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Films For Action added an article on Jan 31, 2017

In just one week, with several strokes of a pen, Trump unleashed upon the working class in the U.S. an attack not seen in decades. From his attack on the flawed Affordable Care...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 23, 2017

The London Anarchist Group Squatting Mansions to Fight Homelessness

London squatting activists ANAL (Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians) are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 22, 2017

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again. This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 22, 2017

Redneck Revolt Presents: A Message to the Patriot Movement

Over the past few weeks, Redneck Revolt has been communicating with a former member of a III% Patriot Militia based out of Ohio. Peter made contact with our organization after...

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Films For Action shared a link on Feb 22, 2017

Nonviolent Martial Arts | The Disarmy Wiki

A compendium of techniques and tactics for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action

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Films For Action added an article on Feb 20, 2017

Fighting Racism and the Limits of "Ally-Ship"

Khury Petersen-Smith and Brian Bean comment on a discussion in the Black Lives Matter movement about the role of white activists in the antiracist struggle.

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 18, 2017

Thich Nhat Hanh: How We Can Learn to Love Our Enemies

This is a short excerpt from Peacemaking. I often think about this story when I think about the kind of activism I would like to bring into this world. I want to help build a...

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Films For Action added an article on Feb 16, 2017

Farewell to Doublespeak: Israel's Vision for the Future Is Terrifying

Empirical historical evidence combined with a little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 16, 2017

The Importance of Empathy

With an increasingly polarized and divided world, we need empathy more than ever before. Too often we are talking at each other, unable to listen and jumping to entirely wrong...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 13, 2017

Redneck Revolt's Response to the Alt-Right

Last week, a video statement made by self-proclaimed members of the "Alt-Right" was shared by Milo Yiannopoulos and has since spread across the Internet. Their statement was...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 10, 2017

The Essence of Gaia Theory

Dr. Stephan Harding explains Gaia Theory and its Impact on his Life.

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Films For Action added an article on Feb 9, 2017

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Last week I had two brushes with the mainstream of American culture and politics. The first was an appearance on a PBS television show, the Tavis Smiley show. As far as I can...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 8, 2017

Tashi And The Monk (2014)

On a remote mountaintop of the Himalayas sits Jhamtse Gatsal (Tibetan for “The Garden of Love and Compassion”), a special school and home for 85 abandoned and neglected...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 7, 2017

The Circle of Human Concern

In a new animated video, Haas Institute Director john a. powell asks, "Who belongs in the circle of human concern?" Through the framework of belonging, the video explains how...

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Films For Action added an article on Feb 4, 2017

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

I believe that true justice should have compassion in it. When someone does something harmful, destructive, the destruction is done not only to the person who is the victim...

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Films For Action added an article on Feb 2, 2017

Why Punching Nazis in the Face Is a Bad Idea

I see all sorts of well-meaning and otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people applauding neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched in the face. Here’s why this is not something...

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Films For Action added a video on Feb 2, 2017

Wetheuncivilised, a Life Story (2017) ($4)

Disillusioned by a story of consumption and alienation, a newly married couple is called to action. Carrying with them their unborn child, they embark on a year-long journey...

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 31, 2017

The Urgency of Slowing Down

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of...

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Films For Action added an article on Nov 27, 2016

Keep Your Spirits Up: You Can't Help the World When You're Tired and Sad

We must take care of ourselves in a way that ensures our compassion is not drained away.

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 31, 2017

Trump's Actions Warrant a General National Strike

Political movements rarely succeed without causing discomfort and inconvenience

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 30, 2017

Trial Balloon for a Coup?

Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours

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Films For Action added a video on Jan 30, 2017

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Rev. William Barber offers some words of hope.

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 30, 2017

Six Principles for Resisting the Presidency of Donald Trump

Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove useful to movements preparing to resist Donald Trump’s...

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 30, 2017

First They Came for the Immigrants - And NYT Said People Should Anonymously Inform on Them

As Donald Trump issued an executive order intended to single out Muslims for immigration restrictions, many Americans searched their consciences for the right way to respond to...

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 28, 2017

How Do I Know Good Can Overcome Ignorance, Spite and Hate? Because I've Seen It.

A tweet moves Rob Hopkins to share a personal experience from his family’s life.

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 24, 2017

The Safety Pin and the Swastika

The frameworks of liberal identity politics and “alt-right” white nationalism are proving curiously compatible.

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 20, 2017

Something Better to Offer Trump Voters Tired of Waiting for Their Turn

A world free of extremes of wealth and poverty in which no one needs to stand in line for a chance at a secure and fulfilling life.

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Films For Action added a video on Jan 20, 2017

What Is a Gift Economy? - Alex Gendler

What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in...

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 20, 2017

Obama's Hidden Role in Worsening Climate Change

It should be a scandal that leftists-liberals paint Trump as a special threat, a war mongerer – not Obama who is the first president to be at war everyday of his eight years...

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 20, 2017

Union Co-Operatives: What They Are and Why We Need Them

Neoliberal policies contribute to alienation, disempowerment and non-unionised jobs, but a new model for unions could break the vicious circle, argues Simon Taylor.

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Films For Action added an article on Jan 2, 2017

The (R)Evolution is Unity: Reflections on the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa

Habari Gani! (What's the News in Swahili, the greeting during Kwanzaa) Christmas Day in Willingboro, South Jersey - right outside of Philadelphia - was spent recovering from...

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Films For Action added a video on Dec 23, 2016

How You Change People

This is exactly what we all need right now. Here is a great secret of life that you can use to change the hearts and minds of everyone in your world. Speech by Garret John LoPorto

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Films For Action added an article on Dec 21, 2016

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

Being defined by a negative speaks more of bureaucracy than of sex or self-expression.

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Films For Action added an article on Dec 21, 2016

The Limits of Anti-Racism

Antiracism is a favorite concept on the American left these days. Of course, all good sorts want to be against racism, but what does the word mean exactly? The contemporary...

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Films For Action added an article on Dec 21, 2016

Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy - It's Bound to Backfire

This week began with a mass email from the head of the Democratic National Committee, who declared: “By now, Americans know beyond any reasonable doubt that the Russian...

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Films For Action added an article on Dec 20, 2016

Nonviolent Lives: Stories for Teaching Nonviolence

It’s time to teach nonviolence. It is time to flood the curricula of our schools with subjects that can improve human relations such as Nonviolent Communication, Nonviolent...

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Films For Action added a video on Dec 14, 2016

Bernie Sanders Transforms Trump Supporters Into Liberals

Bernie Sanders spoke to Trump supporters, and the results were surprising. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

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Films For Action added an article on Dec 12, 2016

CIA "Concludes" Russia Meddled in US Election, Provides No Evidence

'What we have instead are assertions, disseminated by anonymous people, completely unaccompanied by any evidence, let alone proof,' writes Glenn Greenwald

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Films For Action added an article on Oct 10, 2016

The Lid Is off, The Truth Is Coming Out

It is getting harder to keep a secret these days. The collective shadow of our society, once safely relegated to the dark basement of the unmentionable, is now exposed to...

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Films For Action added an article on Dec 9, 2016

Fake News: Sensibly Navigating the Information Highway

Many people are telling us who to believe and who not to believe using lists of “fake news” outlets that inevitably encourage censorship, yet there is a much more sensible way...

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