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Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed

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

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Most Watched Documentaries

The War You Don't See (2010)

67,070 views

The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger

57,823 views

The Corporation (2003)

241,131 views

Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

68,113 views

Miss Representation (2011)

55,118 views

The Sacred Science (2011)

53,244 views

Sir! No Sir! The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (2005)

49,122 views

I AM (2010)

263,796 views

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

200,571 views

Planet of the Humans (2019)

145,059 views

Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)

69,206 views

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

40,856 views

The Culture High (2014)

42,080 views

Origins (2014)

75,309 views

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

86,297 views

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

114,870 views

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

114,126 views

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

40,948 views

Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)

63,863 views

The Shock Doctrine (2009)

56,621 views

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

41,789 views

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

384,599 views

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

45,139 views

Beware Of Images (2016)

42,536 views

Environmental Films

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Klamath (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

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

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

Public Trust: Fight for America’s Public Lands (2020)

Regreening the Planet (2014)

Stories Of Wolves: The Lobo Returns (2013) (trailer)

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime (2015)

HOME (2009)

Earth Days (2009)

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Vanishing of the Bees (2009) (trailer)

The Dark Side of Tulum (2019)

Symphony of the Soil (2012)

Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (2008)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

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

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

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

#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

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

Jim Tull

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

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

Films For Action

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

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

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Charles Eisenstein

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

Michael E Sparks

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

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

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

Videos Under Five Minutes

Social Media Echo Chambers: Here's How Most of Us are Living in One

2 min

Chimpanzees: From Research to Rescue

3 min

iDiots - Are We Being Turned Into Automatons

4 min

The Pyramid of 'Things That Matter' Has Been Inverted By Our Culture

4 min

Farmer in 1950s America Has Sage Advice for His Gay Son

4 min

Expose of 'Dead Peasant' Insurance Policies Too Shocking Even for GMA to Ignore

4 min

Incredible Array of Reactions as Animals See Themselves in a Mirror

2 min

Be Careful What You Order, This Waiter Tells the Truth

3 min

How You Can Save Over 1,200 Gallons of Water Per Day

2 min

Howard Zinn: A More Interesting Life

2 min

The GOP's Health Care Alternative: "Don't Get Sick"

2 min

Why Reverse Racism Doesn't Exist

3 min

Buckminster Fuller In 3 Minutes

3 min

There is a Beautiful Movement Growing in Australia

3 min

All the News Is Fake!

3 min

John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit

2 min

Above All, Be Kind

2 min

Watch John Oliver Take the Hot Air Out of Climate Change Coverage

4 min

This Is What Global Wealth Inequality Looked Like in 2013. It's Only Gotten More Extreme.

4 min

Woman Uses Local Nuisance to Rebuild Town's Economy

2 min

Inside the Secret Chat Logs of American Nazis

4 min

Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou

2 min

Aboriginal People Respond to "Australia Day"

3 min

PIPA / SOPA Breaks The Internet

4 min

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

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