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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?

Videos by Second Thought

Is The State Your Enemy?

The Problem With Hyper-Individualism

The Minimum Wage Debate Explained

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Capitol Riot Explained

America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World

Censorship and the Future of the Internet

How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics

Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace

You're Probably Already A Socialist

Are You Really "Free" Under Capitalism?

Is Universal Basic Income The Future?

America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly

The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism

Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline

America's Stunted Political Spectrum

Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response

Racist Statues and Revisionist History

Astroturfing: How To Spot A Fake Movement

How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)

Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?

Emergency Powers And Creeping Authoritarianism

America's Unemployment Problem

The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism

How Hollywood Sells Us War

Why American Fascism Is On The Rise

How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn't Socialism Catch On Here?

How American Workers Are Losing Billions

The Myth Of Upward Mobility

Environmental Justice: How Capitalism Threatens Humanity

The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism

How Capitalism Ruined Work

How The United States Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties

The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report

How Finland Ended Homelessness

Documentaries from the legendary Media Education Foundation

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

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

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

The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)

The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)

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

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

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

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

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

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Emotional Literacy

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

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

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

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

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

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

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

LOCAL: A Story Of Hope

World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!

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

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

Locally Abundant (2012)

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization

Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)

Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love

Intersections of Science and Spirituality

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

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

The Realist Approach to The Afterlife: Living On Through Memory and Deeds

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

The Other Way of Knowing

The Present Need of the World (1926)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

All Is Self (2019)

The Five Blind Men (And the One Who Knows He Is Blind)

Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature (2008)

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

My Spirituality as an Atheist

Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action

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)

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

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Jim Tull

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

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

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

George Lakey

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

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

Films For Action

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

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

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

Films For Action

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

Tim Hjersted

Videos that Explain Things

How the Rich Keep Us Poor

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

How Romanticism Ruined Love

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Electronics

Why Engagement Rings Are A Scam. Here Are The Facts.

The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy

The Story of Cosmetics

The Story of Change

Patriotism vs Nationalism: Do You Know the Difference?

Watch On Demand

Reflection: A Walk with Water (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Harambe (2023)

Israelism (2023)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021)

No Small Matter (2019) (trailer)

Voices of Transition (2012)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Bullied (2019)

Madagasikara (2020)

You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film (2018)

The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (2020)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

Make Me A Man (2021)

Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

Positive Alternatives to Business as Usual

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Real Value (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Money & Life (2013)

Waste = Food (2007)

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

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

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)

Watch On Netflix

Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

How to Change Your Mind (2022) (trailer)

The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021) (trailer)

My Octopus Teacher (2020) (trailer)

The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)

The Great Hack (2019) (trailer)

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017) (trailer)

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