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How Government Works

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)

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

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

Governments Lie: Howard Zinn on Understanding Class, War, and Immigration Through History

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

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

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)

Who Rules America? (2012)

War By Other Means (1992)

The Century of the Self (2002)

The Shock Doctrine (2009)

Bitter Lake (2015)

Knock Down The House (2019)

Documentaries about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

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

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

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

Documentary Series

Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

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

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

In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth (2020)

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

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn

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

Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)

The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis

How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)

Fantastic Fungi

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021)

This Is What Magic Mushrooms Do To Your Brain

Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

Psyched Out: Documentary on Psychedelics, Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

Forbidden Fruit: An Excerpt from the Feature Documentary Fantastic Fungi

Did Mushrooms Play a Role in the Evolution of Human Consciousness? - Paul Stamets

Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx

How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan

How Psychedelics Could Help Treat Anxiety, Addiction and Depression

Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan

Mushrooms as Spiritual Teachers, A Brief History

Michael Pollan | Dissolving the Default Mode Network

How Trees Talk to Other Trees with the Help of Fungi

Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein

Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism

Double Down News

Israel is Becoming a Fascist State (2023)

Israel and The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes | Andrew Feinstein

Your Slavery Is Their Freedom | George Monbiot

Is The World Really Overpopulated? | George Monbiot

Former British Soldier EXPOSES Israel War Machine

Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn

Making a Killing: How Politicians & the Arms Trade Collude to Take us to War | Andrew Feinstein

Former NATO Soldier Destroys Official Ukraine War Narrative

Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman

How Dark Money Convinced You to Vote for Monsters | Peter Geoghegan

Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE

The True Legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' | George Monbiot

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Coronavirus Crisis | Grace Blakeley

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge

Coronavirus: How the Arms Trade is Making You Sick | Andrew Feinstein

Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative

People Didn't Win The Election... Wall $treet Did | Ryan Knight

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop? (2018)

"Minneapolis was a Warzone" Frontline Report on Black Lives Matter Protests Rocking US | Jamal Green

Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

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

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

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

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

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

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

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 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

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

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

Jim Tull

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

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

Russell Means

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

Films For Action

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

Films For Action

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

Michael E Sparks

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Reading Library

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

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

Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity

Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles

From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities

The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience

Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves

Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War

To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case

14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians

The Death of Israel

Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote

This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF

Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.

The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza

War Is Always Justified

Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%

When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?

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)

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)

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)

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

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