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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

Creating Conscious Communities

Philosophy

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

The Present Need of the World (1926)

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Demoralized Mind

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

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

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

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)

New Documentaries

Power 2 the People (2013)

The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

Tribes on the Edge (2021)

Food, Inc. 2 (2024)

SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance (2014)

Britain's Ultra Nationalists (2019)

Israel: Above the law? (2024)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations (2024)

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

In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)

The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021)

Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017)

The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)

LAST CALL! (2022)

Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)

The Sanctuary (2022)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)

The Settlers (2016)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

The Medicated Child (2008)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

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

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

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

Thomas Berry: The New Story (1984)

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

Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

Guide to Building Thriving, Resilient Communities

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

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

The Confederation as the Commune of Communes

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

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

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Four Foundations of True Liberty

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

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

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

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

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative

Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal

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

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

The End of the Corporation?

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

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

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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

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

Panic Volkushka

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

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

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Deep Ecology Hub

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

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

Yasha Levine

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

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Tim Hjersted

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

Michael E Sparks

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

George Lakey

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“Consciousness: Past and Present” – The oppression of women, by Artist Shqipe Kamberi

Njomza Miftari

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Miseducation of the American Boy

Peggy Orenstein

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

Michael Goodwin, Illustrated by Dan E. Burr

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

David Cain

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

Kathleen Harris

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Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

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

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

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

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

10 Films That Will Metaphorically Blow Your Mind

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy and the Promise of a Million Utopias

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)

The Promise of a Million Utopias

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today

Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician

An Atlas of Real Utopias?

Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods

Building Democratic Power at the Local Level - A Strategy for Long-Term Liberation

Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve

Democracy (How to Save It and Ourselves) Narrated by Danny Glover

How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City

What Is Democracy? (trailer)

We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall St)

Scaling Up: Ideas about Participatory Democracy

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

The 4th Branch of Government: An Idea To Create Direct Democracy For, and By, The People

The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East

Anarcho-Syndicalist Principles

Democracy At Work: How This One Idea Could Make Your Job Amazing

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

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

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Earth Democracy

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