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Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors

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Principles to Guide Our Activism

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Seven Mantras of the New Revolution

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

The (R)Evolution is Unity: Reflections on the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa

How to Fix the World

There Is No One Right Way to Live | The Ideas of Daniel Quinn

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

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

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

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Daniel Quinn: The New Renaissance

The Culture of Maximum Harm

Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?

When a Whole Generation of Youth "Feels Cheated," That's Something Worth Paying Attention To

The River of Vision: "If the World is Saved it Won't be Saved by Old Minds with New Programs."

The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael

Noam Chomsky

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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

Why Propaganda Works & The Great Question of Our Time | Noam Chomsky

The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

Was The Soviet Union Really a Socialist Country? Noam Chomsky Dispels This Propaganda In 1 Minute

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

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

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

Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government

Free Indie Documentaries

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?

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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

"You Grow Up Wanting to Be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"

Garret

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Wisdom Pills

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

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

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other

Rhyd Wildermuth

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

Tim Hjersted

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

George Lakey

Yes, Israel Is a Racist State

Khelil Bouarrouj

Awakening to the Blob: How The Media Mediates Our Lives

Maura R. O'Connor

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

Mandy Len Catron

What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?

Eric Bowers

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Kevin A. Carson

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

Elyane Youssef

Every Town Needs a Remakery

Jeremy Williams

Bull$h!t Jobs | David Graeber

Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

David Graeber: We Need a Revolution in the Way We Think about "Work"

Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (2014)

5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society

Instead of Meaningfully Contributing to Society, Many People Are Stuck In Bullshit Jobs They Hate | Joe Rogan

David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy

David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street

Can Humanity Find Harmony with Itself, the Earth? Here are 22 Films That Say Yes.

Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

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

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

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

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

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Enough Is Enough (2014)

Call Outs, Canceling, Shaming and More: Activist Tactics That Need a 2nd Look

Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?

How to Be a Woke White Person

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

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

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Calling in Call-Out Culture

Canceling | ContraPoints

Krystal Ball Interviews Contrapoints on Her Blockbuster Cancel Culture Video

The Cancel God

Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics

Exiting the Vampire Castle

The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

Noam Chomksy "Calls Out" Cancel Culture

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

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

Thomas Berry: The New Story (1984)

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

Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

Guide to Building Thriving, Resilient Communities

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

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

The Confederation as the Commune of Communes

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

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

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

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Four Foundations of True Liberty

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

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

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

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

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative

Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

The End of the Corporation?

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

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

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

Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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)

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