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Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

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

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

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

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

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

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

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

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?

Documentaries by Scott Noble

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

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

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

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

Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)

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

Watch These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Money & Life (2013)

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

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

Guides

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

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

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World

Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons

Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy

5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice

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

A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals

How to Not Be Offended

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle

The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New

How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op

4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living

A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action

The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever

Guide to Building a Solidarity Network

Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

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

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Reframing Discourse: the Emancipatory Power of Self-Told Stories

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

We Are All Indigenous

The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us

European Paganism and Christianization

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

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

The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation

The Core of the Indigenous Worldview

“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

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

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?

The Other Way of Knowing

Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Recovering Our Sense of Place, Reconnecting with Pachamama

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 White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

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

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

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

Films For Action

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

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

Gun Violence and Reform

Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)

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

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

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

Guns in America - A Six Part Series

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

A Brief History of the USA and Guns

Guns in America Vs. the Rest of the World

It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence

The State of Gun Violence in the US, Explained in 18 Charts

Prayer Won't Stop Gun Violence Because The NRA Bought Our Politicians

Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?

Epic Documentaries

Human (2015)

Earthlings (2005)

The Corporation (2003)

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

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

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

The Century of the Self (2002)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

HOME (2009)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture

Everything Is A Remix (2015)

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

What is Creative Commons?

Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?

Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful

How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time

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