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The Story of the Chinese Farmer
The Story of the Chinese Farmer
"The whole process of nature is a process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad." A parable about life and nature narrated by Alan Watts, animated by Steve Agnos, and with music by Chris Zabriskie.
2 min · 4.9 stars
10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class
10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class
We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives to work towards burgeoning systems and ideologies. Despite misconceptions, there are tons...
Kathleen Harris · 4.9 stars
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.
Katherine Reynolds Lewis · 5 stars
Donald Trump Is the Mirror and Hillary Clinton Is the Mask
Donald Trump Is the Mirror and Hillary Clinton Is the Mask
Disclaimer: I do not support Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton for president. I think the scope of the political debate is far too narrow for the kinds of actions that need to take place to prevent the extinction of most of the life on earth, including human beings. Stepping...
Sustainable Human · 5 stars
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
The Highest Act of Love In a Criminally Insane Society is Disobedience
Our consumer culture is collective insanity and it's driving us to destruction, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker.
John F Schumaker · 5 stars
George Carlin on Corporate America
George Carlin on Corporate America
George Carlin talks about how corporations and business interests have Americans "by the balls." Carlin says the people that run this country want nothing more than "obedient workers" and now they want our social security money and retirement. "It's a big club and you and I...
4 min · 5 stars
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
12 min · 5 stars
Monty Python Explains Occupy Wall St. in 3 Minutes
Monty Python Explains Occupy Wall St. in 3 Minutes
A little bit of political satire on systems of government. This just about sums it up doesn't it? :)
3 min · 4.9 stars
The Story of How This Man Learned What Love Is - and Isn't - Is Heartbreaking
The Story of How This Man Learned What Love Is - and Isn't - Is Heartbreaking
This is a clip from the beginning of the 3-part film HUMAN, which was released for free online in 2015. You can watch the series here. 
3 min · 5 stars
Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'
Noam Chomsky Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial...
Chris Hedges · 4.9 stars
Forest Man
Forest Man
Since the 1970's Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. His forest has transformed what was once a barren wasteland, into a lush oasis. Humble yet...
16 min · 4.8 stars
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?
"We have heard the rationales offered by the super powers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species, who speaks for Earth?" - Carl Sagan​
7 min · 5 stars
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?
Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?
"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings."
5 min · 4.9 stars
Nature Is Speaking
Nature Is Speaking
Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, and Robert Redford all join forces to give nature a voice. Take action at http://natureisspeaking.org Part 1: Julia Roberts is Mother Nature. Part 2: Harrison Ford is the Ocean. Part 3: Kevin Spacey...
10 min · 4.9 stars
John Pilger: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Endless Violence Begin to End
John Pilger: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Endless Violence Begin to End
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves".  As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and...
John Pilger · 4.8 stars
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
Call-out culture refers to the tendency among progressives, radicals, activists, and community organizers to publicly name instances or patterns of oppressive behaviour and language use by others. People can be called out for statements and actions that are sexist, racist...
Asam Ahmad · 4.9 stars
Dr. Maya Angelou: Love Liberates
Dr. Maya Angelou: Love Liberates
Words to live by from Dr. Maya Angelou. Love each other.
5 min · 4.9 stars
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the...
30 min · 4.9 stars
Palestinian Performance Poet Speaks Powerful Truth to Power: 'We Teach Life, Sir'
Palestinian Performance Poet Speaks Powerful Truth to Power: 'We Teach Life, Sir'
Rafeef Ziadah, a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist, performs a poem in response to a journalists who asks "don't you think it would all be better if you just stop teaching your children to hate".
4 min · 4.9 stars
Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted
Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted
A dangerous thing can occur when you start learning about what's really going on in the world. The problems start to seem so complex, and you're just one person, doubts begin to creep in. You sincerely want to help change the world, but from all this knowledge you start to...
Tim Hjersted · 5 stars
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
Systems thinkers have given us a useful metaphor for a certain kind of human behavior in the phenomenon of the boiled frog.
Daniel Quinn · 5 stars
Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
Update: NASA is now clarifying its role in this study. NASA officials released this statement on the study on March 20, which seeks to distance the agency from the paper: "A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use...
Tom McKay · 5 stars
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.
Mark Greene · 5 stars
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!
Films For Action · 4.8 stars
Killing the Things We Love
Killing the Things We Love
The increasingly unscrupulous propaganda machine of radical corporate capitalism is warping our humanity and driving us to destroy what is closest to our hearts, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker. The last hope of defeating this evil might lie in the strategic use...
John F. Schumaker · 5 stars
This Amazing Music Video Wants Us to Kick Our Plastic Bag Addiction
This Amazing Music Video Wants Us to Kick Our Plastic Bag Addiction
Not only have these two artists solved the greatest existential question facing modern society (paper or plastic?), they did it while singing a mind-blowing parody of Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind." My hat is off to them. - Tim Hjersted
3 min · 5 stars
Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder
Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder
A new disease epidemic is rapidly spreading across the world: "Consumption-Vanity Disorder" - a disease spread not through a mutating virus or genetic predisposition – but through cultural “memes” – turning the world into a reflection of the advertising images broadcast daily...
30 min · 5 stars
The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand
The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand
Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman engages Russell Brand about voting, apathy, revolution and beards... and it's the most utterly fantastic clash between the old paradigm and the new paradigm I've seen condensed into 11 minutes.  
11 min · 5 stars
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the...
2 min · 5 stars
David Suzuki: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
David Suzuki: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
At 74, and coming the end of his scientific and broadcasting career, David Suzuki mused on the notion: "If I had one last lecture to give, what would I say?" The result is a very special talk full of humour, warmth, insight and passion.
106 min · 5 stars
The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next
The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next
Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. It is time to explore genuine alternatives and new models-"the next system."
4 min · 5 stars
How To Win A Holy War
How To Win A Holy War
In attempting to answer the question "how to win a holy war?" Matthew Cooke begins by trying to define what is "holy" and guides us on a wonderful journey toward oneness.
6 min · 5 stars
Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College
Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College
Watch how harnessing human potential along with the sun is improving millions of impoverished lives. 
11 min · 5 stars
What is it About Society That Disappoints You So Much?
What is it About Society That Disappoints You So Much?
This clip is from the series Mr Robot, in which young anti-social computer programmer Elliot works as a cybersecurity engineer during the day, but at night he is a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the mysterious leader of an underground group of hackers to join their...
1 min · 4.9 stars
People Were Moved to Tears After Taking the DNA Journey
People Were Moved to Tears After Taking the DNA Journey
It's easy to think there are more things dividing us than uniting us. But we actually have much more in common with other nationalities than you'd think.
5 min · 5 stars
Politica Recuperada.
Politica Recuperada.
Mientras las tecnologías digitales están cambiando todo, seguimos teniendo instituciones políticas del siglo XIX. Sin embargo, en los márgenes del poder actual, crece un movimiento que escapa de las trincheras ideológicas tradicionales, para dar cuerpo a otra forma de hacer...
10 min · 5 stars
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)
"Scott Noble may have outdone himself with Counter Intelligence. The Psywar filmmaker amassed a tour de force of power elite and deep state scholars weighing in and synthesizing decades of research. From the rise of the national security state and mass proliferation of...
360 min · 4.9 stars
27 Honest Questions for Hillary Supporters
27 Honest Questions for Hillary Supporters
To those who are supporting Hillary Clinton,
Kris Seto · 4.9 stars
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
Take a look at this info-graphic. The disparity is absurd, and the 99% does need a raise. But while we're fighting for 15, we need to look beyond raising the minimum wage, as it doesn't get us anywhere close to solving the root problem. 
Tim Hjersted · 5 stars
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of cyclical violence has made understanding the roots of this conflict (not to mention...
Tim Hjersted · 5 stars
13 Images Showing The Extent Of Israel's Palestinian Apartheid
13 Images Showing The Extent Of Israel's Palestinian Apartheid
These graphics are all from Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the occupied region. Check out many more of these images on their site
Salim · 5 stars
Minister No More!
Minister No More!
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage.
Yanis Varoufakis · 5 stars
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income
The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
3 min · 5 stars
Former IS Hostage Says "Strikes on Isis Are a Trap"
Former IS Hostage Says "Strikes on Isis Are a Trap"
Nicolas Henin is a French Journalist who was held hostage by Isis for 10 months. One of his jailers was Mohammed Emwazi, known as “Jihadi John”. Listen to what Nicolas has to say about Isis, our treatment of refugees and most importantly: what it’ll take to defeat them.
6 min · 5 stars
The Island of All Together
The Island of All Together
Every summer many European tourists travel to the Greek island Lesbos for a sunny holiday. This year thousands of refugees crossed the sea from Turkey and arrived on the island as well, looking for a safe haven in the European Union. Filmmakers Philip Brink and Marieke van...
23 min · 5 stars
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
5 min · 5 stars
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
A series of BBC films about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.  The series argues this has affected a wide spectrum of human...
58 min · 4.9 stars
TPP, TTIP, TiSA, ISDS - Acronyms to End Democracy
TPP, TTIP, TiSA, ISDS - Acronyms to End Democracy
The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership), TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), and TISA (Trade in Services Agreement) are currently being negotiated behind closed doors all over the world. They all include ISDS a clause that allows a secret global court to...
6 min · 4.9 stars
Greece - What You Are Not Being Told by the Media
Greece - What You Are Not Being Told by the Media
According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could...
Chris Kanthan · 4.8 stars
The End of Capitalism Has Begun
The End of Capitalism Has Begun
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
Paul Mason · 4.9 stars
Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives
Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives
What matters in life? Who are we? Every culture has answers to these questions. And the way we answer them has profound effects on the health of people and planet. This is a consciousness-shifting clip from the excellent film "Occupied Cascadia," released online for free by...
6 min · 4.9 stars
Watch a Giant Suction Tube Gobble Up The Earth In This Brilliant Video about Our Economy
Watch a Giant Suction Tube Gobble Up The Earth In This Brilliant Video about Our Economy
Modern production is based on extraction from the planet, and modern finance is based on extraction from the many for the benefit of the very few. What would a new economy look like and how can we rethink our relationship to resources, work and culture? Those are some of the...
7 min · 4.9 stars
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated More Uniquely Than This
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated More Uniquely Than This
The story shared by Israel and Palestine has been told in several stunning films, but I don't think I've ever seen it told like this.
3 min · 4.8 stars
The Coolest Nature Video Ever!
The Coolest Nature Video Ever!
Beautifully edited by Roen Horn this slice of natural wonder is set to the music of Karen O.
2 min · 4.8 stars
15 Powerful Quotes From the World's Most Humble President
15 Powerful Quotes From the World's Most Humble President
"Modest yet bold, liberal and fun-loving." Naming Uruguay the country of the year in 2013, the Economist may very well have described the rising nation's head of state, President José "Pepe" Mujica. Known for his unusual frankness, fiery oration 
Hyacinth Mascarenhas · 4.8 stars
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.
David Cain · 4.8 stars
The Corporation
The Corporation (2003)
The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.
145 min · 4.8 stars
Schooling the World
Schooling the World (2010)
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
66 min · 4.8 stars
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A.
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
560 min · 4.8 stars
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview is a documentary exploring the depths of the current human condition and the emergence of a worldview that is recreating our world from the inside out. Weaving together insights and findings from biology, psychology, network...
65 min · 4.8 stars