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The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity
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Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
Free For All: The Public Library (trailer)
Finding the Money (2023)
What If We Ran The Economy?
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration | Daniel Wahl
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
The Great Simplification (2022)
Why I left the Democratic Party #WalkAway
Vote Like A Radical
A New Economy | New Business Models for a Cooperative Future
The REAL Tragedy of the Commons
The Importance of Cultural Values for Meaningful Change
Appalachian Community Meal and Mutual Aid Network
Worker Democracy
Honest Government Ad | AI
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World
The Interrelated Structure of Reality (trailer)
It's Basic (trailer)
Try Psychedelics, Access Transcendence | James Fadiman
The Sacredness of Twoness | Lyla June Johnston
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood
Charles Eisenstein: Life is a Gift
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?
How To Build A Solarpunk City
Imprint (2023)
Zeitgeist | Requiem by Peter Joseph (trailer)
Philosophy
Patron Documentaries
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Affluenza (1997)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
We Are Many (2020)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Blood and Oil (2008)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
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