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Culture In Decline
Culture in Decline #1: What Democracy?
Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101
Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder
Culture In Decline #4: The War on Nature
Culture in Decline #5: Baby Go Boom!
Culture in Decline #6: Tale of Two Worlds
Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors
The Four Mantras of True Presence
Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth
Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies
Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh
True Justice Should Have Compassion in It
Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us
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Education
Schooling the World (2010)
Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
A Science Of Teaching (2015)
Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)
The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)
Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)
School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)
Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)
Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)
Ripple Effect (2014)
Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)
Being and Becoming (2014)
The Forbidden Education (2012)
Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)
COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)
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
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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
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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
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Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
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Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution
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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"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
Transition Documentaries
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
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Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
The Transition
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Feeding Ourselves (2017)
Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)
Occupy Love (2013)
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)
Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)
Planet Local: A Short Film Series about the Beautiful Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions
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