The Banker Ladies
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The Banker Ladies tells the stories of Ginelle, Aisha and Mabinty, three Black women in Toronto creating diverse financial services for their communities through Rotating Saving and Credit...
The #Banker_Ladies tells the stories of Ginelle, Aisha and Mabinty, three Black women in #Toronto creating diverse financial services for their communities through #Rotating_Saving_and_Credit_Associations (#ROSCA).
Known by cultural names these self-managed money collectives function at the intersection of the social and business and are fundamentally anchored in reciprocity, trust and community development. Based on professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein’s research, the film posits that there is a Black Social Economy in which ROSCAs are at its very core. Though hidden in the social economy ROSCAs contribute to Canada’s legacy of mutual aid and economic cooperation.
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The Black Social Economy in the Americas. Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets
This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term “Black social economy,” a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere’s ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism that still pervades society, the African diaspora in the Americas has turned to alternative practices of socio-economic organization. Conscientious and collective organizing is thus a means of creating meaningful livelihoods. In this volume, fourteen scholars explore the concept of the “Black social economy,” bringing together innovative research on the lived experience of Afro-descendants in business and society in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. The case studies in this book feature horrific legacies of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and they recount the myriad ways that persons of African heritage have built humane alternatives to the dominant market economy that excludes them. Together, they shed necessary light on the ways in which the Black race has been overlooked in the social economy literature.
20 Free Documentaries to Watch This Summer
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Framing Reality (2020)
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All humans on the planet are living under an illusionary paradigm that can be compared to what was presented in the ’Matrix’. A mental prison that exists within the minds of the collective. This...
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards
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We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people - we must examine privilege and power in our relationships with our children, the world’s most vulnerable citizens and...
Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/nonviolence-and-the-new-story-of-human-nature
What will it take to save the world? Massive protests? Yes, and much more. Protest has its place, but sometimes - much of the time actually - we have to take strategic steps that can lead to...
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
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Summary of Chomsky’s analyses on how the corporate media functions. Excerpt from the documentary “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media” (1992). Watch the whole thing here.
Giant Slaves
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This expository documentary is shedding some light on the southeast asian elephant industry. What is this dark secret? And why is it harmful for the elephants?
SJW Karens Accuse NY Volunteer of Racism | Education Council Member, Tom Wrocklage
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“Anti-Racism” Insanity on NYC Education Council Thomas Wrocklage | NYC Community Education Council Member, District 2 ▻https://twitter.com/twrocklage Support this channel...
Degrowth and the Emerging Mosaic of Alternatives
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/degrowth-and-the-emerging-mosaic-of-alternatives
In the face of unfettered globalization, the rise of right-wing movements around the globe and the dangers of climate catastrophe, it seems easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to...
The Logic Behind Defunding the Cops
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Ben Burgis is the author of “Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left” and in this video he takes a critical look at the demand to defund the cops.
Giants: The Global Power Elite - A Talk by Peter Phillips
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Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world’s wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media...
What’s a Colloquium ? (2020)
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A small band of natural building enthusiasts and outlaws met in a field over 20 years ago at something they called a ‘colloquium’. The movement they created has grown uncontrollably ever since...
Unlearning Race in 2020? Thomas Chatterton Williams
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As tensions rise over racial divisions throughout the western world, books like ’White Fragility’ and ’How to Be An Anti-Racist’ have flown to the top of the bestseller lists. These frame race as...
The Yugas: The Great Time Cycles of the Universe (2020)
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Time. What is it? This is such an odd question to ask. But to never inquire into the nature of time is even more strange. We are all subject to time and its process of birth, life, decay, and...
Madagasikara (2020)
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In 2009, fed up with increased poverty and widespread corruption, Madagascar’s citizens took to the streets in protest. After the president was forced to resign, the international community...
Affluence Is Killing the Planet, Warn Scientists
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/affluence-is-killing-the-planet-warn-scientists
Would you like to be rich? Chances are your answer is: “Yes! Who wouldn’t want to be rich?” Clearly, in societies where money can buy almost everything, being rich is generally perceived as...
David Attenborough - For All Nature
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“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.” Sir...
Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?
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Does the US live up to the standards it sets for the rest of the world? Is the United States really the torchbearer for global democracy that most Americans think it is? – Second...
Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy
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Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80’s through today’s senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of...
Opioids, Inc. (2020)
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Pushing opioids. Bribing doctors. Making millions. FRONTLINE and the Financial Times investigate how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller up to 100 times stronger than...
Theory of Enchantment 101
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The Theory of Enchantment course provides educators with a world-class social-emotional learning program (SEL) that integrates pop culture with developmental psychology. This program helps...
13TH (2016)
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The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a...
A Working Definition of Racism
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1. Human beings are members of the same species. The term ’racism’ is useful as a shorthand way of categorizing the systematic mistreatment experienced by people of color and Third world people...
Racist Statues and Revisionist History
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A lot of people seem to think that taking down racist statues or monuments to problematic historical figures is “erasing history.” Let’s talk about that. – Second Thought
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/we-need-solidarity-not-white-guilt-to-fight-racism
In towns and cities across every state in the nation, protests have erupted in bitterness and rage. In the year 2020 — decades after the civil rights movement and black urban uprisings of the...