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Since 1 April, TNI with allies has brought together experts and activists to discuss how this pandemic health crisis exposes the...

Join the Transnational Institute's fifth COVID-19 webinar, which will examine authoritarian and repressive state responses to the Coronavirus pandemic, featuring UN Special Rapporteur on Protecting Human Rights and other global...

The Center for Global Justice has produced a 30 minute film on climate change, directed by Board member Atahualpa Caldera Sosa.  

The rising global consciousness of the climate crisis was reflected in San Miguel de Allende in...

Broadcasting from Tucson, Arizona, Joaquin Murrieta joins Caminos de Agua technical mentor, Aaron Krupp, for a conversation about what we can all do in our homes, neighborhoods, schools, and...

To access the live stream click https://youtu.be/kwf4D0kIGWs

The Alto Río Laja Watershed stretches across seven municipalities in northern Guanajuato State in Central...

The virus and the fact that so many activities must be cancelled as a result has underscored the importance of free software (or what is frequently called Free and Open Source Software). If you're going on-line with what were your face to face...

Climate change is the most important threat facing humanity. Almost three decades after the summit of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 1992, the planet continues to suffer rapid deterioration from human activities.

Young people are tired of...

Guanajuato is a dangerous place for women. Fifty-nine percent of women in Guanajuato age 15 and older have experienced violence. In 2019, there were 303 murders of women, at least 15 of which were femicides. That’s not acceptable to Veronica Cruz,...

Honoring the women around the world with the Goldman Environmental Prize.   Stopping illegal gold mining in ancestral lands,  expisng the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, banning deep sea trawling, creating a nature reserve in the Gobi Desert.  These...

Tempestad, (Storm) is an award winning documentary by Salvadoran-Mexican director Tatiana Huezo. This beautifully crafted and creative film focuses on the emotional journey of two women victimized by the...

How did things go so wrong back in 2008-09? And what the heck really happened anyway? It’s still very confusing. And could it happen again? Some say the economy is fine. But student debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt, corporate debt, government...

This film, by documentary filmmaker Judy Jackson is an update from “Walk With Us” – which followed a caravan of Central American migrants - fleeing violence, poverty and climate change – as it moved through Mexico a year ago . Much of it...

The horrors faced by migrants fleeing poverty, war, crime and other atrocities are forcing hundreds of thousands to escape their countries, mostly Central American, to try to find a better life somewhere else; in many cases, in the United States. ...

“Without question, this is absolutely the best and most creative film on the future of humanity and the environment.”
— Paul Hawken

As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, filmmakers Cyril, Mélanie,...

The 2020 Oscar winning documentary, American Factory, is about a closed General Motors plant in Dayton Ohio that is now owned by a Chinese billionaire that employs American workers under Chinese authoritarian management. It is a prescription...

Mexico is in the midst of great changes. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO for short) has pledged to end the corruption that has been endemic in the country and raise the poor. These are just a couple of the more difficult aspects of what he...

Two short films that tell the stories of DACA recipients and provide insight into their lives and struggles. There can be no better time to tell these stories.

The films will be followed by discussion of DACA with filmmaker Rhian Miller from...

Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial...

By now most Facebook users know their personal data is being used to sell them stuff.But they are less likely to realize how it is also used to influence their voting.In 2016 the British data research company Cambridge Analytica cunningly harvested...

Most of us have become cynical about the ways our governments sell the public on their nefarious adventures. That is certainly the case with the disastrous 2003 US invasion of Iraq. While widely believed at the time, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s...

The Corporate Coup d'État takes a complex political/historical theme and brings it to life. In the style of '13th,' 'Manufacturing Consent,' 'The Corporation,' and 'All Governments Lie' it creates a powerful cinematic experience that explains how...

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream of a society in which all are recognized as equal and all are treated with dignity.  That vision resonated with most people who aspire to a more caring society in which we are our brothers keepers.  However, efforts...

U.S. sanctions block the Venezuelan people from obtaining food and medicine. They resulted in at least 40,000 deaths between mid-2017 and the end of 2018, according to a...

“Don’t frack with Mother Earth” became a popular slogan after Josh Fox’s 2010 documentary on hydraulic fracking exposed the dangers to humans and environment of this controversial method of extracting fossil fuels from shale. Scenes of people living...

For decades Mexico’s unions have been controlled by the government rather than independently representing workers. Now President Andres Manual Lopez Obrador is seeking to move the country away from the neoliberalism of the last 36 years. What does...

The political leaders most able to do something continue to ignore the issue of climate change. While the cataclysmic effects of global warming become ever clearer, scientists and significant swathes of the public are trying to make a difference. That...

Laura Carlsen is a leading journalist reporting on Latin America and especially Mexico for US media. A familiar and always popular speaker in San Miguel, she will update us on the Mexican scene today from US-Mexican relations under Trump, to NAFTA 2....

Filmmaker Oliver Stone has made a dramatic thriller about the most famous and controversial whistle blower of our time: Edward Snowden. What Snowden revealed to the public was the massive surveillance the US government engaged in against its own...

Own your own job? Yes you can. Thousands of people across the US and many more around the world do exactly that. They belong to the growing number of worker owned cooperatives. The documentary film Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work...

A professional software developer, Micky will focus in this second workshop on browsing, searching, and virtual meeting software. She will show how free software opens up the world of “platform co-ops” – think of Uber under drivers’ control and AirBnB...

Richard Stallman will explain “how nonfree software and online dis-services impose their control on us, and some specific kinds of wrong they are designed to do.”  A key initiator of the free software movement and founder of the Free Software...

San Miguel will join the Global Climate Strike with a march and rally, Climate Action for the Future. We will meet at 11 am at Calle del Cardo at the corner of Ancha de San Antonio, and...

San Miguel is blessed with many good Samaritans.  From Caminamos Juntos that helps deportees settle here to ABBA House that offers respite for migrants traveling north and south, there are many organizations and individuals that help those fleeing...

Showing solutions may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. Tomorrow (in French: Demain) is a 2015 French documentary film that has the distinction of not giving...

Film: “Woman at War,"   starring Halldora Geirharosdottir as an eco-feminist

This film is a taut environmental thriller whose protagonist is a charismatic choir director. It takes place...

The 1950 Mexican classic “Los Olvidados” (The Forgotten Ones is a dark picture of the violent life of destitute children in Mexico City. Director Luis Buñuel received the Best Director award for it at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is also known...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece, The Conformist (Il Conformista) from 1970,  is based upon the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. It is beautifully played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli and Dominique Sanda.

The...

Bernie Sanders inspired a generation - but who inspired him? “American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs” is the culmination of five years of research and production. Its inspiration was the use of the word “socialist” as a political...

Bisbee ’17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border.

Radically combining collaborative...

In Seasons (2015), Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age. Winter had gone on for 80,000 years when—in a relatively short period of time...

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The 2020...

This is the fourth...

Noted journalist Laura Carlsen returns to San Miguel to analyze the first four months of Mexico’s new government.  Since taking office December 1, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO for short) has been introducing sweeping changes, turning...

Known only as “Chavela,” Isabel Vargas was born in Costa Rica in 1919 and moved to Mexico at a young age, eventually becoming a Mexican citizen. The throaty ranchero singer and guitarist dressed as a man, smoked cigars, drank heavily, carried a gun,...

Sometimes, truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Spike Lee's Oscar nominated BlacKkKlansman addresses America's racial disparity from a truly novel perspective. A black detective (played by John David Washington, the son of Denzel Washington...

What is the Green New Deal? What Can It Do? What are its Limitations? The Green New Deal (GND) is getting a lot of attention these days...and rightly so as the potential of the Green New Deal to address climate change and global warming is the single...

Have you ever wondered what the elephant in the room is regarding global warming that nobody, including leading environmental organization, wants to talk about? The film 'Cowspiracy,' based on the book “The Sustainability Secret,” presents concepts...

Ser Mujer se complace en ofrecer una serie de cortometrajes originales del primer festival de cine feminista latina celebrado en la Ciudad de México en diciembre de 2018 y están en español. Los organizadores del festival estarán en San Miguel para...

Dolores Huerta is among the most important, but least well known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers union with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have largely gone unrecognized. Dolores...

When will we all have health care? When will we train doctors for service? When will thousands of health professionals volunteer to serve worldwide in poor areas? Right now, says Cuba. The film ¡Salud! takes you into the widely celebrated...

The periodic crises or disruptions that we see in the accumulation and concentration of capital – that is to say in the process of the unfolding of capital's fundamental dynamism – of capitalism itself – always find solutions. Whether they are good...

After his 2016 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders urged his millions of supporters to remain active in electoral politics at the local level—by running for school board, city council or mayor in cities...

Bernie Sanders has put the word “socialism” back into our current political discourse. Other politicians and the media have tried to ignore his "democratic socialism.” However, young people (and others) today are not afraid of the ‘S’ word, although...

Today’s independent investigative journalists take as their watchword I. F. Stone’s premise –“All governments lie.” At a time when profit driven corporate media serves the interests of powerful elites, a democratic republic desperately needs...

In 2015, a year before Trump was elected in the U.S., Argentina elected president Macri. These two are remarkably similar in how they campaigned and the policies they promote. Argentines have mounted creative resistance - worker coops, street protests...

The migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya, “It’s not about us - it’s about the dignity of our brother ‘travellers.”

It started when Ignacio and his family took food...

Bernie Sanders inspired a generation - but who inspired him? “American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs” is the culmination of five years of research and production. Its inspiration was the use of the word “socialist” as a political...

Oscar nominated Haitian director Raoul Peck( “I’m Not Your Negro”) takes up the life and works of Karl Marx, instigator of one of the most important social revolutions in history, along with his friend Frederick Engels.

From the excellent...

Jon Allen served as Canada's Ambassador to Spain from 2010-16 where he witnessed a surge in right wing populism in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Austria, as well as its left-wing manifestations in Greece and Spain. He will look at the...

Join us for the world premiere of a new documentary that looks at the migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA house in Celaya, (which is supported by Caminamos...

From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 Years tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population...

Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RBG) was appointed to the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) by President Bill Clinton in 1993 as the second of only four women to be confirmed to the SCOTUS. At one time she was the only female Justice on the SCOTUS. Her exceptional...

We live in a time when social sociopathy seems to be rearing its virulent head with more and energy. Different but related types of hate are spewing out their bile in our society. Please join Paula James and Gregory Diamant in exploring these poisons...

“the fierce urgency of now” – Martin Luther King

The Center for Global Justice celebrates the birth date of Martin Luther King by looking at the last years of King’s life and his moral boldness that many preferred to ignore. This is...

Over four years ago the disappearance and murder of 43 students from Ayotzinapa became a scandal that rocked the nation and tarnished Mexico’s officialdom at all levels – political, military and the police. Now President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...

“Cities in Transition” is the second discussion in the monthly “Reimagining San Miguel as a Sustainable Community” series. Following introductory presentations by Silvia González, who works with the Transition Towns Network in Querétaro and Alberto...

President Trump claims trade wars are easy to win. So far he has demonstrated they are easy to start. It remains to be seen how they will end. It is also easy to start military wars, as presidents from LBJ to George W. Bush have shown. Based on Norman...

The collapse of liberal democracy and the rolling crisis of neoliberalism converge with other crises to leave us disoriented in a world that seems to be falling apart. Is unbridled global capitalism self-destructing? Will we go down with it?

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Dr. Pedro Gellert, a professor from Mexico City, will address why the question of Israel/Palestine is an increasingly important part of the progressive agenda. The talk will also deal with some broader questions such as the role of the Israel Lobby,...

Join Sallie Latch to present her new book Here Me, Raw Rare Interviews Syrian Refugees and Other Heroes of the Refugee Crisis in Greece

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From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 Years tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population...

Cuba and the Cameraman is a very human chronicle of life in revolutionary Cuba told through the camera of Jon Alpert. Over 42 years he repeatedly visited the island with his video camera, returning to befriend three Cuban families as well as...

This documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last few years of his life, from the vital role he played in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to his assassination in 1968. While King’s leadership during the bus boycotts, the sit-ins and...

In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year-old food legacy. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists,...

With the long decline in US manufacturing and today's economic crisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are not working, so some citizens and public officials are ready to think...

Sandra Moran is a member of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, an elected member of the Guatemalan Congress for the Convergence Party and a tireless defender of women’s rights will discuss the current political situation in Guatemala and the role of social...

A fun and meditative arts workshop involving embodied writing, journaling and the making of a huge banner.

Water as feminine agency, flow, power, connection, will be honored as well as considering water in our daily lives, and where and how we...

2018 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. In order to mark this bicentenary, the Center for Global Justice is presenting a staged reading of the play, Marx in Soho by the acclaimed radical historian, Howard Zinn.

The play takes...

Cooperatives are a growing alternative to working for a corporation, an alternative where there are no bosses, workers own and manage their own business and receive the benefits of their work rather than enriching absentee investors. Such democratic...

Canadians and USians are invited to dialog about the strengths and weaknesses of our respective countries. We are neighbors with a common language and share a long unfortified border, yet know too little about each other. What can we learn by...

Cuba and the Cameraman is a very human chronicle of life in revolutionary Cuba told through the camera of Jon Alpert. Over 42 years he repeatedly visited the island with his video camera, returning to befriend three Cuban families as well as...

In anticipation of the next World Water Day and following up on the Water Forums held in 2016 and 2017, the Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden is calling an open meeting to discuss the central water issue--a common natural asset that is threatened by...

Current U.S. deportation policies present a challenge to the San Miguel community as growing numbers of Mexicans are sent here, often after many years of living in the US. In response, a local volunteer network is being organized called Caminamos...

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

That guarantee attracted bipartisan support, and both the House and the Senate approved the Equal Rights...

Featuring acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, The Great White Hoax explores how American political leaders of both parties have been tapping into white anxiety, stoking white grievance, and scapegoating people of color for...

“Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, "Sleep Dealer" is a welcome surprise. It combines visually arresting science fiction done on a budget with a strong sense of social commentary in a way that few films attempt, let alone achieve...

When distressed owners shut down their workplaces, what can workers do? This was discussed last August at the 6th International Workers' Economy Gathering in Buenos Aires, Argentina....

Based in Mexico City, noted journalist Laura Carlsen's Americas program is a major source of news and commentary on Mexico and Latin America for English readers (www.americas.org). Her print and broadcast...

As we struggle to find our way out of our present morass, we need a vision of where we want to go. Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz has been building institutions for a better society...

The US has never been very welcoming to people who are “different.” Muslims, Syrian refugees, Mexican immigrants, African Americans have often faced hostility, particularly when people feel threatened by war or by economic insecurity or physical...

San Miguel is facing a point of no return in its development. This can be seen in projects like Capilla de Piedra, that destroyed the cultural landscape and the urban integrity of the city. The challenges faced today by San Miguel --real estate...

A panel of three physicians will discuss how to achieve "Medicare for All" in the U.S., a single-payer publicly financed national health program that would fully cover medical care for all Americans, while lowering costs by eliminating the profit-...

The way we produce food in the current world accounts for half of all human created greenhouse gas emissions. Waste, transportation, deforestation, food processing, packaging, refrigeration and freezing add up to making agriculture one of the main...

Mexican Border; drugs; prostitution; corrupt US law enforcement. Sound familiar? This 1958 baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in it. On...

It is often said that racism is America’s original sin, referring to anti-Black racism. But actually there was an earlier racism against the original inhabitants of the Americas....

Since its launch nearly two decades ago, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has given new hope to millions in Latin America while also instilling fear among the elites in the US that a path was being blazed toward a non-capitalist way forward for that...

President Trump has appointed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as co-chair of an Election Integrity Commission. Kobach has promoted a Republican dark operation called Crosscheck, a secret purge list that helped steal the 2016 election....

This presentation by Professor Joan Roelofs will touch on themes to be developed in more depth in her four-session course beginning the January 15, at the Center for Global Justice:

• How is international law created and how is it...

As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely:...

Free trade has been at the center of much political controversy in recent years. Both Bernie Sanders on the Left and Donald Trump on the Right have rejected the proposed TransPacific Partnership and the existing NAFTA. Liberal Hillary Clinton embraced...

One of the major challenges facing us today is climate disruption. The extremes of climate events are getting more extreme (major storms, drought, floods, polar ice caps melting, unprecedented warming, etc.). The science is clear but the solutions are...

For over a decade Venezuela’s revolution lifted millions out of poverty, raised healthcare levels dramatically and achieved universal literacy by using the nation’s oil wealth for the benefit of those at the bottom of society. From the beginning the...

We live in perilous times. Environmental crises, the increased threat of nuclear war, austerity and the slashing of the social safety net are occupying our thoughts and emotions....

Is healthcare a privilege where wealth determines the quality of care or a basic human right? The U.S. is the only developed country that does not offer any form of universal health coverage....

Cuba is re-forming its socialism. Building on the human development achieved over the past half century and more, this brave country is boldly re-inventing its socialism....

The Goldman Environmental Prize honors women and men who take grassroots actions to protect the environment in their communities. Goldman Prize recipients focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development...

Racism has a great deal to do with the election of Donald Trump, but as Enaid Savage argues, not perhaps in the way that Americans may think. Savage contends that racism is a social construct that serves a function within society, and US society...

Gilberto Perez is a member of the Buddhist order- Nipponzan Myohoji Sangha and one of the “Trident Three” protesters who were arrested at a Mothers Day demonstration at the Trident nuclear submarine base....

Many girls are taught at an early age to strive for perfection, to be “good little girls” and not take the risk of making a mistake or causing trouble. “Don’t stick your neck out” we are told. What separates the well-behaved woman from the woman who...

Cuba is re-forming its socialism. Building on the human development achieved over the past half century and more, this brave country is boldly re-inventing its socialism. Recognizing that the state cannot do everything, it is opening up its economy to...

Yo Soy Así, produced and directed by Jodi Savitz, is a documentary film which follows four Argentine, lesbian-identified women,...

Not only are we facing a rise in right wing authoritarianism  but climate disruption is looming over our lives. In the United States, the past thirty years has seen a rise in a collective anxiety fed by a media desperate for profit at any cost....

Water access and quality issues impact women around the globe. Join Casilda and Jennifer (Caminos de Agua) to see how water flows through womens’ lives, celebrating emotions, confronting challenges, sharing realities, speaking truth, implementing...

At a time when the “news” media has become entertainment, fake facts abound, investigative journalism withers and the president attacks the media as the enemy, more than ever we need a bold, independent media. Media critic Jeff Cohen will open a...

Director Kimberly Bautista provides an intimate look at violence against women in Guatemala by chronicling the three-year journey of Rebeca as she tries to hold her sister’s killer accountable....

As consumers in a globalized world, we have become accustomed to having an enormous array of fresh vegetables available throughout the year....

U.S. reproductive health clinics are fighting to remain open. Since 2010, 288 TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have been passed by state legislatures....

While Mexico has large numbers of its citizens in the US, per capita El Salvador has a far larger percentage of its people who have emigrated due to poverty and violence. Now under Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing program, large numbers will be forced...

Directed by Samantha Grant, Daughters of the Forest tells the powerful, uplifting story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who attend a radical high school–...

Ser Mujer will be organizing its second Take Back The Night as a way to celebrate International Women’s Day. Take Back The Night is an event that seeks to bring awareness to the public about sexual assault and offer a safe place for victims to break...

This documentary, directed by Mary Dore, resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement....

This conference-concert presents several female composers from different epochs and places around the (Western) world, such as Maria Szymanowska, Pauline Viardot, Teresa Carreño, Amy Beach and María Teresa Lara. The speaker shares her passion for the...

Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, the Mediterranean island Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern and African refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe.

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Cooperatives have been recognized globally as the most important agent in the construction of a new society and as key to the advancement of the new world envisioned in the World Social Forum....

Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis saw the mass collapse of the country’s financial institutions, leaving more than half the country living in poverty (some sources put the figure as high as three quarters for 2002). Following the economic collapse,...

Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks...

"Las Rancheritas" is a group of women who have been working together for 16 years in the production of handmade wool rugs. From a workshop on cooperativism given by the Center for Global Justice in 2013, this group decided to work differently, putting...

Economic inequality has always been a key feature of capitalism.  But it is now becoming increasingly clear to many that today’s growing massive inequality threatens to destroy capitalism itself.  Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert...

Today, increasing numbers of people are finding socialism to be an attractive idea as an alternative to capitalism. But what is it? The socialist idea has a long history. In this 4-day class, political scientist Joan Roelofs will discuss various...

Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, for much of its history many immigrant groups have been treated almost as badly as the natives of this continent. Today it is Mexicans and Central Americans who are the Others being given the harsh...

Bernie Sanders has put the word “socialism” into our current political discourse. Other candidates and the media ignored his ‘democratic socialism.” However, young people (and others) today are not afraid of the ‘S’ word. But what does it mean? A...

Filmmaker Oliver Stone has made a dramatic thriller about the most famous and controversial whistle blower of our time: Edward Snowden.  What Snowden revealed to the public was the massive surveillance the US government engaged in against its own...

Four decades of corporate-led neoliberal globalization facilitated by Democratic and Republican elites alike that have undermined the American Dream for so many working people, finally blew back on them in last year’s presidential election....

Heist traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce,...

With great clarity, renowned economics professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism...

The flood of refugees into Europe from Syria as well as other countries has made visible the human cost of the instability of the region. Last spring our own Sallie Latch responded to this humanitarian crisis by going to the Greek island of Somos to...

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...

In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought...

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...

Herod's Law (original Spanish title La ley de Herodes) is a 1999 Mexican comedy produced by Bandidos Films. A fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and...

Translation - Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the...

“13 Pueblos” by award winning Mexican filmmaker Francesco Taboada Tabone chronicles citizens from 13 Morelos villages and their struggle against environmental degradation from human misuse and industrial and commercial projects brought on by NAFTA. To...

Desertification and declining access to potable water are central features of global warming and the worldwide environmental crisis. By 2030, a 40% global shortfall in a stable supply of good-quality fresh water is expected. As of 2008, 70% of the...

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's...

The marathon infomercials from our two major political parties have finally ended.  And progressives are now left with the question “Where do we progressives go from here?”  Do we simply support the non-Trump lesser of two evils?  Do we build a third...

La historia del manipulación de países latinoamericanos por Estados Unidos durante los últimos 50 años, inclusive la verdad detrás del derrocamiento procurado del Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez en 2002.

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...

Why now?  What does it mean for our democracy?  How does it impact our role in the world?  How can we counter it? This discussion with social justice and labor activist Bill Fletcher, host of the television show The Global African, and...

This community built and operated complex of pools in the state of Hidalgo is considered one of the top co-ops in Mexico given the quality of their operations. Thousands of gallons of hot water pour out of various springs on the mountainside where it...

Taking Root is a compelling documentary narrative about the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1977, Wangari Maathai suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded...

Translation of Michael Moore’s new film “Where To Invade Next” takes us to numerous European countries to highlight more progressive social policies there in areas of education, the prison system, drug policy, the workplace, health and many other...

Translation - The Center for Global Justice is fortunate to be able to present a talk by Dr. Paul on the current conflict next Friday.  In addition to the warring Islamist groups, James Paul will also tell us about non-violent secular groups like the...

For forty years scientists have been warning of the warming effects of the continued burning of fossil fuels.  Study after study, exposé after exposé, evidence of denial and cases of criminal obfuscation on the part of the petroleum industry...

Grutas de Tolantongo is a worker owned eco-resort in the State of Hidalgo. Tolantongo is situated in a spectacular box canyon where a thermal river flows from the side of a mountain. Working together, the campesinos have built warm infinity pools to...

Michael Moore’s new film “Where To Invade Next” takes us to numerous European countries to highlight more progressive social policies there in areas of education, the prison system, drug policy, the workplace, health and many other areas of daily life...

NATO has been the U.S.'s premier military alliance since the 1940s. It was to defend Europe against a supposed threat from the Soviet Union. But now, a quarter century after the demise of the U.S.S.R., NATO continues and has expanded its operations...