(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 25, 2008
Why Do We Do Drugs? I suppose if you don't do any drugs at all you can stop reading this. But for many of us, perhaps most of us, we all do something. When our drug of choice isn't pot it's certainly alcohol. And when it's not either of those the national standard for our consumer society is, of course, shopping. More than likely it's probably both or a combination of many.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 16, 2008
9/11 in 33 Minutes: Determining the Official Story Cannot Be True Seven years after 9/11, debate about who was involved in the attacks remains as contentious as ever. Despite Osama Bin Laden being popularly named as the prime suspect, the FBI to this day does not have him listed on their Most Wanted list for 9/11. By the FBI's own admission, there is "no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11". So who was responsible? We still don't know, but one thing can be sure...

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Truth about 9/11 Isn't Black or White - It's Time our Media Reflected This With the 11th anniversary of September 11th, 2001 just around the corner, we can expect America and our media to look back once again on this turning point in our nation's history. But like every year before it, we will look back with our eyes half open, not wanting to look at the full complexity of this enormously influential event, preferring to remember and reflect on a simplified caricature of our history instead.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It For Granted A dangerous thing can occur when you start learning about what's really going on in the world. The problems start to seem so complex, and you're just one person, doubts begin to creep in. You sincerely want to help change the world, but from all this knowledge you start to believe that the world is too out of control and too big to change, so you end up not doing anything.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Top 6 Critiques of Obama from a Progressive (Reality-Based) Perspective Barack Obama has been called everything from a closet-Muslim to a foreign-born socialist. For partisan Democrats, the Right's deluge of attacks on Obama over the years might be seen as a great gift, as it has painted conservatives who echo these sentiments as laughably crazy. But ultimately this has served to shut out and marginalize legitimate, deeply meaningful and and truly damning critiques of the Obama administration.

SHARE        Thursday, March 25, 2010
A Life Exercise for When We've Been Hurt by Someone Visualize the face of the person who's hurt you. What do you see? You may first see their expression in the moment of the event that they hurt you. It may be a face of anger or frustration, but keep looking at them longer and their facial expression will begin to change.

(6 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 22, 2010
What's It Going to Take to Heal the Apathy in Our Society? With a growing awareness of mounting ecological, economic, political, and social problems, there exist many growing currents of response. On one hand, more people are waking up. They're getting involved. They're saying, "Not another day! This is where I mark the line." But you have to learn how to process all the depressing news without getting burned out.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Top 10 Documentaries that Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists These are the top 10 films that capture the spirit and motivation of Occupy Wall St. They are the heavy-weight truth bombs which provide the intellectual backing and substance to the slogans and chants. Watch these films. Share them with friends. By breaking the bottleneck the mass media holds on the flow of information, we'll be able to build the collective understanding necessary to realize the ambitious goals of OWS.

SHARE        Saturday, October 25, 2008
Films For Action tops 300 Activist-Issue Videos You Can Watch Online We just hit our three hundredth video added to the Films For Action website. It's an amazing collection of the best activist-issue films you can find scattered across the internet, all cataloged in one place. Documentaries, short films, and other kinds of videos covering: activism, big media, climate change, consumerism, corporations, education, election fraud, impeachment, money, peak oil, politics, sustainability, and more.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Root Problem is the Root Solution Climate change, deforestation, bought-and-paid-for elections, and the corporate exploitation of millions of people working in sweat-shop factories around the world - what's the root solution that could solve them all?

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 31, 2011
Social Change Strategic Focus: Young People! Reaching out to young people is especially critical at this time. With mounting psycho-social stress attributed to an increasingly uncertain future, young people are going to need support grappling with the social effects of the coming collapse. The world is rife with uncertainty about our fate on the planet.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Films For Action - A Compliment to Op-Ed News, Providing a Go-To Resource for Progressive Video With excellent independent media sites like OpEdNews, Truth Out and Common Dreams providing progressive news in written form, Films For Action.org has dedicated itself to filling in the progressive video niche. "It's probably the most comprehensive collection of videos dedicated to social change online," says Tim Hjersted, co-founder and director for the project.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 8, 2008
It's Time Anti-War Activists Go Back to School Activists protesting the war at last month's Democratic National Convention have come and gone. Banners were unfurled. Protesters marched and chanted. Puppets of Bush and company provided comic relief. But looking back at the conference, there is no clear sign that any of these efforts have gotten us any closer to ending the war.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 20, 2010
An Experiment: Loving More, Judging Less The next time you think about rejecting someone, try loving them instead. You'll find it is more difficult than you might imagine. If you usually pride yourself on loving many people, you may be caught by the sudden contradiction of your behavior, when you find it hard to love someone when it does not come naturally.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 26, 2008
Dreaming of a Buy-Nothing Christmas It's kind of ironic that for several years being an atheist I still celebrated Christmas reflexively because that's what I'd always done. The last several years I've been gradually winding down my participation. I still gather with family and friends, but each year I buy less.

SHARE        Friday, August 28, 2009
What's the Value of Conspiracy Theory? For when you'd rather silence your critics rather than debate them...