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Liberation Theory | Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

A Working Definition of Racism

Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies

Education

Schooling the World (2010)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

A Science Of Teaching (2015)

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

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

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

Being and Becoming (2014)

The Forbidden Education (2012)

Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

Thought-Provoking Comics

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

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us

Comic Strip of Alan Watts' Lecture: What If Money Was No Object?

Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm

Reclaim May Day

This Zen Comic Is Full of Timeless Life Lessons

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

On the Mindless Menace of Violence

One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Class Differences in Society

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

Comic Explaining Colonialism

Brilliant Comic of Banksy's Call To Arms Against Advertisers

This Comic Shows The Importance of Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve Your Dreams

Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic

What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Billion are Frying the Planet?

Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman

The Importance of Maintaining a Sense of Wonder and Excitement

Documentaries from the legendary Media Education Foundation

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)

The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

We Can't Grow Infinitely on a Finite Planet

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Impossible Hamster

How to Fix the World

Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy, and Why You Might Actually Enjoy it

Enough Is Enough (2014)

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Growth is Not Enough

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Who Killed Economic Growth?

Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable

How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

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

Dan West

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

Wisdom Pills

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

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

George Lakey

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

Russell Means

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

Jim Tull

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

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

Films For Action

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

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

Yasha Levine

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

Anti-Fascist Activism & The Value of Nonviolence

How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events

The Strategic Naiveté of Antifa

Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters

How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played

Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?

Why Black Bloc Tactics Won't Build a Successful Movement

Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

Former White Supremacist: Why Punching Nazis in the Face Is a Bad Idea

How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State

We Need a Revolution: Overcoming Fascism with a Movement of Love

How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History

The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left

Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right

Towards a Tranformative Anti-Fascism

It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism

Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns

Small German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves

The Hard Left Antifa And Their Call To Arms (2018)

Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him

Wondering What to Watch? Try These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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

Money & Life (2013)

Down To Earth (2020)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

Principles to Guide Our Activism

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Seven Mantras of the New Revolution

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

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

How to Fix the World

Videos that Explain Things

How the Rich Keep Us Poor

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

How Romanticism Ruined Love

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Electronics

Why Engagement Rings Are A Scam. Here Are The Facts.

The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy

The Story of Cosmetics

The Story of Change

Patriotism vs Nationalism: Do You Know the Difference?

The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

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

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

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

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

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