Decolonize To Liberate/resources/unoccupy
Selected resources from the anthology: The (Un)Occupy Movement:
Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality
~ prose & poetry - compiled and edited by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)
(posted with permission of Mankh)
Suggested Reading, Viewing, Listening
Indigenous/Native/Tribal/First Peoples:
READING:
Great Law of Peace, or The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa
- Kanionke:haka - The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Constitution;
Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World; basic call to
consciousness (Akwesasne Notes/Mohawk Nation);
The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies; Instructions, and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders;
The Elder Brothers: A Lost South American People and Their Wisdom;
Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders;
Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin Peoples of New York;
New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North,
South, and Central America;
For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook;
The Militarization of Indian Country;
C. G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive;
The Navaho; Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing;
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance;
This Day In North American History;
American Indian History: Five Centuries of Conflict and Coexistence;
Native American History: A Chronology of a Culture’s Vast Achievements and Their Links to World
Events;
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee;
Native American Myths (Teach Yourself Books);
White Buffalo Teachings (Chief Arvol Looking Horse);
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions;
Hopi Prophecy About 2012 (from 1986 Continental Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska by Lee Brown, Cherokee
- also video).
Websites:
Censored News: Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights;
Mohawk Nation News;
Bring Back the Way;
Montauk Nation.
WATCHING/LISTENING:
Russell Means, “Welcome to the Reservation”
John Trudell (on First Voices Indigenous Radio and else-where);
O'odham - “A Voice in the Desert;”
South of the Border;
Eyes Wide Open;
Return of the Captured Spirits;
Crying Earth Rise Up!;
Holy Man: The U.S.A. v. Doug White.
2012/The Shift:
READING: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community;
The Maya End Times: A Spiritual Adventure - Maya Prophecies for 2012 (Mercier);
Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age.
WATCHING:
Shift of the Ages;
What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire;
2012 An Awakening: a galactic alignment that occurs once every 26,000 years is just around the corner;
2012: Time For Change;
The Shift:
A Movie Being Made by a Movement;
The Quickening;
Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?;
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (and others in the series);
Nostradamus: 2012;
Into Eden; Ethics and the World Crisis: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
USA/USE History and Contemporary:
READING:
U.S. Constitution;
anything by Thomas Paine;
A People’s History of the United States;
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology;
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong;
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong;
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire;
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia;
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson;
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated;
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta;
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000;
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil;
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle;
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning;
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives;
The Untied States of America: Polarization; Fracturing, and Our Future;
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11
A Women Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise
Her Voice;
WATCHING:
The War You Don’t See;
Why We Fight; 1984 (book also);
Fahrenheit 451 (book also);
Fahrenheit 911;
Capitalism: A Love Story;
Trouble the Water;
Chomsky: Only a Massive Uprising Will Change Our Politics (interview);
Saint of 9/11; 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out;
Michel Chossudovsky, War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11 (9/11);
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False.
Resources/Energy:
READING:
The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It;
The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time;
Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill;
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems;
One Makes the Difference: inspiring actions that change our world;
WATCHING:
Gasland;
GasHole;
Water:
The Great Mystery;
Flow:
For Love of Water;
Blue Gold: World Water Wars;
Tapped;
Oil and Water;
On Coal River;
Bag It (the Age of Plastic);
Who Killed the Electric Car?;
Crude;
Home.
Websites:
NRDC.org;
RAN.org;
SierraClub.org;
CitizensCampaign.org;
EarthWatch.org;
foe.org (Friends of the Earth).
Food/Agriculture/Farming:
READING:
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System;
Fast Food Nation (also movie);
The Magic of Findhorn;
The Spirit of Findhorn;
The Secret Life of Plants;
Website: Organic Consumers Association.
WATCHING:
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil;
Urban Roots; Food, Inc. ;
The World According to Monsanto;
Dive! Living Off America’s Waste Economy:
Economy;
READING:
The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century.
WATCHING:
Inside Job;
In Debt We Trust;
Plunder;
American Casino;
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis;
Capitalism Is the Crisis: Radical Politics in an Age of Austerity;
The Rise of Financial Empire;
Economics of Happiness.
Miscellaneous:
READING:
Revolutions &Revolutionary Movements;
Revolution X: A Survival Guide for Our Generation;
anything by Alan Watts (also videos online);
Soul Companions;
Future Shock;
The Third Wave;
Revolutionary Wealth;
Breaking the Sound Barrier;
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many;
Blessed Unrest;
The Secret Spiritual World of Children;
The Hero with a Thousand Faces;
The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation Writers as Spirit Guides;
Earth House Hold;
The Bushman Way of Tracking God;
A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State;
The Case for Palestine;
Homosexuality and Civilization;
The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power (historical, mythic, and cross-cultural).
WATCHING:
Ferlinghetti;
The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti;
Century of the Self;
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear;
Pandora’s Box;
Into Eternity;
Manufactured Landscapes;
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised;
Unwinking Gaze;
Amongst White Clouds;
Unmistaken Child;
Dhamma Brothers;
Fearless Mountain;
Beyond Our Differences.
WEBSITES:
AxisofLogic.com (Agua for Haiti);
alternet. org;
Common Dreams.org;
DissidentVoice.org;
PrisonPlanet.com;
DemocracyNow.org;
HopefortheChildren.org;
ChangingWinds.org (includes donations for Lakota).
Other Writers Worth Reading/Listening to online and elsewhere:
Les Blough;
William Blum;
Juan Gonzalez;
Amy Goodman;
Glenn Greenwald;
Chris Hedges;
Seymour Hersh;
Julia Butterfly Hill;
Naomi Klein;
Bruce E. Levine;
Michael Moore;
Bill Moyers;
Ralph Nader;
Greg Palast;
James Petras;
John Pilger;
Gareth Porter;
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts;
Phil Rockstroh;
Arundhati Roy;
Nick Turse;
Jeremy Scahill;
Danny Schecter;
Vandana Shiva;
Matt Taibi;
Mark Weisbrot;
Cornel West;
Naomi Wolf.