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Resources for Activists

  • Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall — A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (St. Martin's Press, 2000)

  • Greg Anrig - The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Wiley, 2007)

  • James Boyce, ed. — Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (Island Press, 2003)
  • Helen Caldicott — A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography (WW Norton, 1996)
  • Robin Casarjian — Houses of Healing: A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and Freedom (Lionheart Press, 1996)

  • Jeff Chester - Digital Destiny:  New Media and the Future of Democracy (The New Press, 2007)

  • Chuck Collins, and Pam Rogers with Joan P. Garner — Robinhood was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change (W.W. Norton, 2001)
  • Common Courage Press
    • Greg Bates — Ralph's Revolt:  Why Nader's Call to Rebellion Makes Sense (2004)
    • Steve Brouwer — Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America (2003)
    • Larry Everest — Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (2003)
    • Mike Gray — The Death Game: Capital Punishment and the Luck of the Draw (2003)
    • Chad Kister — Artic Quest: Odyssey Through a Threatened Wilderness (2003)
  • Cornell University Press
    • Gwendolyn Mink — Hostile Environment (1999)
  • Anne-christine D'Adesky — Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS (Verso 2004)

  • Demos

    •  David Callahan - The Moral Center:  How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks and Pretend  Patriots (Harcourt, 2006)
  • E. Marla Felcher — It's No Accident: How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products (Common Courage Press, 2000)
  • The Feminist Press
    • Ellen Bravo - Taking on the Big Boys or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Businesses and The Nation (2007)
  • William F Fisher and Thomas Ponniah — Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum (Palgrave-Macmillian, 2003)
  • James Fraser — A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future (Palgrave-Macmillian, 2002)
  • Irene Gendzier — Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 (Columbia University Press, 1997)
  • Marvin Gettleman and Stuart Schaar — The Middle East and Islamic World Reader (Grove Press, 2003)
  • Amy Goodman with David Goodman — The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (Hyperion, 2004)
  • Suzanne Gordon - Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care (Cornell University Press, 2005)
  • Roger Gottlieb — Joining Hands: Religion and Politics Together for Social Change (Westview Press, 2002)
  • ____ — Liberating Faith: Religious Voices of Justice, Peace and Ecological Wisdom (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)
  • James Green — Taking History to Heart: The Power of Past in Building Social Movements (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000)
  • Guilford Press
    • James Aune — Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness (2001)
    • Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons — Right Wing Populism in America (2000)
    • Carl Boggs — The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere (2000)
    • Sara Diamond — Not By Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right (1998)
    • Chris Hables Gray — Postmodern War (1997)
    • Stephen Franklin — Three Strikes: Labor's Heartland Losses and What they Mean for Working Americans (2001)
    • Bennett Harrison — Lean and Mean: Why Large Corporations Will Continue to Dominate the Global Economy (1998)
  • Jean Hardisty — Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers (Beacon Press, 1999)
  • Peter Jan Honisgberg — Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (University of California Press, 2000)

  • Bernie Horn -  Framing the Future:  How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influence People (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007)

  • Michael Katz — The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Metropolitan Books, 2002)
  • Jean Kilbourne — Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
  • Jerry Lembcke — The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (NYU Press, 1998, radio campaign in 2003)
  • Betsy Leondar-Wright - Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists (New Society Publishers, 2005)
  • Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren — Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights (Kumarian Press, 1997)
  • Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher — Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (MIT Press, 2001)
  • John McDonough — Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care (University of California Press, 2000)
  • John J. McNeill — Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair: My Spiritual Journey (Westminster John Knox Press, 1999)
  • Media Education Foundation — Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire  (a film, 2003)
  • Seymour Melman — After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy (Knopf, 2001)
  • Christopher Mogil & Anne Slepian — We Gave Away a Fortune: Stories of People Who Dedicated Themselves and Their Wealth to Peace, Justice, and a Healthy Environment (New Society Publishers, 1992)
  • Monthly Review Press
    • Mimi Abramovitz — Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (2001)
    • Eric Thomas Chester — Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commies: The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-66 (2001)
    • Robert McChesney — The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century (2004)
    • David F. Noble — Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (2002)
    • Daniel Singer — Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours (1999)
    • George Winslow — Capital Crimes (1999)
  • Jonathan Mooney — Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution (Fireside, 2001)
  • Molly Hurely Moran — Finding Susan (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003)
  • The Ms. Foundation for Women
    • Martha Shirk & Anna S. Wadia — Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses (2002)
  • The New Press
    • Helen Caldicott - Nuclear Power is Not the Answer (2006)
  • New Society Publishers
    • Elizabeth Boardman – Taking a Stand:  A Guide to Peace Teams and Accompaniment Projects (2005)
    • Melissa Everett — Making a Living While Making a Difference: The Expanded Guide to Creating Careers with a Conscience (1999)
    • John Gastil — Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision Making & Communication (1993)
    • Tova Green and Peter Woodrow with Fran Peavey — Insight and Action: How to Discover and Support a Life of Integrity and Commitment to Change (1994)
    • Richard Heinberg  - Powerdown:  Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World  (2004)
    • Per Hengren — Path of Resistance: The Practice of Civil Disobedience (1993)
    • Joseph F. Kennedy - Building without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village (2004)
    • George Lakey et al — Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times (1996)
    • Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown — Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (1998)
    • Jean McLaren and Heide Brown, eds. — The Raging Grannies Songbook (1993)
    • Jane Midgley— Women and the U.S. Budget (2005)
    • Bill Moyer and JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer — Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements (2001)
    • Fran Peavey — By Life's Grace: Musings on the Essence of Social Change (1994)
    • Katrina Shields — In the Tiger's Mouth: An Empowerment Guide for Social Action (1994
    • Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson — Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Community Development (1995)
  • Catherine Paladino — One Good Apple: Growing Our Food for the Sake of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin Children's Books, 1999)
  • Pluto Press
    • Nicola Field — Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homophobia (1995)
    • Richard L. Gage(ed.) — Choose Peace: A Dialogue Between Johan Galtung and Daisaku Ikeda (1995)
    • Brewster Kneen — Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies (1995)
  • Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady — Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Phillip Berrigan (BasicBooks, 1997)
  • William Quigley — Ending Poverty as We Know It: A Constitutional Right to a Job at a Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003)
  • Andi Rierden — The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997)
  • Fred Rose — Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from Labor, Peace and Environmental Movements (University of California Press, 1999)
  • Routledge
    • Kate Bornstein — Gender Outlaw: on men, women and the rest of us (1994)
    • ____ — My Gender Workbook (1998)
    • Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed — Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay Life (1997)
    • Bob Powers and Alan Ellis — A Family and Friend's Guide to Sexual Orientation (1996)
    • Beth E. Richie — Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women (1996)
    • David Shneer & Caryn Aviv, eds. — Queer Jews (2002)
    • Seidman, Steven — Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life (2002)
  • The Safer Society
    • Bobbie Rosencrans — The Last Secret: Daughters Sexually Abused by Mothers (1998)
  • Susan Sered — Sick & Out of Luck:  Uninsured in America (University of California Press, 2004)
  • Seven Locks Press
    • Robert Creamer - Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win (2008)
  • Randy Shaw — The Activist's Handbook (University of California Press, 2001)
  • ____ — Reclaiming America: Nike, Clean Air, and the New National Activism (University of California Press, 1999)
  • William Shutkin — The Land That Could Be (MIT Press, 2000)
  • Holly Sklar — Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work (The Ms. Foundation for Women, 2001)
  • Barbara Smith — The Truth that Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom (Rutgers University Press, 1998)
  • Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller — UnMarried to each other: The Essential Guide to Living Together as an Unmarried Couple (Marlow & Company, 2001)
  • Edward Stein — The Mismeasure of Desire (Oxford University Press, 1999)

  • Joe Szakos and Kristin Layng Szakos - We Make Change:  Community Organizers Talk About What They Do and Why (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007)

  • Teachers College Press
    • Jean Anyon — Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform (1997)
    • Virginia Casper and Steven B. Schultz — Gay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Communication and Trust (1999)
    • Joseph Featherstone — Dear Josie: Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education (2003)
    • Karen Hicks — Surviving the Dalkon Shield IUD: Women v. the Pharmaceutical Industry (1994)
    • Jonathan Silin — Sex, Death and the Education of Children: Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS (1995)
    • Cynthia Stokes Brown — Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (2002)
  • Patricia Thomas — Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for the AIDS Vaccine (PublicAffairs, 2001)
  • Becky Thompson — A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
  • Twayne/Simon & Schuster Macmillan
    • Richard Stacewicz — Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1997)
  • United for a Fair Economy
    • Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality & Insecurity (The New Press, 2000; 2005)
    • William H. Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins — Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Beacon Press, 2004)
  • University of Massachusetts Press
    • Kevin Bowen and Bruce Weigl, eds. — Writing Between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences (1997)
  • Signe Waller — Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
  • Arthur Waskow — "Seder of the Children of Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah," (Tikkun Magazine, 1999)
  • Kathryn Watterson — Not by the Sword: How the Love of a Cantor and His Family Transformed a Klansman (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
  • Riki Anne Wilchins — Gender Queer (Alyson, 2002)
  • _____ — Read My Lips (Firebrand Books, 1997)
  • Dan Woog — School's Out: The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools (Alyson Publications, 1995)
  • Stephen Zunes — Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism. (Common Courage Press, 2002)

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