Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty
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Abundant Land is a 60-minute documentary that follows a group of Hawaiian residents on the island of Moloka’i as they oppose the biotech industry’s use of their land to test genetically engineered...
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the’Conservative Militant’
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Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word...
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/no-future-from-punk-to-zapatismo-and-connected-multitudes
Amador Fernández-Savater speaks to Catalan-Mexican writer and activist Guiomar Rovira about collective action, technologies, the online, “off-life” divide and more. After the fall of the Soviet...
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here’s Why.
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/mlk-strongly-supported-unions-heres-why
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able...
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
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There are countless reasons why Bernie Sanders should run for president in the 2020 election.
But perhaps the threshold question is what if he does not run? What pol
MLK & Universal Basic Income | Guaranteed Income (5 Reasons)
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Can You Give Examples of White Identity Politics? - David Pakman Q&A
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/can-you-give-examples-of-white-identity-politics-david-pakman-qanda
Audience Question: Can you give examples of white identity politics?
From Personal to Global Trauma: the Through-Line
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/from-personal-to-global-trauma-the-throughline
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were...
What Is Democracy?
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Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
Director Astra Taylor (Zizek!, Examined Life)’s idiosyncratic...
Why Americans Need to Act Like the Majority We Already Are
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This article was first published in “Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down.” Read more about the action guide here.
Ever since the 2016 presidential elections, we’ve been
What Is a Man? A Response to Gillette
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A short film: Dedicated to all those who sacrifice everything to make the world safer and better for all of us.
We agree that issues of abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, and bullying are...
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
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On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page of what appeared to be the Washington Post had people stopping in their tracks. The headline read...
Education, jobs and capitalism
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American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students...
Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong
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Gillette’s newest ad, ’The Best a Man Can Be’, has created a social media firestorm in the last few days. Rebel Wisdom sat down to discuss the reaction, the cultural context behind it and their...
Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/color-conversations-a-rational-discussion-about-race-imposed-identit
To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of...
Core Nonviolence Commitments
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I have not found a word that captures the exact line that I am looking for. Commitment may be a bit too strong, and tends to connote “should,” thus invoking the non-choiceful energy of obligation...
The Love We Deserve
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Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable. The kind of love that reminds us that “open hearted” is not a metaphor, but a...
7 Reasons to Keep the Faith in 2019
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/7-reasons-to-keep-the-faith-in-2019
First published on ecohustler.com
1. It is darkest before the dawn
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
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This is part two of a two-part essay. Part one can be found here.
Calls for a Universal Basic Income have been increasing, most recently as part of the Green New Deal introduced by U.S. Rep...
The Wonder of Wikileaks | 5 Times Trump & Friends Flipped on Wikileaks
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The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman
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Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty, obviously we had to ask him how!
7 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS VIDEO ↑
1. Everything you think you know about poverty is wrong
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/extinction-illness-grave-affliction-and-possibility
[Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novel A Rain of Night Birds was reviewed on our website by Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this...
Robert Reich : Why We Must Get Big Money Out of Politics
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/robert-reich-why-we-must-get-big-money-out-of-politics
Robert Reich explains why we must limit the influence of donors and lobbyists on Washington.
In Part 2, watch 3 Things You Didn’t Know About Money in Politics
Robert Reich: The Big Economic Switcheroo
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/robert-reich-the-big-economic-switcheroo
Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans.
Watch The Failure of Trickle-Down Economics via Part 2.
From Me to We. David Korten’s Resolution for the New Year
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/from-me-to-we-david-kortens-resolution-for-the-new-year
It’s not likely that many of us will mourn the passing of 2018. It’s been a deeply troubled year defined by wildfires, floods, earthquakes, water shortages, financial chaos, political gridlock...