I have been very impressed with the role that librarians have been playing, with the creation of Occupy Libraries in various cities. The OWSLibrary in Zuccotti Park has over 4500 titles, the OccupyPortland library has close to 800 title, and even OccupyMaine has a library with about 50 titles.
While I don't have any books to contribute, I did want to at least make a recommended reading list intended for protesters, participants, observers or anyone who is curious about the movement and and its mission. The list is long, about 50 titles, but Occupy Wall Street is a growing movement that is bringing attention to the economic inequity in our country - a multifaceted and often confusing issue.
I have the list broken up into four categories: The first category contains books that speak to economic and social theory, philosophy and history; the second looks at how our economy got to be where it is; the third contains books that deal with activism and possible alternatives economic models and the final category contains a bit of everything. I put out a call on Facebook, Twitter and Google + asking folks what they might recommend for an #OWS reading list, and some amazing titles were shared and I wanted to be sure that they were included.
I'm very happy with this list. I feel that there is something for everyone. I understand that it contains material that is pretty left of center, but that's where #OWS tends to hang out. Do you think anything is missing from this list? Is there anything that seems out of place? Please leave a comment and share your thoughts!
Without further ado, an occupy reading list:
I. Getting a Good Foundation: Theory, Philosophy and History
Author: David Orrell
Illustrator: Borin Van Loon
Year: 2011
Publisher: Totem Books
Author: Dan Cryan
Illustrator: Sharron Shatil
Year: 2005
Publisher: Totem Books
Author: Donald A. Ritchie
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author: Richard Bellamy
Year: 2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Author: Bernard Crick
Year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author: Herbert Marcuse
Year: 1964
Publisher: Beacon Press
Title: Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Year: 1849
Author: Jonathan Swift
Year: 1729
Year: 1961
Publisher: Schocken Books
Title: Empire
Authors: Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri
Year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Author: Howard Zinn
Year: 2003
Publish: HarperCollins
Author: John Brooks
Year: 1999
Publisher: Wiley
Author: Edward Chancellor
Year:
2000
Publisher:
Penguin
Title: The Essential Chomsky
Author: Noam Chomsky
Editor: Anthony Arnove
Year: 2008
Publisher: New Press
Author: James S. Kunen
Year: 1969
Publisher: Random House
II. What happened: Context of the Economic Recession and the Current
Distribution of Wealth in America
Editor: Katrina
vanden Heuvel
Year: 2009
Publisher: Nation Books
Author: Arianna Huffington
Year: 2011
Publisher: Broadway
Author: Lawrence Lessig
Year: 2011
Publisher: Twelve
Title: With Liberty and Justice for Some: How Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
Author: Glenn Greenwald
Year: 2011
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Authors: Fred Magdoff & Michael D. Yates
Year: 2009
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Authors: John Bellamy Foster & Fred Magdoff
Year: 2009
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Author: Ron Suskind
Year: 2011
Publisher: Harper
Author: David C Korten
Year: 2003
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Author: Thom Hartmann
Year: 2007
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Title: Death of the Liberal Class
Author: Chris Hedges
Year: 2010
Publisher: Nation Books
III. Moving Forward: Activism and Alternatives
Authors: Donatella Della
Porta & Mario Diani
Year: 2010
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Title: The Art of Protest: Culture andAdctivism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
Author: T. V. Reed
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Author: Anthony M. Orum & John G. Dale
Year: 2008
Publisher; Oxford University Press
Authors: Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas
Year: 2006
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Title: Rules for Radicals
Author: Saul Alinksy
Year: 1989
Publisher: Vintage
Authors: Michael Ratner
& Margaret Ratner Kunstler
Year: 2011
Publisher: The New Press
Author: David C Korten
Year: 2010
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Author: Kelly Coyne
Illustrator: Eric Knutzen
Year: 2010
Publisher: Process
Authors: Scott Kellogg & Stacy Pettigrew
Year: 2008
Publisher: South End Press
Author: Paulo Freire
Year:
2008
Publisher:
Continuum
Editor: Howard Zinn
Year: 2002
Publisher: Beacon Press
IV. Miscellaneous
Author: Mark Hersgaard
Year: 1999
Publisher: Broadway
Title: Steal This Book
Author: Abbie Hoffman
Year: 1995 (25th Anniversary
Edition)
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Title: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Author: Pablo Neruda
Editor: Ilan Stavans
Year: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Title: Of Being Numerous
Author: George Oppen
Year: 1968
Publisher: New Directions
Author: Starhawk
Year: 1997
Publisher: Beacon Press
Author: Naomi Klein
Year: 2008
Publisher: Picador
Author: Naomi Wolf
Year: 2007
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Author: Elaine Brown
Year: 1993
Publisher: Anchor
Author: Audre Lorde
Year: 2007
Publisher: Crossing
Title: The Lorax
Author: Dr. Seuss
Year: 1971
Publisher: Random House
Title: The Story of Ferdinand
Author: Munro Leaf
Illustrator: Robert Lawson
Year: 1936
Publisher: Viking
Editors: Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers & Jeff Jones
Year: 2006
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Author: Mark Rudd
Year: 2009
Publisher: William Morrow
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