UUJECby Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinett, 2017 Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy (2017), by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island with Melanie Wachtell Stinett,… Continue Reading Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
The Denominational Affairs Committee at First Parish in Concord, Massachusetts embraced the 2014 UUA Congregational Study Action Issue of Escalating Inequality and sponsored activities in 2014 and 2015… Continue Reading Reclaim Our Democracy
by Jonathan Rosenblum, 2017 A Review: The story of the Sea-Tac living-wage battle Jonathan Rosenblum, a lifelong union organizer, weaves a story about trying to get fair wages… Continue Reading Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, & the Revival of the Labor Movement
The sun moves further south and sets earlier each day. What if it doesn’t come back? You say it does every year— well, this year there is a… Continue Reading The Solstice
by Mark Engler and Paul Engler, 2016 We want justice, when do we want it? NOW! But that’s not how justice works; it is a long tedious slog.… Continue Reading This is an Uprising
by Branco Milanovic, 2016 A New Approach for the Age of Globalization Branko Milanovic demonstrates that escalating economic inequality within nations is occurring globally, not just in the… Continue Reading Global Inequality
Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streek, 2016 In this provocative collection of essays, Streeck lays out capitalism’s self-destructive dynamics, “spreading like cancer. . . feeding parasitically… Continue Reading How Will Capitalism End?
A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change by George Lakey, 2016 What makes this book so great is not just its clear explanation of strategic thinking for… Continue Reading Toward a Living Revolution
by George Lakey, 2016 How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and How We Can, Too This is a very readable and down-to-earth book that dispels a flood… Continue Reading Viking Economics
Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice Mary Mellor, 2016 Question: Do you know how most money is created today? Answer: It emerges “out of thin air”, by… Continue Reading Debt or Democracy – Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice