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Suggested Reading, Viewing, Listening


Suggested Reading, Viewing, Listening<br/>An inconclusive list in somewhat random order. Mostly just titles listed. For<br/>current wave of “Occupy” websites:&nbsp;[http://occupywallst.org/ occupywallst.org];&nbsp;[http://nycga.net/ nycga.net]&nbsp;(Council of<br/>OWS Elders, and more);&nbsp;[http://occupystream.com/ occupystream.com]&nbsp;provide lots of links. Others<br/>include: OccupyPolice/Writers/OurHomes/ Together/WorldMap . . .<br/>Also, websearch “Un-Occupy/UnOccupy.”<br/>Indigenous/Native/Tribal/First Peoples:<br/>READING: Great Law of Peace, or The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa<br/>- Kanionke:haka - The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Constitution;<br/>Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World; basic call to<br/>consciousness (Akwesasne Notes/Mohawk Nation); The Hopi Survival Kit:<br/>The Prophecies; Instructions, and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders;<br/>The Elder Brothers: A Lost South American People and Their Wisdom;<br/>Wisdomkeepers: Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders;<br/>Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin Peoples of New York;<br/>New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North,<br/>South, and Central America; For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization<br/>Handbook; The Militarization of Indian Country; C. G. Jung and the Sioux<br/>Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive; The Navaho; Genocide<br/>of the Mind: New Native American Writing; Prison Writings: My Life Is My<br/>Sun Dance; This Day In North American History; American Indian History:<br/>Five Centuries of Conflict and Coexistence; Native American History:<br/>A Chronology of a Culture’s Vast Achievements and Their Links to World<br/>Events; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; Native American Myths (Teach<br/>Yourself Books); White Buffalo Teachings (Chief Arvol Looking Horse);<br/>Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions; Hopi Prophecy About 2012 (from 1986<br/>Continental Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska by Lee Brown, Cherokee<br/>- also video). Websites: Censored News: Indigenous Peoples and Human<br/>Rights; Mohawk Nation News; Bring Back the Way; Montauk Nation.<br/>WATCHING/LISTENING: Russell Means, “Welcome to the Reservation”<br/>plus many others; John Trudell (on First Voices Indigenous Radio and else-<br/>where); O'odham - “A Voice in the Desert;” South of the Border; Eyes Wide<br/>Open; Return of the Captured Spirits; Crying Earth Rise Up!; Holy Man: The<br/>U.S.A. v. Doug White.<br/>2012/The Shift:<br/>READING: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community; The Maya<br/>End Times: A Spiritual Adventure - Maya Prophecies for 2012 (Mercier);<br/>Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age.<br/>WATCHING: Shift of the Ages; What A Way To Go: Life at the End of<br/>Empire; 2012 An Awakening: a galactic alignment that occurs once every<br/>140<br/>26,000 years is just around the corner; 2012: Time For Change; The Shift:<br/>A Movie Being Made by a Movement; The Quickening; Thrive: What On<br/>Earth Will It Take?; Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (and others in the series);<br/>Nostradamus: 2012; Into Eden; Ethics and the World Crisis: A Dialogue with<br/>the Dalai Lama.<br/>USA/USE History and Contemporary:<br/>READING: U.S. Constitution; anything by Thomas Paine; A People’s History<br/>of the United States; Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining Ameri-<br/>can Ideology; Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History<br/>Book Got Wrong; Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong;<br/>The Decline and Fall of the American Empire; Imperial America: Reflections<br/>on the United States of Amnesia; Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams,<br/>Jefferson; Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So<br/>Hated; Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta; The Last<br/>Empire: essays 1992–2000; Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the Ameri-<br/>can Empire at the End of the Age of Oil; Empire of Illusion: The End of Liter-<br/>acy and the Triumph of Spectacle; War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning; The<br/>Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives; The Untied States<br/>of America: Polarization; Fracturing, and Our Future; The New Pearl Harbor:<br/>Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 & The New<br/>Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé; A Women<br/>Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise<br/>Her Voice;&nbsp;[http://patriotsquestion911.org/ patriotsquestion911.org];&nbsp;[http://howtheworldchanged.org/ howtheworldchanged.org];&nbsp;[http://ae911truth.org/ ae911truth.org].<br/>WATCHING: The War You Don’t See; Why We Fight; 1984 (book also);<br/>Fahrenheit 451 (book also); Fahrenheit 911; Capitalism: A Love Story; Trouble<br/>the Water; Chomsky: Only a Massive Uprising Will Change Our Politics<br/>(interview); Saint of 9/11; 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out;<br/>Michel Chossudovsky, War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September<br/>11 (9/11); The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final<br/>Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False.<br/>Resources/Energy:<br/>READING: The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry and<br/>What We Must Do To Stop It; The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One<br/>Economy at a Time; Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill;<br/>The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest<br/>Problems; One Makes the Difference: inspiring actions that change our world;<br/>WATCHING: Gasland; GasHole; Water: The Great Mystery; Flow: For Love<br/>of Water; Blue Gold: World Water Wars; Tapped; Oil and Water; On Coal<br/>River; Bag It (the Age of Plastic); Who Killed the Electric Car?; Crude; Home.<br/>Websites: NRDC.org; RAN.org; SierraClub.org; CitizensCampaign.org;<br/>EarthWatch.org;&nbsp;[http://foe.org/ foe.org]&nbsp;(Friends of the Earth).<br/>141<br/>Food/Agriculture/Farming:<br/>READING: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food<br/>System; Fast Food Nation (also movie); The Magic of Findhorn; The Spirit of<br/>Findhorn; The Secret Life of Plants; Website: Organic Consumers Association.<br/>WATCHING: Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil; Urban<br/>Roots; Food, Inc.&nbsp;; The World According to Monsanto; Dive! Living Off<br/>America’s Waste<br/>Economy:<br/>READING: The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI<br/>Century.<br/>WATCHING: Inside Job; In Debt We Trust; Plunder; American Casino;<br/>Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis; Capitalism Is the Crisis: Radical Politics<br/>in an Age of Austerity; The Rise of Financial Empire; Economics of Happiness.<br/>Miscellaneous:<br/>READING: Revolutions &Revolutionary Movements; Revolution X:<br/>A Survival Guide for Our Generation; anything by Alan Watts (also videos<br/>online); Soul Companions; Future Shock; The Third Wave; Revolutionary<br/>Wealth; Breaking the Sound Barrier; The Prosperous Few and the Restless<br/>Many; Blessed Unrest; The Secret Spiritual World of Children; The Hero with<br/>a Thousand Faces; The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation Writers as<br/>Spirit Guides; Earth House Hold; The Bushman Way of Tracking God; A.D.<br/>381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State; The Case for<br/>Palestine; Homosexuality and Civilization;The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of<br/>Male Creative Power (historical, mythic, and cross-cultural).<br/>WATCHING: Ferlinghetti; The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti;<br/>Century of the Self; The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear;<br/>Pandora’s Box; Into Eternity; Manufactured Landscapes; The Revolution Will<br/>Not Be Televised; Unwinking Gaze; Amongst White Clouds; Unmistaken<br/>Child; Dhamma Brothers; Fearless Mountain; Beyond Our Differences.<br/>WEBSITES: AxisofLogic.com (Agua for Haiti); alternet. org; Common Dreams.<br/>org; DissidentVoice.org; PrisonPlanet.com;&nbsp;[http://counterpunch.com/ counterpunch.com];<br/>DemocracyNow.org;&nbsp;[http://inourheartsnyc.org/ inourheartsnyc.org]; HopefortheChildren.org;<br/>ChangingWinds.org (includes donations for Lakota).<br/>Other Writers Worth Reading/Listening to online and elsewhere:<br/>Les Blough; William Blum; Juan Gonzalez; Amy Goodman; Glenn<br/>Greenwald; Chris Hedges; Seymour Hersh; Julia Butterfly Hill; Naomi Klein;<br/>Bruce E. Levine; Michael Moore; Bill Moyers; Ralph Nader; Greg Palast;<br/>James Petras; John Pilger; Gareth Porter; Dr. Paul Craig Roberts; Phil<br/>Rockstroh; Arundhati Roy; Nick Turse; Jeremy Scahill; Danny Schecter;<br/>Vandana Shiva; Matt Taibi; Mark Weisbrot; Cornel West; Naomi Wolf.
 
 
Indigenous/Native/Tribal/First Peoples:
 
READING:
 
Great Law of Peace, or The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa<br/>- Kanionke:haka - The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Constitution;
 
Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World; basic call to<br/>consciousness (Akwesasne Notes/Mohawk Nation);  
 
The Hopi Survival Kit:&nbsp;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,<br/>South, and Central America;
 
For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization&nbsp;Handbook;
 
The Militarization of Indian Country;  
 
C. G. Jung and the Sioux&nbsp;Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive;  
 
The Navaho; Genocide&nbsp;of the Mind: New Native American Writing;  
 
Prison Writings: My Life Is My&nbsp;Sun Dance;
 
This Day In North American History;  
 
American Indian History:&nbsp;Five Centuries of Conflict and Coexistence;
 
Native American History:&nbsp;A Chronology of a Culture’s Vast Achievements and Their Links to World<br/>Events;
 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee;  
 
Native American Myths (Teach&nbsp;Yourself Books);  
 
White Buffalo Teachings (Chief Arvol Looking Horse);
 
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions;  
 
Hopi Prophecy About 2012 (from 1986&nbsp;Continental Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska by Lee Brown, Cherokee<br/>- also video).
 
 
 
Websites:  
 
Censored News: Indigenous Peoples and Human&nbsp;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&nbsp;Open;  
 
Return of the Captured Spirits;
 
Crying Earth Rise Up!;  
 
Holy Man: The&nbsp;U.S.A. v. Doug White.
 
 
 
 
 
2012/The Shift:
 
 
 
READING: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community;
 
The Maya&nbsp;End Times: A Spiritual Adventure - Maya Prophecies for 2012 (Mercier);
 
Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age.
 
<br/>WATCHING:  
 
Shift of the Ages;
 
What A Way To Go: Life at the End of&nbsp;Empire;  
 
2012 An Awakening: a galactic alignment that occurs once every&nbsp;26,000 years is just around the corner;  
 
2012: Time For Change;  
 
The Shift:
 
A Movie Being Made by a Movement;  
 
The Quickening;
 
Thrive:&nbsp;What On&nbsp;Earth Will It Take?;&nbsp;
 
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (and others in the series);
 
<br/>Nostradamus: 2012;
 
Into Eden; Ethics and the World Crisis: A Dialogue with&nbsp;the Dalai Lama.
 
 
 
 
 
USA/USE History and Contemporary:
 
 
 
READING:  
 
U.S. Constitution;
 
anything by Thomas Paine;  
 
A People’s History&nbsp;of the United States;  
 
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology;  
 
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History&nbsp;Book Got Wrong;  
 
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong;
 
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire;
 
Imperial America: Reflections&nbsp;on the United States of Amnesia;  
 
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams,&nbsp;Jefferson;  
 
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So&nbsp;Hated;  
 
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta;
 
The Last&nbsp;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&nbsp;Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives;  
 
The Untied States&nbsp;of America: Polarization; Fracturing, and Our Future;  
 
The New Pearl Harbor:&nbsp;Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11
 
A Women&nbsp;Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise<br/>Her Voice;&nbsp;
 
[http://patriotsquestion911.org/ patriotsquestion911.org];&nbsp;
 
[http://howtheworldchanged.org/ howtheworldchanged.org];&nbsp;
 
[http://ae911truth.org/ ae911truth.org].
 
 
 
WATCHING:  
 
The War You Don’t See;  
 
Why We Fight; 1984 (book also);
 
Fahrenheit 451 (book also);
 
Fahrenheit 911;  
 
Capitalism: A Love Story;
 
Trouble&nbsp;the Water;
 
Chomsky: Only a Massive Uprising Will Change Our Politics&nbsp;(interview);
 
Saint of 9/11; 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out;
 
Michel Chossudovsky, War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September&nbsp;11 (9/11);
 
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final&nbsp;Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False.
 
 
 
 
 
Resources/Energy:
 
READING:
 
The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry and&nbsp;What We Must Do To Stop It;  
 
The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One&nbsp;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&nbsp;Problems;  
 
One Makes the Difference: inspiring actions that change our world;
 
 
 
WATCHING:
 
Gasland;
 
GasHole;  
 
Water:
 
The Great Mystery;  
 
Flow:  
 
For Love&nbsp;of Water;  
 
Blue Gold: World Water Wars;
 
Tapped;  
 
Oil and Water;
 
On Coal&nbsp;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;&nbsp;
 
[http://foe.org/ foe.org]&nbsp;(Friends of the Earth).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Food/Agriculture/Farming:
 
 
 
READING:&nbsp;
 
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food&nbsp;System;  
 
Fast Food Nation (also movie);
 
The Magic of Findhorn;  
 
The Spirit of&nbsp;Findhorn;  
 
The Secret Life of Plants;  
 
Website: Organic Consumers Association.
 
 
 
WATCHING:  
 
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil;  
 
Urban&nbsp;Roots; Food, Inc.&nbsp;;  
 
The World According to Monsanto;
 
Dive! Living Off&nbsp;America’s Waste&nbsp;Economy:
 
 
 
<br/>READING:  
 
The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI&nbsp;Century.
 
 
 
WATCHING:
 
Inside Job;  
 
In Debt We Trust;  
 
Plunder;  
 
American Casino;
 
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis;  
 
Capitalism Is the Crisis: Radical Politics&nbsp;in an Age of Austerity;
 
The Rise of Financial Empire;  
 
Economics of Happiness.
 
 
 
 
 
Miscellaneous:
 
READING:  
 
Revolutions &Revolutionary Movements;
 
Revolution X:&nbsp;A Survival Guide for Our Generation;  
 
anything by Alan Watts (also videos&nbsp;online);
 
Soul Companions;  
 
Future Shock;  
 
The Third Wave;  
 
Revolutionary&nbsp;Wealth;  
 
Breaking the Sound Barrier;
 
The Prosperous Few and the Restless&nbsp;Many;
 
Blessed Unrest;  
 
The Secret Spiritual World of Children;  
 
The Hero with&nbsp;a Thousand Faces;
 
The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation Writers as&nbsp;Spirit Guides;
 
Earth House Hold;
 
The Bushman Way of Tracking God;&nbsp;
 
A.D.&nbsp;381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State;  
 
The Case for&nbsp;Palestine;  
 
Homosexuality and Civilization;
 
The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of&nbsp;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&nbsp;Not Be Televised;  
 
Unwinking Gaze;  
 
Amongst White Clouds;  
 
Unmistaken&nbsp;Child;  
 
Dhamma Brothers;  
 
Fearless Mountain;  
 
Beyond Our Differences.
 
 
 
WEBSITES:  
 
AxisofLogic.com (Agua for Haiti);  
 
alternet. org;  
 
Common Dreams.org;  
 
DissidentVoice.org;
 
PrisonPlanet.com;
 
&nbsp;[http://counterpunch.com/ counterpunch.com];
 
DemocracyNow.org;&nbsp;
 
[http://inourheartsnyc.org/ inourheartsnyc.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&nbsp;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&nbsp;Rockstroh;  
 
Arundhati Roy;  
 
Nick Turse;  
 
Jeremy Scahill;  
 
Danny Schecter;
 
Vandana Shiva;  
 
Matt Taibi;  
 
Mark Weisbrot;
 
Cornel West;  
 
Naomi Wolf.

Revision as of 00:18, 2 March 2012

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)

www.allbook-books.com

(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; 

patriotsquestion911.org

howtheworldchanged.org

ae911truth.org.


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:



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;

 counterpunch.com;

DemocracyNow.org; 

inourheartsnyc.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.