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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
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) ($4)
Generation Revolution (2017) ($1)
Baltimore Rising (2017) ($4)
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (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 (trailer)
Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown (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 (trailer)
Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson (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) ($3)
Patron Documentaries
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Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Affluenza (1997)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
We Are Many (2020)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
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