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Inspiring Short Films

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

Manifestos!

Communalism

Horizontal Governing - The Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical Top Down Corruption

Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System

Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model

Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis

How to Create Democratic and Ecological Cities

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Trailers

Liberation Theory | Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

A Working Definition of Racism

Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies

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Solidarity Theory

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

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

Solidarity Means to Leave No One Behind. Beyond Citizenships and Across Borders.

Solidarity Is About What You Do - Not Who You Are.

6 Portraits of the Solidarity Economy

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential

The Revolutionary Potential of Solidarity Economy

Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories (2020)

Connecting to "Them"

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Towards a New Co-Existence: On Reframing Our Ecological Crises

Towards a Synthesist Movement

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

Trending Articles

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Tim Hjersted

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

Washington's Blog

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

Panic Volkushka

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Wisdom Pills

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

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

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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

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

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

Michael E Sparks

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Defeat the Right in Three Minutes: A Practical Guide to Understanding Conservative Politics

Conceptual Guerilla

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

Yasha Levine

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

Kathleen Harris

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

Michael Goodwin, Illustrated by Dan E. Burr

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

George Lakey

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

Tim Hjersted

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

Daniel Quinn

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

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.

Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

The War Around Us (2013) (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

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

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech (2019)

With God on Our Side (2010)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Can Humanity Find Harmony with Itself, the Earth? Here are 22 Films That Say Yes.

Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

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

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

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

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

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Enough Is Enough (2014)

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