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Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

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Indigenous Stories and Perspectives

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Down To Earth (2020)

Schooling the World (2010)

Song From the Forest (2013)

Ever the Land (2015)

Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)

From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

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

Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)

PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change (2011)

Protecting Country (2018)

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

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

Honey At The Top (2016)

Seeds Of Change (2014)

Red Cry (2013)

Utopia (2013)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

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

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

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

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

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

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

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

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

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

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

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

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

The Codes of Gender (2009) (trailer)

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It

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

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

You Can't Be Intersectional While at the Same Time Being Elitist and Exclusionary

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Social Justice Educators

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Exiting the Vampire Castle

Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

The Problem With Hating Our Enemies

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

Compassion, the Antidote

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

Public Shaming

The Politics of Being Woke

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

Do You Yearn for a World of Love and Justice? So Do We.

Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Sustainable Human

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Amphibians Restore Balance To The Land | Harvey Tweats

What Kids Need Most | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai

How Devils Heal Forests | Rob Brewster

The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari

The Politics Of Belonging | George Monbiot

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us (with Gabor Maté)

What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry

The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone

Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing

The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate

A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein

Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Earth Democracy

A Sustainable Death

The Story of the Chinese Farmer

We Societies

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

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

George Lakey

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

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

Russell Means

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

John F. Schumaker

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Invest in Alternatives.

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About 'A Police-Free Future'?

We Must Look Beyond Police for Community Safety

The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.

We Have to Demand an End to the Social Order That Led to George Floyd's Murder

Police Abolition 101: What a World Without Cops Would Look Like

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality.

The Police State & The Minimum Wage

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: End the Drug War Now

Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning

A Few Thoughts After the #Blacklivesmatter Vigil in Lawrence, KS Tonight

15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System

13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda

The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor - a Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice

Class Conflict Between Elite Whites and Poor Whites - The Invisible Race Problem That's Killing Black Americans

Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Documentaries by One of Our Heroes, John Pilger (Rest in Peace)

The War You Don't See (2010)

What is Real Journalism? John Pilger Reviews His 50 Year Career

Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror (2003)

Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

The Dirty War On The NHS (2019)

Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny (1970)

War By Other Means (1992)

The New Rulers of the World (2001)

The Coming War on China (2016)

The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied (2007)

Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)

Utopia (2013)

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)

Documentaries by Scott Noble

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

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

Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)

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

Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)

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