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Indigenous Knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Rights VS Responsibilities: "In Our Language, We Don't Have a Word for Rights. We Have Words for Responsibility."

Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Arkan Lushwala Shares Indigenous Wisdom: The Earth Is Our Mother

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Why Cultural Diversity Is as Essential to Human Survival as Biological Diversity

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

The Other Way of Knowing

Schooling the World (2010)

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

Fall and Winter (2013)

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

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Red Cry (2013)

Privilege Theory

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

What I Learned After Reading about Privilege Theory For 9 Hours

Tim Wise and the Failure of Privilege Discourse

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

Exiting the Vampire Castle

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

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

Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics

The Unicorn Ally

On Privilege: a Leftist Critique of the Left

White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism

Thandeka on Why Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail

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

Check Your White Privilege?

With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism

Documentaries to Watch Once and Only Once

Slaughterhouse - What The Meat Industry Hides (2017)

Land of Hope and Glory (2017)

We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It

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

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

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

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

Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Them in 2018

Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

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

Compassion, the Antidote

Thich Nhat Hanh: How We Can Learn to Love Our Enemies

Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness

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

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

The Problem With Hating Our Enemies

We've Been Protesting for Decades. What's It Going to Take to End Police Brutality?

The Four Qualities of True Love

If You Oppose Donald Trump, Don't Hate Him

Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Exiting the Vampire Castle

Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire

Most Watched Documentaries

BBC: The Power of Nightmares (2004)

No Impact Man (2009) ($4)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Peace, Propaganda And The Promised Land (2004)

Subconscious War (2011)

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

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Economics of Happiness (2011) ($5)

Starsuckers (2009)

King Corn (2007) ($3)

The Superior Human? (2012)

Trending Articles

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

Planet Local: A Film Series about the Beautiful Local Food Movement That's Changing the Way We Grow Food

Local Futures

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Ian Mackenzie

Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next

Joanna Macy

The Demoralized Mind

John Schumaker

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Yasha Levine

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments (And How to Refute Them)

Michael E Sparks

Initiation Into a Living Planet

Charles Eisenstein

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

David Cain

Reading Library

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Planet Local: A Film Series about the Beautiful Local Food Movement That's Changing the Way We Grow Food

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy - Guerrilla Translation!

Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry

Trump the Magician: The Real Function of Racism and Xenophobia

The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

Paper Straws Won't Save the Planet – We Need a Four-Day Week

Want to Tackle Inequality? Then First Change Our Land Ownership Laws

Are We Done Fighting?

‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump's Persecution of Assange

Flag of Distress/What to a Migrant Child Is July 4th?

The Meek Be Damned on Global Warming

Featured Writer: Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

Let the (R)Evolution Come from Wisdom: 3 Insights to Help Create a World Free From Violence

We've Been Protesting for Decades. What's It Going to Take to End Police Brutality?

We Don't Have Time to Hate

The (R)Evolution is Unity: Reflections on the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa

To the Youth a Day After the Election: Another World Is Possible

Guides

What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A Guide to Gracefully Losing Faith in a Collapsing Dominant Culture

A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.

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

The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle

The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New

4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm

5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op

How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity

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

How to Not Be Offended

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

The Tao Te Ching: Wisdom for Aspiring Leaders and Change-Makers of Every Kind

Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not a Valentine

Ideological Hegemony: the Tragic Reason Why People Don't Vote

The Anarchist Case For Voting In Elections

I'm an Anarchist and I Vote

Halle/Chomsky: an Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

To Vote or Not to Vote: For Anarchists, Is There Only One True Way?

New Member Submissions

5 Things I Learned the Hard Way About Raising Goats

Secret to Life

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required

No Veganwashing Israeli Crimes!

All Cats Are Black

Heart Attack Survivor Thrives on Plants | Dave Willits Part 1 | Plant Power Stories

Rez Golf (2019)

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

Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)

“United States” to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire

American Apocalypse: the Government’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

Jair Bolsonaro takes on the Indigenous Munduruku of the Amazon

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