Get informed with these recommended books, movies and videos, news and commentary sources, blogs and online magazines, and progressive infrastructure organizations.
Books
Barnes, Peter Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
Brock, David The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
Brown, Lester Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition
Callahan, David The Cheating Culture
De Zengotita, Thomas Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
Frank, Thomas The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Gore, Al The Assault on Reason
Hawken, Paul Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace
Heifetz, Ronald A. Leadership without Easy Answers
Homer-Dixon, Thomas The Upside of Down
Kelly, Eamonn Powerful Times
Klein, Naomi The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Liu, Eric and Hanauer, Nick The True Patriot (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2007)
McKibben, Bill Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
McKibben, Bill The End of Nature
Moyer, Bill (NOT Moyers), JoAnn McAllilster, Mary Lou Finley, Steve Soifer Doing Democracy
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Sirota, David The Uprising
Ward, Peter D. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us about Our Future (NY: Collins, 2007)
Westen, Drew The Political Brain
Reviews of books
Firedog Lake's Book Salon
Movies and Videos
This Brave Nation - documentary series featuring progressive activists talking about their views of the positive options for the future
Planet Green section of the Discovery Channel; an example of their offerings is Greensburg (a town wiped out by a tornado in 2007 that decided to rebuild completely green)
Good Night and Good Luck - broadcast journalist looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy
Brave New Films (Robert Greenwald et al) – a source of many progressive documentary movies and opinion videos, long and short, on a variety of topics. Examples are Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Uncovered:The War on Iraq, and Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
Ironweed Films - a subscription film club for progressive documentary films on a wide range of topics
News and Commentary Sources
Rachel’s Democracy and Health News
Real Clear Politics - includes links to many polls
Truthout - news and progressive commentary
Blogs and Online Magazines
Uncommon Denominator (the Commonweal Institute blog) |
Progressive Infrastructure Organizations
Progressive Communicators Network Progressive Community (former Rockridge Institute staff) Rocky Mountain Institute |