Archive | Books
By Howard Zinn
Most of you have already read it, but in honor of the passing of Howard Zinn, we thought we’d put it back in the spotlight. Revolutionary work showing history from the side of the everyday people who lived in these times and fought in these struggles.
We’d also recommend A People’s History of the American Empire which is sort of a cross between the book above, a Howard Zinn autobiography, and a comic book. Light, informative and moving.
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By Jeremy Love
A morbid fairy tale adventure. A young African American girl from the 1930s must brave a horrific fantasy version of the Jim Crow South. Also available as a webcomic online at www.zudacomics.com/bayou.
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Not just about how corporations and commerce control us, but how they have infiltrated our minds, and how we are actively participating in our own exploitation
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By Robert Vendetti and Brett Weldele
Graphic novel that inspired the movie, about a world in which humans spend all their time in their homes, using virtual reality technology to control idealized robot-versions of themselves to interact in the real world.
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By Chris Hedges
A depressingly insightful look at the decline of people who can handle facts and complexity, and the rise of those who can only handle sensation and simplistic entertainment.
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Progressive talk radio host Thom Hartmann explores the devastating ways that our politics, economics, and consumerism are intersecting and magnifying in scope.
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Journalist Max Blumenthal has spent most of the past five years infiltrating and documenting the radical, fundamentalist fringe of the Republican Party. This book is an amazing look at the ways in which theocrats, maniacs, and charlatans exploit the real pain and despair of real Americans to build a world that causes those Americans real harm.
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By Peter Maas
A tragic look at the way that the companies who produce oil are often mired in poverty, and the ones who consume oil find themselves embroiled in corruption and war.
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By TR Reid
A journalist visits half a dozen countries around the world, researches their medical system, and is treated by their doctors, in an effort to find a new path for America’s failing health care system.
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A look into the social justice movement from an academic who chooses to get involved instead of staying on the sidelines. The book’s main focus is on telling a vivid tale of the anti-globalization protests at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001.
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