A Learning Library for Changing the World

6 Black Men vs 1 Secret White Guy
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/6-black-men-vs-1-secret-white-guy

WHO IS JUBILEE? We believe in the power of empathy for human good. Ultimately, we aim to inspire people to EMBRACE EMPATHY.

Why You Can’t Ignore This Far-Right Trend
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/why-you-cant-ignore-this-farright-trend

In this video, I look at the rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the world gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable there are now glimpses of two trends...

Gratitude Revealed
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An epic journey forty years in the making, GRATITUDE REVEALED from acclaimed filmmaker, Louie Schwartzberg, the director of cult hit Fantastic Fungi, takes us on a transformational, cinematic...

How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-to-bring-back-front-yard-businesses

How do we add mixed uses in single detached neighborhoods? People have some ideas… - About Here

How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-15minute-cities-are-shaking-up-the-world

In this video, we explore the concept of the 15-minute city, debunking common misconceptions and conspiracy theories surrounding it. We’ll reframe the discussion to focus on the true intentions...

The Most Sustainable City In America
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Over the last few weeks, I reached out to sustainability experts around the world, crunched a bunch of numbers, and asked all of you for help finding the most sustainable city in America. Here’s...

How Consumerism Ruins Our Planet and Finances
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-consumerism-ruins-our-planet-and-finances

Consumerism is destroying our earth and our wallets - here’s how. In this video essay, we’re discussing the advertisement-driven world we live in, the ways consumerism impacts personal finance...

Online Activism: What’s The Point?
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Is Online Activism Useless? Online activism has been heralded as the future of expanded freedoms, a cesspool where meaningful action goes to die, and everything in between. But when we “agitate”...

Our Obsession with Economic Growth is Deadly
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/our-obsession-with-economic-growth-is-deadly

We are surrounded by stuff. We buy and buy and buy - it’s the foundation of how our economies run, how they grow. But all this buying, all this economic “growing”, is devastating people and our...

Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/independent-media-need-you-to-get-the-word-out-on-social-media

“Liking” a post on social media might not seem like a high-impact action. But nonprofit media groups actually depend a great deal on their readers’ online engagement.

When people like, comment...

Here’s How We Escape Climate Apocalypse
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/heres-how-we-escape-climate-apocalypse

A look at the importance of speculative climate fiction, sci-fi, and utopias for political movements, from Our Changing Climate.

Male Inequality, Explained by an Expert | Richard Reeves
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/male-inequality-explained-by-an-expert-richard-reeves

Modern males are struggling. Author Richard Reeves outlines the three major issues boys and men face and shares possible solutions. 

The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-friendship-recession-richard-reeves

Why friendships are becoming rarer in America, explained by author Richard Reeves. 

The Great Disconnect
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-great-disconnect

We are living in a time that has been described as the age of loneliness. Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are isolating...

Water Has a Memory
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/water-has-a-memory

Matriarch and Environmental Ambassador for the Ponca Nation, Casey Camp-Horinek takes us through the occupied territory of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Through the ancestral teachings of her Ponca...

CIA Stories : The Jakarta Method
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/cia-stories-the-jakarta-method

Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA mass murder in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against socialists and accused leftists in...

A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/a-quiet-revolution-seed-sovereignty-in-the-city

Londoners are rising to the challenges of climate change, food poverty, entrenched inequality and our nation’s mental and physical health crises by reviving one of the oldest human activities of...

Worker Self-Directed Enterprises: the Cure for Capitalism
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/worker-selfdirected-enterprises-the-cure-for-capitalism

“Socialism Sucks!” This blatant invective was hurled at me while I stood on a DC metro train reading Richard Wolff’s new book Understanding Socialism. I chuckled a bit, having heard this refrain...

Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden | Small-Scale Potager Style Vegetable Garden
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/beautiful-no-dig-permaculture-kitchen-garden-smallscale-potager-styl

This video is of Tim and Maddy Harland’s beautiful no-dig permaculture kitchen garden in Hapmshire UK. Tim and Maddy are the founders of the fantastic @PermacultureMagazine and have a tranquil...

Briahna Joy Gray Examines the Role of Race and Authoritarianism in Police Violence
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/briahna-joy-gray-examines-the-role-of-race-in-police-violence

Every minute of this is fantastic commentary, from CRT in schools, to why police violence should be framed more often as authoritarian rather than just racist, to the censorship and school...