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Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One
To Change Everything, Start Everywhere
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)
The Shocking, True History of Race Baiting, From the 17th Century to the Present Day
John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit
Better, Not More
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)
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There's No Tomorrow (2012)
Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs
Growth is Not Enough
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
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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
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The Importance of Rites of Passage
The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future
Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)
The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value
Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?
Initiation Into a Living Planet
The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World
The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being
Trailers
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)
GIFT (2018)
Feeding Ourselves (2017)
Listen to My Song (2020)
The Vatican Insider. Il Denaro in Nome Di Dio
Pussy Riot: The Movement (2013)
Innovative Cattle Stations in Australia | TEDxSydney
Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)
Guardians of the Earth: A Film about the Paris Agreement (2017)
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)
Jekyll Island: The Truth Behind The Federal Reserve (2013)
Electronic Awakening (2012)
Documentaries from the Early Days of Films For Action
The Corporation (2003)
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Earthlings (2005)
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)
The Crisis of Civilization (2011)
Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)
Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2007)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
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
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
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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
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