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"Large-scale problems do not require large-scale solutions--they require small-scale solutions within a large-scale framework." - Dr. David Fleming

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

Privilege Theory

The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice

Thandeka: Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed

Privilege Discourse Has Noble Intentions but Perhaps It's Time to Consider Its Unintended Impacts

Naomi Zack: Stop Talking About White Privilege and Talk More About Black Rights

With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism

What I Learned After Reading about Privilege Theory For 9 Hours

Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics

On Privilege: a Leftist Critique of the Left

Reflections on Privilege Theory: Why I'm Looking for a Better Way to Communicate This Idea

White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism

Check Your White Privilege?

Exiting the Vampire Castle

Class Conflict Between Elite Whites and Poor Whites - The Invisible Race Problem That's Killing Black Americans

Tim Wise and the Failure of Privilege Discourse

The Unicorn Ally

The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy

Tim Wise On White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality (2008) (trailer)

Solidarity Is About What You Do - Not Who You Are.

The Cost of Being Socialized White

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

Feminism

How The Media Has Shaped Your Negative Perception of Feminism

Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action

The Trouble With Equality: Feminism and the Forgotten Places of Power

Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights (2013) (trailer)

Feminist: Stories From Women’s Liberation (2013) (trailer)

Feminism Inshallah: A History Of Arab Feminism (2014) (trailer)

Feminism Against Capitalism

Imperialist Feminism and Liberalism

Caitlin Moran on Everyday Feminism

We Sold Feminism to the Masses, and Now It Means Nothing

The Feminist Library: A Short Film (2016)

What Happened When This Woman Included 'Feminist' on Her Tinder Profile

Why Women – Including Feminists – Are Still Attracted to 'Benevolently Sexist' Men

What They Really Mean When They Say They're Not a Feminist

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

Feminism in Identity, ‘El Movimiento’ & Other Spaces

Bernie Vs. Hillary: What's a Feminist to Do?

Theresa May Becomes Britain's 2nd Female PM - This Is NOT a Feminist Victory

The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism

Reimagining Feminism

Developing Skills of the Heart

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

The Four Qualities of True Love

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

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

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Do You Have Time to Love?

Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear

Wanted: Men Who Love

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

What It Means To Communicate

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Control is a Trap

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy and the Promise of a Million Utopias

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)

The Promise of a Million Utopias

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today

Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician

An Atlas of Real Utopias?

Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods

Building Democratic Power at the Local Level - A Strategy for Long-Term Liberation

Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve

Democracy (How to Save It and Ourselves) Narrated by Danny Glover

How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City

What Is Democracy? (trailer)

We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall St)

Scaling Up: Ideas about Participatory Democracy

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

The 4th Branch of Government: An Idea To Create Direct Democracy For, and By, The People

The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East

Anarcho-Syndicalist Principles

Democracy At Work: How This One Idea Could Make Your Job Amazing

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

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

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Earth Democracy

Trending Articles

Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media

Luca Goldmansour

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Gavin Aung Than

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

David Cain

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

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Films For Action

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

George Lakey

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'

Liam O'Ceallaigh

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Reclaiming Youth International

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

Michael E Sparks

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

Foundational Knowledge For Addressing Root Causes

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Violence Is a Preventable Brain Disorder

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

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

Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior

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

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

This Video Dispels a Great Myth about Human Nature that Will Restore Your Hope in Humanity

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

A Non-religious Man Virtually Eliminates Local Crime with Nothing More than a Buddha Statue

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

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

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

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?

New Documentaries

The Great Disconnect (2020) ($5)

Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)

I Have Arrived, I Am Home: A Documentary about Thich Nhat Hanh (2023)

The Age Of Consequences (2021) ($5)

Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

Cocaine Unwrapped (2011) ($4)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007) ($5)

Tomorrow's Children (2001) ($5)

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (2019)

The Laws of Capitalism (2022)

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010) ($5)

The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013) ($5)

Emotional Literacy

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

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

Trending Documentaries

Right America: Feeling Wronged (2009)

536 mins watched today

The Corporation (2003)

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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Sicko (2007)

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The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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

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The Untold History of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party

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Four Horsemen (2012)

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Killing Gaza (2018)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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Human (2015)

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2012: The Mayan Word (2012)

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Framing Reality (2020)

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Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

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

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The War You Don't See (2010)

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Sustainable Human

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Amphibians Restore Balance To The Land | Harvey Tweats

What Kids Need Most | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai

How Devils Heal Forests | Rob Brewster

The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari

The Politics Of Belonging | George Monbiot

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us (with Gabor Maté)

What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry

The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone

Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing

The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate

A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein

Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Earth Democracy

A Sustainable Death

The Story of the Chinese Farmer

We Societies

New Member Submissions

Gandi Baat : Male child sexual Abuse in India (2023)

MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes

The last thing MLK told Harry Belafonte

The Myth of Low-Serotonin & Antidepressants

Water Has a Memory (2023)

911 Decade of Deception (2011)

CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method (2023)

Equity: The Thief of Human Potential

Endocrine Disruptors - Common Chemicals That Severely Alter Your Hormones

IN THE NAME OF MY PEOPLE (2019)

Super Polluters (2023)

Gift Your Land to the Ecological Land Cooperative (2023)

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