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Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy and the Promise of a Million Utopias

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)

The Promise of a Million Utopias

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today

Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician

An Atlas of Real Utopias?

Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods

Building Democratic Power at the Local Level - A Strategy for Long-Term Liberation

Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve

Democracy (How to Save It and Ourselves) Narrated by Danny Glover

How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City

What Is Democracy? (trailer)

We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall St)

Scaling Up: Ideas about Participatory Democracy

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

The 4th Branch of Government: An Idea To Create Direct Democracy For, and By, The People

The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East

Anarcho-Syndicalist Principles

Democracy At Work: How This One Idea Could Make Your Job Amazing

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Earth Democracy

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)

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Growth is Not Enough

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Who Killed Economic Growth?

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

How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature

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

Documentaries from the legendary Media Education Foundation

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)

The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Emotional Literacy

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

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

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

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

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

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

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

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

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

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

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

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

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

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)

Manifestos!

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

An Obscure German Philosopher's Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Manifesto on Feminism

Manifesto for a Good Life

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

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

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

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

George Lakey

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Russell Means

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

David Cain

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor

Courtland Milloy

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Eric Michael Johnson

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

Charles Eisenstein

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

Tim Hjersted

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

Yasha Levine

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 37 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men

Mark Green

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound

Bethany Webster

Films for a Wiser Earth

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

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

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

GIFT (2018)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

We Are Many (2020)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

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

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)

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

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Fall and Winter (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

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

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

The Corporation (2003)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

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

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

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

Human (2015)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

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

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