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I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

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Don't Cash Crop On My Cornrows - A Crash Discourse on Black Culture.

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When "Woke" Anti-Racists and Racists Actually Agree on Everything

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Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)

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The Employment - A Surreal Short Film About the Drudgery of Work

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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014)

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The REAL Tragedy of the Commons

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PLANETARY (2015)

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Carnage (2017)

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Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

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Documentaries that Inspire Ecological Consciousness

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

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

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (2015)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Superior Human? (2012)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

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: The History of Class War In The USA (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

Noam Chomsky

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

The Corporation (2003)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

Why Propaganda Works & The Great Question of Our Time | Noam Chomsky

The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

Was The Soviet Union Really a Socialist Country? Noam Chomsky Dispels This Propaganda In 1 Minute

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government

Noam Chomsky: Who Rules the World Now?

Ecovillages: Experiments in New and Ancient Ways of Living

The Village of Lovers (2024) (trailer)

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

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village

230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

Saving Our Ecovillage (2020)

17 Days In Community: A Manifestation of Love (2014)

This Community Is Transforming a Blighted Neighborhood Into a Vibrant Lab of Possibilities

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

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

Awakening the Village Heart and Mind

Into Unity: A Journey into Ecovillage Living

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)

Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth (2009)

Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity (2018)

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 | Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Education

Schooling the World (2010)

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

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

A Science Of Teaching (2015)

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

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

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

Being and Becoming (2014)

The Forbidden Education (2012)

Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

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Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

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Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine

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

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

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Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era

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The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

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

Wisdom Pills

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Norman Solomon

An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness

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

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Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

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Four Kinds of Dystopia

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Understanding Patriarchy

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

To Change Everything, Start Everywhere

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

The Shocking, True History of Race Baiting, From the 17th Century to the Present Day

John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit

Better, Not More

Thought-Provoking Comics

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

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us

Comic Strip of Alan Watts' Lecture: What If Money Was No Object?

Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm

Reclaim May Day

This Zen Comic Is Full of Timeless Life Lessons

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

On the Mindless Menace of Violence

One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Class Differences in Society

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

Comic Explaining Colonialism

Brilliant Comic of Banksy's Call To Arms Against Advertisers

This Comic Shows The Importance of Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve Your Dreams

Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic

What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Billion are Frying the Planet?

Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman

The Importance of Maintaining a Sense of Wonder and Excitement

Cities are the Ideal Scale to Focus Solution-Efforts

How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

The Future of Cities

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

15-Minute Cities for Leftists

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Sleeping Giant: A Localist Manifesto

Transition Documentaries

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

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

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Transition

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Occupy Love (2013)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

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

"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 Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

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

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)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

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

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

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The Corporation (2003)

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Sicko (2007)

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