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Articles by Tim Hjersted, Co-Founder of Films For Action

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

Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies

To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

The Story That's Destroying the World

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

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

Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology

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

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

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

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

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

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

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

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.

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

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

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

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

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

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

On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities

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

What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget

Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune 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

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

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

Top Films to Share with City Commissioners

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

Power to the City (2014)

The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

Christie Walk: A Piece Of Ecocity (2011)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned (2021)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

Bogota: Building A Sustainable City (2008)

Grow Food Not Lawns!

Gimme Green (2007)

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

From Gangs to Gardens (2014)

Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

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

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter

Anti-Racism is a Big Movement: Here are Some of the Conversations & Ideas That You May Have Missed

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

A Decolonial Critique of the Concept of White Privilege: Why Injustice Is Not a Privilege

The White Fragility Hustle

Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments

We Can’t Just Oppose Racism: We Must Transcend Race

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

Actually Color Blindness Isn't Racist | Coleman Hughes

We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism

The Limits of Anti-Racism

Check Your White Privilege?

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

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

Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Fall and Winter (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016) (trailer)

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

The Corporation (2003)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

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

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

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

Human (2015)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

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

New Documentaries

Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations (2024)

Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land (2024)

Seizing the West Bank: Extremist Settlers In Power (2024)

Jim Crow of the North: Redlining & Racism in Minnesota (2019)

Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. Is the Answer (2017)

A Hidden War: Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank (2024)

Slay the Dragon: End Gerrymandering or Democracy Dies. We Can Stop It. (2020)

Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)

Investigating Trump, Project 2025 and the Future of the United States | Four Corners (2024)

Birth of a Monster: How the Iraq War Led to More Extremism in the World (2016)

Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War (2024)

The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza (2024)

The Soldier’s Heart: Returning From the Iraq War With PTSD (2005)

Iraq's Toxic Oil Fields (2024)

The Truth About Bush's War On Crime (2024)

Obesity Nation: How America is Eating itself to Death (2024)

Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)

The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)

'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy (2024)

Inverted Totalitarianism (2024)

Power 2 the People (2013)

The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

Tribes on the Edge (2021)

Food, Inc. 2 (2024)

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Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

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

Russell Means

Everything Explained With One Simple Analogy

Joshua Idehen

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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

Panic Volkushka

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

Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Inspire a More Beautiful World

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Daniel Quinn

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

David Cain

Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era

Birgitta Jonsdottir

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

Gary Chartier

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

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

Shareable

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Yasha Levine

The Button

Josh Liveright

What You Are Seeing in Gaza Is Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

Yumna Patel

Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation

Chris Hedges

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price

Paul Rogers

Murder and Hostage-Taking Will Not Bring Peace or Justice, and Neither Will Apartheid

Dr. James J. Zogby

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

Africa Brooke

How the "15 Minute City" Conspiracy Theory Fooled People Into Fighting for the Status Quo

Tim Hjersted

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

Bull$h!t Jobs | David Graeber

Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

David Graeber: We Need a Revolution in the Way We Think about "Work"

Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (2014)

5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society

Instead of Meaningfully Contributing to Society, Many People Are Stuck In Bullshit Jobs They Hate | Joe Rogan

David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy

David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street

No Religion Has a Monopoly on Truth: There's Beauty to Find in Every Tradition (And It's OK to Discard the Outdated Stuff)

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

A Sufi Perspective on Religion: The Present Need of the World (1926)

Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr

James Talarico Delivers POWERFUL Sermon Against Christian Nationalism

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

Can We Talk About Sustainability Without Talking About Religion and Spirituality?

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

The Future of Christianity

Dreaming of a Buy-Nothing Christmas

Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel

Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel

A Jewish Message to the World: Judaism Rejects the Zionist "State of Israel" and its Atrocities

When the Grandmothers Awoke

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

Black Lives Matter

13TH (2016)

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)

Generation Revolution (2017)

Baltimore Rising (2017)

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018) (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 (2017) (trailer)

Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown (2018) (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 (2017) (trailer)

Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson (2016) (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)

Communalism

Horizontal Governing - The Virtually Incorruptible Solution to Vertical Top Down Corruption

Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System

Reason, Creativity and Freedom: The Communalist Model

Communalism: An Alternative to a World in Crisis

How to Create Democratic and Ecological Cities

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016) (trailer)

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

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

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

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

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

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

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

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

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

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