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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

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

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

"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 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

Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

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)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (trailer)

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Play Again (trailer)

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

Honest Government Ads

Honest Government Ad | 2022 Election (Season 2 Finale)

Honest Government Ads | 5 Year Special!

Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t

Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)

Honest Government Ad | Climate Breakdown

Honest Government Ad | Q

Honest Government Ad | My Police State!

Honest Government Ad | TRUMP 2020

Honest Government Ad | War on Satire

Honest Government Ad | The Economy

Honest Government Ad | The Recession

Honest Government Ad | President Trump

Honest Government Ad | The Machine

Honest Government Ad | Julian Assange

Honest Government Ad | Coronavirus: Flatten The Curve

Honest Government Ad | Visit West Papua!

Visit Hawai'i - The Occupied State

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) ($6)

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: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

Trending Articles

Defeat the Right in Three Minutes: A Practical Guide to Understanding Conservative Politics

Conceptual Guerilla

Why Louis Freeh Should Be Investigated For 9/11

Kevin R. Ryan

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Kevin A. Carson

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Films For Action

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Panic Volkushka

Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty

Ethan A. Huff

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Defiance in the Face of Oppression - Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani Defends the Right to Draw

Gavin Aung Than

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

David Cain

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

Bill Blunden

10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal

Joe Martino

"You Grow Up Wanting to Be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"

Garret

We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It

Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

You Can't Be Intersectional While at the Same Time Being Elitist and Exclusionary

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Social Justice Educators

Core Nonviolence Commitments

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

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

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire

Exiting the Vampire Castle

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

The Problem With Hating Our Enemies

Compassion, the Antidote

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

The Four Qualities of True Love

Public Shaming

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

Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness

The Politics of Being Woke

Videos that Explain Things

How the Rich Keep Us Poor

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

How Romanticism Ruined Love

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Electronics

Why Engagement Rings Are A Scam. Here Are The Facts.

The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy

The Story of Cosmetics

The Story of Change

Patriotism vs Nationalism: Do You Know the Difference?

Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

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

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Best Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

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

87 Deeply Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

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

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

Watch On Demand

Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)

Together We Grow (2022)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

Madagasikara (2020) ($4)

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Film School Africa (2017) ($4)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film (2018) ($4)

Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb (2020) ($20)

Unity (2015) ($13)

Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)

Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

Trending Documentaries

Sicko (2007)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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

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What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

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InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

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Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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9/11: Blueprint for Truth (2010)

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

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Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

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What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

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Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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

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The Yes Men: Changing the World One Prank at a Time (2003)

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The War You Don't See (2010)

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This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020) (US only)

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The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)

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Artifishal: The Fight to Save Wild Salmon (2019)

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Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020) ($5)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($5)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013) ($5)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017) ($5)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015) ($5)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015) ($5)

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010) ($5)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($5)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($5)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)

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

Locally Abundant (2012)

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization

New Member Submissions

"The Best Cure for the Body Is a Quiet Mind."

Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker

‘This is a war of propaganda’: John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange

NATO: the Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet | Chris Hedges

What Green Can Be - 2020 Edit (2020)

'Not a Justification but a Provocation': Chomsky on the Root Causes of the Russia-Ukraine War

Reinventing Progress: How to Move Beyond Technocracy

Abby Martin’s Speech on US Sanctions & Economic Gangsterism

Lakota Human Remains Stolen from US Army Massacre Hoarded by Private Museum (2022)

Oliver Stone & Abby Martin: Down the JFK Rabbit Hole

Central Bank Digital Currencies And the Social Nature of Money

Rize. (2022)

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