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Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

The End of the Corporation?

How to Fix the World

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

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

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

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

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

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

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

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

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

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

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

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

Wanted: Men Who Love

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power

The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy

Understanding Patriarchy

To Attain Freedom, We Must Name The True Root of Our Problems

You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress

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

Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult

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

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

Culture In Decline

Culture in Decline #1: What Democracy?

Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101

Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder

Culture In Decline #4: The War on Nature

Culture in Decline #5: Baby Go Boom!

Culture in Decline #6: Tale of Two Worlds

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

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)

Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

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

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Reframing Discourse: the Emancipatory Power of Self-Told Stories

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

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

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

We Are All Indigenous

The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us

European Paganism and Christianization

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

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

The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation

The Core of the Indigenous Worldview

“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?

The Other Way of Knowing

Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Recovering Our Sense of Place, Reconnecting with Pachamama

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)

Masculinity

The New Macho: One Vision Of What Mature Masculinity Looks Like In The 21st Century

'Strong Men?' Masculinity in the Modern World

5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

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

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

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

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

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

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

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

The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory

Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Masculinity, Yet Again, Is Fragile

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution - Daniel Christian Wahl

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution

Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence

Regenerative Cultures and Economies of Place | Daniel Christian Wahl

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration

Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom

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

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The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

George Lakey

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

Jim Tull

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

Russell Means

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

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

Films For Action

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Films For Action

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

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

Michael E Sparks

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

The Best Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

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?

Trailers

The Cross of the Moment (2015)

Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed (2021)

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

H.O.P.E. What You Eat Matters (2018)

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

The Great Disconnect (2020)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)

Seed Swap in the Ozarks

K2 And The Invisible Footmen (2015)

Mapping Tax Justice in Puntland

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

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

Now Streaming For Free

Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)

The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

Food Inc. (2008)

Gratitude Revealed (2022)

2040: Join The Regeneration (US-Only) (2020)

The Lottery of Birth (2013)

Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media (2012)

The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for Your Clothes (2015)

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

Sicko (2007)

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)

Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

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