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Gun Violence and Reform

Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)

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

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

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

Guns in America - A Six Part Series

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

A Brief History of the USA and Guns

Guns in America Vs. the Rest of the World

It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence

The State of Gun Violence in the US, Explained in 18 Charts

Prayer Won't Stop Gun Violence Because The NRA Bought Our Politicians

Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?

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

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What People Are Watching Now

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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

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

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The Stones Cry Out: The Story Of Palestinian Christians (2013)

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America's Support for Israel is ONE BIG SCAM

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Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

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A Brief History of the USA and Guns

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Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) (trailer)

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Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity

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Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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America Could Be a Utopia

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This is [Not] Who We Are (trailer)

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

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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

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October 7th: The Whole Story Finally Revealed

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The Army Gave Soldiers LSD For an Experiment. The Result Was Pretty Hilarious.

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Visions Of Abolition: From Critical Resistance To A New Way Of Life (trailer)

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The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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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)

Videos Under Five Minutes

Gil Scott-Heron Deconstructs Colonialism and Black History in His Own Unique Style

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Short Demo on How to Grow Mushrooms

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100 Years of Beauty: Iran

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The Massive Failing in Children's Education | George Monbiot

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25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male

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Live Rich: A Spoken Word Film about The True Meaning of Wealth

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Support The Troops - Do Something To End The War -

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John Oliver Demands to Know How Ayn Rand Is 'Still a Thing'

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Solar Roads: The Future of the Highway & the Next Energy Revolution

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Akala's Radical History Lesson Should Be Part of the Curriculum

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If Women's Roles In Ads Were Played By Men

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Bill Oddie's BankWatch

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Nuit Debout: The New French Revolution

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The Great Realisation

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Noam Chomsky: "Every Word in the Phrase 'Free Trade Agreement' Is Just False"

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Alan Watts: How Do You Define Yourself?

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This Is My Body: A Formal Introduction

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How Psychedelics Could Help Treat Anxiety, Addiction and Depression

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Life Lessons From a Grandmother, Taught in Her Kitchen

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A song of Oil, Ice and Fire - Shell's Plans to Drill The Arctic

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Robert Reich: The Secret GOP Plan to Keep Power

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Democracy Needs A None Of The Above Option To Work (2014)

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Exxon Hates Your Children

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"The Future" - A Powerful Poem for World Mental Health Day

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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.

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

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The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

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

Wisdom Pills

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Washington's Blog

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

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

Russell Means

An Open Letter From Assata Shakur: "I Am a 20th Century Escaped Slave"

Assata Shakur

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

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Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

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22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

George Lakey

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

Michael E Sparks

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Yasha Levine

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

Michael Goodwin, Illustrated by Dan E. Burr

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

The Miseducation of the American Boy

Peggy Orenstein

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)

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Core Nonviolence Commitments

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Nonviolent Lives: Stories for Teaching Nonviolence

How Our Language Makes It Easy to Be Violent

Building New 'Nonviolent Cities'

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

Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence

Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

What It Means To Communicate

Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones

Films for a Wiser Earth

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)

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

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

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

GIFT (2018)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Blood and Oil (2008)

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

We Are Many (2020)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

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

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

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

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

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

#MeToo & Liberation For All

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

After #MeToo: How To Process The Pain And Shame That Divides Women And Men

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

Samantha Bee Weighs in on Aziz Ansari and the #MeToo Backlash and It's Very On Point

How The Media Has Shaped Your Negative Perception of Feminism

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