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Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us

Do You Have Time to Love?

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

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

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

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

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

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

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

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

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

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

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

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

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

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

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

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

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

The Codes of Gender (2009) (trailer)

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

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

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Articles by Tim Hjersted, Co-Founder of Films For Action

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies

To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

The Story That's Destroying the World

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

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

Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology

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

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

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

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

Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities

Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism

What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget

Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About

We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine & Feminine

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

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

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

The Genderbread Person Isn't the Way | Zander Keig

Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

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

How Your Sacred Lovers Within Play a Crucial Role in Your Life

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

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Women's Wisdom: A Powerful Message Celebrating the Feminine Values That Are Transforming The World

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

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Feminine Power Does Not Move the World Through Force

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

Manifestos!

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

An Obscure German Philosopher's Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Manifesto on Feminism

Manifesto for a Good Life

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

We Can't Grow Infinitely on a Finite Planet

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Impossible Hamster

How to Fix the World

Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy, and Why You Might Actually Enjoy it

Enough Is Enough (2014)

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Growth is Not Enough

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Who Killed Economic Growth?

Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable

How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature

#MeToo & Liberation For All

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

After #MeToo: How To Process The Pain And Shame That Divides Women And Men

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

Samantha Bee Weighs in on Aziz Ansari and the #MeToo Backlash and It's Very On Point

How The Media Has Shaped Your Negative Perception of Feminism

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

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 White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Jim Tull

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

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

Dan West

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

George Lakey

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

Films For Action

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

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

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self

Charles Eisenstein

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

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

Michael E Sparks

Films For Action

Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values

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

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

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

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

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

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

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

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

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

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 That Inspire Inner Change

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

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

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

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

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

Why You'll Be Happier When You Give Up The Blame Game

What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

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

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

How to Be a Great Listener

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

Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters.

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

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

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

SCARS

A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature

Universal Wisdom Meditation

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

How Forests Heal People

Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal

Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)

Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?

Media Literacy

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

The Century of the Self (2002)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

The Fantasy of Ultimate Purpose – How Films, Series and Video Games Reveal What Really Drives Us

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)

Propaganda and The Engineering of Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

The Creativity Delusion: There is no Genius

Corporate Jargon - Lying by Obscurity, Obscuring to Hide Corruption

How Marlboro Changed Advertising Forever

Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans

Donald Trump: The Sitcom Misogynist

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Stalking for Love

Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die

How the Media's Weapons Fetish Primes Us for War

The Miseducation of Dylann Roof

The Ugly Truth in Beauty Magazines

The News Is Center Right

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