after two years in Australia. We had no plan. We just wanted to let go of our lives and return to Asia permanently. The Art of...
Coleman Hughes on The White Fragility Theory with Glenn Loury
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"This recording was created at an event hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, that featured myself alongside Glenn Loury, who, as many of you know, is an economist at Brown University...
The People’s Fight: How We Halt the Climate Crisis
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-peoples-fight-how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis
The world’s scientists have made it all too clear: our earth is overheating. It’s bad, but we can still make changes that could be the difference between life and death for tens of millions of...
Why All US Politicians Should Earn Minimum Wage | Francesca Fiorentini
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-all-us-politicians-should-earn-minimum-wage-francesca-fiorentini
Biden’s Stimulus Bill & The History of Failure
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The Terrifying $1.2 Trillion Plan That Could Kill 90% of Humanity | Stephen Fry
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-terrifying-12-trillion-plan-that-could-kill-90-of-humanity-steph
The US will soon review its nuclear weapons program. Should it spend $1.2 Trillion extending & updating it?
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Why The United States Can’t Handle Crises
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-the-united-states-cant-handle-crises
Covid-19, climate change, natural disasters, constant recessions, homelessness, declining life expectancy and quality of life, economic inequality...it seems like the United States is perpetually...