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Principles to Guide Our Activism

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Seven Mantras of the New Revolution

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

The (R)Evolution is Unity: Reflections on the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa

How to Fix the World

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & Right get Fooled into Supporting Elite Interests

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests

Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America

America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Propaganda and The Engineering of Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

The Cult of Trump

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Core Nonviolence Commitments

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

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

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Nonviolent Lives: Stories for Teaching Nonviolence

How Our Language Makes It Easy to Be Violent

Building New 'Nonviolent Cities'

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence

Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

What It Means To Communicate

Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones

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)

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Rebel Wisdom

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

The Religious Wars of the Pandemic Endgame | Rebel Wisdom

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

Addicted to Ideology? | Gabor Maté

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

An Epidemic of Control: Charles Eisenstein

"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)

Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web (2019)

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Is It Time to Change Course on Covid? | William Eden

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive | Daniel Schmachtenberger

Success, Culture & Race | Coleman Hughes

The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

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

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

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

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

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

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

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

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

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

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Russell Means

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

Wisdom Pills

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Films For Action

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

David Cain

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

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

Tim Hjersted

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

War Is Always Justified

Charles Eisenstein

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Globalization's Deadly Footprint

Alex Jensen

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

Joanna Macy

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

Maria Popova

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Jan Hunt

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

umair haque

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Daniel Quinn

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

Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

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

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

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

The War Around Us (2013) (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech (2019)

With God on Our Side (2010)

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

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

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution - Daniel Christian Wahl

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution

Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence

Regenerative Cultures and Economies of Place | Daniel Christian Wahl

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration

Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

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

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

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