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Indigenous Knowledge

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

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

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

Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists

Rights VS Responsibilities: "In Our Language, We Don't Have a Word for Rights. We Have Words for Responsibility."

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

Why Cultural Diversity Is as Essential to Human Survival as Biological Diversity

Arkan Lushwala Shares Indigenous Wisdom: The Earth Is Our Mother

The Other Way of Knowing

The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

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

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

Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

Red Cry (2013)

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization

Maori Elder Rose Pere Speaks and Sings for the 2015 Parliament Indigenous Plenary

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.

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)

Permaculture

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Seeds of Permaculture: If It's Beautiful, It's Better (2013)

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

All About Weeds

Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)

Intro to Permaculture

Perma Kultcha (2010)

The Corporation is at the Root of our Uncivilized, Inequality-Driving, Earth-Killing Economy

The Corporation (2003)

The New Corporation (2022)

War By Other Means (1992)

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

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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)

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

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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

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

Russell Means

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

Films For Action

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

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

Jim Tull

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

Michael E Sparks

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

Yasha Levine

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

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not a Valentine. In Other Words: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game

My Appeal to Leftists Who Won't Vote or Who Believe Voting Third Party Is a Principled Stance

The Anarchist Case For Voting In Elections

To Vote or Not to Vote: For Anarchists, Is There Only One True Way?

I'm an Anarchist and I Vote

Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes

Voting Matters (trailer)

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

Democracy Is for Life, Not Just Elections

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

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)

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

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Schooling the World (2010)

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InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

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Meet The Stans (2003)

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

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5 Broken Cameras (2011)

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Israelism (2023)

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Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws (2012)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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

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

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

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Aghet: A Genocide (2010)

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

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Origins (2014)

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

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Broken by Battle (2013)

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New Member Submissions

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

No Refuge: Cape Cod's Coastal Crisis (2024)

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)

Living Without: How Much is Enough?

Pinevale High - Separate, Unequal,....Undeterred.

Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt

Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

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

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) (trailer)

How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World

The Rules of the Game Must Change | Yanis Varoufakis

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

Genetics Explained Who Are the Blessed Ones!

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Us Government Destroy Family

Why Julian Assange Should Be Freed | John Mearsheimer

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