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We Found a Solution to America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect.
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
‘Hope Is Alive’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech After Toppling a NYC Dynasty
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
What Will Socialism Look Like?
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
Tiny Space, Big Harvest – How to Grow Food in a Small Garden
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
A Guide To Democratic Socialists of America
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
We NEED To Nationalize 70% of the Economy
Why Expanding Congress Would End Gerrymandering
We Know What To Do | Matthew Cooke
Zohran Is the Real MAGA | Matthew Cooke
The Shipping Container That Might Replace Solar Farms
Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel
What If We Went Scorched Earth On Trump | Matthew Cooke
Capitalism Won't Save Us. Here's What Will. | Jason Hickel
24 Hours In an Illegal, Car-free Community
Churning the Earth (2024)
Why the Left Needs a Rebrand | Solarpunk Alana
Abandon "Abundance"
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
Should the U.S. Build More Public Housing?
How Zohran Mamdani Can Fix the Housing Crisis
This Film Is Garbage! (trailer)
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
Your Solarpunk Guide: From Dystopia to Utopia and Beyond
Common Ground (trailer)
Why WORKERS Should OWN Companies
How We're Restoring Ancient Forest WITHOUT Planting Trees in Madagascar
The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity
What If You Didn’t Need a Paycheck to Live? A Short Introduction to the People's Library
“Living In This Ecovillage Costs $200 per Month (All Inclusive)”
5 Solarpunk Communities That Will Bring You Hope
Cities are the Ideal Scale to Focus Solution-Efforts
Patron Documentaries
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
We Are Many (2020)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Affluenza (1997)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
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