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We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous
Core Nonviolence Commitments
True Justice Should Have Compassion in It
Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
Thich Nhat Hanh: How We Can Learn to Love Our Enemies
Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters
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
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Them in 2018
Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him
If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical
Compassion, the Antidote
Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
Why We Should Love Our Enemies
To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate
The Problem With Hating Our Enemies
We've Been Protesting for Decades. What's It Going to Take to End Police Brutality?
The Four Qualities of True Love
If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him
Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in
Occupy Your Brain: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Based Activism
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
Wanted: Men Who Love
Understanding Patriarchy
Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power
The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy
Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
The White Working-Class Must Name The True Root of Their Problems If They Ever Want to Get Free
You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress
Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
Sacred Activism: Movement for Global Healing
The Human Future Depends On All of Us Becoming Designers
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence
Activist Philosophy & Reflection
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
Liberation Theory: A Working Framework
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
Working Assumptions and Guidelines for Alliance-Building
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
The Polarization Trap
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
How to Disagree
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)
How To (Not) Change Minds On The Internet
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Based Activism
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
The Trap of Righteousness
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Are You Tired of the Social Justice Outrage Machine?
Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements
The Problem With Judgement
Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
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