How Cheap Things Expose the Root Causes of Our Biggest Problems
BOOK REVIEWED:
Patel, Raj, and Jason W. Moore. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. University of California Press, 2017.
Racial Justice Is The Key To Worker Power And Building Back Better
BOOKS REVIEWED:
McAlevey, Jane. A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy. Ecco Press, 2020.
Greenhouse, Steven. Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Random House, 2019.
The Path Forward From Pandemic To A Green New World
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Engh, Susan. Women’s Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing. Lanham: Lexington Books-Fortress Academic, 2019.
Brescia, Ray. The Future of Change: Technology, Social Movements, and Social Change. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Print.
You Say You Want A Revolution
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Engler, M., & Engler, P. This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. New York: Bold Type Books, 2016.
brown, adrienne m. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. Abridged 1976 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011
Shutting Things Down To Open Things Up
BOOK REVIEWED:
Fithian, Lisa. Shut It Down: Stories From A Fierce, Loving Resistance. Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019.
We Were Born For This Fight
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Wallace-Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Tim Duggan Books. 2019.
McKibben, Bill. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Henry Holt and Company. 2019.
LaValle, Victor and John Joseph Adams, editors. A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers. One World. 2019.
The Pitchforks Are Coming For Philanthropy
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Villanueva, E. Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018.
Reich, R. Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How it Can Do Better. Princeton University Press, 2018.
Giridharadas, A. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. New York, NY: Knopf, 2018.
The Next Political Revolution
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Bond, Becky and Zack Exley. Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything. Chelsea Green, 2016.
Whitman, Gordon. Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win In A World On Fire. Berrett-Koehler, 2018.
Smucker, Jonathan. Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals. AK Press, 2017.
Fixing the Problems with Universal Basic Income
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Lowrey, Annie. Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World. Crown, 2018.
Stern, Andy with Kravitz, Lee. Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream. Public Affairs, 2016.
Pizzigati, Sam. The Case for a Maximum Wage. Polity Press, 2018.
Do What Makes Your Heart Beat Faster
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Szakos, Kristin Layng and Joe Szakos. We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do — And Why. Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos. Tools for Radical Democracy: How To Organize for Power In Your Community. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
Brown, Michael Jacoby. Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World. Long Haul Press, 2007.
Grounding Transcendence
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Gecan, Michael. Going Public. Beacon Press, 2002.
Hart, Stephen. Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics: Styles of Engagement Among Grassroots Activists. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Jacobsen, Dennis A. Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing. Fortress Press, 2001.
Shirley, Dennis. Valley Interfaith and School Reform: Organizing for Power in South Texas. University of Texas Press, 2002.
Warren, Mark R. Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Wood, Richard L. Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Regions Apart: Markets, Mandates, and the Future of Cities
BOOKS REVIEWED:
Dreier, P., Mollenkopf, J., and Swanstrom, T. Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century. University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Beito, D.T., Gordon, P. Tabarrok, A. The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society. University of Michigan Press, 2002.