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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

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not a Valentine. In Other Words: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game

My Appeal to Leftists Who Won't Vote or Who Believe Voting Third Party Is a Principled Stance

The Anarchist Case For Voting In Elections

To Vote or Not to Vote: For Anarchists, Is There Only One True Way?

I'm an Anarchist and I Vote

Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes

Voting Matters (trailer)

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

Democracy Is for Life, Not Just Elections

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

Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

LOCAL: A Story Of Hope

World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!

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

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

Locally Abundant (2012)

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization

Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)

Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

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

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

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

New Videos

Where Olive Trees Weep (2024) (trailer)

Israel's Cheerleaders Admit It Has LOST

Israel’s Secret War

Holocaust Survivor Tells Me: Israel Is Committing Genocide - w. Stephen Kapos

US Presidential Candidate Cornel West on Israel-Hamas War, Despair vs Hope and Biden vs Trump

How the US Privatized WAR

Holocaust Survivor Tells Piers Morgan Why He’s Not A Zionist

What This Jewish Professor At Columbia Wants You To Know

Israel Supporters Assault, Spit, Wish R-pe On Protestors

Wallace Shawn SLAMS Israel's 'Horrifying Sadism' & Defends Protests

Jeremy Corbyn on Rafah: "We're Live-Streaming a Genocide"

Israel's Atrocities Exposed By CNN - A Network Defined By Pro-Israeli Bias

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech & The Battle For Palestinian Rights (2019)

John Oliver, Macklemore & Chris Hayes Defend Student Protesters From Media Smears

Biden PANICS Over Israel's Genocide

Honest Government Ad | How to State Capture

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

America's Support for Israel is ONE BIG SCAM

Holocaust Survivor's POWERFUL Message to Gaza Protesters

Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Surge at US Campuses after Columbia University Arrests

Why Are Palestine Slogans Worse Than Israel’s Genocide?

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)

The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us

The Zeitgeist Movement | Peter Joseph

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The New Human Rights Movement - Peter Joseph (2017)

Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)

The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation

Peter Joseph: "Social Pathology"

Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion

Peter Joseph - The Revolution of Values

A Critique of Bernie Sanders "Inequality in America" Town Hall, by Peter Joseph (2018)

Peter Joseph - Critique of Jordan B. Peterson (vs Slavoj Zizek: "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism")

Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph

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The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Wisdom Pills

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Jim Tull

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

Charles Eisenstein

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

Courtland Milloy

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

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

Yasha Levine

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

George Lakey

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Russell Means

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

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Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

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

Tim Hjersted

Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction

Steve Taylor Ph.D.

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men

Mark Green

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

Eric Michael Johnson

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Climate Change Documentaries

Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

A Climate Of Change (2014)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disruption (2014)

Do the Math (2013)

Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)

A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (2012) (trailer)

Tomorrow's Power (2019)

The Carbon Rush (2019) (trailer)

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Climate of Doubt (2012)

Years of Living Dangerously (2014)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)

2040: Join The Regeneration (US-Only) (2020)

Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change (2007)

The Wisdom To Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community (trailer)

Before the Flood (2016)

The Climate Changers (2016)

Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)

The Island President (2011) (trailer)

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

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

Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture

Everything Is A Remix (2015)

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

What is Creative Commons?

Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?

Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful

How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time

Creating Conscious Communities

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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

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

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

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The Settlers (2016)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

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

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2012: Time For Change (2010)

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The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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

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

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New Member Submissions

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

No Refuge: Cape Cod's Coastal Crisis (2024)

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)

Living Without: How Much is Enough?

Pinevale High - Separate, Unequal,....Undeterred.

Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt

Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

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Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) (trailer)

How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World

The Rules of the Game Must Change | Yanis Varoufakis

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

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