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Democracy Unlimited Bookstore
Welcome to Democracy Unlimited's online bookstore, specializing in
books about creating genuine democracy in the US, and dismantling corporate
rule. We've created our bookstore in partnership with 100Fires Books
- an independent online bookstore owned by Paul Cienfuegos (one of our
founders).
FEATURED
BOOK!
By Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs & Jason
Mark (September 2007)
This brand new book features a chapter on Democracy
Unlimited!
'Building the Green Economy' shows
how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken
action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods,
and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories
- over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines
- dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green
economy movement.
Drawing on their extensive experience at Global
Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also:
* Lay out strategies for a more successful green
movement
* Describe how communities have protected their
victories from legal and political challenges
* Provide key resources for local activists
* Include conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois
Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal, David Morris, Michael Shuman, and other
activists and leaders
Described by The New York Times as the "Paul
Revere of globalization's woes," Dr. Kevin Danaher is
a cofounder of Global Exchange, Executive Director of the Global
Citizen Center, and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals
in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago and Seattle. He is the
author or editor of eleven books, including 'Ten Reasons to Abolish
the IMF and World Bank', and (with Jason Mark) 'Insurrection: Citizen
Challenges to Corporate Power'.
Shannon Biggs directs
the Local Economy project at Global Exchange. As a former senior
staffer at the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) she
wrote for and edited IFG publications, and was a lecturer on
International Relations at San Francisco State University. She
holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in
economics, empire and post-colonialism.
Dubbed a "rebel with a cause" by TIME
magazine, Jason Mark is an author-activist who
helped launch the national Freedom from Oil campaign. His writings
have appeared in Orion, The Nation, Grist, Alternet, and E, among
other publications. He lives in San Francisco, where he co-manages
an urban organic farm and edits the environmental quarterly Earth
Island Journal.
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Books with images are on our recommended reading
list.
Essential Books on Democracy & Corporate Rule
 Gaveling
Down the Rabble: How "Free Trade" Is Stealing Our Democracy Jane
Anne Morris (2008) In 'Gaveling Down the Rabble', author/activist
Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations
and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States by using
a "free trade" model. It was that very 19th century model that
was later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts
at protecting the environment and citizen and worker health.
'Gaveling Down the Rabble' is essential reading for understanding the
background of the current struggle for U.S. democracy - local, state
and national - against growing corporate power and how we can challenge
it.
 Getting
a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad
Frances Moore Lappe (2007)
Frances Moore Lappe - author of fifteen books, including three-million-copy
bestseller 'Diet for a Small Planet' - distills her world-spanning experience
and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting style to create a rare "aha" book.
In nine short chapters, Lappe leaves readers feeling liberated and courageous.
She flouts conventional right-versus-left divisions and affirms readers'
basic sanity - their intuitive knowledge that it is possible to stop
grasping at straws and grasp the real roots of today's crises, from hunger
and poverty to climate change and terrorism.
Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A
Book of History and Strategy
Program on Corporations, Law and
Democracy (POCLAD), Dean Ritz, editor. (2001)
This is the primer of our grassroots democracy movement. A large number
of our reprint articles are contained in this book of essays. A great
introduction!
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Power and
Profit
Joel Bakan (2004)
Outlines how a corporation has the behvior of a psychopath. This is the book
that led the the award-winning documentary film of the same name (that features
the work of Democracy Unlimited!)
A People's History of the United States 1492-Present
Howard
Zinn (2001)
The history of the people of the US that most of us never learned
in school. A MUST read for all Americans!
When Corporations Rule the World (2nd edition)
David Korten (2001)
An easy to read overview of the immensity of global corporate
power and influence over the law, the economy and culture.
Radical
Democracy
C. Douglas Lummis (1996)
A profoundly insightful book that thinks deeply about what democracy
could really mean!
Challenging Corporate Rule: The Petition
to Revoke Unocal's Charter as a Guide to Citizen Action
Robert Benson. Foreword by Ronnie
Dugger (1999)
The story of the action to revoke the charter of Unocal Corp in 1998--the
most recent popular charter revocation attempt in the United States.
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate
Power and the Disabling of Democracy
Ted Nace (2003)
An excellent overview of corporate power in the United States.
Easy to read with lots of specific examples.
Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism
William Boyer (2003)
Exposes the inherent conflict between the forces supporting growing corporate
power and the needs of a democratic society.
History & Law
Toward an American Revolution: Exposing
the Constitution and Other Illusions
Jerry Fresia (1998)
The true story of the "founders" of the United States government and
the US Constitution. Fresia makes the case that we have yet to have an
American revolution that rejects the Constitution.
An
Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Charles
Beard (1986)
First published in 1913, this radical volume sparked a deep historical
debate that has not abated about the Founders and the Constitution.
The First American Revolution: Before Lexington
and Concord
Ray Raphael (2002)
A fascinating story of the 1774 popular rebellion in which our REAL founding
fathers seized the colony of Massachusetts--without leaders or bloodshed!
This book turns the myth of the American Revolution on its head. A story
told nowhere else.
A People's History of the American Revolution
Ray Raphael (2002)
The first major effort to tell the history of the American Revolution
from the often overlooked standpoints of its everyday participants, 'A
People's History of the American Revolution' is a highly accessible narrative
of the wartime experience that brings in the stories of previously marginalized
voices: the common people, slave and free, who made up the majority in
eighteenth-century America.
The
Transformation of American Law - Vol. One: 1780-1860: Studies in Legal
History
Morton Horwitz (1986)
These two volumes offer an in-depth explanation and history
of the takeover of the US legal system by corporations.
The
Transformation of American Law - Vol. Two: 1870-1960: The Crisis of
Legal Orthodoxy
Morten Horwitz (1994)
These two volumes offer an in-depth explanation and history of the takeover
of the US legal system by corporations.
The
Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
Lawrence
Goodwyn (1978)
The largest mass movement in the US to work for participatory democracy
and which refused to concede power to corporations.
The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation
of American History, 1900-1916
Gabriel Kolko (1977)
How the rise of regulatory law/agencies accompanied the rise to power
of big corporations and big government, leading to the decline of the
rights of working people and small business.
A
People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases
and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
Peter Irons (1999)
Railroads
and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress' 1864 Northern Pacific Railroad Land
Grant
Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, John Osborn (1995)
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate
Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
Thom Hartmann (2002)
The entire story of corporate personhood - including model anti-corporate
personhood amendments for each state constitution.
Who
Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy
William Greider (1992)
Corporate Rule
The Elite Consensus: When Corporations
Wield the Constitution
George Draffan (2000)
A retitled 2nd edition of, “The Corporate Consensus.” Offers
a concise catalog of the institutions that help drive corporate capitalism
domestically and internationally.
The
Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy (2nd edition)
Marjorie
Kelly (2003)
Tyranny
of the Bottom Line: Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things
Ralph
Estes (1996)
Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Lives and
What We Can Do About It
Charles Derber (2000)
Corporations
are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American
Dream
Kevin Danaher (1996)
Silent
Coup: Confronting the Big Business Takeover of Canada
Tony Clarke (1997)
Plundered
Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands
Richard
Behan (2001)
The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization,
and High Finance Fraudsters
Greg Palast (2002)
Thieves
in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back
Jim Hightower (2003)
The
Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's
Ancient Redwoods
David Harris (1996)
The
Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Threat to Social Programs, Environmental
Sustainability and Social Justice
Maude Barlow (2001)
Blue
Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
Maude
Barlow, Tony Clarke (2002)
Water
Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Vandana Shiva (2002)
Corporate Culture & Consumerism
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Naomi Klein (1999)
Culture
Jam: The Uncooling of America
Kalle Lasn (1999)
Toxic
Sludge is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
John
Stauber, Sheldon Rampton (1995)
Media
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda vs. Freedom
and Liberty
Alex
Carey (1997)
Exposes the inherent conflict between the forces supporting growing
corporate power and the needs of a democratic society.
Necessary
Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Noam Chomsky (1989)
Propaganda
and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky
Interviews by David
Barsamian (2001)
The
Media Monopoly (7th edition)
Ben Bagdikian (2004)
Our
Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
Robert
McChesney, John Nichols, Forewords by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich,
and Ralph Nader (2002)
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
Robert McChesney (1997)
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Robert
McChesney (2000)
Labor
Building Unions: Past, Present and Future
Peter Kellman (2001)
This booklet details what corporate power means for workers. Useful for
both unionized and non-unionized working people.
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals
and Victories of American Working Men and Women
Richard Boyer & Herbert
Morais (2000)
A reminder that the rise of corporations was achieved only at a tremendous
cost and against a valiant and persistent resistance.
Pain
on Their Faces: Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Maine, 1987
- 1988
Jay-Livermore Falls Working Class History Project; Peter Kellman,
Coordinator; Foreword by Carolyn Chute (1998)
Fear
at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment
Richard Kazis &
Richard Grossman (1991)
Education
Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower
Geoffry White
Ph.D. Flannery Hauck, editors (2000)
How corporate power impacts students and academics.
Agriculture
The
Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Andrew
Kimbrell (2002)
Resistance & Alternatives - the Movement for Global Justice
One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance
Movement
Paul Kingsnorth (2003)
A manifesto, an investigation, a travel book: an introduction to the
new politics of resistance which shows there's much more to the anti-globalization
movement than trashing Starbucks. Features the work of Democracy Unlimited!
The
War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles, 1994 - 2000
John Ross
(2000)
Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcommandante
Marcos
Subcommandante Marcos (2001)
The
Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local
Jerry
Mander (1996)
A comprehensive point-by-point analysis of the workings of the global
economy, its premises, and its dire implications told by more than forty
of the world's leading social, environmental, and economic thinkers from
the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.
A
Time for Choices: Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy
Michael Toms (2002)
Property
and Values: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership
Charles Geisler,
Gail Daneke, editors (2000)
Whose
Common Future?: Reclaiming the Commons
The Ecologist (1993)
Reclaiming
Capital: Democratic Initiatives and Community Development
Christopher
Gunn & Hazel Dayton Gunn (1991)
Going
Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age
Michael Shuman (2000)
The Home Town Advantage: How to Defend Your Main
Street Against Chain Stores... and Why It Matters
Stacy Mitchell (2000)
From local zoning ordinances to federal antitrust policy, 'The Home Town
Advantage' provides a comprehensive guide to reviving the homegrown economy.
Localization:
A Global Manifesto
Colin Hines (2000)
A World That Works: Building Blocks for a Just and Sustainable
Society
Trent Schroyer (editor) (1997)
Offers a rich menu of alternative ideas and experiences that are moving
us toward a more just and sustainable future.
Globalizing
Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power
David Korten (1998)
Spaces
of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local
Kevin Cox (editor) (1997)
Taking
Back Our Lives in the Age of Corporate Dominance
Ellen Schwartz,
Suzanne Stoddard (2000)
Democracy Skills
Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision-making and
Communication
John Gastil (1993)
Offers a variety of solutions to the problems commonly faced by small,
democratic groups.
In
the Tiger's Mouth: An Empowerment Guide for Social Action
Katrina Shields (1991)
The Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision Making (new edition)
Sam
Kaner, Lenny Lind, and others (2007)
Provides the tools to put our democratic values into practice in groups
and organizations. It is a fabulous how-to manual designed to help groups
increase participation and collaboration, honor diversity, and make effective,
participatory decisions.
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