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Developing Skills of the Heart

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

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

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

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

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

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

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Do You Have Time to Love?

Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear

Wanted: Men Who Love

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

What It Means To Communicate

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Control is a Trap

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

10 Films That Will Metaphorically Blow Your Mind

The Corporation (2003)

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

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

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

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

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

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

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

The Corporation (2003)

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

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

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System

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

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

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

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

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

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

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

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

Economics

Money & Life (2013)

The Corporation (2003)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

Economics for People (2019)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)

Real Value (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream (2012)

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

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

Inside Job (2010)

The Secret of Oz (2009)

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

Sustainable Human

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Amphibians Restore Balance To The Land | Harvey Tweats

What Kids Need Most | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin

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

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai

How Devils Heal Forests | Rob Brewster

The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari

The Politics Of Belonging | George Monbiot

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us (with Gabor Maté)

What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry

The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone

Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing

The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate

A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein

Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Earth Democracy

A Sustainable Death

The Story of the Chinese Farmer

We Societies

Israel & Palestine Coverage

How YOU Can Help Stop Israel's Carnage In Gaza - And Support Palestinian Liberation

Israeli Politician Backs Genocide Investigation - Now They're Trying To Silence Him w/ Ofer Cassif

Israeli Destruction and Massacres Continue with US Backing | Glenn Greenwald

BBC's Racism Over Gaza Exposed By Shocking Study

The World's Most Documented Genocide in History

How Israel Could Be STOPPED By South Africa - Its Overwhelming Genocide Case Explained

Israeli Dissidents Expose Genocidal Language

Yanis Varoufakis Tells Me: Gaza Is A Genocide In Plain Sight

Chris Hedges: "The Genocide in Gaza"

I Watched The Hamas Massacre Film. Here's My Thoughts. | Owen Jones

"In My Name, I Want No Vengeance." - The Call of Michal Halev

On Israel-Gaza & the Corrupting Media Dynamic of “Audience Capture” | Glenn Greenwald

I’m Jewish. I Want a Ceasefire in Gaza. | Dave Zirin

DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK?

Pope Calls Israeli Army Terrorists | The Kyle Kulinski Show

'Biden Could END Gaza War With A Phone Call': Jeremy Scahill Exposes US and Israeli Claims

Don't Turn Away: This Video Shows the Reality of Israel's War on Gaza

The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi

"Self-Hating Jew" Explains Why Israel Has No Right...

Dr. Gabor Mate: This Is Genocide

Yes, Israel is an Apartheid State. Perhaps an Analogy Will Be Useful Here.

Tory MP Threatens To Prosecute UK Govt Over Israeli War Crimes

Piers Morgan is Wrong. Here's a 23 Minute Video Refuting: "That's Not Genocide"

Amnesty International Finds "Damning Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 6,500

Israel is a Terrorist State

Israel and The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Israel's Long War on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas (2018)

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 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

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

Russell Means

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

George Lakey

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

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

Jim Tull

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

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

Films For Action

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

Tim Hjersted

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

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

Michael E Sparks

Free Indie Documentaries

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

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

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

Imprint (2023)

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

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

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

Surviving Earth (2014)

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Core Nonviolence Commitments

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Nonviolent Lives: Stories for Teaching Nonviolence

How Our Language Makes It Easy to Be Violent

Building New 'Nonviolent Cities'

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence

Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

What It Means To Communicate

Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones

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?

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