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ACORN and the Firestorm: An Anti-Poverty Organization Fighting for the Voiceless

American Blackout

United States of ALEC

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Night School

Precious Knowledge: Arizona’s Battle Over Ethnic Studies

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99 Homes

The Big Short

Capitalism A Love Story

From Bear to Lehman: Documents Reveal an Alternate History

Frontline: Inside the Meltdown

Frontline: Money Power & Wall Street

How I Caused the Credit Crunch-An Insider’s Story of the Financial Meltdown

Inside Job

Roger & Me

The Big One

The Flaw more

U.S. Sues Bank of America for $1Billion Over Mortgage Sales

New Mortgage Task Force Charges JP Morgan with “Systematic Fraud”

The Warning-Frontline

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Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

Dirty Money (documentary series)

Water and Power: A California Heist

Life & Debt

Maxed Out

Shock Doctrine (book excerpts)

The Corporation

The Take

Walmart

Yes Men

USen

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Political Animals: Pioneering Women Who Pave the Way for LGBT Equality

Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Among the Uprising in Ferguson

Doing Democracy: The MAP model of Organizing Social Movements

Erin Brockovich

Just do it

Mother Jones: America’s Most Dangerous Woman in America

Norma Rae

Silkwood

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Activism

Black History

CIA/Foreign Policy

Corporate Power

Economy

Education

Elections

Environment

Food Safety

Gun Control

Health Care

History

Media

Water

War on Middle Class/Poverty

Worker Ownership/Microlending

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Fictional Films of Political Interest

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from Creating Better World

The Future is History: How Totaltarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution By China Miéville

A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet By Raj Patel and Jason Moore

Born in Blood and Fire By John Charles Chasteen

Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953 By Mary Roldan

Culture and Imperialism By Edward Said

Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World By Vijay Prashad

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism By Peter Marshall

Denying the Holocaust By Deborah E. Lipstadt

From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland By Tadeusz Kowalik

Homage to Catalonia By George Orwell

Hidden Secrets By David Owen

Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty By Paul Harrison

Iran: A People Interrupted By Hamid Dabashi

Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama By Mary Craig

Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust By Richard Rhodes

Mexico’s Revolution: Then and Now By James D. Cockcroft

North of South By Shiva Naipaul

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent By Eduardo Galeano

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict By Charles D. Smith

Secret Agent By David Stafford

Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet By Mary Craig

Ten Days That Shook the World By John Reed

The Clash of Fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters From Prison and Other Writings By Jingsheng Wei

The East India Company: Trade and Conquest From 1600 By Antony Wild

The Great Transformation By Karl Polanyi

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering By Norman Finkelstein

The Israel-Arab Reader By Walter Laqueur & Barry Rubin

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History By Philip Bobbitt

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. By Trita Parsi

Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns By David Lamb

When the World Outlawed War By David Christopher and Naylor Swanson

Wonders of the African World By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences By Marc Mauer, Ashley Nellis

Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora By Daniel Kanstroom

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating Justice that Restores By Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Law in Culture and Society By Laura Nader

My Guantanamo Diary By Mahvish Khan

Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal By Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader

The People’s Lawyers: The Story of the Center for Constitutional Rights By Albert Ruben

Traitor: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban” By A. Radack Jesselyn

With Liberty and Justice for Some By Glenn Greenwald

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Natural Causes: Life, Death, and the Illusion of Control By Barbara Ehrenreich

Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump By Asad Haider

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race By Reni Eddo-Lodge

We Were Eight Years in Power By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Intersectionality By Patricia Hill Collins

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism By Peter Frase

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? By Mark Fisher

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep By Jonathan Crary

How Did We Get Into This Mess? By George Monbiot

Bright Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America By Barbara Ehrenreich

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle By Chris Hedges

Escape the Global Storm By Bob Sullivan

Harmony Ideology By Laura Nader

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong By Amin Maalouf

Inside the Cult of Kibu: And Other Tales of the Millennial Gold Rush By Lori Gottlieb & Jesse Jacobs

Stupid White Men By Michael Moore

The Death of the Liberal Class By Chris Hedges

The Rise of the Creative Class By Richard Florida

Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution By Steven Poole

Twilight of the Elites By Chris Hayes

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from Creating Better World

A Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at the Political Crisis By Martha Nussbaum

Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice By Martha Nussbaum*

A Discourse on Inequality By Jean Jacques-Rousseau

Endgame Volume One: The Problem of Civilization By Derrick Jensen

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce By Slavoj Zizek

On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying “NO” to Power By Erich Fromm

On Government By Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Liberty By John Stuart Mill

On Revolution By Hannah Arendt

On War By Carl von Clausewitz

Patriotism By Igor Primoratz

Pedagogy of the Oppressed By Paulo Freire

Property is Theft! By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Reader

Republicanism By Maurizio Viroli

State Capitalism and World Revolution By C. L. R. James

The Antonio Gramsci Reader By David Forgacs (editor)

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell By Bertrand Russell

The Contradictions of Real Socialism By Michael A. Lebowitz

The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

The Essential Chomsky By Norm Chomsky

The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution and the Mass Strike By Rosa Luxemburg

The Portable Karl Marx By Karl Marx

The Rebel By Albert Camus

The Wealth of Nations By Adam Smith

The Wretched of the Earth By Frantz Fanon

War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-1940 By Jean Paul Sartre

Writings of Eugene Debs By Eugene Debs

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from Creating Better World