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NYC Nurses' Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line
Revolution Food (2015)
How Leftists Can Reclaim Self-Improvement
"The Problem With Plastic": How Pollution Is Worsening Climate Crisis & Hurting Our Health
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
Why Trump Supporters Are at a Breaking Point
How Billionaires Are Using the Shutdown to Rob You | Breakthrough News
Doctor Explains Why They're Terrified to Speak Out
They're Trying to Kill Us (2023)
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence (2022)
Rachel Carson (2017)
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert
Who's Getting Rich Off Health Grifts?
Viral Chart Exposes Internet Fueled Personality Destruction
ADHD Is a Curse… Until You Learn This
Your Reality Narrows After Trauma — Here’s How To Expand It
A CEO Wanted To Run Healthcare Like Taco Bell. Here’s How His Patients Are Doing.
I Worked for Big Pharma: What I Saw Will Shock You
Turns Out — They LIED About Fluoride
How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood
Living With Dying (2022)
life changed when i realized the rules are made up / my journey to an off-grid life
The Divided Brain (2019)
We Found The Real Government Waste & Fraud. Trump Endorses It.
Bernie Sanders PERFECTLY Explains Why Americans are OVER This Bulls**t System
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
"Can't Look Away": New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids
How Stoicism Became Religion for Immature Men
They Voted for Trump. Here’s Why They Feel Betrayed
The 'Friendship Recession' Is Killing Us.
Republicans Push Devastating Cuts To Medicaid
PFAS: The Secret Toxins in Your Body
The Importance of Still Showing Up for Life Even When It Feels Like the World Is Crashing Out.
Alternatives to Capitalism: Economic Democracy, PROUT, Market Socialism & More
Patron Documentaries
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
We Are Many (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Affluenza (1997)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Tomorrow's Children (2001)
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)
The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)
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