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)
Suggested Reading, Viewing, Listening
An inconclusive list in somewhat random order. Mostly just titles listed. For
current wave of “Occupy” websites: occupywallst.org; nycga.net (Council of
OWS Elders, and more); occupystream.com provide lots of links. Others
include: OccupyPolice/Writers/OurHomes/ Together/WorldMap . . .
Also, websearch “Un-Occupy/UnOccupy.”
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”
plus many others; 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
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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 Ameri-
can 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 Ameri-
can Empire at the End of the Age of Oil; Empire of Illusion: The End of Liter-
acy 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 & The New
Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé; 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).
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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.