Films For Action: A Documentary Library for Changing the World

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Occupied Cascadia (2012)

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

The Cove (2009) ($2)

9/11: Press for Truth (2006)

The Fog of War (2003) ($3)

ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us (2015) ($3)

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)

The Norden - Police (2014)

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

For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

Connected: A Film for Change (2013)

Enough Is Enough (2014)

The Israeli Lobby (2007)

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

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

Dirty Wars (2013) ($4)

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

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Wisdom Weavers Of The World

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Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

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

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

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The Culture of Maximum Harm

Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?

When a Whole Generation of Youth "Feels Cheated," That's Something Worth Paying Attention To

The River of Vision: "If the World Is Saved It Won't Be Saved by Old Minds With New Programs."

The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael

The Importance of Rites of Passage

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

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What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?

Initiation Into a Living Planet

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

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Black Lives Matter

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Down in the Hole - The Streets of Baltimore (2015)

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 Parts

Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 parts (ch. 2)

Tears in the Bayou - The Streets of Houston (2017)

I Am Not Your Negro (2017) ($4)

Generation Revolution (2017) ($1)

Baltimore Rising (2017) ($4)

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (trailer)

If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.

What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?

4 Black Lives Matter Myths Debunked

Law Professor's Epic Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint

What's the Matter with 'All Lives Matter'

The Power of White Fear feat. Chris Hayes

Whose Streets? An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising (trailer)

Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown (trailer)

Accidental Courtesy Follow-Up: Daryl Davis and Kwame Rose Agree that Black Lives Matter

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The Blood is at the Doorstep (trailer)

Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson (trailer)

Ferguson Isn't about Black Rage Against Cops. It's White Rage Against Progress.

The Real Reason White People Say 'All Lives Matter'

It Took Me Years to Believe That Black Lives Matter. Now Here's What I Need From You

White People in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter

Why I Refuse to Avoid White People

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (2016) ($3)

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The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

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

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

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Near-Extinct Amazonian Tribe so Connected With Nature They Reportedly Breastfeed Animals

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The White Man in That Photo

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Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

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

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Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

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

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Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era

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Elon Musk’s Comment on Empathy Is Much Worse Than You Thought

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The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

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The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

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Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims

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"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism

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The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents

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Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Life in Occupied Palestine (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

The War Around Us (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech

With God on Our Side (2010)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Activist Philosophy & Reflection

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

“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors

How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us

Not All Politics Is Identity Politics

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline

Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

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?

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

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

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Polarization Trap

How to Disagree

Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change

How To (Not) Change Minds On The Internet

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered 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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The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”

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