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Effective Collaboration

Collaboration: on the Edge of a New Paradigm? (2015)

Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet (2009)

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)

Tips for Building Coalitions

Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Reimagine Our Economy: Choose Collaboration Over Competition

Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

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

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

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

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

Anti-Fascist Activism & The Value of Nonviolence

How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events

The Strategic Naiveté of Antifa

Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters

How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played

Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?

Why Black Bloc Tactics Won't Build a Successful Movement

Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

Former White Supremacist: Why Punching Nazis in the Face Is a Bad Idea

How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State

We Need a Revolution: Overcoming Fascism with a Movement of Love

How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History

The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left

Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right

Towards a Tranformative Anti-Fascism

It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism

Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns

Small German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves

The Hard Left Antifa And Their Call To Arms (2018)

Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him

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

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

If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.

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

Videos Under Five Minutes

The Creative Genius of the Extinction Symbol Explained

4 min

Native Americans Say What Christopher Columbus Means to Them

3 min

Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?

3 min

Assumptions About Gender Roles Are Turned Around at School Career Day

2 min

How "Protect and Serve" Became "Search and Destroy"

3 min

Journalism, the New Terrorism

5 min

Detention, Deportation or Death: The Stark Choice for Many Migrants to the UK Who Can be Detained Indefinitely Without Trial

4 min

Visualizing The Edible City in 3 Minutes

3 min

Where is California's Water Really Going? (And Where is it not?)

3 min

What is Creative Commons?

3 min

Israel's Apartheid Wall Must Fall

2 min

Showdown at highway 134

5 min

Naomi Wolf Gives WeAreChangeLA a Message for 9/11 Truth

3 min

What's Your Biggest Regret?

3 min

Floating Cemetery is a Memorial for Drowned Syrian Refugees

2 min

George Carlin on Conspiracies

1 min

Sweden Is Now Recycling 99 Percent Of Its Trash. Here's How They Do It

4 min

Bill Moyers: The Influence of Money on the Health Care Debate (2009)

3 min

What Motivated the 9/11 Hijackers? See Testimony Most Didn't

5 min

Robert Smalls: An American Hero

3 min

Gil Scott-Heron Explains the Meaning Behind 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'

1 min

DOUBLESPEAK- A Film About Climate Change

4 min

Tesco Chainstore Massacre

2 min

John Oliver Forgives $15M of Medical Debt on Last Week Tonight

3 min

6 Short Films for Action

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

Videos by Second Thought

Is The State Your Enemy?

The Problem With Hyper-Individualism

The Minimum Wage Debate Explained

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Capitol Riot Explained

America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World

Censorship and the Future of the Internet

How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics

Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace

You're Probably Already A Socialist

Are You Really "Free" Under Capitalism?

Is Universal Basic Income The Future?

America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly

The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism

Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline

America's Stunted Political Spectrum

Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response

Racist Statues and Revisionist History

Astroturfing: How To Spot A Fake Movement

How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)

Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?

Emergency Powers And Creeping Authoritarianism

America's Unemployment Problem

The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism

How Hollywood Sells Us War

Why American Fascism Is On The Rise

How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn't Socialism Catch On Here?

How American Workers Are Losing Billions

The Myth Of Upward Mobility

Environmental Justice: How Capitalism Threatens Humanity

The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism

How Capitalism Ruined Work

How The United States Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties

The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report

How Finland Ended Homelessness

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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 White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

David Cain

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

George Lakey

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

Yasha Levine

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

I’m a Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'

Anna Lind-Guzik

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

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

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

Tim Hjersted

6 Reasons so Many Spiritual People Have Been Fooled by Qanon

Martin Winiecki

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'

Liam O'Ceallaigh

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

Maria Popova

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Personal Change Is Good, Collective Organizing Is Better

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

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals

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

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change

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

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

Our Activism Must Be Focused on Serving the People

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

No, You Can't ‘Be the Change’ Alone

The Cynic and the Boatbuilder

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

We Have Been Groomed to Consume

Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

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

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

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

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

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

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Documentaries about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

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

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

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

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

Grow Food Not Lawns!

Gimme Green (2007)

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

From Gangs to Gardens (2014)

Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

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

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

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

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter

Sustainable Human

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Amphibians Restore Balance To The Land | Harvey Tweats

What Kids Need Most | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai

How Devils Heal Forests | Rob Brewster

The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari

The Politics Of Belonging | George Monbiot

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us (with Gabor Maté)

What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry

The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone

Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing

The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate

A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein

Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Earth Democracy

A Sustainable Death

The Story of the Chinese Farmer

We Societies

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