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

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

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

Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted

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

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

What Is the True Purpose of Government?

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

Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.

The Story That's Destroying the World

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

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want

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

Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It

On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities

Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism

A Form of Privilege That We Never Talk About

We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?

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

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

Is It Time to Give up "Whiteness"?

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

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

Patriarchy and the Love We Deserve

Understanding Patriarchy

The Love We Deserve

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Wanted: Men Who Love

#MeToo and Liberation for All

What Society Says To Men- Helly Shah | Spoken Word Poetry

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

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

Why Patriarchy Persists (And How We Can Change It)

Are We Living in a Patriarchy? (Jordan Peterson vs. Angela Nagle)

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture (trailer)

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

Okay Men, Let's Talk About Toxic Femininity

The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

Inspiring Short Films

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

Our $5+ Patreon Supporters Can Watch These Films for Free

The Economics of Happiness (2011) ($5)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($4)

Within Reach (2013) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($2)

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

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($2)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018) ($5)

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

The Evolution of Identity Politics

The Evolution of Identity Politics: an Interview With Eric Ward

Policing Identity Politics in Trump's America: Briahna Joy Gray at The Harvard Law Forum

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

Why Some Queer People Are Rejecting Identity Politics

On Safety Pins and Swastikas: How Liberal Identity Politics and White Nationalism are Proving Curiously Compatible

Identity Politics and the Struggle Against Oppression

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire

Exiting the Vampire Castle

White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism

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

The Limits of Liberal Identity Politics

A Critique of Ally Politics

I Don't Give a Damn About the First (Insert Identity Here) CEO or President

Identity Politiks: When Grievance Gets Weaponized

Identity Beyond Politics

A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics

Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Review – The Best Criticism of Identity Politics

How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence

Rev. Thandeka on Whiteness and Anti-Racism

Trending Articles

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

Eric Michael Johnson

Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires

Jeremy Lent

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

Kevin A. Carson

The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

Thom Hartmann

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration

Daniel Christian Wahl,

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

Teri Lynn Grunthaner

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

George Lakey

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

Aging Millennial Engineer

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

Christine Louis-Dit-Sully

Black Politics After 2016

Adolph Reed, Jr

The Political Economy of Anti-Racism

Walter Benn Michaels

Privilege Theory

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

Thandeka on Why Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail

What I Learned After Reading about Privilege Theory For 9 Hours

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

White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism

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

Tim Wise and the Failure of Privilege Discourse

Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics

Exiting the Vampire Castle

The Unicorn Ally

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

White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality

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

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

With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism

On Privilege: a Leftist Critique of the Left

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

Check Your White Privilege?

The Cost of Being Socialized White

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

We Can't Grow Infinitely on a Finite Planet

The Impossible Hamster

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Growth is Not Enough

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Who Killed Economic Growth?

Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

Personal Change Is Good, Collective Organizing Is Better

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

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: The Limits of Individual Choice

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

Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

Our Activism Must Be Focused on Serving the People

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul

The Big Picture

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

The Global Brain: Peter Russell (1983)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

The Economics of Happiness (2011) ($5)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Fall and Winter (2013)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($4)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013)

The Corporation (2003)

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

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

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

Unity (2015)

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Human (2015)

PLANETARY (2015) ($1)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

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

Money & Life (2013)

Fritjof Capra Speaks to the Heart of the Matter (2019)

The Lottery of Birth (2013) (trailer)

New Member Submissions

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

WAVES

The last chapter (of the civil war) with photojournalist George Azar _ Lebanese Revolution day 31

Benjamin Gordon on Innovation in Transportation - Where will the Next Breakthrough Occur?

I Am Nature-You are Human Nature, Nature in Human form. You are the outside Earth. What Befalls the Earth, Befalls All of Us.

America’s Longest War - Interview with former U.S. State Dep. & Pentagon Official Matthew Hoh

The Plot to Attack Iran: Myths, Oil and Revolution

Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?

Noam Chomsky: America Has Built a Global Dystopia

Ex-Bush official: OPCW's Syria cover-up recalls Iraq war lies

K2 AND THE INVISIBLE FOOTMEN

Facial Recognition Pushback

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