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Emotional Literacy

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & Right get Fooled into Supporting Elite Interests

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests

Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America

America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Propaganda and The Engineering of Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

The Cult of Trump

Transition Documentaries

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

Voices of Transition (2012)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Transition

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Occupy Love (2013)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Reframing Discourse: the Emancipatory Power of Self-Told Stories

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

We Are All Indigenous

The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us

European Paganism and Christianization

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation

The Core of the Indigenous Worldview

“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?

The Other Way of Knowing

Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Recovering Our Sense of Place, Reconnecting with Pachamama

Bull$h!t Jobs | David Graeber

Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

David Graeber: We Need a Revolution in the Way We Think about "Work"

Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (2014)

5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society

Instead of Meaningfully Contributing to Society, Many People Are Stuck In Bullshit Jobs They Hate | Joe Rogan

David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy

David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street

What People Are Watching Now

The True Story of Che Guevara

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Where Olive Trees Weep (2024) (trailer)

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Israel: Above the law? (2024)

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So Close to America: Undocumented Farm Workers & The Myth of The 'Free Ride'

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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Honest Government Ad | Israel & Gaza

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Fairytales of Growth (2020)

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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (trailer)

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Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It's Haunting.

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Pyramids of Waste: The Lightbulb Conspiracy (2010) (trailer)

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Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2016)

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The Wisdom of Trauma (2021)

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The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic (2018)

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George Carlin on Conspiracies

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The Worst Thing (2019)

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Before You Have Sex, Watch This

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Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)

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South of The Border (2010)

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Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

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Israel Created Hamas

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Personal Change Is Good, Collective Organizing Is Better

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

Our Activism Must Be Focused on Serving the People

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

No, You Can't ‘Be the Change’ Alone

The Cynic and the Boatbuilder

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

We Have Been Groomed to Consume

Trending Articles

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Jim Tull

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)

Films For Action

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Grow Food Not Lawns!

Gimme Green (2007)

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

From Gangs to Gardens (2014)

Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter

Videos Under Five Minutes

45 Seconds of Wisdom From José Mujica

1 min

Emma Goldman on Patriotism

4 min

I'm Not Cleaning for the Queen!

2 min

In Solidarity - En Solidaridad

5 min

The Crimes of SEAL Team 6

2 min

Size Matters: How Pirates & Emperors Are More Alike Than Different

4 min

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

1 min

Listen To This Mute: An Angry Speech-Impaired Man Rants about His Country

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Showdown at highway 134

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How to Be a Great Listener

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We Are The World

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The Greek Crisis - What You're Not Being Told

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Social Media Echo Chambers: Here's How Most of Us are Living in One

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Withdraw Your Support from The Present System: Put Your Money Into a Black Bank or Credit Union

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'Worst view in the world': Banksy Opens Hotel Overlooking Bethlehem Wall

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This Amazing Music Video Wants Us to Kick Our Plastic Bag Addiction

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Darth Vader's Greatest Speech Ever Made

Cause And Effect: The Consequences of What We Take for Granted

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DC Douglas' "Why #OccupyWallStreet? 4 Reasons."

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The Massive Failing in Children's Education | George Monbiot

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Slam Poetry Trio Gives Powerful Performance on National TV about the Failures of Modern Education

4 min

Jews And Arabs Refuse To Be Enemies

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Long Videos for Listening to While You Move

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Peter Joseph: Can We Solve the Problems Created by the Market Economy While Retaining the Market?

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Noam Chomsky

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

Why Propaganda Works & The Great Question of Our Time | Noam Chomsky

The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

Was The Soviet Union Really a Socialist Country? Noam Chomsky Dispels This Propaganda In 1 Minute

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (trailer)

Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government

The Bloom Series: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (trailer)

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