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Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Invest in Alternatives.

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About 'A Police-Free Future'?

We Must Look Beyond Police for Community Safety

The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.

We Have to Demand an End to the Social Order That Led to George Floyd's Murder

Police Abolition 101: What a World Without Cops Would Look Like

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality.

The Police State & The Minimum Wage

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: End the Drug War Now

Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning

A Few Thoughts After the #Blacklivesmatter Vigil in Lawrence, KS Tonight

15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System

13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda

The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor - a Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty

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

Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice

Class Conflict Between Elite Whites and Poor Whites - The Invisible Race Problem That's Killing Black Americans

The Importance of Rites of Passage

Masculinity

The New Macho: One Vision Of What Mature Masculinity Looks Like In The 21st Century

'Strong Men?' Masculinity in the Modern World

5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) (trailer)

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

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

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory

Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Masculinity, Yet Again, Is Fragile

Healing the Divine Masculine

Creating Conscious Communities

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

Indigenous Stories and Perspectives

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Down To Earth (2020)

Schooling the World (2010)

Song From the Forest (2013)

Ever the Land (2015)

Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)

From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)

Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)

PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change (2011)

Protecting Country (2018)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Honey At The Top (2016)

Seeds Of Change (2014)

Red Cry (2013)

Utopia (2013)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Trending Articles

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

Wisdom Pills

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Films For Action

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Panic Volkushka

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann

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

George Lakey

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Naomi Klein Interview: "A 3-Day Week Will Help to Save Life on Earth"

Naomi Klein

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

James Gilligan

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next

Joanna Macy

Wanted: Men Who Love

bell hooks

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

Michael E Sparks

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

Tim Hjersted

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

Prefigurology

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

Russell Means

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Communalism

Horizontal Governing - The Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical Top Down Corruption

Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System

Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model

Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis

How to Create Democratic and Ecological Cities

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

Positive Alternatives to Business as Usual

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

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

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

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

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

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

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

The Codes of Gender (2009) (trailer)

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

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

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

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)

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